User manual

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A RaQ 3 can host multiple Internet or intranet sites, which can provide
Web content, email and FTP services. It can be used by three different
kinds of users:
• The RaQ 3 Administrator is the person who controls and runs the
RaQ 3. This person sets up and maintains the RaQ 3, sets up virtual
sites, and sets access privileges and provides services for the Site
Administrators and site users. The RaQ 3 Administrator can also act
as the Site Administrator for any virtual site.
Note: Whereas industry uses the term “virtual host”, Cobalt
Networks uses the term “virtual site”. In Cobalt’s definition, a
virtual site consists of a Domain Name System (DNS) domain
with Web, FTP and email services. Each virtual site contains its
own list of site user accounts. Each site user account has its
own Web, email spool and any number of email aliases. The
fully qualified domain name of a virtual site is unique to that site,
while its IP address can be shared by many sites. For more
information, see “Definition of a virtual site” on page 34.
• The Site Administrator manages a virtual site, located on the
RaQ 3, that can provide Web publishing, email and FTP services
for the users of the site. The Site Administrator sets up user
accounts and access privileges, maintains mailing lists, controls the
settings for the virtual site and its FTP service, has access to users’
email settings, can generate reports about the virtual site’s disk and
Web usage, and can back up and restore files residing on the site.
• Site users can send and receive email through the site, upload and
download files using the FTP service provided by the site, publish
their own personal Web page on the site, and back up and restore
their home directories.