This seems like a pretty basic question, but I've spent several hours digging through some hideously complicated documentation and I have this awful feeling that I'm on completely the wrong track -- and I'm certainly no closer to solving my problem than I was when I started.
I have a small number of newsgroups that I monitor using a Windows client on my network. It struck me that it ought to be easy (shouldn't it?) to have my Linux box grab the messages periodically from my ISP's server, then I should be able just to point my Windows box at the Linux box and read them from there. Anyone have a URL that might be something like "an idiot's guide how to configure a Linux box as a mini NNTP server?" I've been reading (and reading, and reading) more and more technical guff about innd, and I'm not any wiser than I was when I started -- except to have a nagging belief that it surely can't be this complicated. I mean, all I want is something along the lines of "every hour, go grab all the new postings in these groups from machine X, and then act as if you're a real NNTP server if a client tries to connect to you to read the postings". Innd doesn't appear in webmin on my system, and there doesn't seem to be anything in MCC about it (except that MCC reports innd as running, even though if I do a "ps -auxw | grep inn" I don't find it). I found an old document on the Web describing the bzillion innd configuration files, but they seem to have changed since the document was written, so simply following the document didn't do me any good. Anyone care to enlighten me as to how simple it really is? Doc Evans -------------------------------------------------------------- Phone: +1 303 494 0394 Mobile: +1 720 839 8462 Fax: +1 781 240 0527 --------------------------------------------------------------
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