Linux-Networking Digest #405, Volume #10 Sat, 6 Mar 99 20:14:34 EST
Contents:
Re: Please help: how do I setup Linux for sending e-mails with Netscape? (David
Kirkpatrick)
Re: samba (ozric)
open ports and how to close (dave)
Re: Is there a WinNT/Linux guide for idiots? (Rod Roark)
Re: NT4/Samba - Lost connectivity (David Kirkpatrick)
Re: Linux versions, any opinions? (Tommy Johnsson)
Re: IP Masqurading? Please Help (fred anger)
mgetty/pppd at 115200 by Null modem problems (Peter McPhee)
Re: Linux versions, any opinions? ("Leopold Toetsch")
Re: Monitoring IP Traffic (Clemens Heise)
SAMBA, please? ("James Wanless")
date/time of received mail ("Leopold Toetsch")
Re: Gigabit Networking Pentium Linux Servers? (KA)
Re: smbmount won't work (ozric)
Re: smbmount won't work (ozric)
Re: Samba Question ("GA")
Icon in Network Neighbourhood (Ron Smith)
Redhat and cable modems ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Samba Question ("GA")
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From: David Kirkpatrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Please help: how do I setup Linux for sending e-mails with Netscape?
Date: Sat, 06 Mar 1999 10:03:46 +0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Rolf,
Have you setup PPP dialout yet?
SMTP is for outgoing mail POP for incomming.
If you are ppp setup - dial into the ISP then setup the mail
server names after your online. NS looks for what you entered
and if your not online cannot find them.
d
Rolf Kjoeller wrote:
>
> Hi - I can't figure out how to setup Linux for sending e-mails with
> Netscape; I am on a dialupconnection to my isp, no network.
>
> When I enter the name of my isp's smtp-server, Netscape
> tells me that the smtp-server is an unknown host. I have read the
> mail-howto, but I didn't understand very much of it, other than that
> I perhaps need some sort of Mail Ttransport Agent.
>
> I would be very happy, if someone would help me out with this one.
>
> Rolf
>
> --
> email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> webpage: http://hjem.get2net.dk/rolf.kjoeller
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From: ozric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: samba
Date: Sat, 06 Mar 1999 15:09:01 GMT
Put the samba server in the domain. and add your pdc to the smb.conf
file
This is really a NT domain(NT domains suck, what was M$ thinking...ahh
never mind) thingie.
Johannes Plachy wrote:
>
> I have installed samba on my linux 2.2.2 machine
> but cannot access any shared directory from my windows machines.
>
> My windows machines are in a NT domain,
> and because the Domain server should NOT be used to verify pwds etc
> the Linux machine is another domain/workgroup.
>
> But: In the nework neighbourhood only the Win95/98 computers are able to see
> the linux machine ( they cannot access it anyway).
> under NT no icon is visible and accessing directly via address doesnt work
> also.
>
> any ideas ?
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Subject: open ports and how to close
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (dave)
Date: Sat, 06 Mar 1999 15:18:00 GMT
I scanned for open ports on my system and found the following: How do I close
thes services. I was able to close all other ports except for these:
192.168.0.1 98 tacnews TAC News
192.168.0.1 111 sunrpc SUN Remote Procedure
192.168.0.1 113 auth Authentication Service
192.168.0.1 143 imap2 Interim Mail Access
192.168.0.1 513 login remote login a la telnet;
192.168.0.1 514 cmd like exec, but automatic
192.168.0.1 901 Unassigned
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From: Rod Roark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Is there a WinNT/Linux guide for idiots?
Date: 6 Mar 1999 14:37:58 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>I've tried, but the terminologies of the two systems
>have got me buffaloed. Is there a simple guide that
>translates WinNT terms such as WORKGROUP and
>COMPUTER NAME into Linux or conversely
>translates DOMAIN, HOST, etc.? It would make it a
>lot easier for dopes like me who would like to use
>Samba.
