Foreword

The Mandrakelinux configuration wizards are designed to configure servers located between a local network and the Internet. They give you the ability to make configurations quickly and efficiently for most common services in a local network, as well as Internet web and FTP services. In this chapter, we will suppose that your network is as shown in Figure 8.1, “An Example of an Internal Network”, and that Mandrakelinux is installed on the server. Configuring and bringing up the Internet connection is beyond the scope of this chapter (the section called “Network and Internet Connection Management”).

Figure 8.1. An Example of an Internal Network

An Example of an Internal Network

Wizards can help you configure the following:

[Note]Note

For experienced users: wizards are limited to configuring class C networks, and only the basic configuration is handled for each service. This should be enough for most situations, but if you wish for a more fine-tuned configuration, you will have to edit the configuration files by hand or use another administration tool such as Webmin.

Figure 8.2. Accessing the Wizards through the Control Center

Accessing the Wizards through the Control Center

The server configuration wizards are available through the Control Center. When the drakwizard package is installed, a new category appears in the Mandrakelinux Control Center (Figure 8.2, “Accessing the Wizards through the Control Center”).

You will be able to access the wizards individually by clicking on the corresponding button. In this chapter we describe wizards for the most common services in no particular order. Note that the required packages are installed by the wizard if they are not already available.