On 13 May, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm new to Linux and Unix, so I'm pretty excited that I even got this stuff
> to work. I installed RedHat 5.2 and am using IP masquading for a ppp
> connection to Compuserve. I am using diald. This whole setup works great.
> The only thing I noticed is that the other day, I was trying to add a printer
> from my windows98 machine and it started diald up. I'm not that familiar
> with packets and rules, but could this be because of certain netbios rules.
> I didn't change any of these rules, so I'm assumming I'm using default ones.
> Also, how can I tell what speed I connect up at. I've been testing different
> line's with my modem to try to get 56K and seem to have got it, but I had to
> use minicom and dial up Compuserve. Is there a way to tell through diald.
> Anyone have any idea's.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mike . . .
Is your printer on the Linux machine? If so, do you have a DNS server
one it? If you do, make sure that the Windows machine uses that DNS
server, and that your search domains contains your local domain. In
the Samba configuration, make sure that it uses the Linux machine's
local name, not the name that the ISP thinks it has. For example, my
ISP has associated a valid domain name with my static IP address, and
for various reasons I have had to give my machine that name. I have a
local DNS server which gives it another name for the local ethernet
port. I use the name the local DNS server gives it, and tell samba to
use that name instead of the real machine name. Then I can use the
local name and when Windows tries to get the IP address, it can get it
from the local DNS server instead of having to dial out to get it from
the ISP's DNS server, as it would if it were getting the real name. To
tell samba to use a different name for your machine, add the line
netbios name = the_name_you_want
to the global section of smb.conf.
Alternatively, you can add your Linux machine to the hosts file on your
Windows machine, but I don't remember where it is.
Good luck,
Lyle
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