Linux-Networking Digest #615, Volume #10 Wed, 24 Mar 99 12:13:42 EST
Contents:
NT client won't print (Oliver Petschulat)
Re: Linux RH5.2<-->win98 (Coffee)
IPX (El Hombre)
Re: For all you Nicrosoft lovers ("Jack Mott")
Re: Difference Between NAT and IPMasquerade ("Leopold Toetsch")
w98/95-linux (philip)
Re: NE2000 under DosLinux ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Samba and NT4 ("John Madden")
Re: smbmount used to work (Robert van Loghem)
Re: Linux RH5.2<-->win98 (Geoff Allsup)
Has anyone had any luck running satan or nessus on RH 5.2? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Telnet Vt220 ("Pascal Bey")
Re: SIOCADDRT: Invalid argument ("William R. Mattil")
Re: VNC xstartup (grey screen) - $DISPLAY problems? (Sean McEwan)
Re: Help with Samba and RedHat 5.2 ("Paul Bary")
Re: IP forwarding and firewall FAQ-Help! ("Super Net News")
Win95 group policies ("Serge Poirier")
Use two different "defalut route" ("Albert Want")
installing via etherboot ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
delayed ack timer (Rajkumar - Paulraj)
Re: Varied access levels in PPP connections (Eric Rossing)
Re: Tape Backup software ("Philip Chan")
Re: About to take the Linux plunge.... ("Leopold Toetsch")
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From: Oliver Petschulat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: NT client won't print
Date: 24 Mar 1999 13:31:52 GMT
Help,
I installed samba 2.0.1 on a SuSE Linux 6.0 system and configured it using
swat. Everything seems to work fine - I just can't print from an NT
client!?
Samba sees all the configured printers (reads the printcap) and when
I install the appropriate device driver under NT, Windows sees all the
printers too. I setup NT to use the raw-printer but when trying to print
to it, I keep getting error messages saying the printer name is wrong
or unavailable.
I can use the home directories just fine...
Anybody got an idea?
Thanks!
Olli.
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From: Coffee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux RH5.2<-->win98
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 08:52:40 -0500
Thomas Fonseca wrote:
> Hello - I am network newbie trying to connect my Linux machine running
> RedHat5.2 to my Windoze98 machine. I have installed ethernet cards in
> each and tested them by booting DOS and using the diags that came with
> the cards. They worked fine.
>
> I setup TCPIP on both:
> 192.168.1.1 = Linux
> 192.168.1.2 = Windoze
>
> I can ping each locally but I cannot ping between the two. I know I
> have not configured the networking software correctly somewhere in
> between but I am not sure where. Any help would be greatly
> appreciated.
>
> Thanks - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> P.S. Linux machine also has PPP0 dial up to the inernet and it works
> fine.
Thomas,
Did you setup your linux machine to be the default gateway in your winbox?
Im kinda new to this too. I have gotten my linux (redhat 5.2) to be able
to ping my win95 box
and vise versa. But, Thats as far as Iam now. Lets see, another place to
check is netcfg in linux box. Make sure you added the win98 box in there.
Let me know how you come along. BTW -- Got one maybe you might answer
concerning Netscape. When I try and send a message I get the error :
"error sending message. Qouted text is larger than reply".
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From: El Hombre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: IPX
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 11:48:07 +0100
How do I setup the IPX protocol. Where do I find a configuration file
to change network address, frame and other settings like that.
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From: "Jack Mott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: For all you Nicrosoft lovers
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 14:41:55 -0600
yeah
thats the fucking issue
closed source
thats why its bad
in the words of a valley girl:
what-ever
John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>Samuel Aw writes:
>> Extremely disturbing esp. when I use win98 in the office.. shesh! and
>> all the while, m$ is spying on win98 users, collect info about us and F*!
>> I PAID them to do all these shit ! How could they!
>
>Surely when you chose to use a closed source OS you realized that you were
>exposing all your secrets to the vendor.
>--
>John Hasler This posting is in the public domain.
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] Do with it what you will.
>Dancing Horse Hill Make money from it if you can; I don't mind.
>Elmwood, Wisconsin Do not send email advertisements to this
address.
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From: "Leopold Toetsch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Difference Between NAT and IPMasquerade
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 09:57:10 +0100
Ramon Leon wrote in message <7d94is$ohm$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>wrong, they are both the same thing, just the name is different. besides
>what good would NAT be if you still had to have a gazillion valid external
>addresses. NAT is what the non unix community call it. Masq is what the
>Unix community call it. That's the only difference!
