Linux-Networking Digest #668, Volume #10 Mon, 29 Mar 99 10:14:26 EST
Contents:
Re: a few newbie problems (Richard Steiner)
Re: Using Linux instead of NT Server in home environment.... (Mike Dreibelbis)
Re: Help me spend $2,000 on a new Linux-based computer (Paul Tomblin)
Re: qmail: general forward (Christian Lasarcyzk)
IPX and TCP/IP on same Linux machine ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Help me spend $2,000 on a new Linux-based computer (Richard Stovall)
Re: Networking with Windows (=?iso-8859-1?Q?S=E9bastien?=)
Re: Mounting an NT drive? ("Eugene")
internal modem ("Olle Soderqvist")
Re: /etc/hosts.deny syntax differs from man pages ? ("Patrick Gibson")
Re: module/depmod problem..... (Steven Brooks)
AFS for linux (Jerome Fayot)
Re: newbie: diald statements in /var/log/messages (Mike Jagdis)
using DNS server(named) and external dns server. ("Robin Imrie")
Re: /etc/hosts.deny syntax differs from man pages ?
Re: SIMPLE QUESTION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ("William Evans")
Re: using DNS server(named) and external dns server. ("William Evans")
Re: How to compile Kernel 2.2.2 with redhat 5.2??? (Paul Taylor)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Steiner)
Subject: Re: a few newbie problems
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 01:14:43 -0600
Here in comp.os.linux.networking, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dionysus)
spake unto us, saying:
>ok....so ive just begun using linux as a way of getting away from the
>horrible mess that is win95/98....but have a few problems.....
Breaking up your postings into paragraphs will help make them more
readable. I almost bypassed this message entirely because it was one
pile lump of text. :-)
>first of all, if there any database of linux drivers on the net? ive
>just got a new ethernet card and have configured it so that from
>windows boot i can access my uni's network....but no matter how i
>try i cannot do the same thing for linux....i can't even get the
>drivers to install properly.
Chances are that the support for your NIC is in the Linux kernel as a
module already. Since you mention netcfg, I assume you're using either
Red Hat or Mandrake.
Doing a brief search on Usenet via DejaNews:
http://www.dejanews.com/home_ps.shtml
using a keyword of "realtek" and a forum of "*linux*" might give you
some ideas. But the 8029 is apparently supported with a little effort.
My initial impression is that the PCINE2K driver might support it.
>Also, is there a file manager similar to XTGold in linux?
Consider Midnight Commander. It has a Norton Commander0like interface,
not XTree, but it's a very nice (and flexible) file manager. There are
both text-based and GUI versions around. It's called mc also (that's
what you would type at the command line).
There's also a very old XTree clone out there called UTree, but I've
not seen a copy for a long time. I used to run it under SLS. :-)
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-Rich Steiner >>>---> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>---> Bloomington, MN
OS/2 + Linux (Slackware+RedHat+SuSE) + FreeBSD + Solaris + BeOS +
WinNT4 + Win95 + PC/GEOS + MacOS + Executor = PC Hobbyist Heaven!
All those who believe in psychokinesis raise my hand.
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From: Mike Dreibelbis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Using Linux instead of NT Server in home environment....
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 07:11:04 -0500
>
>
> If most people can't even set up win98 at home, what hope have they with NT?
>
> If you want to see how easy it is to set up a home network, with IP
> masquerading, firewalls etc. I would reccommend John Sery's book 'Linux
> Network Toolkit' (IDG) which comes with all the software you need to get it
> going. Starts off with simple networks and works up to workgroup size complex
> ones.
>
> ..d
For me the biggest difference between NT and Linux is the machnes you will need
to run them on. NT will require a lot more horesepower, RAM, etc... than
Linux. NT is also more hardware specific so be prepared for more $$$ upfront.
As far as ease of setup I would tend to agree with the thread, the challenge is
more the understanding of networking than the setup of a specific platform.
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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 $2,000 on a new Linux-based computer
Date: 29 Mar 1999 12:49:36 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Tomblin)
In a previous article, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
>sound cards...) No harm in waiting for the SB LIVE 256 support to come out, you
>should be able to get it to run as a 128...
