Rob Beard wrote: > alan c wrote: >> I have become (slightly ambitiously) the volunteer system admin for a >> small local charity serving a small number of vulnerable users. >> I expect to commission and admin 5 PCs each with edubuntu 7.04 (a few >> are dual boot with windows). There will be a modem router and LAN >> including a switch. >> >> I believe that something like dans guardian is probably going to be >> important, and I can see a number of how to's on the forums. >> I would prefer not to use scripts, and it seems that apps are in repos >> ok. However, my experience with cacheing, proxies, and ip tables (and >> the concepts) is sparse, and I wondered if anyone here has experience >> or comments which might help me speed up? >> tia > > Hi Alan, > > Are you going to use a dedicated box as a server? I would have > suggested SME Server from www.contribs.org as it has Dans Guardian built > in (plus Samba file sharing, Clam Anti-Virus scanning, IMAP Mail server). > > Otherwise from what I remember I managed to install a local copy of Dans > Guardian on Ubuntu. Just requires you to set the proxy server on > Firefox to the proxy port on the local box. IIRC you should be able to > use localhost:3128 on a machine with Dans Guardian installed on it.
Thanks Rob does local box mean the 'modem router' or a specific PC set up as something? I am not clear about what is the 'proxy port' (sorry). Is this the port to a proxy server or from it? As I understand things (and expect) the PCs will not really have a formal arrangement apart from being connected to the same LAN. One or more might be in use and I will not often be present at all. A main office PC will also be using the LAN, and will most likely be on always, however it is not linux and (for non technical reasons) I would prefer to leave that unmodified. Initially at least I would like to imagine that something (dans guardian?) could be installed onto each PC and be self contained in that machine. Does that mean that a proxy server (?) needs to be installed into each PC? or what? If this concept is valid it would be like a single home PC and router, at each PC. Maybe not elegant, but could it work? I suppose in time it might be practical to be more formal and take all PCs from one machine which is guarding the LAN, is that the usual SME or school technique? tia -- alan cocks Kubuntu user#10391 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
