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[Doc Rea]

Hey all:

I wanted to provide an update on this project since I got so much 
assistance from folks.

In any case, on the first day of classes most everyone showed up with a 
laptop in tow. After some discussion students either decided to:

1. Install Linux on ther laptop (dual-boot or single)
or
2. Set up a server at home and ssh in for class work

The above--coupled with a netowrking lab for some other work--is enough 
to get by fine in the course.

I guess I'll leave the virtual server project for another day.

Alan

Doc Rea wrote:
> Hey all:
> 
> I'd like to get some feedback from folks on a challenge I'm trying to 
> puzzle through...
> 
> The Situation
> 
> Once a year we offer a Web Admin class. I've done it for two years now. 
> Once we used Linux (Redhat 7.3 at the time) and another we used both 
> Linux (Redhat 9) and Windows (Server 2003). I'm planning on just going 
> the *nix route this upcoming semester.
> 
> Here's the catch: In the lab we work in, the PCs are Windows. Last year 
> I tried Virtual PC with a Linux image. It works, but it's very slow on 
> our machines (P4, 256 RAM). We don't have room on the drives for 
> dual-boot either. I did convert a few old machines into Linux boxes and 
> they worked fine, but we couldn't access them in the classroom (they 
> were in another lab).
> 
> We don't do a great deal of things, but we do have students do some of 
> the following:
> * set up an Apache webserver and work with httpd.conf (a lot)
> * set up a DNS server
> * set up a mail server
> * set us a firewall and other security measures
> * write some shell scripts, a Perl cgi, etc.
> 
> The Question
> 
> I've considered setting up an older server and giving students root 
> access to it (it can't get out of our internal zone), but I want to 
> partition off each student's work. I've looked for information on 
> Virtual Servers, but can find nothing so far but marketing information.
> 
> Has anyone set up a Virtual Server (not Virtual Host) and partitioned 
> off areas for different clients or testers who have full root access to 
> http, mail, dns, etc. without spilling over into another account. I've 
> read about it in FreeBSD (and don't mind going that way), but I can't 
> seem to find useful guides on this. Any references you might have would 
> be great.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Alan
> 
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