Koozali.org: home of the SME Server
Legacy Forums => General Discussion (Legacy) => Topic started by: Wayne Morgan on July 22, 2002, 03:07:50 PM
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Hi to all,
I'm looking for a system to do the following:
Provide internet access via K56 dial-up to 5 computers on our lan
Provide firewall for security
Provide fileserver services for our Win98/ME/2000Pro/XP Home systems running TCP/IP - about 1Gb of files.
No website / ftp hosting required, no external/RAS/VPN required
We don't have a domain name or static IP address (will this be a problem?)
Is e-smith SME 5.5 for us?
TIA
Wayne
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Dial up modem will need to be a serial external type
Consider 5.1.2 - a look at http://www.e-smith.org/bugs.php3 will show you the no. of bugs already in a very new release.
5.1.2 is stable as.
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>We don't have a domain name or static IP address (will this be a problem?)
No
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E-Smith/SME works GREAT for exactly what you're describing, and it's dead easy to set up.
Actually the dialup modem doesn't HAVE to be external ... it just works a LOT easier if you use a controller-based modem, whether internal or external. 56K internal controller-based modems are getting rather scarce.
To get proper file sharing to your XP and 2000 boxes, don't forget to update Samba to the latest e-smith RPM ... I think it's 2.2.3a. Hmmmmmm, Darrell May's howto seems to've gone missing! I did it, it worked, here's a link to the Google cache:
http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:5Mbn6pc2Q4cC:myezserver.com/downloads/mitel/contrib/samba-2.2.3-a/samba-howto.html+e-smith+samba+2.2.3a&hl=en&ie=UTF-8
You can also get an excellent Dialup control panel for your Service Manager:
http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/opsys/linux/e-smith/contrib/KamiSvetli/RPMS/noarch/
I also followed Mr. May's HDPARM howto with good results for ME ... don't do this on your box once it's in production!!!
http://myezserver.com/downloads/mitel/howto/hdparm-howto.html
There are lots of nifty add-ons for groupware, etc. but basically it works beautifully, right out of the box. Let us know how it goes for you.
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Michael Smith wrote:
> To get proper file sharing to your XP and 2000 boxes, don't
> forget to update Samba to the latest e-smith RPM ...
http://myezserver.com/downloads/mitel/contrib/samba-2.2.5-4/
> You can also get an excellent Dialup control panel for your
> Service Manager:
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> http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/opsys/linux/e-smith/contrib/KamiSvetli/RPMS/noarch/
Thanks Michael ! !
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> I also followed Mr. May's HDPARM howto with good results for
> ME ... don't do this on your box once it's in production!!!
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> http://myezserver.com/downloads/mitel/howto/hdparm-howto.html
Unless you have a real dog of a server definitely enable the hdparm setting. We enable it in every server we build
hdparm -Tt /dev/hda will give you a data transfer figure for your hard-drive. Typically with hdparm disabled you get around 2 to 3 mbps, with hdparm enabled you get around 20mbps. Any i686 intel computer will be fine with hdparm enabled in our experience.
Even so - run the server hard afterward - to be sure. THEN put into production
Rob
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Michael,
My main concerns are these:
do we have to use the email server built in or can we just use our ISP POP3 /SMTP servers from each Windows computer via the server / gateway?
as we have a workgroup, not a domain, are there any special setup requirements?
Thanks
Wayne
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You don't have to use the SME's email server if you don't wish to. As to domain/workgroup, that's easily settable on the SME box and you can make it a domain controller or not, just as you like. SME boxes are very well-behaved in a Windows network.