9.30 – 11.00 | Mail (Postfix)  and Virus checking (Patrick Harpes)

This part of the tutorial consists in configuring a mail server based on Postfix. In the first, more theoretical part, the architecture and the different configuration files of the Postfix system will be explained. During the second part the attendees will setup a mail server that handles different domains. If time permits, we will extend this mail server in a way to be able to scan for viruses.

Content:

Implementation using Postfix

• What is Postfix
• Where to get it
• Why Postfix
• Architecture and features of Postfix

   
Installing and configuring Postfix

• Installing Postfix on a Debian system
• Where are the files?
• The different configuration files

        - main.cf
        - master.cf
        - virtual
        - aliases
        - transport
        - canonical
        - relocated
        - access
       
Practical Exercise

• Install Postfix using dpkg / dselect
• Configure it for your domain to send and receive mail
• Test the installation

        1. Using your own domain
        2. sending mails to the other sub-domains of tux-industries.com

• Add the two sub-domains (sales and support) to your installation
• Test it
• Instead of the alias file, take the data out of the LDAP database

Virus scanner

• Postfix and Virus scanners
• Amavis
• Configuring postfix to use Amavis-new
• Which Virus Scanner to use?
• ClamAV
• Configuring Amavis-new to use ClamAV

Practical Exercise
  

• Install amavis-new using dpkg, dselect or other
• Configure it to integrate it with your postfix installation
• Install ClamAV using dpkg, dselect or other
• Update the virus database
• Configure amavis and clamav to work together
• Test the installation

   

11.15 – 12.30 | SPAM (Christian Mock)

Different tools and technics will be shown to handle SPAM Mails.

14.00 – 15.30 | File services (Samba) (Alain Knaff)

The topics covered during the tutorial are:

• Basic configuration as a file server
• Primary Domain Controller
• Password Synchronization using PAM
• Access control
• Using an LDAP back end for the user database
• If time permits: Samba-tng/Samba4 rpcclient

Prerequisites: Basic Linux, windows and networking experience is needed.

About the Speaker: Alain became involved with Linux in 1993, and is the author/maintainer of several Linux tools, including mtools, fdutils,
zlibc and udpcast. He joined the LLL project, which makes intensive use of samba in 1997. He is a founding member of LiLux, and currently
its vice-president. You can contact him via e-mail as ld2005@knaff.lu or through his home page at http://www.alain.knaff.lu

15.45 – 17.00 | Print services (CUPS) (Till Kamppeter)

It will be shown how to set up printing in a networked environment with Linux/Unix server(s) running the CUPS printing system. Planned topics:

- Setting up a Print Queue with CUPS
- Setting up Ethernet-Connected Printers
- Networked Printing with CUPS
- Accessing Printers from Windows Clients via Samba