Hello.
:)
I
am a high school history teacher and debate coach and I am trying to
start a small project to explore the use of Linux file/web/database
servers in a K-12 environment. I currently use Red Hat 9 in my small
classroom lab (4 Red Hat standalone boxes along with 6 Windows 2000
boxes; all are on computer purchases through state surplus programs).
I'd like to initially create a file server box for to serve up shared
file space to my Windows boxes (running Win2K, Win98SE and WinXPPro)
and after I'm confident :), add a web server and perhaps database
services. I did attempted last year (as a simple Saturday project) to
set up a server using RH8, however, I was never able to get my Windows
boxes to access any shared folders without errors that I didn't have
the time, at that point, to troubleshoot and investigate.
My
questions:
1.)
Should I simply use Red Hat (or, at this point Fedora) or would the
K-12 terminal server be better for what I am doing? I understand the
nature of the terminal server, however, it sounds from reading
information on this list and elsewhere that this distribtuion is often
used for stand-alone workstations and wonder if it would also make a
good file/web server.
2.)
Is there a simple resoruce available walking one through configuring
Samba for a simple windows networking environment?
Thanks
for all that you do to spread Linux to the K-12 labs and classroom!
Thx,
Jason
Neiffer
GFHS