:: Hi everyone, I've started this web page in the hope to provide a number of services to the OpenSource community such as a wiki, how to guides, video explanations, question & answer forums and hopefully much more.

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Included in the sample content you will find:

• An introduction to Linux

• Video how-to's with audio documentary

• A summary of the software used in each example

• Forums for asking questions about the how-to's

• Wiki for adding your own comments about the how-to's

• How-to's on just about everyone open-source server software available

more to be added, if anyone has any suggestions on more to do, i can be contact threw the TLUG mailing list or using the 'contact us ' link on the side of this page. This is a list of all the things i have done or an planning to do on OpenSourceHowTo.Org 

Done List

• Setup OpenLDAP to run on Fedora ^HowTo
  

• Use OpenLDAP & LAM & Samba as PDC ^HowTo

• Run NTLM authentication on squid ^HowTo

• Use Squid together with PAM authentication ^HowTo

• Run OpenLDAP & OpenSSL together on port 636 ^HowTo

• Get Postfix aliases from the Active Directory mail attribute ^HowTo

• Run vsftpd & Openssl together ^HowTo

• Squid1(ntlm) => Dansguardian => Squid2(cache) ^HowTo

• Get Squid working with pam authentication & Squish download manager ^HowTo

• Make HAVP (http anti virus proxy) scan all webpages going through Squid ^HowTo

• Make Privoxy scan all webpages going through Squid ^HowTo

• Get Postfix & Dovecot to use MailScanner to scan all mail using ClamAV ^HowTo

• Get SquidGuard to filter all webpages running through squid ^HowTo

• Set Dansguardian to work with different filter groups ^HowTo

• Install Mambo with a MySql backend running with PHP on Apache ^HowTo

• Install OpenDC HUB & connect DCplusplus client to the hub ^HowTo

• Install & configure a Poptop VPN Server ^HowTo

• Get DDNS using Bind9 & DHCP running together ^HowTo

• Make pop3 Server using Dovecot On Fedora using IlohaMail as the webclient ^HowTo

• Configure the LDAP Linux client to authenticate against an OpenLDAP server ^HowTo

• Configure the LDAP Linux client to authenticate against an Active Directory Server ^HowTo

• A Postfix & Dovecot mail server authenticates against Winbind & SquirrelMail uses a Retrieve User Data  plugin to pull down information from each user from Active Directory ^HowTo

• Setup an OpenLDAP Master along side of an OpenLDAP slave & setup Replication between them both ^howto

• Make Dovecot Authentication against Active Directories winbind ^HowTo

• Install & Start the SWAT (Samba Web AdministrationTool) service ^HowTo

• Get postfix to lookup OpenLDAP for users and mail aliases ^HowTo

• Run phpldapadmin on Apache with a OpenLDAP server ^HowTo

• xrdp installation from source on Fedora Core ^HowTo

• Squid with PAM authentication & Squish download manager ^HowTo
  Setup a Personalized Denial page for squid ^HowTo

• How to set a Samba Primary Domain Controller to apply Group Policies to XP machines ^HowTo
  

• Setup Apache 2 with Access to Home Directories ^HowTo

• Setup Apache 2 with OpenLDAP Authentication ^HowTo

• Setup Virtual IP address on eth0:1 ^HowTo

• Setup Apache 2 with OpenSSL ^HowTo

• Apache 2 using htpasswd with openSSL certificates to access a Webdav folder ^HowTo

• Setting up 3 Virtual Hosts with Apache 2 ^HowTo

• getting apache 2.2 to use mod_authz_owner ^HowTo

• Making Apache have user access to home directories in webdav format & getting authentication from openldap ^HowTo

• Running TFTP along side of PXE & syslinux to install Fedora over a network with PXE boot ^HowTo

• Getting Dovecot imap/pop3 server to run with openssl certificates & squirrelmail as a webclient ^HowTo

• Basic NFS share, mount, auto mount ^HowTo

• Procmail Vacation Auto-Reply ^HowTo

• Running TFTP along side of PXE & syslinux to run G4L over a network with PXE boot ^HowTo

• Setup Tor & Privoxy for anonymous searching using a proxy server ^HowTo

• Getting SquirrelMail to store information in a mysql using Mysql userprefs & Mysql Address book plugins ^HowTo

• Getting Postfix to run with OpenSSL certificates and saslauth for extra security on your MTA. ^HowTo

• Active Directory as Address Book with apache and PHP ^HowTo

• Winbind Virtual Users, Postfix, Spamassassin, Procmail, SquirrelMail & Dovecot ^HowTo

• Postfix, Spamassassin, Procmail and SquirrelMail ^HowTo

• Running a virtual Windows98 inside Windows XP using QtEmu ^HowTo

• Installing CentOS inside Windows XP using QtEmu ^HowTo

• Setup Windows98 inside Windows XP using Qemu Manager ^HowTo

• Running Linux inside Windows XP using Qemu Manager ^HowTo

• Setting up a virtual Windows98 inside Windows XP using QEMU ^HowTo

• Installing a virtual machine running Linux inside Windows XP using QEMU ^HowTo

• Installing Ubuntu inside of CentOS using QEMU ^HowTo

• Setting up Windows98 inside CentOS using QEMU ^HowTo

To Do List

• Print Server for a windows domain with a web gui ^HowTo

• VPN + ssl

• Samba file server with ClamAV doing on-access file scanning

• Squid & SARG

• Virus scanning with VirusHammer ^HowTo

• Squid with delay pools

• Jabber messenger server with web client

• Squid with proxy_auth & OpenLDAP

• Basic CD Server with HTML interface ^HowTo

• deploy Firefox with Samba PDC & wpkg ^HowTo

• MySQL users, PostfixAdmin, Postfix, Dovecot & SquirrelMail with userprefs stored in mySQL ^HowTo

• Tomcat, MySql, J2ee, Alfresco CMS

• Amanda backup

• Backups with Bacula, MySql & Apache ^HowTo

• Fighting Spam With SpamAssassin, Pyzor, DCC, Razor & Rules Du Jour ^HowTo

• BackupPc & Apache ^HowTo

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more to be added, if anyone has any suggestions on more to do, i can be contact threw the TLUG mailing list or using the 'contact us' link on the side of this page.

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