Installing Knoppix As A LAN Server

Why you would want to read this document and what to expect from it.

Explanation on why Knoppix was chosen as a base for this document.

The nice thing about Knoppix is that you can easily try it out without changing your current setup.

How do we get this knoppix beast installed on our hard disk?

If all went well you can now log on and check some things on your system.

What we need to do before we can start with anything else is getting the network going.

How we will configure the package manager and use it to install most of our software.

How to get webmin and usermin installed on your system. Webmin is the administration tool we will use as much as possible to adminster the server. Usermin is the per user equivalent of webmin. It is the only exception to the rule that we will always use the package manger... so far.

Installing and Configuring the Shorewall Firewall.

When using a Masquerading firewall for you local network, it is handy to have a DNS cache around, so that at least all the local computers are known to each other by name.

Installing a DHCP server is the easiest way to configure the the local network.

It is good practice to have at least the /home/ directory tree on a different partition. This chapter describes how to do this.

We will install a mailserver, which will forward all our mail to our ISP and will fetch all the users mailboxes, providing an IMAP server to read them.

You may not even have thought of installing subversion, but once you've read how easy it is, you may have some ideas on what to do with it. It can do more than just Version your Source Code, you know. For instance, it can manage the versioning of this website rather well.

Installing a Fileserver will make sure that everyone can access the common set of files at all thimes.

Installing a Print server makes sure that everyone on the local network can use the printer, not just the person sitting at the computer attached to the printer.

Enabling ssh will make sure every user can connect to a linux system and have a real geeky feeling typing silly commands on the command line. It might also be interesting for remote support.

Various ways of shutting down the server.

Where we're heading and why we are not there yet.

Some thank you's.