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1. Shared paths are used throughout the RedRak interface to provide storage areas for items such as email web sites news and ftp 1 Select Home Sharing File Sharing and click the Volumes tab 2 Click CREATE to create a new volume 3 Click ais and follow the detailed instructions displayed If you wish select the Quotas tab to limit the amount of space available to a user or group of users within a vol ume Click STORE and then click COMMIT to begin committing the volume After the commit has completed Select Home Sharing File Sharing Click CREATE to create a path to share Select the appropriate export method s For example if only Windows machines will be accessing this shared item check only Windows CIFS as an export method Optionally select the Security tab to set user level and or machine level permissions O U DB B Setting Up Users and Groups to Control Access To the Server Setting up users associates certain privileges and screen functions with an ID and password Setting up groups is a convenient way to communicate with or change settings for similar users RedRak Professional User Manual eoru 1 Select Home Users Groups 28 IV Getting Started 2 You novv need at least one group in vvhich to put all nevv users You may see a group called all users depending on the template options that you selected during setup If you do not have an existing group click CREATE to create one
2. ment allows you to create modify and reconfigure volumes Quota management RedRak allows you to set up quotas on volumes For example you can create a volume of 1 GB gigabyte with 100 MB megabyte quota so that no one user takes up more than 100 MB of space on that volume Quotas can be assigned on a user or group bases or by service such as email or Web You can send users warnings when quota limits are reached or even set soft limits to warn users that they have seven days to delete files or to have their quotas increased RAID is supported Users have the option of choosing Linear no RAID Striping RAID 0 Mirroring RAID 1 or RAID 5 Selectable file sharing Allows you to share Windows files only to Windows clients Macintosh filesto only Macintosh clients and or Unix files to only Unix clients Access rules The point and click interface helps you quickly define the access rules for the owner the group users and the general users of any file You have the option to restrict access to the file only to certain machines in the network RedRak Professional User Manual anu I Overview of RedRak Professional Features Sharing removable media RedRak allovvs you to share removable media such as floppy disks CD ROM disks and Zip and lazz disks Print Server Supports local printer This means the printer is physically plugged into either the serial or parallel port on the back of the
3. For help in creating a group click and follow the detailed instructions displayed 3 When you have completed creating a group select Home Users Users and click on DEFAULTS You will now set up the default settings for new users 4 Select the appropriate settings Planning ahead at this point can savetime later Consider the services that your server will be providing and check boxes to enable users to access these services even if you are not implementing them immediately For example enable email for users now even if the email server is not being set up yet For help in selecting rA default settings click 5 Select the Group tab 6 Click SELECT to choose all of the groups in which new users will be members 7 Check the group that you would like as the primary group This should be the group that you created or noted in step 2 8 Optionally select the Home Path tab to have a home path automatically created for each user who has Unix shell enabled under the General tab 9 Select Home Users Users You will now enter users who will be using the RedRak 10 Click CREATE to create your user identities 11 For each new user select Password and type in their password They will be ableto change their password at a later time on their own For help in adding new users click z and follow the detailed instructions displayed 12 Now you can put users into their own groups Groups allow you to assign priv
4. Es eS 22 NOSE name usado en Wea an atl a Pare ed s pee E Wie aa oe pi 22 Nemaska are daa ata 77777 7 23 primary DNSserver hh 22 VVorkgroup Domalh eee 23 network administrator 23 24 eccl pP 24 Sharing Printers sa ey TTPTTTTT 29 30 Removable hs 29 System Administration ee 8 veya acca Hur 9 10 user accounts be SS oad eee hd QURE X CARA tee ae tke dos R 8 9 pM See Features eth ern et Technical SUPPOFE ak 8500000007 41 35 67 See Features users Website xiii ii okuyun mumin See Features vveb sites VVindovvs 95 98 NT filesharing See Features file sharing printer Sharing See Features file sharing RedRak Professional User Manual LL 56 NETmach nes ovo METmachines net N ETmachines Inc 2000 All rights reserved 57 RedRak Professional User Manual 58 NETmach nes ovo METmachines net N ETmachines Inc 2000 All rights reserved
5. The network layer for the TCP IP protocol suite widely used on Ethernet networks It is a scheme that enables information to be rerouted from one network to another as necessary Technically IP is a connectionless best effort packet switching proto col IP address also called internet address TCP IP address The 32 bit host address defined by Internet Protocol that is usually represented in dotted decimal notation e g 192 168 47 216 ISP Internet Service Provider A company which provides other companies or individuals with access to or presence on the Internet Most ISPs are also Internet Access Providers extra services include help with design creation and administration of World Wide Web sites training and administration of intranets kiosk A stall set up in a public place where one can obtain information e g tourist informa tion The information may be provided by a human or by a computer In the latter case the data may be stored locally e g on CD ROM or accessed via a network using some kind of distributed information retrieval system such as Gopher or World Wide Web LDAP Lightweight Directory Access Protocol A protocol for accessing online directory services LDAP defines a relatively simple protocol for updating and searching directories running over TCP IP LDAP is gaining support from vendors such as Netscape Novell Sun HP IBM Lotus SGI AT amp T and Banyan An LDAP directory entry is a collection of
6. attributes with a name called a distinguished name DN Each of the entry s attributes has a type and one or more values The types are typically mnemonic strings like cn for common name or mail for e mail address LAN Local Area Network A data communications network which is geographically limited typically to a 1 km radius allowing easy interconnection of terminals microprocessors and computers within adjacent buildings Ethernet and FDDI are examples of standard LANs NETmach nes cv NETmachines net NETmachines Inc 2000 All rights reserved 47 Because the netvvork is knovvn to cover only a small area optimizations can be made in the network signal protocols that permit data rates up to 100M b s log on To start a session with a system usually by giving a user name and password as a means of user authentication The term when used as a noun describes the combination of a user name and password also called an account e g Have you been given a logon yet MAC address The Ethernet card s unique hardware address This does not have anything to do with Macintosh computers it stands for Media Access Control It is the Ethernet card s unique hardware address and is written as twelve hexadecimal base 16 digits Each digit is 0 9 or A F An example is 0060B039DD24 In the RedRak the MAC address is optional in order to add a device to the network but may be required by the DHCP Server A printer s MA
7. determines how your system is functioning if problems are found RedRak suggests solutions The online help lists all possible system check messages System Check should be run before a commit is performed to ensure that you will not loose anything If you are experiencing systems problems the system check will diagnose suggest fixes and take you to the pages where you can make the appropriate fixes Migration tools move user and machine information from an old network If you select the install over option the migration tools will be used after RedRak Install is complete to configure most user and machine information saved from your prior installation NOTE because of encryption it is not possible to migrate passwords F Monitoring and Reports Alerts Choose conditions which will cause an alert RedRak comes with a predefined set of alert conditions from which you can choose those that apply to your situation Specify who receives alert notifications Specify who is to be notified in case of a particular alert condition Choose how the alert notifications will be sent Choose to send the alert notification in any or all of three ways email a Windows message pop up Windows machine only or a red bar appearing at the top of the RedRak interface Through the email alerts interface alerts can be sent to many PCS phone and pager systems so you are always notified of problems System Check The System Check is a tool that c
8. repair kit including a drive bay vvith a drive loaded vvith the current system ready to boot is available from NETmachines net Use the Repair Mode to fix certain conditions in an already installed RedRak The repair option runs directly off of the RedRak boot floppy and CD ROM Use the repair option when you have a working RedRak system installed and any of these situations exist Your RedRak will not boot or reboot e You had to reinstall your RedRak and want to restore the backup of your old RedRak con figuration onto your reinstalled system e You had to reinstall your RedRak and want to reconstruct the System Volume that was a mirror on your old RedRak installation e An administrator has forgotten his or her password You suspect your RedRak has been broken into and modified by unauthorized users Using the repair option means that you are booting off of the RedRak CD ROM not the RedRak installed on your hard disk However using the repair option does not e Reinstall the RedRak software on your hard disk you have to choose install to do this e Affect your existing configuration on your hard disk unless you select the RESTORE option to restore a configuration to your hard disk 1 If you have not done so already follow the instructions in your RedRak for Linux Installation Manual Chapter 111 Remote Install Method 2 You should see the RedRak splash screen followed by Welcome to the RedRak Install
9. when you are setting up your RedRak e Help text terms are hyperlinked to their definitions in the glossary The Glossary dis plays a list of the entire glossary for browsing e Online help is accessible from any machine using the RedRak browser interface B RedRak Technical Support If you need an answer you were not able to find in RedRak online help try Frequently Asked Questions under Support on the RedRak web page see below User and install manuals are also there online NETmachines Inc http www NETmachines net support eA RedRak Professional User Manual AA As 42 VI VVhere to Go From Here C Web Site Resources For products and pricing information direct email links to Netmachines Frequently Asked Questions and other technical support information see our vveb site e http www netmachines net Here are some sites that have helpful background information on netvvorks and netvvork terminolooy e http www linux org Linux Online e http www pcwebopedia com A dictionary and encyclopedia http www whatis com A dictionary and encyclopedia http vvombat doc ic ac uk The Free On line Dictionary of Computing D Further Reading Essential System Administration Frisch A O Reilly amp Associates Inc 2nd Edition Getting Connected Dowd K O Reilly amp Associates Inc Using Samba Kelly P Donham P Collier Brown D O Reilly amp Associates Inc JavaScript The D
10. which is usually related to the pathname of a file on the server NETmach nes cv NETmachines net NETmachines Inc 2000 All rights reserved 51 volume Similar to a hard disk partition a volume is a finite sized named storage area existing on one or more hard disks Volumes can be one of several types normal Raid O stripe Raid 1 mirror RAID 5 and noncontiguous A normal volume uses one contiguous area on one disk A stripe is a way of storing files across more than one disk A mirror duplicates the same information on two or more disks A RAID 5 array duplicates data on n disks over n l disks The redundancy in mirrors and RAID 5 arrays allows reconstruction of the data on a failed disk in the array without any data loss A noncontiguous volume contains two or more noncontiguous areas across one or more disks RedRak volume management allows you to create modify and reconfigure change volume type from normal to stripe or from mirror to normal or stripe volumes WAN Wide Area Network A network usually constructed with serial lines extending over dis tances greater than one half mile Web The Web is the World Wide Web WWW The World Wide Web is an Internet client server hypertext distributed information retrieval system which originated from the CERN High Energy Physics laboratories in Geneva Switzerland in 1991 On the WWW everything documents menus indices is represented to the user as a hyp
11. 1 ll Initial Setup Procedure This process gathers information to start up the RedRak When your RedRak has been installed after a brief RedRak logo page you will see the Welcome to the RedRak page Wheat il am n l Sih Arifah 7 Every shak papa han a 7 ica in tho uaperrighi handcomerol lhe web paga Tru can il Sha icon al ane lam s lares sha help onthe cum page B vou bayani ad the Rda rra e ben taret thal peu g hir nu hlha dador Y bu s n dre Td ora ry 1 1171 The R dRak infial up procesa india 5elunin a one line genc esa hich gathers perverai ri senelion necemsaryta Sori the Ringde Server T harani paved pages s li quide RUPEE e procesa The sepa aeque dace Seu ple LAH connection 2 Create on scc aunt ayan ef 8 Saha Theanine Tire and Date 4 Chata ac erii ural on F enh pl e pl r Ta Begin irahal Felag Presa chori the Continue ion ba stort RedFtali sahar This page summarizes the setup process detailed below F m Note that onlinehelp is now available from the in the upper right corner Click CONTINUE RedRak Professional User Manual 22 III Initial Setup Procedure A Setting up the LAN A Local Area Network LAN typically spans a small area such as a building or campus RedRak s LAN setup consists of entering a Host Name Domain Name DNS Server Default Router and Netmask and selecting a default AppleTalk zone if avai
