>Specifically I want to set up either a mac or pc running as DNS, Email, and
>SAMBA servers for my home network.
So this would be a separate machine on your local network? If so, good
because running Samba on your firewall would increase your security risk.
Those ports are scanned freqently and attacked if they are open.
>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.
BIND/named- set it up to cache so each outside request doesn't have to go
thru the firewall to the RR DNS.
>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?
Use fetchmail to gather your mail to the host and IMAP so you can view your
mail from any client, leaving your mail on the host. Sendmail if you want
to SMTP to your local server, then have your local server push your mail
out. Depending on your setup, you could do spam filtering :)
>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?
Not exactly. Whatever UNIX printing system you choose (lpr, LPRng, CUPS,
etc) does the spooling, then Netatalk and Samba expose those spools to Macs
and Windows machines respectively. Netatalk and Samba are used to connect
the UNIX printing system to networked printers that do not have a lpr
interface (many HP printers do). I have used the parallel port on a Linux
host to make a standard inkjet printer available over the network, but I
have not mustered the correct amount of voodoo to get Windows clients to
print through a lpr queue to a AppleTalk printer.
>I guess an FTP server too.
Only if the ftp server is on the firewall/router, unless you create a
tunnel just for ftp to the local server (security risk).
>
>Thanks
Charles Dostale
System Administrator
Silver Oaks Communications
http://www.silveroaks.com
824 17th Street
Moline IL USA 61265
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
309-797-9898
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