Readonly Servers

Readonly servers are additional computers that are piggy backing off an existing DNews system, they share the spool/workarea etc.

It IS possible to post local messages normally on a readonly server, the name is slightly misleading, it is called a readonly server because in most respects it treats the spool as a readonly area to avoid file writing conflicts.

Configuring two readonly servers to share the spool disk of an existing DNews server.

• Stop DNews on the main server
• Install DNews on the readonly servers
• Copy your dnews.conf from your main server to your readonly servers
• Add to dnews.conf on the main server readonly_n 2
• Add to dnews.conf on the first readonly server readonly_id 1
• Add to dnews.conf on the second readonly server readonly_id 2
• On the readonly servers change myname to the appropriate ip number
• On the readonly servers change all directory specifications in dnews.conf to the correct network paths, e.g. (spool c:\dnews\spool --> spool h:\dnews\spool) This applies to all settings EXCEPT logdir which must be separate for each readonly server.
• Give the service on the readonly servers a username and password if necessary to access the network drive, this can be done in control panel/settings/services
• If you want to user the web manager then you must give the DNews manager service a username and password as well just as above.