Linux-Networking Digest #658, Volume #10 Sun, 28 Mar 99 11:13:44 EST
Contents:
Re: Help me spend $2,000 on a new Linux-based computer (Matthias Warkus)
Re: Copy over net... ("William R. Mattil")
Re: IP masquerading & domain names (Desmond Coughlan)
Re: Netatalk setup in RH 5.2 ("Serge Poirier")
PPP can't establish connection (moasi)
Re: Machine name themes - what do you use? (Clay Calvert)
Re: Using Samba and NT Workstation ("Qval")
Re: Help me spend $2,000 on a new Linux-based computer (Matthias Warkus)
Re: Setting up Network ("William R. Mattil")
Re: Yet another two nic problem ("William R. Mattil")
ISP's ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Newbie new tulip.c question ("Antonio")
Re: ISDN without pap or chap ("Curt")
Re: X-server/client on remote doesn't work ("William R. Mattil")
Re: Using Linux instead of NT Server in home environment.... ("Alexander I. Butenko")
Re: Help me spend $2,000 on a new Linux-based computer (Paul Tomblin)
am-utils (amd) & smbfs (smbmount) -- automount frustation ("Steven R. Levitt")
Re: Step-by-step modem setup instructions? ("Robert C. Locher")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthias Warkus)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Help me spend $2,000 on a new Linux-based computer
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 15:23:59 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
It was the Sun, 28 Mar 1999 01:25:56 +0000...
..and [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've gotten the go-ahead from my better half (read: my wife) to spend
> around 2K on a new system. I'd like to hear _specific_ success and/or
> horror stories on systems and peripherals that have worked and not
> worked with Linux. My prequisites:
>
> 400mhz CPU
> 96mb RAM
Make sure your motherboard can cache it all.
> 8mb video card
Don't get a Hercules Terminator 128 GLH.
> 19" monitor
> sound card, speakers
Make sure Linux supports the card.
> 4GB hard drive
Why don't you get more?
> CD-ROM
> Bonuses:
> DVD
> Color printer
Make sure it's not a GDI printer.
> Tape backup
> Dual CPUs
mawa
--
Usenet est omnis divisa in partes tres, quarum unam incolunt Trolli,
aliam useri regulari, tertiam, qui ipsorum lingua dei, nostra admini
appellantur.
-- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "William R. Mattil" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Copy over net...
Date: Sat, 27 Mar 1999 21:05:20 -0600
"[...M...]" wrote:
> What is the best way to copy a directory recursively from one system to
> another system over TCP/IP? Considering that I can't use FTP or EMAIL. Is
> there another way?
May not be the best way but ...... :^)
tar -cvf the_dir_you_want.tar /the/path/to/the/directory/*
rcp the_dir_you_want.tar otherhost:
then untar the tarball on the other machine.
man tar
man rcp
should provide any missing details
But I will profess some curiosity as to why ftp or mail won't work ........
Bill
--
William R. Mattil | Fred Astaire wasn't so great.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Ginger had to do it all backwards
(972) 399-4106 | and... in high heels.
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From: Desmond Coughlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: IP masquerading & domain names
Date: 28 Mar 1999 16:31:03 +0200
Rod Roark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[snip]
> >You can name them whatever you like. My domain name is coughlan.fr,
> >which doesn't exist in the real world.
> I suggest avoiding .fr or .com or any other standard top-level domain.
> That way you're guaranteed to avoid conflicts.
True, I did have a problem with outgoing mail, where some servers
wouldn't accept mail, thinking it was spam. I fixed that in my
sendmail.cf and now everything works fine. This problem would have
existed with "foo.bar" as well, though ...
[snip]
--
Desmond Coughlan |Restez zen ... Linux peut le faire
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[www site under construction]
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From: "Serge Poirier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Netatalk setup in RH 5.2
Date: Sun, 28 Mar 1999 10:41:17 -0500
Good day,
I setup Netatalk just last week using the info. at the following URL on
Slackware 3.6 Linux.
http://www.thehamptons.com/anders/netatalk/
The installation was successful although I still can't map users to their
home folders using the ~ symbol in AppleVolumes.default or
AppleVolumes.system.
