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by Joel Desrochers

Pete, Consider ClarkConnect Home Edition V2.1. It is a RH based (V8 I think) server that inlcudes most of the functionallity you list. Very simple install. Easy modifications once running via a web browser. Updates are simple and free over the web from ClarkConnect. A few quick notes: 1) Clark includes the option of a multi-homed ethernet firewall also, which I never install. How can one box be both securing your network and a server for everything and the kitchen sink? It is best to keep the firewall separate. 2) They offer service packages also if support is needed. I have not tried this. 3) On any server, it is best to only install/run/configure the applications and services that are needed. http://www.clarkconnect.org/info/home.current.html Also contact me off list for either further questions on the above or discussing the possibility of networking/Linux help. Joel Desrochers >Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2004 11:27:37 -0500 >From: Pete Wason <rogue(a)hynoom.com> >Subject: Re: [Wlug] Repartitioning for Installfest >To: Worcester Linux Users Group <wlug(a)mail.wlug.org> >Message-ID: <40460779.7090306(a)hynoom.com> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed > >Martin, Eric wrote: > > What are you looking for as far as help? > > > >I'm running RH8.0 on my server. > >a. I'm not sure if I should continue to use RH as support has expired, and >I >can't affort their enterprise version. > >b. I'm not sure of/satisfied with my Apache configuration > >c. I'm not sure of/satisfied with my Samba configuration > >d. I'm not sure of/satisfied with general file permissions as they relate >to (b >and c) > >e. I want to install tcpserver and qmail, and disable sendmail (which I'm >not >using anyway) > >Network: CAT-5 ethernet > >Server: Dell 600SC/RH8.0 (http, samba, sshd, etc.) > >Router: LinkSys BEFSR81, on a cablemodem... > >Wkstns: Pegasos I/Morphos 1.4 (samba server also, I think) > Clone PC/Win2000 Pro (windows shares, printer) > Amiga 3000D/AmigaOS3.1 (printer, accesses shares via smbfs) > Amiga 3000D/AmigaOS3.1 (smbfs) > Sony Vaio laptop/WinXP Home (windows shares) > >Questions, Comments: > >1. Is it normal that my http port should be getting hit hundreds of times a >day >with intrusion attacks aimed at an NT server? Strange days indeed... > >2. I also am constantly bombarded with hundreds of virus-infected spam >messages; right now I'm using a mailserver in NJ -- when I get mine set up, >I'll switch. > >3. I find it strange and somewhat disturbing that if I have my laptop >booted to >the logon screen, I can connect to its shares via samba - without a >password! >Is this normal (read: goofy) windows security? > >4. If I didn't have to spend all my time looking for a job, doing part-time >work on the side, and acting as non-paid VP of an ill-fated (so far) >software >startup, I could just hunker down and learn all this stuff myself. Right >now, >that's not an option. > >Pete _________________________________________________________________ Frustrated with dial-up? Lightning-fast Internet access for as low as $29.95/month. http://click.atdmt.com/AVE/go/onm00200360ave/direct/01/

March 3, 2004

Setting up postfix and mailman

by Charles A. Haines

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I'm trying to set up postfix and mailman on a gentoo linux box. I've followed the instructions for setting up postfix to use both /etc/mail/aliases and /usr/local/mailman/data/aliases for alias maps. I've configured mailman so it know it's using postfix for the MTA. I've created the mailman list and another list to test. However when I try and send mail to the list, I get the following error: Mar 3 14:35:55 carnation postfix/local[6154]: C39852E25C: to=<officers(a)tkezm.org>, relay=local, delay=0, status=bounced (unknown user: "officers") Now I know that receiving and sending mail works on this box because I've tested it for local users. Any help would be much appreciated since I'm at my wits end and I can't find anything else on the subject. Thanks, Chuck ===================================== Chuck Haines chaines(a)wpi.edu http://www.maxslack.com http://www.3gpub.com ===================================== Tau Kappa Epsilon Fraternity WPI ECE Systems Administrator WPI Game Development Club Developer WPI Linux Association Lab Manager ===================================== AIM: CyberGrex YIM: CyberGrex_27 ICQ: 3707881 ===================================== -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 8.0.3 iQA/AwUBQEZDVdFwM2LH0zrYEQIm1wCg91LSk02w4srq7/hk4tsrfGQ4qesAniAr dDq/pXLDzP5Q0Mg7yzeWFkoT =O8Ha -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

