Hey Guys,

I've just installed fedora core 7 on my pc and everything is running swimmingly. Now i'm ready to take the next step. I want to do a few things and was wondering whether you guys can help out. I’ve never done any of these things before and I’ve never used linux before, so I don’t know if these things are mutually exclusive or the same thing.

Right, so what I want to do is;

1) Connect my mac book to my linux box and operate it remotely through a terminal interface
2) Create a file server that I can connect to through my windows pc and mac book
3) Run a web server and eventually an application server like Websphere

Number 3 on the list is way into the future but its something I want to start thinking about now.

I have currently connected my linux box to my router via gaming adapter. Basically the linux box connects to the gaming adapter via an Ethernet connection and then the adapter connects to the router via a wireless connection. So the linux box thinks its connecting to the router through a straight Ethernet connection.

Given the setup, how do I go about achieving the three requirements above? Please be as descriptive as possible with your replies as I am new to this whole linux things.

Thanks

You should be able to use ssh to get a terminal, unless you mean you want a remote desktop type of thing. In that case there are programs like VNC. Make sure your behind a firewall before opening up a VNC server.
There is a good HOWTO here
You should be able to type 'service httpd start' as root and you will have a web server running. Documents go in /var/www/ht[ml|docs]/

Websphere may be beyond the scope of the message board, but then I have never used it.

Just the kind of response I was looking for. Thank You.

I will try running a vnc server but that will come later. I've just tried to use ssh and its worked wonderfully. The next step is to transfer files between my mac and my linux box. I tried to connect using ftp;

but got the following message;

What do I need to do to transfer files across?

With regards to the web server I was thinking that I may use tomcat because I will be using java servlets. Out of interest though, does fedora 7 come with a version of apache?

FTP: Look in /etc/init.d and you should see something like vsftpd or proftpd. Run /etc/init.d/vsftpd start and it should work. I recommend looking into scp however as it is encrypted and will serve your greater needs in the future as hosts stop offering non encrypted connections.

It almost certainly came with apache2 installed unless unchecked at install time. Run apachectl -v as root and it will give you information about it including version.

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I logged on to my host computer using ssh. I found vsftpd and managed to start it. I tested this using the following command;
and got the following output;
then i log out of ssh and try to connect via ftp with the following;

but I get the famous "Connection refused message". Any ideas?

Take a look at /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf. It is pretty well self documented.

Do you have a line like this?
# Uncomment this to allow local users to log in.
local_enable=YES

Make sure you restart vsftpd after making any changes.
Oh, and check your firewall, default does not allow ftp

Yea that line is there. I think the problem is going to be a firewall issue. But my friend deals with our home router, so I dont know til he comes back. If it is a firewall issue, how do I go about fixing it?

Is there any documentation for this?

Jaz

there should be some gui in you administration menus. If you cant find it, try typing 'service iptables stop' as root and if it works after that it's a firewall issue