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IV. Getting Started
Get started setting up major RedRak Professional features.
This chapter is an overview of and a quick look at the set-up process for several of
the most popular and useful RedRak Professional features. For additional information
about these features or for features not covered in this chapter, simply click the button for online help.
Shared paths are common areas for document and application storage. Shared paths may be used in a stand-alone fashion, allowing you to create a space which allows only a single access or a space which is shared among several users.
Shared paths are used throughout the RedRak interface to provide storage areas for items such as email, web sites, news and ftp.
1. Select Home|Sharing|File Sharing and click the Volumes tab.
2. Click CREATE to create a new volume.
3. Click and follow the detailed instructions displayed. If you wish, select
the Quotas tab to limit the amount of space available to a user or group of users within
a volume.
4. Click STORE and then click COMMIT to begin committing the volume.
5. After the commit has completed, Select Home|Sharing|File Sharing.
6. Click CREATE to create a path to share.
7. Select the appropriate export method(s). For example, if only Windows machines will be accessing this shared item, check only Windows (CIFS) as an export method. Optionally, select the Security tab to set user level and/or machine level permissions.
Setting up users associates certain privileges and screen functions with an ID and password. Setting up groups is a convenient way to communicate with or change settings for similar users.
1. Select Home|Users|Groups.
2. You now need at least one group in which to put all new users. You may see a
group called "all users," depending on the template options that you selected during setup.
If you do not have an existing group, click
CREATE to create one. For help in creating a group, click and follow the detailed instructions displayed.
3. When you have completed creating a group, select Home|Users|Users and click
on DEFAULTS.
You will now set up the default settings for new
users.
4. Select the appropriate settings. Planning ahead at this point can save time later.
Consider the services that your server will be providing and check boxes to
enable users to access these services, even if you are not implementing them immediately.
For example, enable email for users now, even if the email server is not being set
up yet. For help in selecting default settings, click and follow the detailed instructions displayed.
5. Select the Group tab.
6. Click SELECT to choose all of the groups in which new users will be members.
7. Check the group that you would like as the primary group. This should be the group that you created or noted in step 2.
8. Optionally, select the Home Path tab to have a home path automatically created for each user who has Unix shell enabled (under the General tab).
9. Select Home|Users|Users. You will now enter users who will be using the RedRak.
10. Click CREATE to create your user identities.
11. For each new user, select
Password and type in their password. They will be able
to change their password at a later time on their own. For help in adding new
users, click and follow the detailed instructions displayed.
12. Now you can put users into their own groups. Groups allow you to assign
privileges (such as viewing newsgroups and file access permissions) to groups of users. Click
on the Groups tab, click and follow the detailed instructions displayed.
This procedure allocates the space for a company web site and assigns the appropriate permissions for the site to be accessed by users.
1. Follow the procedures for "Creating a Shared Path" in this chapter. One or several paths will be needed to provide a storage location for your web pages.
2. Select Home|Services|WWW. Click on the Internet or Intranet tab, depending
upon the type of site to set up. Then click for detailed instructions.
3. If you want to use the Internet, you must also follow the procedures below for "Accessing Your Internet Service Provider (ISP) by Modem" or "Accessing Your Internet Service Provider (ISP) by Ethernet."
Accessing your ISP is usually your first step in providing web access to users.
1. Select Home|Network|Interfaces.
2. Verify that the modem you are configuring is plugged in and turned on.
3. Click , select "Setting Up For Dial-In/Point-To-Point Server" and follow
the detailed instructions displayed.
The procedure for accessing your ISP is different, depending on whether you are dialing in or accessing through Ethernet.
1. Select Home|Network|Interfaces.
2. Click the row containing the interface you will be using, either Ethernet or HDLC.
3. Click . For the Ethernet connection, read "Configuring the Addressing
in an Ethernet Adapter." For the HDLC connection, read "Configuring the
HDLC Device."
Removable media include floppy disks, CD-ROM disks, and Zip and Jazz disks. Mounting removable media makes these disks accessible to the users.
1. Select Home|Sharing|Removable Media.
2. Click in the Mounted column next to the disk you wish to use.
3. Select the file system that was used to format the disk. For example, the default File System for a CD-ROM is ISO9660.
4. Click OK.
5. To see the disk that you have just mounted, select Home|Sharing|File Sharing.
Click the pencil to edit the CD-ROM, then select the appropriate file export methods
to share the files on the CD-ROM. For more help on selecting a file export
method, click and follow the detailed instructions displayed.
6. You must repeat steps 1 through 4 each time you insert a disk or CD-ROM into a drive connected to the RedRak.
You can use either of these two methods, depending on whether the printer is connected to your RedRak via a parallel or serial port or via an Ethernet card.
