Talk:HOWTO setup a home-server
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[edit] Update in progress on separate page
I've updated the page from a [temp] testbin copy. It's better structured and I hope other people can help me update it. The kernel config is outdated, there are problems with the DNSMASQ part and the core configuration is badly ordered.
[edit] Article seperation
When editing this article, please consider seperating it out into seperate articles for each service / application. Huge "all-in-one" articles like this shouldn't really exist in my opinion. Individual service / application articles should be comprehensive enough to allow any user to combine it with other articles on related services to produce the setup they want.
--AllenJB 22:07, 2 September 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Various comments
Interesting but why go to all that bother? Yep i love gentoo but for my firewall/router/squid server i just install smoothwall, easy install/update and secure.
I have a dual 333 PII that i will be setting up a network printer/scanner/samba master and web delvelopment testing server. Of course this will have gentoo on and will be looking over your howto to see how it may help.
IRT Smoothwall point - you can pick & choose what components you want. You might just want a router box, so Smoothwall would be overkill for that.
I have used most of the setup from your howto, but have also realised that for proftpd setup I came across a problem. Creating a ftp_priv user and its home directory /usr/ftp_private caused problems when using:
# chmod 0644 /usr/ftp_private -R
This did not work for me as all directories needed execution permission for them to be able to open. Therefore:
# chmod 0755 /usr/ftp_private -R
did the trick. Cheers and good luck to all!!!
[edit] Norton Antivirus
Norton Antivirus... I guess you people should know better. Please change that to a better or no comercial AV.
Yes, I don't know why that was there. I've removed it. This is not a windows support website and I think we need to keep our HOWTO's as succinct as possible. --trick
[edit] Network Diagram
Could the network diagram be converted to an image? I think it looks pretty messy at the moment
[edit] Squid in accelerator mode
According to this page: http://wiki.squid-cache.org/faq/accelerator, accelerator mode is NOT needed here for what squid is aimed for.
[edit] FTP user in Gentoo
The howto at HOWTO ProFTPD tells us to change the ProFTPd user to 'ftp'. This is also the user that was present by default after emerging proftpd on my machine.
[edit] RCS / "ci -l"
I was troubled by the many occurencies of the command "ci -l" with no visible explanation, until I found out that it refers to the Revision Control System. Some explanations here and there would be very useful!
[edit] Added " Note for people using pppoe with masquerade"
Thesee: I added the solution of a problem I've encountered (with a lot of people from the forums) about the fact that you can only access certain websites. The solution is to use the TCPMSS target from iptables.
