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How to Set Up A
Carracho Server
Here's an overly detailed and illustrated «how-to…». This is setting how to set
up your server made as easy and detailed as possible. You might not need
so many explanations, but after helping several «newbies» setting up their servers
I found that many do need all the help they can get…
• To get the necessary applications, go to http://www.carracho.com and download the latest server software.
• First thing you should
do when you start your
server (Double click
the application) is to
copy the IP-number (It
is in blue in the «log
window», and it looks
like the illustration.)
and connect to it using
your client.
You shall use admin as
the login and leaving
the password
blank.
This should bring you
in to your very own
server for the first time.
All the administration
of the server is done
through the client.
• Once you're in, go straight to the window called «connections» in
the upper right corner and select your server. (It is simply called
Carracho server.) In this menu, go to «Administration», this is where
you'll be doing your work from…

• The First thing you wanna do is change your admin login and password. You have to go into
«Accounts». Highlight the account called «Administrator» and choose «modify account» from the bottom
menu. Choose any login and password you like, but be sure to remember it (or you'll have to start again
from scratch). You shouldn't have to change the permissions, all the boxes should be checked except «custom
root directory». When this is done, you're certain no one can login to your server and mess up with
your preferences. You should try re-loging to your server to make sure you spelled everything right before
you go any further.
The blank fields in the illustration above is just becouse I didn’t want anyone to know the logins of me or
my co-admins and accountholders.
• The next thing to do would
be to decide your server's
name. You have to go into
«Server Info» (Still in
Administration, as you can se
from the above illustration.)
You can enter your server
name, the operator's name,
the location (If you wish to.
As you can see from the illustration
I haven’t put anuthing
there.) and what your server
is all about in «description».
You probably should leave
the banner for later, you're not
in a hurry... though you
should know that Carracho
reads only banners in .pngformat.
To place one, you only
have to click «load», locate it
Your users can look at your server information, so it might be a good idea
to be careful what info you put in it.
and select it... if you want it to lead users to a web page or (As me - an e-mail), you can enter the URL in the
appropriate box.
Before you leave that window, click upload at the bottom to save your changes. You won't be able to see the
changes until you log off and then back in.

• Before you continue in administration,
you should put your
files on the server. There's no
need to upload them. Simply go
back to the Carracho Server
Folder. Locate the one named
«files» and open it. It's empty.
(By the way, of all the folders in
there, it's the only one you'll use
for now.) All you need to do is
put the files you want to offer
inside that folder. For more
security, you can put only aliases
in there.
• If not, make sure you don't
give ANYONE the ability to
delete folders and files (in their
accounts permissions). As much
as you may like and trust your
friends, accidents does happen.
Over 100Mb of material is easily
lost, and it hurts.
• You'll probably want to
creat an uploads folder.
Since you can't change a
normal folder into an uploads
folder from your desktop,
you'll have to do it
from the «Root» in your
client, - which is the files
window. There shouldn't be
any files in your Root, so
click on refresh. Then highlight
the «uploads» folder
and click on the folder with
a yellow «i» sign at the top
of the Root. If
you haven't created
one yet, do
so by clicking
the folder with a
yellow «+» sign.
It is also at the
top of the Rootfolder.
At the
bottom of the
new window,
you can choose
the folder type, upload in this case. Press «save».
• To create a drop box, repeat what you just did and select the appropriate folder type. Drop-boxes can’t be viwed
by anyone unless you have given them permission to do so when you created their account. (In permissions)

