Setting up a Linux Network

Hey Group,

Hopeing somebody could help?

Im Migrating a Friends Small Network over to linux:)

At Present he has 5 Clients and a Server running windows NT4. On this is MS
Proxy 2 and Exchange 5.0.

He has bought 3 new machines with SCSI to use as servers and also an
additional 4 machines as clients He has windows XP Pro on his Machines.
working with the 3 SCSI Servers, he would like to utilize them for the
following:-

Proxy Server
Ras Server
FireWall - I suggested possibly using a old PII - 266
Primary Controller
Secondary Controller
Mail Server (With Web Mail)
DNS Server
SQL Server
NNTP Server
Web Server

Could Somebody suggested what config we should use? IE - mail and Proxy on
the same server or seperate servers?

Also could somebody suggest any links for help on the above, and last but
not least could somebody suggest any applications or distro for the above?

Many Thanks
MCN

Hey there Mad One.

If he has only 5 clients, I suggest running the firewall and web/proxy
server on perhaps the current NT4 server, as it will be a bit old and
enough for the task. All the rest of the services could be run off one of
the new SCSI servers, as with 5 or even 20 clients, I can't see the server
being overloaded. For 'secondary controller' I assume you mean secondary
domain controller. I have had Samba installed with 2 clients (50 staff in
one office) for over three years now, and have never had the samba server
go down, so I have not needed a secondary domain controller. Also,
secondary controllers are a bit of a bitch to get going with samba as you
need to do the whole LDAP backend stuff which I haven't managed to ever get
running.


I suppose you could use a second server in a DMZ configuration for
web/proxy but the number of clients I am sure the firewall will handle it
all. Depends on how much cash he has.

The proxy server should be running a web proxy (squid) and Antivirus
scanner (I use Amavis and f-prot) and any other service which is web
accessible.


I have always used Mandrake, as it has nice server wizards, and had been
pretty solid over the years.


post if you need any other info




MadCrazyNewbie wrote:
> Hey Group,
>
> Hopeing somebody could help?
>
> Im Migrating a Friends Small Network over to linux:)
>
> At Present he has 5 Clients and a Server running windows NT4. On this is MS
> Proxy 2 and Exchange 5.0.
>
> He has bought 3 new machines with SCSI to use as servers and also an
> additional 4 machines as clients He has windows XP Pro on his Machines.
> working with the 3 SCSI Servers, he would like to utilize them for the
> following:-
>
> Proxy Server
> Ras Server
> FireWall - I suggested possibly using a old PII - 266
> Primary Controller
> Secondary Controller
> Mail Server (With Web Mail)
> DNS Server
> SQL Server
> NNTP Server
> Web Server
>
> Could Somebody suggested what config we should use? IE - mail and Proxy on
> the same server or seperate servers?
>
> Also could somebody suggest any links for help on the above, and last but
> not least could somebody suggest any applications or distro for the above?
>
> Many Thanks
> MCN
>
>