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Tinker · 2010-Jun-09 13:23:37

Hi, I would like to help to contribute in some small way to this project.

I have a spare box, well it was in use up to now with win2k and it was used as a print server for my small home network ( 6 Linux boxes.) I threw Archserver at it today and it slid into place with no real problems, biggest problem was the nut on the keyboard using , instead of . in IP addresses:/

What I plan to do now is install a printer and share it then create some file share space accessible to all users on my network, preferable with the minimum of security which makes it easier for the less technical to use it. As I go I intend to make notes and when complete add these as instructions to the wiki. As I have worked for the last 10 years 90% on gui Linux my command line ability is a big drawback so I would appreciate some pointers for where I can get ideas of what I need to do to achieve the goal.

I have got networking setup up, at least as far as pinging other computers and internet is also OK as I can sync and update packman. My initial problems are in installing a printer and getting ssh to work.

fukawi2 · 2010-Jun-09 23:04:39

Welcome

Glad to hear you've upgraded your Win2K box to Linux

I look forward to hearing more about your progress!

faelar · 2010-Jun-10 15:42:07

Hello,

You will need cups for the printer. You were talking about non-tech' people, I believe there are some Windows machines on your network, samba is probably the way to go for both files and printer sharing.

Tinker · 2010-Jun-11 06:05:46

Yes I had worked out I needed cups and probably hpijs as well.

No there are no windows systems in my house, not now I retired the print server, everyone from granny down uses some form of Linux but some have only simple needs and skills. I may still end up with samba as it is something I am a bit familiar with but would prefer to learn how to do it without resorting to samba which I think is a bit of a kludge to help undecided windows users over the hump in the road.

fukawi2 · 2010-Jun-11 08:49:13

Or those sysadmins among us who refuse to run Windows servers

NFS or smbfs is probably worth investigating

Tinker · 2010-Jun-11 10:25:50

I was leaning towards NFS, or perhaps the beer was making me lean, but I think I may have to do some serious reading so I have at least some idea what I am doing.

I have two major problems, for now. I cannot get ssh to work, sshd is loaded at boot and hosts.allow is set to accept anyone on my local net, I did initially forget to check hosts,deny which was set to deny all but that is not changed. With putty or any other method I try the connection is refused and I have obviously missed something in the setup but have no clue what.

Second problem is just how do I use pacman to install cups, I get package not found errors, not found in sync database, I am assuming cups is actually in the repo but I cannot get any idea of what is in any of the repos and so may have the wrong name, though I imagine cups would still be cups. I can use pacman to check and update what I have got installed so at least it seems that pacman is working.

Last edited by Tinker (2010-Jun-11 13:45:40)

faelar · 2010-Jun-12 12:43:06

ArchServer is a young project, and there are many missing packages right now. If pacman -Ss cups does not return any result that's probably because there is no package for cups at the moment. If you wan't to check what is in the repo simple visit : http://repo.archserver.org/

If you wan't to help with packaging you're also welcome

I can't check my AS install for the moment but ssh should work. Do you try to login as root ? AS is less permissive by default so check if your username is allowed to login remotely.

triplem · 2010-Jun-21 20:41:18

Cups is now updated in our repositories. This should be resolved. Tinker, I definitly would like to ask you to test this package ;-) Since cups is one of the major dependencies of samba, I provided this package as well.

Hope that this helps you to get comfortable with AS ;-)

If you have problems with ssh on the VirtualBox images, please report them here or even better in the bug tracker, so that we can try to resolve these issues. Let me add, that I do use these VirtualBoxes for my daily work on AS and I do not have any issues with SSH, but this could be because I resolved all these issues already. Four eyes do see more then two, so any feedback is more then welcome.

ArchServer Project :: Forums

#1 2010-Jun-09 13:23:37

Print and file server setup

#2 2010-Jun-09 23:04:39

Re: Print and file server setup

#3 2010-Jun-10 15:42:07

Re: Print and file server setup

#4 2010-Jun-11 06:05:46

Re: Print and file server setup

#5 2010-Jun-11 08:49:13

Re: Print and file server setup

#6 2010-Jun-11 10:25:50

Re: Print and file server setup

#7 2010-Jun-12 12:43:06

Re: Print and file server setup

#8 2010-Jun-21 20:41:18

Re: Print and file server setup

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