This one time, at band camp, Vikki Roemer said: > Hi! > So I have several questions: > Can I set up modem sharing with a minimum of hassle for my parents > when they go to use it and for free? How? Sure. There is a package called diald that is designed for this, although I have heard mixed reports about how well it works. pppd also has a demand mode that I know works well. Set the client computer to use the other as a gateway, do the proper things for connection sharing there (more information to follow if you don't know what I mean) and it should work fine. > Semi-related question-- do I absolutely *need* Partition Magic to > dual-boot Linux and Windows? The thing is, with my dad being out of > work, we don't have money for a $60 piece of software. :( No. In my experience, when you're installing both from scrathc (as it sounds like you're going to) just install Windows first - the Debian install at least is smart enough to detect another parasite^W OS on the hard drive, and set up lilo accordingly. If that doesn't work in libranet, the default lilo configuration for Debian has some lines commented out that will point you in the right direction. Basically, Windows will overwrite the MBR without asking, but lilo will do The Right Thing WRT other OS's on the disk. > Is it possible to set up the mail on my system so that my parents' > mailboxen can be accessed with Mozilla on their computer? I tried > getting Moz to get mail from localhost but it won't-- will I run into > similar problems over a LAN? Again, sure. I run qpopper or the like for LAN-only access - for times where one computer is picking up the mail, but there are likely to be plenty of dumb clients, and no one stores their mail on the server, and you're behind a firewall, straightforward POP3 is easy and fast. If you have more complicated needs, I recommend IMAP and SSL (or TLS). Most Windows email apps will allow you to set up the smarthost for outgoing mail and the POP/IMAP server for incoming mail by IP, so you don't even need ot worry about getting Windows lmhosts files working right, which I always find to bw more aggravating than necessary. > Is there anything else I should be setting up? Some iptables-based firewalling, especially for the netbios nastiness, andit looks pretty good here. There's _always_ more to do, but that's a good start. Printer sharing is also nice, and easy to set up with samba and cups. -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Stephen Gran | If you can keep your head when all | | steve@lobefin.net | about you are losing theirs, then you | | http://www.lobefin.net/~steve | clearly don't understand the situation. | --------------------------------------------------------------------------
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