Linux-Networking Digest #472, Volume #11 Wed, 9 Jun 99 21:13:42 EDT
Contents:
Help! Can't connect to X server. (Timothy Stark)
smb file timestamp "bug?" ("C.E.O.")
PPP/SLIP over Freewave Wireless Data Transceiver? (Carl Gibbons)
NT Server/ Linux workstation (PHILHAN72)
Routing (Andrew Chipping)
using /etc/hosts with nslookup ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Warning against Announce Communications web hosting (root)
Re: what time? ("percy")
I need help with my PPP connection (Richard Petrov)
Re: Telnet using "root" (Jon Skeet)
ipchains and snmp traffic, dont work? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
eth1 probes but... ("RONIN")
networking cable help... ("cyberjb")
Re: How I got my 3Com card to work FYI (Shice Beoney)
Samba and win98 problems ("Deon Nazworth")
Re: Easy way to switch between LAN and dial-up networks? (Clifford Kite)
Re: "Proxy" vs "IP-Masq" ("Eric D. Fether")
Re: I need to add a lot of users at once. (Jon Skeet)
7,e,1 chat 8,n,1 pppd? (Mark & Candice White)
Re: Linux: ICMP Redirect, IP Source Routing unterdruecken (Gert Doering)
pppd 2.3.6 + Kernel 2.2.1 don't work!! ("Jack Zhu")
Re: Linux box on NT network: Network Name? Visibility from other hosts? (Nicholas E
Couchman)
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From: Timothy Stark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Help! Can't connect to X server.
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Date: Wed, 09 Jun 1999 12:58:16 GMT
Hello Folks:
That is second time and I tried to get answers. :-( Help! I was unable to
open X11 Windows from command line. After I installed Red Hat Linux 6.0
and followed Cain's instruction for ATI Rage Fury video card (Rage 128GL
chipset). When I tried to execute 'startx' on command line, It paused
for a few seconds then displayed error message: It said:
_X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: can't connect....
Reason -> Connection Refused (errno=111).
My network configuration is stand alone (not online yet) - only localhost
127.0.0.1.
Thank you!
-- Tim Stark
--
Timothy Stark <>< Inet: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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"For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that
whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
Amen." -- John 3:16 (King James Version Bible)
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Reply-To: "C.E.O." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "C.E.O." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: smb file timestamp "bug?"
Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1999 18:26:27 -0500
It seems SMB has a bug w/ file timestamps. I am running RedHat(RH) 6.0.
This problem did not showed up in RH5.2.
If i smbmount a NT resource from linux (smbmount), any NT file that is
created/touched is marked with the wrong timestamp.
For example, I just created a file in the mounted smb NT resource. The date
on it is
may-8-1931. If i dir the file in NT, it is a different timestamp, still the
wrong one.
Any known bugs relating to this?
CEO
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Carl Gibbons)
Subject: PPP/SLIP over Freewave Wireless Data Transceiver?
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 00:02:10 GMT
(Freewave's site: www.freewave.com)
My client already has the Freewave(R) Wireless Data Transceiver device
working and operational, currently linking two machines (35 kilometers
apart) running Windows 95 and PCAnywhere. We would like to try linking
two Linux boxes instead, via SLIP or PPP.
I called the customer support folks at FreeWave Technologies, Inc.
They are very friendly and they assured me that we can do this.
Essentially, the device is like a wireless long-distance null modem
cable, each end plugged into an RS232 serial port. (Well, not *exactly*
like a null modem cable; the thing does require AT commands.)
Questions:
1) Has anybody done this before?
2) Which would be better, SLIP or PPP?
=====What I've tried so far:
(Note that one of the machines is in a somewhat harsh and remote
environment. I'd like things set up so that if the machine went
down and later came back up again, the connection would be
reestablished without human intervention.)
I tried setting up a couple of "test platform" machines running
Mandrake's 5.3 distribution, connected with a "real" (doesn't need
AT commands) null-modem cable, and I was able to get a PPP link
working just fine. But I haven't figured out how to get the link
re-established automagically when I use "telinit 6" to reboot one
of the machines...
