Linux-Networking Digest #573, Volume #10 Sat, 20 Mar 99 21:13:25 EST
Contents:
Network unreachable - REPOST - Cat deleted answer (John McKee)
Re: Netscape won't find any mail or news-server ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Frontpage and ASP under linux? (J. Mark Brooks)
Yet Another PPP Problem ("David Bossert")
Re: NFS problems with Linux 2.2.x server, freebsd client
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Remotely retrieving mail ("R.F. Locke")
Re: Internet Service Providers (ISP) (Stan Bischof)
CSU/DSU questions (David Grossman)
Ethernet card hardware net address (Roberto Lionello)
Re: pop3d socket error ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Help: Compex RL100TX ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Printing to Laserjet fails only on large jobs (L J Bayuk)
Can a regular user activate and deactivate dialup connection? (Alex Dong Li)
Book on up-to-date network administration (Arcady Genkin)
Re: winmodems (Howard Mann)
Re: _Networking Ques.: Is "Peer-to-Peer" Networking Possible Among Multiple Linux
Standalone Machines? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John McKee)
Subject: Network unreachable - REPOST - Cat deleted answer
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 21 Mar 1999 00:11:41 GMT
Some kind person sent me an email concerning how to deal with "default route" problem
I'm having as
discussed in the second paragraph below, and as I was reading the email (you're not
going to believe
this) my cat walked across the keyboard, stepping on the "Del" key. My email reader
(Agent) offers
no recovery mechanism once email is deleted, so I'm appealing to the Good Samaritan to
resend his
words of wisdom on how to deal with default routing.
TIA,
**** Original post follows ****
Hi Steph,
Here's what I do to get around that same problem. It seems that eth0 is the default
route, and
you're actually pinging your internal network. After starting X, I first issue the
command:
route del default
Then I open the Network Configurator from Control Panel, select interfaces, select
ppp0, and click
Active button. This initiates the dial-out and I'm connected properly. I don't know
why, but if I
reboot, the default route is restored, so I have to go through this routine each time.
It feels
like a kludge, but, hey, I'm still learning.
HTH,
On Fri, 19 Mar 99 13:14:46 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steph Hepburn) wrote:
>Hi, I've come to grief with my new installation of Slack 3.6 -- I'd appreciate
>it if anyone had any ideas.
>
>My ethernet network works absolutely fine, set that one up no probs.
>
>But in dialing up to my ISP nothing happens
>
>I used a shell script my ISP gave me to set up dial-up which worked ok -- it
>dialed up but then PAP kicked me off.
>
>I got PAP to work by changing my /etc/ppp/pap-secrets file from:
>
>username ppp0 password
>
>to
>
**** End Original Post ****
John McKee
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Democracy is three wolves and a sheep voting what to have for lunch.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Netscape won't find any mail or news-server
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 06:27:43 GMT
i ran into the same problem, first connect to your isp, and then edit
the preferences for your mail and news servers, worked for me.
good luck
On Sun, 28 Feb 1999 23:52:14 +0100, "Lars-G�ran Andersson"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I've tried to configure Netscape 4.03 to my email server but it persist
>to say that the server doesn't exist. This is the same when trying to
>configure the News server to.
>
>Looking forward to some constructive answer.
>
>Lars-G�ran Andersson
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (J. Mark Brooks)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Frontpage and ASP under linux?
Date: 21 Mar 1999 00:15:56 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
You can convert ASP server pages to PHP scripts with a conversion
tool called asp2php. You can check out the homepage at
http://www.inlink.com/~naken/asp2php/
I am curious as to why anyone is assuming that ASP is necessarily
more extensible or flexible than PHP.
You can compile Frontpage extensions into Apache, of course. I would
not encourage anyone to do so, simply because there are other, more
standard options to achieve the same goals, without binding yourself
hip and thigh to one vendors solution, but to each his own...