12. ACtlONS 4 4 i2 parana dida Cada aa 19 20 tabled entries 18 19 main controls hs 16 18 DUCO N Sis dio 0000060507 16 17 vxo eed ita Mckee diene e ed od 17 18 az ra EE ME rM 16 NAVIGATING x ck cd Ree eR eee 775777 16 18 Internet Service Provider ISP susi 29 Modem Access ten aaa esc os Bs rco ed Bo emk os edd yi a eda aS eed aioe ed 29 ISDN See Features using a modem 150 9660 ick ein R A da m DER ks See Features mounting removable media Linux WTSI CS ua a s s n se hearst ads mana a 42 OG ON s n sa spa ys maa and aa GALA ADR nae ae 25 Macintosh filesharing vv See Features file sharing printer sharing See Features printer sharing Marzewski Bob See Macintosh Editor of manual ode deena eat ee ale See Features using a modem Network NeWS 000 See Features nevvs PIENE See Features news Online Help usara ap puer RE Rr ee Ree Re Ee ey PEE a eed E 41 A za xaxa bo yaya SOR RU CR laz sel ye See Features printer sharing Repair 77 12 Repair Mode checking disk eres egere Be dr oe x poros doen Rode Sak ea rores de 37 PASSWORD 39 reconstruct System mirror n 38 39 res
13. C address can usually be determined by printing out its test or configuration page machine Common term for computer usually when considered at the hardware level In RedRak printers are also considered a machine netmask The netmask is usually provided by your ISP The netmask is a numerical way of spec ifying the range of IP addresses on your network For example all Class C networks have a range of 254 IP addresses and use the Netmask 255 255 255 0 network Hardware and software data communication systems In information technology a network is a series of points or nodes interconnected by communication paths networks can interconnect with other networks and contain subnetworks The most common topolo gies or general configurations of networks include the bus star and ring topologies net works can also be characterized in terms of spatial distance as local area networks LANS metropolitan area networks 5 and wide area networks WANs A given network can also be characterized by the type of data transmission technology in use on it for example a TCP IP or SNA network by whether it carries voice data or both kinds of signals by who can use the network public or private by the usual nature of its connections dial up or switched dedicated or nonswitched or virtual connections and by thetypes of physical links for example optical fiber coaxial cable and copper wire Large telephone networks and netwo
14. ETmachines net N ETmachines Inc 2000 All rights reserved Control access to news groups Allow or deny specified domains or IP addresses access to the RedRak news server Send Mail to from a news group Send news group postings to or from an email address or local alias Public external discussion groups Similar to a bulletin board using HTML and a web browser rather than the newsreader to view entries It is part of the Front Page Extensions package Authenticated discussion groups private and public M embers only discussion groups User must be a member in order to participate File Server Heterogeneous client environment The RedRak FileServer allows you to share files disks and CD ROMs across Unix Windows and Macintosh clients Volume management A volume is a finite sized named storage area existing on one or more hard disks Volumes can be one of several types normal Raid O mirror Raid 1 stripe RAID 5 and noncontiguous A normal volume uses one contiguous area on one disk A stripe is a way of storing files across more than one disk A mirror duplicates the same informa tion on two or more disks A RAID 5 array duplicates data on n disks over n 41 disks The redundancy in mirrors and RAID 5 arrays allows reconstruction of the data on a failed disk in the array without any data loss A noncontiguous volume contains two or more noncontiguous areas across one or more disks RedRak volume manage
15. RE On some pages the SELECT or RETURN buttons will be replaced by STORE STORE means 1 you are saving the changes on the current page temporarily and 2 the changes are in the commit queue and vill become permanent after you click the COMMIT button This button only appears when a user logs on with adminis trator privileges To have RedRak ignore your selecttion and return to a previous page click the previous page in the Navpath described in the next item below Do not use the back button in your browser e OK This performs an immediate system change such as setting the clock or changing a password These changes do not require a commit To have RedRak ignore your selection and return to a previous page click the previous page in the Navpath described in the next item below Do not use the back button in your browser CONTINUE green Continue to the next page CONTINUE yellow Continue to the next page with caution because a significant system change will occur For example this will be seen when deleting files dam View context sensitive online help o Navpath Use the Navpath to navigate around RedRak software rather than using your browser s back button This is because the back button and Navpath do not work the same vvay The Navpath short for Navigation Path has three main functions e t shows you where you are and how you got there e It allows you to return to previous pages e t lets you can
16. RL and cause errors The easiest way to avoid this problem is not to bookmark the RedRak logon screen Instead wait until after you have logged in and bookmark the Home screen This is the screen that displays Personal Users Services etc along the left hand side Clicking on a bookmark for this page will take you to a valid logon page F Logging Out of Your RedRak Log out of RedRak when you walk away from your computer or if someone else is going to use your computer 1 To log out select Home Personal Log Off 2 You are novv logged off of RedRak 3 Type your User Name and Password to log on again Note Closing the browser window does not necessarily log you out of RedRak RedRak Professional User Manual m A 26 NETmach nes ovo METmachines net N ETmachines Inc 2000 All rights reserved 27 IV Getting Started Get started setting up major RedRak Professional features This chapter is an overview of and a quick look at the set up process for several of the most popular and useful RedRak Professional features For additional information about these fea tures or for features not covered in this chapter simply click the button for online help A Creating a Shared Path Shared paths are common areas for document and application storage Shared paths may be used in a stand alone fashion allowing you to create a space which allows only a single access or a space which is shared among several users
17. RedRak on hardware which has a network connection but no monitor or keyboard This can be done through any client station which hasan HTML browser running any PC Mac or Netvvork Computer already up on your net work Console support without a network direct attachment of monitor and key board Configure RedRak on a stand alone machine without a network The console option works with any monitor or keyboard attached to your server hardware Load over existing Red Hat Linux 6 0 or 6 1 systems For already installed Red Hat systems with the same operating system kernel version as RedRak your user and machine configurations can be migrated to RedRak Enabling features in pre installed Red Hat Linux 6 0 or 6 1 systems After loading over already installed Linux systems the netvvork administrator can determine which RedRak features they want to enable Network administrators may have some subtle tweak that they would liketo preserve and this feature allows for that possibility The RedRak Web configuration interface allows for direct editing of all system configuration files as well as updates through the higher level RedRak adminis tration GUIs Online help When you need help click on the button in the top right corner of the RedRak interface You can locate needed information many ways including using a povverful search engine I Overview of RedRak Professional Features Online tutorial This is a brief overvie
18. Requires that users who are reading their mail download all of their messages to their local computer Add or delete email aliases Easily add or delete email aliases An alias allows you to redirect email from a unique alias to one or more email accounts For example mail sent to administrator alias could be redirected to your email alias Block unwanted mail spam Block the reception of unwanted mail from specified domains host names or email addresses FTP Server Supports authenticated FTP Authenticated FTP requires the user to have an account and a password on RedRak in order to make the connection The user can access only those parts of the file system they have permission to read Use anonymous FTP Allows an anonymous user to access only what you want them to access Supports FTP site message The message option provides two messages Either a Welcome message appears when FTP users connect to your server to welcome them or a Too Many Users message appears when the number of users currently trying to connect exceeds the specified limit News Discussion Group Server Internal news server An internal news server only receives and transmits news within domains served by RedRak External news server An external news server receives and transmits news from external news feed servers Add Delete news groups Specify which news groups you would like to make available on RedRak NETmachines 4 N
19. SHALL THE RECOVERY OF ANY KIND AGAINST NETMACHINES BE GREATER THAN THE NET MACHINES RECOM MENDED RETAIL PURCHASE PRICE OR THE ACTUAL PURCHASE AMOUNT WHICHEVER ISTHE LESSOR AMOUNT YOU ASSUME ALL RISK AND LIA BILITY FOR LOSS DAMAGE INJURY OR OTHER EXPENSE BY YOU AND TO OTHERS THIS WARRANTY SHALL NOT EXTEND TO ANYONE OTHER THAN THE ORIGINAL PURCHASER OR THE ENTITY FOR WHOM IT WAS PURCHASED YOU MAY OBTAIN TECHNICAL SUPPORT SUPPORT DETAILS ASSISSTANCE PHONE NUMBERS AND FURTHER INFORMATION 24 HOURSA DAY VIA THE WEB SITE AT http www NETmachines net support To register online go to http www NETmachines net support register cgi Don t Forget to Register your RedRak Go to http www NETmachines net support to register and find tons of other useful information May we suggest that when you register your RedRak that you print out the form and tuck the sheet in the handy pouch in the cover of this manual For your convenience you may also want to Record Your RedRak Serial Number Have fun RedRak Professional User Manual http www NETmachines net RedRak Professional User Manual 2000 NETmachines nc All rights reserved No material presented here may be reproduced in any form without the expressed written consent of NETmachines Inc Information presented here is subject to change without notice This product includes software developed by the University of California Berkeley and
20. X application server RedRak can function as a remote X application server that allovvs you to run an application on the RedRak host but have it display on a remote computer This requires that the remote com puter be capable of displaying an X window application and that the remote computer allows the RedRak to display the application D Backups Backup Options Backup and restore server You can backup data from and restore data to the RedRak server Backup and restore client machines You can backup data from and restore data to client machines in the domains main tained by the RedRak server The client machines must support TAR Unix CIFS Windows or FTP all client types access Restoreto any machine on the Network You can restore data to the machine from which it was backed up to the RedRak server or to a new machine that did not originally hold the data FEN RedRak Professional User Manual LP 8 I Overview of RedRak Professional Features Backup Features Scheduled backups There are two ways to perform backups immediate one time backups or scheduled backups Scheduled backups can be used to back up on a regular cycle or at a future date and time Support for full and differential backups A full backup will back up all the specified directories A differential backup will back up any data that changed in the specified directories since the last full backup Levels of software compressi
21. a NETmachines net N ETmachines Inc 2000 All rights reserved 23 If you are creating a new network that will not be connected to the Internet and RedRak will be your DNS Server leave this field blank at this point You will enter the IP address of the RedRak at a later time 4 Type the Default Router in the form of an IP address The computer assigned as the router links you to networks other than your own The difference between routers and typical hosts is that hosts know very little about the structure of the Internet and which way to connect Routers provide routing tables necessary to send information from the local net work to the Internet e If the RedRak will not be used to connect your computers to the Internet or your network will not be connected to the Internet or any other network leave this field blank If another computer on your LAN is used to connect you to the Internet specify the IP Address of that computer e f you have an existing network RedRak tries to detect a router on your network and then fill in this educated guess as your default router If possible verify that this default is correct e A sample default router address is 192 168 1 1 5 Type the Netmask if none is shown The Netmask is a numerical way of specifying the range of IP addresses on your network For example all Class C networks have a range of 254 IP addresses and use the Netmask 255 255 255 0 6 The AppleTalk Zone should display aut
