[plug] Server help

[Tony Clark]

You may need to define a typical home network a little more but here I have 
only a few basic services enabled.

samba - So the wife's windows machine can access a common pool of mp3s and 
avis.
NFS, unusal, but in my case I am adding a couple of diskless PCs (using linux) 
to provide additional processing power during my video editing sessions.  The 
files need to available to all machines during a session.  You'll need NFS if 
you have a MAC with OSX on it as well.

Appletalk or what ever it is, if you have an old MAC

SSH so I can log in from anywhere provided my net access hasn't died.

ntpd (Network time), so I know when I am running late :)

I also have webmin installed so I can copy files to and from my home machine 
while at my work machine.  We are hopelessly firewalled off so it is the 
easyist way and quite secure.

You may want a web server or ftp server or any number of other servers 
depending on what you are doing.  Add them when and if you find you need 
them.  More services running more services which can be attacked from the 
net, so less is better.

tony


On Thursday 05 September 2002 09.53, mmavrick wrote:
> Can anybody help my with setting up a home server running Redhat 7.3. Are
> there any suggestions or tips that you could pass on to me.
> I have no Linux backround AT ALL, so any advise would be useful...
>
> -Regan "mmav" Frank

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