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From: "David Bossert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Yet Another PPP Problem
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1999 21:09:43 -0800
I've read all the docs and done everything they say, using chat or minicom
and pppd. It always dials alright, then pppd does squat. Nothing. I got it
working once (saw the connection in ifconfig) but something was wrong with
the DNS; couldn't get anywhere. Someone please help.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: NFS problems with Linux 2.2.x server, freebsd client
Date: Sun, 21 Mar 1999 00:13:49 GMT
In article <7cve9e$25td$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Leslie Mikesell) wrote:
> By the way, does anyone have a handy way to push out the updates to several
> places without having to log in and do a manual update?
Either write a daemon that listens on a specified port then starts a "manual"
update, or use something like the following (from the master server):
#!/bin/bash
for host in `cat $HOSTFILE`
do
ssh $host $UPDATE_CMD
done
[Substituting in appropriate values for $HOSTFILE and $UPDATE_CMD] [..oh, and
making sure RSAAuthentication or RhostsRSAAuthentication is turned on and set
up for each $host, so you don't have to type a bunch of passwds]
> My load currently peaks in the 40-50 hits/sec range and the PII-300
> that was overloaded fielding 10/sec itself (mostly cgi) now loafs
> along using mod_rewrite to proxy most of the cgi's off to a pair
> of other servers with the cgi programs running under mod_perl. It
> loads about a T1 and a half in the busy part of the day. I'd guess
> writing the logfile is the bottleneck of the process.
Last night I actually ran into the guy that's working on the network proxy I
mentioned, and he was already well aware of ProxyPass (apparently I'm the
only one who didn't know about it :). Thanks for the figures, though,
they'll serve as a good benchmark (he assures me that what's being developed
by his group is _much_ faster -- but they also don't need most of the "other"
functionality of Apache).
I did an analysis of a high-traffic webserver that we had in production at my
old job, and determined that it was spending about 30 minutes of each day just
writing logfiles (it was pushing roughly the same amount of traffic you're
talking about). If you're not running low on RAM, one way to cut that time by
over 99% is to create an MFS (FreeBSD) or RAMDISK (Linux), and write the
logfiles there. You'll obviously need to rotate the logfiles out before the
mount point fills up, but you're probably already rotating fairly regularly
anyway, right? :)
An alternative, but one that I've never tried personally, is to write the
logfiles to the network, and have yet another machine that does nothing but
write logfiles. I'm not sure how scalable a solution that is, how well it
works, or at what traffic level it becomes feasible -- but I wanted to mention
it simply for completeness.
-Bill Clark
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Date: Sat, 20 Mar 1999 19:36:11 -0500
From: "R.F. Locke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Remotely retrieving mail
Is it possible to retrieve email remotely using Eudora rather than
having to run a telnet session and use Pine?
I can access the mail server with telnet from an AOL session or a
dial-up session with an ISP.
What configuration changes / settings might be required?
Can I allow remote mail retrieval to specific users without enabling
access for the entire AOL or ISP domain?
I am running Redhat 5.2
Rich Locke
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stan Bischof)
Subject: Re: Internet Service Providers (ISP)
Date: 19 Mar 1999 18:44:30 GMT
jerry ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: Hi!
: Can Linux be used to connect to the Internet with ALL ISPs? Thanks.
Just given the principle that nothing _always_ works, I'm
confident the answer is NO.
However, such corner cases are probably very rare, and you are
likely to not find them, which means that you should be able
to connect using any ISP you are likely to find.
Most ISP's aren't going to know are care what OS you are using-
they just provide dial up lines, PPP, DSL, whatnot.
Stan
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From: David Grossman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: CSU/DSU questions
Date: Sun, 21 Mar 1999 00:56:40 GMT
How is a CSU/DSU used exactly?
When a network connection is brought into the CSU/DSU from the telco how
is it utilized?
when a user dials in does the CSU/DSU simply xlate the signal into
something a router can immediately use, or
does the CSU/DSU connect to a modem bank?
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Date: Sat, 20 Mar 1999 17:07:39 -0800
From: Roberto Lionello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: Ethernet card hardware net address
Hello,
I have bought an ethernet card for my old but faithful
IBM 701C. It's a Billionton 10Base-T PC card.
I'm running Linux 2.0.34.
The card is recognized by the kernel but the driver is
not able to figure out the Ethernet address. I read
the PCMCIA Howto that suggests finding out what resources
are used but I'm not much of an expert. I'm including the syslog
and th interrupts for your perusal. Is 11 the irq used by the card?