No, you can't. The SB16 and other emulation on the SBLive is done in the
Windows driver, not in hardware, so it's totally silent under Linux.
--
Paul Tomblin, not speaking for anybody.
"Faced with the prospect of rereading this book, I would rather have my brains
ripped out by a plastic fork." - Charles Cooper reviews the new Gates book.
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2230586,00.html
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From: Christian Lasarcyzk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.mail.misc,comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: qmail: general forward
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 10:48:44 +0200
Dave Sill wrote:
> Christian Lasarcyzk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > I want qmail to forward every mail (for every user) to an other
> > email-address with the same username and an other hostname. I need a
> > general solution, no ".forward"-stuff please, because the hosts share
> > these directory via nfs.
>
> Put:
>
> |/var/qmail/bin/forward "$LOCAL"@other.hostname
>
> in /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-default. Then put:
>
> +:alias:7790:2108:/var/qmail/alias:-::
>
> in /var/qmail/users/assign (replace 7790 and 2108 with your "alias"
> uid and "nofiles" gid, respectively) and run qmail-newu.
>
> This will forward mail to *every* recipient, including those matching
> local users, to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> If you only want to forward recipient that don't match local users,
> don't do the /var/qmail/users/assign_qmail-newu part.
Thank you very much, this solution works fine. I am very glad, that i dont have
to configure sendmail :).
TNX
Christian
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: IPX and TCP/IP on same Linux machine
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 09:38:37 GMT
Hi,
does anyone know if it is possible to configure Linux RedHat 5.2
to use 2 network cards. One of the cards should use the TCP/IP protocol
to commuicate with a NT server and the second network card should use
the IPX protocol to access an Novell File Server. The NT server and
the Novell Server are on separate networks.
thanks in advance
Ronnie Wengfelt
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From: Richard Stovall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Help me spend $2,000 on a new Linux-based computer
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 00:56:48 -0800
Marat Garafutdinov wrote:
> So SBive doesn't work with linux ?
> Or is it just that it's cool Environmental Audio thingy will not work -
> cause i just installed Linux, got networking to work and i'm getting to
> setting up sound - and I have SBLive....
> Richard Stovall wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
SBlives are totally non-functional under Linux at this time. Creative has not
released the information needed to write a driver for the proprietary chips
the cards use. You are out of luck until Creative either wises up or someone
cobbles together a solution on their own.
RS
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From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?S=E9bastien?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Networking with Windows
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 10:51:02 +0200
MSquire wrote:
>
> This is prob a really stupid question, but I am looking for a really helpful
> resource that explores networking with Windows, as in showing me how to make
> my Linux box show up in Network Neighborhood . . . Could someone please
> point me in the right direction?
>
> ~Prime
WWW.SAMBA.ORG
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From: "Eugene" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Mounting an NT drive?
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 05:33:03 GMT
yep. take a look at smbmount
--
"Ein Folk, ein Reich, ein Fuhrer" - Adolf Hitler
"One World, one Web, one Program" - Microsoft's slogan
Markus Moellers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:7dm3ln$dn2$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi folks,
>
> so here is another question of a newbie :)
> Is it possible to mount a Windows NT-Drive (or NT-Directory) with Suse
Linux
> 6.0? Maybe in cunjunction with samba?
>
> Thanks for your help
> Markus
> Germany
>
>
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From: "Olle Soderqvist" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: internal modem
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 15:19:17 +0200
Hi!
I have a Rockwell internal v90 modem and I have the problem that I have seen
that a whole bounce of other also have!
Linux can find my modem on COM3 but everything takes a very, very long
time....for exampel writing the letters ATDT takes 20 seconds before they
appear on the screen! And everything goes so damn slow! So does anyone know
it that's because I have a winmodem or is this problem fixeble??
Please help me!
Regards, Olle
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From: "Patrick Gibson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: /etc/hosts.deny syntax differs from man pages ?