I haven't tried SLIP...
(I don't want to eat up too much bandwidth with this post, but I'm
willing to follow up this post with more details of what I have
tried, such as /etc/ppp/options contents, /var/log/messages entries,
the code I put in rc.serial to try starting pppd at boot time, or
whatever else you think may be relevant.)
- Carl
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (PHILHAN72)
Subject: NT Server/ Linux workstation
Date: 09 Jun 1999 23:54:27 GMT
I'm new to linux and II just installed SuSe 6.0 linux as a workstation and I
got a problem connecting to my NT 4 server. I setup the host name on linux
machine as LINUX and i gave a static IP address is 199.237.13.18, my domain
name on NT server is sea-launch.com, and DNS IP address is 199.237.13.21. I
was able to ping the local machine (199.237.13.18) but I cant ping the default
gateway or the server. One of my question is...... Can I setup linux as a
workstation and work with NT server or am I doing something wrong? Please
email if you can help me. My email address is [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks,
Phil
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From: Andrew Chipping <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Routing
Date: Wed, 09 Jun 1999 12:59:38 +0100
Hi, I have a LAN set-up using Linux RedHat 5.2 as the "Server" machine,
I have Ip forwarding and masquerading set-up up, which i think is
working ok, but what Im not sure of is setting up routing just through a
modem with Dial on Demand - Ive read the man pages and the newsgroup
history - Any help would be great
Cheers David
"Two sure ways to tell a sexy male; the first is, he has a bad memory.
I forget the second."
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: using /etc/hosts with nslookup
Date: Wed, 09 Jun 1999 14:38:44 GMT
Hallo!
How can I use /etc/hosts with nslookup on a standalone
Linux PC.
I try nsswitch.conf without success.
Bye C.T.
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From: root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.linux.network
Subject: Re: Warning against Announce Communications web hosting
Date: Wed, 09 Jun 1999 09:36:46 -0500
Agner,
If you are the registrant of the domain, you are the owner of that domain.
By the former web hosting company demanding $70 for "releasing" the
domain, they are in violation with InterNIC policies - and you have the
right to request InterNIC's assistance in this matter.
You don't need your former web hosting provider to transfer the domain
names - you can do that yourself if you fill out the proper forms through
InterNIC. You should visit Network Solutions website for more info on
fighting this case. Go to http://www.networksolutions.com/ and you
will find all the necessary info you need.
Regards,
Lukas J. Dickie
Network Engineer
Enterprise Network Systems
agner wrote:
> domain! My question is now: is it possible to move the domain without
> his permission? The internic record has my name as registrant, and his
> name as administrative contact.
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From: "percy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: what time?
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 00:23:56 +0800
thanks
Ian Cottrell ���g��峹 <7jkhkr$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>percy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>: hello all,
>: Every time , i start my linux box . it's clock is wrong. I use date -s
>: xx:xx to set up it. but next time , linux box start ... the clock is
>: wrong....
>:
>: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>Use 'clock --systohc' to set your hardware clock to the system time (after
>you've set the system time with 'date -s xx:xx'). You might have to
>'man hwclock' to get the correct man page, but it's all there.
>Good luck.........Ian
>
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>284 Wellington Street
>Ottawa, ON, Canada
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From: Richard Petrov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: I need help with my PPP connection
Date: Wed, 09 Jun 1999 18:51:41 -0400
Well, I basically got the connection going between my computer and my
ISP. I can basically do anything from ftp to irc. Now the only problem
is I have to be on the root account. Can anybody tell me where I can
config is so my other accounts can use the internet??
Thanks,
Rich
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jon Skeet)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup,hk.comp.os.linux,tw.bbs.comp.linux
Subject: Re: Telnet using "root"
Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1999 13:04:04 +0100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Yes, you should have no problem to telnet using the root account
No - root logins require a secure terminal as specified in /etc/securetty
>From the login man page:
If the user is root, then the login must be occuring on a
tty listed in /etc/securetty. Failures will be logged
with the syslog facility.
