Linux-Networking Digest #247, Volume #10 Fri, 19 Feb 99 02:13:47 EST
Contents:
Re: Is there a free proxy software on Linux OS? ("John Nelson")
Re: Machine name themes - what do you use? (Arto V. Viitanen)
Does anyone know if "PLUGBOARDING" is possible with RH5.2 (Gary Blydenburgh)
DNS Bind problem ("Dominik Berner")
Re: Linux and Microsoft Proxy Server 2.0 ("John Nelson")
Re: Networking Linux RedHat 5.1 and Windows98 (PCH)
Re: Minimum PC spec for IP masquerading??? (Greg Weeks)
Re: Machine name themes - what do you use? ("Flemming S. Johansen")
network printer for redhat 5.2 ("Ron")
Re: Ethernet Questions? (Andrew C. Ohnstad)
Re: need help getting modem to work ("Brian Phillips")
SUSE 6.0 => Novell Server ("Georg Lufen")
Re: IP Masquerading - Dropping Packets (Tobias Reckhard (jester))
Linux Users in Houston TX (Brian Feldman)
dns problem (xolom)
pinging NICS? ("Ahmed Aden")
Re: Firewall Question. (Developpement)
Re: something is missing! ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
gutes Problem..bin auch interessiert!!! o.T. ("Michael Kuebbeler")
Re: Does anyone know if "PLUGBOARDING" is possible with RH5.2 (Ken)
SL3.6 <=> WfWG3.11 v LAN ? (B.A.)
Peoblem with samba!!! ("kiho wong")
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From: "John Nelson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Is there a free proxy software on Linux OS?
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 23:24:09 -0800
Steve Arnold wrote in message <7ab4n4$rp6$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>
>Why would ip_masq be better than squid? I use them both (I like the
>squid-generated error messages, and local cacheing seems like a
>"good" thing).
Well...., I think it rather depends on the use to which the two might be
put. My home has a small LAN served by a caching proxy and the hit rates are
pretty dismal. Hardly worth the fuss of setting it up. I suspect that this
would be a different story in an office with a dozen or more users all
hitting the same few sites all day long.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Arto V. Viitanen)
Crossposted-To:
vmsnet.networks.misc,microsoft.public.windowsnt.domain,comp.unix.solaris,comp.os.os2.networking.server,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.admin.networking,comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix,comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains
Subject: Re: Machine name themes - what do you use?
Date: 18 Feb 1999 16:29:06 +0200
>>>>> "Stuart" == Stuart Summerville <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Stuart> Hi peoples, Just curious to know what themes you use for machine
Stuart> names on your local networks. I've heard of or used some of the
Stuart> following: animals, fruits, alcoholic beverages, artists, movie
Stuart> stars, & musicians. What about you? I'm sure there's some birarre
Stuart> ones being used out there....
I've been using Isaac Asimov's planet names, mainly from his Foundation
series. I have had (either as my workstation, home PC, or as server I have
been administrated):
aurora
terminus
anacreon
askone
kalgan
siwenna
Trantor is too obvious.
--
Arto V. Viitanen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
University of Tampere, Department of Computer Science
Tampere, Finland http://www.cs.uta.fi/~av/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gary Blydenburgh)
Subject: Does anyone know if "PLUGBOARDING" is possible with RH5.2
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 05:05:57 GMT
My use of the term "PLUG BOARDING" is I term I have heard
through work only, I haven't seen it anywhere else. Anyway here is my
problem.
I am running RH 5.2 on a Pentium 150 PC.
I belong to a broadband cable service, and I'm using IP Masquerade to
connect a 3 PC lan to the internet.
I want to get to one of my PC's via PCAnywhere. Where I work this
"PLUG BOARDING" thing is taking a port on the firewall and mapping it
back to a port (that is app specific) on the on the pc (with the
illegal IP address) running the app. Is this possible??
This is the extent of my firewall permissions.
/sbin/ipfwadm -F -p deny
/sbin/ipfwadm -F -a m -S 192.168.1.0/24 -D 0.0.0.0/0
Any help in this tter would be greatly appreciated.
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From: "Dominik Berner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: DNS Bind problem
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 10:37:02 +0100
Hi .