22. a network The most common example is a file server which has a local disk and services requests from remote clients to read and write files on that disk often using Sun s Network File System NFS protocol or CIFS Windows or AppleTalk Macintosh shell The command interpreter used to pass commands to an operating system so called because it is the part of the operating system that interfaces with the outside world The most common Unix shells are the c shell csh and the Bourne shell sh SMTP Simple Mail Transfer Protocol SMTP is a TCP IP protocol governing electronic mail transmission and reception The details of SMTP arein RFC 821 of the Internet Engineering Task Force IETF An alternative to SMTP that is widely RedRak Professional User Manual 50 Glossary used in Europe is X 400 Also see POP and IMAP the two main protocols for reading e mail from your server spool To send files to some device or program a spooler or daemon that puts them in a queue for later processing of some kind Usually the spooler is the print spooler control ling output of jobs to a printer but the term has been used in connection with other peripherals especially plotters and graphics devices and occasionally even for input devices Also called a print queue STORE This RedRak button saves all RedRak changes to be implemented that is committed in a temporary queue The changes in that queue become perman
23. age area That is because a reformat deletes all data on the hard disk A brand nevv disk usually needs to be formatted also called initialized See format and initialize restore In RedRak the restore process involves finding backed up files stored on tape and copying them from the back up medium to the RedRak root The Unix superuser account with user name root and user ID 0 that overrides file per missions router On the Internet a router is a device or in some cases software in a computer that determines the next network point to which a packet should be forwarded toward its final destination The router is connected to at least two networks and decides which way to send each information packet based on its current understanding of the state of the net works it is connected to A router is located at any juncture of networks or router including each Internet point of presence A router is often included as part of a network switch A router creates or maintains a table of the available routes and their conditions and uses this information along with distance and cost algorithms to determine the best route for a given packet Typically a packet may travel through a number of network points with routers before arriving at its destination serial port A connector on a computer to which you can attach a serial line connected to peripherals which communicate using a serial bit stream protocol The most common type
24. alled local area network LAN technology Now specified in a standard IEEE 802 3 Ethernet was originally developed by Xerox and then developed further by Xerox DEC and Intel An Ethernet LAN typically uses coaxial cable or special grades of twisted pair wires The most commonly installed Ethernet systems are called 10BASE T and provide transmission speeds up to 10 Mbps Devices are connected to the NETmachines 7 NETmachines net N ETmachines Inc 2000 All rights reserved 45 cable and compete for access using a Carrier Sense Multiple Access vvith Collision Detection CSM A CD protocol Fast Ethernet or 100BASE T10 provides transmission speeds up to 100 megabits per second and is typically used for LAN backbone systems supporting worksta tions with LOBASE T cards Gigabit Ethernet provides an even higher level of backbone sup port at 1000 megabits per second 1 gigabit or 1 billion bits per second FAT File Allocation Table Partition This is a classic file system that is used by MS DOS and con tinues to be used by other Microsoft operating systems like Windows 95 Windows 98 and Windows NT 4 0 FAT partitions are specified as a type to be created when they are set up by a utility called fdisk The RedRak Run from CD ROM mode requires a FAT partition on the PC in order to run Firewall A firewall restricts the traffic into and out of your network A firewall is the implemen tation of your security policy It will
25. allow only that traffic that meets the conditions set by the firewall rules It is usually installed at the connection between your local network and the Internet fully qualified domain name FQDN The full name of a system consisting of its local hostname and its domain name For example venera is a hostname and venera isi edu is an FQDN A FQDN should be sufficient to determine a unique Internet address for any host on the Internet format Hard disks and other storage devices are said to be formatted when their space has been organized and divided into pieces that can be controlled for convenient storage and access For example a hard disk may be formatted into areas called sectors tracks and clusters See reformat FTP File Transfer Protocol A client server protocol which allows a user on one computer to transfer files to and from another computer over a TCP IP network FTP is also the client program the user executes to transfer files group In RedRak you can apply common characteristics to a collection grouping of users machines or newsgroups host A computer connected to a network hostname The unique name by which a computer is known on a network or identified in elec tronic mail Usenet news or other forms of electronic information interchange On the Internet the hostname is an ASCII string e g wombat doc ic ac uk which consists of a local part wombat and a domain name doc ic ac u
26. an be run in two ways on a pre committed system or on a committed system vvhen there is a problem as a result of a commit Running the System Check on a committed system is a more thorough check than the one performed on a pre committed system The follovving information is displayed in the System Check Report Severity Three severity levels can be displayed and the report prioritized by severity They are Fatal Subsystem will not function Error subsystem performance will be affected or Warning for your information System Describes the subsystem in which the error has occurred Message Description of the error NETmachines cv NETmachines net NETmachines Inc 2000 All rights reserved 11 Fix What to do to fix the problem Actions Allows you to fix each problem shown in the problem report by clicking the action icon Traffic Monitor The traffic monitor tracks incoming traffic to your site and outgoing traffic user visits to external Internet sites including Web sites FTP Telnet Mail etc The traffic monitor features include Ability to monitor network traffic by user destination and machine Monitor the traffic in two ways who hits which sites or which sites are hit by whom The first option reports the user name machine from which the sites were hit how often and when The second option reports each site URL visited which machines hit the site how often and when Graphical representa
27. as well to say when data is ready to be sent or received The most common kind of parallel port is a printer port for example RedRak Professional User Manual 48 Glossary a Centronics port which transfers eight bits at a time Disks are also connected via special parallel ports for example SCSI or IDE password A user identifies himself with a name and a password the latter of which is a secret word or series of characters On the RedRak passwords are case sensitive Here are some guidelines for selecting a password Choose a password that is easy for you to renember but difficult for others to guess The password should be at least six characters in length with mixed case the first letter of a favorite phrase with missed letters is a good example Also include numbers and symbols For example using the phrase It was the best of times the password could be wtbote6 path The specification of a node file or directory in a hierarchical file system The path is usually specified by listing the nodes top down separating the directories by the pathname separator in Unix 1 in MS DOS For example a RedRak template creates a path called public You may create additional folders or files under that path for example to create this path public onlinedoc marketing ping This stands for Packet InterNet Groper ping was probably originally contrived to match submariners term for the sound of a returned sonar puls
28. ases often indicate that the host with that alias provides a particular network service such as archie finger FTP or World Wide Web The assignment of services to com puters can then be changed simply by moving an alias e g www doc ic ac uk from one Internet address to another without the clients needing to be aware of the change For example this network device could be called mail domainname com news domainname com etc The second kind of alias is an email alias which allows you to redi rect email from a unique alias an alias that is not a current user user alias or news alias to one or more email accounts For example mail sent to administrator could be redirected to your email address Email aliases can be added or deleted on the RedRak Appleshare An Appleshare server is a dedicated Macintosh that all users on a network share It is used primarily as data storage and a printer server device for vvorkgroups AppleTalk A proprietary local area network protocol developed by Apple Computer Inc for communication between Apple products e g Macintosh and other computers This proto col is independent of the network layer on which it runs See zone application A complete self contained program that performs a specific function directly for the user backup Sometimes back up when used as a verb A spare copy of a file file system or other resource for use in the event of failure or loss of the original The
29. cel any changes you made on the current page Facts about navpath The Navpath is oriented from left to right in the same sequence you used to get from page to page The left is the start of the path and the right is the end Any stepsin the path which are underlined indicate that they are links and you may return to them from the current page Note Internet Explorer 4 x and Netscape Navigator 4 x offer the user the option of disabling underlining to dis tinguish text links If you have this feature switched on you will not see the under lining e The current page is at the end of the path The current page is not under lined e The first step in the path will always be home The remaining steps will RedRak Professional User Manual 18 ll Introduction to the RedRak Interface always be the three most recent pages An ellipsis indicates there are more pages in your path to return to the home page Returning to the previous page in a Navpath accomplishes two things it returns you to the previous page and it cancels any changes you made or editing you did to theinformation on the current page As you move your cursor over the arrows they will change from black to red to indicate a Cancel f you want to return to an earlier page but it is not available from the navpath you must first click either SELECT OK or STORE or go to a previous page which will cancel what you have entered on the current page o Inp
30. ch as a CD ROM 29 G Having Users Share a Printer 29 Method 1 30 Method 2 30 H Backing up Clients of the RedRak Server and the RedRak Itself 30 Using RedRak as an Email Server 31 J Having Users Access Internet or Intranet News Groups 31 Intranet News internal 31 Internet News external 32 K Having Users Work from a Remote Location Via Modem 32 L Giving Users the Opportunity to Have Their Own Web Site 32 V Repair Mode 35 A Checking Your RedRak Disk for Errors Repair gt Check Option 37 B Restoring Your RedRak Configuration Repair gt Restore Option 37 C Reconstruct a System Volume Mirror Repair gt Reconstruct Option 38 D Resetting an Administrative Password Repair Password Option 39 E Shutting Down the RedRak 39 VI Where to Go From Here 41 A RedRak Online Help 41 B RedRak Technical Support 41 C Web Site Resources 42 D Further Reading 42 Glossary 43 Index 53 RedRak Professional User Manual vi NETmach nes ovo METmachines net N ETmachines Inc 2000 All rights reserved Overview of RedRak Professional Features A General Information Here is an overview of several of the most popular and useful RedRak Professional features For detailed step by step instructions simply click the da button for online help and search for key words RedRak Professional User Manual Complete set up and configuration without a monitor or keyboard Fully configure and control
31. chines Inc 2000 All rights reserved 15 Introduction to the RedRak Interface Hereis a brief overview of the RedRak interface to get you started using your RedRak A The RedRak Tutorial You can experience an interactive demonstration of the RedRak interface through the RedRak Tutorial Select Tutorial on the RedRak Personal Hotlinks page or click the RedRak logo in the upper left corner of the Command Panel green upper section of your RedRak screen on almost any RedRak interface page and then click on Tutorial Although some of the examples presented in the tutorial are for demonstration purposes only and will not function exactly as they would in an active RedRak session the Tutorial is an excellent way to get started RedRak Professional User Manual 16 ll Introduction to the RedRak Interface B The RedRak Interface Here is a brief overview of the RedRak interface to get you started using your RedRak The RedRak Interface GENERAL C Aathentioabed FTP ir DRACA EW MO Satherticeted FTP in Cord vm LAM C authentioabed FTF ir nazi Fron dry e ri angry mous FTP iz DESABLED Anoy meur FTP ig vallata ia LAR Anon meum ETE iz bla Fror Arba O U mik Humber of Concurrent ma Upes o 18 o Anoy mous FTP Path Sraten FTF ES Create Seperate Gece ming and outgoing Directories El Delete Filaz in incoming ai BOD o Command panel Controls in this area affect the en
