Re: [Hampshire] Your Set Up

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Author: James Ashburner
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Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Your Set Up
Fintan Gaughan wrote:
> On 21/02/07, James Ashburner <hantslug@???> wrote:
>
>>
>> I have 6 PCs:
>>
>> 1 x Main Desktop: Used by my partner mainly, she uses Windows XP
>> 2 x Toshiba Laptops: Used by the eldest two kids, both running XP
>> 1 x HP Laptop: About to get a Gentoo Linux install as my partner would
>> like to have a play and chose to make things difficult
>> 1 x Compaq nx7010: My work laptop, currently dual boots XP and Ubuntu
>> 1 x Server: Actually a desktop PC, running ClarkConnect Linux
>>
>> ClarkConnect is exceptionally easy to set up as a mail and web server,
>> that's pretty much what it was built for. Doesn't use X at all, it's all
>> configured via a web interface. There's lots of extra features such as
>> CUPS, proxy server and FTP built in too.
>>
>> My server is a 1GHz Athlon with 512MB RAM, but I used to run it on a
>> 233MHz machine with only 64MB RAM and it was absolutely fine :)
>>
>> James
>>
>
> Looked at Clarkconnect and set it up on spare PC.
> I have registerd my domain with 1and1.co.uk ageas ago and looking at
> clarkconnect you need to pay clarkconnect to set one up.. am i
> missing somthing here?
>
> Fintan
>


All you need to do is point your 1&1 domain at your IP address, no
payment to CC needed. If you're going to run mail, set the MX server in
1&1 to your domain name. Works fine for me anyways.

James