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We are updating this howto to support CentOS 5. Red Hat released the RHEL 5 source in April 2007, and in early April the CentOS project provided a final release of CentOS 5. We are in the process of running through the base installation & detailed configuration to confirm all the directions.
The following How-to is a Work-in-progress based on CentOS 5. It will have typos, spelling errors, gaps & errors until we have completed a detailed run-through and updated the steps. While this is underway we are mainatianing the legacy open-source howtos at www.old.hornfordassociates.com.
This SMB Linux Server How-To is written for small/medium businesses looking at replacing their infrastructure with Linux and Open Source tools.
For many small/medium businesses an appropriate use of Linux and Open Source is at the infrastructure layer - providing infrastructure services that standard Windows OS-based desktops can use without the expense of Microsoft infrastructure licenses.
This How-to will provide the infrastructure to support normal business operations including file-services, domain authentication, email, calendaring and group collaboration.
For an overview discussion of why these applications were used look here. Core application list:
- CentOS 5 Linux (Base Operating System)
- Samba (File Sharing)
- Open-Xchange, OpenGroupware or Courier or eGroupware (Email & Calendaring)
Note: This How-to will branch outlining how to implement Open-Xchange, OpenGrouware, eGroupware & a mixed application set. - PostFix (SMTP Mail)
- Fetchmail (Mail Retrieval)
- Amavisd (Mail Cleaning Manager)
- Spam Assassin (Spam Protection)
- ClamAV (AntiVrus & Malware Protection)
- Apache (Web Server)
- Microsoft Active Directory or OpenLDAP (Directory Services)
- MySQL (Database)
- Bind or DNSmasq (DNS)
- Webmin (System Management)
The following link provides step-by-step instructions to install and perform a base configuration of a CentOS 5 server.
These steps are common to several CentOS How-tos