Linux-Networking Digest #563, Volume #11 Thu, 17 Jun 99 01:13:43 EDT
Contents:
Re: printing from windows to a linux print spool (Frank Hahn)
Re: Network "speed?" ("Greg")
Re: netscape questions (Guy Geens)
Re: ftp quickie ("Glen Winn")
Xircom Pocket ethernet combo adapter III ("peter sandretto")
cable modem or ASDL (Doug Bryant)
Re: Linux to replace NT Server ("Richard Miller")
Re: cable modem or ASDL (Stewart Honsberger)
Re: Firewall/Proxy Server (Mark Johnson)
I need some help with IP MASQ (Jeff Fox)
Connecting a Linux Box to a Unix Box (kuds)
Re: Could Microsoft Cheat On The New Mindcraft Benchmark? (was: Mindcraft Retest
News ("Chad Mulligan")
Re: Secure network-backup via nfs? (James Youngman)
LAN + Cable modem help (Raistlin Majere)
Can't ping beyond gateway ("David Watson")
Re: Diald keeps dialing... (Mike Jagdis)
Modem and Ethernet Card (becky)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frank Hahn)
Subject: Re: printing from windows to a linux print spool
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 02:14:40 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 15 Jun 1999 17:50:00 GMT, Rage-DCA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>ok, i'm using lprng, gs5.85, and apsfilter5.1.2 and it works great. i
>am also running samba2.0.4b and thats working great with my hp deskjet
>660 cse. i know my printer works because i can print off the computer
>it is connected to and from another linux server. one problem though,
>i can't get windows95 to set it up right. i have windows setup right
>with everything else so it jives with samba, i just don't know how to
>setup the printer itself
>
>what printer driver do you use for windows 95? the hp driver? an
>postscript printer driver?
>should i make windows use a RAW or EPM spool type? and what should i
>link it to on linux (a raw spool, or normal spool)? if anyone has a
>setup kinda like this, please let me know. thx alot.
>
If I understand correctly, you want to print from the MS Windows
machine to a printer connected to a Linux machine.
On the Windows machine, just setup a network printer. If Samba
is configured correctly, it should be present so that you can
browse for it when Windows ask you to. Windows will then have
you install the printer drivers for that specific printer.
The data going to the printer on the Linux machine should be
sent in binary format. Samba should not do anything to the data.
Setting up the printer on the Windows side should be straight
forward.
--
Frank Hahn
"Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any
good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats."
-- Howard Aiken
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From: "Greg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Network "speed?"
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 07:24:53 -0400
Take a look at the xbased program pload, which by default will monitor
a ppp interface but can be set to monitor your ethernet device. I use
it and it seems to be fairly accurate.
http://www.engr.utk.edu/~mdsmith/pload/
Greg.
Brenda & Stephen Hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi,
> I have a Linux server (Mandrake 6.0) and a Win98 client. Both have
> Linksys EtherPCI LAN Card II (10BaseT) cards. Is there a utility (on
> the server?) I can use to see what the actual transfer rate is between
> both boxes? Sometimes transferring files from to the other seem to
> take forever. If I find the way I have it setup is slow, what do I
> look at next to get the maximum rate I can?
>
> Cheers,
> Stephen
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From: Guy Geens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.slackware,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: netscape questions
Date: 16 Jun 1999 07:00:09 +0200
>>>>> "Rage-DCA" == Rage-DCA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Rage-DCA> i had a question about netscape. it seems since i installed
Rage-DCA> 4.08 all the icons on below the netscape menu are black and
Rage-DCA> gray when they should be color. i'm talking about the reload
You can start netscape with `netscape -install' to make it use a
private colormap. It looks ugly, but it works.
--
G. ``Iggy'' Geens - Modest, memorable improvement beast
Home: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Work: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Home page: http://gallery.uunet.be/ggeens
``I was thinking about how everyone was dying
and maybe it's time to live.'' - Eels
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Reply-To: "Glen Winn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "Glen Winn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ftp quickie
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 21:34:09 -0500
Try glftpd at http://www.glftpd.org/
Andrew Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I have an ftp site using wu.ftpd (standard ftp deamon which is shipped
> with redhat) and would like to know how to allow users to access only
> their home directory (i.e. their home dirctory on the box is their root
> directory) when they ftp to the box.
>
> any ideas?
