Looking for Help in several areas

[Paul Howarth]

Jeff Kinz wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 08:01:30AM -0400, Tim Holmes wrote:
> 
>>someone who would be willing to work with me offline to help get things
>>going, without cluttering up the list with a lot of "newbie / dumb"
>>questions.  
> 
> 
> 
> Hi Tim, there are no dumb questions, only dumb answers.  :-)
> 
> Please feel free to ask anything you need here.  The people in this list
> are culturally incapable of not helping. We've all been infected by
> the cultural meme of Open Source.  :)
> 
> 
>>The specific areas that I am hitting problems include
>>
>>- Establishing a DAV server for mozilla calander
>>- Getting samba working properly in a WIN 2003 Server domain
>>(authentication / File sharing)
>>- Establishing a Local Time Server
>>- Establishing a Fedora Core Repository for updates
>>- Properly configuring Sendmail
>>- Properly configuring Mailman
>>- Implementing some kind of internal IM for our school (Jabber looks
>>like the most likely candidate)
>>- Getting NIS (if necessary working)
>>- Getting NFS working among Linux boxes
>>- Preparing for FC3 upgrade to all of my FC2 boxes
> 
> 
> Thats quite a list.  My first recommendation is to stop by 
> http://www.tldp.org and look at the listing of "How To" documents.
> 
> These documents are not reference manuals, they are actual descriptions
> of exactly "How To" use/configure various resources on Linux.
> 
> Which of the above problems is your most critical? (or perhaps we should
> tackle the easiest one first.. ).

Much of what you're after can be found at:
http://www.brennan.id.au/ (Linux Home Server HOWTO). Plenty of good 
advice to be found there.

Paul.