I use Red Hat 5.2 and bind 8. I have created and configured bind with webmin
( newest version ). So long, it works: with my second comp, the apache web
server, I can jump in the internet without problems and can start my own
homepage, too from a client win98 comp with inetexplorer.
But if I start nslookup on my webserver, he can't find it.
On my nameserver, my resolv.conf looks like that:
domain c-i-s.net
nameserver 127.0.0.1
and on my webserver
domain c-i-s.net
nameserver x.x.x.x
What could it be?
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From: "John Nelson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux and Microsoft Proxy Server 2.0
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 21:17:49 -0800
Tony Melendez wrote in message <7aho7r$cec$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Greetings,
> I have been trying to get Netscape Communicator under Linux to use MS
>Proxy 2.0 to connect to the internet. However, I don't seem to be having
>much luck. I can see Netscape vigorously try to access the NT Server but it
>finally fails and Netscape displays a message of Error: Access Denied. Has
>anyone had any luck with this? I am currently using Slackware Linux 2.0.34
>(InfoMagic July 1998 release). Any help would be greatly appreciated. TIA.
MS Proxy Server, by default, uses NT's encrypted authentication scheme.
Change this to clear-text only, or both, and you should get the
authentication dialog box in Netscape. Enter a valid username and PW and
away you go. Alternatively, you could set proxy server to allow anonymous
access.
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Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 09:40:57 +0000
From: PCH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Networking Linux RedHat 5.1 and Windows98
Have a look at Samba (SMB) - this does file and print serving using the same
protocols as NT/LanManager/LanServer. There are a number of how-tos, help docs
etc.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Can anyone point me in the right direction here. I have read the NET-3-HOWTO
> and I am beginning to get frustrated because I am having no sucess. Any
> Suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Is there a better HOWTO I should be
> reading. Funds are a little low for me to go out and but a Linux book right
> now.
>
> RMW
>
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Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Greg Weeks)
Subject: Re: Minimum PC spec for IP masquerading???
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 15:57:13 -0600
In article <Pine.GSO.4.05.9902161409300.11122-100000@columbia>,
Mike Kirk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> How fast of a PC would I need to do IP masquerading for 4 other PCs on my
> internal network, out through my cable modem? Would a 386 with 2 ISA
> NE2000 cards be enough? Essentially, it'll just be picking up packets off
> 1 network card, and dropping them on to the other. This doesn't seem to be
> something that would require a P2, but I don't want to lose any
> performance by having to wait on the gateway box.
A 386 should be acceptable. The routing takes very little
processor. Memory is more important than the processor. If you decide
to use proxies rather than masq it becomes a different story. Some of
the proxies are CPU pigs. I'm using a 486-33 as my masq box for a DSL
line.
Greg Weeks
--
http://durendal.tzo.com/greg/
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From: "Flemming S. Johansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.solaris
Subject: Re: Machine name themes - what do you use?
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 10:41:16 +0100
John Horne wrote:
> [snip]
> Currently we mainly use Greek/Roman gods, titans, mythical characters
> for our Sun systems - eros, pandora, vulcan, etc. The network people
> started using characters from the Hobbit - gandalf, etc. Then they
> moved to composers - chopin, liszt, etc. The last batch we had was
> 'rudolph' - installed at Xmas and we were going to use the reindeer
> names. The very last was renamed (from apollo) 'mabel' (??) - I don't
> know why but was told by one of the managers to rename the system to
> mabel.
>
> Our Y2K network has 'games'! - kerplunk, buckeroo, yoyo and the like :-)
Our Sun Ultra workstations have names like heaven, nirvana, olympus,
etc.
Conversely, the first Ultra server we got was promptly named hell - that
way I could tell my users where to go to when they wanted more cycles
;-)
Our Linux boxes are generally named after roman emperors: Nero,
augustus,
etc. This began with the first Linux box "officially" installed. Its
sole
task is to host a CD-ROM recorder. And by calling it nero I could make
an awful pun about it in danish (sorry, it doesn't translate).
Back in the old days when I admin'ed a bunch of AIX boxes, the main
server
was called 'sol' (latin for sun), and the clients were named after
planets.
