Hi,

I'm going to be setting up a Linux web server (most likely Gentoo) at my school shortly, to upgrade our old one (an old 233mhz with no hard disk space left).

I'm fairly sure I'll have no problems installing apache, php, and mysql - I've done it before (with the aid of webmin, but I think it should be okay to do manually as well, especially since i'll have physical access to the box). However, the way our school's website is set up is weird. The school district does not allow any outside internet access from the school (anything outgoing is through proxies which are http only, and no listening ports are allowed). Also, we can't get any outside hosting (unless we want to forgo the official school district url). There is a place on the network set up for us to upload our website to.

The current setup is a PHP website, with a custom-coded CMS by a student a few years ago. The server has a cron job set to mirror the site's html files using httrack 2x daily and upload it into the designated folder in the network.

I just have a few questions though.

The network folder the site is uploaded to is (naturally) protected; only some network accounts can access it. How can I make a connection to the Network and mount the network drive using Linux (I have the account details and the full path on the server, the server name, etc).

Also, is the Netware server generally responsible for allocating local ips using dhcp or something similar? Or should I just pick an IP for it to take on the network?
Can I access the network without logging in first (eg. my proxy server on the local network - 10.x.x.x).

Finally, in terms of kernel compilation - I'm fairly sure i need to enable IPX support. Do i need anything else that's special? Maybe .. support for network filesystems?

Thanks!