Re: Linux Internet Server Project

["Tim McDonough" <tim@mcdonough.net>]

From: "Ricky Bryce" <nedra@mcleodusa.net>

> As far as gathering Data from the win98 machines...  What kind of
data is
> this going to be?  Is the user going to enter data on the windows 98
> terminal, and that data is logged to an SQL database?  If that is
the
> case, you can do it with web pages.  The RedHat machine would run a
web
> server such as Apache, and you can use PHP and MySQL to write data
into
> the MySQL database (Or run database queries).  If the Windows 98
machines
> are going to simply store files on the RedHat machine, then you will
want
> to check into SaMBa server.  SaMBa will allow the Red Hat machine to
show
> up in Network Neighborhood on the Windows 98 clients.  The Windows
98
> clients could then access shares on the Red Hat machine.  ( As if
you had
> an NT mahine set up and right clicked and shared a folder on the C:
> drive ).

We have instrumentation scattered across the US that monitors a
variety of industrial processes. These embedded computers call our
host PCs periodically to report status, etc. The data we collect is
analyzed by us and among other things the results are made available
to our customers. We want them to be able to get their reports via a
web page which they would log in to.

The data is presently stored on several Win98 machines in an Access
database. One machine does data collection and another uses that data
in conjunction with some GIS functions that do routing for service
work. The data collection could be migrated to Linux at some point.
The GIS would need to remain in Windows.

Tim


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