Get the book "Samba: Integrating Unix and Windows" by John D. Blair,
published by SSC. Best explanation of Windows Networking that I've
ever seen.
-- Rod
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Sunset Systems Preconfigured Linux Computers
http://www.sunsetsystems.com/ and Custom Software
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From: David Kirkpatrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: NT4/Samba - Lost connectivity
Date: Sat, 06 Mar 1999 10:22:03 +0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
What you refer to domain are you refering to an MS domain or a
network domain? What have you setup in
wint\system32\drivers\etc\hosts lmhosts and networks? What ip
numbers are you using for these machines if one "is not part of a
domain". If the NT machine is not in the network domain how did
it ever connect - who's routing or forwarding?
Ken Braatz wrote:
>
> I've been able to connect to my RH 5.2 box from my NT4 workstation with
> no problems -- until I installed SP3. Since then, when I attempt to
> browse or connect I receive the message: \\Tick is not accessible. The
> account is not authorized to login from this station.
>
> I can see it in the browser and I can still connect from my Win95 box so
> I think my Samba config is OK. The NT box is not part of a domain...
> it's in the same workgroup as the rest of the PCs on my net.
>
> Anyone come across this problem?
>
> Thanks!
>
> --
>
> Ken Braatz
>
> The "-x" in my address is a spam killer. Remove it to respond via email.
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From: Tommy Johnsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux versions, any opinions?
Date: Sat, 6 Mar 1999 16:47:02 +0100
I'm currently using Debian after several years with RedHat. The main
reason for the change is, IMHO, the cleaner configuration files. They are
easier to edit with your favorite editor. The configuration tools for
RedHat are great, but i don't have X installed on every machine I run.
--
Tommy
"Most people's favorite way to end a game is by winning."
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From: fred anger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: IP Masqurading? Please Help
Date: Sat, 06 Mar 1999 15:46:11 GMT
[Followups redirected to comp.os.linux.advocacy]
In article <7bqloq$glo$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Unruh) wrote:
> In <7bpd3v$8k6$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> fred anger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
writes:
> >Linux can't please everyone (not yet anyway). I know a guy that complains
> >about having to mount and unmount floppies. That's just the way it goes. If
>
> That IS something to complain about. Not everything MS does is stupid or
wrong.
> Linux is not some little enclave, fighting off everything from outside. It is
an
> operating system, which should get out of the way as much as possible and let
> people do their jobs, not give them arbitrary hoops to jump through. Why Linux
cannot use
> the "change disk" line and automatically remount the disk, I do not know.
> This is not some great feature of Linux. It is a failure. It certainly does
not make
> Linux useless, it just makes it less convenient to use than it could be.
What people need to realize is, when you make an OS more useful, you may have
to give up some simplicities. Linux is a MULTI-USER operating system. If
some other user just happens to be using the floppy (or cdrom) when I decide
to pop it out, s/he is hosed. That's the best reason I can think of to have
to mount/unmount a filesystem (there are others, but I'll keep it simple).
This came up in another thread I was involved in in c.o.l.a, where I was
lambasted for my views on usefullness vs. convenience. Maybe what
single-users need is a single-user version of Linux. Less useful, but
wouldn't have all the "hard" or "inconvenient" things of a muliuser OS. Or
maybe I need to forget Linux and just use FreeBSD...
--
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Date: Sat, 06 Mar 1999 16:33:03 +0000
From: Peter McPhee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: mgetty/pppd at 115200 by Null modem problems
Problem: mgetty setup fine at 57600, not working at all 115200
Foreground: I have an old Mac that I have attached to my trusty Linux
box by null modem cable since an Ethernet card for the Mac would cost
around the same as the Mac itself.
