Linux-Networking Digest #988, Volume #9 Mon, 25 Jan 99 02:13:42 EST
Contents:
Palm III Network via HotSync Cradle (Bill Pitz)
Re: diald -not replacing default route (David Kirkpatrick)
Re: eth0: The transmission stopped! (Bill Cripe)
Re: FTP server? ("Eugene")
Re: help samba -> Gethostbyaddr failed for 90.0.0.4 (Malware)
Re: Networking two linux machines ("Eugene")
diald won't connect ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
What could "modprobe: can't locate module net-pf-17" be? (Jeffrey T Kowalczyk)
Running Xterm from another Linux box on the network ("Mike Drummond")
Re: Win95-Linux VPN (Dai to)
Re: Why Does Linux Networking Suck So Badly ? (B. vonEschen)
Test - please ignore ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: 2 Linux machines 2 nics and a hub and something is wrong? (John Wolanski)
NT4SP3 + SBS breaks linux proxy server? (Corey Hauer)
Re: Networking two linux machines (Edwin Calimbo)
Re: Linux --> Company NT RAS - Can it be done? (Luca Filipozzi)
Re: diald won't connect ("K.A. Steensma")
Re: Win95-Linux VPN (Edwin Calimbo)
samba woes ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: ftp upload: permissions question (Hugo Villeneuve)
Re: Running Xterm from another Linux box on the network (Hugh McCurdy)
Re: Cable Modem problems (Clayton Summers)
Re: Road Runner (John Wolanski)
Re: Linux --> Company NT RAS - Can it be done? (Richard Steiner)
Re: home ne's ork - setup. (David Kirkpatrick)
NT RAS callback for Linux - Solved!! ( using mschap ) (Diederick van Dijk)
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From: Bill Pitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.palmtops.pilot
Subject: Palm III Network via HotSync Cradle
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1999 23:14:34 GMT
Hi:
I was wondering if it is possible to access the network with the Palm
III via the serial interface on the HotSync Cradle. I have tried out
the "Palm Redirector" program, but it doesn't quite do what I want.
Here is what would be the optimum solution:
Connect cradle to serial port of Linux system.
Run PPP over serial link and provide transparent routed internet access
(which the machine is already doing for several ethernet workstations)
I have also been able to create a link like this via a null-modem cable
between two Linux PC's. I have (so far) been able to get the Palm III
to act as a serial terminal onto one of the Linux PC's, which is what
leads me to believe it's possible to run PPP over the link. In fact, I
*know* it is possible -- the big question is what software do I need on
the Palm III to do a direct link with PPP?
Basically it would work just like the dialup access which I have already
been able to use, only it would eliminate the actual modem interfacing.
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From: David Kirkpatrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: diald -not replacing default route
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1999 17:05:39 +0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Is our default route open for ppp0 to use or is ie specified
somewhere? It should be available.
dizzy wrote:
>
> when I request a service such as telnet <my provider in /etc/hosts> it
> triggers diald and sucessfully dials up gives me a local IP and remote
> IP
> then states
> "ppp not replacing existing default route to sl0"
> "connect script timed out. Killing script"
> Ive tried to add an IP address in route.conf but it dosent seem to make
> any difference
> apparently its looking for a replacement route for serial line 0. AFAIK
> this is a ficticioous device linking to ppp.
> I do have slip running when dials starts <slip keep alive>
> can someone shed some light to my delimmna?
> This is on SuSE 5.3 and Ive posted to their list but <nada>
> this is driving me nuts!!
> I spent most of the morning serching deja news but diddnt come upp with
> any answers.
> many thanks
> rob
>
> Linux Home page http://www.connix.com/~dizzy73/LBM.htm
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From: Bill Cripe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: eth0: The transmission stopped!
Date: 25 Jan 1999 00:54:15 GMT
David Kirkpatrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: It looks like the error message was -> transmitter <- not
: transmission. Could you verify that?
First, David is correct, it was in fact transmitter, not transmission.
