no replies this time...
what's the reason????
instead there r distro wars.....
--- Snake Bite <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> --- Suresh Ramasubramanian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Snake Bite rearranged electrons thusly:
> > > i work in a small company where i have around 10
> > 486
> > > based systems which hav 8mb ram, 500mb hdd,
> > ethernet
> > > card and one pIII based system having 64mb ram &
> > 10gb
> > > hdd etc. we hav a leased line.
> >
> > Fine, set up a debian base install on those
> things.
> > Or just install DOS or
> > something and make them remote X terms.
>
> a newbie question, how to make remote x clients
>
> > > i want to setup a network in my company where i
> > want
> > > to have user accts of all the ppl, so that
> > everybody
> > > can log in and work maybe from diff computers
> and
> > > still access all the basic linux services. i
> also
> > want
> > > to hav mail accts of all the employees.
> >
> > If you need a server hosting mail accounts and
> > such, you'll likely need a
> > little more disk space than 10 GB ... disks are
> > fairly cheap anyway. Add
> > another 10 GB disk if you can.
> >
> > > now, i want to have a linux server, how should i
> > > proceed????
>
> i want everybody to have access to the same mail
> from
> any of the systems...
>
> > Install a light distro (debian / slakware /
> redhat
> > custom install). Skip
> > bloatware like xwindows and emacs (you can't
> afford
> > the space on such small
> > capacity machines)
>
> i'm not good with linux, but, in this case, do i hav
> to logon to 486 m/c then telnet to server, is it
> possible to have same user accts and mails
> everywhere??
> is there something like global users???
>
> > > can i hav all the services on the server, like
> > mail,
> > > apache etc. and access mail from other systems??
> >
> > Yes, definitely
> >
> > > all the 486 machines hav very low hard disk
> space,
> > so
> > > what to do with them???? can i connect all these
> > > hdd???
> >
>
> i don want DOS
>
> > You want to make one gigantic hdd? Install DOS
> on
> > the machines ... DR-DOS
> > or 4DOS say, not MS-DOS. Install Telix or
> Procomm
> > to access the linux
> > server (or there are DOS mail programs - pegasus
> > mail, browsers - arachne,
> > etc)
> >
> > --
> > Suresh Ramasubramanian <--> mallet <at> efn
> <dot>
> > org
> > EMail Sturmbannfuhrer, Lower Middle Class Unix
> > Sysadmin
> >
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