Setting Up a Linux Server

[Tommaso]

I have decided that i am going to try to set up my own linux server with a friend within the next few days. The problem comes from the fact that i am completely clueless on how to even begin (except for the intalling linux part, that i can do). Just wondering if anyone knew of any good online tutorials, that range anywhere from setting up a linux server to setting up a router accordingly.

I don't want people to go googling for me (I am about to start doing that), but if you happen to know a good sight, or even a good book that involves setting up a linux server, I would love to hear about it. Thanks.

[fingal]

This might help a bit. Now, read it all, and there's a very long and very hard exam afterwards. Linky

[AlexK]

Fingal great link, thanks for posting it.

And Tommaso, what kind of server are you trying to setup?

[Tommaso]

Thanks for the link fingal. I forgot to check the RUTE linux tutorial. I stopped using it after i could not download the pdf anymore, and we used to have dialup, so accesing it for every problem used to be a pain. Does anyone know what happened to the pdf download?

Oh, and AlexK, thanls for reminding me, I probably should have said that i would like my server to be hosting a HTML website, not looking into a mail server yet. I am currently looking into apache. It looks a little complicated for me, but i am looking into their tutorials right now.

For file sharing servers, i am guessing Samba is the best idea there, but i will hold on that idea, so that i don't have to read the long Samaba tutorial. At least not just yet.

[Tommaso]

Thanks for the help guys. You may see me start to post in the server section, in the upcoming future.