Linux-Networking Digest #597, Volume #10 Mon, 22 Mar 99 17:13:50 EST
Contents:
Re: Is my modem a winmodem? ("The Lone Scribe")
Re: INN 2.2 question (Eric Rossing)
Re: Any Masquerading Guru's out there? (Leon Hui)
Re: PnP modem. Now what? (Ryan Gaul)
Problems with WU-FTPd using the -a option (RedHat 5.2) (Ralf Quebbemann)
Re: Internal modem install ? (Alan Mead)
Re: INN problems, should I go Windows? (Paul D. Smith)
Help with Samba and RedHat 5.2 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Win95 X-software suggestion ("M. Brian Akins")
Re: fetchmail but not mail! ("The Lone Scribe")
Re: INN problems, should I go Windows? ("The Lone Scribe")
Linux to TCI@home via cable modem ("Leon Bienn")
Re: Is it possible to make a digital loopback with ISDN? (Job Eisses)
Re: Anybody experiences in using ISDN for Linux within a local telephone facility?
(Job Eisses)
Re: samba encrypted passwords (Alan Mead)
Netscape & Freezing (Ansgar Radermacher)
Re: samba encrypted passwords (Alan Mead)
Re: Can't get Usenet news to work...help! (M. Buchenrieder)
PPP notification? (Jon-o Addleman)
Re: INN 2.2 question (Dave Barr)
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From: "The Lone Scribe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Is my modem a winmodem?
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 13:03:45 -0800
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message <7d621h$tf$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>If it is the interrupt setting, how do I set it?
Type 'man setserial'.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric Rossing)
Crossposted-To: news.software.nntp
Subject: Re: INN 2.2 question
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 21:19:26 GMT
On Mon, 22 Mar 1999 12:53:52 -0800, "The Lone Scribe"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Read the INN FAQ at http://www.blank.org/innfaq/ and it should answer your
>questions quite nicely, as well as tell you a few more important things you
>need to know about running a news server, which is not a trivial matter.
Thanks for the tip!
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From: Leon Hui <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: Any Masquerading Guru's out there?
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 12:31:12 -0800
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
James Knowles wrote:
> John Smythe wrote:
> > One thing I noticed is that you set your host address to 192.168.1.0 ; this
> > number is generally reserved as the network address you should change the
>
> Yes, yes. also 255 is reserved as the broadcast address. One may only
> use numbers 1-254.
Actually, that's highly dependent on the netmask that you use. What you've
stated above is for a netmask of 255.255.255.0.
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From: Ryan Gaul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: PnP modem. Now what?
Date: 22 Mar 1999 21:31:50 GMT
I had a bit of trouble setting an internal USR modem myself, but I found
that the UART was unrecognized. Check to see if yours is recognized by
doing cd /dev ; setserial -a ttyS1. if the list says UART unknown, fix it
by using: setserial -a ttyS1 UART 16550A. If you're using RH 5.2, I know
there will be no rc.serial file, so you'll have to either create it, or use
this command to set the UART type every time you reboot.
Other than this, it should just be a matter of using pnpdump and isapnp
to create your isapnp.conf file. The modem should then work.
Ryan
Ju wrote:
>
> I got rid of my winmodem and have an internal plug and play us robotics
56k
> x2. In DOS setup to com2 IRQ3.
>
> I know they are little problematic but...
>
> I've been all over the web for help and in the HOWTOs but I'm still
missing
> something.
>
> I've got the isapnptools but don't understand its use. In /etc I'm
supposed
> to find rc.serial, nope.
>
> The command ATDT to dial your home phone# to check that the modem is
> connected doesn't work. go figure. I seem to go through the motions in
> minicom but nothing, and no kermit, if that's supposed to help.
>
> Basically I'm just not sure what file or script I'm supposed to edit to
tell
> linux what to connect to.
>
> confused, Jullian
>
>
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From: Ralf Quebbemann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Problems with WU-FTPd using the -a option (RedHat 5.2)
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 22:19:13 +0100
Hallo,
I�m using RedHat 5.2 Linux on a 586er Board (AMD K5-166, 32MB Ram). I
recently set up a FTP server and so I installed the recommended rpm
packages (anonftp, ftp, wu-ftp). In the beginning the wu-ftpd worked
fine. But after I added the -a option (= using the ftpaccess file in the
"etc" dir) in the "inetd.conf" file the ftp-server shuts down with the
following message:
"500 (serverdomain) FTP Server shut down -- Please try again later"
Any other option (-l, -d) causes the same error message.
On another machine (running SUSE 6.0), the WU-FTP is working fine (using
the same ftpaccess file as described above with the -a option).
So, what�s the problem ? Does anybody know a solution ?