I just thought that I'd follow up on my own post now that I have things
working. Perhaps this will help someone someday. I finally figured
out the problem by digging through Deja News and a few other web
sites, so thanks to all those folks who posted in the past. Here's
what was going on:
A Netgear FX310TX ethernet card may have one of several different
chips in it depending on its age and a number of other factors. There
is a good chance that the tulip.c driver which comes in your Linux
distribution will work IF the chip actually is a "Digital". If it is
it will be printed on the chip. Even if it is Digital there is some
chance that you will need a more modern version of tulip.c.
If it doesn't say Digital upgrading your version of tulip.c may
take care of whatever problems you are having. But here's the snag
to watch out for: If you have a non-Digital chip, for example one
that says "Netgear" on it, and near the upper right hand corner of the
card it says "D1" or higher (mine is D2), then you have to use the
version of tulip.c that was supplied on the disk with the card, even
if it has a lower version than the most recent version of tulip.c. It
seems that Netgear makes some of their own adjustments to tulip.c in
order to make it work with the various chips they use. I discovered
this on Netgear's web page, so I can't say they didn't try at all to
make it easier.
A concrete example would be: My linux distribution came with v.86
of tulip.c. This gave me a lot of "timed out" messages and wouldn't
connect to the network at all. I got tulip.c v.90 from
http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/tulip.html, and this got the
transmitter stopped message mentioned in the original post. Finally
I replaced tulip.c with the one from my Netgear disk, which was v.89,
and the card started working.
I had actually looked on the disk, and found tulip.c, but because
it had a lower version the the latest one I ignored it. I hope this
information helps.
Bill Cripe
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From: "Eugene" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: FTP server?
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1999 17:26:09 GMT
ftp server software is not installed
Joseph Santaniello wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Hi Everyone,
>
>I've installed RH 5.1 and it works fine. But I can't connect via ftp to
>the machine. The client gets a "service unavailable" message. I didn't
>monkey with /etc/services or anything else related that I know of. What
>package and/or settings etc do I have to do/make to get ftp access
>available? I don't want anon-ftp, just regular. Any tips?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Joe
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From: Malware <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: help samba -> Gethostbyaddr failed for 90.0.0.4
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1999 17:24:52 +0100
Hi William,
you wrote:
> I vaguely recall reading of 98's inability to connect to a samba machine due
> to MS preventing LanMan passwords. Unfortunately I was unable to locate the
Within the Samba distribution a text file ENCRIPTION.txt is included
which is about this problem.
Malware
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From: "Eugene" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Networking two linux machines
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1999 17:28:15 GMT
you use NFS (Network File System)
samba is for windows clients to access Linux server
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message <78fj6a$vd5$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Ok everyone,
>
>Forgive me for asking such a naive question, but. . .
>
>I am going to install a second Linux machien and I want both machines to
>access each other's files. Do I use Samba for this or should I use some
other
>software package?
>
>-----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==----------
>http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: diald won't connect
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:33:00 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I am having a perplexing problem with Diald. Diald has been set up
according to the dynamic IP address allocation example.
I try to manually connect with diald and get the following message:
specified device /dev/cua1 not a character device
This is the same device that PPP can dial out on with no problems. I am
using kernel 2.0.29 is this possibly the problem? Any suggestions would
be greatly appreciated.
Chris
.
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From: Jeffrey T Kowalczyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: What could "modprobe: can't locate module net-pf-17" be?
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1999 23:02:10 -0500
I'm running the 1.3.17 dhcpcd daemon, and get a startup error of
modprobe: can't locate module net-pf-17
Where can I look for information on this module? Is it related to my build
of the dhcpcd binary, or is the 17 cooincidence?
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From: "Mike Drummond" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Running Xterm from another Linux box on the network
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:58:18 -0800
I am attempting to run Xterm from another Linux box on my home LAN and I am
getting some permission problems that I need help solving
I log into the other Linux box via Telnet and set up my display as follows
export DISPLAY=<IP of this machine>:0
I then type
xterm &
and I get the following error message
xlib client is not authorized to connect to server
xlib connection refused by server
Could someone please explain where I need to go to set up my permissions?
I am running S.U.S.E on both boxes
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From: Dai to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Win95-Linux VPN
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1999 20:33:28 -0800
It should work, but I haven't found anything showing how to do it (I'm
looking). The SSH package is under $500 for 5 users and I can't imagine that
you could put something together with PPTP for less than triple that, if you
included the time spent messing with it. (except it might be fun.<g>)
Wayne
James Addison wrote:
> Shouldn't the Tunnelling protocol be looked into for this situation?
