[wplug] Setting up a server using just console tools

[Benjamin G. Beige]

If you want a simple gui for set up use webmin, and configure from any 
webbrowser on the network ;)




On Fri, 4 Apr 2003 17:59:24 -0500, Procario, Michael 
<Michael.Procario at science.doe.gov> wrote:

>
> My father-in-law bought a new machine recently and gave me his 300 MHz 
> K6-2
> to do with as I please. I decided to make it a family server. We have
> multiple machines in the house but somebody always needs a file that is 
> on
> the already occupied machine. A server looks like the best solution.
>
> I installed Redhat 7.3 since I had it sitting around. I chose to not 
> install
> X, since I will not need X and it only has 64 MB of memory. All went well 
> in
> the install, and when asked for a security level, I chose medium. This 
> setup
> firewall rules for ipchains. I hate to see what high security is. As far 
> as
> I can tell the only packets it was letting through were the DHCP packets. 
> It
> did have an IP address after I rebooted.
>
> I will need ssh to connect to the box and manage it after I take its 
> monitor
> away, so I needed to open port 22. I started reading man pages and they 
> were
> pretty opaque. I got the HOWTO and that was much clearer. In the end it 
> took
> one command using ipchains to let ssh through and one to save the change. 
> I
> still need to work on getting smb and nmb through so it can actually act 
> as
> a server, but that does not look so hard.
>
> You really feel like you have learned something after you do it command 
> line
> style.  I look forward to attacking it again tonight.
>
> Mike
>
> --
> Mike Procario
> DOE - Division of High Energy Physics
>
>
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