Linux-Networking Digest #451, Volume #11 Tue, 8 Jun 99 13:13:33 EDT
Contents:
Re: BBS? (Edvard Framvik)
dialin routing problem (Frank)
Opinions on NIS (Michael Segulja)
user-space NFSd on Linux 2.2.x? (Billy Nadeau)
[Fwd: Network card problem] (Peter Liniker)
Re: I HATE SAMBA and NT!!!! (Tom Bascom)
rdist: cannot malloc memory in linkinfo (arr)
Re: Why is linux perfomance bad compared to windows? ("Jan Johansson")
IPX and Mandrake 6.0 (Jeroen Verhoeven)
Step by Step Samba incl Winx (Monte Phillips)
Print problem from 95..to Samba (Graeme Wood)
Re: Connecting a 680 to a Linux box ("Darrell")
How to configure... ("MATHY Olivier")
3com 3c900B not detected ("Rodrigo Figueiredo")
Re: I HATE SAMBA and NT!!!! (Nicholas E Couchman)
DHCP problems ("Tevz Potocnik")
Routing IPX over ISDN Lines (Diald?) (Mark)
Re: Samba! Always an incredible pain in... (Nicholas E Couchman)
Re: 3com-ing a netwerk ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Linux and POP servers (Nicholas E Couchman)
Re: SAMBA routing ? (kevin)
Re: IBM token-ring cards PCI ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: Edvard Framvik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: BBS?
Date: Tue, 08 Jun 1999 14:44:59 +0200
Check out http://www.bbbs.net/
The software is already written :)
\\\\ Edvard ////
David Goldstein wrote:
> SpiKe wrote:
> >
> > Is it possible to make a BBS for people to dial into? I know that you can
> > get people to dial in but what I really want to know is if you can limit
> > them to a certain amount of time and a certain amount of download KB?
> >
> > - Chris
>
> Chris,
> I think that this may be possible. You would need someway to identify
> who has dialed in, of course. After they log on, it should be a matter
> of writing a script that logs all of their transactions. You need to
> set up a database somewhere that you could use to track the individual's
> usage. Make your rules and then check against the database to see if
> they are over their limits.
> In /var/log/messages, I can see how much information I have uploaded
> and downloaded, so getting this info for your purposes should be a
> cinch. When the people dial in and log on, you would simply need to
> check how much time they have remaining and how much data transfer they
> have left. If they are over their limits, then you deny their log in,
> or send them a message that the system is about to log them out, with
> the reasons, and disconnect them.
>
> David
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frank)
Subject: dialin routing problem
Date: Tue, 8 Jun 1999 15:54:05 +0200
Hello,
i have a dialin linux box (SuSE 6.1, Kernel 2.2.5) which is used to
connect Windows dialin clients to the local network.
Since I upgraded the system from SuSE 5.3, I couldnt reach the network
but only the gateway.
Clifford Kite pointed out that chanaging the values of
/proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/eth0 and ppp0 should help and it really worked!
Now there remains one problem: the ppp0 doesnt keep the proxy_arp 1 and
forwarding 1. If I quit the connection and dial in again, i cant reach
the network until i give echo 1 >forwarding etc. again.
So is there a way to have the proxy arping and forwarding enabled for the
ppp0 per default? Where do I configure that?
Thanx a lot.
Frank
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From: Michael Segulja <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Opinions on NIS
Date: Tue, 08 Jun 1999 12:55:24 GMT
I have been trying to get NIS working between 3 Linux machines for the
past couple of months off and on. I don't really have as much time to
spend on it as I would like, but I've had trouble getting it to work.
I'm just curious to find out if other people generally have a hard time
getting NIS set up. It seems like it's a pretty common tool used in any
UNIX network, but I can't get ypinit -m to work properly. I'm not
really asking for help here on how to get it to work because I haven't
tried all my options yet, but I would like to know if in general, it is
sometimes difficult to get working.
Thanks.
