Re: Home network design recommendations/tips sought (long)

2002-06-30 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sun, Jun 30, 2002 at 08:58:10PM +0200, Balazs Javor wrote: > - Right now I'm using the exim/fetchmail/procmail/mutt combo for my mail. > And I'm quite happy with the result. > If I move to the other Linux box as my primary workstation, the question > arises where to receive the mail to? >

Re: Home network design recommendations/tips sought (long)

2002-06-30 Thread Neal Lippman
On Sunday 30 June 2002 18:29, Mark Roach wrote: > On Sun, 2002-06-30 at 21:06, Neal Lippman wrote: > > In terms of email: I use kde on my linux workstation, and the rest of my > > family uses outlook or outlook express on their windows boxen. I use an > > smtp server on my website (outside my lan)

Re: Home network design recommendations/tips sought (long)

2002-06-30 Thread Mark Roach
On Sun, 2002-06-30 at 21:06, Neal Lippman wrote: > In terms of email: I use kde on my linux workstation, and the rest of my > family uses outlook or outlook express on their windows boxen. I use an smtp > server on my website (outside my lan) to accumulate email, and then d/l it > into kmail via

Re: Home network design recommendations/tips sought (long)

2002-06-30 Thread Jason Bleazard
Neal Lippman wrote: . > I use nfs for access from linux systems because that just seems to make more > sense, even though I could, in theory, access them via smbfs and smb as well. > I am not sure how the permissions would be handled in that situation, since > smb shares don't exactly mimic,

Re: Home network design recommendations/tips sought (long)

2002-06-30 Thread Neal Lippman
I have a similar setup, with a older Mandrake system that I have turned into a fileserver, and my new debian system that I use as a workstation. The server has a minimal amount of diskspace allocated for /, /boot, /usr, /var, /tmp, and a large /home partition. The /home partition is shared via

Re: Home network design recommendations/tips sought (long)

2002-06-30 Thread Larry Smith
I have a similar setup. I have an old system running Redhat acting as server. I use a Debian system as my desktop, and it acts as the internet gateway. I have a couple windows systems on the internal network. I use samba to allow file sharing with the windows systems, and have a samba configure

Home network design recommendations/tips sought (long)

2002-06-30 Thread Balazs Javor
Hi, I have a small home network of 3 machines and I'm looking for recommendations / best practices on how to set up certain services between them. I'm more interested in the what then the who at the moment. I'm especially interested in: - How to set up my mail so that I can use it from both Linux