I think I am ready for the next step into *nix, beyond the firewall....
Specifically I want to set up either a mac or pc running as DNS, Email, and
SAMBA servers for my home network.
Currently my only *nix machine is a IIci running NetBSD as my firewall
router, but I have a WIDE variety of hardware to choose from (386, 486,
Pentium, AMD, old mac, power mac, HP Apollo workstations (9000 series 715
and 725) and appreciate having a variety of machines doing actual work. Any
war stories or suggestions?
Goals are;
Stupid Road Runner DNS is often SLOW, plus I never really sorted out
passing the DNS address information through my firewall so that it gets
entered automatically via DHCP. A local DNS should handle most of those
ills.
I want to handle my mail differently, reading some from a PC and some from
a Mac, and I am guessing a local server will make that easier?
I have several nice old printers, Laserwriter IIg, HP 550c and I would like
to share them with both mac and PCs on my network. Thats what Samba does,
right?
I guess an FTP server too.
Thanks
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