Roaming Computing System (Windows Edition) 3.6

A complete computing system for an organisation. This version is currently receiving security updates.

Workstations use Windows XP (SP3, 32-bit) with the following software:

Applications:
Audacity 1.2.6; FileZilla 3.3.0.1; Firefox 3.6.8^* (with Zotero 2.0.3); Foxit Reader 3.3.1.0518; GIMP 2.6.10; InfraRecorder 0.50; Inkscape 0.47; Irfanview 4.25; KompoZer 0.7.10; OpenOffice (Go-oo) 3.2.0-13; Picasa 3.6 Build 95.25; Pidgin 2.6.3^*; Scribus 1.3.6; Thunderbird 3.1.1^* (with Lightning 1.0b2); Windows Media Player 11
Sundry:
7-Zip 4.65; Adblock Plus 1.2.1 for Firefox; Adobe Universal PostScript Driver 1.0.6; CCleaner (Slim) 2.26.1050; CUPS PostScript printer driver for Windows 6.0; Enigmail 1.1.2 for Thunderbird; Eraser 5.86a; Flash Player 10.1.82.76^* for Firefox; GIMP Help 2.6.0; GNU Ghostscript 8.63 for Scribus; GnuPG 1.4.9 for Enigmail; Irfanview Plugins 4.20; K-Lite Codec Pack (Standard) 5.7.0^*; Mail Redirect 0.7.4 for Thunderbird; Microsoft Security Essentials 1.0.1963^{* **}; Sun Java Runtime Environment 6.0 update 21^*; MySQL Connector/ODBC 3.51.26; MySpell dictionary (English - GB) 1.16 for Thunderbird; Nero BurnRights 1.0.0.12; Notepad++ 5.6.6; Ogg Codec Pack 0.71.0946; OpenOffice language pack (EN-UK) 3.2.0-13; Pidgin OTR 3.2.0; Putty 0.60; QT Lite 3.1.0^*; Real Alternative Lite 2.0.1; UltraVNC 1.0.2; Windows Media Player plugin for Firefox 1.0.0.8; WinSCP 4.1.9; WPKG Client 1.3.9; Zotero OpenOffice plugin 3.0a7; Zotero PDF indexing
TWEAK 0.9.4.2 and TWEAK (Unattended) 0.9.6 are used for configuration

The server uses Debian 4.0 'Etch', a Linux operating system (or 5.0 'Lenny' if mail server not required). The Windows domain is provided by Samba 3.0.24. Print serving (optional) is provided by CUPS 1.2.7 and Samba. Mail serving is provided by Postfix 2.3.8, Dovecot 1.0 POP3/IMAP and SASL, AMaViS 2.4.2, Clam AntiVirus 0.93.1^*, SpamAssassin 3.2.3^*, Squirrelmail 1.4.9a and Virtual Mail Manager 1.7. Desktop software auto deployment is provided by WPKG 1.1.2.

The firewall appliance uses pfSense 1.2.3.

^* and later through our security updates. ^** and later through automatic updates.

News

Latest Version: 3.6.25 on 27 December 2011
Release Notes - upgrade advice, known issues, continually updated
General changelog
To-do list
packages.xml changelog

User Guides

User Guide
To add additional mailboxes to Thunderbird see the appropriate section in the User Guide

Day-to-day Admin Guides

Admin Guide
Making user accounts - Windows domain accounts, mailboxes and forwardings
Making user accounts - supplemental guide for major proprietary applications

System Setup Guides

Custom Files For System Setup

TWEAK (Unattended) 0.9.6 - a version of TWEAK for use with WPKG to automate system configuration and in logon scripts. Download tweak-0.9.6-unattended.zip or see the changelog.
netlogon.txt - append this to the end of the logon script, netlogon.bat, to apply RCS 3.6-specific user configuration
packages.xml - for WPKG to know how to install, upgrade & remove applications
profiles.xml - for WPKG to know which applications to install
hosts.xml - for WPKG to know which workstations to install on
wpkg-client-settings.xml - Settings for WPKG Client (requires adding the organisation-specific domain name (in 'WPKG path user' or 'path-user') and winuser password (in 'WPKG path password' or 'path-password', note you must add this one from within WPKG Client as it's encrypted) then export to \\server\windows-admin\wpkg\wpkg-client\ for import to other workstations)
openoffice-installer-customisation.mst - OpenOffice installer settings
ultravnc-installer-settings.inf - UltraVNC installer settings
ultravnc-program-settings.reg - UltraVNC program settings (with 'Password' setting (in hex) removed)
klite-settings.ini - K-Lite Codec Pack installer settings
remove-all-packages.bat - uses WPKG to remove all installed packages, useful for testing purposes