Linux-Networking Digest #88, Volume #11 Sat, 8 May 99 21:13:45 EDT
Contents:
Re: ? loopback: ping `hostname` (brian moore)
Re: Strange problem while connected to foreing host (Joerg Sauer)
Re: smbmount won't work with Redhat 6 ("Nick Stefanisko")
Re: server reboot, client can't umount w/o reboot - help! (Barry)
Re: Linux as a Router? (Leslie Mikesell)
Re: RoadRunner problems ("Doug Pitek")
win98 ftp client errors: LAN->PPP->Internet ("Mitchell Starnes")
VMWare and Win95 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Linux newbie: Telnet and inetd setup (John Murtari)
Re: IBM Global Network Services and Linux - HELP! (Rogue Eagle)
Re: HP Deskjet 1600CM print from Linux??? (Thomas Stoddard)
Re: viewing Linux Xserver Xfree86 on NT ? (Robin Jackson)
Samba still making progress BUT slowly. (Robin Jackson)
Re: Reliable (!) nic for 2.2 kernel? (Preston F. Crow)
Re: Strange problem while connected to foreing host (Joerg Sauer)
Re: Strange problem while connected to foreing host (Joerg Sauer)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (brian moore)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: ? loopback: ping `hostname`
Date: 8 May 1999 20:57:23 GMT
On Sat, 08 May 1999 01:43:02 -0700,
jianhong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello, Everyone,
>
> I'm trying to get loopback to work on a stand alone machine, called
> "slackbox",
> with no network card, running slackware 3.5 Linux. My /etc/hosts is like
> this,
> #/etc/hosts
> 127.0.0.1 localhost loopback
> 172.16.1.1 slackbox
>
> `ping localhost` and `ping loopback` worked just fine, however,
> `ping slackbox` FAILED with the error, "... network unreachable".
That's because it has no route to that network.
You'll need to bring up an interface on that network with that IP
address. /etc/hosts is not a list of ip numbers for your machine, it's
a list of IP numbers for machines, some of which may be that one, others
of which may be other machines.
> Can someone please enlight me on how to get this to work?
> How do I let the computer loopback by referencing the hostname, i.e.,
> ping `hostname`
> -------------------
> By the way, slackware 3.5 doesn't support `ifconfig dummy ...`.
It will if you build the proper kernel that supports the dummy device or
load the proper module.
You will need to do that if you don't have a NIC.
--
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Sysadmin, C/Perl Hacker | a cockroach, except that the cockroach
Usenet Vandal | is higher up on the evolutionary chain."
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joerg Sauer)
Crossposted-To: de.alt.comm.isdn4linux
Subject: Re: Strange problem while connected to foreing host
Date: Sat, 08 May 1999 08:56:30 GMT
Hi Erik,
sorry but I seem to be a fool.
I switched RST provoking mode off and everything seems to work fine.
I changed the mode to 1 so that the addresses are rewritten. I don't
no yet if my Win95 will still connect propperly to the Internet when
the line was down, but till now it seems to work.
Just one question, if I switch off IP_DYNIP in Suse, how do I switch
on mode 1 (echo 1 > .....) on reboot?
Thanks in advance and sorry that I did't figured out your first
answer!
J�rg
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From: "Nick Stefanisko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.protocols.smb
Subject: Re: smbmount won't work with Redhat 6
Date: Tue, 4 May 1999 10:16:26 -0700
the below syntax is wrong, it should read
smbmount //server/share mountpoint password -n shorthostname -U username
Paul Sherwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> On Mon, 03 May 1999 02:43:31 GMT, "Ray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >With that string it comes back as -C no such mount point
>
> Did you create the mountpoint?!
>
> Best regards, Paul
> >
> >
> >> >I keep getting the error mount version 6 required. I have made sure I
had
> >> >the latest Samba 2.0.3
> >> >I keep getting this error please help everything worked with 5.2.
> >> >My command is smbmount file://server/share /mountpoint -C -p
password -U username
> >>
> >> smbmount seems to be dain bramaged. try
> >> smbmount file://server/share -C -p password -U username -c 'mount
> >/mountpoint'
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
>
> Paul Sherwin Consulting 22 Monmouth Road, Oxford OX1 4TD, UK
> Phone +44 (0)1865 721438 http://www.telinco.co.uk/psherwin/index.htm
> Fax +44 (0)1865 434331 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Barry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: server reboot, client can't umount w/o reboot - help!
Date: Sat, 08 May 1999 20:25:36 GMT
Hi,
Unfortunately, re-smbmounting doesn�t seem to work...
