From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 7545 invoked by uid 1002); 23 Dec 2002 01:15:04 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 6850 invoked from network); 23 Dec 2002 01:15:04 -0000 Message-ID: <3E0662A4.5020203@gentoo.org> Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2002 12:11:00 +1100 From: Troy Dack User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Cc: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org References: <1040604628.11697.13.camel@zeus.olympus> In-Reply-To: <1040604628.11697.13.camel@zeus.olympus> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Setting up a server with Gentoo X-Archives-Salt: 49325732-8afd-44e7-99d4-02d411ba3ced X-Archives-Hash: 97b34ab3370cede7d314516692b0f2a1 Brave Cobra wrote: > Hi, > > I've been writing article on setting up a server using Gentoo 1.4 for a > windows Network. Basically it covers setting up DHCP, DNS, SAMBA, Apache > and MySQL. Some other servers, like sendmail, CVS, OpenSSL Apache server > and Squid will be included in the future. Please pick something other than sendmail, especially if you are targeting it at new comers. Postfix + procmail is a nice combo (IMNSHO), others are qmail and courier (I use courier-imap too). > The prelimenary article can be found at > http://www.bravecobra.com/docs/setupserver.html > That article is subject to change of course. > However, before I publish it to the Wide Internet world, I would like > some of you Gentoo experts to read it through and let me know whether I > told something wrong or how I could explain something better to the > newbies. Yes, it's intend to be a newbie guide. > Any further help is much appreciated. I notice that you are advocating dnsmasq because it is not as resource intensive as BIND. I'm running bind on a P200 with apache-2.0 and a heap of other crap, it does just fine. The other advantage that you have with bind9 is the ability to do dynamic dns updates on your local zone files when dhcp hands out a new lease. This makes plug and network for you local lan really easy. Any windows clients get a hostname based on the machine name, and it is resolvable by other machines in the network. If you want some sample zone and named.conf files let me know. WRT the firewall, you say that your router does most of it for you. Apart from the netfilter docs, point people to a freshmeat search for iptables firewall scripts (there are hepas of them), I'll also plug one that I have massaged from another script: http://linux.tkdack.com/module.php?mod=firewall With your mail server setup make sure that you include some sort of imap server (and note the differences between mbox & maildir and which servers use which). On a local lan it is really pointless having to pop mail from the server. Another option (if the clients are going to be Linux) is to have the home directories exported via nfs and the mail storage be in the home dir, then the linux users can access their mail with traditional clients and point the client at their home dir. I don't know of any Windows programs that can do this, so they still need a retrieval method. Thanks for the Samba<->WinXP tip, I'll have to give it a try, I've been trying to get WinXP to auth with my samba box for a while :) The proxy-config.pac file is a nice inclusion. Don't forget some comments regarding log files, setting up of sysklogd (or your prefered log daemon), rotation of log files and regular checking on log files. -- Troy Dack http://linux.tkdack.com http://webportage.sf.net -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list