Thanks
Ralf
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alan Mead)
Subject: Re: Internal modem install ?
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 21:38:27 GMT
On Tue, 16 Mar 1999 13:48:46 +0900, "HAL" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>Hello,
>
> I use RED HAT 5.1. My internal modem is "Fujitsu Fax Voice Modem 33600
>PNP - 15R", I cann't find a HOWTO about install a internal modem.
I don't know anything about this modem but assuming it is compatible
(you've checked the HARDWARE-Howto?)... Disable PNP. Open the case
and plug the modem in. You may need to install a driver and if that's
not clear, posta a message about that (to something like
comp.os.linux.hardware).
> I often see a term "winmodem", whether all internal modem is "winmodem",
>how to tell it?
winmodems are not compatible with Linux because they are stripped
down, requiring a complex driver to do the work the hardware normally
does. Alas, no manufacturers write these drivers for Linux. So if
you have one, you cannot use it with Linux.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul D. Smith)
Subject: Re: INN problems, should I go Windows?
Date: 22 Mar 1999 16:43:32 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
%% "Luis A. Burgos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
lab> Sorry I made a mistake: I CAN connect to the server. My only
lab> questions so far are:
You should specify what version of INN you're using, as the care and
feeding of INN 1.7.x differs greatly from 2.x, for example.
lab> 1.- is there anything to configure?
Not sure what you mean here. If you can connect to the server as a
reader, then you appear good to go.
If you're not accepting any external feeds, there's not all that much to
do.
In INN 2.x you need to make sure that your nnrp.access file contains
enough permissions for everyone you want to have client permissions to
the server.
Other config files you might want to look at:
incoming.conf - names and addresses that feed us news
newsfeeds - determine where Usenet articles get sent
If you aren't serving or being served, just make sure these are set up
with no feeds or allowed incoming server connections.
All these config files have decent man pages (in INN 2.x, anyway), so
start there.
lab> 2.- What should I do to create local newsgroups? I.e. standard
lab> procedure for creating newsgroups (internal)
See the man page for the ctlinnd command. That's how you control the
innd server.
For example:
$ ctlinnd newgroup local.my.new.group
No problem. You don't need to throttle the server or anything.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Help with Samba and RedHat 5.2
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 21:21:08 GMT
Can someone please help me out. I have a linux box running RedHat 5.2 and
another box running Win 98. I would like to map a drive from my Win98 box to
my Linux box. The two machines are not located on the same lan, so the
connection will have to be made through the Internet. I have read a great
deal of documentation on the samba config file and I don't understand what I
am doing wrong. Here is the meat of what I have done:
I added the IP address of the Win98 machine in the "hosts allow" section of my
smb.conf file.
I added "guest account = pcguest" to the smb.conf file. I just did this
because I was trying anything I could think of.
I then added a section at the bottom of my file that looks something like
this:
[mydir]
comment=My stuff
path=/usr/html
valid users=me
public=no
writeable=yes
printable=no
Then on the Win machine I add an entry into my lmhosts file that (supposedly)
maps an ipaddress to a computer name. the entry is something like
my.ip.address.here mycomputer
The name and the ip might be switched, I don't remember right now as I am not
on my Win Machine.
Then i try to map a drive to my linux box by clicking "Map Network Drive" from
the Network Neighborhood right click options. I enter \\mycomputer\me. What
happens then is my Win98 machine comes back and tells me that the computer or
sharename cannot be found.
Can anyone help me out here?
Many thanks in advance.
-Clint Smith
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Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 13:30:39 -0500
From: "M. Brian Akins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux.slackware,comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Win95 X-software suggestion
try www.starnet.com. They have a pretty good server.
Jon Slater wrote:
> I want to be able to run X on my Win95 box. I am connecting to a RedHat
> Linux 5.2 box.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks!
> --
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> Phone: (303) 247-5037 Boulder, Colorado
> Fax: (303) 247-5167 80301
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From: "The Lone Scribe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: fetchmail but not mail!
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 13:50:16 -0800
Taro Fukunaga wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>I'm not sure why, but when I use fetchmail (MkLinux DR3, RedHat 5.0), I
>download email, but they're not in /var/spool/mail/username nor anywhere
>else. Where could it be? Maybe I'm not downloading anything?
Fetchmail should default to echo to the screen what it's doing as it
downloads. Run it by hand again and watch what it says. If you're not seeing
enough, give it the verbose switch (-v) and try again.
>Sendmail is also running as a daemon, polling every ten seconds. It is
>version 8.8.8.
There's no need to have sendmail check your outgoing mail queue that often.
You're just needlessly burning CPU cycles that would be better spent
elsewhere.
>No problems with netscape (which I run on the client, which is another
>Linux machine), but I want to use fetchmail on the server.
