Newbie Question: NNTP Proxy Or Cache?

Can anyone help me with the following situation?

I am trying to figure how best set up some sort of Usenet feed on my
local area network that sits behind a broadband router. This LAN
currently has two Windows XP boxes that are turned on intermittently
and a single Linux box that includes a Samba file-server.

The Linux box uses a Via C3 that is more energy-efficient than the XP
boxes and would be left on much longer if not 24/7.

What I would like to do is create a configuration that will allow news
readers on either XP box to receive header files and, perhaps, even
text. BINARY ATTACHMENTS, however, will preferebly be handled only by
the the Linux box which will queue-up and download these itself. Once
the download is complete, the XP boxes can then have access to the
downloaded files via Samba.

This sounds simple in principle but, as is usually the case, the devil
is in the details.

Thanks in advance.

On 19 Dec 2004 19:50:40 -0800, (E-Mail Removed) wrote:

>Can anyone help me with the following situation?
>
>I am trying to figure how best set up some sort of Usenet feed on my
>local area network that sits behind a broadband router. This LAN
>currently has two Windows XP boxes that are turned on intermittently
>and a single Linux box that includes a Samba file-server.
>
>The Linux box uses a Via C3 that is more energy-efficient than the XP
>boxes and would be left on much longer if not 24/7.
>
>What I would like to do is create a configuration that will allow news
>readers on either XP box to receive header files and, perhaps, even
>text. BINARY ATTACHMENTS, however, will preferebly be handled only by
>the the Linux box which will queue-up and download these itself. Once
>the download is complete, the XP boxes can then have access to the
>downloaded files via Samba.
>
>This sounds simple in principle but, as is usually the case, the devil
>is in the details.
>
>Thanks in advance.

man leafnode. And you won't access the stuff via samba, you'll
configure the windows boxes for tcp/ip - which they already should be.

Mike-

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