>
> not sure myself...
>
> James Addison.
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (B. vonEschen)
Subject: Re: Why Does Linux Networking Suck So Badly ?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 05:02:47 GMT
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (j)
>>> The sheer number of messages posted here - usually half going
>>> unanswered - tells the tale ... Linux networking sucks.
<Lots of longwinded stuff snipped>
>>> As much as I dislike Winders, it's a positive relief to boot
>>> back into it after fooling around for hours in vain with Linux.
Is that boot or re-boot, & re-boot, & re-boot, & re-boot.....
Sorry - I'm very new to Linux and once was new to "Winders", however
I'm tired as hell of all the bs that comes with running ANYTHING MS
sells, or gives away for that matter. Sure you can plug two or three
"Winders" boxes together and call it a network, and that's great,
however what good is easy networking on an overbloated, unstable, file
spewing, piece of $#!^ OS???
I have had daily dialogs of error messages spat at me from "Winders"
since the first day I used 95 or 98, one of my personal favorites is
having Internet Explorer crash as I'm reading a web page, not even
touching the keyboard or mouse!?!?!
>>> Preferring Winders to ANYTHING ... IMHO that's a pretty severe
>>> indictment. Linux has been badly over-sold. If it weren't so
>>> cheap it would be a rip-off ... a hobby OS masquerading as
>>> the "real deal".
I pity people with this kind of outlook towards Linux. I'll keep
pluggin' away at learning Linux and enjoy the knowledge I'm gaining &
I'll continue to enjoy using an OS that millions of people want to
work... vs using crap that M$ wants everyone to use, the way *they*
think you should use it, active desktop, view as a webpage, what the
hell is that crap all about?
...thats my $0.02 on this matter.
Burke vonEschen
Canada
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Test - please ignore
Date: 24 Jan 1999 19:07:16 -0600
This is a test post - please ignore
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From: John Wolanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: 2 Linux machines 2 nics and a hub and something is wrong?
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 00:36:23 -0500
Sure you can! Just make sure the cable is a cross-over cable (meaning
the wires inside are reversed)!
Charles Stack wrote:
> You can't/shouldn't do this with Cat5 cable since it doesn't terminate the
> lines properly. Odds are, the network won't work at all.
--
-John Wolanski
Remove the "_removethis" from my email address to reply.
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From: Corey Hauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.nt.admin.networking
Subject: NT4SP3 + SBS breaks linux proxy server?
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1999 23:35:58 -0600
One of my customers has a Linux server running ipfwadm (masquerading)
to connect to the internet. They recently added a NT 4.0 server to their
network running Small Business Server. The consultant I that sold it
to them says he disabled the MS Proxy Server programs.
When a user logs on to the NT Server their internet connectivity
breaks (well, TCP breaks - they can still send UDP and ICMP as they
can tracert and ping). If they do not log on to the NT server they
can access the internet without difficulty.
Is there a way to stop NTS from breaking TCP routing/masquerading?
Corey
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Edwin Calimbo)
Subject: Re: Networking two linux machines
Date: 25 Jan 99 05:10:19 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: Ok everyone,
: Forgive me for asking such a naive question, but. . .
: I am going to install a second Linux machien and I want both machines to
: access each other's files. Do I use Samba for this or should I use some other
: software package?
: -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==----------
: http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Luca Filipozzi)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Linux --> Company NT RAS - Can it be done?
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:44:09 -0800
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
says...
> Seemingly this is not a FAQ! Nobody seems to know the answer to the
> two questions I asked in the original post...
That's 'cause this is a Linux newsgroup.
--
Luca Filipozzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: "K.A. Steensma" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: diald won't connect
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 04:12:26 GMT
I just solved that problem on a new box that I was setting up. Change the
line that refers to /dev/cua1 in the /etc/diald/connect (I assume you are
using the first serial port for your modem) to /dev/ttyS0. This works for
me
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I am having a perplexing problem with Diald. Diald has been set up
> according to the dynamic IP address allocation example.
