you might want to look at leafnode...it is geared much closer to what you are after and is reasonably simple to set up...
Paul "D. R. Evans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > 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 > -------------------------------------------------------------- > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com >
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