Hard coded mappings in AppleVolumes.system work ok, so my
AppleVolumes.system looks as follows.
/apps Applications
/home "Home Folders"
This shows (2) volumes in the Chooser after the user successfully logs in.
I control users access to their home folders using the unix chmod command.
Good Luck and let me know if you solve the home folder (~) mapping. I'm
very interested in a solution to this problem.
/Serge
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: moasi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: PPP can't establish connection
Date: Sun, 28 Mar 1999 04:40:52 +0300
making a dialup connection according to the PPP-HOWTO
i connected with my ISP using the minicom.
Then i quited minicom without reseting the modem and
issued the following command
pppd -d -detach /dev/ttyS2 38400 &
then i issued ifconfig and it appeared only the lo and no ppp0
, while the command ping had no result
then i looked in /var/messages
and it said :
Mar 26 03:36:20 localhost modprobe: can't locate module ppp0
Mar 26 03:36:20 localhost kernel: registered device ppp0
Mar 26 03:36:20 localhost pppd[650]: pppd 2.3.5 started by root, uid 0
but i have just compiled a new kernel, the 2.2.1 and the ppp isn't
compiled as a module
my modem is supra 33.6 PnP internal
and my distribution is ReadHat 5.2
thanx in advance
--
Antwnios A. Zhsimos
Student of N.T.U.A
e-mail address :
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Clay Calvert)
Crossposted-To:
vmsnet.networks.misc,microsoft.public.windowsnt.domain,comp.unix.solaris,comp.os.os2.networking.server,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.admin.networking,comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix,comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains
Subject: Re: Machine name themes - what do you use?
Date: Sun, 28 Mar 1999 14:11:00 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Using grandmothers' names will allow you to have two more machines.
Any sisters?
On Sat, 27 Mar 1999 19:06:35 -0500, "Duncan A. McRae"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I always named my machine after my mother, being the first important woman
>in my life. When I got a network, I was going to name machines after
>significant girlfriends. Unfortunately, I didn't start networking until
>after I was married. That was find for the second machine (wife's name) and
>even the third (daughter), but now I'm stuck -- do I find another theme, or
>have an affair in order to name machine #4? Or, almost as bad, do I simply
>name a machine after an ex- and deal with the inevitable hail of nasty
>looks?
>
Clay Calvert, MCSE
www.languru.com/multimon.htm
Remove the "x" in my e-mail address to reply.
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From: "Qval" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.misc,linux.samba
Subject: Re: Using Samba and NT Workstation
Date: Sun, 28 Mar 1999 16:52:43 +0200
Tony Thompson schrieb in Nachricht <7djjvg$2tme$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>I'm trying to Linux with Samba and Windows NT Workstation talking. When I
>look at the Network Neighborhood on NT it will show the group but it does
>not display the computer(times out). The version of Linux I am using is
5.2
>and everything now is running on an out of the box server installation.
>
>Things that do work are Apache, FTP and pinging so I know the network does
>exist but something must be set wrong in the default install.
>
>Anyone have any ideas?
>
>Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>Thanks!
>
>Tony Thompson
>
>
try thise settings
[global]
workgroup = �your workgroup
encrypt passwords = yes
[homes]
comment = Home Directories
read only = no
create mode = 0777
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthias Warkus)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Help me spend $2,000 on a new Linux-based computer
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 15:31:32 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
It was the Sun, 28 Mar 1999 01:25:56 +0000...
..and [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[schnibble]
Uh, I forgot completely... This is my setup:
380 MHz AMD K6/2 overclocked to 400 MHz
- works like a dream
Asus P5A ATX motherboard
- excellent piece of hardware
2x32 MB PC100 DIMMs
- well, it's RAM :)
10.1 GB IBM DTTA IDE hard drive
- fast!
2.1 GB Seagate Medalist IDE hard drive
- fast!