Make sure that Netscape configured to look at your Linux server for email,
and is not doing an end run around it and going directly to your ISP's smtp
server and emptying out the spool before your server's fetchmail has a
chance to get it.
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From: "The Lone Scribe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: INN problems, should I go Windows?
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 12:51:34 -0800
Luis A. Burgos wrote in message ...
>1.- is there anything to configure?
>2.- What should I do to create local newsgroups? I.e. standard procedure
for
>creating newsgroups (internal)
Running a news server is not a trivial matter, even if it's just an intranet
with local-only newsgroups. First, read the inn docs located in
/usr/doc/inn-1.7.2. Then read the INN FAQ at http://www.blank.org/innfaq/
and then seriously consider buying the O'Reilly & Associates' book "Managing
Usenet" (see http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/musenet/.
If you need a shortcut to get it up fast, you need to at least read the FAQ,
then login as user 'news', cd into /etc/news, and configure a few files
there. Then you need to double check your configuration, then login as
'root' and restart innd from /etc/rc.d/init.d, then log back in as 'news'
and cd into /usr/lib/news/bin, then run 'ctlinnd' to add/change/delete
newsgroups, paying attention to naming conventions per your config in
/etc/news so that you don't blast your local news out onto the Internet. And
just a friendly word of advice: Next time don't be so quick on the trigger
and make promises that you cannot keep, or you'll give folks a bad taste for
Linux before they even have a chance to give it a fair shake.
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From: "Leon Bienn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux to TCI@home via cable modem
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 21:39:29 GMT
To Whomsoever that might be able to help....
I'm running Redhat 5.1 on an AMD K-6/300 with 96Mb SDRAM and trying to get
my system hooked up to the @home server through the cable modem. I can hook
up through Win 98 no problem. I printed out the winipcfg file and so have
all the parameters I think I need to get my linux system hooked up to the
@home network - but alas! - she no go! @home uses a cable modem to connect
to their network.
The message I get when booting is that the dhcpd can't find the dhcpd.conf
file. Indeed, no such file exists - and I don't know how I go about creating
one that will do the job. Linux seems to find my 3Com 3C509 card and
initialize it just fine. But it won't hook up to the @home network...I did
note that in Win 98 you have to tell the system that you are hooking up to
the @home network through a proxy server with a specific port address. I
find no place in the linux networking configuration files to specify such a
proxy server or port address asssociated therewith! HELP!
I'm a linux newbie, so please excuse my ignorance....
And thanks for any light you can shed on this problem.
Leon Bienn, Seattle, WA
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Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 22:58:15 +0100
From: Job Eisses <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Is it possible to make a digital loopback with ISDN?
Konstantin Wiesel wrote:
>
> I would like to configure a PPP Server with I4L
> and therefore use one channel as sender and the other
> one as receiver for testing purposes.
> Any experiences with this?
Yes, works fine - but just digital, not over ppp.
I use kermit on ippp0 to dial ippp1 on which a getty
is running. -job
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Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 23:01:05 +0100
From: Job Eisses <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Anybody experiences in using ISDN for Linux within a local telephone
facility?
Konstantin Wiesel wrote:
>
> I would like to know how to configure ISDN4Linux in order to make it work
> propperly within out ISDN environment (Siemens Hicom) For instance i do not
> know exactly how to set the MSN correctly. Do i only have to set it with i4l
> or do i have to configure the telephone facility too?
There is a good chance your questions can be answered by
http://www.wurtel.demon.nl/
-job
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alan Mead)
Subject: Re: samba encrypted passwords
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 21:10:21 GMT
On Mon, 15 Mar 1999 00:20:01 -0800, "liam toh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>Im new to linux, using redhat 5.2 2.0.36 with samba 1.9.18p10
>I have the network working good, just 1 win98 system networked to 1 redhat
>linux system. I have just one user account (besides root) on the linux. This
>user account directory on linux was accessable in network neighborhood
>before I tried to configure encrypted passwords. I tried to set up the
>encrypted passwords,
I looked at the encryption docs and decided to see what else I could
do. It turns out that if user-level security is not an issue (which
it isn't with me on my small LAN), you can just make the shares public
and use share level security.
-Alan
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Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 23:06:42 +0100
From: Ansgar Radermacher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Netscape & Freezing
Hello,
I noticed a strange bug in netscape 4.0x and 4.50/4.51:
Netscape freezes on some pages (e.g. http://www.freshmeat.net ), if
JavaScript is enabled *and* automatic image loading disabled (which is
quite annoying, because I usually have it disabled to reduce network
traffic -- and save some time).
So there are two working combinations:
(1) "everything" enabled as in the default settings, or
(2) disabled image loading and disabled JavaScript (preferred)
I really don't understand the link between the freezing, JavaScript and
delayed image loading (maybe a timing problem?).
