Web-based business server

[Jean-Philippe]

Toby Smithe a écrit :
> On 9/4/06, Leen Toelen <toelen at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I have been a system administrator in a couple of startups now, and
>>> something that seems to be missing in the Linux universe is a very simple
>>> getting-started, all-in-one server distribution. There is a real need for a
>>> server OS where you simply pop in a CD, answer some questions, and have a
>>> working ldap server, email server with spam checking, dns server and so on.
>>> The feature set should be basic network management (dns/dhcp/samba
>>> domainserver/samba file server/email server), a web-based management
>>> interface (no need to learn all the config file quirks), and a web interface
>>> for some common tools (look at google for domains, squirrelmail, hula,
>>> spreadsheets). There have been projects before to make some of these
>>> services working together, but most of them were not (or could not be)
>>> integrated in the distributions. Such a distribution should be headless, and
>>> only managed using the web interface.
>>>
>>> Are there any plans in this direction, what are your opinions about it?
> 
> I would love something like this; e-mail servers are a pain to set up
> when you want to use MySQL authentication. However, I do believe that
> the easy LAMP set-up offered with Dapper was a step in the right
> direction.
> 
> 
> On Mon, 2006-09-04 at 11:12 -0400, Steve Barnhart wrote:
>> There's Suse w/YaST which is *kinda* close to that, but I don't know
>> if a web-based interface exists, but all of that stuff is configured
>> with graphical tools or text-based (ncurses) tools.
> 
> Graphical tools are no use for a headless server, unless one is doing
> remote X sessions, but that is a waste of resources. SSH-ing in is a
> solution, I agree, but not what the OP was looking for.
> 

Maybe you should take a look at SME Server :

http://smeserver.sourceforge.net/