The American Council of the blind is seeking a blind person expert in SAMBA to remotely install and configure the software to allow our national office to perform the following tasks: * Have our previous logical drives ported to the Linux machine so that we can read and write to the files used previously for our data storage. This means the ability of any user to retrieve files from the server by accessing them with either Windows or DOS applications from their local machines and either saving or copying the files back to the server for safe keeping. An employee may run a database application from their local machine and want to share that resulting files with others. It is not necessary that the modified file be directly written to on the network as much as it can be copied there for others to access. The same holds true for word processed files. the only application which is important to access the data files (DBF) from the network and write back to them is the office calendar. This program allows the user to enter their daily hours and activities for report generation of all office staff at the end of the month. This is a DOS application which ideally would reside on the server but could be made local to each machine with the data file on the server pointed to by the program. * We will need to use the printer services and copier from our windows machines through the network to the printers and copier. This means running a Windows application or DOS and have the printers available for printing. * Our INTERNET services will also run through the Linux machine through a separate NIC for use with electronic mail and other web access. Users will be using their own electronic mail programs from their local machines such as outlook express and Eudora. Persons interested in performing this task should send electronic mail to Charlie Crawford at CCrawford at ACB.org with an estimated price and time frame for completion of the work. The Linux machine to be used for this purpose will be installed this week. -- -- Charlie Crawford
