Linux Server Setup 3

[cbrenchley]

Help! I have just been volunteered to be our companies new IT/Webmaster/System Admin. I feel comfortable with IT and web design, but I can feel myself drowning in System Admin. This is what the bosses want me to do.
1, Get a domain name and IP address
2. Set up our company website on a server running Fedora Core
3. Set up our company email accounts and user names
4. Maintain a DNS server.
5, Maintain a print server.
6. Set up Samba for our windows systems

I have no problem setting up a webserver using Apache, I can get php and mysql up and runining, I can set up and maintain Samba and the print server, the fuzzy area will be the DNS and the email servers. My question is, can I put a mail server, DNS server and a web server all in one box? Do I need to have a primary DNS server separate from a secondary DNS servers? Is a Cache server a third box that I need to set up. How do I set up a mail server? Is that another box(server) that needs to be set up? Please help, I can feel the unemployment office on my shoulder.

 

[RhythmAce]

When I go to

http://www.jjvalvesandcontrols.com

I get a page that says Brenchley. Is this your site?

 

[RhythmAce]

Ok - I think I see what is going on. The registrar of the domain is tucows. So whoever had the job before you switched to qwest's nameservers for some reason. If they truly only let you point one domain to your ip, I'd switch back to the tucows nameservers. I seem to be able to go to

http://www.jjvalvesandcontrols.com

and when I check the dns records, they seem to be fine. However, you don't have any mx record for that domain. Actually this is very good news because we know what to do now. So the first question is, do you want to change nameservers for this domain? If you keep them as they are, then you will want to edit your dns records. These are not the ones that point to your nameservers. These ones will point to your webserver's ip address. They may be called zone records or address records. The mail server's records will be called mx records or mail records. I'm not familiar with the interface that they use at manage.opensrs.net so I'm just giving you clues on what to look for. Your "A" record is already there but you should be able to look at it so it will be easier to add another domain. If the domain is from a different registrar, then you will go to that registrar to edit the dns records.