Hercules Terminator 128 GLH
- not supported by XFree yet, DON'T BUY IT
Anubis Typhoon 3D MAX II Voodoo 2 accelerator
- I don't suppose this is interesting to you
NEC CDR3000 40x CD-ROM
- fast, noisy
A:Drive 120MB LS-120 doublespeed superdisk drive
- well, a good drive AFAICS
Creative Sound Blaster 128 PCI
- supported under Linux
USRobotics Sportster ISDN TA ext.
- an excellent ISDN adapter; works like a modem
HP LaserJet IIIp
- old, but built like a tank
All in all, after assembling it and getting it to work, I found that
this is a wonderful machine, except for the graphics board which isn't
supported by XFree86.
mawa
--
"Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has
genius, power and magic in it"
-- Goethe
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From: "William R. Mattil" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Setting up Network
Date: Sat, 27 Mar 1999 21:21:26 -0600
Eric Lee wrote:
> Hi,
> I didn't set up the LAN when I was installing the Linux (RedHat 5.0).
> and the problem is that control-panel is not option for me..(don't ask me
> why, I have my own reason..:)
> anyway, so far, I made a approporiate chanages in resolv.conf, rc.local,
> hosts files... I would like to see that my ethernet card is up and running
> when I type ifconfig. it is up but I am not able ping anywhere.. should I
> start the routed process as well? can anybody tell me the simple procedure
> what to do?
>
Assuming that the NIC is already configured take a look at the following
files:
/etc/sysconfig/network
NETWORKING=yes
FORWARD_IPV4=false
HOSTNAME=yourhost.yourdomain.com
DOMAINNAME=yourdomain.com
GATEWAY=
GATEWAYDEV=
note: GATEWAY is most likely not needed and if used can cause problems later
with ppp
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
DEVICE=eth0
IPADDR=www.xxx.yyy.zzz
NETMASK=whatever is appropriate
NETWORK=www.xxx.yyy.whatever
BROADCAST=www.xxx.yyy.whatever
ONBOOT=yes
You may or may not need to add some routes to your routing table as well but
this should get you started.
Regards
Bill
--
William R. Mattil | Fred Astaire wasn't so great.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Ginger had to do it all backwards
(972) 399-4106 | and... in high heels.
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From: "William R. Mattil" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Yet another two nic problem
Date: Sat, 27 Mar 1999 21:35:48 -0600
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I would appreciate assistance in getting my small network working. One local
> address is unpingable.
>
> I have RH 5.2 installed on one computer with eepro100 (eth1, 192.168.0.3) and
> 3c509 (eth0, 192.168.0.1) cards. I have Win95 installed on another computer
> with nic (192.168.0.2) card. All cards are cabled to 10base-T 3 com Office
> Connect hub. I can successfully ping all three addresses from Win95 machine
> and all but 192.168.0.1 from RH machine. Packet lights flash on the hub only
> when pinging between machines AND when trying to ping 192.168.0.1 from RH
> machine.
>
> RH nic drivers are loaded as modules.
>
Your system seems to be doing the right thing IMHO. Consider the following:
Your RedHat machine has the two NIC's .... one of them (and one only) is set up
as the default route ??? or is known to the kernel as the route for the
192.168.0.0 network. So if, from the Red Hat machine, you try and ping
192.168.0.1 it is (most likely) routing to the card that it thinks is providing
the route to the 192.168.0.0 network.... Unless you have a specific reason for
this addressing scheme I would suggest changing the IP address of one of these
NICs to another collision domain or network. For example: 192.168.1.1 (Netmask
of 255.255.255.0) Then the REdHat box can be configured to send any traffic to
the 192.168.1.0 network to the proper NIC and any traffic for the 192.168.0.0
network to its proper NIC. In your machines current config, I can see no reason
to not use IP Aliasing instead of the extra NIC.