>
> Thanx in advance
>
> Andy
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From: "peter sandretto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Xircom Pocket ethernet combo adapter III
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 22:34:16 -0400
I am looking for a driver for a Xircom pocket ethernet combo adapter III,
the parallel version, that works with linux. Does anyone know where to get
one, or have one in the works? Please email me a response. -Peter
Sandretto
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From: Doug Bryant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: cable modem or ASDL
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 22:53:52 -0500
hello,
I am fortunate enough to be moving into an area that provides both cable
modem and ASDL access.
Could anyone give advice about which is better/more reliable The cable
modem access would be through @Home and the ASDL would be through
Bellsouth.net.
What I am looking for is speed and ability to access my linux box from
work or on trips. I am able to do this now by emailing my IP# to my
work email address over a dial up account.
Is a similar senario possible with one or the other.
I am not expecting either company to jump at the chance to support linux
so that is not really an issue. I have heard Bellsouth ASDL is
anti-linux going so far as to not provide access to linux boxes even if
you set it up yourself. (see slashdot.org and do a search on Bellsouth)
Thanks for any pointers
Doug Bryant
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Richard Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat
Subject: Re: Linux to replace NT Server
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 22:41:17 -0500
It is a great server but unless I'm wrong you can't configure user level
security on the win9x clients. This means no remote registry,etc. If I'm
wrong will someone please let me know. Richard
Noah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:rDU93.13375$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Linux can fo all of these things VERY well!!! Try going to redhat.com or
> linux.org, other than that I don't have much advice to give, sorry.
> N.M.
>
> Steve Bui <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > Hi everyone,
> > I am trying to find out how to setup a linux machine to perform the
> > duties of an NT server (i.e. authenticate users, resolve domain names,
> > etc) If anyone can help or point me in the right direction, it would be
> > greatly appreciated. THanks
> >
> > --
> > Steve
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stewart Honsberger)
Subject: Re: cable modem or ASDL
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 04:00:04 GMT
On Wed, 16 Jun 1999 22:53:52 -0500, Doug Bryant wrote:
>Could anyone give advice about which is better/more reliable The cable
>modem access would be through @Home and the ASDL would be through
>Bellsouth.net.
I can't speak for Bellsouth.net, but @Home is horrendous. Downtimes
constantly, ranging from a few seconds up to several days. Their tech
support is abhorable, and the hold times are several hours on a good day.
(Except before 7 AM - that seems to be a fairly small hold time).
Their services are up and down like yoyo's (You never know if you'll
have a DNS server, mail server, news server, etc. at any given time).
As if running NT weren't bad enough, their techs appear to know little
more than how to sound vaguely like they know what a power button does.
As for the speed - keep in mind that cable is coax; you share your
bandwidth with your neighbors. ASDL doesn't share (A la Cat-5).
>What I am looking for is speed and ability to access my linux box from
>work or on trips. I am able to do this now by emailing my IP# to my
>work email address over a dial up account.
Now this is something I'm not certain of. Apparently, ASDL "modems"
have the abililty to switch your IP every hour (but ask someone about
that first - that's only something I've heard 3rd party).
@Home doesn't promise a static IP, but we've had the same one for months
now. {shrug} It could dissapear tomorrow for all we know.
>I am not expecting either company to jump at the chance to support linux
>so that is not really an issue. I have heard Bellsouth ASDL is
>anti-linux going so far as to not provide access to linux boxes even if
>you set it up yourself. (see slashdot.org and do a search on Bellsouth)
Roger's (our @Home provider) won't support anything but Windoze. Tell them
that the NIC is installed in an OS/2 box, and they outright tell you to
move it to a Windoze box before the tech gets there.
My advice - setup a Windoze machine, let them install it there, get all
of the settings, and when they leave put it into your Linux box. Problem
solved, nobody has to know.
--
Stewart Honsberger (AKA Blackdeath) @ http://sprk.com/blackdeath/
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Remove 'thirteen' to reply privately)
Humming along under SuSE Linux 6.0 / OS/2 Warp 4
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From: Mark Johnson <markj*no*spam*@gilanet.com>
Subject: Re: Firewall/Proxy Server
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 21:58:27 -0600
Reply-To: markj*no*spam*@gilanet.com
Recommended reading: the ipchains HOWTO.
