Web Hosting
Ive paid for a reseller web hosting package and now offering web hosting packages, initially targetting the multimedia students who need web space for their second/third year projects.

[Edit] – http://www.ewales.info

Job
After finishing my BSc Computer Networks degree in the Summer 2007, I started a Higher/Further Education Teacher Training in the same University. After wasting 3 months of my life doing this I decided it wasnt for me during the Christmas holidays so started looking for full-time employment.

So after a few interviews and companies letting me down I finally started working full-time for an IT Solutions provider (edit: name omitted) in Shrewsbury as a Junior Software Developer in March 2008.

Day to day tasks include digging into the software they develop to replicate bugs that have been reported by end users, which sometimes mean I could be playing with SSIS Package, SQL Server 2000 or SQL Server 2005 or a front end fix which means I would use C#.NET.

ACL Editor and Simulator
Sales of the Editor are going well, currently with no advertising of the application and leaving Google to its own devices and word of mouth, Im quite happy with its progress. I currently haven’t been able to find any time to add features or even make a start on the project “ACL Import” which would import current ACLs into the Editor. Maybe some wet weekend I will don’t worry!

Home Network
Unfortunatley the Home Network is no more, because my parents have decided to move house, which means my 42U Rack is up for grabs if you can pick it up from Anglesey, North Wales you can have it.

Llangollen Diesel Group
Currently the LDG have all their mainline diesel loco fleet for sale due to many things going on in the background. I cant go into this much at the moment but will put more details online when Im allowed to.

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Ive also got IIS and Apache with PHP 5.2.0 working. IIS is listening on port 80, while Apache on port 8080.

Unfortunatley Ive had to keep the “Double NAT”, which I had planned to get rid of but couldant.
This is my setup:

Firewall OS: IPCop 1.4.11
Firewall Services: Web Proxy, VPN, Gateay/Firewall, Cron Server, IDS, NTP.

Server OS: Microsoft Server 2003 Standard SP1
Server Services: Apache2, IIS, MySQL, Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, FTP.

Network Diagram

Domain Login Scripts – Popup Window

Ive found this nice little VBS login script which will create a new internet browser window and show the user what its doing!

This script maps 3 network drives, renames them to something tidy and a printer before exiting. This is what the logged in user sees before the window closes nicely.

Logon Script v1.0 25/12/2006
Member of DOMAIN USERS...
M: Mapping Music Drive...
M: [username] Music Drive Mapped...
S: Mapping Stored Applications Drive...
S: Stored Applications Drive Mapped...
U: Map Home Drive...
U: [username] Home Drive Mapped...
U: Mapped Home Drive Done...
Added Default Printer - \\[servername]\[printername]
FINISHED!...

I may release the code for this but since this isn’t my original code I will have to ask the original owners permission first. One problem Ive found with this so far is, if an error occurs during the execution of the VBS script the whole script stalls. But when coded correctly it awsome!

Thank You

Whats Going

• ISA 2004/2006 Firewall
• Exchange 2003
• Internet Active Directory domain name, http://www.ewales.info
• “Double NATting” (Two subnets, one before firewall the other after)
• Firewall Hardware – 500W PSU!

Whats Staying

• Main Server Hardware
• Web Server Hardware
• ADSL Router
• 24 x 100TX port Switch – needs a clean!

Whats NEW

• Linux Firewall
• VPN Connections – maybe
• Internal Active Directory Domain
• Windows Server 2003 RC2 – maybe
• Wireless Internet Access – maybe
• Compaq 2200kVa UPS in the rack
• Compaq SCSI CD Unit in the rack

The Network Diagram

Timescale: 6-10 hours maximum

Which Linux Firewall Distro shall I run on the firewall box? I have the choices of:

• Smoothwall – free
  
• IPCop – free
• SecurePoint – unsure
• SuSE 11.

I’m also going to rack mount a few bits of Compaq hardware into the 38U rack unit I have in my bedroom back home…..yes a 38U Rack Unit lol

EDIT: Sorry its a 40U Rack and not a 38U as I first thought!

Assignments to be in:

08/01/2007 – Application Development 3 (PhoneExchange Object Oriented Programming in C#.NET).

22/01/2007 – Programming 3 (OOP Game in C#.NET)

22/01/07 – Prepare partial seminar on “Recent Advances in Storage and Transfer” and write a 2500-3000 word essay according to “IEEE Transactions/Journal Style” on the topic by the end of March 2007.

Wont be drinking much over Christmas then I guess!

But I’m planning on re-designing the network at home over Christmas which will see the removal of the mail server and replace the current firewall with a hardware firewall running a Linux Distro.