Linux-Networking Digest #847, Volume #9 Mon, 11 Jan 99 07:14:00 EST
Contents:
Linux NIS Stability (Oliver Stahlhut)
cant get Samba to work right ("Jason M.")
Re: Help with DNS Virtual Hosting ("greyman")
Re: LAN and Permissions ("greyman")
Re: tcp_wrappers and samba... (Shaun Lipscombe)
Linux vs WIN NT (Johan Wouters)
Re: Standleitung (Analog mit Modems) (Joern Seemann)
ip-masquerading and network games (starcraft) ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: NETGEAR (tulip driver) problem (Troutman)
Re: YPBINDPROC_DOMAIN: No bound server for domain (Thorsten Kukuk)
Re: Has anyone used a Linux based NIS server with Solaris 2.5.1 and 2.6 clients ??
(Thorsten Kukuk)
Re: FPT in RedHat 5.1 ("greyman")
bad NFS performance PC-LINUX/Digital-UNIX (Bernard BOUTHERIN)
Re: ICQ, IRC, Realplayer behind SOCKS Proxy Firewall ??? (Michael Shuldman)
Netgear FA310TX, new tulip.c, still doesn't work ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: modify files by telnet (John Wolanski)
more 3c905b problems ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
nfs with smp (smp_spins) (Frantzcy Paisible)
Re: redhat is broken (Frank Sweetser)
Re: Linux vs WIN NT (Petr Sulla)
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From: Oliver Stahlhut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux NIS Stability
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 10:10:14 +0100
Hi there!
I tried to migrate our NIS/YP-service from SunOS4 to Linux and
encountered some strange problems. As long as i use the Linux-YP-server
only for Linux machines everything works fine. Once i put Solaris
(2.5/2.5.1/2.6) & IRIX (5.3/6.2/6.3/6.4) boxes into the YP-domain the
YP-servers (master & slaves) crash from time to time. Running the
YP-servers in debug mode produced a "GDBM read error" ! ... YP-server
1.3.6 seems to be very unstable (build statically with libgdbm-1.7.3), i
get much better results with the old version 1.2.4 (out of a SuSE-rpm)
which crashes less frequently.
Our configurations:
Linux 2.0.36 & SuSE-5.3-libc5-system with ypserv-1.2.4: most stable
Linux 2.0.33 & SuSE-5.1-libc5-system with ypserv-1.2.4: crashes once a
week
Linux 2.0.125 & SuSE-5.3-libc5-system with ypserv-1.2.4: crashes once
every two days
Linux 2.0.125 & SuSE-5.3-libc5-system with ypserv-1.3.6: crashes every
day
Linux 2.2.0-pre & SuSE-6.0-glibc2-system with ypserv-1.2.4: crashes
every other day
Linux 2.2.0-pre & SuSE-6.0-glibc2-system with ypserv-1.3.6: crashes
every few hours
At the moment I run 5 slaves and a watchdog-program to restart crashed
NIS-services to keep the Solaris machines happy ...
Does anyone experience similar problems ? ... or has some good hints for
solving my problems ? ..
Thanx in advance
Oliver
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From: "Jason M." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: cant get Samba to work right
Date: 10 Jan 1999 19:53:57 GMT
Im running Linux and win95, and tring to network the two.
I can ping across both and use telnet and all, HOWEVER
I cant seam to get samba to work, I uncommented all (I think) of the proper
lines in the config file
however I just cant get shit to work right. My win95 doesnt see linux as a
server
Im also pretty new to linux so I may have missed something that would seam
pretty
obvious to someone that knows what there doing.
Im running RH 5.1, win95 A, 100BaseTX NIC's & hub.
Please E-Mail replys to
griffenjam at internet-frontier.net
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From: "greyman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help with DNS Virtual Hosting
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 20:32:03 +1000
I don't think you have to do anything special. I assume that virtual hosts
use different port numbers for the www interface so just give each virtual
host in DNS the same IP or maybe CNAME. This is an example from my zone
file:
(I have used *.*.*. instead of real IP address)
eden IN A *.*.*.130
www IN CNAME eden.gmcs.com.au.
mail IN CNAME eden.gmcs.com.au.
ftp IN CNAME eden.gmcs.com.au.
Greyman
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Stephen wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>I have read books and learned all about how DNS works but I can't find a
>good example on Virtual Hosting with one IP address. I'm assuming the
>files "named.boot" and "named.conf" are the files I need to focus on. I
>have over 10 virtual hosts on one IP address. Anyone willing to help me
>out on this is a life saver. I just want one good example and I'm a
>happy man!