========================================================================
Flemming S. Johansen
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Ron" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: network printer for redhat 5.2
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 02:05:44 -0800
new to Linux
I set up redhat 5.2 as default workstation on an i486, and set up samba
1.9.18p10 so I can access my win95 box. The network works but Im having
trouble setting up my Epson Stylus color 400 printer (which is hooked up to
the win95 box)
The win95 box is running the client for ms network and File and Print
sharing is enabled.
When I print the postscript test page from redhat Im getting the code
printed and no colors, instead of the redhat logo and whatever graphics are
supposed to be printed (the printer works fine when accessed from win95). I
have ghostscript 4.03 and ghostscript-fonts 4.03 installed. Does anyone have
any suggestions on how to remedy this?
TIA
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew C. Ohnstad)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.alpha
Subject: Re: Ethernet Questions?
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 05:03:24 -0500
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
says...
> I have seen something similar, but it seems to be a windows
> problem not an alpha/linux prob. If I do controlled tests
> with an x86 box running windows I see what you describe. If
> I boot the x86 into linux and do the same thing, there is
> no problem. The file goes back and forth without any perceptible
> difference in data rate.
>
> Uh oh, I didn't think to ask are you ftp-ing the file or running
> a samba server/client setup or what?
Admittedly I was a little vague on my original post, it was late, I was
tired, blah, blah...
The two boxes are connected by Cat 5 cable and a Linksys 5 port hub. The
Win machine is running 98, with a Netgear 301TX. The Alpha has it's
built in DEC chip card. The cables are new Belkin, though if I can beg
buy or borrow another pair from anywhere I'll try swapping them out.
The machines are set up as the Alpha/Linux being a server with samba
installed. The Alpha is running 2.0.35 (soon to be .36, and possibly
2.2.something later on). Samba is at version 1.18p10.
Here is a good example of what is going on...
D:\Installations>ftp
ftp> open headunit
Connected to headunit.loftnet.net.
220 headunit.loftnet.net FTP server (Version wu-2.4.2-academ[BETA-18](1)
Mon Jan
18 22:33:28 EST 1999) ready.
User (headunit.loftnet.net:(none)): andy
331 Password required for andy.
Password:
230 User andy logged in.
ftp> type binary
200 Type set to I.
ftp> lcd
Local directory now D:\Installations.
ftp> get webmin-0_65_tar.gz
200 PORT command successful.
150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for webmin-0_65_tar.gz (1058203
bytes).
226 Transfer complete.
ftp: 1058203 bytes received in 144.67Seconds 7.31Kbytes/sec.
ftp> put webmin-0_65_tar.gz
200 PORT command successful.
150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for webmin-0_65_tar.gz.
226 Transfer complete.
ftp: 1058203 bytes sent in 1.27Seconds 833.23Kbytes/sec.
ftp>
But it happens when dragging and dropping in Explorer (several Samba
Shares are mapped to drives) saving large files from within programs,
etc.
For goodness sake I really don't want to load NT on the Alpha, but
7.31Kbps is totally unacceptable. The friggin file is just barely over 1
Meg. 2 and a half minutes? I get better thru put from my T-1. Makes me
want to just put all my machines on the Internet and transfer everything
over FTP!!!
This is really driving me nutso. I'll play with the card settings
tonight until I get tired of rebooting. Anyone remember the Reg Key that
the MTU is under?
Grr.
=-=Andrew
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From: "Brian Phillips" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: need help getting modem to work
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 05:40:39 -0500
thanks for the info, but I still can't get it to work. The problem with the
xwindows ppp setup is that when I activate it... nothing happens! It says
that it's 'active', but the modem doesn't dial out at all - the channel
lights are not on. Also, I might mention that the DTR light on the 3com
Impact IQ is off until I run minicom or seyon.
With minicom, I can break into the connection to get the login prompt by
pressing <enter>... but this only works if I reset the modem to factory
defaults before dialing.
After I login I get a message about starting ppp, and it gives me my
assigned ip automatically, then I see about 6 or 7 lines of "ppp garbage"
before I get the "No Carrier" response.