Hope this helps
Bill
--
William R. Mattil | Fred Astaire wasn't so great.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Ginger had to do it all backwards
(972) 399-4106 | and... in high heels.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: ISP's
Date: Sun, 28 Mar 1999 14:11:49 GMT
can anyone tell me of some good cheep (preferably free)ISP's that i can
connect to from Red Hat Linux. Please mail me if u can
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From: "Antonio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Newbie new tulip.c question
Date: Sun, 28 Mar 1999 15:13:23 GMT
My distribution is Redhat 5.2
John Strange wrote in message <7dl9o3$6vn$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Since you did not supply what Distribution (Slackware, Redhat, Susie,...)
>or release level (3.6, 5.2,..) we cannot give you a good answer.
>Read the last lines of this message.
>
>You could try the following:
>
>As root do a, updatedb
>This runs for about a minute.
>Then try locate tulip.c
>This should return the location.
>
>To rebuild the modules
>cd /usr/src/linux
>make modules
>make modules_install
>
>
>Antonio ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>: I just downloaded a new tulip.c driver for my netgear network card.
>
>: What do I do now? Where do I put it? Do I need to compile anything?
>
>: Sorry for my ignorance I've been reading the docs on modules, devices and
>: compiling new kernels but it is pretty complex!
>
>: By the way I have modular support for networking in my current kernel.
>
>: thanks.
>
>
>
>--
>While Alcatel may claim ownership of all my ideas (on or off the job),
>Alcatel does not claim any responsibility for them. Warranty expired when u
>opened this article and I will not be responsible for its contents or use.
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From: "Curt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ISDN without pap or chap
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 06:57:02 -0500
You'll probably need to ask your ISP, or whoever admins the other end.
Richard Mann wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Hello,
>
>Is there a way of connecting to ISDN without using pap or chap
>authentication? I want my pap-secrets file to be empty.
>
>Cheers
>
>
>
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From: "William R. Mattil" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: X-server/client on remote doesn't work
Date: Sat, 27 Mar 1999 21:43:55 -0600
Joshua Schwartz wrote:
> Hello to all,
>
> O.K. I want to login to a remote computer that boots
> and then sits waiting for something to do. Then from
> my local computer I want to rsh to the remote and redirect
> the DISPLAY variable to my local computer and run an application
> on the remote computer and see the graphical interface on the
> local. I used to do this all the time with Sun Sparc stations
> but can't seem to get it to work with Linux/Xfree86.
>
> I set the DISPLAY variable as follows on the remote
> DISPLAY=192.0.0.3:0
>
> Note that my network uses illegal internet IP addresses.
> But I'm not connected to the outside world so I don't think
> this should matter for now. 192.0.0.3 is my local computer.
>
> when I try to run xedit I get an error message about not
> being able to open the display and xedit exits. Can any one suggest a
> way to get this to work. Perhaps I have to setup some permissions properly
> or a network configuration. I can rsh succesfully and ping etc.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Joshua Schwartz
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
xhost + <remotemachine>
the remote machine perhaps is not allowed to access the Xserver ?
Regards
Bill
--
William R. Mattil | Fred Astaire wasn't so great.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Ginger had to do it all backwards
(972) 399-4106 | and... in high heels.
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From: "Alexander I. Butenko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Using Linux instead of NT Server in home environment....
Date: Sun, 28 Mar 1999 18:22:52 +0300
Crossposted-To:
microsoft.public.windowsnt.misc,microsoft.public.windowsnt.setup,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup,micorosft.public.outlook
ANyway I greatly doubt that Linux will be easier to use than NT Server. I'm
sure that NT Server will be a ideal use for a small home network, becaus
eit's very easy to configure comparable to Linux and supports most network
clients better.
--
Best Regards,
Alexander I. Butenko
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft Developer Network Certified Member
Rod Roark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:7dl9ai$rkq$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Stuart Summerville <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >...
> >What are your experiences when taking this approach? Does one have to
> >sacrifice many windas niceties in order to take advantage of Linux? &
> >please, no barking about how well Linux handles these services - I
> >know - I just want to know how well it compares to NT on the
> >usability/feature-wise scale.
>
> Take a look at http://citv.unl.edu/linux/LinuxPresentation.html.
