> there are many small groups, organizations and not for profits
> working with children and adults with special needs. They don't have
> or can't spend the money for technology since most of their funding
> is earmarked for specific purposes. ...
> Most of these groups have an adhoc network,
> or no network just individual computers. I want to bang together a
> server and spend the rest of my time setting up the Humans who need
> to use it. I'd rather regenerate old Mac hardware because a IIci will
> give me more than a 386.
Tossing a bunch of computers together & getting
Instant Network is one of those things that MacOS
has always been good at. :-) In your shoes, I
would try to put the newer (i.e. more powerful)
Macs on the desks and distribute the older ones
to use as small-group file servers. At a previous
job, I "built" a server out of a Mac II that was
sufficient for a four-person workgroup; we used
it as our day-to-day file server because the
company not-work was so flaky & access to the
"real" file servers was hit-or-miss. Myra (since
our office was on Breckinridge Road) ran MacOS
7.1 and standard AppleShare. Hook it up, create
some logins, it doesn't get much quicker than
that.
If you're set on running Linux or BSD, there
are programs that will let you build your own
distribution containing just the packages you
want. Set up one server the way you like &
copy that configuration to all the rest. I
think BYOD (Build Your Own Distro) is the name
of one.
--
Larry Kollar, Senior Technical Writer, ARRIS
"Content creators are the engine that drives
value in the information life cycle."
-- Barry Schaeffer, on XML-Doc
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