So to telnet in as root, you must add entries like ttyp0, ttyp1, ttyp2
etc to /etc/securetty - but this is a dangerous thing to do (as it means
that anyone with net access to your machine can hack the root account
without going through another account first), so I'd be wary of doing it.
--
Jon Skeet - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.pobox.com/~skeet/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: ipchains and snmp traffic, dont work?
Date: Wed, 09 Jun 1999 13:42:09 GMT
Hi!
Im trying to do a snmpwalk to host outside my ipchains firewall.
Cant get it to work. Is snmp supported at all by ipchains?
Im quite new to ipchains but I think I got all the filters right.
All the best,
/Max
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Share what you know. Learn what you don't.
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From: "RONIN" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: eth1 probes but...
Date: Tue, 8 Jun 1999 21:43:36 -0700
I have two CNet PowerNIC 600E plus cards in my box. Using redhat 5.2 I
edited my etc/conf.modules to the following:
alias eth0 ne
alias eth1 ne
options ne io=0x240,0x340
My cards are in the specified io's, verified with the provided dos setup
program. The error I get is for the one card (eth1 in 0x240) with the
following ID: 08 00 08 00 08 00. The message I get when Linux probes this
card is "invalid signiture 08 00" Anyone have any ideas besides the fact
that its a cheapo card? Thanks.
--
What you Think, you Do. What you Do, you Become.
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From: "cyberjb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: networking cable help...
Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1999 10:39:49 -0400
im trying to run a network cable like... 500ft... hub to pc style... RJ45
cable
some ppl say just buy 100ft cables and get a cuppluer. but i dont know
anyone else have someting to help me with?
or should i just do that cuppluer thing
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Shice Beoney)
Subject: Re: How I got my 3Com card to work FYI
Date: Wed, 09 Jun 1999 14:16:40 GMT
On Wed, 09 Jun 1999 10:06:23 -0400 in comp.os.linux.networking, Mircea
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered the following profound gem of wisdom:
>Shice Beoney wrote:
>> (..)
>> Supposedly there is a DOS utility for disabling PnP (Plug 'N Pray) for
>> this NIC, but as I got mine through a reseller who installed it for
>> me, I can't speak on that with much authority. (..)
>
>You can download the config program from 3Com's web site. It's better to
>disable PnP anyway. There's also a configuration utility that runs under
>Linux, at http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/setup/ (courtesy of Donald
>Becker)
Hmm, wish I'd had that a few weeks ago, went a much more roundabout
method myself. But, to quote from William Gibson's novel Neuromancer,
"I never did like to do anything simple when I could do it
ass-backwards."
--
"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: "Deon Nazworth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Samba and win98 problems
Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1999 09:47:46 -0500
I am currently running Samba v2.0.0 on Solaris 2.5.1. Everything has been
working fine for my NT and Win95 clients. I introduced a Win98 client and
it can see all of the shares. However, when I go to browse the shares, I
get a pop up error message that says the directory does not exist.
I can still see all of my shares from the NT and Win 95 clients, but not
from the Win98 client.
Any suggestions?
Thanks in Advance.
Deon Nazworth
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: kite@NoSpam.%inetport.com (Clifford Kite)
Subject: Re: Easy way to switch between LAN and dial-up networks?
Date: 9 Jun 1999 09:49:46 -0500
Steve Snyder ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: I'm running RedHat v6.0 on a laptop which I sometimes use while traveling.
: When the machine is stationary it is attached to a LAN, which provides
: Internet access. While traveling I use a dial-up connection. I would like
: to find an easy way to switch between the 2 connections.
: It seems the sticking point is /etc/sysconfig/network. (The
: /etc/resolv.conf file points to the nameservers for both networks.) That
: is where the GATEWAY and GATEWAYDEV is defined and points my notebook at
: the LAN. It seems, though, that these definitions also preclude
: communication with my dial-up ISP.
