Le 02.2.6 � 13:11, Chris Ashmore ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) �crivit: > Here is the story / question. There is a small intercity private school > that has NO money at all. So they get these computers donated to them > P2's with some RAM and 10 Gig HDD's, monitors all that. Minus the OS. > They dont have enough money to by windoze lisence for all of them. What > will it take to buld a Lunix Network, with centralize administration, > "home" folders on a "server". I have a local ISP donating the internet > connection, and I am setting up email for the teachers and turning on > squid w/ squid guard so the kids cant go to xxx.com. Most of the "Network > hardware" is being donated wire, hubs that sort of stuff. I am donating a > lot of time to this project mostly because I want this to work. I have > heard of remote Xterm (simuliar to Citrix), and a few others. I was just > wondering if there was a good solution to this? Any ideas would be > helpful.
Hello, It depends on what you call "no money at all". I am currently building a network for the French school in Kyoto. All the machines they have also come from donations. As for Linux, I use Mandrake, and the idea is to register as a club member which is cheaper than buying a package, and which is a net profit for Mandrake. They have a few old PCs (400MHz, 10 Gig, 128 MB), and old macs (PPC 7300s). I have bought everything to build a server (1 GHz celeron, 40 GB disk, 256 MB memory), 2 network boards. Everything under 500 $. Since they don't have too much resources, the server will also be used as a PC. The internet connection is a 8 Mbps ADSL which is the cheapest solution in Japan (even cheaper than a 56K modem, about 16~17$ a month). I will try to have the printer shared, as they have only one printer. Appletalk, connection sharing and net browsing work fine on all the machines. If you want to share your experience, you can contact ma at: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am not sure of who will help the other most, but that can be interesting. By the way, if somebody of this list can contribute, we are looking for French keyboards. If you have one you don't need, please inform me before trashing it. Contact me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] We would of course pay the shipping. Pascal
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