> Hi All, > > I now have 2 Linux boxes installed and a very interested client. > > I'm going to document the sites as reference sites and look at writing up > some case study stuff. > > The West Coast site ended up being wifi'ed as well. > > Both locations have retail shops. West Coast also has a manufacturing > factory. > > Questions: > > 1. Language > > The shop in Queenstown has staff who are Japanese and Korean (sp wrong > sorry). > > KDE gives you the option of having 4 (or more) desktops. > > At present one of the machines is set up with windows 98 in Japanese > (which > I can't read). > > Can KDE be configured with different desktops in different languages?
you might need two separate X sessions, which you could flick between with ctrl-alt-f7 ctrl-alt-f8 > > I.e.: I want to be able to click between different desktops, English, > Japanese, etc. > > 2. VPN > > I've done some playing about with pptp vpn so far but found it complex to > make work. > > Have any of you actually got IPSec running? I would like to look at an > actual running set of configuration files if possible. > > I've looked at IPCop and got completely confused about what numbers I > should > put in where. > > I want to end up with a VPN cloud that connects the two sites and that > other > net users (staff from home and me) can connect into as required. piece of piss with ipcop, assuming you have ipcop on each site. you just need to set up each end of the connection as the same. > > I also want WINS to work so I can map drives and printers across the > network > and would like to talk to anyone who's had experience doing this (again, > please don't just refer me to a web site that 'should' have the answers I > need to know). I know how to do this if your wins server is samba, as opposed to a win box. > > 3. WIFI network. > > The customer is also very interested to be part of setting up some public > wifi networking at both locations. Anyone with similar interest in > Queenstown or Hokatika (sp?) please let me know. > take a look at nocat auth 9this email is going from my kitchen desk via same ;-) > Cheers Don > >