Is there a kind person that could tell me what to do now? Thank
you!
Regards,
RL
0: 5761 timer
1: 96 keyboard
2: 0 cascade
6: 7 + floppy
7: 1 sound blaster
11: 0 i82365
13: 1 math error
14: 7345 + ide0
Mar 20 16:36:26 elfhind kernel: Linux PCMCIA Card Services 3.0.0
Mar 20 16:36:26 elfhind kernel: kernel build: 2.0.34 unknown
Mar 20 16:36:26 elfhind kernel: options: none
Mar 20 16:36:26 elfhind kernel: Intel PCIC probe:
Mar 20 16:36:26 elfhind kernel: Cirrus PD672x at 0x3e0 ofs 0x00, 2
sockets
Mar 20 16:36:26 elfhind kernel: host opts [0]: [ring] [65/6/3]
[1/15/3]
Mar 20 16:36:26 elfhind kernel: host opts [1]: [ring] [freq bypass]
[65/6/3] [1/15/3]
Mar 20 16:36:26 elfhind kernel: ISA irqs (default) =
3,4,5,9,10,11,12 status change on irq 11
Mar 20 16:36:27 elfhind cardmgr[99]: starting, version is 3.0.0
Mar 20 16:36:27 elfhind cardmgr[99]: watching 2 sockets
Mar 20 16:36:27 elfhind kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x03ff:
excluding 0x378-0x37f 0x398-0x39f 0x3b8-0x3e7
Mar 20 16:36:27 elfhind kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff: clean.
Mar 20 16:36:27 elfhind cardmgr[99]: initializing socket 0
Mar 20 16:36:27 elfhind kernel: cs: memory probe 0x0d0000-0x0dffff:
clean.
Mar 20 16:36:27 elfhind cardmgr[99]: socket 0: EZLink 4109
Mar 20 16:36:28 elfhind cardmgr[99]: executing: 'insmod
/lib/modules/2.0.34/pcmcia/8390.o'
Mar 20 16:36:28 elfhind cardmgr[99]: executing: 'insmod
/lib/modules/2.0.34/pcmcia/pcnet_cs.o'
Mar 20 16:36:28 elfhind kernel: loading device 'eth0'...
Mar 20 16:36:28 elfhind kernel: pcnet_cs: unable to read hardware net
address
Mar 20 16:36:28 elfhind cardmgr[99]: get dev info on socket 0 failed:
Operation not supported by device
--
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: pop3d socket error
Date: Sun, 21 Mar 1999 01:10:41 GMT
Fixed it! The problem is that you do not have the POP daemon loaded onto the
system. Apparently it doesn't get loaded on automatically when you do the
Server install. (weird). Just take your cd and to the RPM command to load on
the IMAP RPM. All the POP servers are in the IMAP module.
Seeya,
In article <7d0a0k$kaq$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"parag" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> thanks for a reply
> tried telneting to local host and same results says connected to host and
> then connection closed i am really baffled as i have seen everything i can
> think of.. much like raymond said services shows it listed only possible
> cause i can think of is in its inetd.conf file its listing /usr/sbin/tcpd as
> server and argument is ipop3d and i dont see ipop3d anywhere on system can
> this be the problem?
> thanks still needing a pointer badly
>
> >In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> > Raymond Doetjes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> Try telnetting from the linux box to add. 127.0.0.1 110 do you see
> anything?
> >> If so try doing it at the ip address of the nic.
> >> If this goes fine try doing it from a workstation if that goes fine try
> doing
> >it
> >> from a workstation with the hostname.
> >>
> >> What doesn't work??? Root can't use pop incase of security!
> >>
> >> Raymond
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Help: Compex RL100TX
Date: Sun, 21 Mar 1999 01:20:22 GMT
Hi
Recently I had to change the network card in my machine to a Compex RL100TX.
I am having problem in install drivers for this card.