32. coming from the IP address of the machine with NAT making it much harder for hackers to get to your internal machines Firewalls on all interface connections Firewalls can be defined for each individual interface for optimum network security Although usually applied to Ethernet devices RedRak allows firewalls to be applied to modems and HDLC devices The firewalls can all be indepentdent of each other with distinctly separate rules Routing Set up your RedRak for Internet routing This function allows you to customize the routing of network traffic through RedRak A router knows the structure of your network and is able to direct traffic between machines NETmachines cv NETmachines net NETmachines Inc 2000 All rights reserved nterfa ces Support for multiple network interfaces Network interfaces allow you to connect RedRak to a network Supported interfaces include Ethernet routers serial devices such as modems and highspeed connections such as T1 T3 ADSL HDLC and cable modems e Ability to dial out on demand from network Set up a dial up connection to connect your RedRak server to another network with a modem or serial connection Ability to connect to Internet using any external device RedRak allows you to use any external device such as analog modems cable modems and DSL modems as well as CSU DSU driver for the T1 interface to access the Internet Ability to accept dial in connections In addi
33. dRak Disk for Errors Repair gt Check Option e Restore Select this if you had to reinstall your RedRak and want to restore the backup of your old RedRak configuration onto your reinstalled system This option is explained below in Restoring Your RedRak Configuration Repair gt Restore Option e Reconstruct Select this if you had to reinstall your RedRak and want to reconstruct the System Volume that was a mirror on your old RedRak installation onto your reinstalled sys tem This option is explained below in Reconstruct a System Volume Mirror Password Select this if an administrator has forgotten his or her password This option is explained below in Resetting an Administrative Password Repair gt Password Option Shutdown Select this to exit the installer and shut down This is explained below in Shutting Down the RedRak NETmach nes c NETmachines net ONETmachines Inc 2000 All rights reserved q 37 A Checking Your RedRak Disk for Errors Repair gt Check O ption Use the check option if your RedRak will not boot or reboot One cause of this problem may be that you lost power while using your RedRak and were not able to shut down normally This option also lets you see if programs have been altered which may be a sign of a break in If a problem is found the RedRak software will automatically make the needed repairs Note that if your RedRak was installed onto a single partition
34. e A program used to test reacha bility of destinations by sending them one or repeated ICMP echo requests and waiting for replies Since ping works at the IP level its server side is often implemented entirely within the operating system kernel and is therefore the lowest level test of whether a remote host is alive Ping will often respond even when higher level TCP based services cannot The term is also used as a verb Ping host X to see if it is up POP Post Office Protocol A protocol designed to allow single user computers to retrieve elec tronic mail from a POP server The POP server might be a computer with a permanent Internet connection whereas its clients might only connect to it occasionally e g by modem See Setting up the RedRak as an IMAP and or POP Mail Server under Mail Servers under RedRak Services in the online help port A logical channel or channel endpoint in a communications system The Transmission Control Protocol TCP and User Datagram Protocol UDP transport layer protocols used on Ethernet use port numbers to distinguish between different logical channels on the same network interface on the same computer Each application program has a unique port num ber associated with it defined in etc services or the Network Information Service servic es database Some protocols e g telnet and HTTP which is actually a special form of tel net have default ports specified but can use other ports as wel
35. e properties such as IP and MAC addresses who is responsible for them aliases groups and domains Machines can be grouped together You can create and edit groups of machines Groups are a convenient way to have one name refer to a list of machines For example if there are machines that are important to back up you might want to put them into a group called backup and give that group special privileges or you might want to group together machines that have Internet access or those belonging to a particular department Server transfers setup information to other servers master slave mode Each network has one master but it can have many slaves Slaves can be set up to han dle specific processing functions such as file sharing or back ups Configuration infor mation such as password policies can be passed from master to slaves Other set up information can be passed from slaves to the master 14 I Overview of RedRak Professional Features Package Management New packages or Red Hat Package Managers RPMs can be added to your serv er RedRak can organize and make packages available to users A package is a set of files that either comprise a Unix application or provide support for an application e g libraries Set up a default FTP location for package downloads RedRak allows you to choose your favorite location into which to pull down new pack ages NETmachines NETmachines net NETma
36. e person This report can not only be used in checking mail traffic but also controlling spam unwanted mass email Backups Report This report summarizes the information contained in the backup log such as the machine that was backed up directories and subdirectories backed up the size of the data backed up etc Volumes Report The volumes report summarizes information about the volumes attached to your RedRak such as Name Size MB Capacity and Description Network Report The Network report summarizes information about your network and is organized in four tabs General DNS Router and Interfaces News Report This report shows News group usage and Unwanted News group data for the previous day G Repair Functions Check your system configurations binaries and applications against the RedRak standard configuration The repair system allows you to interactively reinstall parts or all of your installation and configuration quickly to get back up after any system upset because of hardware software or virus failure Check your RedRak disk for errors Use this if your RedRak will not boot or reboot Disks are automatically repaired if needed Reboot Use this to conveniently reboot your machine Restore a backup of an old RedRak configuration Use this to restore an old RedRak configuration Reset system password Use this if the administrator has lost the system password Reconstruct Use this to repair a damaged mir
37. efinitive Guide Flanagan D O Reilly amp Associates Inc JavaScript Handbook Goodman D IDG Books HTML The Definitive Guide Musciano C Kennedy B O Reilly amp Associates Inc The Complete FreeBSD Lehey G Walnut Creek CDROM Apache The Definitive Guide Laurie B amp P O Reilly amp Associates Inc Learning the UNIX Operating System Peek J Todino G Strang J O Reilly amp Associates Inc 4th Edition Linux in a Nutshell Hekman J et al O Reilly amp Associates Inc NETmach nes NETmachines net NETmachines Inc 2000 All rights reserved 43 Glossary administrator The systems person in charge of a computer On a RedRak an administrator is also a special category of user with more system permissions than non administrator users There are three levels of users on RedRak network administrators who have full access to the RedRak and see the full home menu local administrators who have full access to all non network controls they won t seethe Network heading on the home menu for exam ple and non administrator users who see only the functions available under the Personal menu heading alias RedRak uses two types of aliases network device aliases and email aliases A network device alias provides your network device with more than one hostname at the same Internet address Alternative hostnames are specified in Home Network M achines Aliases Hostname ali
38. emovable media Documents Company ee See Features file sharing Emailserver ciscus kic a ilg 43k led hae bad eee zemine See Features email Features additional feat res o ss coloca proe Re OLE Seed eee ask baza al ara dre s 13 DACK D PPP 30 31 emaili Lexicon oe ew ee ce RE EE IRREiCEXCEEierk eb GAY GRE GP EGG rk ex eS 31 2 m 29 Iia LE 27 firewall Pp 2 mounting removable media 29 RedRak machines ee 13 NONS tt 31 32 package management n n ee 14 printer sharing wis eke lk ba Ra aaa ie e anna ei a bide aor bee ca m 29 30 soldu 27 28 USEF GPS 0000000000 27 28 user personal functions aok essai kaea kaa ea eee 13 US PEUT 27 28 using a modem hh hh hh hh nnn 29 32 Web SITES a i ee tein ae ten Boke e e finkoa o 7 dc Ae tale 28 32 33 E saa bada B r a G a e Eyi l 43 Groups of USES o See Features user groups Remi s phe 7 See Features eth ern et x RedRak Professional User Manual 54 index Help enl PERIIT 41 Install SY i er Ga ioi fi G e gio omadi E a d gi iei ar Grio ia 1 Interfaces sin e eieaa ee o a 3 9 input entities ce che ide eked e Phd E a ERROR NUN E bade LACE RUD CR n 18 sp PP RC I DUTIES 20 table
39. ending order ABC or 123 click to switch order to descending El Indicates rows are in descending order ZYX or 321 click to switch order to ascending Actions Click on the iconsin this column to perform an action Each table con tains a subset of these following actions sp Edit the item on this row X Delete the item on this row bd Edit LDAP information 1 Move item to top of list Move item up one row in list Move item down one row in list Add Item to list RedRak Professional User Manual II Introduction to the RedRak Interface 2 Cancel this entry a Show more information about the row s item Confirm changes to a row sinputs during edit Fix item Appears only in HomelReportslSystem Check Icons before a table item These items represent different types of information Run the mouse over an icon to display a description of what will happen if you click on BE the icon For example E indicates a device is being shared Running your mouse over the Device icon would display Browse this device in the status bar of your browser If the device is currently inactive or disabled the description icon will have an X through it Other icon definitions are listed below D Shared Path Hotlinks Folder Folder within Files Manager iz nactive Shared Path This path has been stored but not yet committed NETmachines NETmachines net N ETmachines Inc 2000 All rights reserved 2
40. ent and functional after you click the COMMIT button TCP IP Transmission Control Protocol over Internet Protocol The de facto standard Ethernet proto cols incorporated into 4 2BSD Unix This is the system networks use to communicate with each other on the Internet telnet The Internet standard protocol for remote login Runs on top of TCP IP Unix BSD net working software includes a program telnet which uses the protocol and acts as a terminal emulator for the remote login session Sometimes abbreviated to TN template RedRak templates are guides to assist in easily and accurately setting up your network The RedRak has configuration templates which are a set of defaults to assist you in setting up the RedRak program a user web page template and a template directory for home shares All of the files in the template directory will be copied into each new user s directo ry traffic In the RedRak the Traffic Monitor Report tracks outgoing traffic user visits to external Internet sites including web sites FTP telnet etc Local Internet traffic is not tracked Unix An interactive time sharing operating system which is both powerful but at times confus ing to use The RedRak server makes full use of the power of Unix while eliminating the confusion This is because RedRak users interact with the RedRak browser based interface which then implements the Unix commands Unix or UNIX Both seem roughly equal ly popu
41. er RedRak Professional User Manual Ro PP 36 V Repair Mode Welcome RedRak Installer O Bechekiesgtuis bax agenti lod id a the Dens and condi onis ruhi de ir bia Lic ene Agreement Wo install on Selected tard Disk ahali a P Pla c arsa irisi ri a dit l r ha Padi yalan Tin proces partion Para anid placas Ihe Radial eodem ont c pd dak Pressing CONTIMUE vil aliy youlu st yir Tefal on Selected Mand Disk notions Upgrade the RedRak Syabem Fil Saya and e mni nd Funes set Cn L pend e Paca pe qax x uyan MS yaucursni xam Peng COME ili Er ole prada your valen uun y an Upgrade Pact C Repair and Fiecaver a FedRak System This apor hie ssepe c bodes P onc cernes prod eres sel s yuta Helak S si em s fr sini Pressing CONTIPAUE el sce vo Tia pur Arcor and iia 3 Check the Repair and Recover a RedRak System radio button 4 Click CONTINUE 5 The repair screen appears Choose the disk to affect check restore etc from the pull down list 6 Select one of the following note that the first three options only appear if you have selected a RedRak system disk e Check Select this if your RedRak will not boot or reboot One cause of this problem may be that you lost power while using your RedRak and were not able to shut down normally This option is explained below in Checking Your Re
42. erfaces Firewall Routing Interfaces C Network Servers World Wide Web WWW HTTP Server Mail Server FTP Server News Discussion Group Server File Server Print Server DNS Domain Name Server DHCP Dynamic Host Control Protocol server LDAP Server Network Time Protocol NTP server Remote X application server D Backups Backup Options Backup Features E System Administration User Account Management Interfaces System Administration Services F Monitoring and Reports Alerts System Check Traffic Monitor Reports G Repair Functions H Additional Features User Personal Functions RedRak Machines Package Management II Introduction to the RedRak Interface A The RedRak Tutorial B The RedRak Interface NETmachines net 000 YY UT S A DBUwWUNNNE yi 15 15 16 N ETmachines Inc 2000 AII rights reserved III Initial Setup Procedure 21 A Setting up the LAN 22 B Setting Up the Network Administrator 23 C Setting the RedRak Clock 24 D Starting to Use Your RedRak 25 E Bookmarking Your RedRak in Your Browser 25 F Logging Out of Your RedRak 25 IV Getting Started 27 A Creating a Shared Path 27 B Setting Up Users and Groups to Control Access To the Server 27 C Setting up a Company Web Site on the Internet or Intranet 28 D Accessing Your Internet Service Provider ISP by Modem 29 E Accessing Your Internet Service Provider ISP by Ethernet 29 F Having Employees Share Hardware su
