Linux-Networking Digest #764, Volume #9 Sun, 3 Jan 99 12:14:46 EST
Contents:
Re: Can ping IP address but not server name??? (Ville Nummela)
Re: Samba Password (Jarek Luberek)
Re: Samba Password (Jarek Luberek)
Re: How to wake-on-lan ? ("alextay")
Re: Almost there with mail ("ne...")
Re: Can't ping from windows 98 box (Steve and Kathy)
Re: DNS Setup more info (Brian McCauley)
Re: NOSPAM in addresses.. (Zoltan Kocsi)
Re: Support for Xircom PE III ("Prutser")
Re: Help: PPP connection problems (Dan Glover)
Re: Network Card Sustained Data Transfer Rate? (Ville Nummela)
Linux Local Server Guide (Mark Roberts)
Help! Suck problem (Mark Roberts)
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From: Ville Nummela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can ping IP address but not server name???
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1999 12:16:49 +0200
On 3 Jan 1999, Bertie Price wrote:
> I have two machines - 1 Linux Redhat 5.0 IP 192.168.0.1
> 2 Win 95 IP 192.168.0.2
> I can ping both IP addresses from each other and I can ping the linux box
> name
> from the linux box but i cannot ping the linux box name from the win95
> machine.
> Does DNS have to be enabled and setup in win95?
Either that, or you need to have a hosts file.
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From: Jarek Luberek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Samba Password
Date: Sun, 03 Jan 1999 12:49:39 +0100
Jim Finney wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I have samba running on two redhat5.1 PCs. My Win98 PC sees the Linux
> boxes OK but when I attempt to login to either of them from the Win98
> box, they both ask for a password. Where do I set the password on the
> Linux boxes? smb.conf? /etc/passwd??
Usually in /etc/smbpasswd. This can be changed in the config file. Run
testparm if you want to know which one. To add a new user, use
smbadduser -a unixid:ntid
You will be prompted for the (smb)password. To change the password
for an existing user you use
smbpasswd
when that user is logged in on the unix side. This is a start. Changing
the password from the windows client seems to be a different matter.
So far I'm only to able to change samba passwords from the client if
I make the windows client LOG IN onto the NT domain served by samba
though I'm NOT SURE it is necessary to have such a arrangement. Note
that
there are a few things to be done to create logon services with samba
but this is all very well documented in the standard distributions
of samba. In addition, you need "POLEDIT.EXE" to create user policies
which will be kept at the server in /..../netlogon/CONFIG.POL. I used
practically the default policy created by poledit.exe (in windows).
Check the file DOMAIN.txt in the samba distribution for details.
Once you have the server and client setups adjusted (and rebooted the
client once) and logged into your client you will be able to change the
server password using the "passwords" utility in the (windows) control i
panel. "Change other passwords" contains the entry to change the network
password. Unfortunately I was not able to make network password automa-
gically follow the windows password as suggested by the checkbox in the
"change windows password" menu. Otherwise it all works fine.
Good luck,
/jarek
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From: Jarek Luberek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Samba Password
Date: Sun, 03 Jan 1999 12:58:39 +0100
Schroh wrote:
>
> I believe (been awhile) that you need to set it in the samba.conf. But
> there is another catch with Windows and Samba, especially Windows 98. You
> have to alter your registery so it can send plain text passwords wich is
> required by Samba. Do a search on your hard drive for Network.txt. There
I don't believe this is true at all. It may be one way to do it as
described
in the samba docs but the option (and experience) suggests that the docs
are correct. To quote the manual (smb.conf):
encrypt passwords (G)
This boolean controls whether encrypted passwords will be
negotiated with the client. Note that Windows NT 4.0 SP3
and above will by default expect encrypted passwords
unless a registry entry is changed. To use encrypted pass-
words in Samba see the file docs/ENCRYPTION.txt.
I have samba servers talking to NT 4 sp3 (alpha) and windows 95/98 none
of
which have the registry altered to handle plain text passwords.
> is a section describing how to accomplish this modification.
> Jim Finney wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
Greetings,
Jarek
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From: "alextay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to wake-on-lan ?
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1999 21:20:36 +0800
Job eisses wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Does anyone know how to send a wakeup packet to a machine that sleeps
>with wake-on-lan set up?
> -job
use a utility software capable of sending magic packet (TM) frame to the PC
installed with WOL nic & WOL compliant mainboard. You can download this
software from www.amd.com. This is Advance Micro Device's URL. This
software can only run in Win95/Win98.
