[clug-talk] New setup - general advice

[Kin C Wong]

The office is planning to go virtual to reduce cost so everyone (some 
people are in different cities as well).  Currently there is a webserver 
and ftp server, a mailserver, firewall (all linux) and a file server using 
Citrix and a domain server (Microsoft).

Going forward, I want to change everything to Linux.  We will eliminate the 
domain server and the file server will use Samba instead.  Currently 
everything except the webserver is behind a firewall (even the email 
server).  Any advice on how one should configure this to be effective.

My initial thoughts are that the mail server does not need to be behind the 
firewall and can be easily co-located with the webserver and ftp server.

I know it is popular to store files using Samba, but if the office is 
virtual, would you configure ftp to point to the shared files?  Would you 
use a different box and ip than mail, web and ftp server?

BTW, unfortunately on the client side, we still need to be on Windows if 
that makes a difference.