I did think about running a VM which would be easy enough but we have this separate machine which might as well be put to use.
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I did think about running a VM which would be easy enough but we have this separate machine which might as well be put to use.
Sorry! :pQuote:
Originally Posted by Mark
What are you wanting to do with both PC's? Obviously Karen's will stay as Karen's and be a work machine, what about the other one?
There are a couple of options here. Logmeinfree will allow you remote access and shouldn't require reconfiguration of ports on the router.
As for waking the PC, the best option would be to use wake on LAN, this will require going into device manager and enabling it on the NIC and then going into the BIOS and enabling it there. I'm sure you could schedule a task on one machine to send out a magic packet on the network at a certain time, but that would involve that machine being on! You can also do wake on LAN from phones also, I woke my PC up once over 3g :)
Mark, the one thing I'd reccomend is giving Windows Home Server a go. It does backups and can also control remote desktop sessions as well. I'm currently using a WHS 2011 Vail Beta and it works nicely :)
Machine 1 will be for both of us and run Windows Vista Business - the OS cannot be reinstalled. Don't know what that will be used for apart from Karens work.
Machine 2 will be a Linux CentOS machine, not sure what the spec is but it's not powerful. This will do forum backups and what else I don't know yet.
Both machines will need to access files on each other, and Karens laptop access files on both.
Why Linux centos? Just asking out of interest
On the subject of KVM's would it not just be easier to use remote access? I've got my WHS behind me and apart from when I was actually setting it up it doesn't have a monitor, keyboard or mouse connected, far easier just to RDP into it and with the way it's setup I've saved the login credentials and it's literally just a case of right clicking an icon and then left clicking and I'm logged in.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mark
It depends on how much a KVM would be. But yes, since its only a server with no X then just SSH access would be sufficient.
Why centos? Because it's a stable red hat distribution and free. Why linux? Because it's good as a server and I know how to use it in that context.Quote:
Originally Posted by Daniel
But I'm not yet sure what I will use the machines for, so some idea of options!
Red Hat, after making a nice near billion dollar in sales, is trying to take action against CentOS. They are making updates and patches more trivial to prevent CentOS from using them to stealing their market.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mark
OpenSuSE (or SLES if you are that way inclined) + YaST (and SUSE Studio) is the way to go! :)