Can anyone tell me what drivers I should be using ?
thanks
Tong Kiat
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (L J Bayuk)
Subject: Re: Printing to Laserjet fails only on large jobs
Date: 21 Mar 1999 01:46:11 GMT
This may be a long shot, but if your JetDirect MIO card is kind of
old, have you ever done a firmware flash upgrade on it? I had a lot
of problems with older JetDirect firmware and the lpd protocol. Things
like back-to-back jobs failing. A firmware upgrade fixed everything.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Have you (in desparation) tried lpr -s ???? I seem to recall a similar
>probem a few years ago...
>before I switched to LPRng.
>
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>> I am having problems printing large jobs from a vanilla RedHat 5.2 box
>> to a Laserjet 4si (using its JetDirect MIO card) via ip. Hold on to
>> your seat, this isn't as straightforward as it sounds at first ...
>>
>> A 400+ page report is generated vi Universe on HPUX 10.20. This report
>> is pretty much plain text, just very large. The report prints
>> correctly if I print from HPUX directly to the printer via IP (not
>> using JetDirect software). However, if I redirect the print job to a
>> queue on the RedHat box, the printer spits out 20-30 pages and gives
>> an error: "80 SERVICE 001F", then promptly dies. A power cycle is
>> needed to get the printer working again.
>>
>> Printing from HPUX through the Linux queue works fine on all jobs
>> except the big one - the smaller ones are anywhere between 1-20 pages.
>> The Linux box has sufficient resources - it's ONLY used for print
>> spooling, has 128MB RAM and 4GB dedicated to /var/spool/lpd ...
>>
>> The ONLY difference in printer definitions on the HPUX box is the
>> destination IP address and queue name (direct: printer_ip & raw;
>> linux: linux_ip & queuename). This anomaly shows up whether the linux
>> queue is using the laserjet filter or none at all. The printcap entry
>> on linux looks like:
>>
>> pr0_manual:\
>> :sd=/var/spool/lpd/pr0_manual:\
>> :mx#0:\
>> :sh:\
>> :rm=pr0:\
>> :rp=raw:
>>
>> (pr0 is listed in the /etc/hosts file)
>>
>> The inability to print this report correctly is causing several people
>> to lose hair. It's being generated at one of the larger local
>> hospitals. I'd greatly appreciate any help you can offer me in this
>> matter. Thanks!
>>
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alex Dong Li)
Subject: Can a regular user activate and deactivate dialup connection?
Date: Sun, 21 Mar 1999 01:52:28 GMT
Dear Linux experts:
Could anyone tell me if a regular user can activate/deactivate dialup
connection? If so, could you tell me how or pointer to the solution?
Thanks in advance!
Alex.
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Subject: Book on up-to-date network administration
From: Arcady Genkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sun, 21 Mar 1999 01:10:56 GMT
Hi all.
I am thinking of buying the subj. Any recommendations?
I have heard very good things about "linux network administrator's guide" by
O'Reilly, but it was published in 1995, and I would like smth more up-to-date,
preferably covering ip-masquerading and the other new stuff.
Thanx a lot for any input!
Arcady
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From: Howard Mann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: winmodems
Date: 21 Mar 1999 01:52:23 GMT
In article <rvUI2.2651$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"batags" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have installed RH 5.2 and have set up ppp0 through linuxconf, But I still
> can't get connected to my isp. I have all the info from my isp <like
> gateway-primary dns-sec dns> But I still can't hear the modem dialing up or
> even get connected. I have a UsRobotics 56k Winmodem, Could that be my
> problem?
Yes, and I'm afraid you will have to get a new modem.
Peruse: http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html
Cheers,
--
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http://www.xmission.com/~howardm
(a LINUX website for newbies)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: _Networking Ques.: Is "Peer-to-Peer" Networking Possible Among Multiple
Linux Standalone Machines?
Date: Sun, 21 Mar 1999 01:58:53 GMT
In article <01be731d$44795240$4a14bfa8@nuncus>,
"LScott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [...]
> Thus, we have no plans at all for integrating any other O/S, such as
> Windows or Macintosh, with or into this Linux network that we hope we can
> accomplish.
Although you have no current plans to incorporate Windows or Macintosh, it is
worthwhile to note that a network of Linux (or any UNIX) machines _is_ capable
of providing the same services you would expect from a Windows or Macintosh
network. There are Free UNIX applications that provide AppleTalk file-sharing
capabilities and printer support, Windows network drives and printer support,
and Network Neighborhood support. Such information might be useful in the
future, and I would suggest recording it for later reference.
