Servers 101

[Billie Walsh]

Bruce Marshall wrote:
> On Friday 10 October 2008, Billie Walsh wrote:
>   
>> My better half just turned to me and asked if I thought we had a
>> computer suitable for running as a server on our home network. With all
>> the stuff we have around here I'm pretty sure we do but we know
>> absolutely nothing about servers. It would have to be able to work on a
>> mixed network [ Linux and Windows ].
>>
>> Can someone point me to someplace that has "Servers For Dummies 101"?
>>     
>
> I think first you need to decide why you want a server...  i.e.  what do you 
> want it to do?
>
> I use a server as a firewall and an email fetcher (other machines POP their 
> mail from it)  on a mixed network.   There's no real magic to a server for 
> simple stuff...   it's just normal linux.  (mail, networking, firewall, etc)
>
>   

Well, I'm not so sure "we" have a reason for one up front. Share and 
store files, in house mail possibly, Uhm, internet to everything else. 
Not sure what it's all capable of.

We probably don't need one in the first place but you never know.

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