I have a setup that I am fairly pleased with, namely: mgetty is set up
on the pertinent serial port, with AutoPPP on to pass onto pppd. It
respawns fine and all that, is just perfect --- at 57600. That's fine
for sharing my meager 56K connection to the Internet, but I've been
trying to play around with an X-Server on the Mac and the speed is
ridiculous even for testing/monkeying around purposes. Plus, I'll soon
be making the leap to aDSL, and wouldn't mind getting a little more
speed to the mac.
Therefore, I would love to get this serial connection doubled to 115200,
but when I set my mgetty and pppd to this it no longer works - at all. I
can't use a terminal program to log in, I can't make a PPP connection.
I've read about and played with just about every mgetty and pppd option,
with the same result. I am fairly certain the problem is on the linux
side, because I initialize the serial port at 115200 on the Mac to start
my PPP sessions.
My serial /dev/ttyS1 is an onboard serial port on a Asus TX-97x, so
speed shouldn't be the problem. Setserial sees the port as:
/dev/ttyS1, UART: 16550A, Port: 0x02f8, IRQ: 3
Any input would be greatly appreciated, I am stumped on this.
My current setup:
In /etc/mgetty+sendfax/mgetty.config
port ttyS1
direct y
speed 57600
In /etc/inittab
S1:2345:respawn:/sbin/mgetty ttyS1 -r -s 57600
In /etc/ppp/options.ttyS1
57600
local
asyncmap 0
netmask 255.255.255.0
proxyarp
lock
crtscts
192.168.1.1:192.168.1.8
When I change the 57600's to 115200's, nothing works. Ideas?
thanks,
Peter McPhee
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From: "Leopold Toetsch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux versions, any opinions?
Date: Sat, 6 Mar 1999 17:04:03 +0100
Michael T. Spears wrote in message <7bq1m3$od3$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>I have been using Debian's distribution for a while. I've noticed
corporate
>support (Intel, etc) for Red Hat. My major like for Debian is cost (and
the
>fact that I have used it before, but I am not opposed to change). I
>downloaded the floppy images and the CDROM images and built the box for
>hardware cost alone. Red Hat seems to cost at least $50.
>
>Does anyone have an opinion as to which distribution is better?
>
After evaluating various distributions, I started setting up a Linux server
for my Windoof network with SuSE 6.0. The installation tool YaST is doing
almost all the complicated setup things (network, dial on demand to my ISP
by ISDN, masquerading ...).
I never had to recompile a kernel, everything you'll propably need is
already in.
I have now a www- mail- news- time- print- fax- dns-server. For example:
this newsgroup gets downloaded during night when Austrian Telkos charges are
low, I read news offline on my NT box.
I as a newbie (just read some articles in computer magazines) started with
this on Feb 1st, 99 and 3 weeks later everything was up and running (no I
didn't work continuously on it, I've lot of other work too).
I did read a lot of the howtos, manpages, infopages, network administrator
guide ... (all shipped with SuSE and setup ready to use).
I read the documentation on my NT box with M$ Explorer (don't flame me, the
screen is much bigger on it), I can do a full text search through it ...
Linux is superb, SuSE is superb.
A kind of diary of my installation you can find on:
http://www.toetsch.at/de/tips/index.html?linux/99/07.htm
(sorry German language only)
> Red Hat seems to cost at least $50.
SuSE, coming with 5 CDs costs ~$70, but how much worth is your time?
Easy setup, good documentation saves you a lot of $$$.
I have Debian 2.0 ( ~$15) too, but I didn't install it. I just installed all
the issues of the Linux Gazette (a lot of tips & tricks for a beginner like
me) from Debian to my SuSE installation.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Clemens Heise)
Subject: Re: Monitoring IP Traffic
Date: Sat, 06 Mar 1999 16:47:56 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 05 Mar 1999 17:19:57 -0600, "William R. Mattil" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[...]
>Look at MRTG it will do what you want as long as the hosts have snmp running.
Hi William !
Thank you. Sure you�re right. MRTG works great, but it monitors only the load on
network. I want to monitor the weight
of IP packets. I want to know how many kbytes were sent to/ received by there
different hosts in my network.
