RE: [Wlug] Repartitioning for Installfest
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@mail.wlug.org http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug
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
On Wed, 3 Mar 2004, Pete Wason wrote:
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.
If you're looking to stick with Redhat (or something very similiar), you might want to look at Whitebox linux. (http://www.whiteboxlinux.org). In order to follow the GPL, Redhat provides source RPMs for all of the packages that they distribute with Redhat enterprise. Whitebox is Redhat enterprise rebuilt from those source RPMs. If you don't care if it's close to redhat or not, then you have a number of choices ahead of you. Debian is nice for a server assuming you don't want the latest and greatest. Gentoo is good if you want the latest and greatest, but don't care as much about stability and you want to get really in depth knowledge on how your system works. Mandrake and SuSE are both good choices if you're looking for systems back by companies complete with paid support when necessary.
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.
I was using RedHat for a while, and made the switch to SlackWare 9.1, seems really stable and comes 2.6 "ready". It aslo has rpm capabilites ( I haven't tested yet ). I'm happy I made the switch. -joe
On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 11:27:37AM -0500, Pete Wason wrote:
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.
There are a couple alternatives here: http://fedora.redhat.com/ (Fedora Core is replacing Red Hat Linux) http://www.fedoralegacy.org/ (supporting EOL Red Hat/Fedora Core distros) http://www.whiteboxlinux.org/ (rebuilt from Red Hat Enterprise Linux)
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...
Yes. Make sure you apache is kept up to date with security patches.
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.
Yup.
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?
If the shares are set for guest access, yes. Or, if you have not set an administrator password. Or if your username/password on the client is the same as the username/password on the server, Windows will use the cached credentials.
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