If your printer is plugged into the back of the RedRak (that is, directly connected) via a parallel or serial port:
1. Select Home|Sharing|Printer Sharing.
2. Create a printer queue by clicking CREATE.
3. Then click and follow the detailed instructions displayed.
If your printer has an Ethernet card, is plugged into an Ethernet cable, and requires an IP address:
1. Print out a test page or configuration page to determine the printer's Ethernet MAC.
2. Select Home|Network|Machines. Click and follow the detailed instructions displayed. These instructions describe how to add a new
machine (which is, in this case, a printer) to the network.
3. If you plan to print using the BSD LPR printing protocol, you will need to
assign the printer its IP address. The RedRak can provide the printer's IP address
via DHCP if the printer is not already obtaining it some other way. Click and read "Dynamic Host Control Protocol Servers."
4. Select Home|Sharing|Printer Sharing.
5. Create a printer queue.
6. Then click and follow the detailed instructions
displayed.
This procedure can back up the data on any drive accessible to the RedRak. A separate procedure (Home|Services|Configuration) is used to back up RedRak software settings in the event that the RedRak software needs to be reinstalled.
1. Select Home|Services|Backup|Options.
2. Select a path on which to store catalog files.
3. Enter an expiration time for the catalog files. The catalog files are large and do not need to be kept indefinitely. Old tapes can be recataloged to recreate the deleted catalog files.
4. COMMIT the options.
5. Select Home|Services|Backup|Configure to configure each machine to be
backed-up. Click for instructions on how to do this.
6. To back up a machine right now, select Home|Services|Backup|Backup Now,
then click for detailed instructions.
7. To schedule a backup event that will occur at a later time,
select Home|Services|Backup|Schedule and click for detailed instructions.
The RedRak can hold and distribute user email.
1. Follow the procedures for "Creating a Shared Path" in this chapter. A path is needed to provide a storage location for your "shared mail spool."
2. Select Home|Services|Mail to select the type of mail server you will use.
3. Select the shared mail spool that you just created for the mail.
4. Enable either the IMAP mail server, the POP mail server, or both.
5. Click and follow the detailed instructions displayed.
6. Select Home|Report|Users to verify that all users have mail enabled.
7. To enable mail for any user, select Home|Users|Users|Edit User|General and check Mail Enabled.
8. Users will need to have their email client applications point to the RedRak as the email server.
News groups are a way to share information among users. They can also be used to create both public and private discussion groups
1. Follow the procedures for "Creating a Shared Path" in this chapter. A path is needed to provide a storage location for your "news spool." Note: This volume could get very large (12GB, for example) depending upon your expiration policy and the number of groups you will feed. For this reason, a dedicated volume for news groups is recommended.
2. Select Home|Services|News.
3. Select the shared path you just created.
4. Check Enable News Server.
An intranet news server will receive and transmit news only within the domain served by RedRak.
1. For an intranet news group, select the News group tab, type in your own
news group's name, then press 
to add the group. For example, type
ournews.mailtoall
2. Select the Clients tab, and type in your domain at the bottom, and check Deny all except. This means that your intranet news cannot be read by people outside of your company.
An Internet news server receives and transmits news from external news feed servers that you select. You can deny or allow access to the RedRak news server to certain domains or IP addresses.
1. To receive news groups from the Internet, you have to arrange a news feed on your own from your ISP (there might be a fee for the news feed). To set up RedRak to receive the news feed, select the Server tab and click CREATE.
2. Click Enable the News feed and create the news feed name, and enter the name of the news feed server that you received from your ISP.
3. Select the Groups tab to specify the specific newsgroups you want to send
and/or receive news from. Wildcards can be used (e.g. comp.freebsd.* will
get groups which fall under the comp.freebsd category). Click and follow the detailed instructions displayed.
4. If your ISP requires that you authenticate your subscription by an account ID or password, select the Authenticate tab.
5. Users will need to have their newsreader point to RedRak as the newsgroup server.
6. If you want to use the Internet, you must also follow the procedures above for "Accessing Your Internet Service Provider by Modem" or "Accessing Your Internet Service Provider by Ethernet."
Dial-in access to the RedRak is a convenient feature for users who wish to work from home.
1. To do this, you must have a dial-in modem for the RedRak. Hook up the modem to the serial port on the back of your RedRak machine.
2. Select Home|Network|Interfaces to configure the serial port for that modem.
3. Look for a description with TTY (for serial) in the
type column. Click on the 
to edit the TTY device to which the dial-in modem is connected.
4. Then click and follow the detailed instructions displayed.
5. Select Home|User|Users.
6. Edit the users to whom you wish to provide dial in access. Ensure that Dial-In Enabled is checked for each of these users.
User web sites can be set to be accessible to your network and/or to the Internet.
1. Verify the users who have Public HTML
Enabled checked on their users' pages. To do this, select Home|User|Users. Select the to edit the user who will have his
own web site. Alternately, select Home|Reports|Users and select
Show Public HTML from column control.
2. Select Home|Services|WWW|User pages. Click and follow the detailed instructions
displayed.
3. If you want to use the Internet, you must also follow the procedures above
for "Accessing Your Internet Service Provider (ISP) by Modem" or "Accessing
Your Internet Service Provider (ISP) by Ethernet."