I want to use Linux at work...

[BoomAM]

Hi.
I'd really like to use Linux on our network here at work.
Doing a proper job, not just a desktop computer.

We have an ISA already to deal with proxy requests/internet security, so that ones out the window.

Any ideas?

The only one i can come up with is on our mini server that we might be building.
But i dont think Linux will support a lot of the functions that we want it to do easyily. (NAS, AD intergration, printer server, camera server, and a few others).

On another note, whats happened to the search buttons on here? All missing for some reason?

Thanks in advance all. .

 

[BoomAM]

how about a NAS, or Comunications center

Could do, but we'd need it to integrate with AD quite well, and a comms server? What do you classify as a comms server?

 

[BoomAM]

Ive checked LDAP based stuff, its integration isnt bulletproof from what ive seen/heard. .

 

[BoomAM]

Asterix sounds interesting.

An idea that i came up with is converting an old(ish) machine (p4, 256mb, 160gb) into a Wifi Access point with Linux.
As long as i could get it running reliably, it supported WPA-PSK, i could configure it from a web interface and it supported USB Wifi adaptors, that'd be ideal.

 

[BoomAM]

What he said - unless you are trying to learn a new technology (but then you should be doing stuff on your own time and not at company expense).

I think i can manage my own time thank you.

I think ive decided what im gonna use Linux for:
A host OS for vmware.

 

[BoomAM]

Well that ideas out of the window!
For some bizzare reason, Ubuntu will install on the new 'server' we have, but everytime i reboot after the installation, it says 'no boot device'.
So ive given up and just started installing VistaBusiness64 instead.
Shame really. .