IP-masqurade will work for internet access. I use it here with my lan (NT workstation on one, several windows 95 boxes and one power mac) to access the net. You can configure your mailserver to spool locally with minimal difficulty since that's a fairly common practice anyway, kind of the default... If you want the NT machines to also use some of the file services on your linux box you can compile in (might as well since you have to re-compile in the I4L (ISDN for Linux) and IP-masq (all in the source code, just have to configure and compile the kernel)), set up the samba services/directories/printers/etc (good howto files available and even nicer books from O'Riley <sp?> on the subject, but the howto files and even the stock config files will pretty much show you what's up with samba). Just make sure the ISDN card you purchase is supported by linux (hardware howto will give you a nice list on the SuSE site). I would be careful if you try using wingate, a misconfigured wingate can permit someone to relay through your system and cause you some grief (such as denial of service attacks on others), I've read wallops on some irc servers and an AMAZING number of G-lines and K-lines are sent out due to misconfigured wingate setups being capitalized upon by some miscreants... But for your needs, I'd heartily recommend using SuSE linux with IP-masq, it's completely transparent and once you compile in the option for IP-masq, it "works out of the box" nicely. You MAY also wish to set up firewall services (also part of the package, just compile support for firewall and configure according to the howto file). IN simpler terms: SuSE linux is your dream come true (at least in this case). :)
Greetings to all,
I will shorthly receive an old box ( Pentium 90 with 96 Mb RAM, 1 Gb SCSI drive on ADAPTEC 2940)
I was thinking of using this machine to be the dialup server to the Internet and a file server for NT workstations, SGI stations, PC Linux stations ( in a close future ).
I was thinking of using Linux
because NT on such a machine will be really slow. However I know how to do it on NT
Just install : NT server Wingate from Qbik software MDaemon from ALT-N Technologies the ISDN board and that's it .
It seems to me that it will be a little more tricky in Linux.
the goal is to have people accessing the Internet trough that machine ( wingate ) and this machine calling on a predefined schedule to store the mail locally waiting for user to pick it up ( MDaemon).
Are they suggested reading ???
any input will be greatly appreciated.
regards to all.
GH Portefait
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