Open Source How To – My WordPress Blog

Hi everyone, I’ve started this web page in the hope to provide a number of services to the OpenSource community such as a wiki, how to guides, video explanations, question & answer forums and hopefully much more.

If you want to help OpenSourceHowTo.Org by posting your own howto’s on this website, click here to find out how to do it or click here if you want to know howto post your own blog

There is also a new page being added called the OpenSourceHowTo.org Support Page. Feel free to click on it and help me out if you have found any of the pages on this website helpful.

If you want to know what is changing and has been changed at OpenSourceHowTo.org just check out the Announcements page OpenSourceHowTo.org Announcements.

I have added an IRC channel for users of OpenSourceHowTo.Org to chat to and talk to each other on. Hopefully this will become another place where Linux users can come for help/answers to their questions.

Included in the sample content you will find:

An introduction to Linux

Video how-to’s with audio documentary

A summary of the software used in each example

Forums for asking questions about the how-to’s

Wiki for adding your own comments about the how-to’s

How-to’s on just about everyone open-source server software available

more to be added, if anyone has any suggestions on more to do, i can be contact threw the TLUG mailing list or using the ‘contact us ‘ link on the side of this page. This is a list of all the things i have done or an planning to do on OpenSourceHowTo.Org

Done List

Setup OpenLDAP to run on Fedora HowTo

Use OpenLDAP & LAM & Samba as PDC HowTo

Run NTLM authentication on squid HowTo

Use Squid together with PAM authentication HowTo

Run OpenLDAP & OpenSSL together on port 636 HowTo

Get Postfix aliases from the Active Directory mail attribute HowTo

Run vsftpd & Openssl together HowTo

Squid1(ntlm) => Dansguardian => Squid2(cache) HowTo

Get Squid working with pam authentication & Squish download manager HowTo

Make HAVP (http anti virus proxy) scan all webpages going through Squid HowTo

Make Privoxy scan all webpages going through Squid HowTo

Get Postfix & Dovecot to use MailScanner to scan all mail using ClamAV HowTo

Get SquidGuard to filter all webpages running through squid HowTo

Set Dansguardian to work with different filter groups HowTo

Install Mambo with a MySql backend running with PHP on Apache HowTo

Install OpenDC HUB & connect DCplusplus client to the hub HowTo

Install & configure a Poptop VPN Server HowTo

Get DDNS using Bind9 & DHCP running together HowTo

Make pop3 Server using Dovecot On Fedora using IlohaMail as the webclient HowTo

Configure the LDAP Linux client to authenticate against an OpenLDAP server HowTo

Configure the LDAP Linux client to authenticate against an Active Directory Server HowTo

A Postfix & Dovecot mail server authenticates against Winbind & SquirrelMail uses a Retrieve User Data plugin to pull down information from each user from Active Directory HowTo

Setup an OpenLDAP Master along side of an OpenLDAP slave & setup Replication between them both howto

Make Dovecot Authentication against Active Directories winbind HowTo

Install & Start the SWAT (Samba Web AdministrationTool) service HowTo

Get postfix to lookup OpenLDAP for users and mail aliases HowTo

Run phpldapadmin on Apache with a OpenLDAP server HowTo

xrdp installation from source on Fedora Core HowTo

Setup a Personalized Denial page for squid HowTo

How to set a Samba Primary Domain Controller to apply Group Policies to XP machines HowTo

Setup Apache 2 with Access to Home Directories HowTo

Setup Apache 2 with OpenLDAP Authentication HowTo

Setup Virtual IP address on eth0:1 HowTo

Setup Apache 2 with OpenSSL HowTo

Apache 2 using htpasswd with openSSL certificates to access a Webdav folder HowTo

Setting up 3 Virtual Hosts with Apache 2 HowTo

getting apache 2.2 to use mod_authz_owner HowTo

Making Apache have user access to home directories in webdav format & getting authentication from openldap HowTo

Running TFTP along side of PXE & syslinux to install Fedora over a network with PXE boot HowTo

Getting Dovecot imap/pop3 server to run with openssl certificates & squirrelmail as a webclient HowTo

Basic NFS share, mount, auto mount HowTo

Procmail Vacation Auto-Reply HowTo

Running TFTP along side of PXE & syslinux to run G4L over a network with PXE boot HowTo

Setup Tor & Privoxy for anonymous searching using a proxy server HowTo

Getting SquirrelMail to store information in a mysql using Mysql userprefs & Mysql Address book plugins HowTo

Getting Postfix to run with OpenSSL certificates and saslauth for extra security on your MTA. HowTo

Active Directory as Address Book with apache and PHP HowTo

Winbind Virtual Users, Postfix, Spamassassin, Procmail, SquirrelMail & Dovecot HowTo

Postfix, Spamassassin, Procmail and SquirrelMail HowTo

Running a virtual Windows98 inside Windows XP using QtEmu HowTo

Installing CentOS inside Windows XP using QtEmu HowTo

Setup Windows98 inside Windows XP using Qemu Manager HowTo

Running Linux inside Windows XP using Qemu Manager HowTo

Setting up a virtual Windows98 inside Windows XP using QEMU HowTo

Installing a virtual machine running Linux inside Windows XP using QEMU HowTo

Installing Ubuntu inside of CentOS using QEMU HowTo

Setting up Windows98 inside CentOS using QEMU HowTo

To Do List

Print Server for a windows domain with a web gui HowTo

VPN + ssl

Samba file server with ClamAV doing on-access file scanning

Squid & SARG

Virus scanning with VirusHammer HowTo

Squid with delay pools

Jabber messenger server with web client

Squid with proxy_auth & OpenLDAP

Basic CD Server with HTML interface HowTo

deploy Firefox with Samba PDC & wpkg HowTo

MySQL users, PostfixAdmin, Postfix, Dovecot & SquirrelMail with userprefs stored in mySQL HowTo

Tomcat, MySql, J2ee, Alfresco CMS

Amanda backup

Backups with Bacula, MySql & Apache HowTo

Fighting Spam With SpamAssassin, Pyzor, DCC, Razor & Rules Du Jour HowTo

BackupPc & Apache HowTo

more to be added, if anyone has any suggestions on more to do, i can be contact threw the TLUG mailing list or using the ‘contact us’ link on the side of this page.

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