Linux-Networking Digest #457, Volume #11 Tue, 8 Jun 99 22:13:39 EDT
Contents:
Re: YP,NIS,user logins (Jonathan Foweraker)
Re: I HATE SAMBA and NT!!!! ("Mike Somerville")
Re: Playing Audio CDs Over a LAN ("Michael Faurot")
CHAP (Nicholas E Couchman)
Re: IBM token-ring cards PCI (Scott G. Parkerson)
classpath in apache (Bertrand LEFEBVRE)
Re: my mouse won't work....getting out of xwindows... (Shice Beoney)
Re: IBM token-ring cards PCI (Frank Pikelner)
Re: Peachtree and Linux ("Mark F. Burgo ( Systems Administrator )")
Re: Help with procmail. ("Michael Faurot")
Re: PPP nightmare - HELP (Clifford Kite)
Re: SQUID (Jonathan)
Re: Goal: Killer Server (drives) ("D. Carlos Knowlton")
Re: Goal: Killer Server (processor) ("D. Carlos Knowlton")
Re: NAT vs Proxy? (Bernat Ginard =?iso-8859-1?Q?Llad=F3?=)
Re: I HATE SAMBA and NT!!!! ("Gene Heskett")
Re: eql and default route (Clifford Kite)
Re: 2 ipchains questions (araqnid)
Re: ipchains: eMail one way (araqnid)
Re: Groupware and Linux (Jonathan)
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From: Jonathan Foweraker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: YP,NIS,user logins
Date: Tue, 08 Jun 1999 17:31:05 -0600
Hebert, Greg (EXCHANGE:KWAY:6C26) wrote:
>
> Paul Trost wrote:
> >
> > I didn't see anything in the fstab man pages that would be of help.
> >
> > I copied my group and passwd files to my workstation and then logged in. I
> > still have use "nobody" set on files after I write them across the NFS
> > share.
> >
> > Paul
> >
>
> whats in your /etc/exports file?
Edit your exports file. Note that the no_all_squash option isn't set by
default.
I found :
/export/home (rw, no_all_squash_map_identity)
works OK.
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From: "Mike Somerville" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: I HATE SAMBA and NT!!!!
Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1999 14:43:54 -0400
if you are using Samba 2.x.x you might want to try setting security=domain
look at some of the FAQs at www.samba.org. I fgound them to be most
helpful. Better luck with your tests my friend
Mike
Mark Olbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> 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: "Michael Faurot" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Playing Audio CDs Over a LAN
Date: 8 Jun 1999 16:01:55 GMT
Desmond Coughlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Ok, my question is (I suspect) quite simple. I have a 3-node LAN, but
: the server is buried away in a corner. How can I put an audio CD into
: the server, and play it (i.e., have the music heard) in another room ?
: If I try to export the CD, it needs to be mounted. If I don't mount
: it, then my host can't see it.
Several ideas come to mind:
1) Use the Real Audio server. Assuming its still free, you get
that going on the server, and then use Real Audio clients on
the other machines to listen to the broadcast. I've actually
done this before and it works pretty well.
2) You might also be able to do this with Icecast.
It's been awhile since I looked at Icecast, but it might be
able to do just MP3s.
3) Someone else will need to fill in the blank here, but there's
also an audio broadcast protocol for X servers.
You'll probably want to poke around either here
http://sound.condorow.net/ (a site devoted to sound applications for
Linux) or perhaps on http://www.freshmeat.net and serach on audio.
: Another question: I plan to put four speakers onto my sound card. How
: can I set cron to play a CD at a particular time?
After you determine which broadcast tool you want to use, you'll then
need look at how to pump the audio stream into the server. When you
know how to do that, you'll then want to look for a command line style
program that can either play CDs or MP3s. From there just create a cron
job to run that program or perhaps a shell program to be run by cron.
--
==============================================================================
Michael | mfaurot | Hindsight is always 20:20.
Faurot | atww.org | -- Billy Wilder
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From: Nicholas E Couchman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: CHAP
Date: Tue, 08 Jun 1999 18:32:53 GMT
how do I configure PPP to use the CHAP protocol when connecting. My ISP
requires it, but i can't figure out how to set it up.
--Nick
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Scott G. Parkerson)
Subject: Re: IBM token-ring cards PCI
Date: 8 Jun 1999 18:34:07 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 08 Jun 1999 04:21:48 GMT, Frank Pikelner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>IBM has no information on their token ring adapters and Linux (none I
>could find). My adapters are using IO=7800-78FFF, IRQ=15
Doing a search on "linux" from http://www.networking.ibm.com/support/ yields
a link to a Tech Tip called "Do Linux device drivers exist for IBM
Token-Ring adapters?". That's about the existent of Linux info. that exists
on our home page right now.
