What is the Best Distrabution. for Server apps

[vfear]

I am looking for a distrabution of linux that will allow me to run DNS, webserver and email server with a GUI any ideas ???

Thanks

 

[ifincham]

Hi,

They will all do that. The most widely used is probably redhat followed by Suse and Mandrake. But there are so many distros out there all with essentially the same server packages and desktops (gnome & kde) - so its really up to you. See -->

http://www.distrowatch.com/

Hope this helps

 

[vfear]

WEll I was looking for a distrabution with graphical apps to run the servers ? any ideas .. I dont just want to run the servers from the terminal..

 

[ifincham]

Hi,









The most all-encompassing gui tool is webmin which is developed by Caldera but is shipped with a lot of distros or you can just download and install it yourself. Its got a web interface which can include ssl so can be fairly secure. See -->

http://www.webmin.com

and

http://www.webmin.com/ssl.html

.





Regards

 

[vfear]

Does this software let you control sendmail and dns too??

 

[ifincham]

Hi,



It certainly can - here are the example screens :



Sendmail -->

http://www.webmin.com/screens/sendmail.html

Bind -->

http://www.webmin.com/screens/edit_master.html

(example of editing a zone file)



Regards

 

[vfear]

I am so excitied about this tool however I installed it and it wont let me in through the web based keeps saying I need to enter a password and I am . I am entering the username root and my root password .. Please help ?

 

[vfear]

Well I went looking for an answer on the

http://www.webmin.com/faq.html

page and I found it however it doesnt work. I put in admin as the user and foo as the password and it still doesnt work .. any ideas..