>
> I try to manually connect with diald and get the following message:
>
> specified device /dev/cua1 not a character device
>
> This is the same device that PPP can dial out on with no problems. I am
> using kernel 2.0.29 is this possibly the problem? Any suggestions would
> be greatly appreciated.
>
> Chris
>
> .
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Edwin Calimbo)
Subject: Re: Win95-Linux VPN
Date: 25 Jan 99 05:21:17 GMT
Eric Rossing ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: We have an office in another city with a few non-networked computers. Here
: in the main office, our network is connected to the Internet through a
: Linux-based firewall/server.
: Is it possible to have our out-of-town users connect to the Internet through
: a local (to them) ISP, and then establish a VPN connection through our Linux
: server to access our network?
: If so, where can I go to find more information?
: Thanks!
: Eric Rossing
: Intec Company, Inc.
: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: samba woes
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1999 22:45:51 GMT
Hi All,
I am having a problem with samba
Here is the log for the only machine trying to connect:
Gethostbyaddr failed for 90.0.0.3
Gethostbyaddr failed for 90.0.0.3
1999/01/23 01:06:26 sparches (90.0.0.3) connect to service tmp as user ann
(uid=501,gid=100) (pid 3983)
1999/01/23 01:06:26 sparches (90.0.0.3) closed connection to service tmp
Gethostbyaddr failed for 90.0.0.3
Gethostbyaddr failed for 90.0.0.3
this is a win98 machine.
The win98 machine can see the linux box.
The linux machine lists it as one of the computer on the net using nmblookup.
smbclient and testparm works great.
please help!!!
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
============= Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ============
http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own
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From: Hugo Villeneuve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ftp upload: permissions question
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:03:00 -0500
The ftp client on a linux box support these two commands:
umask 133
chmod 644 xyz.html
It should work on all unix ftp server. A good win32 ftp client should
also support this.
Hugo
Hendrik Krauß wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> If I upload files to my Suse-5.2 server via ftp, they have -rw-r-----
> permissions. For accessing them with Apache web server, they have to be
> at least -rw-r--r--. I'm tired of uploading a file, closing ftp, opening
> a telnet connection and doing a "chmod 744 xyz.html".
>
> Where can I set which permissions uploaded files initially get?
>
> Regards,
> Hendrik
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From: Hugh McCurdy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Running Xterm from another Linux box on the network
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 05:19:07 +0000
Mike Drummond wrote:
>
> I am attempting to run Xterm from another Linux box on my home LAN and I am
> getting some permission problems that I need help solving
>
> I log into the other Linux box via Telnet and set up my display as follows
>
> export DISPLAY=<IP of this machine>:0
>
> I then type
>
> xterm &
>
> and I get the following error message
>
> xlib client is not authorized to connect to server
> xlib connection refused by server
>
> Could someone please explain where I need to go to set up my permissions?
>
> I am running S.U.S.E on both boxes
Fortunately I asked a question like this just a few hours ago in c.o.l.x
I got an answer from Troy Carter of Princeton University. And I have
tested it and his advice solved my problem. And since my problem is
like your problem we are both in luck.
Let's assume the remote (client) computer is called "fred"
To the X initialization file on your local computer (server) add the
line
xhost +fred
Be sure you read the initialization file to make sure you add the line
early
enough in the script to actually get executed.
--
Hugh McCurdy
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From: Clayton Summers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: Cable Modem problems
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 06:13:49 GMT
Hmmm,
I had the exact same problem. I think it may have to do with the BIOS,
actually. I think I read somewhere that some BIOSes do not activate
some PCI cards automatically, they wait for the OS to do it?
My solution... $10.95 for an ISA NE2000 clone.
My linux box is set up to masquerade, and this is going out from a Win98
box, through the linux box (RH5.2)
Robert Montgomery wrote:
>
> Sorry, but I have no answers, but just to let you know, I'm in a similar
> position, so if anyone DOES know, they will probably be helping many
> of us...
>
> I've got a 3Com 3c900 ethernet card (which is tier-1 supported from RedHat
> 5.2)
> which runs to a Motorola CyberSurfer cable modem through the @Home network.
>
> The Network Configurator never seems to really "activate" the interface.
> I can try and activate the "eth0" interface and it appears to be active,
> until I
> close and re-open the Network Configurator again, only to find out it isnt
> active...
