Summary

In this chapter, we covered the installation and configuration processes for the most well-known services available for Linux. Knowing how to configure all the servers described in this chapter—from DNS to DHCP, Apache, and a printing server—is a minimum requirement for any Linux administrator.

By going through this chapter, you learned how to provide essential services for any Linux server. You learned how to set up and configure a web server using the Apache package; how to provide networked printing services to a small office or home office; how to run an FTP server and share files over TCP; how to share files with Windows clients on your network using the Samba/CIFS protocol; how to share files over Unix and Linux systems using the NFS file-sharing protocol; how to set up NTP to show an accurate time; and how to configure DNS and local DHCP servers. In a nutshell, you learned a lot in this chapter, and yet we have barely scratched the surface of Linux server...