Yup. samba and sendmail work fine for us (: Our adsl router + an ipcop firewall + a few bespoke scripts do all you wish.
Let me know offline if you want any pointers or a system setting up... Cheers, Steve On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 21:15:13 +1300 John Hyde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anyone using linux and open-source software to run a small business set-up ? > > We currently have 7 users connecting to a Microsoft small business server. > This gives us what we need for: > > + sharing files (word processed documents, pdfs, etc) > + getting emails from outside > + sending emails to outside > + saving the emails and backing them up > + sending internal emails > + connecting to the internet for web surfing > > There's probably a few other things it does as well. > > We run a mix of windows PCs and Macs - and probably always will do for our > workstations. > > > > It often goes wrong and simple tasks like adding a new user seem to be > difficult (or easy to do incorrectly). There is also a price tag for all > this stuff - although the cost of learning about stuff and time spent > fiddling with stuff usually dwarfs any external paid costs. > > What would a linux / open source set-up look like and is anybody actually > using such a set-up ? > > Regards, > > John Hyde > -- Steve Holdoway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
