[KLUG Members] SME Server

[Todd Pillars]

Quoting Adam Elkins <aelkins at jasnetworks.net>:

> What are your thoughts on SME Server? (e-smith)
Mitel (the parent of e-smith) turned SME over to contribs.org a while ago -
after Red Hat announced the Fedora Project. Contribs.org was the main repository
for e-smith "add-ons". Most of the original developers still hang out at
contribs.org.

SME was (as still is to some point) based on RH 7.3. It is showing its age in a
lot of respects. Security updates are still offered.

If you are a small shop (1-10 users), and only need 1-3 "servers", don't have a
system admin, and are really tight on cash SME is the ticket.

It takes about 30 min to setup, can run on 400Mhz + with 128Mb ram (although
slowly) and does just about all that you could hope for very little effort. It
installs on either 1 hard drive or 2 drives mirrored (software raid) and you
dont get to muck with partitions. 

Key Points:
1. Web based admin - once you set up the box with a ncurses interface you are
off and running.
2. Domain login and file/print sharing - Samba
3. Email - Qmail (spam assassin and clamav addons available)
4. Web - Apache
5. Firewall - iptables
6. Proxy - Squid
7. DB - MySQL
8. LOTS of addons at contribs.org

> 
> I encountered one today and thought is was a little strange.
It is heavily "scripted" in perl with templates and fragments. You change the
default behavior by altering (and renaming) those templates (or numbering the
fragments).

Once you poke around in the filesystem and understand their thinking it is a
piece of cake.

Over the course of 4 years I have used SME Server in at least a dozen
(different) settings.

Todd

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Todd Pillars
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Terralabs.com