Will the net be connected to the Internet in any way? Even if only
dialup, do yourself a favor and at least consider the security of your
link. Online security resources are abundant, relevancy variable
according to your situation, write back if you want pointers.
With or without an uplink, consider anti-virus scanning software for the
file server. Even though Linux virii are rare, your fileserver could
transmit infected files among the Windows machines. I'm not qualified
to recommend a specific choice, hopefully somebody else can do that, or
at worst go to http://google.com/linux/ (VERY useful URL in general, by
the way) and start looking.
Whether you'll be exposed to the Big Net or not, I advocate the use of
ssh for login services wherever possible, and deactivation of all other
login services. Even if you can be absolutely, positively certain that
your network is secure from all unfriendly snooping, use of ssh for this
sort of thing is just a Good Habit(tm), something that IMHO should be
second nature for anybody who regularly logs in to a remote *nix
terminal. It also has the advantage of being a lot more flexible than
most other remote login processes.
If you're using Red Hat 7, OpenSSH should have come with the main
system. If you're sticking to an earlier version (read: 6.2 -- I can't
think of any reason to run anything older and plenty of reasons not to),
OpenSSH is easily available in source and RPM from your favorite
software mirror (home page at http://www.openssh.com). If compiling
from source for the first time, be especially sure to RTFM, and make
sure you get the "portable" version, the stock source will not work on
anything other than OpenBSD.
For a network as small as this, a domain controller is probably
overkill. DHCP might be as well; is there some reason why you must have
it?
I like amanda for networked backup services. [You _are_ going to make
regular backups, right? ;) ] Note that by using samba it's possible to
use amanda to back up the Windows boxen as well as the Linux. I believe
that instructions for doing this come with the amanda documentation, but
it's been a while.
http://rpmfind.net/ is an invaluable resource, not only for finding
packages themselves but also for tracking down information about
software. Worth some clicking around to learn the layout.
HTH,
-m
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