> I was noticing a message on the Console after every "activate" that said
> something like "delaying activation of eth0", but now even that has
> stopped...
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Paul Tiseo wrote:
>
> > Well,
> >
> > All is good in linux land for me. All I have left (which is
> > apparently the source of much pain to newbies) is sound and networking.
> > So, here's a few questions for the more experienced:
> >
> > 1. Do I need to include PPP and SLIP in my kernel if I have
> > the one-way Mediaone cable modem whenever I get around
> > to a kernel recompile?
> >
> > 2. When I create an interface entry in the Network Configurator
> > in RH5.2, it never seems to activate. Why?
> >
> > 3. I looked into the DHCP HOWTO as it seems to be rather
> > important for cable modems. (Got that out of the cable modem
> > mini-HOWTO) The first thing one must do replace rc.inet1 in
> > /etc/rc.d with a new script. Problem? I don't seem to have an
> > rc.inet1 to replace! Does it have to do with an incomplete
> > networking installation?
> >
> > So many questions, so little time...
> >
> > -----------------------
> > Paul Tiseo
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: John Wolanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Road Runner
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 00:46:56 -0500
Most locations' RR setup is different, but try this site. It and it's
links led me to a site that helped me get mine set up!
http://home.tampabay.rr.com/philip1/cable.htm
Trotter wrote:
> I am trying to log onto Time Warner's Road Runner cable modem service with
> Linux. Unfortunatly, Time Warner decided not to support Linux by making a
> login program for it. However, they informed me that some people had made
> their own linux login clients. If you have a client or know someone who
> does, could you please send it to me? Thanks
--
-John Wolanski
Remove the "_removethis" from my email address to reply.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Steiner)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Linux --> Company NT RAS - Can it be done?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1999 23:28:11 -0600
Here in comp.os.linux.setup, [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake unto us, saying:
>Seemingly this is not a FAQ! Nobody seems to know the answer to the
>two questions I asked in the original post...
I suspect that's probably because the majority of users here don't do a
whole lot of stuff involving Windows NT.
--
-Rich Steiner >>>---> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>---> Bloomington, MN
OS/2 + Linux (Slackware+RedHat+SuSE) + FreeBSD + Solaris +
WinNT4 + Win95 + PC/GEOS + Executor = PC Hobbyist Heaven!
Does "anal retentive" have a hyphen? :-)
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From: David Kirkpatrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: home ne's ork - setup.
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1999 23:40:04 +0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
A fresh install allowing you to select options will setup
most
things you need with tweeks from reading the faq's and howto's.
The Samba will do just what you want. The linux server will look
like
another pc - show up as a computer icon etc. etc. For samba edit
/etc/smb.conf. It will give you most of the info you need right
there.
>From there you can grep the smb-howto. The bottom part of the
smb.conf
is where you setup the shares on the linux side the pc's will
see.
One catch is smbpasswd. Its not mentioned well in the doc. You
need
to setup some passwords for users. See the man for smbpasswd.
The next
catch is encryption. Turn smb's encryption on/off to match
whatever you
other systems are set at. If you've done these things and things
don't
work suspect the non-linux side network configuration and wins,
hosts,
lmhosts and network.
Setup a class C network with 192.168.1.x these are sanctioned
numbers
for home networks. Netmask of 255.255.255.0. Assign 1.1 to the
server
and 2,3,4... for the other machines.
Setup ppp by editing /usr/doc/ppp.../scripts copy ppp-on,
ppp-on-dialer
and options to /etc/ppp. Edit ppp-on for your system. Catch is
/dev/???
Yours will probably be /dev/cua1. Set this with the Control
Pannel, modem.
Catch is to setup /etc/resolv.conf with the dns ip's from your
ISP. This
can be setup with Control Pannel: System, PPP/SLIP etc entry.
Fill in
all this. PAP ?? depends on ISP, most likely not used. Net
section defaulted.
On C P network. Insure to leave default gateway open. PPP0
will
want to use that.
There are a number of other catch's but there not a big deal.
Grep deja.
You'll get to like Linux very much as a server.
James Addison wrote:
>
> Situation:
>
> I have a small home network running in my basement. My roommates and I are
> now all connected to the internet and to each other via Windows 98 on each
> machine with WinGate 3.0 Server on the Network server and WinGate 3.0 Client
> on each network client machine.
