mtmouse33
October 19th, 2009, 03:01 AM
Greetings.
I am pretty new to Unix / etc and so far am learning a little each time I try and understand one guide or another that I think would be good to follow, but then I run into parts that I am confused about or have no clue what to do with.
So, I shall start at the beginning.
I have an old desktop that I am wanting to use as a home network / server. According to my ISP, I had to purchase an IP block ( I could of asked for one IP ... but will explain )
I downloaded and successfully installed the Server Edition and had pre-installed DNS Server, LAMP Server, Mail Server, OpenSSH and Samba.
What I would like to do is thus:
Be able to connect two laptops / 1 desktop / 2 externals through the server to share files and whatnot.
Run simple website.
Run simple mail server
Allow remote access to server ( to access computers on network if needed )
Run small scale IRC.
I have succeeded in getting as far as getting OpenSSH operational and was working on mail server following this : http://flurdy.com/docs/postfix/#install
Stopped at SSH Only section that states "Then we will configure network zones"
I have a domain name I'd like to point to my system to use for e-mail / website. At this point I am pretty lost on how to get things working.
I am comfortable with windows ... and have no clue what I am doing with Unix and would be happy to maybe have someone be willing to help me get everything configured correctly and secured.
Thank you.
I am pretty new to Unix / etc and so far am learning a little each time I try and understand one guide or another that I think would be good to follow, but then I run into parts that I am confused about or have no clue what to do with.
So, I shall start at the beginning.
I have an old desktop that I am wanting to use as a home network / server. According to my ISP, I had to purchase an IP block ( I could of asked for one IP ... but will explain )
I downloaded and successfully installed the Server Edition and had pre-installed DNS Server, LAMP Server, Mail Server, OpenSSH and Samba.
What I would like to do is thus:
Be able to connect two laptops / 1 desktop / 2 externals through the server to share files and whatnot.
Run simple website.
Run simple mail server
Allow remote access to server ( to access computers on network if needed )
Run small scale IRC.
I have succeeded in getting as far as getting OpenSSH operational and was working on mail server following this : http://flurdy.com/docs/postfix/#install
Stopped at SSH Only section that states "Then we will configure network zones"
I have a domain name I'd like to point to my system to use for e-mail / website. At this point I am pretty lost on how to get things working.
I am comfortable with windows ... and have no clue what I am doing with Unix and would be happy to maybe have someone be willing to help me get everything configured correctly and secured.
Thank you.