Re: Absolute Beginner requests assistance

houghi <houghi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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Thanks for your extensive reply!

Ah, the manager asked who owned a PC and you lifed your hand. You poor
slob. ;-)

Actually no, I have worked in the IT and it shows on my CV. Since the
company's admin is curious about Linux, but never got round to checking
it out, and now gets a trainee pushed on his neck for 6 weeks...

Do you want to start with SUSE Linux Enterpise Server? If so, see that

No, Opensuse. They're along way from using Linux servers in production.

I'm to set this up and write a documentation about it for others.

Again proof never to volonteer. ;-)

I didn't volunteer, I got drafted :-)

openSUSE.org is a good place.

found it, and the beginner's manuals are nice, although they don't
explain what each option during install for instance does, they just say
"click this" and don't explain all the effects of what you just clicked.

openSUSE.org boxed version. That will come with a book on how to

Even that is too much ATM, I had to dl the 5 CD version.

install. The thing is that I am wondering about, what are the other
people going to do with it.

Nothing. It's a test server mainly for the admin to check out and for any
assistants he gets to play around with. It's not going to be used in
production, just for testing.

So first a fileserver. I asume then that all the other machines are
Windows machines. It makes things a bit more complicated.

Yes, so I assumed Samba is the place to start?

Neko
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