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Ubuntu + VmWare + Exchange [2]

Friday, October 27th, 2006

Now you have finished the installation of VmWare Server, and can connect with the VmWare Console to the machine to setup a virtual machine.
Install Windows 2003 and Exchange 2003.

Some tips if you are a home user like me:

  • If your IP is known to be a dynamic one, do not send e-mail directly to others. Relay your mail through your ISP’s mail server which is probably not dynamic. This can prevent that your mail will be classified as spam by others.
  • If you do not use the same domain in Exchange as your FQDN ( fully Qualified Domain Name ), you should masquerade all e-mail as your FQDN. This will also save you a lot of spam points, because spamfilters tend to lookup the server FQDN when it connects to them. If the FQDN of the connecting server does not exist in DNS, you probably get more spam points.

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Ubuntu + VmWare + Exchange [1]

Saturday, October 21st, 2006

Now my project is finished, and I nolonger have something to do, I am going to explain how I set up my new server.

The Ingredients for today are:

Ubuntu [Get it here]
VmWare Server [Get it here]
Samba sources [Get it here]
Heimdal Kerberos sources [Get it here]
OpenLDAP [Get it here]
Lots of time  

To give you an impression of the whole picture I created a drawing that reflects the situation:

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Ubuntu – VmWare – Exchange

Sunday, October 1st, 2006

I just finished my own project I started a few weeks ago.
It started when my previous server, a Celeron 366 with 64 mb RAM running Gentoo became to old ( well, it was already old  three years ago ) and my family started annoing me about the fact that there was not enough space to store their files on. So, I gave them two options: (more…)

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Traffic Policing on Linux (Ubuntu)

Tuesday, August 29th, 2006

After users ( or your family at home ) have discovered the peer-to-peer program’s and are saturating your internet connection
you probably want to do something about it and give the really important connections a vast amount of traffic guarantee.
But what if you are running a mail server and you do not want your internet connection being filled with datatraffic from spammers?
Then we should do traffic shaping on the ingress interface. This is called Traffic Policing.
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