Speaking of which, that document needs to be updated soon for inclusion of
the PCI Family of Token-Ring adapters. :)
scott
--
// Scott Parkerson. Device Driver Development, IBM Network Hardware Div.,
// Research Triangle Park, NC, USA. #include <std_disclaimer.h>
// ObTMBG: "I don't want the world... I just want your half."
// Notice: Please remove YOUR_SPLEEN from my e-mail address before replying.
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From: Bertrand LEFEBVRE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: classpath in apache
Date: Tue, 08 Jun 1999 15:59:46 +0200
I'm not sure to use the proper group but I'd like to know where the
CLASSPATH should be set in apache.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Shice Beoney)
Crossposted-To:
alt.linux,alt.os.linux,apana.lists.os.linux.redhat,at.linux,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: my mouse won't work....getting out of xwindows...
Date: Wed, 09 Jun 1999 00:30:58 GMT
On Tue, 8 Jun 1999 15:03:01 -0700 in comp.os.linux.help, "Larry Clark"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered the following profound gem of wisdom:
>help...my mouse doesn't work...justr a generic mouse...and I start
>xwindows...and I can't seem to get the start button to open up...yes this is
>my first crack at red hat linux..thanks larry ,
>PS how do I close down xwoindows without the mouse...
Someone already mentioned the keyboard shortcut to quit X
(Ctrl-Alt-Bkspace), so I'll see if I can help you get your mouse
working. I had this problem my first time trying to install RedHat
5.1. You should check to see if the connector your mouse uses to plug
into your computer is circular (ps/2) or somewhat rectangular
(serial). If it's the first, then you should run either
"xconfigurator", "FX86Config", or "SetupXF86" and when it asks you for
the device path, give "/dev/psaux" without the quotation marks. If
it's the second, then "/dev/mouse" should work, although I can't say
for certain as I've never tried to setup a serial mouse in linux. HTH.
--
"Windows has detected the presence of a more efficient, faster,
and more reliable Operating System installed on your system.
Do you wish to delete it?
Yes Yes"
-What M$ would LIKE to do about Linux
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From: Frank Pikelner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: IBM token-ring cards PCI
Date: Wed, 09 Jun 1999 00:53:47 GMT
Thank you for the information. I would love to see IBM provide Linux drivers for
their cards, though today it is being done by others.
Frank
"Scott G. Parkerson" wrote:
> On Tue, 08 Jun 1999 04:21:48 GMT, Frank Pikelner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >IBM has no information on their token ring adapters and Linux (none I
> >could find). My adapters are using IO=7800-78FFF, IRQ=15
>
> Doing a search on "linux" from http://www.networking.ibm.com/support/ yields
> a link to a Tech Tip called "Do Linux device drivers exist for IBM
> Token-Ring adapters?". That's about the existent of Linux info. that exists
> on our home page right now.
>
> Speaking of which, that document needs to be updated soon for inclusion of
> the PCI Family of Token-Ring adapters. :)
>
> scott
> --
> // Scott Parkerson. Device Driver Development, IBM Network Hardware Div.,
> // Research Triangle Park, NC, USA. #include <std_disclaimer.h>
> // ObTMBG: "I don't want the world... I just want your half."
> // Notice: Please remove YOUR_SPLEEN from my e-mail address before replying.
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From: "Mark F. Burgo ( Systems Administrator )" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Peachtree and Linux
Date: Tue, 08 Jun 1999 15:20:17 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Anonymous wrote:
>
> From reading the ng's I know I can set up a Linux box as a file server using
> Samba with Win95/98 clients. What I'm intending to do is run Peachtree
> Accounting for Windows on Win95/98 with the data stored on the Linux box.
> Peachtree uses it's own brew of btrieve. Has anyone ran Peachtree in this
> configuration or know if there is a problem that will prevent it from
> working? Our peer-to-peer network has grown to a point that performance
> issues are pointing to going with a dedicated server and I really wanted to
> stay away from NT.
>
> --
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Wilfong)
> Please remove the x's if wish to email me.
>
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Just install it to the server and all works well. Been doing this for
three years for many clients...
Mark
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From: "Michael Faurot" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help with procmail.
Date: 8 Jun 1999 16:15:01 GMT
Ruben Navarro Huedo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Hello!
: My name is Ruben and i am from Elche (Spain).
: I am looking for a .procmailrc file that it makes the next things:
: We need this .procmailrc redirect all mail it has received to the e-mail
: address that is writed in the subject on the original mail, with one
: subject that we like (always the same), and the original from.
