Changi NNTP Server 1.2

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Installation Environments

Changi is able to support the following installation environments:
  1. Single User
  2. Intranet Groupware
  3. Internet Provider
Many users may also install a mixture of these configurations.


Single User Installation

This is currently the most used configuration, in which users set up Changi to read Usenet news offline with their favourite newsreaders. Although, some newsreaders offer capabilities for offline reading, Changi is usually much more flexibel and provides very sophisticated options for news up- and downloading as well as removing outdated articles.

If used in LAN environments, the user may keep news on one machine and read it from any machine connected to the network.


Intranet Groupware

Many new features had been added to make Changi a useful groupware tool in intranet environments.

You may set up a number of discussion or announcment forums and individually enable or disable read and or write access to these forums, either based on host names, user names or both.

You may even allow external access via Internet or dial-in ppp.


Internet Provider

This is the typical newsserver environment, where customers dial in to read their news and news exchange with the net is done using leased lines.

Changi can run 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. There's no need to shutdown the server during expiration. Several options are available to limit server access based on the availability of resources (memory, CPU etc.).


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URL: changi/manual/install.html
Created: 3 August 1996
Revised: 21 November 1996
Author: harald@os2point.ping.de