Guillaume Cottenceau wrote:
> David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
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>>>>In rc.firewall.inet_sharing-2.4 I changed only Masquerade and not forward.
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>>>Why?
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>>Because it worked. I was trying to find out what I did have to change and
>>not change. Changing Masq worked. It isn't like Connection Sharing has a
>>lot or any documentation with it. I had to piece together information I
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> Well if this is for me, it doesn't apply, I was "designated" to write that
> and I also had to docs on the web (there is also a quite good howto but
> only on 2.2/ipchains at the time I checked).
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>>found on the internet and make sense of it. If connection sharing had
>>asked me the address I would like to add, it could have done the proper
>>changes for me. Being in between an expert and newbie I was able to do
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> Yep, this is always what is criticized. As always, my answer is: my first
> code was with an expert mode with which you could specify another network,
> but it was decided that it was better to remove this expert mode.
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>>something to make it work. I don't think a newbie would have, well a smart
>>newbie would have.
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> Actually I think, whe using the connection sharing from mandrake, you're
> not supposed to even know on which network your LAN is, the server is
> configured automatically, and the clients use DHCP. It's sort of a basic
> thing to share web and mail through provider, mostly, as I understand it.
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I really wish it was so!! Drakenet can never get me connected to the
internet either, I always have to make my own ifcfg-eth0 to get me on
the net.
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>>>>I can figure this out since I got the internet sharing working now, but
>>>>what happened after I modified these and rebooted was weird. The Gnome
>>>>Desktop had Nautilus Icons on it. The preferences for Nautilus in
>>>>Preferences/Windows & Desktop had an option to use Nautilus to draw the
>>>>desktop or use your home folder. I wrote up a bug #4735 that that choice
>>>>would disappear under a certain circumstance. Well I have another now,
>>>>cause after doing this above it disappeared again and the desktop icons
>>>>are just paper icons that don't work. Can't change it back either cause
>>>>the selection in preferences is gone. Have to recreate the user or
>>>>something. Maybe when I put rc.firewall.init_sharing-2.2 back to original
>>>>and only modify 2.4 it will work again. We'll see.
>>>>
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>>>It's highly unprobable to me.
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>>Highly unprobable!?!?! The desktop is still like that and it was fine
>>before this (no updates have been done, straight from the iso). I made a
>>new user and it is fine, my original user Desktop is crapped. The icons
>>don't work and are wrong. The Nautilus option that was there before is
>>gone. I made a bug report on this happening for another reason and someone
>>took it out. Want a picture. Better reply fast. I am going to swith the
>>internet NIC to the older computer and use it as the gateway. And switch
>>everything over to the new user with the normal desktop.
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> Yes, what I meant is that it's highly unprobable that changing the network
> config would make nautilus don't display choice to use your home folder.
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Then it is some other nasty quirk that I have seen in Nautilus since the
beta testing. And it just happend to happen right after I adjusted the
value of the address. That doesn't surprise me with Nautilus.
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>>>>had to change it back manually. I think you only need to run it on the one
>>>>connected, but wasn't sure since it wasn't working because:
>>>>
>>>>Shouldn't the connection wizard (maybe a wishlist) as for addresses that
>>>>are allowed to share, that way it would be necessary to manually do it
>>>>like I had to?
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>>>It had been decided that we should not provide an expert mode in which
>>>you
>>>may choose the private network you wanna use.
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>>Then maybe documentation that the user will have to modify the addresses
>>in Masq and forward in the firewall scripts would do????
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> No, not modify, see what I wrote upper.
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I see and agree, that is the way it should work, but didn't. Since it
didn't work, I did some reading and found out what to change and that is
how I found out that it didn't work. Maybe if I had installed the
firewall 'after' setting up connection sharing it might have worked, but
it doesn't after. Hey, maybe that might be it, doubt it, but I might
reinstall and try that.
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>>When I find these problems I am not trying to be a pain. I put myself in
>>someone like my Dad, who has really came a long way in the last few years
>>on computers. He is helping others with computer problems. He still won't
>>give Linux a try, cause he thinks it is too hard. So I just look at them
>>and think: Would he try this or would he call me or give up. Then I say it
>>is a problem if it is the latter two. I had never done this before, so it
>>was new to me also, I just know what to look for and am not afraid to try
>>something.
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> Yes, I'm not trying to refuse problems neither.
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I know! You are one of the most responsive and articulate cooker people!
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