hi,
i am a pretty good linux user..but i have no idea on building a server witha domain and everthing. please help!

well what type of server do you plan on building...what distro...specs of the comp your going to run it on....need alittle more info

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i want to build a file server and mp3 server...redhat linux 9....General
(1) GenuineIntel Pentium II (Deschutes) 348 MHZ

Arch: i686 Cache: 512 KB
Vendor: GenuineIntel Memory: 256 MB
Stepping: 2
Family: 6 Swap: 509 MB

DMI Info
Vendor: Â Bios: Intel Corp.
4S4EB2X0.05A.0003.P02 - 11/19/98

System: Â
Product: SE440BX-2 Asset Tag: Â
Chassis: Â
Board: IMS285002342

Networking
Hostname: 192.168.1.51
IP Address:192.168.1.51

Interface IP Address Netmask Broadcast Hardware Address Driver Module
eth0 24.90.118.185 255.255.248.00 255.255.255.255 00:a0:cc:d3:18:c9 tulip
lo 127.00.00.01 255.00.00.00 127.255.255.255 00:00:00:00:00:00 loopback

Storage
Description Bus Device Physical
Maxtor 6Y080P0 IDE hda 158816/16/63

Video
Description Bus Vendor Driver
Voodoo Banshee PCI 3Dfx Interactive, Inc. Card Voodoo Banshee (generic)

Audio
Description Bus Vendor Driver
DS1L Audio PCI Yamaha Corporation ymfpci

USB
Description Bus Vendor Driver
USB UHCI Root Hub USB unknown
82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB PCI Intel Corp. usb-uhci

Misc
Description Bus Vendor Driver
440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host bridge PCI Intel Corp. agpgart
440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX AGP bridge PCI Intel Corp. ignore
82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA PCI Intel Corp. unknown
82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE PCI Intel Corp. unknown
82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI PCI Intel Corp. unknown


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If your looking for directory services, take a look through the HOWTO's at http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/howtos.html

Pay particular attention to the NIS, DNS, LDAP and NFS howtos - depending on what kind of directory services/domain services/file sharing you want to implement.

If you just want to share files and MP3's on your LAN chances are you could achieve this with just NFS exports.

The LDP is a valuable resource and will contain very good documentation on the topics you require.

Cheers
ZB

for mp3 streaming check out mod_mp3.
http://freshmeat.net/projects/mod_mp3/

to go along with this, i suggest looking over this site as well: http://www.meredevice.com/mod_mp3_tricks.html

http://madman.sourceforge.net/

I've been using this program for a few months now, called madman. It is a very good music manager, handles thousands of files easily. Comes with a built in id3 tagger, a rating system, and what you would be most interested in would be the built-in http server.
I've connected a laptop to a stereo as a client, and contain the songs on a separate box. The music server box is a 700mhz machine, and the laptop is just an older 300mhz Compaq, both boxes are running Slackware-current.

The software is easy and quick to manage. You can shutdown the server, make changes with little effort. This makes it a very good program for those who have been unable to run some of the more complex streaming software.

Using NFS exports as mentioned is how I also make available a single DVD recorder to several machines.