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.help
From: "ne..." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Almost there with mail
Date: Sun, 03 Jan 1999 13:56:23 GMT
On Sat, 2 Jan 1999, Mitchell Maltenfort wrote:
>
>I can send out via my ISP when using pine or elm on my Linux box.
>
>However, not everybody can reply to me.
>
>There's a problem with the MDA fetchmail forwards looking for
>'mitchm@locahost' wherever that is.
>
>Can someone give me an idea what this would refer to? Where
>should I change something?
Seems your fetchmailrc is not configured right.
Do you have a line like:
user xxxx is yyyy
which basically means xxxx@isp is yyyy@localhost
where localhost is the machine you are on.
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From: Steve and Kathy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can't ping from windows 98 box
Date: Sun, 03 Jan 1999 09:01:41 -0800
Did you setup the hosts and lmhosts in win98?? Make sure that if you have
done so, you save them without the .sam extension......
sheikh rizan wrote:
> I have set up a small LAN at home. I used an UTP cable with rj45
> connectors connected to an 8 port hub (10baseT). One box is running
> Linux Redhat 5.1 and another Windows 98. My problem is:
>
> I can't ping the Linux box from the Windows 98 box but i can ping from
> my Linux box to my Windows 98 box.
>
> Does anyone know whats the problem?????Oh yeah, when i try to run
> winipcfg on my Windows 98 box it says can't read IP headers error.
>
> Do u think it's got something to do with my UTP cabling cause I did the
> cabling myself or is it just some misconfiguration on the Windows 98
> box.
>
> Lastly, the ironic thing is that, I have managed to get samba working.
> Therefore, windows 98 box can access Linux partition. what's going on
> here?????????????
>
> Please help. Thanks
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From: Brian McCauley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: DNS Setup more info
Date: 03 Jan 1999 12:11:13 +0000
Jordy Leduc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Reposting my message with a little more info. These are the files I
> have in the /etc directory. Any help I would appreciate it.
> Getting this message when starting named.
>
> dns:~# ndc start
> No processes available.
> Name Server Started
> dns:~# nslookup
> *** Can't find server name for address 130.151.32.2: Server failed
> *** Default servers are not available
> dns:~#
Quit using nslookup, use dig. The braindead nslookup requirement that
the server IP be reverse-resolvable makes it poor as a debugging aid.
Also dig uses the same format as BIND zone files.
> Content-Disposition: inline;
> filename="db.130.151.32"
^^^
> 106.151.32.in-addr.arpa. IN SOA dns.server.com. dns.server.com. (
^^^
Realy?
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
> Content-Disposition: inline;
> filename="db.server.com"
Sorry I'm not using a MIME client. Please stick to "7bit".
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From: Zoltan Kocsi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: NOSPAM in addresses..
Date: 02 Jan 1999 13:51:49 +1100
Michael Powe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> themselves -- they push the problem off on someone else. It's
> particularly pathetic in linux newsgroups, since everyone running
> linux has the ability to filter spam with procmail.
Yup, immediatelly after you downloaded it. Connection time costs money,
you know. Spam also wastes disk space at the ISP, bandwidth, resources
on my machines, it wastes my time and so on,
I do not like downloading 1M junk with Windows binaries to read 20K mail.
I don't have a 24/7 10M link for flat monthly fee yet so I - pathetic or
not - do not like huge messages which I pay for before discarding them
unread.
> Munging addresses does nothing to reduce the actual volume of spam on
> the net. It just makes inconvenience for other users.
It *does* reduce the actual volume. When they try to connect to the fake
address, they only waste net resources that are needed to get a failed
name lookup. They do not waste network resources to send their 200K
make-money-fast-by-bulk-email-send-50-dollars-now junk.
I have an other email address, which I very infrequently use but 3 years
ago I posted some usenet articles from there. Since then I receive junk
mail on that address. The amount has decreased significantly in the past
years but it is still reasonably high.
Please do not press Reply.
As you may have guessed, the From: address is invalid, real address is
in the sig ...
Zoltan
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From: "Prutser" <twinkelapestaartjegeocities.com>
Subject: Re: Support for Xircom PE III
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1999 16:13:46 +0100
Is not supported, according to the ethernet HOWTO's
Paul Hanson wrote in message <76lhu9$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Is a driver available for a Xircom PE III parallel port ethernet adapter?
>
>I have Redhat 5.2 successfully running on my laptop, complete with
Netscape,
>sound, and PCMCIA modem, internet access, it all works!
> - I am dual booting with WinNT 4.0 service pack 4
>
>But now I would like to connect to my home network using my existing Xircom
>thru Linux (already works with WinNT) any pointers would be appreciated!
