Smoothwall + Squidguard help...

[ddrueding]

I am now officially in over my head (again).

When I was putting together plans for a firewall, smoothwall looked really cool. It's easy interface and powerfull features are very nice. And it offers one of the features that I needed: web content filtering. It does this via a program called squidguard. Unfortunatly, squidguard isn't nearly as easy to set up as smoothwall. So now I'm in trouble; not only do I not have enough knowledge to follow these steps, I don't even have a linux machine to preform these steps on, or the knowledge to set up a linux box to learn how to preform these steps...

Help? Suggestions? Please?

Thanks, I knew you could help me, you're a champ

 

[blakerwry]

hehehe... what step are you having trouble with?


from a quick look at the beginning it looks like you want to get the binaries over the source if possible. The binaries are comparable with a zipped .exe file... simply unzip and copy to the correct location.


this allows you to skip step 2, which is a step that could potentially be a headache if something went wrong.

 

[ddrueding]

Well, I just caught the part about being able to use sftp to transfer the files, so I'll give it a go tomorrow. I guess it was just step 2 that freaked me out. Thanks for the response...

 

[Howell]

Have you considered DansGuardian instead. It appears to have some SW peer support.

 

[ddrueding]

Have you considered DansGuardian instead. It appears to have some SW peer support.

Looks awesome, but the guide never mentions what program he's using to extract the .rpm in windows. I did many a google and only found a broken link . I'm interested in this and want to move forward, but currently stuck.

help?

 

[ddrueding]

ZipZag

 

[ddrueding]

errg....I can't figure out the command for pscp.

Actually, I don't think I'm that stupid....I don't think the root login is letting me access for FTP transfers anyway.

..or is that more stupid?

What username do I have to use to connect for FTP transfers?

 

[blakerwry]

for FTP to your box or another box?


typicallcy for anonymous FTP (a public FTP) you would use an email address.. doesnt have to be real... anon@anon.com is my favorite.

if it's a private FTP you need to specify a valid user and password... typically the root user is not allowed to connect to a server whether FTP, WWW, SMB, etc. This is for security reasons.

 

[Howell]

The SCP port for smoothwall is 222. If you need more thorough help, let me know.