Re: [Sheflug] Where do I start?

["Craig Andrews" <nospam [at] fishbot.org.uk>]

I currently run the only Linux box in our company (I use VMware for any
Windoze based stuff). On it I have apache, procmail, sendmail, apsfilter,
samba and a host of other things configured, so my machine is like a mini
server. In fact, it can do more stuff than our real (NT) server, like
dynamic shares to Windoze boxen.

Currently, no-one has realised that my machine is different to any other
(even though it has 4 netbios names and 7 IP's (it has a dhcp server running
and acts as a gateway to my own private network, populated by test boxes and
virtual machines)

So yes, a victim is perfectly feasible, and once it works, could conceivably
be used as an actual mail server, with a little cleaning up.

The LDP is your friend when it comes to setting stuff up, BTW (apart from
this mailing list, of course!)

Cheers

Craig

-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Tickle <s.tickle [at] quarndon.co.uk>
To: sheflug@vuw.ac.nz <sheflug [at] vuw.ac.nz>
Date: Tuesday, August 29, 2000 4:25 PM
Subject: [Sheflug] Where do I start?


>Can you let me have some (sensible) suggestions on this please?
>
>We currently run a mostly Windoze network of around a dozen PCs here. We
>have a dialup account to our ISP which is done from a Win95 based box
>running a firewall/proxy server which also handles mail forwarding. The
>reason behind us still using this system is that although it's a little
>inflexible and doesn't do everything the way we want it, it's reasonably
>easy to configure and I have a working familiarity with it. Ideally, I'd
>like to replace this with a Linux system but I don't know the first thing
>about the principles behind firewalls etc nor have I any first hand
>knowledge of procmail/sendmail etc.
>
>I'm willing to read up on all this but I also need a "victim" system that I
>can gradually configure and learn on. Would it be practical to set up such
>a system although it would be on our internal LAN and hence behind our
>firewall, so that I learn the principles involved and eventually configure
>a "safe" system that could ultimately replace the Windoze box.
>
>I should add that we currently use an ISDN2 dialup and our ISP gives us a
>single mailbox for all our incoming mail (not ideal, I know). It's entirely
>possible that we may convert to ADSL at some point when our ISP makes it
>available.
>
>All help welcomed and appreciated.
>
>Steve
>
>
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