My mount points are under /mnt. Any attempt to access the windows machine�s
(mordor) shares result in an error, as follows:
bash-2.02# ls /mnt
4gb-drive cdrom2 floppy mordor zipext2
cdrom data morannon mordor-d zipvfat
bash-2.02# ls /mnt -l
ls: /mnt/mordor: Input/output error
ls: /mnt/mordor-d: Input/output error
total 8
drwxrwxrwx 4 root root 1024 May 4 15:57 4gb-drive
drwxr-xr-x 2 barry users 1024 May 3 10:02 cdrom
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 May 5 00:54 cdrom2
drwxr-xr-x 5 barry users 1024 May 6 19:54 data
drwxr-xr-x 2 barry users 1024 May 3 10:03 floppy
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 May 3 04:48 morannon
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 May 5 01:59 zipext2
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 May 5 01:59 zipvfat
bash-2.02# /usr/bin/smbmount "//mordor/c" -c "mount /mnt/mordor"
Added interface ip=192.168.0.100 bcast=192.168.0.255 nmask=255.255.255.0
Server time is Fri May 7 21:39:38 1999
Timezone is UTC-0.0
security=share
Could not resolve mount point
bash-2.02# mkdir /mnt/mordor
mkdir: cannot make directory /mnt/mordor': File exists
bash-2.02# rm /mnt/mordor
rm: /mnt/mordor: Input/output error
bash-2.02# lsof | grep mnt
lsof: WARNING: can't stat() smbfs file system /mnt/mordor-d
Output information may be incomplete.
lsof: WARNING: can't stat() smbfs file system /mnt/mordor
Output information may be incomplete.
It seems I will have to reboot after all :-(
Barry
"Jayasuthan [VorHacker]" wrote:
> You just need to mount the same share folder at that location..
> it will resync. then smbumount will clearout that lost connect..
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Leslie Mikesell)
Subject: Re: Linux as a Router?
Date: 8 May 1999 16:12:13 -0500
In article <7h1l0l$sdq$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Kevin Adam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I am a systems administrator who has been trying to get Linux into our
>organisation for some time. Until now I have not had a good enough "excuse"
>to do this. However, I now have a cunning plan! Here is the problem:
>We have 2 offices connected by a British Telecom 64 Kb kilostream leased
>line. The far end office uses token ring and we use ethernet. At the moment
>these are connected by 2 IBM PS2 machines running the IBM token ring bridge
>program. I don't have the budget to replace the PS2's (non Y2K) with Cisco's
>etc. I know I can use 2 windows NT machines to perform the routing, but they
>will need rebooting every 10 minutes and they cost nearly as much as the
>Cisco's anyway.
>So:
>1. Can I use Linux for this task?
>2. What software & hw will I need?
>3. Will I be able to install it? (no real Linux experience so far)
The date shouldn't have anything to do with a bridging function, so if
the PS2's continue to boot at all they should continue to move your
packets even if they display the wrong date on the clock.
I'd expect this to be a sync data connection and something that
would require special hardware. Are the PS2's using the stock
serial ports or do you have dedicated cards for the connection.
If you have special cards, you will have to either find a Linux
driver to match or get cards that work with Linux (which may cost
about as much as the Ciscos). If it is running on the standard
async ports it will work with Linux although you will probably have
to use routing instead of bridging so you will only be able to
use TCP/IP and you may need to adjust addressing for that to work.
Les Mikesell
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From: "Doug Pitek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RoadRunner problems
Date: Sat, 8 May 1999 17:10:57 -0400
do you have any rip packets transferring on servers for different routes..
because that's all it sounds like...
$ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi!
>
> I live in El Paso TX and use Time Warner RR. Been playing with Linux -
> I
> am a powerful and infulential (translate harried and stressed) LAN
> supervisor (translate whipping boy) of the EPISD. I do have lots of
> hardware and software to play with. We are using Linux ( Caldera
> mostly) in production as DNS, Apache servers, etc. I also manage about
> 1000 seats on a 80 NW 4.11 LAN/WAN.
>
> Been playing with Red Hat at home. I will be getting 6.0 next week.
>
> I found some old hardware, I am running RH 5.0 (2.0.31) on an HP
> Netserver LC 5/133 with an Intel E100B nic. I applied your excellent
> scripts ( I had to guess at our login server - I used the DNS/DHCP
> address, so that may be part of the problem). All worked swimmingly,
> and
> I _do_ login - I know I am because if I misconfigure my password in
> rrconf, I can't ping or resolve anything).
>
> The puzzling part is this - about 3 minutes after boot, most of the
> world becomes unreachable (according to ping). The only thing I can
> still ping is my default gateway. Prior to this, I can surf a bit with
> Lynx, ping, etc. If I do a traceroute the "unreachable" thing happens
> sooner. I never see anything other than * * * in the traces. Name
> resolution is fine until it bombs.
>
> This has driven me crazy for about 3 days! If we can fix this, I bet
> it
> will help a lot of other people in El Paso.
