On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 13:27, James Sparenberg wrote: > All, > > Ok I'm planing the IT section for a new company. As such I've got a > ground up ability to do it as right as I possibly can ..... the first > time. Initial load will be about 20 people (Mixed windows and Linux to > start adding other Unix as needed.) with a ton of data storage needed. > (R&D group) Now I'm planning on a RAID array for data storage with > Samba/NFS for storage/sharing of data files. (Data Only no > applications.) The questions I have are. > > 1. What VPN software do you recommend for a mixed Linux/Unix/Windows > environment?
IPSEC Freeswan To setup it up with the M$ Win2000 http://vpn.ebootis.de/ Windows XP/2000: http://www.natecarlson.com/linux/ipsec-x509.php Yep to install it's "urpmi freeswan" There is a really nice front end for setting it all up including the firewall and freeswan stuff, is a package called httpd-naat, "urpmi httpd-naat" "urpmi naat-frontend-www-doc" "urpmi naat-frontend-www-en" Standard Mandrake packages, they are not on the CDs, but they are on the Mandrake mirrors You also must have installed shorewall "urpmi shorewall" There will be a little fiddling but the results will be excellent, the httpd-naat stuff is some of Mandrakes best kept secret. > 2. Looking at RaidZone Raid servers. Any info? No idea, I have never been a total fan of the hardware RAID controller stuff, I have heard some good news about the 3ware stuff but that's about it. I quite like software raid, like at any time you can take one drive out, read the single drive with a standard IDE controller. Another feature of software RAID at anytime you can "cat /proc/mdstat" and see if your RAID is still together. > 3. Anything better than VPN for Data Sharing in Windows (2000 btw maybe > XP but I hope to avoid that nightmare.) It's a pity that shfs does not work for M$ machines, mapping HDs via VPN suck.. > 4. Would you if you could go all laptop for your developers and other > Engineers. It's a great idea, but they are very easy stolen, and people seem to loose them. Cheers Mark
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