: Anybody could help us?
: Is very important for us, we are looking for this a lot of time.
: we want use this in a Packet Radio<>e-mail gateway.
Assuming I understand your description of the problem, I believe you'd
do something like this:
:0
* ^Subject:.*ruben.navarro.huedo
/opt/mailbox/ruben.navarro.huedo
The above would look for "ruben.navarro.huedo" as the "address" in the
Subject: header and then save the mail into the file
/opt/mailxbox/ruben.navarro.huedo.
If the "address" on the Subject: line were actually a real routable
address, you might do something like this then:
:0
^Subject:.*[EMAIL PROTECTED]
! [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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==============================================================================
Michael | mfaurot | Hindsight is always 20:20.
Faurot | atww.org | -- Billy Wilder
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From: kite@NoSpam.%inetport.com (Clifford Kite)
Subject: Re: PPP nightmare - HELP
Date: 8 Jun 1999 20:16:47 -0500
Michael Powe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: Duh! In fact, it's the recommended way to go about connecting, in
: order to get your ducks in a row. Recommended in the PPP-HowTo, that
: is. Only after getting pppd to work correctly should he go on to
: making chat work.
: Clifford> Use chat and pppd to dial in and connect:
: What good will this do when pppd is not handling the connection
: correctly? Instead of solving one problem and then moving on to the
: next, you're telling him to try to deal with two problems at once.
: Not the best way, IMO.
Hey, then do it your way. Good luck.
--
Clifford Kite <kite@inet%port.com> Not a guru. (tm)
/* Governments should be changed like diapers - often and for the
* same reason. */
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From: Jonathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SQUID
Date: Thu, 03 Jun 1999 09:29:46 GMT
TURBO1010 wrote:
> What is squid, and what's it used for?
I have never used it but I think it's a caching system to store copies
of web pages locally?
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From: "D. Carlos Knowlton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.linux.slakware,alt.os.linux,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,utah.linux
Subject: Re: Goal: Killer Server (drives)
Date: Tue, 8 Jun 1999 20:23:53 -0500
-Hard Drives: Would faster drives really benefit from Linux RAID?
Is IDE good enough to even consider doing RAID5 with?
Is UDMA/66 (ATA/66) all its hyped up to be? (who's tried it?)
Where can I buy a motherboard that supports it?
_________________________________________________________
- "You know, when I die, I want to die sleeping peacefully, like my
grandpa. -
Not terrified and screaming, like his passengers."
_________________________________________________________
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From: "D. Carlos Knowlton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.linux.slakware,alt.os.linux,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,utah.linux
Subject: Re: Goal: Killer Server (processor)
Date: Tue, 8 Jun 1999 20:20:28 -0500
-Processor: Is the PIII Xeon overrated? Is the Celeron underrated (or the
AMD-K6-III)?
Does Linux support the distinguishing features of these?
Which has the most bang for the buck?
(add PowerPC, Sparc, Alpha, etc for good measure)
_________________________________________________________
- "You know, when I die, I want to die sleeping peacefully, like my
grandpa. -
Not terrified and screaming, like his passengers."
_________________________________________________________
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From: Bernat Ginard =?iso-8859-1?Q?Llad=F3?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: NAT vs Proxy?
Date: Tue, 08 Jun 1999 21:47:15 +0200
Michael Legac escribi�:
> Hi,
>
> I recently got DSL and would like to use my Slackware box as a
> firewall/gateway. It's already setup for IP-Masquerading/Firewall. How
> robust is this? I used to use it for my dialup sometimes but the
> performance loss was so great that it wasn't worth it to waste
> bandwidth forwarding packets (MTU/MRU packet length was right size
> too).
>
> RIght now I'm using Sygate 3.0 on my Windows 98 pc and this thing
> really cooks. Uses NAT, no special settings for realaudio, IRC, etc.
> built in DHCP; this program is seamless TCP/IP... So my question is -
> how do I do something similar with linux? I want something where my
> other pcs can use linux as the gateway and not have to load modules
> like IP-Masq does for realaudio etc. Any suggestions? Any flavor
> will do as I'm about to upgrade my linux box. TIA.
The protocols that need a module is because they need some sort of
translation in application level, so Sygate has to do it (possibly in an
invisible way). One suggestion is to configure masquerade in an /etc/rc.d
file so the configuration is done automaticaly at the boot (SuSE does it
but you can do the script yourself) and you don't need to worry about
modules and that.
About the performance the kernels 2.2.x are much better than 2.0.x.