• To manage the News, go back into «Administration» and select «Newsgroup Management». The newsgroups
can be added, modified, deleted and refreshed using the buttons at the bottom of your window. When
you create a Newsgroup, i suggest you set them to never expire. For general newsgroups, you can allow
users, guest and administrators to both read and post. If you want to create a Newsgroup for account
requests (Wich is very useful, since sometimes, guests can't upload into drop boxes.) you should allow users
and guests to Post only, and admins to post and read. This way, no one but the admins will be able to see the
logins and passwords asked in the account requests.
• Stay in «Administration» and go into
«Advanced». There's no need to change the server
port (6700), unless you intend to run two
servers at the same time. Then you can simply
change the second server's port (6700) for any
number you like. It doesn't matter wich.
• «Max connections» to your server is to your
liking, though for a 56k, it might be wise to set
a limit of about 10 since every user logged on
to your server uses a little bandwith, therefore
slowing you down.
• «Max connections per IP» is the number of
time the same user can be connected to your server
simultaneously. Usually this is just one, but
it's up to you.
• «Max simultaneous file transfer» is the number
of files that can be downloaded from your
server at the same time.
• «Max simul. file transfers per user» is usually
set to one or two. You might want to set this
one to one especially if the number you entered after «Max simultaneous file transfer» is lower or equal to
the «Max connections» number. Two sim. transfer per user allows user to upload while they download, but
people often use the second to download anyway, so it's a lot less troble to set it to one...
The «Allow/Deny IP» window is used to ban and de-ban people from your server.
You can also ban a user that is still on your user list by highlighting that user and then click on him/her while
holding down the «ctrl» key and choose «ban» from that menu.
Before you leave that window, click upload at the bottom to save your changes.

• The Trackers (Still in
Administration) are what
you finish with because it's
what will allow users to find
your server. Therefore, you
want your server to be ready
before you list with trackers.
To add, modify or remove a
tracker, use the buttons at
the bottom of the window.
Enter a description of your
server that will appear next
to your server name in the
tracker list. Select your speed
modem at the bottom left
of the window and then
check the box called
«Register server with
Carracho Trackers».
Congratulations! Your server
is now accessible by any carracho
user.
As you can see I use Bloodhound Tracker at bloodhound.dyndns.org.
But you can find a list of working trackers at Tracker-Tracker on the
web. The URL is http://www.tracker-tracker.com
Before you leave that window, click upload at the bottom to save your changes. You won't be able to see the
changes until you log off and then back in.
• The agreement isn't necessary,
though it can still be useful to
explain the rules of your server,
what it's all about and so on. I
suggest you make it short and
easy to read since few people
bother with it anyway, unfortunately.
But then, if a user breaks the
rules and gets kicked, he won't be
able to say he wasn't warned.
To put color, bold, funky fonts
and so on in your agreement create
the it with a Word Processing
application and copy/paste it in
the «Agreement» window in
«Administration».
• In addition to the things I have
described so far you will find
«Server Log» and «Statistics» in
«Admin-istration».
Both of these speaks for themself.
It is simply a possibility for the
admin to check uploads against
downloads. The number of hits on
the server, and so on.
The server log also gives you the
IP-number and name of the guest,
and wich file they downloaded.

• Many Sysops encurage their users to use chat. Chat is used both to be socialand «shoot the breeze» with
other users, and to get help if you’ve got a problem with anything.
In the smallest illustration you will se wich button to press to get into chat (And the newsgroups). In order
to invite another user to join chat, you just hilight the user in «users» and drag him or her into the users-frame
in «Public chat».
In most of the windows you have open while using the client
you will find submenues at the bottom. You can explore these
for yourself.
Well, that should cover everything you need to know to get
your server started. If there's something
that you don’t understand, or if you'd like to know more
about something feel free to email me at eye@wolf-web.com
with your questions. Or you could try asking around to other
admins. Most of them will be glad to help...
GOOD LUCK!
Thanks to Red (RedMercedez@yahoo.com) for letting me
use his document.
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If you intend to create a porn or banner server, please trash this document and move on to Hotline.
There are lots of youngsters using Carracho. Some of them are not older than ten years.
Porn will also draw unwanted attention to Carracho. There are many idealististic and
humanitary organisastions that would be glad to serve the gouverment ilegal porndistibutours
heads on a plattern. Besides it is so easy to get porn other places on the net. (Both
Hotline and the web are filled with it…) So theres no need to bring it to Caracho.
Please keep Carracho the clean and cool community it has grown to be!
This document is not copyrighted. It is made by Neo, sysop at Cloudberry Creative and The Happy Huntingground