: I'm aware that I can edit /etc/sysconfig/network and restart networking
: services to switch between the connection types. Is there a way I can
: configure my Linux box such that PPP is used as the gateway device if eth0
: is not functioning?
Here is a way to make the PPP interface teh default route when there is
a PPP connection, regardless of whether the eth0 is functioning or not:
Add
/sbin/route add default dev ppp0
to the /etc/ppp/ip-up file. Note that the full pathname is used.
When the PPP connection goes down this default route disappears and the
eth0 default route is automatically restored as the active default route.
You'll have to be the judge of whether this is what you need or not.
--
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: "Eric D. Fether" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: "Proxy" vs "IP-Masq"
Date: Wed, 09 Jun 1999 10:56:39 -0400
Anonymous wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> any commentary on the various proxy's vs ip-masquerade??
>
> what about site/activity logging?
>
> transparent to real-audio/video? ftp? web? secure sites?
>
> --
> "I would remind you that extremism in defense of liberty is no vice;
> and I would remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is
> no virtue."
> Barry Goldwater
If you enable ip-masq, then a firewall will be setup as well (part of
the procedure - 'ipfwadm'). It is truely transparent in all regards. I
can ftp, telnet, ping, finger, real-audio, web (secure and not), etc. I
**LOVE** it. The only problem I've come across is trying to play
DirectX games through it, but you just need to open the appropriate
ports to allow that...but everything else (except Falcon 4.0 -
Microprose's fault and their *hopefully* working on it) works great!
The problem I found with a proxy server is that it's too restrictive on
the client side. No games can be played; fingers..nope;
telnet...uh-huh; etc. You have to have a proxy enabled client (ie.
Netscape, Internet Explorer, etc) to get out on the net. This is fine
for an office environment where you don't want people playing on the net
and you only want to offer web/ftp service. But for the home
environment, where you want full access to the net....ip-masq is the
only way to go :)
Later,
Eric D. Fether
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jon Skeet)
Subject: Re: I need to add a lot of users at once.
Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1999 13:13:25 +0100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I've been trying for a while now, but I can't seem to get it to work.
> The problem is that the adduser program doen't encrypt passwords. I have
> a file which contains username and password. I need to create the home
> dir. with everything on it. I've got it working so far, but since the
> password isn't encrypted I can't automaticly add users, is there anyone
> who can help me, with a working script or so?
Can you not call adduser then passwd --force for each user from within a
script? That would seem to be the most obvious way to me.
--
Jon Skeet - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.pobox.com/~skeet/
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From: Mark & Candice White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc
Subject: 7,e,1 chat 8,n,1 pppd?
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 00:12:22 GMT
I need to connect to an isp that does its ppp
with the port set to 8,n,1. But you must log
in using 7,e,1.
In a (sorry) windows dun script you can
set it to 7,e,1 then look for 'ame:',and
'assword:' then set it back to 8,n,1.
I have two locations (1 isp, 1 remote office)
to dial to. I'm using a chap script as part
of pppd. That I want to have daild run,
while using ipfwadm. Under RH5.2
How can I do this in linux?
I'm thinking I might need to alter ifup-ppp,
and have it know if I'm using ppp0 or ppp1.
Then set the port before and after the call to
pppd. But how? And what do I use to set
the port?
Thanks.
--
Mark & Candice White
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Crossposted-To: de.comm.internet.routing
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gert Doering)
Subject: Re: Linux: ICMP Redirect, IP Source Routing unterdruecken
Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1999 17:03:11 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Detlef Bosau) writes:
>> Ich bleibe dabei: SVC's sind fuer DG-Dienste Humbug. Und wenn ich
>> schon eine Session definiere und das in einen SVC umsetze brauche
>> ich keinen DG-Dienst. Punkt.
>Es steht Dir frei, keine Datagrammdienste zu benutzen.