Eric wrote:
> I am a newbie and have recently been asked to research setting up a
>
> firewall/proxy server to restrict access to certain sites from our office
>
> users and dial up users. We currently are running an NT domain with a T1
>
> connection. Our proposed firewall/proxy is running Redhat 6.0. I am not
>
> sure whether to use IP chains or whether there is an aplication for
>
> download that will make it easier. I am looking for step-by-step
>
> instructions. Right now everyone connects to the internet through a
>
> gateway on our LAN. Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Eric
>
> ------------------ Posted via SearchLinux ------------------
> http://www.searchlinux.com
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From: Jeff Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: I need some help with IP MASQ
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 22:27:55 -0500
Does the stock RedHat 6.0 kernel have everything needed for IP masquerading
already turned on? I've read the ip-masq howto a bunch of times, and looked at
my kernel configuration and it looks to me like everything mentioned in the
how-to is already in the kernel.
Maybe that's not my problem. Let me tell you what's going on.
Linux box is 192.168.0.1
Win95 is 192.168.0.2
I can ping both ways.
On the Linux box I did install the ipchains RPM file.
After establishing a PPP connection to my ISP I tried this command from an
xterm:
ipchains -A forward -j MASQ -s 192.168.0.0/24 -d 0.0.0.0/0.
I can ping the eth0 address from the win95 box. Pinging the internal IP
assigned by the ISP, or the ISP's external IP does not work.
What can I do to fix this?
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From: kuds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Connecting a Linux Box to a Unix Box
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 19:31:42 -0800
Hi,
I have around 20 P233MMX machines connected to a Unix box. I
have installed RH52 on 2 of these machines. My problem is
1. I dont know the make of the nic nor can i open the
machine and find out, i suspect it to be a tulip, but dont
take my word on this. Does anybody have ne ideas on how to
find this out and also how to install the card
2. What do i need to do to connect to the Unix box.
I did read the howto, but i am still at a loss on how to
make the gateway and connect.
my experiments with route command were not very successfull.
3. any ideas on how to connect the same to a Netware 3.12
server.
Machines are using utp for networking.
Can anybody please help, it would be appreciated..
Tnx
-kuds
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From: "Chad Mulligan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
omp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Could Microsoft Cheat On The New Mindcraft Benchmark? (was: Mindcraft
Retest News
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 20:31:43 -0700
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
<7k8qq9$4m6$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Craig Kelley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>"Chad Mulligan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>>> >With 1 caveot: Linux applications *are* Solaris applications.
>>>
>>> Are they now.. Hmm does IE for Solaris run on RH6.0? How about Oracle
8.0?
>>> Sun Net Manager? WABI?
>
>>Strawman.
>
>Even worse --- a horrible failure of logic.
>
> let X be an app. Then the "caveot" says
>
> X is linux app ===> X is Solaris app
>
>which Chad tries to argue. However, he does so by showing
>
> There exists an app Y such that
>
> Y is a Solaris app ===> Y is a linux app
>
> does not hold.
>
>Of course, that is not surprising. After all, VW beetles are cars, i.e.
I see you've forgotten that memorable slogan "It's not a car, it's a
volkswagen"
>
> X is VW beetle ===> X is car
>
Incorrect, see above.
>while not all cars are VW beetles
>
If the first point is Null the rest of the logic falls off Occams Razor.
In a bloody mess.
> There exists a thing Y such that
>
> Y is a car ===> Y is a VW beetle
>
> does not hold.
>
>What he would need to find is something that is _not a car_, and yet is
>a VW beetle (or _not a Solaris app_, and yet a linux app).
I think the complete lack of applications for Linux and the repeated claim,
in this forum, that Linux could run Solaris applications, they are available
in x86 format, after all, confused me. Thanks for clearing that up.
>
>Bernie
>--
>===========================================================================
=
>"It's a magical world, Hobbes ol' buddy...
> ...let's go exploring"
>Calvin's final words, on December 31st, 1995
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From: James Youngman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Secure network-backup via nfs?
Date: 15 Jun 1999 18:37:16 +0100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> I work for a company who runs a number of publicly accessible servers.
> That's five servers running some version of RedHat ( kernel 2.2.x ) and
> various services like sendmail, apache, mysql.
> For backups we have a HP SureStore 24eU DAT tapedrive, which is
> connected to one of the servers. BRU is the preferred software.
