Hi Vinod,
i have 10-12 windows clients. on the server i want file sharing print server backup (automatic) firewall proxy server. what type of configuration would the machine need.
Hardware wise there isn't a problem putting all this on one machine. I have 8 clients running fine off a Celeron 600MHz with 256Mb doing file/print (samba), IM server (jabber) & backup (rsync).
However from the security point of view, it may be better to put your firewall & file server on separate machines. Personally I feel an OpenBSD firewall & and a Linux file server give a good blend of security & convenience. If you do go ahead with FC1 as an all-in-one server, make very sure you secure it properly.
.... is to have the data of the tally saved on the linux server. the clients will receive it from there and the tally will read the data. tell me if this is possible and sugest how because i have not tried the tally part.
It certainly works with Tally 5.4. You just put the tally data directory on the server & modify your tally.ini file on the clients to point to that directory. I presume the same will also work on newer versions of Tally.
Chirag Wazir http://chirag.freeshell.org