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Clemens Heise
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From: "James Wanless" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SAMBA, please?
Date: Sat, 6 Mar 1999 16:59:03 -0000
How easy is this using RedHat5.2 to "see" (MS)windows machines on a
LAN - I haven't succeeded yet. Any pointers, please?
--
James Wanless
http://www.jwanless.freeserve.co.uk
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From: "Leopold Toetsch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: date/time of received mail
Date: Sat, 6 Mar 1999 18:01:02 +0100
Hi mail experts,
I have following setup:
3 times a day a cron-job dials to my ISP and gets my mail through
fetchmail/sendmail, and puts it in the mailbox /var/spool/lt.
When I read the mail, the Received:-date is the date, when mail was fetched
from the provider (or propably when sendmail put it in my mail box).
But I would like to have the original date (i.e. the date when my ISP
receieved the mail), which would make it a lot easier to follow threads
cronologically.
I read all my documentations, but couldn't find anything to correct this.
So
1) is there an option in sendmail to change this?
2) do I have to change the date fields by a little progam (and where would I
start such a program)?
3) did somebody already solve this?
Thanx for reading so far &
Greetinx from Austria
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From: KA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Gigabit Networking Pentium Linux Servers?
Date: Fri, 05 Mar 1999 23:39:01 +0000
Rainer Spurzem wrote:
>
> Hi, can anyone help with ideas, web-pages, product-infos on whether it
> is or will become possible
> in the near future to connect a few Linux Servers (typically two or
> four Dual Pentium 450)
> with a small interconnection network using Gigabit speed? Background:
> we have parallel
> simulation programs which critically depend on communication speed
> (large data packages).
This may or may not help:
It sounds like http://www.beowulf.org/ will be a good starting point. It
has information and a LOT of links to other sites that may help.
--
Insert funny saying here.
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From: ozric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.protocols.smb,linux.samba
Subject: Re: smbmount won't work
Date: Sat, 06 Mar 1999 06:21:44 GMT
I have the Same Problem I have Kernel 2.2.2 and Samba 2.0.3.
I reinstalled smbfs, no help. ?????
root wrote:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> : Ok, I have a Win98 computer on my lan with a shared drive. I can access this
> : drive using smbclient, however, I can not mount the drive using smbmount.
>
> : I am currently using a Red Hat 5.1 System, with Kernel 2.2.1 and I compiled
> : and installed Samba 2.0.2. Here is the output:
>
> : [root@tf linux]# smbmount //BUBBA/D/ /mnt -C -P shared
> : mount error: Invalid argument
> : Please look at smbmount's manual page for possible reasons
>
> Try this :
>
> smbmount '\\BUBBA\D' -c 'mount /mnt'
>
> I hope that you are not using the smbmount rpm that comes with RH51 since
> this works with kernels 2.0.XX only.
> The samba package must be configured with --with-smbmount (./configure --with
> -smbmount). After compilation and installation you will have a new smbmount program.
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From: ozric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.protocols.smb,linux.samba
Subject: Re: smbmount won't work
Date: Sat, 06 Mar 1999 15:03:29 GMT
No I rpmed the Samba 2.0.3 and it did not have smbmount in it ? So you
are saying that I have to compile it. Ok I will remove the smbfs rpm and
compile samba I just hate that I have to --prefix the path to put all
the stuff where I want it.
Kelly Wilson wrote:
>
> > I have the Same Problem I have Kernel 2.2.2 and Samba 2.0.3.
> > I reinstalled smbfs, no help. ?????
>
> You installed the smbfs RPM? To my knowledge, there is no updated version of the
>smbfs
> RPM for kernel 2.2.x. You have to use the version of smbmount which comes with Samba
> 2.0.x. By default, samba 2.0.3 with install everything under /usr/local/samba/ (that
> includes the binaries), which is not in your path (unless you explicitly added it).