>
> I also did the RH install with "everything" checked, so I am running
> named, http, sendmail, etc. I wonder if these daemons are somehow
> freaking out RR. I am too newbieish to know how to 'comment them out',
> but I am learning fast. I did have a lot of Unix in college, but that
> was on a vax and a PDP-11 20 years ago ....
>
> Any suggestions would be great!
>
> $teve Crye
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
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From: "Mitchell Starnes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: win98 ftp client errors: LAN->PPP->Internet
Date: Sat, 08 May 1999 20:26:33 GMT
My LAN is is hooked up to a Linux box which is forwarding packets to the
Internet. A win98 client on the LAN is able to connect via ftp to a machine
on the Internet but then gets errors and disconnects as soon as I run 'ls'.
I'm able to 'cd' successfully but the 'ls' doesn't work.
Here is the command I'm using to enable IP forwarding:
ipfwadm -F -a m -S 192.168.0.1 -D 0.0.0.0/0
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: VMWare and Win95
Date: Sun, 09 May 1999 00:05:44 GMT
I have gotten Win95 to run through VMWare on my P200MMX (slowly, but
running). However, I also need Win95 to be connected to the net. I currently
have a PPP connection (on ppp0), so I only have one real IP address. I think
that I need a proxy server in order for me to be able to use fake IP
addresses, but I am not sure as to how to set that up. I got the SOCKS5
server, but could not find any docs that showed me how to do what I wanted to
do. Also, in windows, I need to set up the virtual ethernet card correctly as
well as the TCP/IP protocol, and I do not know how to do that (all the DNS,
IP, WINS, etc stuff). Could someone please tell me how to do all this, or
refer me to a page somewhere which tells me how to do what I want to do.
Thanks in advance,
Ilia Mirkin
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From: John Murtari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux newbie: Telnet and inetd setup
Date: Sat, 08 May 1999 23:16:52 -0400
Georg Cantor wrote:
>
> I have just installed my first Linux setup, Redhat 5.2.
> and have 3 questions to ask.
>
> 1. When I try to telnet from another machine, I receive no response.
> Nothing happens at all. The man pages state it can be started via inet.d,
> which I do not know much about.
You can do a man on "inetd" and "inetd.conf" to get the format,
if you look in the /etc/inetd.conf file you should see the following:
==
# These are standard services.
#
ftp stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd in.ftpd -l -a
telnet stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd in.telnetd
gopher stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd gn
===
If the lines don't start with a "#" -- they are ON. You should
be able to within an xterm on your Linux box and type 'telnet
your-machine-name'
and get a connection. You then need to supply a valid name/password
combination.
>
> I have added users to the system, and I can even access their directories
> via Samba, but somehow I cannot get telnet via root or any other user. Does
> adding users automatically give telnet access or does that have to be
> configured separately?
Adding users doesn't directly effect telnet at all. Adding users
just allows you to login as someone. Are you getting the login prompt
--
or just nothing. You normally cannot login as root remotely, you have to
login as a normal user, then give the 'su' command to gain root
privilege.
>
> I need to know if the telnet daemon is actually running on the server, and
> how to setup users to access the machine from outside.
Yes, there is no telnet daemon running in the background. When a
connection comes in to the telnet port, the inetd daemon will start a
telnet
process to service it.
>
> 2. The telnetd man pages state that telnetd can be started via inetd at boot
> time. Can anyone show me how this is done? It appears that inetd is an
> important networking utility used by a lot of programs.
>
> 3. I would also like to know about the Linux equivalent of autoexec.bat or
> Windows NT startup services. How it works, and which file or files handles
> this at boot time?
You really ought to get a Linux admin book on this, the scripts
are in /etc/rc.d -- but you shouldn't need to make changes there.
Good luck!
--
John
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Date: Sat, 08 May 1999 22:38:29 +0000
From: Rogue Eagle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: IBM Global Network Services and Linux - HELP!
I have one word for you: kppp :-) If you're using KDE, it comes with it.
It makes it VERY simple to connect. I was up in a matter of minutes once I
figured out the user name problem. Just make sure your user name is
"usinet.<your name here>" on your kppp setup. I did look at IBM's info last
night to see what kind of info they offer. I noticed it said your user name
should be "Internet.usinet.<your name here>". I don't use the "internet" part
with kppp and it works fine, that might be a problem for you. I know that it
can be a headache trying to set up everything on your own. I'm not sure if KDE
is required to make kppp work, it might work under another window manager. If
not, there are other ppp utilities out there that make connecting easy. One
such utility is called Ezppp.
Hope this helps ( I know I didn't address your problem directly, sorry).
