You need to put the IP addresses of the clients in /etc/hosts for faster
access. Atleast that strategy worked for me while configuring local
E-Mail.
Soumyajit Deb
IIIT Hyderabad
On Sat, 18 Mar 2000, Bharat Ale wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a 16 windows 95 clients. Currently running Wingate. Wingate server
> 192.168.0.1. Clients have 192.168.0.x static IP address. Peer to peer
> network. Wasn't set-up by. The management is currently skeptical about my
> Linux project so I don't want to change anything on the client side and
> Wingate side so that it continues to boot and operate in Wingate environment
> until I finish up configuring Linux and showing it off.
>
> My plan : enable SAMBA, web server, internal email, internet email, proxy
> server, internet connection sharing, demand dialling by tommorow.
>
> Started today. Installed RHL 6.0 from Chip CD. NIC is Realtek 8139. Gave the
> Linux server 192.168.0.1 so I don't have to fiddle with the client settings.
> Configured SAMBA, working fine. Apache web server working fine. Now I wanted
> internal email. Enabled POP3 and SMTP in inetd. In clients they were already
> set to use 192.168.0.1 as POP3 and SMTP server at port 110 and 25 so no
> change required. Opened user accounts in Linux. But send/receive from client
> takes a lot of time. Sometimes it times out at 'connecting to 192.168.01'
> and sometimes at 'Authrizing' and sometimes mails are sent/received after
> taking a lot of time.
>
> Haven't done any DNS setup till now. Is the trouble due to DNS server not
> set ?
>
> Any help is very much appreciated. I am hoping to finish off internal /
> internet email and internet connection sharing / proxy by tommorow.
>
> TIA
>
> Bharat
>
>
>
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