dear friends,
can you please tell me the full procedure ..
i am having 10 systems. one is server others all are clients
i want to make server as linux os . and others as windows.
i want to make them clients should login always to the server for browsing the net .how can i do that? i want to do that because i am planning to set up an interner hub in my town.please help me.
which one is good please send me the details ..awating your kind reply
vivek

typically if you want authentication for internet access then you'd use PPPOE... maybe you can do some research on PPPOE servers available for linux...

Other than that, maybe you can setup a proxy server(such as squid proxy server) that requires authentication... and only allow traffic that goes through the proxy... This would probably be limiting to the end users, but may be a more feasable solution for you.

I'm still a linux newbie myself so I can't tell you haw to configure these, but the squid proxy server is a commonly available package in most linux distributions.

download apache webserver from apache.org or any other site and configure that by three famous ./configure , make , make install command....
and configure the httpd.conf file according to ur need..
and then start ur webserver by issuing comand httpd start

I guess we should get things straight now... are you wanting to host a single website that has authentication (requires user/pass)?

or are you wanting to setup some sort of ISP for your community?

Do you control all the clients (do you own the systems)?


Can you please restate your intentions so we can get a better idea of what you're wanting to do.