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
>email:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
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From: "greyman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: LAN and Permissions
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 20:37:59 +1000
Probably Win95 and/or Word. Look for any updates from the microsoft site,
check that other programs can save direct to a shared drive, and try again.
If you are using the win95A release of win95 then put service pack 1 on it.
This is not guaranteed to fix the problem, but on the whole, I've found that
the only way to run M$ software reliably is to keep the system as uptodate
as possible.
The only other thing that occurs to me is that file locking may be a
problem.
Greyman
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Desmond Coughlan wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>I have a tw-PC LAN set up, the server running Linux (Slackware 3.5),
>and the client running Windows 95. Everything works fine: I can ping,
>telnet, ftp, transfer files, map drives ... the lot. Lovely. :-)
>
>The only fly in the ointment, however, is that on the client, when I
>open Word 97, create a new document, and then try to save it directly
>onto the mapped network drive, I get the message to check that the
>drive door is closed !!
>
>On the server side, I have the permissions set to 777 on the whole
>partition. What I don't understand is that if I save the said Word
>document to (for example) the desktop, and then drag it onto the
>network drive with Explorer, it works all right, yet I can't write
>*to* that drive, from within Word.
>
>What do I have to change ..?
>
>Thanks.
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From: Shaun Lipscombe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.samba
Subject: Re: tcp_wrappers and samba...
Date: 11 Jan 1999 10:03:05 +0000
Yes it is, and i recommend you do so as it eases maintainablity of
services aswell as providing anther layer of security. You need
something like:
/etc/services:
#name service
netbios-ns 137/tcp
netbios-ns 137/udp
#datagram service
netbios-dgm 138/tcp
netbios-dgm 138/udp
#session service
netbios-ssn 139/tcp
netbios-ssn 139/udp
you also will need in /etc/inetd.conf
netbios-ssn stream tcp nowait root /usr/local/samba/bin/smbd smbd
netbios-ns dgram udp wait root /usr/local/samba/bin/nmbd nmbd
let me know if you get any problems
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From: Johan Wouters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux vs WIN NT
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 09:41:47 +0100
Any hints on where I can find any -objective?- comparisons between
WIN NT and Linux? I am about to become a network administrator of
75 PC's and we have a very vivid argument about what OS our server
should use. (I tend to dislike WIN NT and prefer linux!)
The server has to do mail routing, web server, network routing, ftp
archive and even some applications will run on it. We where thinking
about using a dual pentium II with 256MB of memory.
Any hints on this subject?
Thanks in advance,
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From: Joern Seemann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Standleitung (Analog mit Modems)
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 11:47:05 +0100
Henning Ahlers wrote:
>
> Also,
>
> Ahnung hat hier wohl keiner, oder?
>
Meinst Du wirklich, das jemand Lust hat bei diesen Ton zu antworten ?
Gru� J�rn
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: ip-masquerading and network games (starcraft)
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 08:38:50 GMT
For those of you that have got Starcraft to work through an IP masquerading
Linux box. Do you experience Lag? Or is it playable?
I have managed to make Starcraft work through IP Masquerading, but the lag is
too bad to play.
currently my setup is:
Cable Modem ISP
SuSE 5.3 Linux on a Pentium 133MHZ
w/ two ISA 10 base Linksys network cards
IP masquerading works great for Real Video etc... except for B.net
Where is my bottleneck? the ISA Network cards? the 10 base Lan?
or is IP-masquerading just not fast enough for B.Net?
any comments, experience, answers welcome
thanks
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From: Troutman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: NETGEAR (tulip driver) problem
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1999 10:16:54 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
min song wrote:
>
> Hi, I have a NIC, netgear from baynetworks.
> My NIC works fine under win98, but whenever i
> boot under linux, I do not get any respose from
> my school DHCP sever. I even have set everything
> manually (I have a static IP as well) but I still could not
> get NIC connected to my shcol lan.
> Please help me with this issue, I am using tulip
> driver that came with my RedHat 5.1.
> mom
Try checking the recent NG archives before posting. This thread has
been going on for weeks.
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From: Thorsten Kukuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: YPBINDPROC_DOMAIN: No bound server for domain
Date: 11 Jan 1999 09:39:33 GMT
Hello,
David Steuber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I keep seeing the following error message:
> YPBINDPROC_DOMAIN: No bound server for domain david-steuber.com
> I don't know what it means or what to do about it. Any ideas?