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From: Billy Nadeau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.protocols.nfs
Subject: user-space NFSd on Linux 2.2.x?
Date: Tue, 08 Jun 1999 13:45:20 GMT
Hi; Trying to avoid Linux-AIX nfs incompatibilities, I tried recompiling
a linux 2.2.x kernel without NFS server support to use "only" the nfsd
user-space app, but then mountd fails with an unsupported function
call. Is there a way on 2.2.x linux kernels to downgrade to user-space
nfs server?
tanks,
Billy Nadeau
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From: Peter Liniker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Fwd: Network card problem]
Date: Tue, 8 Jun 1999 11:40:35 +0100
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Subject: Network card problem
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I'm having trouble getting a network card working.
It uses the At/lantic chipset. I'm using the 'atlantic' program by
Donald Becker to set the io and irq, and put it into NE2000 mode. Then I
load the ne module with all the correct parameters, and set up eth0.
ifconfig then shows the eth0 and loopback drivers. The ip address of
eth0 is 192.168.0.1, and route.conf has the appropriate line in it (i
also use dial up modem).
My problem comes now, when I try to ping any other machine on the
network, with say ip address 192.168.0.4, nothing get's through. typing
ifconfig shows that all ping packets seem to be being sent to the
loopback driver rather than to eth0. I've seen the same problem with an
smc-ultra card in another machine, so i don't think the network card
itself is to blame. The strange thing is that i previously had an
smc-ultra in the same machine, configured in the same way - same
route.conf, resolv.conf, hosts, ip address, netmask etc, and it worked
without any problems.
has anybody come across the same problem?
cheers
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tom Bascom)
Subject: Re: I HATE SAMBA and NT!!!!
Date: Tue, 8 Jun 1999 08:52:51 -0400
I know how he feels...
I had SAMBA working (after much torture reading books & howtos and so
forth) but made the mistake of upgrading.
I have a simple 4 PC home network but machines come and go and laptops
get plugged in from various sources. I want to set up a simple "trust
me" shared resource network. *None* of the books, howtos and man pages
disclose how to do such a simple thing. They all blithely plagarize each
other and say 'most users will want "security = user'." and start
yammering about needing to synchronize UNIX and Windows userids and
passwords. So I figured that all I needed to do was set "security =
share"... all I know for sure is that there is more to it than that.
I've got it working, somehow, at the moment but I doubt that I'll be able
to duplicate it easily next time.
I'd sure like to know what the simplest, most reproducible way to do this
is.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (arr)
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat
Subject: rdist: cannot malloc memory in linkinfo
Date: Tue, 08 Jun 99 12:59:43 GMT
I am trying to rdist files from host `hither' (say) to `yon', and get
the error message:
yon: LOCAL ERROR: cannot malloc memory in linkinfo
Can anyone tell me what this means? This is RedHat 6.0 on Intel (on both
hosts), using rdist-6.1.5-7.i386.rpm.
Andrew Runnalls
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From: "Jan Johansson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Why is linux perfomance bad compared to windows?
Date: Tue, 8 Jun 1999 13:55:14 +0200
>Is this including or excluding liciencing?
>I found that article extremely biased and not entirely true, I'm new to the
>linux community but I know enough to understand they are trying to trick
ppl
>into thinking NT is a wonderful thing.
Ok, so (and dont flame me here) Where _are_ the TCP-C and TCP-D benchmarks
for a linux based server? those specs are crucial when deciding what
platform to deploy a database server on.
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From: Jeroen Verhoeven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: IPX and Mandrake 6.0
Date: Tue, 08 Jun 1999 16:13:39 +0200
I have Mandrake 6.0 installed on my pc. I used to have mandrake 5.3 and
was able to configure IPX and mount the novell servers no probs. After
upgrading to 6.0 (I reinstalled) it doesn't seem to work anymore.