Regards,
Brian
Jatin Kamat wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>go to http://borg.fastlane.net/~hildreth
>excellent step-by-step instructions with screen shots
>
>Jatin
>
>
>
>>
>
>
>
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From: "Georg Lufen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SUSE 6.0 => Novell Server
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 11:42:27 +0100
Hallo Leute,
ich bin neu in der Linux-Welt und habe ein SuSe 6.0 auf einer Workstation
installiert.
Nun m�chte ich eine Connection zu unserem Novell-Server ( 3.12) herstellen
und wei� nicht wie.
Kann mir jemand helfen ??
Danke f�r Eure Hilfe
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tobias Reckhard (jester))
Subject: Re: IP Masquerading - Dropping Packets
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 05:47:36 GMT
On Wed, 17 Feb 1999 08:51:48 -0600, Kevin Dick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>Has anyone on this thread got port forwarding to work?
I'm using a 2.0.36 kernel and ipportfw to play Starcraft on Battle.net
behind an IP masquerading gateway and it works, yes.
Tobias / jester
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From: Brian Feldman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Linux Users in Houston TX
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 00:02:28 -0600
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I am interested in speaking with some Linux users (prefereably
Network/System Admins) in the Houston Texas area. The people I would
like to speak with must be EXPERTS in all aspects of setting up and
maintaining Linux in a production networked environment (especially one
that includes machines w/ other OSes on them).
If you are interested and QUALIFIED there is a potential to be involved
in an interesting project and possibly even make some $$$ in the
process. If you have doubts in your qualifactions and skills w/ Linux
then you need not respond to this posting. Please respond by email to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
I assure you that this is not another annoying recruiting company to
bother the H-LL out of you, it is an opportunity to help promote Linux
in production environments and hopefully have a little fun in the
process.
I look forward to speaking with any/all qualified individuals.
Brian
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (xolom)
Subject: dns problem
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 11:52:06 +0100
i�ve got problem accessing my dns servers
i can ping ip�s like 193.12.34.23..
thnx in advance
My resolv.conf
#
# /etc/host.conf
#
# Automatically generated by SuSEconfig on Tue Feb 16 23:20:36 CET 1999.
#
# PLEASE DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE!
#
# Change variables (NAMESERVER + YP_SERVER) in /etc/rc.config instead.
#
#
order hosts bind
multi on
My 'hosts' file
#
# hosts This file describes a number of hostname-to-address
# mappings for the TCP/IP subsystem. It is mostly
# used at boot time, when no name servers are running.
# On small systems, this file can be used instead of a
# "named" name server.
# Syntax:
#
# IP-Address Full-Qualified-Hostname Short-Hostname
#
127.0.0.1 localhost
192.168.0.99 hag1.swipnet.se hag1
My resolv.conf file
#
# /etc/resolv.conf
#
# Automatically generated by SuSEconfig on Tue Feb 16 00:20:53 CET 1999.
#
# PLEASE DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE!
#
# Change variables (NAMESERVER + SEARCHLIST) in /etc/rc.config instead.
#
#
search swipnet.se
nameserver 130.224.127.161
nameserver 130.224.127.169
search swipnet.se #EzPPP Temp Entry
nameserver 130.224.127.161 #EzPPP Temp Entry
nameserver 130.224.127.169 #EzPPP Temp Entry
'route -n ' when i�m online..
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MetricRef Use Iface
192.168.0.99 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0
dummy0
130.244.250.68 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0
ppp0
127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 1
lo
0.0.0.0 130.244.250.68 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 2
ppp0
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From: "Ahmed Aden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: pinging NICS?
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 01:11:33 -0500
I have 2 computers (1 slackware 3.5, kernel 2.0.34 1 win98) and each one has
a NETGEAR FA310TX 10/100 NIC on it. I have a fast ethernet NETGEAR hub (4
ports) and they can't ping each other through the hub but I can ping each
NIC locally. I always thought that if you could ping the ip address of the
NIC locally, there is nothing wrong with the card. That led me to the
conclusion that the hub was bad. To test that, I bought a crossover cable
and decided to ping each machine from the other machine (win98--->linux,
linux--->win98) and I am getting the same symptoms, request timed out and
100% packet loss, respectively. Can anybody give me some suggestions as to
what in the world is going on? Since I can't ping through the crossover, I
can't blame the hub as faulty? If I remove the card in win98, it will say
"New Hardware Found", so i don't know if the win98 NIC is bad. Similarly, if
I do 'ifconfig' on the linux NIC, it gives all the information about it, it
uses the tulip.c driver originally written by Donald Becker and modified by
NETGEAR. I will try to re-install the latest driver and recompile the kernel
in the meantime. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Please feel
free to e-mail me.