43. ers numbers and a hyphen Specifically a domain name can contain a z A Z 0 9 or hyphen Special characters like the underscore or an exclamation mark are NOT permitted Domain names cannot contain spaces or begin or end with a hyphen example com my donation org and canada ca are valid domain names http www example com and www example com are not valid domain names 3 Type the Primary DNS Server if none is shown A domain name server is a computer that maintains a table for translating host or domain names such asin Redrak example com to IP addresses such as 133 25 25 71 and also translates IP addresses to domain names Every host or domain name can be translated to an IP address and vice versa This is needed because computers identify other computers by their IP addresses but it is easier for people to identify computers by their host and domain names A sample DNS server address is 192 169 1 1 Additional information on DNS can be found in the online help See Domain Name Servers Home Network DN S under Installing the RedRak Software If you have an existing network you should already have a DNS and it should be displayed on the screen as the default However it is possible that the default is not the correct DNS please verify that the default is correct If you are creating a new network that will connect to the Internet your ISP should have given you the name of a Primary DNS NETmach nes aa
44. ertext object in HTML for mat Hypertext links refer to other documents by their URLs These can refer to local or remote resources accessible via FTP Gopher Telnet or news as well as those available via the http protocol used to transfer hypertext documents The client program known asa browser e g NCSA Mosaic Netscape Navigator Windows Explorer etc runs on the user computer and provides two basic navigation operations to follow a link or to send a query to aserver A variety of client and server software is freely available wildcard A special character or character sequence which matches any character in a string comparison like ellipsis in ordinary written text zone A logical group of network devices on AppleTalk Some definitions in this glossary are from whatis com copyright 1996 98 whatis com Inc and The Free On line Dictionary of Computing http wombat doc ic ac uk Editor Denis Howe copyright 1993 1998 Denis Howe RedRak Professional User Manual 52 NETmach nes ovo METmachines net N ETmachines Inc 2000 All rights reserved 53 Back ps sree ama mia si A RR kaplama mai bile 7 8 See also Features backup PAUP CPI 8 OPHION S elik Mele ar den Bade ed Be 7 Browser 5150 bee chee ENGR EER ee Rees 25 bookmark Se ib ec a a ER ee ee 25 Um 25 pai ek os e dele See Features mounting r
45. estore was written correctly to your hard drive configuration updated or was not Configuration may no longer function If you see the latter message you have a problem the configuration you tried to restore will not work and the current configuration probably will not either because the restore terminated before the file writing was complete Whether or not the restore was completed 5 Click SHUTDOVVN from the RedRak Repair Screen and follow the instructions below Shutting Down the RedRak C Reconstruct a System Volume Mirror Repair Reconstruct O ption Use the reconstruct option if you had to reinstall your RedRak software onto your PC and you want your RedRak System Volume to have the same contents as it did before the reinstallation The reconstruct option copies the contents of the other half of the mirror to the System Volume of the reinstalled RedRak disk The disk that RedRak was reinstalled onto needs to be the same disk as the old RedRak installation in order for the size of the System Volume to match that of the other side of the mirror in which the contents are being copied The con tents that are copied include all of the RedRak settings such a settings for users machines and network settings The contents of the mirror are copied to the RedRak directory root var To reconstruct 1 Click RECONSTRUCT from the RedRak Repair Screen If you need assistance in displaying the RedRak Repair Screen read Usi
46. g In the RedRak system the network administrator s duties can easily be performed by more than one person This is because the network administrator can access and administer the RedRak from any computer on the network Some tasks a network administrator performs are Setting up the network Adding and removing users Configuring services such as FTP email etc Performing backups Monitoring the system receiving alert messages File management 1 To set up the Network Administrator type the Network Administrator s Logon Name A common way to generate logon names is to take the first letter of the first name and up to the first seven letters of the last name Thename can have lowercase letters a z and numbers 0 9 Spaces and punctua tion are not allowed The name can be no longer than eight characters 2 Type the password It is important that a password be selected that cannot be easily guessed or discovered Passwords are case sensitive they must always be entered exactly as specified including uppercase and lowercase letters Here are some hints for choosing a secure password Choose a password that is easy to remember The password should be at least six characters in length with mixed case and include numbers and symbol characters such as or First letters of a favorite phrase with a missed letter is a good example 3 Confirm the password by typing it a second time 4 Click the Clock
47. hat queue of changes to be made each time he or she clicks the STORE button cookies A packet of information sent by an HTTP server to a World Wide Web browser and then sent back by the browser each time it accesses that server Cookies can contain any arbitrary information the server chooses Typically this is used to authenticate or identify a registered user of a web site without requiring them to sign in again every time they access that site Cookies are required because a server cannot keep records of who has visited it that record is maintained by a user s browser and then transmitted back to the server RedRak requires that your browser be enabled to accept cookies otherwise logon will always fail daemon A program that is not invoked explicitly but lies dormant waiting for some condi tion s to occur device In RedRak valid devices include a floppy drive CD ROM or hard disk DHCP Dynamic Host Control Protocol This protocol provides a means to dynamically allocate IP addresses to computers running on a local area network The system administrator assigns a range of IP addresses to DHCP and each client computer on the LAN has its TCP IP software configured to request an IP address from the DHCP server The request and grant process uses a lease concept with a controllable time period See Dynamic Host Control Protocol Servers in the online help DNS domain name server A domain name server is a computer program that ma
48. hine 2 Select Home Network Interfaces to configure the serial port for that modem 3 Look for a description vvith TTY for serial in the type column Click on the P d to edit the TTY device to which the dial in modem is connected 4 Then click Ww and follow the detailed instructions displayed 5 Select HomelU serlUsers 6 Edit the users to whom you wish to provide dial in access Ensure that Dial In Enabled is checked for each of these users L Giving Users the Opportunity to Have Their Own Web Site User web sites can be set to be accessible to your network and or to the Internet NETmachines b SO NETmachines net NETmachines Inc 2000 All rights reserved 33 1 Verify the users who have Public HTML Enabled checked on their users pages To do this select Home User Users Select the P d to edit the user who will have his own web site Alternately select Home Reports Users and select Show Public HTML from column control 2 Select Home Services W WW User pages Click and follow the detailed instructions displayed 3 If you want to use the Internet you must also follow the procedures above for Accessing Your Internet Service Provider ISP by Modem or Accessing Your Internet Service Provider ISP by Ethernet q RedRak Professional User Manual AA 34 NETmach nes ovo METmachines net N ETmachines Inc 2000 All rights reserved 35 V Repair Mode Note A complete
49. ileges such as viewing newsgroups and file access permissions to groups of users Click on the Groups and follow the detailed instructions displayed tab click 2 and follow the detailed instructions displayed C Setting up a Company Web Site on the Internet or Intranet This procedure allocates the space for a company web site and assigns the appropriate permis sions for the site to be accessed by users 1 Follow the procedures for Creating a Shared Path in this chapter One or several paths will be needed to provide a storage location for your web pages 2 Select Home Services W WW Click on the Internet or Intranet tab depending upon the type of site to set up Then click for detailed instructions 3 If you want to use the Internet you must also follow the procedures below for Accessing Your Internet Service Provider ISP by Modem or Accessing Your Internet Service Provider ISP by Ethernet NETmachines vc NETmachines net N ETmachines Inc 2000 AII rights reserved 29 D Accessing Your Internet Service Provider ISP by Modem Accessing your ISP is usually your first step in providing web access to users 1 Select Home Network Interfaces 2 Verify that the modem you are configuring is plugged in and turned on 3 Click select Setting Up For Dial In Point To Point Server and follow the detailed instructions displayed E Accessing Your Internet Service Provider ISP b
50. intains a table for translating host names such as frontdesk localdomain com to IP addresses such as 192 168 3 37 and IP addresses to host names Anytime a person sends an email or surfs the web this translation is needed The RedRak can perform this function domain name A domain name is the character string name given to a computer network The domain name gives the machine its identity to the outside world the world outside your own network Think of the domain name as your machine s last name The host name fol lowed by a dot and the domain name are called the fully qualified domain name You should have already received a domain name from your ISP or InterNIC It typically has one of the standard Internet suffixes such as EDU org GOV com net or ecountry Domain names are case insensitive so EDU is the same as edu Some examples are NETmachines net openskies net darpa mil or umich edu domain On the Internet domain is most commonly used to refer to a group of computers whose hostnames share a common suffix the domain name download To transfer data from one computer to another Downloading as opposed to uploading usually refers to transfer from a larger host system especially a server or main frame to a smaller client system especially a microcomputer or specialized peripheral Ethernet This is the most widely inst
51. itis contributors softv are devel oped by the Apache Group for use in the HTTP server project Cybernet Systems Corporation and other contributors REDRAK is a trademark of NETmachines Inc Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds Red Hat is a trademark of Red Hat software Inc All other company and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective ow ners All rights reserved Printed in the USA NETmachines NETmachines net NETmachines Inc 2000 All rights reserved RedRak Manual Syntax The following syntactical conventions are used in this manual Typeface Bold San Serif Bold San Serif shaded regular Courier italic Courier Bold Courier RedRak Professional User Manual Use Text that appears on the screen including field names and button names For example Path to Store Catalogs Indicates that the user should click on the given button For example Path to Store Catalogs Text the user vvould type directly usually used in examples For example http NETmachines net A variable to be replaced vvith appropriate information by the user For example arp s RedRakIP 1 2 3 4 5 6 Console display screen shot For example If this configuration is correct and you vould like to record it type y to this question Table of Contents I Overview of RedRak Professional Features A General Information B Firewall Routing and Int
52. k The hostname is translated into an Internet address by the Domain Name System DNS It is possible for one computer to have several hostnames aliases though one is designated as its canonical name HTML HyperText Markup Language A Hypertext document format used on the World Wide Web HTTP HyperText Transfer Protocol The client server TCP IP protocol used on the World Wide Web for the exchange of HTML documents icon A small picture intended to represent something a file directory or action in a graphical user interface When you click an icon an action such as opening a folder is performed IMAP Internet Message Access Protocol mail server A protocol allowing a client to access and manipulate electronic mail messages on a server It permits manipulation of remote message folders mailboxes in a way that is functionally equivalent to local mailboxes IMAP includes operations for creating deleting and renaming mailboxes check ing for new messages permanently removing messages searching and selective RedRak Professional User Manual 46 Glossary fetching of message attributes texts and portions thereof It does not specify a means of posting mail this function is handled by a mail transfer protocol such as SMTP See POP and Setting up the RedRak as an IMAP and or POP Mail Server under Mail Servers under RedRak Services in the online help Internet A set of
