[GLLUG] Setting up a home server

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I wrote that a while ago, when trying to learn more about linux, just to 
kinda focus my thoughts and possibly help someone out later.  Its 
specific to Fedora Core, but RH9 shouldn't be much different...
Hope that helps a little =P

- Dan Sherman


Charles Ulrich wrote:

>On Monday 12 December 2005 09:56, Nader Abedrabbo wrote:
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>>Can you please give me advice on how to go about to setting this
>>system up? If you direct me to books, web links that would be great..
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>>Thanks,
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>>Nader
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>If I get this right, you want to set up a server at home and then access 
>it from everywhere else, right? You're in luck, as this isn't terribly 
>difficult. If you already have a home network set up (as opposed to a 
>single workstation connected directly to the cable or DSL modem), then 
>you're halfway there. If not, google for information on how to put 
>together a simple home LAN with a firewall. (I recommend IPCop, 
>http://www.ipcop.org, on an old Pentium II but you can also buy 
>firewalls from companies like Netgear and Linksys that work well for 
>simple setups. They appear to call them "routers" these days.)
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>Once that's taken care of, just install your OS, give the machine a 
>static IP, and configure your firewall to pass traffic on a specific 
>port (or set of ports) to the server. For example, if you want SSH and 
>SFTP, have your firewall forward port 22 to the server.
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>A few hours research should be enough to get you started. Sorry that I 
>don't have any specific links to give you. You might, however, see if 
>the Linux Documentation Project (http://www.tldp.org) has anything you 
>can use. 
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