>
>TIA
>
>
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From: Dan Glover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Help: PPP connection problems
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1999 15:07:59 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Suds
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>My ISP is pipex and I've trouble connecting to them(using pppd
>v2.3pl5). I get a connection only 1 in 3 or 4 times. I've attached the
>debug output below for a failed and a successfull connection. Can
>someone please help me where the problem is? (My guess is ISP end)
You don't seem to have got any response (as seen from uk.comp.os.linux)
so I'll try...
>Failed connection:
>...
>Dec 31 23:07:53 alpha pppd[383]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <asyncmap
>0x0> <magic 0xffff4101> <pcomp> <accomp>]
>Dec 31 23:07:53 alpha pppd[383]: rcvd [LCP ConfRej id=0x1 <pcomp>
><accomp>]
For some reason Pipex don't like protocol field or address/control
compression. You might want to turn these off by supplying nopcomp and
noaccomp options when starting pppd. At the very least it will
eliminate some of the "chatter". Also the remote end doesn't seem to be
trying to negotiate anything in your direction.
>Dec 31 23:07:53 alpha pppd[383]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x2 <asyncmap
>0x0> <magic 0xffff4101>]
>Dec 31 23:08:20 alpha last message repeated 9 times
>From your log it looks like the remote end has died completely: you're
not getting any response and so give up.
>Dec 31 23:08:23 alpha pppd[383]: LCP: timeout sending Config-Requests
>Dec 31 23:08:23 alpha pppd[383]: Connection terminated.
>another attempt:
This looks slightly better.
>Dec 31 23:05:27 alpha pppd[367]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/modem
>Dec 31 23:05:27 alpha pppd[367]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <asyncmap
>0x0> <magic 0xffff1105> <pcomp> <accomp>]
You open the bidding. I expect we'll see a reject for pcomp and accomp
shortly...
>Dec 31 23:05:27 alpha pppd[367]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <mru 1524>
><auth chap 05> < 13 09 03 00 c0 7b 61 d7 48> <asyncmap 0x0>]
Pipex tries to negotiate the mru, requests a CHAP login, suggests an
asyncmap and is sending "callback" data (the bit starting 13 09..)
>Dec 31 23:05:27 alpha pppd[367]: sent [LCP ConfRej id=0x1 < 13 09 03
>00 c0 7b 61 d7 48>]
You don't understand callback.
>Dec 31 23:05:27 alpha pppd[367]: rcvd [LCP ConfRej id=0x1 <pcomp>
><accomp>]
And Pipex aren't interested in the compression that you've requested.
>Dec 31 23:05:27 alpha pppd[367]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x2 <asyncmap
>0x0> <magic 0xffff1105>]
You try again, this time without the compression options.
>Dec 31 23:05:27 alpha pppd[367]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x2 <mru 1524>
><auth chap 05> <asyncmap 0x0>]
Pipex have now dropped the callback data.
>Dec 31 23:05:27 alpha pppd[367]: sent [LCP ConfAck id=0x2 <mru 1524>
><auth chap 05> <asyncmap 0x0>]
And you acknowledge.
>Dec 31 23:05:30 alpha pppd[367]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x2 <asyncmap
>0x0> <magic 0xffff1105>]
You've not had a response so repeat your last request.
>Dec 31 23:05:30 alpha pppd[367]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x2 <mru 1524>
><auth chap 05> <asyncmap 0x0>]
They've not seen your acknowledgement either.
>Dec 31 23:05:30 alpha pppd[367]: sent [LCP ConfAck id=0x2 <mru 1524>
><auth chap 05> <asyncmap 0x0>]
You acknowledge again...
>Dec 31 23:05:33 alpha pppd[367]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x2 <asyncmap
>0x0> <magic 0xffff1105>]
And repeat your request, which still hasn't been acknowledged...
>Dec 31 23:05:33 alpha pppd[367]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x2 <mru 1524>
><auth chap 05> <asyncmap 0x0>]
Meanwhile Pipex still doesn't seem to have received your acknowledgement
and tries again...
>Dec 31 23:05:33 alpha pppd[367]: sent [LCP ConfAck id=0x2 <mru 1524>
><auth chap 05> <asyncmap 0x0>]
>Dec 31 23:05:36 alpha pppd[367]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x2 <asyncmap
>0x0> <magic 0xffff1105>]
You're being very patient, so acknowledge and then send your own request
again...
This cycle repeats since for whatever reason the remote end doesn't
appear to be receiving your traffic.