53. l For example the program that handles incoming telnet sessions uses port 23 and the program that handles HTTP uses port 80 protocol A set of formal rules describing how to transmit data especially across a network Low level protocols define the electrical and physical standards to be observed bit and byte ordering and the transmission and error detection and correction of the bit stream High level protocols deal with the data formatting including the syntax of messages the termi nal to computer dialogue character sets sequencing of messages etc queue A first in first out data structure used to sequence multiple demands for a resource such as a printer processor or communications channel Objects are added to the tail of the queue and taken off the head A typical use of queues in an operating system involves a user command which places something on a queue e g afile on a printer queue or a job on a job queue and a background process or daemon which takes things off and process es them e g prints or executes them In the RedRak the STORE command queues changes to be committed NETmach nes NETmachines net NETmachines Inc 2000 All rights reserved 49 reboot A boot vvith the implication that the computer has not been dovvn for long reformat A reorganization of a hard disk starting vvith the lovvest level of information storage To reformat all information should first be copied to a temporary stor
54. lable and Windows Workgroup The information entered in this section should be entered into the RedRak Installation Worksheet you used during the installation process 1 Type the Host Name if noneis shown In this case the host name identifies the RedRak com puter In general a distinct host name identifies each computer printer and router on a net work In simplistic terms think of the host name as your machine s first name Some sug gestions for selecting a host name The host name is a case insensitive text string containing only letters a z numbers 0 9 and dashes It must begin with a letter e You can change the name at any time in Home Network Naming 2 Type the Domain Name if none is shown The domain name gives the machine its identity to the outside world the world outside your own network Think of the domain name as your machine s last name The host name followed by a dot and the domain name are called the fully qualified domain name You should have already received a domain name from your ISP or InterNIC For more on the domain name including the relationship of the domain name to your IP address see the glossary entry for domain name When selecting a domain name keep in mind the following information Can beup to 26 characters including the four character extension for example Com net org or a country code such as ca or uk Theonly valid characters for a domain name are lett
55. lar perhaps with a historical bias towards the latter UNIX is a trademark howev er since it isa name and not an acronym Unix or Unix like operating systems include OSF Version 7 BSD USG Unix Xenix Ultrix Linux and GNU Unix has been adopted in this document Since the operating system is case sensitive and exists in many different ver sions it is fitting that its name should reflect this upload To transfer programs or data over a digital communications link from a smaller or peripheral client system to a larger or central host one URL Uniform Resource Locator A standard for specifying the location of an object on the Internet such as a file or a newsgroup URLs are used extensively on the WorldWide Web They are used in HTML documents to specify the target of a hyperlink which is often another HTML document possibly stored on another computer Here are some sample URLs http www w3 org default html ftp wuarchive wustl edu mirrors msdos graphics gifkit zip mailto dbh doc ic ac uk news alt hypertext telnet dra com The part before the first colon specifies the access scheme or protocol The part after the colon is interpreted according to the access scheme In general two slashes after the colon introduce a hostname Host port is also valid The port number is usually omitted and defaults to the standard port for the scheme e g port 80 for HTTP For an HTTP or FTP URL the next part is a pathname
56. le mail for any user select Home Users Users Edit User General and check Mail Enabled 8 Users will need to have their email client applications point to the RedRak as the email serv er J Having Users Access Internet or Intranet News Groups News groups are a way to share information among users They can also be used to create both public and private discussion groups 1 Follow the procedures for Creating a Shared Path in this chapter A path is needed to pro vide a storage location for your news spool Note This volume could ge very large 12GB for example depending upon your expiration policy and the number of groups you will feed For this reason a dedicated volume for news groups is recommended 2 Select Home Services N ews 3 Select the shared path you just created 4 Check Enable News Server Intranet N ews internal An intranet news server will receive and transmit news only within the domain served by RedRak 1 For an intranet news group select the News group tab type in your own news group s name then press to add the group For example type ournews mailtoall 2 Select the Clients tab and typein your domain at the bottom and check gt 1 RedRak Professional User Manual io 32 IV Getting Started Deny all except This means that your intranet news cannot be read by people out side of your company nternet News external An Internet news server receives and transmits news f
57. m network You can set up a dial up connection to allow you to connect your RedRak server to another network with a modem or serial connection Ability to connect to Internet using any external device RedRak allows you to use any external device such as analog modems cable modems and DSL modems as well as CSU DSU driver for the T1 interface to access the Internet Ability to accept dial in connections In addition to dialing out you can use a dial in connection to allow an outside net work or individual to connect to your network System Administration Services RedRak Professional User Manual Browser based server management for administrators and users All RedRak functions and features are accessible through a Web browser Access control and authentication of Telnet and dial in users Control Telnet and dial in permissions on a per user basis Access control of volumes at user group and machine level Control file and volume access permissions at the user group and machine level Multiple administrator levels There are three levels of users in RedRak network administrators local administrators and regular users The network administrator has more system permissions than other users Secure server login through Web page with optional SSL Only authenticated users of the network can access the RedRak pages 10 I Overview of RedRak Professional Features Automatic maintenance software When System Check is run it
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59. networks all over the world interconnected with routers The Internet was started by the U S Government in 1969 as a network that would continue to function even if a large portion of it were destroyed The Internet is now a public cooperative and self sustaining facility accessible to tens of millions of people worldwide Technically what distinguishes the Internet is its use of a set of protocols called TCP IP Transmission Control Protocol Internet Protocol For many Internet users electronic mail email has practically replaced paper mailPlace both the RedRak CD ROM and boot floppy in the PC that will be the RedRak server for short written transactions The most widely used part of the Internet is the World Wide Web often abbreviated WWW or called the Web Its outstanding feature is Hypertext a method of instant cross referencing InterNIC Internet Network Information Center The InterNIC provides domain name registration services For more information write Info s internic net or visit http www interNIC net intranet Any network which provides internal services within the network that are similar to the types of services provided externally by the Internet Intranet networks need not be connected to the Internet The most common example of an intranet is the company use of one or more VVorld VVide VVeb servers on an internal TCP IP netvvork for distribution of information vvithin the company IP Internet Protocol
60. ng the RedRak Remote Installer Repair Mode in your RedRak for Linux Installation M anual 2 Select the hard drive that was the RedRak Volume which was the other half of the System Volume mirror on the old RedRak installation and click CONTNUE 3 The reconstruction will then progress which may take some time depending on the size of the System Volume 4 When the reconstruction is complete you will get a message of completion and will be allowed to go back to the RedRak Repair Screen 5 You may want to RESTORE the previous configuration see Restoring Your RedRak NETmach nes ce d sca NETmachines net NETmachines Inc 2000 All rights reserved 39 Configuration Repair gt Restore Option 6 Click SHUTDOWN from the RedRak Repair Screen and follow the instructions below D Resetting an Administrative Password Repair gt Password O ption Use the password option if an administrator has forgotten his or her password and needs to create a new password without typing in the old one Resetting your password does not affect the RedRak configuration or your user capabilities 1 Click PASSVVORD from the RedRak Repair Screen If you need assistance in display ing the RedRak Repair Screen read Completing the RedRak Remote Installer gt Repair Mode 2 Select an administrator account from the drop down list This is your username 3 Type a new password and then type the same password to confirm it It is important
61. of serial port is a 25 pin D type connector carrying RS 232 signals Smaller connectors e g 9 pin D type carrying a subset of RS 232 are often used on personal computers The serial port is usually connected to an integrated circuit called a UART which handles the conver sion between serial and parallel data In the days before bit mapped displays and today on multi user systems the serial port was and is used to connect one or more terminals tele types or VDUs printers modems and other serial peripherals Two computers connected together via their serial ports possibly via modems can communicate using a protocol such as UUCP or PPP server 1 A program that provides some service to other client programs The connection between client and server is normally by means of message passing often over a network and uses some protocol to encode the client s requests and the server s responses The serv er may run continuously as a daemon waiting for requests to arrive or it may be invoked by some higher level daemon which controls anumber of specific servers inetd on Unix There are many servers associated with the Internet such as those for Network File System Network Information Service NIS Domain Name System DNS FTP news finger Network Time Protocol On Unix along list can be found in etc services or in the NIS database services 2 A computer which provides some service for other computers con nected to it via
62. omatically if you have AppleTalk EtherTalk con nected Select your default zone 7 Type the Windows Workgroup Domain f your network has an existing Windows NT server use the name of that domain This will allow Windows clients connecting to the RedRak to start off in the same workgroup as the RedRak The workgroup you specify for the RedRak will show up in the Network Neighborhood e f you do not have an NT Domain Server you can use any name you wish If you do not have Windows machines on your network leave the default name of work group Workgroup names cannot contain any of the following characters ema Se gg E It is recommended that you use alphanumeric characters only 8 Click the Administrator tab and continue to the next section Setting Up the Network Administrator B Setting Up the Network Administrator On a RedRak the network administrator is a special category of user with more system permis sions than other users There are three levels of users on the RedRak Network administrators have full access to the RedRak and can see the full home menu e Local administrators have full access to all non network controls they will not see the Network heading on the home menu for example They also will not be able to create or edit user information for network administrators RedRak Professional User Manual 24 III Initial Setup Procedure Other users will see only the Personal menu headin
63. on Software compression compresses the data being backed up so that it takes up less space on the backup media A higher compression has the advantage of taking up less space on the backup media but has the disadvantage of requiring more time to run or restore the backup RedRak allows you to choose the level of software compression best suited to your needs E System Administration User Account Management Configure and manage users RedRak allows you to assign defaults and privileges for all users on your network A user is Someone who needs to access the resources controlled by RedRak Users and their options can be easily added edited or deleted Configure and manage user groups A group is a convenient way for one name to refer to a list of users Users can become members of up to 16 groups User defaults allow for easy creation of new users Create default settings to apply to new users Default settings include enabling the account setting administrator access providing space on the file system letting users log on to the Unix shell enabling dial in if supported allowing the posting of Web pages and enabling email User groups for file sharing and mailing lists For a set of users who should need to read a particular set of files e g financial records you can put them into a group called finance and give that group special privileges to read files which pertain to financial records Email options for forwa
