Chapter 15. LAN Server Configuration Wizards

Table of Contents
15.1. Foreword
15.2. Basic Network Configuration Wizard
15.3. DHCP Server Configuration
15.4. Configuring the DNS Server
15.5. Client Hosts DNS Configuration
15.6. Mail server configuration
15.7. Samba configuration
15.8. Firewalling configuration
15.9. web server configuration
15.10. FTP server configuration
15.11. News configuration
15.12. Time server

15.1. Foreword

The configuration wizards, which come with Mandrake Linux, give you the ability to make configurations quickly and efficiently in a private network. In this chapter, we will suppose that your network is as shown in figure 15-1, and that Mandrake Linux is installed on the server. Configuring and bringing up the Internet connection (if you have one) is out of the scope of this chapter.

Figure 15-1. An Example of an Internal Network

Wizards can help you configure the following:

Note for experienced users: wizards are limited to configure only C class networks, and only the basic configuration is handled for each service. This should be enough for most situations, but if you wish a more fine-tuned configuration, you will have to edit the configuration files by hand.

Figure 15-2. Accessing the Wizards through the Control Center

The server configuration wizards are available through the Control Center. When the wizdrake package is installed, a new menu entry appears in the Mandrake Control Center tree menu (figure 15-2).

It is advised to begin by the global wizard which will in fact run all wizards one after the other in the appropriate order.

You will also be able to access wizards individually by clicking on the corresponding menu entry. In this chapter wizards will be described in the order meant by the global wizard.


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