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| 513389 | 2007-01-07 07:45:00 | Pardon my ignorance of how trade me works. What price are you looking to pay for a PC? Thats fine. I think I will go to $400 max for the PC, the 2nd link is $290 buy now | The_End_Of_Reality (334) | ||
| 513390 | 2007-01-07 08:27:00 | Good luck and good luck with your networking. | winmacguy (3367) | ||
| 513391 | 2007-01-07 08:35:00 | Good luck and good luck with your networking. Thanks :) I am having a play with Apache and I have got it up and running on a virtual machine accessable to the world :D |
The_End_Of_Reality (334) | ||
| 513392 | 2007-01-07 09:02:00 | Thanks :) I am having a play with Apache and I have got it up and running on a virtual machine accessable to the world :D Sounds easier than I thought. As long as you know what your doing I guess. |
winmacguy (3367) | ||
| 513393 | 2007-01-07 09:13:00 | Sounds easier than I thought. As long as you know what your doing I guess. Yes, me too... but the real hard part will be the actual web interface and all the networking... | The_End_Of_Reality (334) | ||
| 513394 | 2007-01-07 09:15:00 | Yes, me too... but the real hard part will be the actual web interface and all the networking... Ah the fun bit. |
winmacguy (3367) | ||
| 513395 | 2007-01-07 09:38:00 | Ah the fun bit. Yep :D | The_End_Of_Reality (334) | ||
| 513396 | 2007-01-07 09:41:00 | Maybe you should get a job doing all of that. | winmacguy (3367) | ||
| 513397 | 2007-01-07 09:59:00 | Incidently do you know and Unix commands? | winmacguy (3367) | ||
| 513398 | 2007-01-07 10:08:00 | I really recommend the Linux route for this. Most distributions will come with most of the software you need. Linux systems are generally designed to be networked from the ground up - on Linux and relatives even the graphics system is fully networked. For remote printing all you need is a CUPS server with remote access enabled. You can then print over the internet using internet printing protocol (IPP). You will also want to set up some form of authentication. CUPS is the standard printing system on Linux systems and will be installed by default with almost every distribution. Checking the status of other computers is harder. You could set up a script which pings all the other servers periodically and reports the result of the last test on a web page. This could be run every five minutes by a cron script. Just make sure that the time of the last test is also noted so that you can tell whether the results on the site are current or not. For the security of these systems, you may like to consider a VPN. If you provide access to printers and the monitoring server only via VPN then your security risk will be much lower. OpenVPN would be a good option for this. |
TGoddard (7263) | ||
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