Server

07 Jan

How To Install a Church Office Server

Posted by raoul in Church, DHCP, DNS, How To, Internet, Linux, NFS, Office, Router, Samba, Server

How To Install a Church Office Server

As per the site title, this blog is all about Christians and open source software, and how to use OSS in church and Christian organisations. We've discussed introducing and ultimately converting your church to OSS, and asked you what OSS you use in your church.

After blogging about these things, I thought it might be a good idea to write up a How To for those folks who use Linux on a regular basis, and want to set up a central Linux server at their church office.

My server setup at home works pretty well, so I am going to tell you how to make a similar setup.

The Details

  • DHCP for assigning IP addresses to computers on the network
  • DNS for caching of domain names, and serving the local server's internal domain name
  • Samba for filesharing
  • CUPS for a shared printer
  • Arno's IPTables Firewall
  • Apache HTTP server for web based app(s)
  • Jethro PMM for membership management

19 Aug

A Linux Server Distribution For Churches?

Posted by raoul in Article, Christianity, Churches, Development, Linux, Network, Open Source, Server, Software

This post has been migrated from http://christianoss.org/

Recently I was chatting with a few friends separately about Linux and using it in Churches. This got me thinking about what Churches might need, rather than about how to get Linux onto Church computers.

My friend Wesley and I were chatting about using the Dansguardian filtering software on a main firewall server at his Church's office. He initially wanted to install it on the desktop computers there, and then had the good idea to rather install it on a central server.

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