It is VERY cool Todd!! It came at the right time for me.. needed to get something more secure than our NT server as the Internet Gateway, particularly as it had all our accounts on it. And I had this P166 just lieing around.
BTW, it also has web based email, handles multiple domains (simply), also acts as a DNS server to your network so that you can setup all your machines and internal servers and make them accessible to everything. We have Linux, Mac and NT machines on our network, and it coexists with all of them. The e-smith server also runs Netatalk so that the server just appears in the Mac Chooser as well as in the Windows neighbourhood. Because of this I've been able to ditch Connectix's DoubleTalk and Mac Services from the NT machine, and copying files across any machine is a total breeze. In another of the ibays, I've also setup phpGroupWare, so that any user on our internal network can access a web based suite of programs, ie, email, contacts, calendar, project management etc etc. I could go on and on... save me the trouble... go try it!!! You won't want to try anything else!!! Editing text files is almost non-existent!! N No, I don't work or have anything to do with e-smith.... I'm just a user who is extremely happy with it!! Todd wrote: > > That looks pretty dang cool. All the benifits of a Linux router without the > fun text file editing :) I'm going to have to try this .. especially since > I have found the currently available how-to's for setting up ipchains and ip > masquerading sorely lacking when using Red Hat 7. > > Does anyone know where I can find newer how-to's? The generic how-to's that > I used to use have become way out of date for the newest Red Hat. They > mention files and folders that no longer exist and just make things more > confusing :( > > Todd > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Nick Texidor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2002 10:02 PM > Subject: Re: Home network security question > > > I found a distribution called e-smith (www.e-smith.org) which is > > excellent (IMHO). I installed it on an old P166 with a 10GB drive in > > it. Installation was a breeze and configuration was so simple. I have > > it installed as an Internet server/gateway. > > > > e-smith also provides ibays which you can configure to be available to > > the internal network, or both internal and external networks. I have a > > few set up for things like shared data and an mp3 jukebox etc... These > > are secure to the outside world. > > > > e-smith has everything you need to, email server, http server, dhcp etc > > etc etc... > > > > I would recommend it to anyone... even those who haven't done anything > > with linux before... it's VERY simple! > > > > N > ______________________________________________________________________ This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-community@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
