Hi Everyone, In our endeavour to implement a Windoze less office, I would like to add something. I am planning to implement FLOSS in my office network of 7 computers. No accounting packages, no frills network. Just Peer-to-Peer and connected to the Net thru one of the PCs' using the ICS in Win XP. Predominantly use Word, Excel and Mailing.
I just want to shift to FLOSS and know that all the above are possible using LINUX. I want to, in addition to the above, implement a messaging server thru which we can chat within our office. Is there any such application thru which we can chat, using "gaim" or something. Provided we are not connected to the Net always. I want to be able to chat with one-other. I know it is possible in M$ world using I believe Exchange Server or something like that and Netmeeting on the client side. Is this possible in our TUX world and if yes are there any free software available.
rgds,
rc
On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 10:05:51AM +0530, Richard Chang wrote:
I just want to shift to FLOSS and know that all the above are possible using LINUX. I want to, in addition to the above, implement a messaging server thru which we can chat within our office. Is there any such application thru which we can chat, using "gaim" or something. Provided we are not connected to the Net always. I want to be able to chat with one-other. I know it is possible in M$ world using I believe Exchange Server or something like that and Netmeeting on the client side. Is this possible in our TUX world and if yes are there any free software available.
Yes, Jabber. Install ejabberd or something on one of the Linux boxes.
On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 10:14:23AM -0400, Satya wrote:
server thru which we can chat within our office. Is there any such application thru which we can chat, using "gaim" or something. Provided we are not connected to the Net always. I want to be able to chat with
Yes, Jabber. Install ejabberd or something on one of the Linux boxes.
To clarify: Jabber is a messaging protocol. Gaim understands Jabber. Install a jabber server like ejabberd on one of your linux boxes, and that box will become a jabber server. All the boxes can run Gaim and connect to the server. Run jabber conferencing (google for that) and you'll get chat rooms in addition to one-to-one IM.
From: "Richard Chang" richard@hinditron.com
I just want to shift to FLOSS and know that all the above are possible using LINUX. I want to, in >addition to the above, implement a messaging server thru which we can chat within our office. Is there >any such application thru which we can chat, using "gaim" or something. Provided we are not >connected to the Net always. I want to be able to chat with one-other. I know it is possible in M$ world >using I believe Exchange Server or something like that and Netmeeting on the client side. Is this
possible in our TUX world and if yes are there any free software
available.
Yep, all of this is possible with GNU/Linux. First, choose the distro you would like to use for the server and clients. I would recommend a more "user friendly" distro for the client PCs while a more functional(read: server oriented) distro for the gateway. I guess you have all the networking infrastructure already.
1. Internet Connection Sharing: Use NAT(Network Address Translation) & IP masquerading. It can be implemented using IPtables. Or if you want to keep tabs on the employees use Squid. Squid is a proxy server.
2. Chatting : Use jabber. It's free and gaim supports it ;) You need not connect to the internet because you want localized chatting. Ofcourse, once you're connected to the internet you can use gaim to chat in all supported networks.
As for Ms.Word, Excel, etc... I suppose you can use OpenOffice.org. But you will need fast machines for acceptable usability. Give us details about your network and I guess we can help you setup your network ;)
Regards, Dinesh.
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"Dinesh Joshi" dinesh_pro@hotmail.com wrote:
Give us details about your network and I guess we can help you setup your network ;)
Thank you, Dinesh. Well ! All the systems are PIII 600 with 128MB RAM and 20GB or higher config systems. The highest config is P4-2.4 with 256 MB and 40 Gig. Presently we connect using RConnect and the FWT thing. Speed is acceptable.
Yep, all of this is possible with GNU/Linux. First, choose the distro you would like to use for the server and clients. I would recommend a more "user friendly" distro for the client PCs while a more functional(read: server oriented) distro for the gateway. I guess you have all the networking infrastructure already.
I know it is possible. Presently we connect using RConnect and the LG FWT thing thru one of the computer running Win XP. Speed is acceptable. Kinda planning to use RH9 as it is working great for me and looks ok also ( as long as you what you do is writing documents and spread sheets with mail and a bit of chatting). I dont want to debate about the distro.
What I am more interested to know is the chatting thing. I want to learn more. How to setup, what to do next, evrything.
rgds,
rc
On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 01:20:01PM +0530, Richard Chang wrote:
What I am more interested to know is the chatting thing. I want to learn more. How to setup, what to do next, evrything.
The jabber docs suck, but I can answer any specific questions you have.
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