> [...]
> 1. There are four machines in our immediate group:
>
> a. Three (3) standalone workstations; and
All workstations can be seamlessly replaced with Linux boxes, without
adversely affecting any network services.
> b. One file server that contains only an O/S and
> the data files with which the personnel at the
> three standalone machines perform their work.
The Free UNIX application which provides this type of service is NFS. At
past jobs, I have also set up file servers that utilize NFS as well as Samba
and NetAtalk (two other Free UNIX applications) to provide network drive
support for mixed groups of FreeBSD, Linux, Win95, Win98, WinNT, and
Macintosh clients simultaneously. All of this worked fine.
> 2. Each of the three standalone workstations contains
> the various programs and applications employed by
> the users at their respective standalone machines in
> accomplishing their work.
You will need to do research to make sure that similar applications are
available for Linux. For example, if your users do their work using mainly
Netscape and Microsoft Office, the Linux equivalent would be Netscape (there
is a direct port) and probably StarOffice (a Microsoft Office clone for
Linux). There are Free UNIX ports for most purposes, but many specialized
applications may not have a direct analogue. It is important to check this
first.
> Note: Only programs and applications are kept on
> the hard drives of the three standalone machines; no
> data files at all are kept on the hard drives of the three
> standalone machines.
NFS can provide this type of network support seamlessly (In fact, that's
primarily what it was designed for).
> Further: Each of the respective users of the
> standalone machines is entirely free to use
> the applications and programs of his or her
> own choice in performing his or her own work.
That also is not a problem (most if not all Free UNIX applications are
stand-alone, in that they run entirely on the client machine with no need for
server support).
> [...]
> a. contains the printers for the entire network
> and actually handles for the entire network
> the print jobs that are sent to it from the
> three standalone machines; and
The service you will need to run on your print server (which could reasonably
be _any_ box in your network, including your file server) and on all the
client boxes is "lpd". It is installed as a standard part of Linux.
> b. contains the Post Office for the email system
> used on the network. The Post Office is actually
> remotely administered by one of the users on
> one of the three standalone machines.
There is a standard system service called "Sendmail" that comes as a standard
part of Linux, but I would _highly_ recommend upgrading to a different Free
UNIX application called "Qmail". Qmail has a number of additional security
features and is generally considered faster and more stable than Sendmail.
In general, Linux does not distinguish between "remote" administration and
"local" administration. Once a command shell has been started, it does not
really matter whether it was started from the console or via the network. In
other words, remote administration is exactly the same (so far as the server
is concerned) as local administration, so it will not be a problem to have
any of your network services administered from client workstations.
> [...]
> a. All drives and directories (Or "folders") and
> files are read/write shared by all four
> machines;
NFS provides this support for UNIX.
Samba provides this support for Windows.
NetAtalk provides this support for Macintosh.
> b. The printers (located on the file server) are
> shared by all four machines;
lpd provides this support for UNIX.
Samba provides this support for Windows.
NetAtalk provides this support for Macintosh.
> c. One of the three standalone machines is a
> dial-in network server for the entire network
> and also acts as a faxmodem (fax) server for
> all of the machines in the network.
I have no experience in setting up such boxes, so I unfortunately cannot
provide you with any specifics on what Free UNIX application(s) you would use
in that case.
I do know that it is possible to set up such services, and that others have
done so successfully.
> 5. No programs at all are shared as between any two or
> more computers in the network.
This is the default (no NFS exporting). If, at a later date you decide you
_do_ want to share programs, that is possible as well.
> 5. The network uses thin ethernet coax cable that runs
> from each machine to the next -- i.e., there is no
> "star" or "hub" involved.
You will need to turn on the "routed" service on your Linux boxes to make
this work. This is slightly more complicated than in a hub configuration,
but it works very well once it is set up. I would highly recommend switching
to CAT5 Ethernet and a hub (or even switch) for your network, because your
current configuration is making very poor use of the available network
resources. That recommendation would stand regardless of the operating
system used.
