Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2001 08:06:08 -0600
To: lwn@lwn.net
From: Charles Gambrell <cbgamb@acan.net>
Subject: Event Submission: Computers in Libraries 2001, March 14-16,

 From the "home page" of the event
COMPUTERS IN LIBRARIES 2001 - NORTH AMERICA'S LARGEST TECHNOLOGY CONFERENCE 
& EXHIBITION FOR LIBRARIANS AND INFORMATION MANAGERS
March 14-16, 2001 • Washington Hilton & Towers • Washington, DC
Media Sponsors: Information Today • Link-Up • Computers in Libraries • 
Searcher • Multimedia Schools
http://www.infotoday.com/cil2001/default.htm

While not a "Linux" conference, Linux will be in the program again this year:

Track C • Systems: Tools & Techniques
The third day of the Systems stream focuses on the tools and techniques 
being used in libraries today to protect and streamline libraries and their 
workflow as well as to excite the users.
Session C303
2:00 p.m. - 2:45 p.m.
The Retooled Box: A Linux-Samba Path from Retired Workstation to Production 
Server
Charles B. Gambrell, System Automation Assistant Manager, Mobile Public 
Library
The technology staff of Mobile Public Library retired 30 Pentium 133 mhz 
workstations from service and still needed to provide additional network 
storage and access to new CD-ROM products. The library runs an NT network 
and had previously copied the CD-ROMs to NT servers. Rather than purchasing 
additional NT servers, the staff elected to reconfigure the “retired” 
workstations and install Red Hat Linux configured with Samba (to support NT 
workstation access to the Linux server) or NetMax file server (a 
Linux-based “appliance” product sold as an easy-to-configure network file 
server). This case study reports reasons for attempting the Linux 
installation, the issues/problems in configuring Samba, some of the 
problems encountered, the preference for Linux over NetMax, an analysis of 
the fiscal cost, and the overall success of the project
http://www.infotoday.com/cil2001/friday.htm



Charles B. Gambrell
System Automation Assistant Manager

Mobile Public Library
701 Government Street
Mobile, AL 36602-1499
http://www.mplonline.org

Voice: 334.208.7095
Fax: 334.208.7618
email: cbgamb@acan.net.

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
-- Clarke's Third Law, Arthur C. Clarke