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About This Guide .............................................................................................................. v
1. Conventions ........................................................................................................... vi
2. Contributing and Feedback ..................................................................................... vii
1. Introduction ................................................................................................................... 8
2. Installation ..................................................................................................................... 9
1. Preparing to Install ................................................................................................. 10
2. Installing from CD ................................................................................................. 11
3. Package Management ..................................................................................................... 12
1. Introduction ........................................................................................................... 13
2. Apt-Get ................................................................................................................. 14
3. Aptitude ................................................................................................................. 16
4. Configuration ......................................................................................................... 18
5. Extra Repositories .................................................................................................. 19
4. Networking .................................................................................................................... 20
1. Network Configuration ........................................................................................... 21
2. TCP/IP .................................................................................................................. 24
3. Firewall Configuration ............................................................................................ 28
4. OpenSSH Server .................................................................................................... 30
5. FTP Server ............................................................................................................ 33
6. Network File System (NFS) .................................................................................... 35
7. Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) ........................................................ 37
8. Domain Name Service (DNS) ................................................................................. 40
9. CUPS - Print Server ............................................................................................... 42
10. HTTPD - Apache2 Web Server ............................................................................. 45
11. Squid - Proxy Server ............................................................................................ 54
12. Version Control System ........................................................................................ 56
13. Databases ............................................................................................................. 62
14. Email Services ..................................................................................................... 65
5. Windows Networking ..................................................................................................... 76
1. Introduction ........................................................................................................... 77
2. Installing SAMBA .................................................................................................. 78
3. Configuring SAMBA ............................................................................................. 79
A. Creative Commons by Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 ........................................................... 85
B. GNU Free Documentation License ................................................................................. 90
