Features - Printing, Web Serving, Filtering
Source: Tom's Guide US | Keywords: review, clarkconnect
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Installation
- 3. Features
- 4. Features - Managing Services
- 5. Features - Printing, Web Serving, Filtering
5. Features - Printing, Web Serving, Filtering
Printing with ClarkConnect is handled by the Common UNIX Printing System, or
Figure 6: Print Server
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I say that CUPS works well, and it does, provided you have a printer that's supported. Sadly, because of poor cooperation from manufacturers, printer support is not an area where Linux currently shines. If your printer is supported though, then setting it up with the CUPS system is pretty simple.
TIP: Finding a comprehensive list of CUPS-supported printers isn't easy. But the LinuxPrinting.org site has some helpful info, including a list of suggested printers for open source software users.
ClarkConnect automatically adds a share for configured printers, so after restarting Samba (assuming you're running it), your ClarkConnect printer should show up in the Network Neighborhood of your local Windows computers. Once there, of course, printing to it from Windows is simple.
Figure 7: Web Server
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ClarkConnect Home also includes other goodies, like a FTP server (ProFTPD), and mail server packages (postfix for SMTP, University of Washington IMAP toolkit for POP and IMAP). One useful feature of the mail server system is the (SpamAssassin). Spam, or junk e-mail filtering, is configured through another easy to use interface shown in Figure 8.
Figure 8: Spam Filter
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Something that may be of special interest to web surfers these days is the "Proxy and Filtering" set of applications. These are separated into three items: banner/pop-up blocker(privoxy), and
Figure 9: Content Filter
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You'll need a ClarkConnect subscription to update the content filter definitions via the web interface, but of course, it can be done manually through the command line if you want to bad enough.
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