Here is how I used to mount my netware volumes:
ipx_configure --auto_primary=on --auto_interface=on
that doesn't seem to work anymore so I tried:
ipx_interface add -p eth0 EtherII 1
(1 is net number).
But I keep getting no servers in ncp_open when I try slist.
Anyone any idea's?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Monte Phillips)
Subject: Step by Step Samba incl Winx
Date: Tue, 08 Jun 1999 13:56:12 GMT
This site has a step by step howto for complete setup of samba. steps
for both linux and the win machine. (and they really work <G>)
http://www.sfu.ca/~yzhang/linux/samba/index.html
g'Luk
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Graeme Wood)
Subject: Print problem from 95..to Samba
Date: Mon, 07 Jun 1999 19:37:32 GMT
Hi list, I'm trying to print from 95 onto a Samba redhat 5.2 box and keep
getting the message 'not enough disk space' on 95.I get the same error
printing from the DOS box onto the same printer. I can print from another
Samba redhat 5.2 box onto the same printer with no problem. Does anyone have
any insight into this ??? I've been trying to solve this for weeks...
Thanks
G.
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From: "Darrell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.ce,comp.sys.palmtops
Subject: Re: Connecting a 680 to a Linux box
Date: Tue, 8 Jun 1999 11:06:02 -0400
Mike:
One piece of information I think I am missing is how you are specifying your
host name in the telnet, web and e-mail programs. Are you supplying the IP
address or the domain name? If you are specifying an IP address when using
telnet but host names on the other services it could be your DNS server
information is configured incorrectly. I don't know what your level of
experience is with IP networking, so I hope I am not insulting you with
information you think of as basic.
Mike Patterson wrote in message <7jhjcv$fc6$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>The problem: I can connect to the Linux box. I can ping the palmtop.
> I can use a telnet client to connect to machines both in my
> intranet, and on the internet. Pocket explorer can't find any
> pages-- not on my intranet or the internet. The built-in
> mail client on the palmtop can't find the mail server on the
> intranet, either.
>
>The palmtop: Jornada 680. Al programs are standard, except for the telnet
> program, which is "cetelnet".
>
>The server: A debian 2.1 box using mgetty, pppd, etc.
> It uses IP Masquerading, which made it difficult to even get to
> the stage where I'm at now. It has mail/www servers on it which
> the 680 fails to connect to.
>
>Is suspect the problem is related to IP Masquerading, but I'm not sure
since
>the telnet client works. Any help would be appreciated.
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From: "MATHY Olivier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How to configure...
Date: Tue, 8 Jun 1999 17:13:45 +0200
Hello all,
3 problems :
1. I have an ASUSCOM I-IN100-ST PCI ISDN card, but not recognized in
RedHat 5.2
Please help me to :
A. have the drivers (not found on the asuscom site for the pci card)
B. configure linux to use this card
2. Where can i find the best drivers for a ATI ALL IN WONDER PRO card for
RedHat 5.2
Is it possible to use the tv-tuner or the video in/out of the card (for
a camera or to send image on TV)?
3. My SoundBlaster AWE64 does not function (problem when trying to open the
port) in RedHat 5.2 but
work perfect in Win 98 (sorry, but I still use it for some personal
applications)
The motherboard is an ASUS P2B with the bios version 1008 from
thanks in advance
Olivier.
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From: "Rodrigo Figueiredo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: 3com 3c900B not detected
Date: Tue, 08 Jun 1999 16:02:49 GMT
Hi,
I've recently installed RH 6.0 on a Pentium 100 64Mb and I have the above
mentioned 3com card which is used to connect to cable service @home. The
card is:
3com Etherlink XL TPO 10 Mb Ethernet NIC (3c900B-TPO)
or at least this is what Windows shows. From Windows setup info I got:
IRQ:11
Mem: e0400000-e040007f
I/O Range: 6100-617f
@home service here (Shaw Cable/Toronto) is DHCP.