I tried the libc-5 as well as the glibc version of netscape (the latter
is only available as 4.50). I have to systems: rh-5.1/2.0.33 kernel and
rh-5.2/2.0.36 kernel, both show identical behavior as described above.
Has anyone else noticed this strange behaviour?
Regards
A. Radermacher
PS.
Since netscape 4.5, insertion of bookmarks into nested folders does not
work anymore. (the mode indicated by the bar changes from "insert" to
"goto", if I step into folders)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alan Mead)
Subject: Re: samba encrypted passwords
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 21:13:03 GMT
On Mon, 15 Mar 1999 00:20:01 -0800, "liam toh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>Im new to linux, using redhat 5.2 2.0.36 with samba 1.9.18p10
>I have the network working good, just 1 win98 system networked to 1 redhat
>linux system. I have just one user account (besides root) on the linux. This
>user account directory on linux was accessable in network neighborhood
>before I tried to configure encrypted passwords. I tried to set up the
>encrypted passwords,
I wrote that you can use share-level security. I forgot to mention
the other kludge, you may need to loosen directory security on the
Linux box considerably.
-Alan
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (M. Buchenrieder)
Subject: Re: Can't get Usenet news to work...help!
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 20:00:58 GMT
[Newsgroups: line drastically trimmed - col.help and col.questions
don't exist at all, col.powerpc is irrelevant, FollowUp-To: set
to col.networking where it belongs]
Brian Barjenbruch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>[[ This message was both posted and mailed:
Useless. All email from home.com is filtered here. I ususally
don't get anything but spam from @home.com addresses. Sorry.
[...]
>> >I tried both of those. My news server is just named 'news' (no quotes)
>> >and both of those commands worked with that server. Unfortunately, I
>> >still could not get any actual newsreaders, such as Netscape, to work.
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> Uh, you did edit your NEWSLIB/nntp_access file, did you ?
>"Uh"? What's this "Uh"? Did I miss something really obvious? Did I
>ask a stupid question? If I did, you might have used a little more
>tact in pointing that out...
<grin>
Actually, I only saw the above posting, nothing else, therefor I had
to assume that your nntpd was simly rejecting your newsreader because
of a missing entry in the nntpd access configuration file. Since you can
get some response from the nntpd daemon, it probably isn't the missing
or incomplete nntp_access file that's the culprit.
>> (See "man nntpd" for details) .
>There is no manual entry for nntpd.
Then you're missing parts of the manpages for your system.
>To clarify: If I use the news server 'news,' these programs will work,
>sort of. I can get the full group lists, that's about all I can do.
>But when I try to subscribe to any specific group, or read a message, I
>get an error message that says something like 'Too many connections.'
>If I switch to the news server news.rdc1.bc.wave.home.com, that will
>work perfectly (although it's really slow).
What kind of nntpd are you running on that machine ? Did it come
with your distribution or did you install it yourself ?
Michael
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jon-o Addleman)
Subject: PPP notification?
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 21:51:12 GMT
I'm trying to get ppp to work a little more interactively. What I'd
like is to be able to spit out a message when it connects,
disconnects, or fails to connect.
The connecting and disconnecting are fairly easy using /etc/ppp/ip-up
and ip-down.
When the connection fails though, due to a busy signal, for example, I
can't find a good way to announce it. I've tried messing around with
chat reports, and manages to make a file (a rather cluttered one)
containing:
chat: Mar 21 11:15:06 NO DIALTONE
Closing "/etc/ppp/reports".
However, this is annoyingly cluttered and hard to work with. As well,
I don't see how to send this to the console at any time - pppd runs in
the background, so if I put it in the script right after, it displays
the file long before pppd has even had a chance to load the chat
script!
Ideally, I want something that can use a customizable script, since I
want to notify users on the win95 computers that are also using the
PPP link (via masquerading). I'm planning to do this with Samba
(someone said I could) or else mars_nwe. In any case, first I needto
finda way to get the info, and find a way to run the script at the
right time.
--
Jon-o Addleman
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dave Barr)
Crossposted-To: news.software.nntp
Subject: Re: INN 2.2 question
Date: 22 Mar 1999 22:13:11 GMT
In article <7d6abq$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
The Lone Scribe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Read the INN FAQ at http://www.blank.org/innfaq/ and it should answer your
>questions quite nicely, as well as tell you a few more important things you
>need to know about running a news server, which is not a trivial matter.
Unfortunately this FAQ isn't nearly as useful as it should.
It is INN 1.x specific and hasn't been touched since about Dec '97.
All attempts to get the "maintainers" to do something has failed.
There is a 2.x FAQ getting started but unfortunately I lost the URL.
--Dave
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