On 11 Apr 2002 at 1:31, Kunal Shah wrote: > yesterday i was talking to one my friends running cyber cafe. > he is having really tough time. his cyber cafe is running on > windows 98 / ME machines, no domain controller, nothing, just have one > linux machine for squid ... > > he is facing a lot of problems from virus to os crashes. > he observed that os crashes occur because people using the machines > accidentally or intensionally, damage the system directories and > deleting files...
Most cyber cafes prevents outside floppies. There is no other way but to observe good practices to prevent virus. Unfortunately that's not going to happen in a public place like a cyber cafe because nobody likes any discipline. (Reminds me of public toilets..) I would say installing NT might help if you properly setup permissions. There is no way you can protect Win98/ME in absolute sense.. > > how can v stop this with Linux. i mean if we setup a LAN with Linux server > with SAMBA domain controller and firewalls , can v stop it. No you can't unless you put NT. I would say install linux on workstations. Get latest KDE3.0/mozilla/ etc. Shouldn't bother most of the users. Install openoffice on a server so that it doesn't hog workstation resources. That would take care of 90% of needs. And yes get java installed. It's not part of KDE. You get it with netscape but it's an exetrnal component with KDE.. Install a lean WM like fvwm95 on workstation and run everything else on bit more powerful machine thr. ssh. A single machine with 512MB RAM should take care of 20 desktop users. Somebody is going to need some absolute doze stuff.. So keep one machine for that. > Can v implement a security using Linux to stop user from deleting > files and downloading virus's accidentally or intensionally .. No. Linux can't clean somebody else's dipers. But it can certainy take care of itself if properly set up.. HTH Shridhar _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