No Ramon, you are wrong.
Read the RFC1631
"Each NAT box has a table consisting of pairs of local IP addresses and
globally unique addresses."
So we have _pairs_ of addresses, which makes it possible for a many to many
address routing.
IP-Masquerading as it is implemented in Linux is a many (intern local IPs)
to _one_ (ISPs-IP) translation.
And if you are wondering what would NAT be good for, again read the RFC.
If you had read Net3-Howto, the you would know that NAT for Linux is under
development.
So the original answer was totally right.
>> NAT make a one to one internal / external IP translation .
>> So if you have 10
>> Clients behind the NAT-Firewall you need 10 official IP-Addresses.
>>
>> ipMasq just uses one Official for unlimited Clients behind the
>> ipMasq-Firewall.
>>
leo
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Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 18:36:45 -0500
From: philip <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: w98/95-linux
i am a newbie (linux) and have a question:.
ive set up a linux server with various w95/w98 clients and 1 nt4 pdc,
all w95/98 clients use nt for domain security (userlevel)
now ive set up samba and everything seems to work except,
when i use " net use g: \\linuxserver\public on the w95/98's i get an
instant
listing of resources,
but if i use windows explorer or networkneigborhood to browse it takes
about
5mins for the resourses to show up.
i dont get any errors (password). any help would be thanked.
" The manual said the program required Windows 95 or better, so I
installed Linux...."
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: NE2000 under DosLinux
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 11:20:15 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Can someone please help me fill out the software requirements for
> installing a Generic NE2000 Eth card under DosLinux 2.2.1? Thank you!
>
> Tarsi
> 210
>
>
hi
dont know doslinux (????????????)
anyway,, just compile your kernel w./ support for ne2000 cards -
so the only required sw is kernel-sources
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From: "John Madden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Samba and NT4
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 09:04:38 -0500
Hello,
Have been having this problem since I started using Linux, but haven't
gotten it resolved. My rev of Samba was the Red Hat distribution SMB version
1.9.18. DNS and Wins seems to work, as the Linux machine is set as a client
for both , and can ping and smbclient can view shares and send Winpopup
messages fine. The problem is when I try to use the Linux shares from NT. I
keep getting the message "Remote computer is not available" from NT 4
workstation. I set the password level to encrytped in the smb.conf file, and
used a smbpasswd file, made from the command mksmbpasswd.sh >
/etc/smbpasswd, and believe my smb.conf file is set up OK, but still no go.
Any ideas? Should I upgrade the version of samba?
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From: Robert van Loghem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: smbmount used to work
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:40:43 +0000
Marc Hering wrote:
> ok, here is one that is quite annoying ;)
>
> I am running SuSE 6.0 and was successfully mounting my shared dir's off
> my NT server using smbmount no prob. the other day I upgraded from
> 2.0.36 kernel to 2.2.3 kernel and now I cannot mount my shares anymore.
> When building the new kernel I make sure to include support for
> smbfilesystem and I can ping the server no problem
> this is the output I get when trying
>
> Darkstar:~ # smbmount //stargate/mhering$ /mnt/win -I 192.168.1.2 -U
> mhering
> Password:
> mount error: Invalid argument
> Please look at smbmount's manual page for possible reasons
> Darkstar:~ #
You should upgrade to samba 2.0, the smbmount utilities are in SAMBA while
it used to be in the smbfs utils.
you should uninstall the smbfs utils then upgrade to SAMBA 2.x
and then you could use something like
smbmount //server/share -c 'mount /mnt/share'
it's different from the old smbfs but it works.
Robert
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Geoff Allsup)
Subject: Re: Linux RH5.2<-->win98
Date: 24 Mar 1999 14:01:05 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 23 Mar 1999 22:45:38 -0800, Thomas Fonseca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hello - I am network newbie trying to connect my Linux machine running
>RedHat5.2 to my Windoze98 machine. I have installed ethernet cards in
>each and tested them by booting DOS and using the diags that came with
>the cards. They worked fine.
>
>I setup TCPIP on both:
>192.168.1.1 = Linux
>192.168.1.2 = Windoze
>
>I can ping each locally but I cannot ping between the two. I know I
>have not configured the networking software correctly somewhere in
>between but I am not sure where. Any help would be greatly
>appreciated.
