On Tue, 26 May 1998, Kyle Moore wrote:
> I have read everything I can find about Linux and learned a ton but
> still haven't found the answer to this problem. I have Linux,
> Macintosh, Win95 and NT4.0 machines that need to be able to network
> together. I have never set up a network before but understand the
> basics of how they work. I would like to have internet access through
> the Linux box (I assume some kind of IP Masquerading would be needed),
> printer sharing and file sharing also. From there, local email, central
> faxing and group scheduling seem pretty easy.
>
> So the question is: What software should I use to network these
> different operating systems together? Netatalk looks like a good
> solution if it were just Linux and the Mac but I don't know what to use
> in this situation.
You've actually listed several requirements:
1) Internet access for a small LAN.
Run tcp/ip on all clients. Linux box connects to Internet via modem,
ISDN, or whatever. RH 5.x ships with everything you need in a normal
install; you will need to turn on IP Forwarding and run appropriate
ipfwadm rules (search for ipfwadm in the message archives for some recent
suggestions). Optionally, run DHCPD on Linux box to assign IP addresses
and named (aka BIND) for local nameservice. I'd get the networking under
control before doing anything else; without it you're stopped anyway.
There are several FAQs discussing this in more detail.
2) File and printer sharing.
For the Win95/NT boxen, Samba is probably easiest. You may need to do
some special configuration of the samba server to support encrypted
passwords on the Windows box (esp. NT 4.0 with SP3). This is all
documented in the doc files included with the samba rpm and on the samba
web site.
I haven't done anything like this with Macs, but your thought to use
Netatalk is probably the way to go.
An alternative would be to run the mars_nwe netware emulator server and
use IPX on the clients to do file and print serving.
3) Applications
There are several options here. At the simplest, just share files. More
robust, run web server (apache), email (sendmail + pop/imap or qmail),
mail lists (majordomo, smartlist, petidomo), news (inn or dnews) plus
suitable web-based and client-server apps. Most of the necessary servers
come with RedHat (qmail, petidomo are available off the web and dnews is
commercial). You can also do databases (msql, mysql, Postgresql) with and
without web interfaces.
WebEvent is a decent web-based calendar program. I think it's commercial
now, there may still be a free version out there. Search for their site
at any decent web search server.
BSCW is a rather capable "group collaboration" server developed in Europe
and freely available. Search for their main distribution site for
details.
The sky is the limit here; I'm sure I've totally ignored someone's
favorite application! Keep focused on your users' needs and you'll do
allright.
Good luck!
Steve
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