>a successful connection:
Indeed.
>Dec 31 23:09:12 alpha pppd[385]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <asyncmap
>0x0> <magic 0xffff0981> <pcomp> <accomp>]
>Dec 31 23:09:12 alpha pppd[385]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <mru 1524>
><auth chap 05> < 13 09 03 00 c0 7b 71 fc b5> <asyncmap 0x0>]
>Dec 31 23:09:12 alpha pppd[385]: sent [LCP ConfRej id=0x1 < 13 09 03
>00 c0 7b 71 fc b5>]
You reject the callback option
>Dec 31 23:09:12 alpha pppd[385]: rcvd [LCP ConfRej id=0x1 <pcomp>
><accomp>]
They reject the compression
>Dec 31 23:09:12 alpha pppd[385]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x2 <asyncmap
>0x0> <magic 0xffff0981>]
>Dec 31 23:09:12 alpha pppd[385]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x2 <mru 1524>
><auth chap 05> <asyncmap 0x0>]
>Dec 31 23:09:12 alpha pppd[385]: sent [LCP ConfAck id=0x2 <mru 1524>
><auth chap 05> <asyncmap 0x0>]
>Dec 31 23:09:12 alpha pppd[385]: rcvd [LCP ConfAck id=0x2 <asyncmap
>0x0> <magic 0xffff0981>]
You re-negotiate without the above and now agree on the options. CHAP
authentification then follows, along with IP addresses, etc.
To me it looks like a problem at the Pipex end. In the second
unsucessful attempt your log clearly shows that data is being sent and
received - so the line is still open - but not being acted on by their
equipment. I'd be tempted to send a fault report with that log extract
and as much other information as you can give.
To get round the problem, are there any alternative phone numbers which
might go through to different equipment at Pipex?
Dan
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Today's Excuse:
bad ether in the cables
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From: Ville Nummela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Network Card Sustained Data Transfer Rate?
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1999 16:28:41 +0200
> > I have pretty much been told and have seen in my experience that the actual
>susteained data transfer rate
> > of a nic is about 1/10 of the posted speen, so 10 Mb is actually about 1Mb and
>100Mb is about 10Mb.
> > That is a general rule I know of for Ethernet. You start talking ATM, FDDI it
>is usually pretty close to the actual posted speed.
That's probably due the fact that 10Mb/sec is pretty close to 1MB/sec. So
you're confused by bits & bytes..
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From: Mark Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux Local Server Guide
Date: Sun, 03 Jan 1999 15:20:50 +0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/maroberts/linux/guide/index.html
is the location of a guide on how to configure a Linux box as a general
purpose server for a small network of machines [which I am in the
process of putting together]
The guide covers setup of a small server with dial-up access to your
ISP, and optional connection to a small number of machines on a local
network LAN.
It covers setting up the following features:
Dial On Demand PPP Connection [with/ without diald]
DNS server setup
Masquerading
Proxy Service
News server setup (INN or Leafnode)
Mail server setup (sendmail)
The guide is primarily aimed at RH Linux 5.2 but aims to cover setting
up using common tools/ low level file editing and should thus be
applicable to all versions of Linux and some of the other versions of
UNIX. I do not intend to cover any subject in great depth but aim to
work on a 'this is what you need to know and do to get going' basis.
The current version of this document is more than a little basic and
incomplete, but if you require information on how to setup any of the
above you might just want to look. The document will be updated &
improved over the following weeks so please feel free to revisit.
On the other side of things contributions and suggestions are also
welcome. I'd particularly welcome any contributions from any sendmail
[also POP and IMAP] experts out there - I'm currently wading through the
O'Reilly Sendmail book and wishing I hadn't started!
Is there anyone out there who has configured sendmail to:
a) masquerade as their ISP when sending non-local mail
or relayed non-local mail to the SMTP port of their ISP server,
b) obtain mail from the mailbox(es) of their ISP to place into the mail
of
local users
c) Configured use of IMAP (UW &/or Cyrus) on such a system
If you have I'd welcome copies of any sendmail.cf/m4 files and other
related configuration files [suitably sanitised].
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From: Mark Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Help! Suck problem
Date: Sun, 03 Jan 1999 15:28:50 +0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'm using suck to pull news articles onto a local news server using its
get.news.rnews script.
During it's download of articles, just after it has worked out how many
articles to download, I get the message
Can not open /var/lib/news/history, Skipping
The above file exists with rw access to user/group news and I'm running
the script as root, so what is the consequence of this message ?
- everything SEEMS to work OK.
Regards
Mark Roberts
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