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On Thu, 11 Jun 2009, Rob Beard wrote: >> Damn. I'm in the wrong business - again. For a few days of my time I could >> create a black box solution to give a school/college 2 LANS (admin, >> teaching), filtered ADSL feed, small local fileserver with backup, cost >> effective PBX, outsourced email, intranet/web server, blah, blah, blah. >> We're back at school servers again /rant/ >> >> Gordon >> > I guess there's nothing stopping you putting a box like that together (I > presume you'd be able to use one of your existing PBX boxes to so that > sort of thing?), but I guess it's getting in the schools which is the > problem. I've used the base platform I run on the PBXs to create small office fileservers - ie. booting off flash and then having a pair of SATA drives to store data on. Stick samba and NFS on it and off you go. Would either use a webby front-end like webmin, or write my own to add/remove users, shares, etc. It doesn't need to be too clever for simple purposes, and schools may already have a PDC/Windows server, so making it slave off that wouldn't be hard. Gordon -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html