> Although at first blush this network may seem "too open" or lacking in the
> security features of a "client-server" network arrangement, you may assume
> that, among the persons who work in this network, security is not an issue.
Regardless of whether security is an issue among your users, the all-Linux
network you describe is far more secure than any Windows or Macintosh
network. A single Linux box introduced into a Windows-only network is capable
of taking control of nearly every network service, and of bringing the
network to its knees. The reason is that Linux allows direct access to the
network on the packet level, by means of the Berkeley Packet Filter (BPF).
On a Linux box with the BPF turned on, a user is capable of reading _all_ of
the data that is sent over the local network. There are Free UNIX
applications that protect against this by using strong (RSA) encryption on
all data sent over the network, but to my knowledge there are no similar
applications for either Windows or Macintosh.
> To the extent that security may be required from time to time, we simply
> password the relevant directories or other resources so that they can be
> used only by those who are working upon the particular project that needs
> to be secured.
Linux provides support for that type of security, as well as much stronger
measures.
> [...]
> 1. Can Linux be networked as a "Peer-to-Peer"
> network as described above?
Yes.
> a. If so, do the distributions of Linux come
> equipped to set up such a network or is
> some additional network application or
> program needed to effect the "Peer-to-Peer"
> network configuration that we want to create?
All of the above-mentioned Free UNIX applications either come pre-installed or
are available for download from the internet. All come with detailed
instructions on how to install them and how to configure them. As you have
already discovered, posting to Usenet can usually get you answers as well :).
> [...]
> 2. Can Linux be used to accomplish the "sharing" of the
> resources as we have outlined the degree of "resource
> sharing" above?
Yes.
> If so, is this a complicated matter to accomplish or is
> it a relatively simple matter such as is true in
> peer-to-peer networking in Windows for Workgroups
> and among Win95 machines that have been arranged
> in workgroups?
It mainly depends on how complicated your *goals* are. Windows tends to be
easier when everything works as it should (which is basically never). Linux
provides a much finer granularity for tuning, which means it is easier to
construct more complicated networks, but it also means a higher initial
learning curve, as there are more steps involved in the initial setup.
> [...]
> a. Is it a complicated matter to "plug in" a Linux
> workgroup, such as ours would be, into a larger
> network that uses neither Linux nor Unix as
> the O/S for its network?
Yes. Unfortunately, Linux (or any UNIX) makes a very poor client in a
non-UNIX environment. However, it is entirely possible to share physical
resources (printers, external network connections, etc.) in a way that both
the Linux network and non-UNIX network are capable of using them. This
essentially makes it unnecessary for you to "plug in" the Linux workgroup at
all, and to keep the two networks distinct (or to have the smaller Linux
workgroup actually "control" the larger non-UNIX network).
> b. Is it a complicated matter to "plug in" a
> computer -- that uses an O/S other than
> Linux -- to a Linux workgroup such as the
> one we hope we can create? (i.e., for
> example, would it be particulary difficult
> for an NT or for a Win95/98 machine to
> join us and use our network?).
No.
> [...]
> Are we in for some wrenching "shocks" and "surprises"
> under Linux?
I suspect that you _will_ be subject to many "shocks" and "surprises", but
only over how much faster and reliable your network has become.
> 4. Finally, given what we would like to accomplish
> with our network configuration, is there a
> particular distribution of Linux upon which we
> should be focusing? SUSE? Caldera? RedHat?
I would suggest RedHat, as I have had much success with it myself. Others
will probably have their own favorites. Most are relatively cheap (under
$30), and you only need to buy one copy for your entire network, so it would
probably be worthwhile to purchase several different distributions and figure
out which one works best for you.
XOOM.com is currently selling RedHat Linux and StarOffice as a bundled set
(very cheap). I can't find the URL at the moment, but if you go to their
homepage (http://www.xoom.com/) and join their "Buyer's Club" I believe an
offer email will be sent to you.
> Sorry to send up such a long message,
That's okay. However, if you post a reply, please make sure to "trim" the
followup as much as you can (note my use of "[...]" to save space). That
should keep things more readable.
>[...]
> Thanks,
I hope this information was of help.
> LScott
-Bill Clark
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