From: Mike '/m' 


Webmin is very cool, indeed.  Just be sure you firewall its port so that
you know precisely who can connect to it.

It has been known to give up root access quite easily.

 /m

On Tue, 14 Jan 2003 00:41:04 -0000, "Tim Hawkins"
 wrote:

>Run, dont walk to www.webmin.com, and d/l and install webmin. This is a
>fantastic web based admin tool for linux that supports plug-ins and a
>thriving 3rd party plugin development community.  Gives you all the
>advantages of the Windows NT control panel and services applet etc. I have
>it managing all of my samba setups, nfs setups, NIS setup, postgresql
>servers etc.
>
>
>"Robert Comer"  wrote in message
>news:3e22d1f9$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>> Wait until you start configuring it. :|  This is one area Linux has to
>work
>> on.
>>
>> If samba is already installed, I usually use smbclient to do the transfers
>> (kind of a cmd line thing that lets you do things dynamically), if not, I
>> use FTP.
>>
>> > (Why can't there be an installer like in Windows...)
>>
>> There is, that's what RPM is. (as well as different ones for different
>> distributions.)
>>
>> - Bob Comer
>>
>>
>> "Antti Kurenniemi" 
wrote in message
>> news:3e22c6ee{at}w3.nls.net...
>> > I finally managed to copy the files from the command line using cp, so
>it
>> > wasn't the cd. So weird. Anyhoop, I (think I) managed to install samba,
>> > 'cause there is now a directory called "samba" in
the /etc - is that
>where
>> > it is supposed to go? I also installed the package with the docs, but
>> > haven't yet found where they ended up...
>> >
>> >
>> > Antti Kurenniemi
>> > (Why can't there be an installer like in Windows...)
>> >
>> > "Robert Comer" 
wrote in message
>> > news:3e22abe1{at}w3.nls.net...
>> > > It really sounds like your CD is bad. (or the drive is bad)
>> > >
>> > > And is, it could work up to a point and then fail like you say.
>> > >
>> > > - Bob Comer
>> > >
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>

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