On Wednesday 09 January 2002 1:52 pm, Robert McNealy wrote: > To everyone- > > Goal: > -I want to convert my Win2k ICS network to a Mandrake 8.1 Network
> -I want Printer and Drive sharing for all Read the SAMBA manual for file sharing. CUPS will be for printer sharing accross Linux. I installed both as I have Win and *Nix on the LAN. > -I want Internet access for all IPTables & IP Masquerading: iptables -t nat -I POSTROUTING -o ppp0 -s 192.168.0.2 -d 0.0.0.0/0 -j MASQUERADE You may need to modify the IP in the above command. > -I want a firewall That is what IPTables does, you just need to define the script of rules to run, either use Bastille or check the web for examples. > -I want a webserver Most use Apache....plenty of documentation on the web. > > Problem: > -I don't know how to get my network and internet setup with Mandrake 8.1 > for other drives and PCs on the network. SAMBA will allow Windows clients to access the linux drives, if you want to share with Linux boxes you will need to use NFS. Read the howtos on the web. > > What do I do? > Do a basic install, ensure that you install samba, nfs if required, sendmail/postfix/fetchmail if you need mailbox support, iptables and masquerading and CUP's server to enable network printing. All the best, happy reading. Dave.
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