On 08-Aug-99 Civileme wrote:
> 2. Sound, if you equip your computer with it, is most easily installed, in
> my
> experience, for Creative/Soundslaster Products. The NEWEST should be avoided
> unless you like to spend a few hours on the web finding beta drivers and
> instructions. (No SBLive, get a good AWE 64 for the ISA Bus and it should
> work
> out all right.) Save sndconfig for one of your later steps. And if you get
> some weird error messages running it from a console or desktop, try booting
> into single-user mode and running sndconfig.
the Creative Ensoniq works flawlessly.
> 4. The setup for remote SAMBA printers does not work. I haven't had time to
> verify if it is the "filter" script in /var/spool/lpd/lp (or whatever printer
> name you use in place of lp) or the script filter that is copied to
> /usr/bin/smbprint. I have a fix, an *ugly* one, where I add these lines to
> .config in the /var/spool/lpd/printername directory
I used the printtool to setup a remote samba printer without a problem. Entered
the hostname, ip, printer name and selected a drive. Printed a test page. No
problem.
> 5. I haven't found any package that will masquerade other LAN machines onto
> the internet. Supposedly it can be done through ipchains scripts, but
> I haven't made any work yet. I did use PaNTs which is supposed to work for
> RedHat 6 but I can't get anything through it on port 80 (web access).
Basic ipchains is very easy. Read the IP-CHAINS HOWTO. There's a quick three
line section for setting it up. Then load any extra masq modules you may need
(irc, ftp, realaudio, etc). The ipchains package comes with ip-chains save to
save your rules. There is also an ipchains-restore script that you can use to
bring masquerading back up on boot.
If you want a graphical tool to do ipchains go to freshmeat and search for gfcc
or ipchains. gfcc is nice but you need to know ipchains in order to use it.
(Somebody should make a gui ipchains tools for dummies.)
