--- Suresh Ramasubramanian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Snake Bite rearranged electrons thusly:
> > i work in a small company where i have around 10
> 486
> > based systems which hav 8mb ram, 500mb hdd,
> ethernet
> > card and one pIII based system having 64mb ram &
> 10gb
> > hdd etc. we hav a leased line.
>
> Fine, set up a debian base install on those things.
> Or just install DOS or
> something and make them remote X terms.
a newbie question, how to make remote x clients
> > i want to setup a network in my company where i
> want
> > to have user accts of all the ppl, so that
> everybody
> > can log in and work maybe from diff computers and
> > still access all the basic linux services. i also
> want
> > to hav mail accts of all the employees.
>
> If you need a server hosting mail accounts and
> such, you'll likely need a
> little more disk space than 10 GB ... disks are
> fairly cheap anyway. Add
> another 10 GB disk if you can.
>
> > now, i want to have a linux server, how should i
> > proceed????
i want everybody to have access to the same mail from
any of the systems...
> Install a light distro (debian / slakware / redhat
> custom install). Skip
> bloatware like xwindows and emacs (you can't afford
> the space on such small
> capacity machines)
i'm not good with linux, but, in this case, do i hav
to logon to 486 m/c then telnet to server, is it
possible to have same user accts and mails
everywhere??
is there something like global users???
> > can i hav all the services on the server, like
> mail,
> > apache etc. and access mail from other systems??
>
> Yes, definitely
>
> > all the 486 machines hav very low hard disk space,
> so
> > what to do with them???? can i connect all these
> > hdd???
>
i don want DOS
> You want to make one gigantic hdd? Install DOS on
> the machines ... DR-DOS
> or 4DOS say, not MS-DOS. Install Telix or Procomm
> to access the linux
> server (or there are DOS mail programs - pegasus
> mail, browsers - arachne,
> etc)
>
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> Suresh Ramasubramanian <--> mallet <at> efn <dot>
> org
> EMail Sturmbannfuhrer, Lower Middle Class Unix
> Sysadmin
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