Anybody Remember this thread?
Well, at any rate, after some talk with the head of the Oregon School of
Midwifery, they would be glad to have us come in and set up a network
for them.
Here's what it entails:
A) Samba Server to support the 2 windows applications they
need--Quickbooks and Pagemaker and to share printers with the windows
boxes.
B) NFS Server for shared /home and anything else to support
workstations. This can be the same as the Samba Server for reasons to
follow.
C) 3 Linux workstations (x-terminals??) in the basement for
word-processing and graphics. They have one box that we can use for
this. If we could share one modem with all three, that would be great.
After we get this set up, we can transfer mission-critical files to the
servers and convert one teacher box upstairs. This leaves the
receptionist, the director, and one other teacher box retained for
Pagemaker and Quickbooks. If we find an application that can read and
write Quickbooks format (I know GNUCash reads, but does it write?? The
school needs to be able to send a quarterly copy of their Quickbooks
data to their accountant) and one that reads/writes Pagemaker (I haven't
researched into this at all--I've used Pagemaker on Suns, so there's a
Unix port out there somewhere.) to update the lesson plans and handouts,
we can transfer over these boxes too.
Everyone who has some spare hardware sitting around, this might be the
time to pull it out. I'm most concerned about getting hd space for the
server(s).
I plan to have 1-2 weeks setting up hardware, and then 3-5 hours someday
after that to install it all in the building. After that, a follow-up
is in order to transfer over other boxes and tweak hardware.
Questions?? Comments???
--Mike
Michael J. Smith
Flyfisher, Russian Translator, and Linux-Geek-At-Large
