Setting up servers with Corel LINUX
Servers are the foundation of a network. When you visit a Web site, for example, you are accessing information which is stored on a Web server. When you download a file over an office intranet, you download the file from a file server. Networks typically work on a client/server model.
In the client/server model, clients are network computers that get services, such as printing to a network printer, or accessing email, provided by another network computer, a server. Servers are installed and configured with server software to process client requests.
Corel LINUX comes with server software to let you set up your Corel LINUX computer as different types of servers. You can set up Corel LINUX to be the following servers:
Apache Web serverlets you host a Web site on your Corel LINUX computer
ProFTPD FTP serverlets you set up a File Transfer Protocol (FTP) site on Corel LINUX computer
qmail mail serverlets you set up an email server for your network on your Corel LINUX computer
Samba serverlets you set up a file and print server for a Windows network on your Corel LINUX computer. Samba also lets you set up a Windows Internet Naming Service (WINS) server for the identification of Windows computers on a network, and a Primary Domain Controller (PDC) server for authenticating users on your network.
NFS serverlets you set up a Network File System (NFS) file server for non-Windows computers on your Corel LINUX computer
DHCP serverlets you set up a Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) server to dynamically allocate IP addresses to network clients on your Corel LINUX computer
The Corel LINUX Server Administrator Guide and Corel LINUX Server Administrator online Help provides an overview of servers supported by Corel LINUX. It also describes installing and configuring servers on Corel LINUX, and general networking concepts.