>
> I am also running Personal Web Server (Microsoft's http server) and FTGate
> (an email server), all in windows. Here's my problem:
>
> I don't want to do it this way. Sounds simple, right? :)
>
> I would like to run Linux on my server machine - being that it incorporates
> a mail server, web server and various other servers into the OS. I
> understand that you can use SAMBA to connect Windows computers together and
> allow them to read the directory structure of the mounted linux drive
> (correct me if I am wrong).
>
> Now, to the root of my problem - how do I go about doing this? I have
> installed linux several times, on a cable modem system and I have configured
> my networking using dhcp before. BUT - I have never configured a home
> network on it. This is where I need help. I will be using Red Hat 5.1/5.2
> and I will be upgrading to kernel 2.2 ASAP.
>
> Could anyone offer suggestion or problems that I might run into and some of
> the solutions? Or maybe some excellent networking resources? that would be
> great. Web sites would be nice.
>
> I am going to take a lengthy look into the LINUX FAQs tonight. Hopefully, I
> can get a start from there.
>
> if possible, please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or to
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] - if it's easier, you can respond to this thread - I am
> sure I will pick it up. :)
>
> thanks in advance.
>
> James Addison
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Diederick van Dijk)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.ms-windows.networking.ras,comp.protocols.ppp,uk.comp.os.linux,nl.comp.os.linux
Subject: NT RAS callback for Linux - Solved!! ( using mschap )
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1999 11:00:04 GMT
Hi,
I wish to thank Clifford Kite for pointing me to this old message
which describes the solution for the NT RAS callback problem.
I have tried the patch and it works fine.
========== Forwarded message ==========
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 20:08:08 -0400
From: bill davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RAS callback for Linux - Solved!!
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.networking
With a bit of critical information from Steve Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
we have a solution to the RAS callback problem. He put me on to
this patch which makes the ppp-2.3.4 answer the returing call:
diff -r pppstd/ppp-2.3.4/pppd/lcp.c ppp-2.3.4/pppd/lcp.c
269c269
< ppp_recv_config(unit, PPP_MRU, 0xffffffff,
---
> ppp_recv_config(unit, PPP_MRU, 0x00000000,
That said, here is my small contribution, two ppp scripts which
actually initiate the call and accept the callback, and a short
shell script which runs the two pppd scripts and will reinitiate
the connection if it drops.
This one initiates the connect
================================================================
# hardware settings
modem
crtscts
lock
asyncmap 0
defaultroute
# modem selection
/dev/modem
57600
# IP info - accept any old IP addresses we're offered
192.168.14.165:192.168.14.118
ipcp-accept-local
ipcp-accept-remote
# validation info
# this is my name as known to the remote server
name davidsen
# this is an arbitrary name to match the entry in the
# chap-secrets file
remotename ras
# run this whole script, no detach
-detach
# ask for callback, wait for callback req
# callback number, don't forget a 9 or something if needed
callback 555-1234
# communications settings
connect '/etc/ppp/bin/chat -v \
ABORT "BUSY" \
ABORT "NO ANSWER" "" \
"AT&F1E0Q0" OK \
ATDT5554321 CONNECT'
This is the pppd script which accepts the callback. Note that
instead of setting the modem to answer on a ring, such as S0=1, I
wait for the RING message and force an answer inthe manner of mgetty
================================================================
# hardware settings
modem
crtscts
lock
asyncmap 0
defaultroute
# validation info
# this is my name on their system
name davidsen
# this is their name (arbitrary) in my chap-secrets file
remotename ras
# let them pick the IP addresses
ipcp-accept-local
ipcp-accept-remote
# keep checking
# NOTE: you only need this *if* your remote server hangs
# without actually dropping the modem connection
lcp-echo-interval 20
lcp-echo-failure 2
# wait for them to say "hi"
connect 'chat -v \
ABORT "BUSY" ABORT "NO ANSWER" "" \
"AT&F1E0Q0&D3" OK "" RING ATA CONNECT'
# communications settings
/dev/modem
57600
This is an example /etc/chap-secrets:
================================================================
davidsen ras songbyrd
ras davidsen songbyrd
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