>
You don't say how you're connecting these machines - if they are using
10Base-T (twisted pair) then you can't just use a straight cable to
interconnect. Either buy a crossover cable or, better yet, (if you ever
want to add a third machine) buy an inexpensive 5-port hub somewhere.
geoff
--
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Geoff Allsup Upper Ocean Processes Group
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Woods Hole, MA, USA
******************************************************************
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Has anyone had any luck running satan or nessus on RH 5.2?
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:41:35 GMT
I've installed Satan 1.1.1 on a redhat 5.2 distribution, and I receive the
following error when I run the 'make linux' at the end of the install.
The LINUX rules are untested and may be wrong
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/local/satan-1.1.1'
cd src/misc; make "LIBS=" "XFLAGS=-I/usr/local/satan-1.1.1/include -
DAUTH_GID_T=int" "RPCGEN=rpcgen"
make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/local/satan-1.1.1/src/misc'
cc -O -I. -I/usr/local/satan-1.1.1/include -DAUTH_GID_T=int -c md5.c -o
md5.o
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/satan-1.1.1/src/misc'
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/satan-1.1.1'
I looked for an 'md5.o file in the satan-1.1.1/src/misc
directory and there isn't one there, nor was one included in the satan tar
file that I used 'satan-1_1_1_linux.fixed2.tar.tgz' that I used for the
install.
Anyone have any idea's? Be kind here.... or I'll have to go back to
sending MORE money to Billy G.
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From: "Pascal Bey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Telnet Vt220
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 15:23:41 +0100
I've modified the file .Xdefault in my HOME,
and have the Keys like F1 wich gives me [OP
but auf the unix session with a telnet in a xterm session
the keys seems to be working until I start the Oracle SQL*Forms application
on the UNIX machine.
There, the funktion-keys seems to be away.
Have someone an Idea to go on !
Thanks a lot for your answer !
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From: "William R. Mattil" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SIOCADDRT: Invalid argument
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 08:24:22 -0600
The probable reason for this is a bogus entry in /etc.sysconfig/network.
Red Hats install scripts are broken and if you specify no default route
(the correct answer 99% of the time BTW) it puts an entry of 0.0.0.0 in
there. Just remove the 0.0.0.0 and you should be fine. This really doesn't
affect anything in an adverse manner though.
Regards
Bill
"M. Brian Akins" wrote:
> I get that on both of my NIC's but everything works fine. I think in
> RedHat some stuff from a config file is read that shouldn't be or
> something. I tried to trace it down, but finally figured that it wasn't
> worth it bcs Everything is running great.
>
> Butr if anyone knows what this is I'd be glad to know.
>
> Max wrote:
>
> > Greetings All!
> >
> > I get the following message during startup:
> > SIOCADDRT: Invalid argument
> >
> > what's it mean?
> >
> > Thanks in advance
> >
> > Max Pyziur
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Sean McEwan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: VNC xstartup (grey screen) - $DISPLAY problems?
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 09:10:52 -0600
I did manage to get this working. This is what I did:
1. Copied vnc programs into /usr/bin (I think it was that directory. Anyways,
one that is in your path)
2. Telnetted into the Linux box from Win95
3. Ran 'vncserver'
4. The first time you run it, it asks for a password
5. Then it gives a name and session # to connect to (ex: linux.domain.com:1)
6. Then, I ran vncviewer from Win95, and instead of typing the word address, I
typed the numberic IP address : (ex:192.168.1.3:1)
7. It gave me an xterm. Doing a 'ps aux' showed a 'xdm' running.
This worked for me. I didn't start any X programs on the Linux box. I hope this
helps.
Sean
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Here's what I'm trying to achieve: vncserver on a Linux box, vncclient on
> a
> windows box. What I get is merley a "grey screen and cross cursor"
> seen from
> the clinet end - i.e: no applications running. This is dispite
> the fact that
> my xstartup file contains the line:
>
> afterstep &
>
> Now, here are some
> observations. The line (I assume) is identical to:
>
> afterstep -d $DISPLAY &
>
> which (I assume) is identical (for me) to (e.g. in one particualr instance):
>
> afterstep -d PC007248Linux:2
>
> None of the above seem to work.
> I have put
> a line in the xstartup file, to the effect:
>
> echo $DISPLAY > ~/diag.log
>
> and it confirms that $DISPLAY is PC007248Linux:2
> (or PC007248Linux:n more
> generally).
