...making Linux just a little more fun!
[ In reference to "Serving Your Home Network on a Silver Platter with Ubuntu" in LG#141 ]
Raj Shekhar [rajlist at rajshekhar.net]
Some comments -
Section 8 - Configure your LAN machines
Use dhcp instead of trying to configure each machine individually.
Section 11 BIND DNS Server
another option is to use pdnsd as a caching nameserver.
Section 13 Samba file sharing
If you are only using linux boxes, you can also share using nfs. Caveats: it takes long time to mount large directories.
Section 14 TorrentFlux
Nice tip!
Thanks
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Rick Moen [rick at linuxmafia.com]
Quoting Raj Shekhar ([email protected]):
> Section 11 BIND DNS Server > another option is to use pdnsd as a caching nameserver.
That would be the primary one I was trying to suggest in my editorial footnote, BTW.
Dr. Chhabra [ichhabramd at gmail.com]
Thank you for the clear instructions, Dr Lazar. I used these step by step, and after a few tries, my DNS server works. How about printing. I just bought a new HP2600n printer, which does allow TCP/IP using DHCP and BOOTSTRAP protocols. Can this work with Ubuntu Feisty Fawn?
Thanks
Dr C
Shane Lazar [drsjlazar at gmail.com]
Hello Dr. Chhabra,
Thank you for reading my article and I am glad it has been of use to you. First off, printing is not my forte as I do not have a printer.
However, what I can tell you is that it can be done using Webmin and you will need CUPS (Common UNIX Printing System) to be installed on your server. I am not sure if it comes preinstalled. You can check if it is installed and running by going to System>Bootup and Shutdown (in Webmin) and looking for 'cupsys'. Make sure this is running and set to start at bootup.
If you do not find CUPS on this page you can easily install it by searching for and installing 'cupsys' and 'cupsys-client' using System>Software Packages as you did for 'shorewall' in the article... or running 'sudo apt-get install cupsys*' in Other>Command Shell.
You will then share your printer over the network using Samba, the same service we used for file sharing.
After a bit of google-ing I have come up with a few things that will hopefully help you configure your printer.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=457112
Here is a guide to setup your HP 2600n for colour printing. Follow the instructions posted by JerMe as they seemed to have worked well. It would be ideal if you have SSH installed and working so you can log into your server in CLI as the instructions are bash commands. However, you can also use the Others>Command Shell tool in Webmin. Alternatively, you could also temporarily plug a monitor and keyboard to your server and work directly on the machine.
As for the part where JerMe uses gnome-cups-manager, please use the Hardware>Printer Administration tool in Webmin as your server does not have the GNOME GUI.
http://doxfer.com/Webmin/PrinterAdministration
Here is the Webmin page documenting printer adminstration using Webmin. I hope it is clear and concise enough for your needs.
http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Ubuntu:Feisty#Print_Server_.28cupsd.29
Here is the ubuntuguide.org documentation that explains setting up of CUPS. As in my article, you can execute commands in the Command Shell tool and edit files using the Java file manager.
http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/feature/8955.html
This should help you setup up your printer for sharing with Windows
machines. It was written for SuSE Linux but it should work fine for
Ubuntu as well. Be careful when editing the smb.conf not to break the
file share you already have setup 
I hope this has been helpful. I recommend you read all the articles
first and plan your course of action before you dive in trying to
configure your printer... as you will have to do a bit of mix n
match...
If anyone else on Talkback has a better solution or more experience,
please help out the good doctor
Shane.
http://drsjlazar.blogspot.com/