Date: Sun, 28 Mar 1999 22:01:43 -0800
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> , Pierre Bodart
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> in.telnetd: ALL: (/usr/bin/finger -l @%h | /bin/mail -s %d-%h
> [EMAIL PROTECTED])&
> in.telnetd: connect from xx.xx.xx.xx
> in.telnetd: error: /etc/hosts.deny, line 9: bad option name:
> "(/usr/bin/finger"
> in.telnetd: refused connect from xx.xx.xx.xx
I had similar problems. I'm not sure why that doesn't work, but there are
some better options to use (man hosts_options).
I have the following in my /etc/hosts.deny:
in.telnetd: ALL : twist echo "** Sorry, this is a private system. **"
The "twist" commands passes the connection on to whatever program you want.
In my case, I just have it "echo" a saying to the user.
I also found this to work:
in.telnetd: ALL : spawn (/usr/bin/finger -l @%h | /bin/mail -s %d-%h
[EMAIL PROTECTED])&
Let me know if it works out...
Patrick
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From: Steven Brooks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: module/depmod problem.....
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 07:31:56 -0600
Mike wrote:
> I have upgraded from Redhat 5.1 to 5.2. When I boot I get error messages
> that it cannot find modules net-pf-4 and 5 which are appletalk and ipx. I
> have compiled my kernel to NOT include, these yet I still get the error.
>
> My /etc/conf.modules file is bare except for the nic's aliases. The
> /lib/modules/* path does not contain the offending calls.... When I do
> modprobe -c I get the aliases that indicated the call to net-pf-4 and 5...
> Where is this being stored for call???
>
> Please help,
>
> please copy [EMAIL PROTECTED] if you can...
>
> TIA,
>
> Mike
I think you have to add these lines to /etc/conf.modules:
alias net-pf-3 off # no ax25 module available (yet)
alias net-pf-4 off # if you don't use the ipx module
alias net-pf-5 off # if you don't use the appletalk module
(From the kernel documentation).
Steven
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From: Jerome Fayot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: AFS for linux
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 14:41:17 +0000
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike Jagdis)
Subject: Re: newbie: diald statements in /var/log/messages
Date: 29 Mar 1999 09:23:11 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, RobZwager wrote:
>I have been strugglng to get diald to work for days now.
>I finally came up with a configuration that seems to works for me.
>However there are some entries in the /var/log/messages file the puzzle
>me (see attached file)
>On opening and closing down the ppp-link there are "nonzero exit status
>(1) and (7)" reports on ifconfig and route statements.
>
>Anybody out there who knows whats wrong in my setup?
Some are because the 2.2.x kernels auto-create routes so when
diald does it route returns an already exists status. The others
are because when pppd drops the link the routes through it are
automatically deleted so when diald does it route returns a doesn't
exist status. Nothing is wrong.
Mike
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From: "Robin Imrie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: using DNS server(named) and external dns server.
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 14:46:56 +0100
Hi,
I have set up a local DNS server running on Red Hat 5.2 as a primary server.
Form my client machines I also need to access 2 other DNS servers as
provided by my ISP which we connect to via a gateway. When I edited the
settings for my machine (via DHCPD) to include the local DNS I discovered
that DNS lookup was only being performed by my local DNS server. i.e. if the
local DNS server cold not resolve a name the other DNS server were not
tried.
Is this a fault with my client software (NT4) or do I need to set up the
local DNS server differently.
thanks
Robin.
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Robin Imrie
SysMedia Ltd
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
URL: http://www.sysmedia.co.uk
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: /etc/hosts.deny syntax differs from man pages ?
Date: 29 Mar 1999 05:31:27 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Nos dec�a Pierre Bodart, acerca de /etc/hosts.deny syntax differs from
man pages ?
>According the man pages, you can also ask tcpd to run a command when a
>rule is valid. E.g. in hosts.deny you can have an entry like :
>
>in.telnetd: ALL: (/usr/bin/finger -l @%h | /bin/mail -s %d-%h
>[EMAIL PROTECTED])&
in.telnetd: ALL: twist (/usr/bin/finger ...
^^^^^
man hosts_access
That's all.
