October 9, 2009
Making Western Waves online
If all goes well, I hope to, in the next few weeks, be co-opted onto the board of a new Community Radio station called Western Waves FM. The station will hope to cover the South Donegal / North Leitrim area. My area of responsibility will be in the non-radio broadcast technology elements of the project.
Specifically, this means that I plan to construct the server/client editing and production platform for members to be able to produce their own programming from using either the in house facilities or their own computers, (Windows, Mac or Linux).
With the ESXi server I built a few weeks ago, I can safely test and deploy various network configurations and setups in minutes as opposed to hours or days, depending on what’s required.
So far, I have:
1. SRV01-DC (Ubuntu 9.04 with DNS, Samba & NTP)
2. SRV02-MX (Ubuntu 8.04 with Zimbra & Openfire)
3. SRV03-WS (Ubuntu 9.04 with Apache, PHP5, MySQL & Python)
SRV01-DC will server effectively as a SAMBA Domain Controller for the editing and administration workstations. It will support for NT4 domain level services and authenticates off the back of Zimbra’s internal LDAP server. I hope to compliment the Samba file shares with webdav access for remote users of SSL.
SRV02-MX is the Zimbra server. Currently I’m working off version 5.019 as I cannot, for the life of me get the new version 6 builds to play nicely with Samba. I think the problem lies somewhere in the new LDAP config for Zimbra. I’ve also decided to expand the Zimbra’s IM offering by scrapping it and replacing it with Openfire, which is happily authenticating of the LDAP server. Zimbra will also handle all the email, calendaring and contact sharing for the organisation.
SRV03-WB is the LAMP server for use internally. On it will be held the station’s music archive which will be accessible in the studio using the ZINA web based jukebox application written in PHP.
There are many things to plan for before, and I’ve not covered everything here, but any and all suggestions will be gratefully received in the comments below.
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