Ist es natuerlich, aber was machst Du mit Dingen, die aus gutem Grund als
"Datagramm-Dienst" implementiert sind, wie z.B. Namensaufloesung,
Zeitabfrage (NTP), usw.? Also Dinge, wo ein Verbindungsaufbau viel
mehr Aufwand macht, als die eigentliche Abfrage (bzw. im Fall von NTP
die ganze Messung durcheinanderbringt).
[..]
>Es sind hinlaenglich viele Veroeffentlichungen geschrieben worden,
>die bis ins kleinste Detail belegen, dass z.B. Echtzeitdatenuebertragung
>mit Ethernet oder mit Frame Relay nicht geht.
Diese Diskussion erinnert mich gerade an die ewige Diskussion um
Overcommitment in der Speicherverwaltung von Unix. Nur so am Rande :-)
gert
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From: "Jack Zhu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: pppd 2.3.6 + Kernel 2.2.1 don't work!!
Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1999 20:13:53 -0400
Just need somebody to help me out of the linux nightmare. This is just one
respect that Linux cannot beat MS windows: how many people really know how
to configure ppp dialup in Linux, and how many people know this in MS
windows.
My experience:
I used Redhat 5.0(Kernel 2.0.32) + pppd 2.2.0 to dialup to my ISP. It works
well. Then I upgrade kernel to 2.2.1, obviously it doesn't work with pppd
2.2.0. (This point is very hard to be found in these Kernel documents). So I
also upgrade my pppd to 2.3.6 by following the instructions.
The nightmare is: I use the same scripts, same configuration and same dialup
number. This time the combination of kernel and pppd doesn't work. When I
try to call "pppd", the error message is:
"/usr/sbin/pppd: peer authentication required, but no suitable secret(s)
found
/usr/sbin/pppd: for authenticating any peer to us.(abc)"
"abc" is my logname to my ISP.
Why this happen? I do have a pap-secret file, and everything works just well
in the earlier version.
Any idea? Maybe I'd better back to earlier version.
Thanks a lot! Please email me.
BTW, I DO believe Linux can never never be a big role.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Nicholas E Couchman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux box on NT network: Network Name? Visibility from other hosts?
Date: Wed, 09 Jun 1999 15:03:55 GMT
We will start with the Network Neighborhood problem. To have the Linux box be
seen in the Neighborhood, you must have a daemon running on the Linux computer
that emulates Wintel networking. Samba is the most common, and maybe the only,
daemon that does this. With Samba, you edit the smb.conf file to match your
network settings (be careful, because you can take down WinNT domain control w/
Samba). Your Linux box should appear in the network neighborhood.
The ping problem. Your company has a DNS server running on WinNT somewhere in
the building (I know because I have my own DNS server at home). You need to
ask a sys admin around there to assign the IP address of your Linux box a name
(ie linux.domain.network). After they do that, you will be able to ping using
name instead of IP.
--Nick
Stephan Beal wrote:
> I have a Linux (Suse 6.0 w/ many updates, if it matters, running kernel
> 2.2.latest) machine on a very large (50k users?) NT network. I use DHCP to
> get an IP address at bootup.
> I can ping machines by name (in the same domain, anyway) and IP (all across
> the WAN), but I cannot ping my Linux machine by name. I can ping it by IP,
> though. I can't see the Linux machine in the Network Neighborhood, etc.
> I've played around with many options in /etc/dhclient.conf, but dhclient
> fails to get an IP if I make any substantial changes to the default (and it
> always says that the "option" lines don't follow the correct format, even
> when pasted in directly from the dhcp-options man page).
>
> Can someone please tell me how I can get my Linux machine seen via it's
> NetBIOS name from WinXX hosts? I suspect that it has something to do with
> dhclient.conf, but I have yet to figure it out. I believe I have all
> required protocols, etc. smbclient can see the WInXX hosts, for example.
>
> Help?
>
> --
> ----- Stephan Beal
> The opinions expressed in this post may
> not reflect those of my employer, my girlfriend,
> God, or even myself.
> It takes you less time to delete junk mail than it
> does for me to remove NOSPAM from your address,
> so I will generally not accomodate "remove NOSPAM
> from my address to mail me" requests.
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