> It's a bit old now, but has a lot of detail.
>
> -- Rod
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Sunset Systems Preconfigured Linux Computers
> http://www.sunsetsystems.com/ and Custom Software
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Tomblin)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Help me spend $2,000 on a new Linux-based computer
Date: 28 Mar 1999 13:58:24 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Tomblin)
In a previous article, "Eugene" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>Here is my dream machine:
>
>Celeron 366 overclocked to 550
>Abit BH6 mobo
>128 Mb SDRAM (PC-100) (one piece)
>Nvidia TNT2 (when it comes out - should be soon!)
>Optiquest V95 (19")
>12+ gig HD
>etc...
Nice. I bought something similar a few weeks ago:
300A Celeron o/c to 450
Abit BH6
128 Mb SDRAM (PC-100) (one piece) Corsair CAS-3
Diamond Viper 550 (NVidia TNT)
10 gig WD Caviar drive
36x CD
Sound Blaster SBLive (useless under linux, but kick ass in Windows)
speakers
MS Elite keyboard
MS Intellipoint wheel mouse
huge tower case
ethernet card
no monitor (already had a 17")
for $1200. It's one great machine.
I haven't heard of anybody having any luck o/c 366s to 550. Have you?
--
Paul Tomblin, not speaking for anybody.
"Faced with the prospect of rereading this book, I would rather have my brains
ripped out by a plastic fork." - Charles Cooper reviews the new Gates book.
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2230586,00.html
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From: "Steven R. Levitt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: am-utils (amd) & smbfs (smbmount) -- automount frustation
Date: Sun, 28 Mar 1999 14:46:00 GMT
I have had absolutely no luck getting Linux to automount any of my WinNT
(SP4) shares. I have no problem mounting these volumes manually via
smbmount, but, I would prefer not be burdened with this task every time I
bootup.
RedHat 5.1 distribution:
kernel-2.0.34-0.6
smbfs-2.0.1-4
am-utils-6.0a16-4
and, for what its worth:
samba-1.9.18p10-5
portmap-4.0-11
nfs-server-2.2beta29-5 & nfs-server-2.2beta29-5 (installed, not
active)
autofs-3.1.1-4 (installed, not active)
I've read through the Am-utils (4.4BSD Automounter Utilities) user manual at
http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~ezk/am-utils/am-utils_toc.html about 129 times.
But, due either to a huge mental block, or, utter stupidity on my part, I
just can't seem to get the hang of it! Everything I've tried, so far, had
been greeted with error upon error. So now, nearing the end of my rope,
I'm asking for your collective wisdom on this matter.
Could anyone help me understand the user manual in terms of what I wish to
accomplish? Or, better yet, provide me with a sample of a working
configuration I could base mine upon?
--
Steve Levitt
Colonia, NJ
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From: "Robert C. Locher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Step-by-step modem setup instructions?
Date: Sun, 28 Mar 1999 07:57:50 -0800
If your modem isn't a winmodem it will work. To find out if it will by
yourself, use "dip -t", use dip's port command to tell it which serial
port (e.g. "port ttyS2"), then use dip's term command to go into
terminal mode. Type "at<enter>", and wait thirty seconds. If you get
back "OK" immediately or after several seconds, you have the right
port. If you get it back immediately, you have the right IRQ. If it
takes several seconds, you have the wrong IRQ; use setserial to set the
right IRQ, and "man setserial" for a list of IRQ's to guess at.
Set up your modem with the control panel's Network Configurator. Use it
to create a new PPP interface. Edit the interface and select the
Communication button to set your modem stuff. (The default worked for
me except the phone number!) Play around with other the other settings
as required by your ISP.
Use linuxconf (the icon with the maestro in the control panel) to make
or break your connection. It's at control->control panel-> control
PPP/SLIP/PLIP links.
Otherwise try the following handy aliases:
alias dial='/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-ppp daemon ifcfg-ppp0 &'
alias hangup='/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifdown-ppp ifcfg-ppp0'
Hope this helps!
Rob
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