March 3, 2004

RE: [Wlug] Repartitioning for Installfest

by Martin, Eric

As far as distros go, I use gentoo (www.gentoo.org) I switched when redhat8.0 wouldn't load on a server of mine. The forums on their website are amazing, and I haven't even had a problem that somebody couldn't fix. My suggestion is gentoo. I'm still a bit of a novice myself when it comes to Apache and Samba, so I'm prob not the guy for the job. If you had a bit of time maybe, but I'm still learning. What ver of windows are your running on your laptop? And just so you know, default installs of windows are horribly insecure. There's prob an account with a blank password somewhere, or you could be running 9x and they didn't even care about security then. Yeah, your http port will prob be getting hit daily with people trying to pull funny stuff, worms trying to hurt you, etc.. Sorry I can't be of anymore help...a decent samba referece is on O'Reilly's openbooks site, www.oreilly.com/opnebook; Using Samba, 2ed. Eric -----Original Message----- From: Pete Wason [mailto:rogue@hynoom.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2004 11:28 AM To: Worcester Linux Users Group Subject: Re: [Wlug] Repartitioning for Installfest Martin, Eric wrote: > What are you looking for as far as help? > I'm running RH8.0 on my server. a. I'm not sure if I should continue to use RH as support has expired, and I can't affort their enterprise version. b. I'm not sure of/satisfied with my Apache configuration c. I'm not sure of/satisfied with my Samba configuration d. I'm not sure of/satisfied with general file permissions as they relate to (b and c) e. I want to install tcpserver and qmail, and disable sendmail (which I'm not using anyway) Network: CAT-5 ethernet Server: Dell 600SC/RH8.0 (http, samba, sshd, etc.) Router: LinkSys BEFSR81, on a cablemodem... Wkstns: Pegasos I/Morphos 1.4 (samba server also, I think) Clone PC/Win2000 Pro (windows shares, printer) Amiga 3000D/AmigaOS3.1 (printer, accesses shares via smbfs) Amiga 3000D/AmigaOS3.1 (smbfs) Sony Vaio laptop/WinXP Home (windows shares) Questions, Comments: 1. Is it normal that my http port should be getting hit hundreds of times a day with intrusion attacks aimed at an NT server? Strange days indeed... 2. I also am constantly bombarded with hundreds of virus-infected spam messages; right now I'm using a mailserver in NJ -- when I get mine set up, I'll switch. 3. I find it strange and somewhat disturbing that if I have my laptop booted to the logon screen, I can connect to its shares via samba - without a password! Is this normal (read: goofy) windows security? 4. If I didn't have to spend all my time looking for a job, doing part-time work on the side, and acting as non-paid VP of an ill-fated (so far) software startup, I could just hunker down and learn all this stuff myself. Right now, that's not an option. Pete _______________________________________________ Wlug mailing list Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug

March 3, 2004

Re: [Wlug] Repartitioning for Installfest

by Pete Wason

Martin, Eric wrote: > What are you looking for as far as help? > I'm running RH8.0 on my server. a. I'm not sure if I should continue to use RH as support has expired, and I can't affort their enterprise version. b. I'm not sure of/satisfied with my Apache configuration c. I'm not sure of/satisfied with my Samba configuration d. I'm not sure of/satisfied with general file permissions as they relate to (b and c) e. I want to install tcpserver and qmail, and disable sendmail (which I'm not using anyway) Network: CAT-5 ethernet Server: Dell 600SC/RH8.0 (http, samba, sshd, etc.) Router: LinkSys BEFSR81, on a cablemodem... Wkstns: Pegasos I/Morphos 1.4 (samba server also, I think) Clone PC/Win2000 Pro (windows shares, printer) Amiga 3000D/AmigaOS3.1 (printer, accesses shares via smbfs) Amiga 3000D/AmigaOS3.1 (smbfs) Sony Vaio laptop/WinXP Home (windows shares) Questions, Comments: 1. Is it normal that my http port should be getting hit hundreds of times a day with intrusion attacks aimed at an NT server? Strange days indeed... 2. I also am constantly bombarded with hundreds of virus-infected spam messages; right now I'm using a mailserver in NJ -- when I get mine set up, I'll switch. 3. I find it strange and somewhat disturbing that if I have my laptop booted to the logon screen, I can connect to its shares via samba - without a password! Is this normal (read: goofy) windows security? 4. If I didn't have to spend all my time looking for a job, doing part-time work on the side, and acting as non-paid VP of an ill-fated (so far) software startup, I could just hunker down and learn all this stuff myself. Right now, that's not an option. Pete

March 3, 2004

RE: [Wlug] Repartitioning for Installfest

by Martin, Eric

What are you looking for as far as help? -----Original Message----- From: Pete Wason [mailto:rogue@hynoom.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2004 8:49 AM To: Worcester Linux Users Group Subject: Re: [Wlug] Repartitioning for Installfest Ryan Caron wrote: > As I mentioned in an earlier email, the Worcester Area Association for > Computing Machinery will be having a Linux Installfest on March 27th. > We are working under the assumption that many of the people that will > attend will want to keep their Windows installations as well. > Therefore, we need a nondestructive repartitioning software package. > It would also be nice if we could make an image of their hard drive > before we do anything so we can ensure the integrity of the data if > something were to go wrong. > > Unfortunately, the IT departments does not have copies of Partition > Magic or Ghost that we could use for the event. Does anybody have an > appropriately licensed copy of the software that we could use , or > know of Open Source / Freeware alternatives that are as reliable as > their commercial counterparts? Does someone's place of work have such > software that they would be willing for the ACM to use for the event? > Is anybody aware of Open Source / Freeware alternatives that are just > as reliable as these software packages (these systems will probably be > using NTFS, which is much more fickle than FAT32 when it comes to > these things) > > Any assistance in this matter would be greatly appreciated, and the > ACM welcomes the WLUG to the Installfest on the 27th. > I own a copy of PartitionMagic 7.0 - not the latest, but I use it for client work and for my own machine from time to time. It seems to work fine on NTFS. I'm willing to loan a copy of it for the Installfest - let me know the details. On a related note, I'm still looking for some linuxy/networky help here at my place. I can't pay much, if anything, but maybe we could work out a deal. Latex, Pete Wason _______________________________________________ Wlug mailing list Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug

March 3, 2004

Re: [Wlug] Repartitioning for Installfest

by Pete Wason

Ryan Caron wrote: > As I mentioned in an earlier email, the Worcester Area Association for > Computing Machinery will be having a Linux Installfest on March 27th. We > are working under the assumption that many of the people that will attend > will want to keep their Windows installations as well. Therefore, we need > a nondestructive repartitioning software package. It would also be nice > if we could make an image of their hard drive before we do anything so we > can ensure the integrity of the data if something were to go wrong. > > Unfortunately, the IT departments does not have copies of Partition Magic > or Ghost that we could use for the event. Does anybody have an > appropriately licensed copy of the software that we could use , or know of > Open Source / Freeware alternatives that are as reliable as their > commercial counterparts? Does someone's place of work have such software > that they would be willing for the ACM to use for the event? Is anybody > aware of Open Source / Freeware alternatives that are just as reliable as > these software packages (these systems will probably be using NTFS, which > is much more fickle than FAT32 when it comes to these things) > > Any assistance in this matter would be greatly appreciated, and the ACM > welcomes the WLUG to the Installfest on the 27th. > I own a copy of PartitionMagic 7.0 - not the latest, but I use it for client work and for my own machine from time to time. It seems to work fine on NTFS. I'm willing to loan a copy of it for the Installfest - let me know the details. On a related note, I'm still looking for some linuxy/networky help here at my place. I can't pay much, if anything, but maybe we could work out a deal. Latex, Pete Wason

March 3, 2004

Re: [Wlug] Repartitioning for Installfest

by frank p

On Tue, 2 Mar 2004, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > qtparted and/or just parted ? SystemRescueCD (http://www.sysresccd.org/) is a live-cd that has both those utilities included. I've personally used it to resize an ntfs partition on my winXP laptop, and that seemed to work well (had to disable system-restore and then defrag first, of course). The tools page: http://www.sysresccd.org/systools.en.php also claims to include a Ghost clone, called 'partimage', though I've not personally used it. The latest beta version of the 'ntfsresize' tool is also claiming to now be able to move files on an ntfs partition, but AFAIK it's not included in any nice graphical utils or live-cd's... yet. -frank p

March 3, 2004

Re: [Wlug] Repartitioning for Installfest

by Mike Frysinger

On Tuesday 02 March 2004 08:38 pm, Ryan Caron wrote: > Unfortunately, the IT departments does not have copies of Partition Magic > or Ghost that we could use for the event. Does anybody have an > appropriately licensed copy of the software that we could use , or know of > Open Source / Freeware alternatives that are as reliable as their > commercial counterparts? qtparted and/or just parted ? -mike

March 3, 2004

Repartitioning for Installfest

by Ryan Caron

As I mentioned in an earlier email, the Worcester Area Association for Computing Machinery will be having a Linux Installfest on March 27th. We are working under the assumption that many of the people that will attend will want to keep their Windows installations as well. Therefore, we need a nondestructive repartitioning software package. It would also be nice if we could make an image of their hard drive before we do anything so we can ensure the integrity of the data if something were to go wrong. Unfortunately, the IT departments does not have copies of Partition Magic or Ghost that we could use for the event. Does anybody have an appropriately licensed copy of the software that we could use , or know of Open Source / Freeware alternatives that are as reliable as their commercial counterparts? Does someone's place of work have such software that they would be willing for the ACM to use for the event? Is anybody aware of Open Source / Freeware alternatives that are just as reliable as these software packages (these systems will probably be using NTFS, which is much more fickle than FAT32 when it comes to these things) Any assistance in this matter would be greatly appreciated, and the ACM welcomes the WLUG to the Installfest on the 27th. Sincerely, Ryan Caron ACM Secretary

March 3, 2004

Surge Protectors (Not Linux Specific...)

by Chuck Noyes

Hi all, This is not Linux specific, but there must some EE types that can answer my question. What's the REAL meaning of the Juole rating on surge protectors? Is 3000 joules "better" than 2000 joules? Is there a "minimum" joule rating that is considered good enough for most common environments? Thanks for your help, -Chuck -- Using M2, Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/

March 2, 2004