Hi,
I need a few hints&tips for my scenario of a total (Linux) server solution
for small businesses.
There will be only a dialup connection to the ISP available (modem or
perhaps ISDN with dial on demand) from the server. No additional modems on
single client PCs!
Server functions which I would like to use Linux for ... but how to do this?
- file&print: OK, no question that Samba does a great job there; running
fine here
- Intranet server: also solved with Apache here
- Proxy server: as far as I understand Squid will do this as a http proxy
server (only)...
BUT
I try to understand whether I can get a similar functionality of products
from the Windows world like Wingate here in Linux?
Wingate (and there are plenty of similar products) offer also a kind of
proxy for the desktops email clients (Outlook, Netscape email, etc) which
means that in very small offices where there might be only 2 or 3 separate
email accounts (POP3) available, the client PC doesn't need his own
dedicated modem. When they check their single, remote mailbox at the ISP
their email clients requests go through Wingate. This is not a modem sharing
which would end up in an exclusive usage of the modem at that time for a
single user. This is proxying all Internet access requests through the
server and therefore this single dialup connection can be used from various
client PCs with different applications at the same time (as long as
bandwidth will allow).
When the organisation grows, they might want to replace these single email
accounts with an own email domain, hosted by the ISP and giving each LAN
user now his own email account for external and internal email. Therefore it
comes to the next server question ...
- Email server:
As far as I understand, Sendmail is the typical MTA in the UNIX/Linux world
for this (and there also seem to be other products available as I have read
here).
Would Sendmail as an MTA be able to give all LAN clients (Outlook, Netscape,
etc.) email access for internal & external emailing - still over the above
mentioned dialup connection?
If yes, will we have to do this by starting with our own domain name or
could we start by collecting the mails from various POP3 accounts and
distributing these mails to the internal LAN clients? Of course an own
domain would be preferred and wants to be used in the longer view.
- Faxing: (Hylafax seems to be the server part for this?) but I haven't read
enough for this and I better do that before asking.
Thanks for any answers and your patience with this long mail
Regards,
Michael Doerner
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