Greg Padberg's Page

As Technical Administrator of Eston-Elrose School Division, I get to wear many hats: troubleshooter, network administrator, computer fixer, printer fixer, tech guru, cable guy, and many more.  My job is to keep the computers and technology-related equipment operating.  This also includes our Polycom videoconferencing equipment. The videoconferencing presentation (updated January, 2006) can be found here. PDF file of same presentation can be found here.

Technical Resources (IPCop v1.4.10 firewall + Polycom videoconferencing)

Squid ACL to avoid caching specific websites (copy file to /var/ipcop/proxy and restart proxy) - method... to... madness...

Technical Resources (Windows clients + Linux infrastructure)

EESD Network Infrastructure

Linux and Open Source is used to power most of our back-end network infrastructure.
We are either currently using or considering the following free solutions:

 

The following free applications can be installed on a read-only file server share and accessed by windows clients via a UNC shortcut (does not require a mapped drive letter):

I would recommend the following free solutions or tools in any Network Administrator's toolkit:

 

 

K12LTSP / Fedora Core 1 config files and updates:

 

Other useful links and info:

 

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