64. r via an Ethernet card RedRak Professional User Manual 30 IV Getting Started Method 1 If your printer is plugged into the back of the RedRak that is directly connected via a par allel or serial port 1 Select Home Sharing Printer Sharing 2 Create a printer queue by clicking CREATE 3 Then click follovv the detailed instructions displayed Method 2 If your printer has an Ethernet card is plugged into an Ethernet cable and requires an IP address 1 Print out a test page or configuration page to determine the printer s Ethernet MAC 2 Select HomelNetvvorklMachines Click ws and follow the detailed instructions displayed These instructions describe how to add a new machine which is in this case a printer to the network 3 If you plan to print using the BSD LPR printing protocol you will need to assign the printer its IP address The RedRak can provide the printer s IP address via DHCP if the printer is not already obtaining it some other way Click als and read Dynamic Host Control Protocol Servers 4 Select Home Sharing Printer Sharing 5 Create a printer queue 6 Then click and follow the detailed instructions displayed H Backing up Clients of the RedRak Server and the RedRak Itself This procedure can back up the data on any drive accessible to the RedRak A separate proce dure Home Services Configuration is used to back up RedRak software setting
65. rding and aliasing per user RedRak allows you to forward the email of any user Account aliasing lets you specify additional names for each user other than their logon name This is especially handy if you have more than one domain in your network Enable disable user functions Several functions such as dial in mail etc can be enabled or disabled on a per user NETmachines vv NETmachines net NETmachines Inc 2000 All rights reserved basis This allows you more control over network resources Password policies to force users to choose better passwords A password can be required to access mail news Web pages or a Unix shell You can specify the criteria for legal user passwords such as password length and character con tent in order to implement good security policies A special crack dictionary listing commonly guessed passwords is available to validate the acceptability of individual passwords Intelligent user deletion page transfers files email When a user is removed from your network you can specify where the files on their personal directories and their incoming and stored email should be transferred Interfaces Support for multiple network interfaces Network interfaces allow you to connect RedRak to a network Supported interfaces include Ethernet routers serial devices such as modems and highspeed connections such as T1 T3 ADSL HDLC and cable modems Ability to dial out on demand fro
66. rks using their infrastructure such as the Internet have sharing and exchange arrangements with other companies so that larger networks are created network devices Any computer printer or router on the network with its own IP address news group One of Usenet s huge collection of topic groups or fora Usenet groups can be unmoderated anyone can post or moderated submissions are automatically directed to a moderator who edits or filters and then posts the results Among the best known are comp lang c the C language forum comp arch on computer architectures comp unix wizards for Unix wizards rec arts sf lovers for science fiction fans and talk politics misc miscellaneous political discussions and flamage packet packet packet packet packet The unit of data sent across a network package A collection of files which usually comprise an application although packages may contain extensions libraries which other packages depend upon in order to function For example the modem application minicom depends upon the package kermit to provide minicom with the ability to transfer files using the kermit protocol parallel port An interface from a computer system where data is transferred in or out in paral lel that is on more than one wire A parallel port carries one bit on each wire thus multi plying the transfer rate obtainable over a single wire There will usually be some control signals on the port
67. rom external news feed servers that you select You can deny or allow access to the RedRak news server to certain domains or IP addresses 1 To receive news groups from the Internet you have to arrange a news feed on your own from your ISP there might be a fee for the news feed To set up RedRak to receive the news feed select the Server tab and click CREATE 2 Click Enable the News feed and create the news feed name and enter the name of the news feed server that you received from your ISP 3 Select the Groups tab to specify the specific newsgroups you want to send and or receive news from Wildcards can be used e g comp freebsd will get groups which fall under the comp freebsd category Click and follow the detailed instructions displayed 4 If your ISP requires that you authenticate your subscription by an account ID or password select the Authenticate tab 5 Users will need to have their newsreader point to RedRak as the newsgroup server 6 If you want to use the Internet you must also follow the procedures above for Accessing Your Internet Service Provider by Modem or Accessing Your Internet Service Provider by Ethernet K Having Users Work from a Remote Location Via Modem Dial in access to the RedRak is a convenient feature for users who wish to work from home 1 To do this you must have a dial in modem for the RedRak Hook up the modem to the seri al port on the back of your RedRak mac
68. ror of the System Volume NETmachines NETmachines net NETmachines Inc 2000 All rights reserved 13 H Additional Features User Personal Functions Personal page for each user The Personal page of the RedRak Softvvare provides a vvay for both system administra tors and users to quickly locate personal information such as their personal VVeb pages Personal hotlinks All users can create and edit their own personal hotlinks customizable bookmarks which can include your favorite Web links as well as your most often used RedRak functions mail addresses applications to be launched URLs Each user only sees the base level of hotlinks in their own personal directory Global hotlinks System administrators create and edit these hotlinks for all users to view and use Files management This list takes you to each of the file paths available to you through the interface System administrators can access root which gives access to the entire file system The file manager can view and launch applications on clients through the client s browser based on file MIME type this is the extension on the Windows operating system The files manager supports direct editing of text files and upload of files from the client browser to the RedRak file system RedRak Machines RedRak Professional User Manual Supports concept of machines The concept of machines is used to manage devices on your network Machines hav
69. s in the event that the RedRak software needs to be reinstalled 1 Select Home Services Backup Options 2 Select a path on which to store catalog files 3 Enter an expiration time for the catalog files The catalog files are large and do not need to be kept indefinitely Old tapes can be recataloged to recreate the deleted catalog files 4 COMMIT the options 5 Select Home Services Backup Configure to configure each machine to be backed up Click 6 To back up a machine right now select Home Services Backup Backup Now then click for instructions on how to do this NETmachines v7 NETmachines net NETmachines Inc 2000 All rights reserved 31 Fi for detailed instructions 7 To schedule a backup event that will occur at a later time select Home Services Backup Schedule and click for detailed instructions I Using RedRak as an Email Server The RedRak can hold and distribute user email 1 Follow the procedures for Creating a Shared Path in this chapter A path is needed to pro vide a storage location for your shared mail spool Select Home Services M ail to select the type of mail server you will use Select the shared mail spool that you just created for the mail Enable either the IMAP mail server the POP mail server or both Click and follow the detailed instructions displayed Select Home Report Users to verify that all users have mail enabled N OU BUN To enab
70. s it if it is already open 40 V Repair Mode 6 If your browser was already open a link to RedRak will be available If you just opened your brovvser type the follovving RedRak URL into your brovvser http IPAddress 5150 For example nttp 192 168 33 5 5150 NETmach nes NETmachines net N ETmachines Inc 2000 All rights reserved 41 VI W here to Go From Here The User Manual covers the basic procedures required to use your RedRak This chapter describes some other resources that can take you beyond basics A RedRak Online Help Access the RedRak online help by clicking the icon in the upper right corner of any RedRak web page The most extensive RedRak documentation isin the online help n addition here are some other reasons to use online help Online help always opens at the right page because it is context sensitive In other words when you click on the 2 screen automatically appears an explanation of your current RedRak e An excellent search engine Search All lets you search through online help text and headings for a word or combination of words Then click the Search Topic Search Topic Search Topic Search Topic Search Topic button to find all occurrences of a word within a single topic e The RedRak Help Contents RedRak Help Contents RedRak Help Contents RedRak Help Contents RedRak Help Contents are ordered chronologically starting with the first things that you should do
71. server machine If the printer does not have an Ethernet interface you must connect it locally Supports remote printer This refers to any printer on your Local Area Network LAN not directly connected to RedRak Cross platform printing The print server allovvs sharing of the printer across Unix VVindovvs and Macintosh clients DNS Domain Name Server A domain name server is a computer program that maintains a table for translating host names such as frontdesk localdomain com to IP addresses such as 133 25 25 71 and IP address to host names Anytime you send an email or surf the Web this translation is used DNS server features include Server option This refers to the online help the server provides for any computer making a DNS request The computer making the request is knovvn as client Client option This is what RedRak does to look up names that it needs In this case RedRak is the client the originator of the request Specifying DNS names and IP addresses RedRak allovvs you to specify the host names domain names by vvhich your server is known on the Internet on an AppleTalk network and within a Windows work group Managing DNS domains You can set up and maintain DNS domains that your RedRak serves The first domain is created at initial set up Other domains and subdomains can be added at any time DHCP Dynamic Host Control Protocol server The Dynamic Host Control Protocol DHCP centralizes the process of set
72. tab to continue with the next section C Setting the RedRak Clock The RedRak keeps time and date current for many applications Use this option to set the RedRak time directly by typing in the time and date For a second optional method of setting the RedRak time see Setting up the Clock HomelServicesiTime under Initial Setup for Networking in the online help 1 Select the Clock tab 2 Press SELECT to select the timezone nearest you if the timezone shown is not correct See Selecting the RedRak Timezone under Initial Setup for Networking in the online help 3 Type the Current Date in the format of MM DD YYYY For example enter January 10 1998 as 01 10 1998 Note that RedRak will continue to work correctly with dates beginning on January 01 2000 4 Type the Current Time in the format HH MM HH for the hour MM for the minute NETmach nes ce d oca NETmachines net NETmachines Inc 2000 All rights reserved 25 5 Select AM or PM 6 Click SET NOVV 7 Click CONTINUE D Starting to Use Your RedRak Once your RedRak softvvare is installed you can access the RedRak at any time by entering this URL in your brovvser http yourRedRakhostname domainname 5150 or http yourREDRAKIP 5150 For example http redrak localdomain com 5150 http 192 168 33 5 515 E Bookmarking Your RedRak in Your Browser The RedRak logon screen sends a cookie which can get caught in a bookmarked U
73. term is most commonly used to refer to a copy of all the files on a computer ss disks which is made periodically and kept on removable medium This essential precaution is neglected by most new computer users until the first time they experience a disk crash or accidentally delete the only copy of the file they have been working on for the last six months Ideally the backup copies should be kept at a different site or in a fireproof safe BSD LPR printing protocol BSD is for Berkeley System Distribution a family of Unix versions LPR is the Unix Line PRinter print command This does not actually print files but rather copies or links them to a spool area then a daemon copies them from the spool area to the printer See daemon catalog This is the RedRak list of backed up files One catalog is created for each machine included in the backup The catalogs are stored on the RedRak for a limited period of time and then are deleted However deleted catalogs can be RedRak Professional User Manual LP 44 Glossary recreated by using the recatalog function in Home Services Backup client A computer system or process that requests a service of another computer system or process a server using some kind of protocol and that accepts the server s responses A client is part of a client server softvvare architecture commit In the RedRak clicking the COMMIT button implements a batch of RedRak changes A user adds to t
74. that a password be selected that cannot be easily guessed or discovered Note these facts about your password e Restrictions for the password depend on the policy set up in Home User Password e Passwords are case sensitive they must always be entered exactly as specified including uppercase and lowercase letters Do not type a password longer than eight characters if you will be using AppleShare file sharing Here are some hints for choosing a secure password Choose a password that is easy to remember The password should be at least six characters in length with mixed case The first letters of a favorite phrase with a missed letter is a good example or a pass word using one or more numerals 4 Click SHUTDOWN from the RedRak Repair Screen and follow the instructions below in Shutting Down the RedRak E Shutting Down the RedRak This function allows you to safely shutdown the RedRak after any of the repair functions are completed 1 Click SHUTDOWN from the RedRak Repair Screen 2 When the RedRak emits a continuous tone reset the RedRak by pressing its reset or startup button 3 Take out the RedRak floppy disk and CD ROM before your computer has a chance to boot from them again 4 In approximately two minutes you will hear beep beep beep beep beep beep from your RedRak It is now up and ready to access via its web pages RedRak Professional User Manual A Aa 5 Open your brovvser or acces
