[plug] Server help

mmavrick mmav at iinet.net.au
Fri Sep 6 13:04:10 WST 2002


Hi Tony,

I need a server that is internet/ADSL gateway/proxy server, email server
,file sharing, firewall, virus protection, Contacts and calendar
sharing/coordination i.e. Microsoft outlook
Print server, backup all important data regularly (i.e. Norton's Ghost).

NOT MUCH...

-R



-----Original Message-----
From: Tony Clark [mailto:tclark at telia.com]
Sent: Friday, 6 September 2002 1:04
To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
Subject: Re: [plug] Server help


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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