Service

Description

LinEx configuration

Additional in Skolelinux

Apache

Web server for users to store home page

In the server, one server each school, Reason: Make a local mirror of apt: apt.cache. Debian package

CUPS

Print server. Goal is also to manage print quotas

Local server and on every workstation

DHCP

Automatic connection to the network

DNSMasq (deb package)

DNS

Name server

DNSMasq (deb package) Combining DHCP and DNS

LDAP

Directory service manage users, login and netgroups

Yes

LTSP

Linux Terminal Server Project: Thin and diskless clients

No

NFS

Network File System

NFS for $HOME for teachers and pupils in secondary / pupils in primary: only for teachers, pupils have home on local disk

NTP

Clock server on main school server. Clients points to that

Yes, desktop form local server – server -> international

SMTP/IMAP over SSL

e-mail to all users at schools

No tech but yes: Web-e-mail for every person in region, served by tech ministry in some other project

SSH

Remote login to main servers

Yes, access from the server to any computer, not directly too computers

Squid

Proxy on school server to save bandwidth capacity

Yes, transparent proxy, rules. Cant use IE-explorer. To prevent steeling the bandwidth with viruses

Webmin

System administration via web browser

No

User administration

Simplified user administration

Have made a program for us self. phpldapadmin, only check. Home-brewed appl. to add user etc. A new one is on the roadmap

Cipux is next for Skolelinux 3.0. Replacing WLUS

Backup

Backup (on a separate machine)

Nothing, depends on the sys.admin

SMB

Samba for Windows boxes

No

cfengine

Automatic control over configs

On the roadmap

Host and service monitoring

Surveillance of services and hardware

On the roadmap this 2007, maybe early 2008, Nagios?

Munin

Appletalk

Connecting OS X on Macs

No

No

SQL-tjener

Database server (is installed, not configured)

Sometimes when local schools uses CMS.

Yes when using Moodle