Arun Shrimali wrote, On 04/22/2009 06:19 AM:
Dear All,
I am planning to set up a server with the following features :
1.File server where users can save their critical data, in their home directory
2.Space allocation for individual user on server (quota for home directory).
3.Users could change their own user password.
4.Client (PC and User) should authenticate from centralized location.
5.No other user / PC should allow to patch in the network.
6.Should work for Windows and Linux clients both.
7.Restrict users to load unwanted software and play with desktops /
screen savers and other files (may be through login script).
8.Centrally updation of antivirus patches (for windows users).
9.Monitor the users and their activity.
10.Authenticate for Squid proxy server also.
11.Should able to chat through lin/win popup
Can anybody suggest me which directory server (and combination) would
be suitable for me.
As I am new to the Linux, it should be a bit user friendly also
regards
Arun
Something I don't see you having in your features/requirements that you should
be asking yourself:
12.how long do I plan on having this machine in service?
* if the answer is less than 14 months (until ~July 2010), fedora 11 could
be a good distro for you[1].
* if the answer is more on the order of until ~late March 2014, you should
probably look at RedHat Enterprise Linux[2a], CentOS[2b], or one of the other
Long Term Support (LTS) distros.
* if you need an LTS distro, but some of the features you want require
fedora 11, you should probably be considering (assuming RHEL 6 follows F11
fairly closely) how and when you could do a cut over from using F11 to
RHEL/CentOS6 [3].
[1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/End_of_life
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/LifeCycle
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/11/Schedule
[2a] http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/errata/
[2b]
http://wiki.centos.org/FAQ/General#head-fe8a0be91ee3e7dea812e8694491e1dde5b75e6d
[3] Oh great and powerful oracle fedora-list, is it possible to do an
'upgrade' and go from a fedora to an RHEL, and remain sane, with out the
upgrade being a backup data, wipe and install+restore data? Anyone done it?
howto URLs?
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