Setting up a LinuxMint Server

[schar]

Is there a link that you can provide to show how to setup a Linuxmint V10 as a Server?

For example:
* Setting it up for another computer to be able to log in.
* map drives to the server
* to be able to share drives etc like you do on a Windows Server?
* Install Software on the Server that the clients can access, load on the client etc.

[grimdestripador]

perhaps zentyal provides your server environment a little better.

* Setting it up for another computer to be able to log in.
for linux, look into configuring nfs, or using scp (ssh copy). I prefer sshfs, for linux to linux shares.
for windows, look into configuring samba. there are a lot of ways, with a server, see about "classical shares" or the way is has historically been done, we have new user shares, and you don't want them for a server.

* map drives to the server
for linux you need an entry into /etc/fstab for boot time access of network drives
for windows, you click the add network drive icon when in my computer.

* Install software on server. load to client.
this is a bit tricky, as I don't know what you mean by install. you mean install ON, or install TO. ON being, on the hard drive of the server which is a share. To being, literally running from the server. (like web server? like clustering? like baewolf cluster for your renter farm?).

[AlbertP]

Maybe he means something like Virtual Desktop, a very useful Windows feature. I am sure there will exist something like this for Linux.

[DrHu]

Any Linux OS can be a both a client and server

The main distinction, even if that distribution of the Linux OS does not provide a server configuration, is..

• Server
  - Emphasize network throughput rather than applications running
  - Provide headless (no GUI) connections, you telnet or ssh to manage the server processing
  - multiple user connections, perhaps a web server or other specific application is provisioned
  - - remote printing
• Client
  - regular desktop experience (GUI)
  - Many applications included, including internet access with a selected browser
  - Package manager included, to allow adding or removing applications
  - local printing

Check some server Linux distributions, such as Ubuntu (could be closest to Mint) and the difference form the normal client (desktop distribution)
http://www.serverwatch.com/columns/arti ... utions.htm
http://www.ubuntu.com/server
http://www.howtoforge.com/perfect-serve ... ispconfig3
http://www.desktoplinux.com/articles/AT3890821914.html

Linux is often used as a server, even if there is no specific server version being provided; it is matter of customizing it to your taste..