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IT Professional Services and Project Mangement
- Design & Deploy Internet Surfing Stations
- Network Documentation
- Administrator training
- Manage Project deployment and User Acceptance Test

Maintenance Services
- Bi-monthly 2 hrs Preventive/Routine Maintenance
- Remote e-mail and phone support
- 9 Ad-hoc on -site service hours

For 5 computer and with switches and running on ubuntu OS

Except for the fact I have no knowledge about Linux at all, I could do that easily.
Look at it in plain English:

- Design & Deploy Internet Surfing Stations - this means set up desktop PC's or laptops with Internet access. Big deal.
- Network Documentation - this means keep notes on how everything is connected and set up. Big deal. I would make drawings of all the connections, too. Helps troubleshoot when there is a problem.
- Administrator training - teach a few people how to me Administrators for the system. Give them passwords and access so they can install or uninstall programs and fix minor issues. Big deal. Unless they are all total idiots.
- Manage Project deployment and User Acceptance Test - means you are in charge of setting up all the equipment, connecting it, and teaching the Users how to use it so they will accept it. This could be the one difficult spot, because some Users are total idiots and others just will NEVER, EVER, EVER like Linux.

- Bi-monthly 2 hrs Preventive/Routine Maintenance - every other month you spend 2 hours cleaning the insides of the PC cases, clean or replace keyboards/ mouses, clean or replace monitors, defrag hard drives, etc. Checking wiring to make sure none of it is falling apart or getting smashed.
- Remote e-mail and phone support - HAH! Means you are on call, 24/ 7 to help any of the Admins or Users that have stupid questions or screw up the system or crash the system or can't find the "ANY" key or can't figure out where to plug the stupid thing back in, etc. This would be the crappiest part. Think of it as your own private VIA Forum.
- 9 Ad-hoc on -site service hours - this means you also have to spend 9 hours on site fixing stuff as part of your salary. But they don't say 9 hours per........... what? Week? Month? Every other month?

5 computers? And a switch? Internet access? Hell, that's what I have in my room right here! Hey, maybe I can get them to pay ME! Chris.

5 pcs is just my imagination cos they intend to get 5 new pcs and 8 port switch not sure of the exact workstation in their workplace. What you say might be true on the hardware part but then i'm oso linux idiot though i've install ubuntux before.... hmm oh yar forgotten on the cable part whereby they want the LAN Ethernet cable extension from Office to PC location, what your sugesstion chris??

Should i get a super long lan cable or any other tip u can give me?

LAN cables come in all different lengths with the connectors already installed, but it's a lot cheaper to just buy 100' or 250' of CAT5e or CAT6 wire and buy the ends and a tool and make them yourself to the exact length. That's what I did in my office building for the longer cables.

Hooking up PC's to an unmanaged switch is just as easy as hooking up one PC to a router or modem. A managed switch is different because there are a lot of settings for each PC that hooks up to the switch.

But if you don't know Ubuntu, I would stay away from this job until you know more, because if something with Ubuntu doesn't install right or work right on one of the PC's or a certain program doesn't want to work right, you will be the one calling Tech Support of using the Ubuntu Forums. Chris.

Say if the user decided to opt for window xp pro and one of the pc to be set as administrator and the rest of the pcs as client as well as share files and folder. I have no problem sharing out files and folders. Any tip and suggestion? Should i just simply use a router or switch to restrict the rest of the pcs??

I'm not quite sure what you are asking. You mean that you want to share files and folders on the User's PC's but not the Admin PC? Then just don't enable sharing on the Admin PC. If you want to do that function by using a "managed" switch I suppose it could be done but I don't have any experience with that kind of a switch. Chris.

Mr. Chris wrote:I'm not quite sure what you are asking. You mean that you want to share files and folders on the User's PC's but not the Admin PC? Then just don't enable sharing on the Admin PC. If you want to do that function by using a "managed" switch I suppose it could be done but I don't have any experience with that kind of a switch. Chris.

No i've have not problem sharing out files and folder, what i'm trying to imply is how does one go about creating a administrator acc say on PC1 and client on another pc say PC2 and PC3 and so on? I knew how to create an adminstrator and client acc on the same pc but not too sure on different PCs

You might need some software to do that. I might be wrong but you can't do that with just windows or linux. I think what you trying to do is pc1 has the control and the other pc's have very little control. You are still going to have a administrator on each computer. Just setup the other computers with administrator and the standard accounts. Use the standard user to be the ones to logon and have the administrator run in the background.

This what i got from vista:

Why use a standard user account instead of an administrator account?

The standard account can help protect your computer by preventing users from making changes that affect everyone who uses the computer. We recommend creating a standard account for each user.

When you are logged on to Windows with a standard account, you can do anything that you can do with an administrator account, but if you want to do something that affects other users of the computer, such as installing software or changing security settings, Windows might ask you to provide a password for an administrator account.