>
> Now, after having run vncserver, it responds with something
> like:
>
> New 'X' Desktop is PC007248Linux:2
>
> (or New 'X' Desktop is
> PC007248Linux:3 or whatever)
> So I try typing at the shell prompt, the
> following:
>
> % afterstep -d PC007248Linux:2
>
> But this does *NOT* work,
> returning the following:
>
> _X11TransSocketINETConnect: Can't connect: errno
> = 101
> AfterStep: can't open display PC007248Linux:3
>
> HOWEVER, it *is*
> successful to do:
>
> % afterstep -d :2
>
> which works, opening an aftertep
> session on the vnc client.
>
> HOWEVER, I want the whole thing to be automatic,
> so that
> in the xstartup file can refererence $DISPLAY, by default having...
>
> afterstep &
>
> will "select" the vnc display appropriately, whatever # that
> might be.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Many thanks in advance to anyone out there who knows
> what
> is happening here, and is willing to offer their advice..
>
> Steve.
>
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From: "Paul Bary" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help with Samba and RedHat 5.2
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 05:15:48 -0700
I have had no luck including the hosts allow line in my smb.conf .....with
it Samba always fails (regardless
of syntax which I've verified in the Samba book written by John Blair..I
think that's his name), without it
my Samba always works. Sooo, assuming everything else in your config is
correct, you may wish to remove this line and give it a try....just a
thought...
Paul
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
<7d6c7p$a6g$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>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:
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From: "Super Net News" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: IP forwarding and firewall FAQ-Help!
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 20:50:17 +0800
Can you explain a little bit what the following does although it works for
me?
Martin
Curt wrote in message ...
>Do you have this at the end of your /etc/rc.d/rc.local file?
>
>/sbin/depmod -a
>/sbin/modprobe ip_masq_ftp
>/sbin/modprobe ip_masq_raudio
>/sbin/modprobe ip_masq_irc
>/sbin/modprove ip_masq_cuseeme
>
>ipfwadm -F -p deny
>ipfwadm -F -a m -S 192.168.1.0/24 -D 0.0.0.0/0
>
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From: "Serge Poirier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Win95 group policies
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 13:06:31 -0500
Hi Folks,
Has anybody successfully implemented Win95 group policies on a Samba server.
I've imported the grouppol.reg into the Win95 registry and saved a
configured config.pol file in the Netlogon Share, but group policies are
ignored.
User policies work so I know Win95 sees the policy file.
My group logon scripts work so I know Win95 sees the unix groups.
Any ideas ?
Thanks in advance.
/Serge
Below is my smb.conf file.
[global]
workgroup = CARTIER
case sensitive = no
printing = bsd
printcap name = /etc/printcap
load printers = yes
guest account = guest
domain logons = yes
logon script = %g.bat
[homes]
comment = Home Directories
browseable = no
read only = no
create mode = 0750
[printers]
comment = All Printers
path = /var/spool/lpd
browseable = no
printable = yes
public = no
writable = no
create mode = 0700
[netlogon]
comment = Netlogon share for login scripts and config.pol file.
path = /usr/local/samba/netlogon
writable = yes
browseable = yes
public = yes
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From: "Albert Want" <al-want@#--remove--#usa.net>
Subject: Use two different "defalut route"
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 12:21:35 -0000
I'm using a RedHat 5.2 on a machine with two network adapter which is used a
gateway/proxy for my internal network.
One ethernet adapter is used to connect my internal networks and the other
one it's connected to a cisco and from here to my ISP.
Since the lesed line sometimes it's not enough, I bought an ISDN Router to
use 8Kb/sec more during peak hours... What I'd like to do it's to choose at
runtime which subnets should use the ISDN router and which subnets should
use the cisco.
Since ipfwadm isn't the solution (you cannot forward the packets through a
gateway) I was thinking about use the route command to modify the routing
table on the machine. But this is not enough since the rules in the routing
table recognize only the target address and not the source (I'd like to
change the route only for some subnets).
So, does anyone know how to use two different "default route" choosed by
looking at the IP address source ?
Thanks in advance for your answer and please answer in mail too, by removing
#--remove--# from mail email address.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: installing via etherboot
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 14:34:38 GMT
Hi, I want to set up a couple of 'floppyless workstations' (pls. don't ask
why) that have their linux installed via etherboot to their local disk.
RedHat supports this method for sparc machines. Can someone tell if
converting the bootdsk image to a taged-image-file is sufficient? Or do I
have to strip the floppy-bootloader?
rgds, Gottfried
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From: Rajkumar - Paulraj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: delayed ack timer
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 10:20:16 -0600
I want to know what the default delayed timer value in Linux is ?
