Yet another email about upgrading to Fedora

[Jason Corekin]

I have structured my families home network of Windows XP/2000/98 and
Fedora Linux based computers around an older AMD K6-2 500Mhz machine
running Redhat 8.0.  Although I know that there has been a lot of
previous discussion about upgrading no one seems to have offered any
sort of semi-detailed list of things to watch out for/do during the
transition.  I say this after both looking through this list and search
the net.  To make things more interesting what i really want to do is
save as many of the configuration files as it makes sense to do, back up
the current user data, and then blow away the machine rebuild it.  That
way I can have a clean slate to build off of, reintegrating the previous
configurations and user data piece by piece, sanitizing them as I go,
and giving my self the best chance to put behind me the little weird
glitches that I have seen here and there with the current setup.  To
this end, about two weeks ago I downloaded the Fedora iso's and have
been pleasantly working with them on the Linux partition of my desktop
box, trying to figure things out on it before I mess with the server.

That all said the server currently has the following roles that I need
to figure out how to replicate on Fedora before I do the install.

1) NT Primary Domain Server using Samba 2.2.8a to provide these services
    A) WINS
    B) Roaming Profiles
    C) Authentication (Based off of /etc/samba/smbpasswd and
/etc/passwd)
    D) Print server via LPRng
    E) General Storage dump
2) DHCP server running version 3.0pl1
3) DNS
    This is broken and is one of the glitches that I want to get fixed. 
I also want to get it interacting Dynamically with dhcpd, something that
I had working at one point but had to dismantle and have never been able
to get working again.
4) Firewall/NAT using iptables
    This role that will be replaced with a Netgear wireless
router/switch/firewall.  If anyone knows anything that I should be
particularly concerned with when doing this transition please feel free
to point it out.
5) Personal email server
    A) SMTP server using Postfix version 1.1.12 release 0.8 using
Maildrop version 1.5.0 release 1.8.0 for on the fly server based mail
filtering.
    B) IMAP server using Courier IMAP
    C) webmail access using squirrel version 1.4.2-1
6) Webserver using Apache version 2.0.40 release 11.7
    Being used to supply https access to my webmail.

As you can see this server is being used to do a heck of a lot, possibly
too much, and before I can transition the machine I need to be confident
that I will be able to get the critical services (SAMBA, DHCP, SMTP, and
IMAP) up as quickly as possible after installation. I understand that
the list I have put together and the amount of detail that i have asked
for may be more then I should be asking, but I am hoping that other
people will benefit from it as well and that anybody that can answer
even a part of it will do so, because I know that I the past this and
other email lists have done so to the benefit of many.

Thank you in advance

Jason Corekin
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