Linux boot doesn't recognize the card. I tried to activate it with
linuxconf, using eth0 and the 3c95x driver; no success. I get the msg "eth0
initialization delayed" or something similar. The following info was given
by
lspci:
00:09.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation: Unknown device 9004 (rev 04)
Subsystem: Unknown device 10b7:9004
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr-
Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort-
<MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
Latency: 10 min, 48 max, 32 set, cache line size 08
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11
Region 0: I/O ports at 6100
Region 1: Memory at e0400000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 1
Flags: PMEClk- AuxPwr- DSI- D1+ D2+ PME-
Status: D0 PME-Enable+ DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
As far as I understand from the BIOS the PCI/PNP options are set to
automatic detection. I appreciate very much if someone could help me
with this.
TIA
Rodrigo
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From: Nicholas E Couchman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: I HATE SAMBA and NT!!!!
Date: Tue, 08 Jun 1999 16:03:03 GMT
Do you have a WinNT domain set up?
Mark Olbert wrote:
> Goddamn it, but Samba and NT are a ROYAL pain in the ass to get
> working together!
>
> What particularly irks me is that I >>had<< them working together...
> but then I re-installed Linux (Caldera 2.2). I figured this wouldn't
> be a problem since I "knew" how to get them to work together, right?
> Wrong! I don't understand this stuff as well as I thought I did...
>
> Here's the problem: I can see my Linux box in NT's Network
> Neighborhood, but when I double-click on it, I am asked to supply a
> username and password.
>
> I didn't used to have to do this, when things were working before,
> because I've set up the Linux and NT usernames and passwords to be the
> same.
>
> Ah ha, recalled I, I forgot to turn encrypted passwords on (this bit
> me in the butt last time)! So I set up encrypted passwords, built
> smbpasswd, and... nada. Zilch. Same goddamn dialog box asking me for a
> username and password. And rejecting every username and password I can
> think to put into it!
>
> Can someone please help me figure out this garbage once and for
> all???? I promise to make zillions of backup copies of smb.conf, once
> I get it working, so that future upgrades won't cause the same problem
> <grin>. Seriously, any and all help would be appreciated.
>
> BTW, I've read the man page, the HOWTO, several chapters on Samba in
> various books, ENCRYPTION.txt, etc.
>
> - Mark
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From: "Tevz Potocnik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: DHCP problems
Date: Tue, 8 Jun 1999 17:54:38 +0200
I have some problems with DHCP.
Although the DHCP server on my Linux box seems to be working fine(it creates
a lease and assigns it to a specific host), the other side, running Win98
doesn't appear to find/use the address leased to it by DHCP server.
I added route 255.255.255.255, but nothing changes.
If anyone had some problems like this before, please mail me!
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Any kind of help is very welcome.
Tevz
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark)
Subject: Routing IPX over ISDN Lines (Diald?)
Date: Tue, 08 Jun 1999 13:12:32 GMT
Hi
I have two separate networks that need to be connected.
At the moment one network runs TCP/IP, and the other runs TCP/IP and Novell
IPX, however, in the future the network that only runs TCP/IP will need access
to Netware services.
I was thinking of connecting these two networks using two linux ISDN routers
running diald, I've checked the routing howtos and I can set up the IP and the
IPX routing, but how do I prevent the IPX RIP and SAP packets from bringing up
the connection all the time.
I've looked at the IPX Howto and this is something about IPX-tunneling over
IP. Is this a viable solution, or am I barking up completely the wrong tree.
Any suggestions are welcome.
Thanks
Mark Garner
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From: Nicholas E Couchman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Samba! Always an incredible pain in...
Date: Tue, 08 Jun 1999 16:18:57 GMT
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If you have RH6, go into linuxconf and under "defaults" it should have
something about encrypted passwords. Check that box. You should
be logged in as root, so run the following command:
<br>smbpasswd -a <i>username</i>
<br>where <i>username</i> is the name of the user that you want to change
the password for. Don't add any username if you want to change the
root password. You have to be logged in as root initially because
<i>smbpasswd</i> has to add info to the <i>/etc/smbpassd </i>file.
