Slackware Network Server
 

Hello,

Can anybody point me to a guide on how to set a slackware 10.1 box as a Web server (apache, php, sql) and a small LAN Router, file and print server for both Mac & PC.

Thanks in advance

Peachy

for the web server this is a great HOW-TO:

http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Apache-Com...WTO/index.html

OR:

http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html

Apache, MySQL and PHP packages comes by default with Slackware.

If you have installed it.

To start Apache everytime you boot-up (as root do:)
to start,stop, restart apache -- pick respective optionI do not have experience setting up MySQL and PHP.

To be a LAN Router, you want to use NAT feature which is part of iptables. You can google for rc.firewall scripts and copy it to /etc/rc.d/ and insert a line into rc.local /etc/rc.d/rc.firewall. Remember to chmod +x rc.firewall as well.

Print server, you need to install CUPS. And to make it talk nicely to Windoze machine, you will need samba.

File server, there is samba and nfs. Both works on Mac. Not sure nfs for Windoze though.

By the way, samba is what you call windows networking in windoze.

Edit:
Yes, reading docs on tldp.org will help a great deal.

thanks for all the help,

peachy