How it's done:
>recommended web-apps?
For e-mail, I use CommuniGate Pro. (www.stalker.com)
Unlimited trial period. Has a small heading that says the
e-mail was transferred using CommuniGate Pro. Installs in 5
mins. ($3,000 us I think, mainly for really big providers,
has multiple domain capabilities.)
For collaboration, I invested in JoyDesk 2.11
(www.joydesk.com) $1,000 for 20 users. Has e-mail,
bulletin boards, group calendar, customer lists.
Also Ultimate Bulletin Board (ubb.com?) ($90)
For remote admin, Telnet insecure and OpenSSH. No need for
PC Anywhere. But if you want to control windoze from Linux,
you can use VNC. (can't remember url)
Printers should all be connected to the Linux machines.
That way, even if you are in another part of the WAN,
printouts can be routed anywhere.
Scanning. Successful with SANE, installed by default in
Mandrake 7.0, but the output isn't as good as windoze.
Gimp is easier to use than photoshop or photopaint.
HTML production is better in Netscape and Staroffice does
wonders! Your whole spreadsheet w/ multiple sheets in HTML!
REMOTE-X is the most wonderful small office tool I've seen!
Place all your programs in your designated application and
everything else server. (I used to do that.)
Then make all the users in this machine, make it also the
domain master in samba.
All users when logging in as windows get their files here.
This is the X-CLIENT!
Linux terminals login using Telnet. (pag-intranet ok lang na
hindi SSH)
For windows remote X is done using an X-server such as
Reflection X (I see this in greenhills). Others are
available in Tucows.com
For Linux or any other Unix with X-server:
Open a terminal while in X.
Type: xhost +
Then telnet to the server.
Then enter your username and password.
Then run your program.
TO DO: #1 Make a script to automate the login.
#2 Make an icon in KDE for easy access.
#3 Make a script for a menu for users to choose
which program to run.
a) StarOffice
b) Netscape
#4 Make a common office password and login for all
linux machines. Then all people have to do is login to
their "real" account.
With this setup, whether windoze or linux/unix, all
computers are now walk-up terminals. Nobody "owns" a
computer. If computer 1 is in use. Using computer 2 makes
no difference; since the user will always login ang get his
files, his desktop, his directory, and his/her PRIVACY!
Man I'm hungry...
>>Installation... 15 mins (redhat 6.2)
>>Administration... I only admin the application server,
>> the rest are x-terminals.
>
>I need some tips as far as this is concerned. Perhaps what
I need is a
>nitty-gritty-example type of kuwento from you. I don't know
how you've
>configured your X-Terminal <-> Application Server setup.
What are the
>specs of your servers? Terminals? What packages have you
installed in your
>X-Terminals? Servers? How do you handle logins? Are you
using NIS/YP?
>Pasensya na kung abstract ang mga tanong ko. Hope you'll
have time to
>elaborate on your setup. I'm planning to install RedHat 6.2
on some other
>computers here dual-booting Win95 temporarily. Hopefully I
can get things
>working so that we can move most away from Win95 and into
Linux.
>
>(Note to everyone: considering speed, congestion of the
Network, bogging
>down of the application server AND ease of administration,
what setup
>could be recommended versus an Application Server <->
X-Terminal pairing?)
>
>>Applications... StarOffice, Acrobat, Applixware, Netscape
>
>Nga pala, would you by any chance have a shared printer
that you're
>printing to? We only have one LaserJet 5L here, connected
to our Linux
>server. Now print sharing is done via Samba because the
network is
>primarily Win95, however if we move to Linux, I will HAVE
to enable
>printing. Any tips? :-)
>
>>Scanning... MS still better, but I can now scan in Linux!
>> Just did it with my Scanmaker X6EL and
Mandrake 7.0
>
>Way cool! What software are you using? :)
>
>>I never slept soundly with all MS.
>
>I feel this way with our file server. Definitely! NT used
to be a f*cking
>pain in the neck. Hahaha!!! :-)
>
>(Note to everyone: flames "praising" NT to /dev/null
please. I know that I
>should have used better hardware, but then I'm using a
similar setup for
>my file server now, using Linux and it's running MUCH
better)
>
>>FEATURES? Geez, what features am I missing w/ Windoze?
Blue screen of
>>death? Themes? (Mandrake has lots more!) Crawling?
Scandisk? Viruses?
>>Is that a feature too?
>
>I don't agree with Fooler's statement that Linux is trying
to catch up
>with the features of WIndows. As a matter of fact,
considering we're in an
>office environment, to HELL with all these bells and
whistles. It's time
>to treat computers like tools and not like toys. They're
toys at home,
>here in the office everything and everyone is a tool. (Wow,
scary,
>hahaha!) :-)
>
>>I've got one little fax machine that does NT and Winfax.
>
>I've opted to go HylaFax for incoming faxes. Unfortunately
just like any
>other computer fax software, nagkakaroon ng
misinterpretation (high
>sensitivity) sa transmission errors so paulit-ulit
pinapadala. Sabi namin
>traditional fax na lang sa outgoing. So far that's how it's
been so we
>don't need WinFax. Just my 2 cents worth. If you insist,
though, you can
>set up HylaFax for outgoing, too. I tried it nga before,
may Winblows
>printer driver pa. :-)
>
>Apologies for the long e-mail. I hope you can find time to
help me out.
>You've got my word that I'll do the same for you if and
when I can in the
>future. Thanks! :-)
>
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>Federico Sevilla III
>Network Administrator
>
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