On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 12:50:33AM -0500, Stephen Gran wrote: > 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. Oh, ok. Now I just have to find out how to set up connection sharing. That does sound familiar, though. Hmm... > > 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. Good. See, I knew that once I got Libranet on the system I could set up lilo to dual-boot properly (I inadvertently learned about it when I set up my computer to dual-boot RH as the secondary OS); I just didn't know if the installer would (should) be smart enough to shove Windows out of the way. Ok, things are looking up... :) > > 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 Oh, good. > have more complicated needs, I recommend IMAP and SSL (or TLS). Most I was going to finish setting that up anyway (I started setting up TLS, got in over my head, and now I'm waiting until I have time to pick it back up again). But that's a secondary consideration. > > 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. > Oh, yeah, I forgot to mention that-- I have iptables set up to filter ppp traffic (basically, if I didn't ask for the packet, it's not getting through). I also have printer sharing set up on the Windows computer (it's my parents' printer, so they keep it), but at this point I'm not sure how well it works; I've also set it up so that the CD-burner on that computer is shared, too-- I think that works, but I'm not entirely sure (UDF is a pain in the butt). BTW, is there a way to get nmbd to listen on eth0 *only*? At the moment, it insists on listening on both eth0's address and on all interfaces. -- Vikki Roemer Homepage: http://www.2khiway.net/users/vroemer Registered Linux user #2880021 http://counter.li.org/ "Just because you're not paranoid, that doesn't mean they're not out to get you." (ripped from someone's slashdot .sig) PGP fingerprint: 0A3E 0AE4 CCD9 FF31 B4BB C859 2DE1 B1D8 5CE0 1578 Keyserver: http://pgp.mit.edu/ -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 GAT d-(?) s: a--- C++++(++) UL++++ P+ L+++>++++ E W++ N+ o? K- w--() O? M? V?(-) PS+(+++) PE(++) Y+ PGP++ t+@ 5 X-() R*(?) tv-- b+++(++) DI+ D--(?) G e-(*)>+++++ h! r-- x? ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------
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