Go with CentOS on all machines, not only the servers. The turnaround time for Fedora is a tad bit high IMO. I assume your time is not without limits, and with CentOS you'll be supported till like 2014 with patches and stuff IIRC. Fedora is 1,5yrs/release I think. If you can afford it, use RHEL on the server (I think you'll be fine with the most basic entitlement). Remember, if nobody buys RHEL there won't be any CentOS. Install one client and set it up like you want it and create a kickstart-file. Use that file when installing the other clients. For proxy, why not use a separate old machine together with Smoothwall Express 3.0? It's a firewall appliance that includes a transparant proxy which requires no setup on the client-side. Plenty of mods too, like content-filtering to filter out pron and other filth. See here for info on Smoothwall http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=smoothwall. Smoothwall can fix your dhcp-thing too. Installation in general of SW is a laugh, it's that simple. Just keep track of the red (ext) and green (int) networks. 8-) I suggest you start with installing the server and then the proxy/Smoothwall. HTH. _____ From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Harry Sukumar Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2008 7:04 AM To: centos at centos.org Subject: [CentOS] School Server Setup Hello All!!! I was wondering if you can help me little bit.. I am trying to help (voluntary service) a country side school (Aboriginal community) in Northern Queensland Australia setup lab infrastructure, it's a very remote school and they don't have enough funds to go commercial The school has only till grade 6 They have 25 machines that was bought out of the government grant but none of the machines come with windows I was asked by the school president to setup lab infrastructure currently they have Internet (Dynamic) with only two machines connected I have asked them to change the plan to Static IP address which I presume will be done some time this week I have decided to go Linux on all the machines including the server Could some one please cast some light on how I can carry on with this project, I am not sure where to start and I am fairly new to Linux and system administration world Currently what's in my mind is to setup fedora on all desktop and CentOS5 as my server with following services configured Proxy-squid (all the traffic to pass through) Firewall Apache Squirrel mail DNS DHCP I am not sure where to start with this project Your help will be highly appreciated by the little kids who have never even touched a computer before in there life!!! -- Many Thanks Harry -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080610/56ee0a79/attachment-0004.html> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/x-pkcs7-signature Size: 5118 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080610/56ee0a79/attachment-0004.bin>