Roaming Computing System (Windows Edition) 3.3
A complete computing system for an organisation.
Workstations use Windows XP (SP3, 32-bit) with the following software:
- Applications:
Adobe Reader 8.1.2 SU1; Audacity 1.2.6; F-Prot 6.0.9.1 (and later through auto updates); FileZilla 3.1.2; Firefox 3.0.1; GIMP 2.4.7; InfraRecorder 0.45; Inkscape 0.46; Irfanview 4.20; KompoZer 0.7.10; OpenOffice 2.4.1; Picasa 2.7 build 37.49; Pidgin 2.5.0; Scribus 1.3.3.12; Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (with Lightning 0.8); Windows Media Player 11 - Sundry:
7-Zip 4.57; Adblock Plus 0.7.5.5 for Firefox, Adobe Universal PostScript Driver 1.0.6; CCleaner (Slim) 2.11.636; CUPS PostScript printer driver for Windows 6.0; Enigmail 0.95.6 for Thunderbird; Eraser 5.82; Flash Player 9.0.124.0 for Firefox; GIMP Help 2-2.4; GNU Ghostscript 8.61 for Scribus; GnuPG 1.4.8 for Enigmail; Irfanview Plugins 4.20; K-Lite Codec Pack 4.1.0; Mail Redirect plug-in 0.7.4 for Thunderbird; Sun Java Runtime Environment 6.0 update 7; MySQL Connector/ODBC 3.51.26; MySpell dictionary (English - GB) 1.18 for Thunderbird; Nero BurnRights 1.0.0.12; Notepad++ 5.0.3; Ogg Codec Pack 0.71.0946; Pidgin OTR 3.2.0; Putty 0.60; UltraVNC 1.0.2; WinSCP 4.1.6; WPKG Client 1.2.1 - TWEAK 0.9.3 is used for configuration
The server uses Debian 4.0 'Etch', a Linux operating system. The Windows domain is provided by Samba 3.0.24. Print serving (optional) is provided by CUPS 1.2.7 and Samba. Mail serving is provided by Postfix 2.3.8, Dovecot 1.0 POP3/IMAP and SASL, AMaViS 2.4.2, Clam AntiVirus 0.93.1 (and later through auto updates), SpamAssassin 3.2.3 (and later, through updates), Squirrelmail 1.4.9a, Virtual Mail Manager and goldfish. Desktop software auto deployment is provided by WPKG 1.0.2.
The firewall appliance uses pfSense 1.2.0.
News
- Release Notes - upgrade advice, known issues, continually updated
- General Changelog
- To-do list (plain text format)
- WPKG packages.xml changelog
User Guides
- User Guide
- Connecting Thunderbird to your mailbox(es) (OpenDocument format) - a guide to setting up Thunderbird to connect to your mailbox(es). Consider printing it out and sticking it up on the wall.
Day-to-day Admin Guides
- Accidental Administrator's Guide
- Making user accounts - Windows domain accounts, mailboxes and forwardings
- Making user accounts - major proprietary applications
System Setup Guides
- Setting up the server
- Setting up the firewall
- Setting up a workstation (full install)
- Setting up a workstation (from image)
- Setting up a workstation - supplemental guide for major proprietary applications
Custom Files For System Setup
- packages.xml for WPKG
- profiles.xml for WPKG
- hosts.xml for WPKG
- Settings for WPKG Client (requires adding the organisation-specific domain name (in 'WPKG path user' or 'path-user') and winuser password (in 'WPKG path password' or 'path-password', note you must add this one from within WPKG Client as it's encrypted) then export to \\server\windows-admin\wpkg\wpkg-client\ for import to other workstations)
- ultravnc-installer-settings.inf - UltraVNC installer settings
- ultravnc-program-settings.reg - UltraVNC program settings (with 'Password' setting removed)