75. the System volume each time you click COMMIT the configu ration is automatically backed up to any and all hard drives not containing the RedRak system software e You can back up the configuration to floppy whenever you wish To do so select Home Services Configuration click and follow the online help instruc tions Note that the restore option does not restore other non configuration files stored on your RedRak See Restoring Files to Your Hard Disk in online help To Restore 1 Click RESTORE from the RedRak Repair Screen If you need assistance in dis RedRak Professional User Manual LM 38 V Repair Mode playing the RedRak Repair Screen read Repair Mode 2 Select a floppy or hard drive from which to restore and click CONTINUE 3 If you selected a floppy drive you vvill then be prompted to insert the floppy disk or disks 4 When the restoration is complete you will see the Configuration Restore Log and messages These messages tell you The number of disks required to complete the restore e The results of the test that checks to see whether the restored files can extract cor rectly If they cannot there are no files written to your hard drive the restore process halts and you see Current configuration not replaced Whether or not the current configuration was overwritten a successful install always overwrites the current configuration Whether the configuration to r
76. there needs to be at least 64MB of RAM to run Repair 1 Click CHECK from the RedRak Repair Screen If you need assistance in displaying the RedRak Repair Screen read Repair Mode in the online help 2 You will see a list of check tasks and their status Note this about the check function e If a disk needs to be repaired the software does it automatically If the entire check process completes successfully the disk is fine Unsuccessful repairs will halt the check process and an error message will appear If that happens call RedRak technical support f you had to perform an advanced configuration to install RedRak the first time you will need to repeat it after you perform the check 3 After Check has completed click SHUTDOWN and follow the instructions below Shutting Down the RedRak B Restoring Your RedRak Configuration Repair gt Restore O ption Use the restore option if you had to reinstall your RedRak software onto your PC and you want your RedRak to function as it did before the reinstallation The restore option restores all of the files used to configure the RedRak This includes all of the RedRak settings such as settings for users machines and network settings The files restored are in these RedRak directories var conf etc When and how is the backup made from which you will restore e If you have more than one hard drive managed by RedRak i e drives containing volumes other than
77. ting up and identify ing network clients in the RedRak server itself As the DHCP server RedRak holds the identity i e TCP IP address of all machines on your network DHCP server features include Static IP address assignment You provide the IP address for a machine It is only for this machine and cannot be NETmachines Wika NETmachines net NETmachines Inc 2000 All rights reserved assigned to any other machines Dynamic IP address assignment DHCP server leases an IP address to the machine from an assigned range of IP address es These addresses cannot be the same as static assignments RedRak as a DHCP Client RedRak can be configured to act as a DHCP client on a network which assigns IP addresses dynamically This is typically how you connect to a cable modem network LDAP Server RedRak can function as an LDAP server This means that people can search for users and the personal information that you make available such as name address email address etc e Security You can control access to the LDAP server by specifying who can search the LDAP serv er Network Time Protocol N TP server You can set the RedRak clock to synchronize vvith other RedRak Unix or VVindovvs machines on the network This RedRak is then called the Network Time Protocol NTP server The NTP server helps improve accuracy You can allovv or disallovv other machines to use this RedRak as a time synchronization source Remote
78. tion of network traffic Obtain a graphic view of the hit distribution which tells you when the hits occurred Ability to connect to destination URLs during traffic monitoring While traffic monitoring is in progress you can connect to destination URLs Ability to exclude sites from the report You have the option to exclude sites from the report For example you can exclude sites required to do the job Reports Current Users Report This report shows who is currently logged into RedRak Users Report Gives an overview of user characteristics such as full name primary group email alias es whether dial in enabled etc Machines Report Gives an overview of information listed for all machines such as machine name domain name IP address etc e System Log Reports These reports categorize and log RedRak messages on various subjects including securi ty authorization backup and mail Web Server Access Usage Report This report measures which Web sites on the RedRak have been visited by outside resources A RedRak Professional User Manual Tann 12 I Overview of RedRak Professional Features Mail Log Report This report shows the number of emails that a person has sent or received Also use this report to determine other email information such as who a user is sending email to or receiving email from the size of the email vvhen it vvas sent or received and if a piece of email has been sent to more than on
79. tion to dialing out you can use a dial in connection to allow an outside net work or individual to connect to your network C Network Servers World Wide Web WWW HTTP Server RedRak Professional User Manual Internet Web server Internet Web servers are accessible globally Intranet Web server Intranet Web servers are only accessible to people inside domains served by RedRak Perl and CGI support The Web server delivers Perl and CGI scripts Allow users to create their own Web pages All user Web page URLs begin with the same information and end with user name Create Edit Delete Web site configurations Configure and manage multiple Web sites from one RedRak server Control access to a Web site Allow or deny access to Web sites on RedRak to a group of users domains IP addresses or a RedRak machine group Create Edit Delete MIME Types A MIME type associates a data file with a program application that can view that file RedRak helps you easily create edit or delete MIME types Optional SSL security In the U S you can install a Secure Sockets Layer SSL software package onto RedRak if you upgrade to a secure Web server 4 I Overvievv of RedRak Professional Features Front Page extension support for Web publishing RedRak supports Front Page extensions Mail Server IMAP mail server Allows a user to read and download only messages of interest and leave the rest on the server until later POP mail server
80. tire page in the Input Panel o Tabs Use these to switch back and forth between a series of pages The current tab in use is white Other available tabs are darker Some tabs are required and others are optional an error message will let you know if you must enter information in atab before you can move on o Buttons Use these to complete a task and move from page to page e COMMIT None of your changes are actually made until you commit them For more on the commit process see Committing Changes under Overview in the online help The COMMIT button is not always available and may appear grayed out if it is not possible to perform a commit on the current page This button only appears when a user logs on with administrator privileges These buttons are located below the COMMIT button Only one may appear at any A NETmach nes c NETmachines net N ETmachines Inc 2000 All rights reserved 17 time Which button is made available depends upon the context of the current page SELECT Tells RedRak that you would like to accept your selection and return to a previous page To have RedRak ignore your selection and return to a previous page click the previous page in the Navpath item jin this chapter Do not use the back button in your brovvser e RETURN The RETURN button has a similar function to the SELECT button The SELECT and RETURN buttons point left because they return you to a previous page STO
81. tore configuration ee 37 38 Sh tdoWL xu duae a Mey 7 oa pk a lm ed 39 40 USINO A 35 36 Reports MARES iria e E EEG eR eae AE eh eee CR Ree km ii 10 IMISCIFODONES m 11 12 gt TM NETmachines E MT NETmachines net NETmachines Inc 2000 All rights reserved system check 2 4 25 20 RAG 3 qos bee ARAR EA o ce pak OO pa asl daz AER Rk ar 10 11 traffic monitor sika dew R idik a a kak dak sok iie k kile 11 ROUTIO EM sale uten ale c e e 2 e s sa eigi oiio mirii fon iota i e ai Gi iasi fie See Features file sharing Servers DACP SAVE ei EET a ali N AR A AA m ae 6 7 DNS SEVT a eid a A A a edt Eke e ik m e 6 HESA 5 6 PEP 7 5 6 LDAP isd ante Gig al eid win 7 mail server eae s eae ee eee RR A oki 4 news group Ser Vel te tt Ge dett que 4 5 eM pda eae ee ha Be ew ee BE A Rad cae Adee Bae 6 remote x application server nn 7 Webserver cad dks Bead BEA Rea oka we d md EX WP Ghd Ree ee keds Ro RE eed 3 4 Setup Initial A a i iagi io i afia a iode tintin fie dotadi iea i faarii fient pgi faai t 24 25 Local Area Network LAN 22 23 Appleralk zone n z saa e Re bees awa RR ai s ee R AL Rom 23 default route ccc tsa iki kedi hh o ike k NR X 23 domain Names ndeki Bee ha eee CR wan saa
82. ut Panel New and edited information is displayed here in various forms such as o textboxes o checkboxes o a choice of a textbox or select button RE ATE uu Ti MAG UPLOAD SELECT ALL 4856 Jon 06 19 32 38 2088 4m Jon 06 19137156 2000 yf 26 Xn 03 16 37 01 2e 7 3 B A Jon 14 00 04 200 amm Feb 06 13 04 01 1986 o A table Features include Table These buttons such as ACTIONS or CREATE pertain to the entire list NETmachines c NETmachines net ONETmachines Inc 2000 All rights reserved i 19 and are context sensitive o Paging Control Use the Paging Control to modify the number of table rows dis played at once All Shown All Shown All Shown All Shown All Shown tells you that all rows are displayed Select from the following options Shorter Makes a long list shorter five rows at a time Longer Makes a short list longer five rows at a time Resets to the default length of ten rows per page Column Control Usethe Column Control to show or hide table columns This works similar to Paging Control Sort This button sorts the rows The column heading with the sort button indi cates the column by which the information in the list is sorted Clicking on the name of any other column will switch the list to sort by that column Clicking on the sort button switches between ascending and descending order for the list Indicates rows are in asc
83. vv of the RedRak interface designed to get you started on the soft vvare Command line interface for experienced users Experienced Unix users can alvvays access the command line The command line option allovvs you to add nevv softvvare and pplications to your system User override via command line of any GUI operation Since experienced Unix users may have certain preferences for their configurations RedRak allows any GUI operation to be overridden through the command line The user has the ability to directly manipulate the files that RedRak normally manages Heterogeneous clients RedRak supports heterogeneous systems consisting of Macintosh Windows 95 98 Windows NT and Unix clients making it a valuable tool in all normal business envi ronments B Firewall Routing and Interfaces Firewall Built in packet filter firewall The RedRak firewall restricts access between your internal network and external net works such as the Internet Simplified firewall configuration with common rules and exceptions Firewalls are configured with specific access rules RedRak has pre configured common rules and common exceptions to those rules that help you select the type of traffic to block Experienced users can create a custom firewall or modify the common rules and exceptions Network Address Translation NAT Network address translation hides your internal IP addresses from the outside world All external traffic appears to be
84. y Ethernet The procedure for accessing your ISP is different depending on whether you are dialing in or accessing through Ethernet 1 Select Home Network Interfaces 2 Click the row containing the interface you will be using either Ethernet or HDLC 3 Click P For the Ethernet connection read Configuring the Addressing in an Ethernet Adapter For the HDLC connection read Configuring the HDLC Device F Having Employees Share Hardware such as a CD ROM Removable media include floppy disks CD ROM disks and Zip and Jazz disks Mounting removable media makes these disks accessible to the users 1 Select Home Sharing Removable Media 2 Click in the Mounted column next to the disk you wish to use 3 Select the file system that was used to format the disk For example the default File System for a CD ROM is1SO9660 4 Click OK 5 To see the disk that you have just mounted select Home Sharing File Sharing Click the pen cil to edit the CD ROM then select the appropriate file export methods to share the files on the CD ROM For more help on selecting a file export method click and follow the detailed instructions displayed 6 You must repeat steps 1 through 4 each time you insert a disk or CD ROM into a drive con nected to the RedRak G Having Users Share a Printer You can use either of these two methods depending on whether the printer is connected to your RedRak via a parallel or serial port o

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