Please write the next time, which Linux Distribution or libc you
are using. It seems, you use RH 5.0 with an broken glibc version.
Update your glibc to a 2.0.7-xx version.
Thorsten
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Linux is like a Vorlon. It is incredibly powerful, gives terse,
cryptic answers and has a lot of things going on in the background.
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From: Thorsten Kukuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Has anyone used a Linux based NIS server with Solaris 2.5.1 and 2.6
clients ??
Date: 11 Jan 1999 09:41:40 GMT
Hello,
John Auld <> wrote:
> At present I have an aging x86 Solaris 2.5.1 box as a dedicated NIS
> master for a network comprising of four Sparc based NIS clients. I am
> considering using a RedHat Linux box as a new dedicated NIS master,
> and I would like to know if there are likely to be any compatability
> problems in the Sun and Freeware implemetations of NIS.
> The Linux box would be dedicated to the role of NIS master.
> Can you let me know if this works or fails ?
It works, at far as you doesn't use shadow or passwd.adjunct over NIS.
Standard passwd maps works without problems.
> P.S. Just to be absolutely clear - this is about NIS not NIS+. RedHat
> 5.1 comes with NIS packages in the distribution and I intend to use
> these.
Don't use the NIS package comming with RedHat 5.1, it is terrible broken.
Get an update for it.
Thorsten
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Linux is like a Vorlon. It is incredibly powerful, gives terse,
cryptic answers and has a lot of things going on in the background.
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From: "greyman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: FPT in RedHat 5.1
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 20:21:39 +1000
G'day,
Christopher Pritchard wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>I am trying to enable FTP access in RedHat 5.1. I can not locate ftpd
>on the system. If I attempt to RPM install the WU-FTP, it reports it is
>
>already installed. If I attempt to query the installation with RPM, it
>reports the product is NOT installed. I am at a loss as to what to do
>next. Thanks.
>
Sound like you should force a re-installation with the rpm -Uv --force -f
/.../wu-ftp-2....i386.rpm
BTW, the ftpd file is in.ftpd to run under the inet super server. See
/etc/inetd.conf file for how it is loaded.
Greyman
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From: Bernard BOUTHERIN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: bad NFS performance PC-LINUX/Digital-UNIX
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 12:39:04 +0100
I have a NFS performance problem between a PC running LINUX and a
Digital UNIX Workstation.
Workstations are connected via a 100Mbps switch
ftp transfert gives a good transfert rate of about 80Mbps
nfs transferts are very slow : less than 1Mbps!!
Any suggestion would help.
Regards
Bernard
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Shuldman)
Subject: Re: ICQ, IRC, Realplayer behind SOCKS Proxy Firewall ???
Date: 11 Jan 1999 11:39:28 GMT
Jon Barnett ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> (Chris) wrote:
> >The clients are running Linux too.I think all socks client progs have to be
> >SOCKSified, Netscape for example is already SOCKSified.
> >ICQ uses UDP and TCP packages, but it has a option to use a SOCKS V5 or V4
> >connection.
> >The only problem is that SOCKS V4 can`t proxy UDP packages it can only proxy
> > TCP
> >packages (thats what the installation says)
> >In the ICQ configuration it says that I have to open an outgoing UDP port
> > (4000)
> >on my firewall
> >or create an UDP port mapping. Can you tell me how to do that ?
>
> This poses somewhat more of a problem. You are indeed correct. The programs
> need to be socksified on Unix clients - only because there isn't an
> intercepting SOCKS layer sitting on top of the IP stack (as per Hummingbird's
> SOCKS client) - i.e. No one has written one yet.
True, but you can let that happen automatic. For instance, if you
are using the Dante socks implementation, it would be enough to
set a environment variable for all users and most programs would
then be automatically socksified. (There is a performance/ease-of-use
tradeoff between setting the variable for all programs, or using
the included "socksify" program to prefix network programs with.)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Netgear FA310TX, new tulip.c, still doesn't work
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 11:30:47 GMT
I'm trying to get a second nic working. The first, eth0, is a 3com 905 that
works just fine on RH 5.1.
I installed the second card (pci) and, based on past discussions in this
newsgroup, compiled and installed the new tulip.c driver that was on the disk
that came with the card.
I added: alias eth1 tulip to my /etc/conf.modules file, reboot, and it doesn't
work.