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From: Developpement <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Firewall Question.
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 11:50:12 +0100
There is an excellent how-to written by Paul Russel at
http://www.rustcorp.com/linux/ipchains/
It helps me a lot.
Patrick
Tony Schonfeld wrote:
> hello ,
>
> i Need to have a good firewall to protect my local network under linux.
> Please where i can find a package easy to setup for that ???
> At this time i've manually use ipfwadm but i think it's not perfect,
> and just heard ipchains it's may be more flexible ...
> Can you send to me any good ideas about this subject ?
>
> Many thanks , Tony
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: something is missing!
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 06:48:21 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Naturally a linux newbie has missed something...any help gratefully
> accepted.
you added a lot of info here, please add more :
- can you ping a>b and viceversa
- can you do this with adresses (192.168....) and with names
- lets pretend this works, then
- is there a part in your smb.conf that actually defines shared resources
( if not, look up samba-how-to)
- are the users the same on both machines
- same passwords?
lets go further from here
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From: "Michael Kuebbeler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: gutes Problem..bin auch interessiert!!! o.T.
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 11:56:34 +0100
o.T.
Georg Lufen wrote:
> Hallo Leute,
>
> ich bin neu in der Linux-Welt und habe ein SuSe 6.0 auf einer Workstation
> installiert.
> Nun m�chte ich eine Connection zu unserem Novell-Server ( 3.12) herstellen
> und wei� nicht wie.
> Kann mir jemand helfen ??
>
> Danke f�r Eure Hilfe
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Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 22:04:16 -0800
From: Ken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Does anyone know if "PLUGBOARDING" is possible with RH5.2
You mean IP port forwarding. Look for ipportfw. There's something on
this in the TrinityOS document
(http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/~dranch/LINUX/TrinityOS.wri).
Gary Blydenburgh wrote:
>
> My use of the term "PLUG BOARDING" is I term I have heard
> through work only, I haven't seen it anywhere else. Anyway here is my
> problem.
>
> I am running RH 5.2 on a Pentium 150 PC.
> I belong to a broadband cable service, and I'm using IP Masquerade to
> connect a 3 PC lan to the internet.
>
> I want to get to one of my PC's via PCAnywhere. Where I work this
> "PLUG BOARDING" thing is taking a port on the firewall and mapping it
> back to a port (that is app specific) on the on the pc (with the
> illegal IP address) running the app. Is this possible??
>
> This is the extent of my firewall permissions.
>
> /sbin/ipfwadm -F -p deny
> /sbin/ipfwadm -F -a m -S 192.168.1.0/24 -D 0.0.0.0/0
>
> Any help in this tter would be greatly appreciated.
--
Ken
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.well.com/user/shiva/
http://www.e-scrub.com/cgi-bin/wpoison/wpoison.cgi (Death to Spam!)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (B.A.)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.slackware
Subject: SL3.6 <=> WfWG3.11 v LAN ?
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 06:04:54 GMT
What features/modules do I need to make SURE are compiled/installed on
my Slackware v3.6 box in order to have it accessable by my WfWG
machine via a HomeLAN. The eth0 is working fine, and I have no
problems accessing the Linux box with a DOS tcp/ip suite, and DMESG is
telling me that the root drive IS mounted as shared NFS, but my WfWG
isn't seeing anything. I can't use TCP/IP under WfWG because it
takes up TOO many resources and won't operate correctly. I have
NetBEUI and IPX/SPX-NetBIOS protos installed on the WfWG mach.
SHOULD this be a working link ???
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From: "kiho wong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Peoblem with samba!!!
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 15:14:14 +0800
Hi,
I'm using Redhat5.2 and I know that samba service is running while
installation finish.
I've setup my DNS server and it work, how can I connect my win98 PC to the
Redhat server....
Please help...
Thx.
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