___________________________________________________
Bernat Ginard
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: 08 Jun 99 21:03:12 -0500
From: "Gene Heskett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: I HATE SAMBA and NT!!!!
Gene Heskett sends Greetings to Tom Bascom;
'scuse me for butt'in in here, but the real process of what you have
thats right (and potentially still wrong) starts by going thru all the
configurations as they exist now, and writing it down in a notebook.
Then read all the 'man's on each piece to refresh yourself as to just
what it is that each of these variables does.
Once you've done that, then its going to be simple to re-establish a
working system again, and the fact that you have hard copy in front of
you for all variables can be very enlightening if something comes up
with one of the accounts that the user (or you) would like to fix.
[...]
TB> It's working now. If I ever make the mistake of touching
TB> anything I'll be sure to follow this advice and try to figure it
TB> out but someone really needs to take the time to write a "Samba
TB> for Dummies" book...
You just got elected.
Cheers, Gene
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From: kite@NoSpam.%inetport.com (Clifford Kite)
Subject: Re: eql and default route
Date: 8 Jun 1999 19:50:58 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: I would like to setup a connection between two offices using eql.
: I would also like to use our internet gateway as the machine for
: the local ppp server since it isn't being used as much else. Anyway,
: I set the default route of this machine as the ppp link outbound to
: the internet. The eql howto by Simon Janes mentions that the eql
: link must be made the default route. Is this going to be a problem or
: is there a way around this?
The eql.txt is speaking of eql on a box that calls into an ISP, not a box
that is called into and will be the means for a call-in to access a LAN
or the internet. No problem there. The real problem is dusting off
the eql code and making it work with PPP rather than SLIP, as well as
getting it to work with anything except a Livingston Portmaster-2e .
http://abies.com/eql-howto.html
--
Clifford Kite <kite@inet%port.com> Not a guru. (tm)
/* Those who can't write, write manuals. */
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (araqnid)
Subject: Re: 2 ipchains questions
Date: 8 Jun 1999 21:42:43 +0100
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
LeeMan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I have RH6 running on a pentium and it is hooked to a class C Ethernet
>and a DSL box. From the linux box , I can ping both NIC cards and the
>DSL box but not outside the DSL box. I have 2 DNS servers listed and
>they are up because I use the same ones on my dial-up account. I am
>trying to use ip masquarading for the rest of the network. If I add the
>following lines:
>ipchains -P forward DENY
>ipchains -A forward -s 192.x.x.x -j MASQ then that machine can also ping
>the DSL box but no further. Also, after adding that last line, if I do a
>
>ipchains -L it hangs and waits for a control-c.
>
>question 1. Any ideas why I can't ping further than the DSL box.?
>question 2. Why does the linux hang when ipchains -L?
1. What are your routing tables? Show us netstat -r output, and what
you think the addresses of all the interfaces should be.
2. Probably trying to resolve the name of 192.x.x.x and your name
server is set to forward requests to your provider, which isn't
repsonding. Try "ipchains -n -L" to turn off name resolution.
HTH
SRH
--
Steve Haslam http://www.arise.demon.co.uk/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Debian GNU/Linux Maintainer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
there's something cold in the way you touch me
it's just the feeling you'd be better without me [mesh]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (araqnid)
Subject: Re: ipchains: eMail one way
Date: 8 Jun 1999 21:43:56 +0100
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Alfred <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Behind my Linuxbox with masquerading I can browse and receive emails on
>my second box, but if a will send an email, it is rejected!
>Any suggestions for me please?
More detail needed :} Specifically, what is your mail configuration on
your first box, how are you injecting the mail (Netscape/SMTP or
sendmail?), what does the error look like?
SRH
--
Steve Haslam http://www.arise.demon.co.uk/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Debian GNU/Linux Maintainer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
there's something cold in the way you touch me
it's just the feeling you'd be better without me [mesh]
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From: Jonathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Groupware and Linux
Date: Thu, 03 Jun 1999 09:38:53 GMT
Paul wrote:
> Does anyone know of a Groupware product which would run on a Linux
> server but has clients for Windows'95 and Apple Macintosh OS.
>
Define 'Groupware' ... diaries, email, tasks, workflow, filesharing,
contact management or all of the above? :)
I wish. Most of the components are there already (email, sharing, ldap,
databases etc) all accessible via clients or browsers etc. What's really
missing at the moment is shared calendar servers like exchange or
groupwise offer, linked implicitly to email.
I was waiting to see what the netscape calendar server looked like on
linux but I may have to take another breath soon ... :)
There is maybe a stanrard in the offing (vcal?) but others may know more
...
Jonathan
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