Configuring and Managing MPE/iX Internet Services (July 2001)

Preface

This manual describes how to conﬁgure and operate Internet Services

on the HP e3000. It is written for members of the system

administration staff who have been assigned system manager (SM) or

system supervisor (OP) capability and who are responsible for

installing, conﬁguring and managing system and network software. As

such, it presumes a good understanding of networking concepts and

familiarity with HP e3000 system operations. Conﬁguring and

Managing Internet Services is

not

intended for the end user of Internet

Services such as tftp and telnet.

This manual is organized into the following chapters:

Chapter 1 , “Introduction to Internet Services,” describes in summary

fashion each of the utilities that comprise the Internet Services

product. It also includes instructions for installing and conﬁguring the

services ﬁle and protocols ﬁle.

Chapter 2 , “Internet Daemon,” describes the function and

conﬁguration of the Internet daemon inetd and provides

troubleshooting guidelines.

Chapter 3 , “Telnet Service,” explains how to conﬁgure the telnet server

and offers troubleshooting guidelines.

Chapter 4 , “BOOTP Service,” describes how to conﬁgure the Bootstrap

Protocol daemon, provides examples that show how to add bootp clients

and routing instructions to the HP e3000, and offers troubleshooting

guidelines.

Chapter 5 , “TFTP Service,” describes how to conﬁgure the Trivial File

Transfer Protocol daemon and explains tftpd security considerations

and troubleshooting guidelines.

Chapter 6 , “REMSH Service,” describes how remsh or remote shell is

used to connect to a speciﬁed host and execute a command on that host.

This remote shell or remsh is available with version C.60.00 of the

MPE/iX operating system.

Chapter 7 , “Samba for MPE/iX Services,” describes how the suite of

programs work together to allow clients to access a server’s ﬁle space

and printers, via the Server Message Block (SMB) ﬁle server.

Chapter 8 , “DNS BIND/iX,” describes BIND and its implementation of

Domain Name System (DNS).

Chapter 9 , “Apache for MPE/iX,” Describes how Apache Webserver,

HP e3000 users can do business over the Internet.

Appendix A , “Samba for MPE/iX Sample Comﬁguration File,” shows

and example of the samp-smb.conf conﬁguration ﬁle.