It doesn't show up when I 'ifconfig'. Trying to configure yields:
[root@bear /sbin]# ifconfig eth1 192.168.93.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 up
SIOCSIFADDR: Operation not supported by device
SIOCSIFNETMASK: Operation not supported by device
[root@bear /sbin]#
HELP!!!!
Bob
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From: John Wolanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: modify files by telnet
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 06:51:13 -0500
What I've done (using RedHat 5.2) was telnet into the machine, log in as
a regular user, then "su" like this:
su - root
Then I entered my passwd and did my admin stuff. Everything worked fine
for me!
Matt Chipman wrote:
> why is it that i cant modify files by telnet? I have used the "su"
> command when i log in but still cannot modify control files.
> I can walk around the files with the arrow keys and save and quit but
> nothing can be modified. Vim doesnt come up with any readonly messages
> while i am logged in as superuser. I can modify on the local machine no
> probs using vim.
> What do other people do for remote access?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: more 3c905b problems
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1999 15:56:32 GMT
hey all you linux masterminds, please help me out, i'm new to this. i
have redhat 5.2 and a 3com 3c905b ether card. at first it wouldnt
work, but i used the driver disk and the config program and changed
the mediatype to 10baset, it worked for about a day. now when i get on
netscape and try to go to a site, it say "cant find sever or server
does not have DNS entry" can someone please help me. thanks.
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From: Frantzcy Paisible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.questions,revue.linux-smp
Subject: nfs with smp (smp_spins)
Date: 11 Jan 1999 12:40:44 +0100
Hi!
I'm running a dual Pentium machine.
I can't seem to get nfs running on it, I get this error when i try
to"insmod nfs" :
/lib/modules/2.0.36/fs/nfs.o: unresolved symbol smp_spins
can any one help me with this ?
Frantzcy
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From: Frank Sweetser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: redhat is broken
Date: 04 Jan 1999 09:50:16 -0500
Elmo Recio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Joel Sloan wrote:
> > No need, Red Hat 5.x comes that way "out of the box".
> >
> > js
>
> Yeah with broken libs and everything else... i couldnt take redhat
none of my libs are broken.
> anymore, so i cut over to slakware, at least in slakware everything is
> not /done/ for you so you actually learn something, and can take /full/
> control of the system... when you have to boot into x-windows to add a
you can do the same in redhat. do you really think that installing redhat
means you can't do anything stupid like rm -rf /? there's nothing stopping
you from doing rpm -e rpm and going with straight tarballs from there.
> user (slakware comes with a script as part of /shadow/ passwords *which
> redhat doesnt have) something is seriously wrong...
if redhat doesn't support shadow, would you mind telling me how i'm using
it?
> redhat is a nice distro to place on an array of machines (ie: a computer
> lab) cause all the little stuff is done for you... but if you need a
> development server, redhat is not the answer... sorry i dunno if this
as opposed to slackware? with it's frequent security updates, and
availible support contracts through the vendor and partners?
> was out of place but, i had to vent some of the anger and wasted time i
> have spent trying to get redhat linux to work...
ah, so you're just pissed off.... please don't take it out by spreading FUD
about redhat.
> this weekend i finally moved the production machine over to slakware,
> with no visible user impact... welp, well see on monday if users begin
> to have trouble, whether or not that last statement is true, but i have
> had a couple of blokes test it out at work doing the normal user
> stuff...
if you can get slackware to work, good for you. if you're willing to do a
little more work yourself, it'll certainly get the job done. but i know
plenty of people, myself included, who have had excellent results with
redhat.
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From: Petr Sulla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux vs WIN NT
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 11:07:51 GMT
Johan Wouters wrote:
>
> Any hints on where I can find any -objective?- comparisons between
> WIN NT and Linux? I am about to become a network administrator of
> 75 PC's and we have a very vivid argument about what OS our server
> should use. (I tend to dislike WIN NT and prefer linux!)
>
> The server has to do mail routing, web server, network routing, ftp
> archive and even some applications will run on it. We where thinking
Well, if you want to really RUN applications ON the server (not just
share the files over the net and run them on the client), you might
really consider installing Linux. It can be done in NT (I forgot the
name of the program), but it's bloated, not a system-clean solution and
expensive. In Linux you just set the DISPLAY variable.
> about using a dual pentium II with 256MB of memory.
> Any hints on this subject?
Look at http://www.unix-vs-nt.org/
Well, Linux & Samba & Apache & Qmail & ProFTPd and you can't want
more... And it's for free.
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