[cobalt-users] Using a qube2 as a workgroup server.

[ed.form@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Ed Form)]

I'm trying to set a Qube2 up as a simple workgroup server providing the 
following services...

1. General File sharing
This bit was easy. I modified /etc/smb.conf to provide group shares and 
pointed the various users at the right places and everything works fine.

2. Workgroup diary.
Good old Lotus organiser. Works like a charm.

3. Internet Access.
Connecting a Zyxel ISDN router to the second ethernet interface and 
pointing the gateway setting to it worked fine. Several users can browse 
at the same time. I had a go at setting up a firewall between the two 
ports using the firewall rule generator on the Cobalt site but it didn't 
work, just blocked access altogether. I've seen the correspondence on this 
subject and I'm sure I can solve this one, so no worries here.

4. Internal and external email
This is the bit that has me beaten. I've read everything I can find in 
this forum, in the Cobalt knowledge base, and everywhere else an Internet 
search turns up, but nothing I've seen describes how to configure this 
type of service without making *colossal* assumptions about user 
competence.
This qube is not being used as a web server and never will be. All it is 
required to do is receive internal email, dial-up to an ISP and gather 
external mail, and drop it all into the right mailbox so that the users 
can poll at regular intervals with Outlook express or Outlook to pick up 
their messages.

Is there a step by step description of how to set something like this up 
on the Qube? I don't need too much detail, just a list of all the things 
that should be configured and the sequence in which they should be done, 
with some tips on what standard entries in GUI forms should look like.

The kind of question which is never mentioned in the stuff that is 
available is... 

Should the Qube have the same name as the domain our ISP carries for us?

Do I need DNS, and what form should the entries in the DNS GUI take?
The User Manual that came with the Qube is particularly hopeless in this 
respect.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Ed Form