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Benjam�n Albi�ana P�rez
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Linux User N�78177
Espacio disponible para publicidad
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From: "William Evans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SIMPLE QUESTION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Date: 29 Mar 1999 09:08:35 -0500
>>>>> "Nausherwan" == Nausherwan I Malik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Nausherwan> Is it possible for me to download Linux software in Windows and then
use
Nausherwan> it in linux????????????????
Yes. Download it, save it as a file, and reboot into linux. Linux
can get files from the windows partition with no problem.
If the part you're having trouble with is accessing the windows
partition, here goes (as root):
mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt
Where /dev/hda1 is the windows partition and /mnt is where you want to
put it (temporarily). If you want to do this on a recurring basis,
set up something like /mnt/win95 or /mnt/c or whatever you prefer (or
even /win95 or /c ... no /mnt is required ... whatever you do, you
have to create the dir first).
--
William Evans < william . evans @ computer . org >
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From: "William Evans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: using DNS server(named) and external dns server.
Date: 29 Mar 1999 09:20:38 -0500
>>>>> "Robin" == Robin Imrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Robin> I have set up a local DNS server running on Red Hat 5.2 as a primary server.
Robin> Form my client machines I also need to access 2 other DNS servers as
Robin> provided by my ISP which we connect to via a gateway. When I edited the
Robin> settings for my machine (via DHCPD) to include the local DNS I discovered
Robin> that DNS lookup was only being performed by my local DNS server. i.e. if the
Robin> local DNS server cold not resolve a name the other DNS server were not
Robin> tried.
Robin> Is this a fault with my client software (NT4) or do I need to set up the
Robin> local DNS server differently.
If you're intending to cache hits that you aren't a master for, make
sure you've put the "forwarding" parameter somewhere in named.boot (or
whatever your named cfg file is). This is slightly different for
bind-4 and bind-8. For 4, just put in "forwarders 1.2.3.4" replacing
1.2.3.4 with the ip address of the other DNS server.
BTW: I ran into trouble at some point with my ISP's DNS server (it was
dog slow a lot of the time), so I don't forward. My configuration
goes straight out and queries root-servers and does it this way.
Perhaps it's not always the best way, but I haven't had a big delay
like I did using my ISP's DNS servers!
To use this, I have "cache . named.ca" in my /etc/named.boot (again,
bind-4). named.ca is produced using dig as:
dig @rs.internic.net . ns > named.ca
Actually, I do this monthly to make sure I am up to date (an old
named.ca can be very hard to deal with), and check the file to make
sure the query was successful before I overwrite the one used. Simple
little script that's been working flawlessly for years now. If you
need a copy of this, drop me a line.
HTH
-bill
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William Evans < william . evans @ computer . org >
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From: Paul Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: aus.computers.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: How to compile Kernel 2.2.2 with redhat 5.2???
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 19:01:09 +1000
Eugene VonNiederhausern wrote:
>
> Aaron Saikovski wrote:
>
> > Please Help!!
> > I have followed the how-to's to the letter, I have used the Linus
> > pocketbook.
> > I cannot get the 2.2.2 kernel to work correctly under RedHat 5.2.
> >
> > I compiled the kernel, removed static links to linux, I have made the
> > modules, made the modules_install.
> > I have moved the zImage to /boot.
> > When I reboot and try to boot the new kernel, it causes a total system
> > reboot..
> > In the /boot directory there is still initrd etc files...
> >
> > Is there an updated version of the kernel how-to that focuses primarily on
> > redhat5.2 and the latest kernel build?
> > I have followed the how-to to the letter and it doesn't workj with redhat
> > 5.2
>
> There are some redhat updates for kernel 2..2.x (init script, and some
> others). I had troubles getting kernel 2.2.0 to work until I made those
> updates.
The kernel 2.2.x "HOWTO" is at:
http://www.redhat.com/support/docs/rhl/kernel-2.2/kernel2.2-upgrade.html
BTW, kernel 2.2.5 has just been released; hopefully this will fix the
Sparc total lock up problems I've been having with 2.2.4
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