On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 01:09:32AM +1030, Karl Goetz wrote: > hi all > i'm about to deploy a network which will be using debian servers on its > backend (etch, hopefully) and about a hundred gnu/linux desktops. > > I'll be setting up a bunch of services, and was hoping people could > recommend specific help they used to go with the huge quantity of > goodness-knows-what-quality doco on the internet. > > cifs/smb
The Samba documentation is adequate. There is also a Samba HOWTO at TLDP.org. > nfs Uggh. Do you really need NFS? If you have kerberos, something like AFS might be a better choice. If you have to have NFS, then it really depends on how you plan to use it. > dhcp The documentation included in the dhcp3-server package is just fine. DHCP is relatively simple to setup. > dns There is this article that I really like: http://www.madboa.com/geek/soho-bind/ If you have never setup BIND before, it is a good place to get started, even if you plan for your installation to be lots bigger than the one described. > cups What do you want to do with CUPS? Do you need print job accounting? Do you need authentication to print? Lots more infomation is needed to give you a good pointer to the right docs. > avahi Not familiar with this. > exim4 Personally, I would recommend Postfix instead. If you choose Postfix, there is tons of good documentation on the Postfix website. > apache > " ssl > Apache is one of the best documented open source/free software projects. Of course, without knowing how you intend to use it, it is hard to give anything more specific than that. > Hope you can give me some advice! > If you can provide some more details, you will get better advice. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com
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