World: r3wp

I don't care about the firewall too much, because I don't want my 
server to do it at all - that is what is router and DMZ for.

Another SME type distro is Clarkconnect (http://www.clarkconnect.com). 
It's RHEL based and has community and paid services. Nice web admin 
tool.

thanks, will investigate it ...

looks interesting. And maybe it is a distro, I once linked to here 
....

... back then, when RT was investigating distros too ....

or ... it was other way around ... it was RT who told us, what distro 
they choosed?

studied ClarkConnect - it seems like an exactl solution, when you 
want to provide ISP services, with all those antispam services included, 
unified configuration interface, backups, so you might have a good 
sleep ....

Why not Debian? IMO one of the best distros. Good packet management. 
It doesn't come to fancy but rock solid.

Because, for me - I need a server, and I want to have a good sleep! 
:-)

I have old Fedora Core 1 server, my friend moved to Prague and my 
primary hd crashed. It was difficult situation for me. There was 
a cript, which at least packed all content to secondary hw ...

the recovery was not so easy, because he navigated mi vai phone (3 
hours) and I first had to prepare partitions etc. So I look for some 
other "easy", but complete solution ...

I will try with Ubuntu initially (which is - Debian based)

but no more console - I want web based configuration, so that my 
brother can do it without me.

For server Debian is very good.

there are many good servers imo. It is not problem to actually have 
a server. But disaster recovery scenario is important for me. Because 
I have to be sure, that when I am no business trip and server crashes, 
my brother will be able to recover basic services with few phone 
calls :-)

Yes, generic servers make you do a lot of work for such things. SME 
Server and indeed ClarkConnect are custom-made for the things you 
want. SME Server has more integrated user management, but ClarkConnect 
is easier to put extra software on that is not part of the standard 
distribution

SME server - is that something particular?

what does SME stand for?

Running extra software will make backup and restoration more difficult, 
thouh

Small and Medium Enterprise

ah, thanks ....

btw - how does Syllable go? (you can answer in the syllable group)

Graham - to not spam Syllable group - http://bengross.com/smallunix.html

petr, www.rebol.net is running on clarkconnect, and mail.rebol.net 
will probably be moved to it soon.

Ah, good choice :-)

Better than the previous one, at least...

does rebol run on DSL ?

(Damn Small Linux)

Don't know why it wouldn't

hummm that might be interesting linux test setup... as it runs hosted 
and takes very little ram :-)

actually, some of my rebol apps might take more ram the the os  :-D

:-)

hopefull R3 might improve this :-)

well, we will have the flexibility to do so being able to link INTO 
rebol.  but obviously not for the beginners.

Any Samba users here?

I used YaST on Suse to setup Samba and accepted all the defaults. 
 I see groups, profiles, and users .. but when I try to login, I 
can't authenticate.

It's not setup as a PDC.  Just using windows groups I think.

Do I need to add my machine name to the users ?

Oh well, I turned it into a PDC and that seems to work now.

I use swat to setup Samba under FreeBSD. It runs on port 901 with 
the browser.

not sure on suse with yast, but i have been annoyed (very annoyed!) 
by the fact that on ubuntu, after setting things up with their ui, 
you still have to use smbpasswd to set a password to access the shared 
folder.

so... you may have to use smbpasswd to set a password.

I think I just needed to add my laptop as  a user machine .... but 
it didn't like it when I tried.  Invalid name etc.

Now I am authenticating against the server instead ie . \servername\userid 
instead of \laptop\userid

When you install suse from cds .. and you need to install other packages, 
it may ask you for the installation cds.  is there a way around this? 
 mount the cds as iso images?

You can use a file tree on disk or through FTP. Not sure how to copy 
the mulyiple CDs into one tree

My SaMBa is a bit rusty, but when you set up user names on the server, 
you need a PDC, so that was probably the main problem

Don't you have net access? In software sources in YAST, you can simply 
activate the remote software repositories, and deactivate the CDs

Oh ??

that's what I needed to know!