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ok thanks for the clarification, I wasn't trying to sound like an ass
in my previous message. I just know at my employer I've had users who
think they know how to fix computers (but all they can do is break
them) do more harm then good, but since we went to roaming
profiles/active directory/etc a few years ago when I started steering
the ship, I and made them all regular users and only IT support staff
are administrators, that ended the problems.<br>
<br>
Xen is always good for saving power. It's similar to VMWare, you can
run multiple virtual computers on one PC at once. So you could create
yourself a Linux server on an already existing computer. Some of
VMware's products are free, like ESX server, too, so you might look
into that.<br>
<br>
Does each school have a firewall at their perimeter? Are they
networked together via a VPN, or wide area network? Is your bandwidth
billed by the gigabyte or unlimited, and how fast are the school's
connections and # of computers? You could put your file server in a
DMZ on your firewall and have all school computers update from it (but
that may not be a good idea depending on how much bandwidth and
computers your schools have and how much you are billed for bandwidth,
or do it only at schools with no server). But you could keep your
current setup and just have the remote servers grab the latest config
and packages with ssh+rsync.<br>
<br>
Chris Wilcox wrote:
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I'm the ICT Manager employed by the schools directly and contact with
the LA is often slow hence I figured I'd try to work with the existing
setup rather than ask them to change things across 15 schools.<br>
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I could simply set up a NAS or an additional Linux server (which one or
two schools have had though I've phased these out over more energy
efficient Buffalo NAS's over the past 12 months) but in the interests
of saving money and power I was looking to utilise existing equipment
rather than duplicate things.<br>
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I have a test wpkg server/client at my main site which I use for
package development and testing and where in use, I can then take the
completed packages and XML files to each remote school (or in some
cases use remote access to download and install them without
travelling). It's the schools who have no NAS or existing 'server'
that I have implemented who I am trying to save a bit of money for, and
it looks like I'll have to ask the LA to see if they'll arrange or let
me know how to add an open share to the Linux cache/firewall.<br>
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In case you're interested!<br>
<br>
Chris<br>
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