Sandip P Deshmukh wrote:
> hello all!
>
> after using windows for ages, i am planning to switch to linux. my
> compaq is already a dual boot machine running win98 and debian 3.0.
>
> i am on a lan which also provides me access to the internet. i know my
> machine's ip address, gateway and dns addresses. i use d-link card for
> connecting to the lan.
>
> i will like to have access to network resources (printers, etc) and
> the net. i tried my best but could not do much.
>
> 8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.24
> eth0: D-Link DFE-538TX (RealTek RTL8139) at 0xc481a000,
> 00:50:ba:3c:c0:93, IRQ 11
> eth0: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8139C'
So the kernel is seeing your NIC; that's good.
What happens if you try to ping something?
What's the output of "ifconfig"? Here's an example of ifconfig's output
on a networked computer:
>
> eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:A0:CC:DA:98:4E
> inet addr:192.168.0.3 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
> RX packets:225645 errors:1 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:197923 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
> RX bytes:204979948 (195.4 MiB) TX bytes:24149315 (23.0 MiB)
> Interrupt:5 Base address:0xd000
>
> lo Link encap:Local Loopback
> inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
> UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
> RX packets:86 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:86 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
> RX bytes:5364 (5.2 KiB) TX bytes:5364 (5.2 KiB)
It sounds like you're not using DHCP, but rather that you have a static
IP address for your box. In either case, you'll find the appropriate
place to set IP stuff to be /etc/network/interfaces (see "man
interfaces"). An example might look like:
> # Used by ifup(8) and ifdown(8). See the interfaces(5) manpage or
> # /usr/share/doc/ifupdown/examples for more information.
>
> auto lo eth0
>
> iface lo inet loopback
>
> iface eth0 inet static
> address 192.168.0.3
> netmask 255.255.255.0
> gateway 192.168.0.1
>
> #iface eth0 inet dhcp
Then restart networking ("/etc/init.d/networking stop" followed by
"/etc/init.d/networking start" ("restart" should work, but it's been my
experience that it doesn't always restart networking properly)). You
should now be able to ping other computers, use telnet, ssh, ftp,
browse, etc.
Accessing network printers, computers, etc is a broader topic. From a
later post you made it sound like you're wanting to validate users off
of a Windows domain, which is a problem I've not been able to solve in
three years. However, accessing files on those Windows machines and
printers, etc, is relatively simple. Install smbfs and smbclient, edit
/etc/samba/smb.conf to point to the correct domain and DNS servers
(being aware that there are some security issues here), then you can
connect to Windows boxes using their native language of SMB. For
example, if the "ShareMe" directory is being shared out to your user of
"deshmukh" from the Windows computer named "BigServer", you can mount
that share (kind of like mapping a drive) with the following:
mkdir ~/BigShare
smbmount //bigserver/shareme /home/deshmukh/BigShare -o
username=deshmukh
and you'll be asked for your password, after which the contents of the
shared directory will be in the ~/BigShare directory.
Hopefully this'll give you a start.
Kent
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