Open Source Solutions for Small Business Problems » 03. LAN

Monitoring disk space and usage

freelock — Sun, 18 Jun 2006 17:43:27 +0000

Good introductory article on monitoring disk usage, with a nice little script to send a mail as filesystems approach their limit:

System Administrators Toolkit: Monitoring disk space and usage
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How can 6 people use one computer at the same time?

freelock — Wed, 08 Mar 2006 03:52:22 +0000

… by attaching 6 keyboards, mice, and monitors to it, of course. Need to provide a place for guests or workers to get online, and not much more? This can be a very cost-effective solution. Build a Six-headed, Six-user Linux System.

BackupPC: Open Source Backup to disk

freelock — Thu, 01 Dec 2005 20:49:21 +0000

Just stumbled upon a pretty cool web interface to a centralized backup system. You can manage a series of snapshot backups of all the computers on your network. It can automatically send a user an email if there’s a repeated problem of missed backups. And users can restore their own backups through the web site. BackupPC: Open Source Backup to disk.

I found this while reading an article in Linux Journal that also has some helpful hints for setting up a Linux-based backup system: Build a Home Terabyte Backup System Using Linux.

Kerberos, LDAP, and Single Sign-on

freelock — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 17:44:54 +0000

Another very technical article. This one describes how to set up an infrastructure for securely providing single sign-ons to multiple systems in a LAN. Paranoid Penguin – Single Sign-on and the Corporate Directory, Part I | Linux Journal

Advanced Linux LDAP authentication

freelock — Fri, 28 Oct 2005 16:19:28 +0000

This is a bit technical, but contains steps for securing LDAP to control user access to your network. Linux.com | Advanced Linux LDAP authentication.

VoIP Security

freelock — Tue, 25 Oct 2005 17:01:15 +0000

Voice Over IP (VoIP) is becoming a main part of the small business infrastructure. As phone networks converge with data networks, security becomes more of a concern. This group is assembling a taxonomy of security issues associated with VoIP: VOIPSA : Activities : Working Groups : Threat Taxonomy.

Linux thin clients in schools

freelock — Thu, 22 Sep 2005 17:32:36 +0000

This school made 60 Pentium I and Pentium II computers useful for their students, using a Linux thin-client solution, on a tiny technology budget. Check out their story: Rescuing a School Technology Program: Linux Thin-client Overview OP/ED

Active Directory Solutions for Linux

freelock — Mon, 19 Sep 2005 15:50:33 +0000

There are a number of ways to integrate Linux clients and servers into an Active Directory environment. This article discusses a few of them.

Clearing the Active Directory hurdle

freelock — Sat, 14 May 2005 21:58:11 +0000

Can you tell I have posts stacked up to write? Taking a bit today to post some links I’ve stumbled across in the past few weeks. Here’s an article discussing the issues of migrating a Windows NT office environment to Linux, discussing some of the issues resolved by Active Directory and the alternatives. Windows-to-Linux migrations: Clearing the Active Directory hurdle.

Linux.com | Using a Linux failover router

freelock — Sat, 14 May 2005 21:44:37 +0000

Technical note: here’s how to configure a Linux router to handle multiple Internet connections, providing automatic redundency should your primary Internet connection goes down: Linux.com | Using a Linux failover router.