On Tue, 08 Jul 2003, Stephen Patterson wrote:
> On Mon, 07 Jul 2003 22:30:28 +0200, lists1 wrote:
> > Can anyone recommend a non-registration site that clearly explains what
> > services normally run on a small company lan? Say 25-100 users or so.
>
> > OpenLdap is for...same?
> > Bind for dns
> > DHCP/static
> > NTP
> > Samba for windows file/print
> > What else?
>
> I'm surprised you've missed out email, many people here would suggest
> exim as an SMTP server, and you'd need courier/cyrus for IMAP and/or
> POP3 mailboxes (unless you can cope with an NFS exported mail spool
> and all your clients are linux).
You *might* want to look into a web based email system as well.
Squirrelmail/Courier-Imap is a combo I've used before, and its done
very well by me. That way, you have one centralized email backup, and
you only have to worry about one email app (Squirrelmail) instead of
many.
Other unusual ideas include a Jabber server, for secure, local IMs.
Back to the relm of the mundane, have you thought about:
Squid - www proxy.
Ftp - insecure, but it has its uses.
Spamassassin - tag spamlike messages [ I recommend redoing the
header and adding a 'PROBABLE SPAM:' tag to
the subject, instead of deleting.]
VNC/rDesktop - Not really a 'service', but something you might want
running on a few or all of the machines.
Antivirus - If you are receiving outside email, and your users
can download it to a win32 platform, you need
an antivirus solution. The AV companies usually
sell a (pricy) large company edition, which
is set up as a server/client system - one
machine grabs all the updates, and distributes
them to the rest. You might need a win32
machine to run the server, but it could be worth
it. Else, if you are on a budget, you could try
proxying virus updates through squid, but you
will not get centralized reporting that way.
I cannot say it often enough: If you are using
windows, you need AV on each machine.
~ Jesse Meyer
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