Steve
Lee wrote:
> I am having problems connecting to my ISP (IBM Global Network) under RedHat
> Linux 5.1. I have gathered a small amount of information from IBM's
> knowledge base on the subject and am still coming up short. I can get my
> modem to dial in but get disconnected shortly thereafter (within a minute or
> two). I don't think my username and/or password are getting passed on
> correctly if at all. I am close but could use a little help. Has anyone
> out there successfully connected to IBM Global Network under Linux and if so
> could you spare a couple nuggets of info? Thanks in advance. -Lee
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From: Thomas Stoddard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: HP Deskjet 1600CM print from Linux???
Date: Tue, 04 May 1999 13:48:14 -0400
I print to a 1600CM over ethernet (in color yet). Just put the following
in your /etc/printcap. Change the IP address and name to suite your
needs. No Samba needed. You may have to create your spool directory
(:sd=) but you can usually re-use an existing one.
# /etc/printcap
#
djmis:\
:ff=:\
:sh=:\
:lp=:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/lpraw:\
:mx#0:\
:rm=172.16.40.254:\
:rp=raw:
Robin Jackson wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> I have an HP Deskjet HP1600CM printer (Postscript and Ethernet) that I
> would like to be able to print to from Linux.
>
> I also have Samba installed but not fully working yet.
>
> Can anyone tell me in laymans term HOW I would get to print to this
> printer?
>
> Many thanks.
>
> Robin
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robin Jackson)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: viewing Linux Xserver Xfree86 on NT ?
Date: Tue, 04 May 1999 17:29:58 +0100
In article <F3CX2.4515$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Larry Brasfield" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Please forgive me if I belabor issues that
>seem too obvious. Also, please so state if
>any of the following assumptions are false:
No problems, I am VERY glad of the help.
>1. You set the DISPLAY environment variable
> on your Linux box to reflect the net name of
> your Mac rather than "pcaddress".
YES
>2. You can successfully ping that same name.
YES
>3. When you start the X server, no errors are
> observed on the Mac side at that time.
NOT THAT I CAN SEE
>4. Your laptop is your Linux box.
YES
>5. When you attempt to start the X client on
> your Linux box, no errors are observable from
> whatever display you use to make the attempt.
NO
>6. If you start MiX in the default way, and set
> DISPLAY per above, then enter "xterm &" on
> the Linux console, you get to interact with a
> Linux shell thru a single window on the Mac.
> (The assumption is that your MiX setup is
> OK and the unsolved problem is merely to
> get a different window/desktop manager
> to run instead of MiX's TWM look-alike.
If I do all above and then type exec netscape for instanace netscape WILL
start up on my MI/X system.
If I type exec startx Xwindows starts on my Linux laptop.......
Oh bugger... I feel so close and yet so far... Mind you I get this
feeling ALL the time with Linux.
>> Is there something I am missing?
>
>Probably, but unless one of the above
>assumptions is wrong, I don't know what.
Robin
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robin Jackson)
Subject: Samba still making progress BUT slowly.
Date: Tue, 04 May 1999 17:29:57 +0100
I can now see my Linux box (at least as a guest).
NOT as a real user and while I can SEE it as a guest I cannot DO anything
in it.
I have tried all sorts of changes in my smb.config fle to no avail......
DAMN.
Robin
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Preston F. Crow)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: Reliable (!) nic for 2.2 kernel?
Date: 8 May 1999 23:13:45 GMT
I use a tulip card with no problems at all. However, I've noted that
there are tons of different tulip cards, each with subtle differences.
My particular card is sensitive to the version of the driver. With
the latest 2.0.37-pre?? kernels, the included driver works fine. With
the 2.2.x kernels, I have to install a different one from:
http://www.bmen.tulane.edu/~siekas/driver.html
Interestingly, 2.0.37-pre?? has a newer version of tulip.c than 2.2.6
(I haven't check 2.2.7). I would suggest trying several versions of
the driver before giving up on the card, especially if it works under
2.0 but not 2.2. You might even be able to use the 2.0 driver under
2.2--I'm not sure if there are any complications in doing so.
--PC
--
Segmentation fault
%
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joerg Sauer)
Crossposted-To: de.alt.comm.isdn4linux
Subject: Re: Strange problem while connected to foreing host
Date: Sat, 08 May 1999 08:36:49 GMT
Hi,
Seems not to be the problem, because down and uploads are working fine
on both sides when connected to the Internet. Which is done over the
same line!
Thanks
J�rg
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joerg Sauer)
Crossposted-To: de.alt.comm.isdn4linux
Subject: Re: Strange problem while connected to foreing host
Date: Sat, 08 May 1999 08:34:03 GMT
>Did you overlook http://x16.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=461239358
>or did it not help you?
>
>> IP_DYNIP=yes
>
>Try IP_DYNIP=no
I got your answer, but it hasn't worked out!
So any further suggestions?
Thanks
J�rg
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