After you add entries, you can login as any user and type the following:
<br>smbpasswd
<br>You will be prompted for the password, and you can change it, etc.
<br>--Nick
<p>Michael Mellinger wrote:
<blockquote TYPE=CITE>Well, it's time to fight with Samba again.
I just did a clean install
<br>of RedHat 6.0 and Samba doesn't work, of course. I applied the
NT
<br>patches to to plain text passwords. I have user level security.
I
<br>see my linux box in but I get the message "network path not found".
I
<br>am trying to do a smbmount to mount my nt server on my linux box and
I
<br>get an access denied error. I have a password on my linux box,
but I
<br>don't have one on my NT box. This might be part of the problem.
<p>This command gives me an access denied message.
<p>smbmount //nt_server/melling /home/nt_server -I nt_server -U melling
<p>I had this working under RH5.2 with encrypted passwords, but I
<br>couldn't browse the linux box from within NT.
<p>-Mike
<p>--
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: 3com-ing a netwerk
Date: Tue, 08 Jun 1999 12:28:13 GMT
How about a cisco catalyst WS-C3508G-XL-A???
In article <2va9j7.fk8.ln@localhost>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> : How does the 3C905 (B to be exact) react to linux (at 100?) ? Any
bad
> : experiences?
> :
> : I'm new to building networks, so forgive the ignorance. What is the
> : reasoning behind using cat5 and a hub, vs coaxial going machine to
> : machine. My network will max out at 5 or 6 boxes (at home in the
same
> : room), so the most obvious problem with coaxial really doesn't
bother
> : me.
>
> Coax is limited to 10Mb/sec.
>
> Cat 5 and a hub can potentially go to 100Mb/sec (with the right hub
and
> cards). In addition, a hub typically has lotsa pretty lights to look
at when
> things are running swell, and those same lights can help with
troubleshooting
> when things aren't running so swell. You can more easily isolate a
> malfunctioning system with the hub, with less likely hood of affecting
the
> rest of the network.
>
> Stu
>
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From: Nicholas E Couchman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux and POP servers
Date: Tue, 08 Jun 1999 16:21:49 GMT
You can get a free POP3 server known as "qpopper" from qualcom. Goto
www.qualcom.com
--Nick
Mohamad SALEH wrote:
> Hello,
> We have an NT domain with 25 machines. We have at least 15 users and we
> want that each
> user could send and receive e-mail with a proper e-mail. Now, we have
> some POP e-mails.
> A solution with an NT Server, and an EXCHANGE Server along with one POP
> e-mail exists
> but I would prefer a Linux solution.
> Does such a solution exist? What is the cost?
> Thanks in advance
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From: kevin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SAMBA routing ?
Date: Tue, 08 Jun 1999 06:14:10 -0700
Bono wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I'm using a linux box as a samba server and it is connected to two different
> networks.
> It is possible to log on the samba server from both network A and B. I
> turned on IP Forwarding in the linux box, so each network can ping and
> access the other network with TCP/IP.
>
> However, win95 boxes in A network can't find other win95 machines in B
> network with Netbios, vice versa. All win95 machines have Netbeui protocol,
> so they can find others in their own network as well as samba server.
>
> How can let the win95 machines of both networks communicate each other with
> Netbeui protocol?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bono
Someone correct me if i'm wrong, but to my knowledge, NETBIOS is not a
routable protocol ( meaning that it wont cross most routers ) thats why your
win95 boxes wont see each other on seperate segments.
you might try setting up your samba as the master browser for both networks. (
I've never used samba as the master, but it should work )
good luck
kevin
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: IBM token-ring cards PCI
Date: Tue, 08 Jun 1999 12:13:30 GMT
Frank,
Check out http://www.linuxtr.net, the latest alpha driver is available
from there.
Mike
Linux Token Ring Project
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