Small business/non-profit server

[ourskool]

I am trying to setup a simple server for a non-profit organization. Currently, they have about a dozen PCs all running Windows XP Pro. They don't have money for a Windows server and don't have any IT support. I was initially planning on putting Fedora in as a Samba PDC and administer via Webmin. However, I wanted to have a simple interface for one of the managers onsite to use. I showed them Webmin, and it was a bit perplexing. I looked around and found Linbox(http://lds.linbox.org/) and Ebox(http://ebox-platform.com/). Both of these have nice, simple admin web interfaces. However, both are based on Debian.

Are there any similar interfaces or projects available for Fedora?

[lazlow]

Ourskool

I love FC, but if you are going to use this server for longer than a year, do not use it. FC's support for updates is only for the last two version (right now FC5 and FC6). This works out to be somwhere between a year to sixteen months (about). When FC7 is released then support for FC5 will be dropped (no more updates). Centos would be a much better choice for a server (support is in years not months). My understanding is that the current version of Centos is extremely close to FC5.

Lazlow

[tasm]

Originally Posted by lazlow

My understanding is that the current version of Centos is extremely close to FC5.

As far as I know, CentOS is similar to fc3, because RHEL has been built of FC3/FC4.

[alyca]

ourskool,

You might want to try SME Server 7.1 which is based on CentOS. It works right out of the box and can be easily configured via a web browser.