>Thus,
> if you do have the old smbfs RPM installed and you're trying to run smbmount from
> somewhere other than /usr/local/samba/bin, you're still running the old version.
>
> -- Kelly
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From: "GA" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Samba Question
Date: Sun, 07 Mar 1999 00:30:12 GMT
The other option, if you don't want to bother with passwords, is to share a
directory such as /tmp which is writable by all. (The problem is that when
you log on without proper password, you are seen as "nobody"). Sharing /tmp
is a viable alternative if you just want a means to pass files back and
forth.
OR
Even easier is to share a folder on your Windows machine and map to it from
Linux using smbmount (i.e. "smbmount '\\winmachine\sharefolder'
mountdir"). It works just like mounting any other drive.
My printer setup was quite simple because I selected a network printer
during the install. On the Windows machine, I had to bind File&Printer
Sharing to TCP/IP on my LAN in order for Linux to see the printer. You may
not want to do that if your LAN isn't isolated from the Internet.
David Kirkpatrick wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>See man smbpasswd its simple.
>
>Rocky wrote:
>>
>> The Linux box does show up in Network Neighborhood, but when I try to map
>> the linux from 98, it prompts a passwords and none work, where do you
setup
>> up paswords.
>> -Rocky
>>
>> Rocky wrote in message ...
>> >I'm relitively new to samba, and have configured smb.conf and all of
that,
>> >now I was just wondering, how to use it. How do I access windows98
files
>> >from linux and print from linux on a printer hooked-up to the 98
machine,
>> >and vice-versa.
>> >
>> >-thanks
>> >
>> >
>
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From: Ron Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Icon in Network Neighbourhood
Date: Fri, 5 Mar 1999 23:48:46 +0000
Reply-To: Ron Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hello Folks,
Is it possible to get a Linux machine represented in Network
Neighbourhood on a Windows LAN as an Icon, if so, How?
--
Ron Smith "forever optimistic"
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Phone: 01283 760278 Fax: 0870 0558825
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Redhat and cable modems
Date: Sat, 06 Mar 1999 21:38:14 GMT
I need help getting Redhat Linux to work with my cable modem. I can't
quite figure out what I need to do at this point. Please help me!
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From: "GA" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Samba Question
Date: Sun, 07 Mar 1999 00:40:52 GMT
Oops, gotta get those slashes right. It should be smbmount
'//winmachine/sharefolder' mountpoint
GA wrote in message ...
>The other option, if you don't want to bother with passwords, is to share a
>directory such as /tmp which is writable by all. (The problem is that when
>you log on without proper password, you are seen as "nobody"). Sharing
/tmp
>is a viable alternative if you just want a means to pass files back and
>forth.
>
>OR
>
>Even easier is to share a folder on your Windows machine and map to it from
>Linux using smbmount (i.e. "smbmount '\\winmachine\sharefolder'
>mountdir"). It works just like mounting any other drive.
>
>My printer setup was quite simple because I selected a network printer
>during the install. On the Windows machine, I had to bind File&Printer
>Sharing to TCP/IP on my LAN in order for Linux to see the printer. You may
>not want to do that if your LAN isn't isolated from the Internet.
>
>
>David Kirkpatrick wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>>See man smbpasswd its simple.
>>
>>Rocky wrote:
>>>
>>> The Linux box does show up in Network Neighborhood, but when I try to
map
>>> the linux from 98, it prompts a passwords and none work, where do you
>setup
>>> up paswords.
>>> -Rocky
>>>
>>> Rocky wrote in message ...
>>> >I'm relitively new to samba, and have configured smb.conf and all of
>that,
>>> >now I was just wondering, how to use it. How do I access windows98
>files
>>> >from linux and print from linux on a printer hooked-up to the 98
>machine,
>>> >and vice-versa.
>>> >
>>> >-thanks
>>> >
>>> >
>>
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