Thanx
Rajkumar
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric Rossing)
Subject: Re: Varied access levels in PPP connections
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 16:34:25 GMT
On 23 Mar 1999 19:03:20 +0000, Brian McCauley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric Rossing) writes:
:
: > Right now, I have a Linux 2.2.2 machine that acts as a network
: > gateway/firewall for my office LAN. In addition, I have two PPP dial-in
: > lines into this machine.
: >
: > How can I set things up so that certain users can make a PPP connection and
: > have full Internet access while other users can only connect to the
: > in-office network, and not to the Internet.
: >
: > I have the full-Internet dial-in capability for all users right now. We
: > would like to limit some users to intranet access.
:
: In recent version of pppd the /etc/ppp/ip-up script is called with the
: peer name in the environment variable PEERNAME.
:
: You could use this to control a case statement containg IP firewalling
: commands.
So far, I have this script:
#!/bin/tcsh
echo "$1 $2 $3 $4 $5 $6" > /tmp/pppscript.txt
echo $PEERNAME >> /tmp/pppscript.txt
ipchains -A forward -s $5/32 -d 0/0 -j MASQ >> /tmp/pppscript.txt
This produces a /tmp/pppscript.txt file that has 2 lines in it
(corresponding to the two echo lines). When I run it manually, logged in as
root, the ipchain is added. When I dial in for PPP access, the
/tmp/pppscript.txt file is created, but the ipchain is not, and I haven't
been able to figure out why....
: I never have understood the destinction between peername and username
: in this context.
In my playing around trying to get this to work, I discovered that peername
is the login name from the dial-in, while username is the local username
pppd was run as (root, in my case).
Eric Rossing
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Philip Chan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup,hk.comp.os.linux,tw.bbs.comp.linux
Subject: Re: Tape Backup software
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 20:40:36 +0800
Go to www.linuxberg.com, then go under the
software section and look for backup utilities.
Linuxberg is mirrored in hkstar, so the respond
time is quite good.
Jack Cheng wrote in message
<58A5CE5756240D7D.34A59D8C8C6F2327.814FF3055347A28
[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Hello,
>
>I'm looking for a very easy & good DAT tape
backup software.
>Any idea?
>
>Regard
>Jack Cheng
>
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From: "Leopold Toetsch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: About to take the Linux plunge....
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 09:14:03 +0100
nebben wrote in message ...
>I have my machine almost ready to go, and I am almost ready to go out
>and get a Linux book/CD combo. I thought about downloading it all, but
>I wouldn't know what I was downloading, ...
Very wise idea.
>In any case, I hope to learn how to use Linux, and how to get a small
>LAN working with Linux being the OS on the solo server.
>The server will have......
>486 dx2 66
>Adaptec 1542 SCSI controller
>Quantum 1.2 gb SCSI HDD
>Panasonic 4x CD-ROM
>Allied Telesis 1700 series NIC or 3com 509 series NIC
>.....and at least 12mb RAM so far.
This would be enough, though putting in more RAM is not expensive nowadays
and would things speed up.
>In any case, I hope to learn enough before the end of summer so I
>can.....
>
>Make the above mentioned machine into our web-access machine: so that
>all the machines on our LAN (3 machines on the LAN besides the future
>server) can share a 56k modem internet connection.
No problem with IP-Masquerading.
>Hopefully, in the not-too-distant future, I hope to get a DSL line
>installed, and turn the box into a DNS server/web-server combo for a
>few websites I plan on creating. Depending on how well things go, I
>might even host other people's sites.
For hosting other sites there are several things to consider:
You need two DNS-Servers
You have to consider security (Firewall)
hardware might be to "small"
>From what I got through some of the previous posts, Redhat 5.2 seems
>good for newbies...
>After a few posts, it seemed that SuSE was one of the better
>distributions, because it has the redhat distribution, plus a ton of
>extra stuff...............?
I don't know what is "better". But I (newbie) used SuSE 6.0 for setting up a
similar Server (except i'm dialing up with ISDN). SuSE comes with 5CDs
(including StarOffice), 500+ pages installation & getting started guide,
tons of packages and sources. It uses Redhat's RPM so upgrading is easy.
Installation is done with YaST (Yet another setup tool), which makes it easy
for getting started quickly.
Kernel is configured for masquerading, firewall ... So for the beginning
there is not need to compile a Kernel.
As I'm writing this SuSE 6.2 with kernel 2.2.x should be out soon.
>... Do I necessarily need to know how to modify complex C++
>statements or anything in the Linux kernel to use it effectively ?
No, just turn off unwanted stuff in a menu and make ...
leo
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