>
> My question is: How can I backup all the servers in a secure way, by
> using the host to which the DAT is connected?
tar zcf - /filesystem-name | ssh dat-host dd bs=10240 of=/dev/st0
> Ideally I would like to nfs-mount all servers on the DAT-host, but I
> have avoided nfs for perceived lack of security and performance issues.
> How vulnerable does it make our servers if we use nfs ( assuming we
> configure it properly )?
Provided you allow only your own hosts in /etc/exports and forbid
access to everyone else, making double-sure with ipchains (NB: protect
the nfsd port as well as portmapper!), then it isn't screamingly
insecure, but SSH is still better.
> Another possibility would be using the rmt device. I would still need to
> enable rpc for that, again opening up the system.
Not is you use SSH.
> What's the best way of handling backup for a similar setup?
I'd use SSH, or the Cryptographic NFS filesystem (search the web).
--
ACTUALLY reachable as @free-lunch.demon.(whitehouse)co.uk:james+actually
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From: Raistlin Majere <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: LAN + Cable modem help
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 03:42:36 GMT
I have a W95 box, a cable modem, and a Mandrake dist. of linux on
another box. The box with Linux *WAS* running NT Server just fine and I
had a LAN set up plus both boxes shared the cable modem which was
connected to the hub. Now that I've replaced my NT Server with a Linux
box that I wish to use as a server as well (both LAN and Internet), yet
don't have much linux networking experience, how do I go about getting
my:
1. linksys etherfast 10/100 NIC set up
2. LAN recognized
3. Gateway and provider recognized
Please email responses since I rarely check newsgroups, but check email
every 5-8 hours, as well as posting for others benefits. :)
Thanks greatly,
Justin McClellan
godwars.org
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From: "David Watson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Can't ping beyond gateway
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 03:11:06 GMT
Can anybody help me out? I'm using RH 5.2, kernal 2.0.36 with a3c509b 3com
card. The card is recognized and active and I can ping loopback, my IP and
the gateway, but I can't seem to get beyond the gateway. I'm using a cable
modem with @home network. Ifconfig yields:
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Bcast:127.255.255.255 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP BROADCAST LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3584 Metric:1
RX packets:77 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:77 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:A0:24:4E:5A:3D
inet addr:24.2.65.188 Bcast:24.255.255.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:235 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:69 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0
Interrupt:10 Base address:0x300
and routing table:
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window irtt
Iface
24.2.65.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 1500 0 0
eth0
127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 3584 0 0 lo
24.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 1500 0 0
eth0
0.0.0.0 24.2.65.1 0.0.0.0 UG 1500 0 0
eth0
If I try and ping an ip address beyond the gateway I receive 100% packet
loss. It seems like things are configured correctly and it was working in
the past until I had a disk problem and had to re-install.
Any ideas?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike Jagdis)
Subject: Re: Diald keeps dialing...
Date: 15 Jun 1999 11:39:52 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Scott Weber wrote:
>
>So here's my questions:
>I'm using the example diald.conf from the mini-howto and
>I put it in /etc/ but is that the right place? Because it's
>not ignoring things that the script says to ignore.
>
>Where/what do I do with the diald.defs? They appear
>to define things in the diald.conf, but the howto
>didn't say anything about them, just shows them.
>Do they need to be somewhere when you build diald?
>or are they interpreted during load and execution?
diald.defs should be installed by a "make install". It goes
in /usr/lib/diald. diald.conf is *global* config. You can
use it for a link specific config only if you are not going
to want more than one link - otherwise you need to use the
"-f" option to diald to specify a config file.
>Finally, I also have samba installed, and it works great,
>with one minor complaint. When I try to browse the linux
>box from WIN (Nt and 95 network neighborhood), it causes
>diald to dial as well, and the linux box won't answer the
>Win box until the dialin is complete. All I want is to
>browse the directories in the linux box, I don't want it
>to dial into just to do that.
>
>It would appear I (and perhaps some others posting similar
>questions) are looking for some useful information, which
>is hard to find.
Strange, I've given the same answer time and again. Firstly
you should use a monitor tool such as dctrl to see what diald
thinks is happening on the link. If it is up because of DNS
requests (more than likely with Windows around) you should
either use tcpdump to watch the DNS packets on the link or
make sure *everything* is going via a caching DNS server
on the gateway and enable query logging on it. Once you know
what is happening you can fix it.
If you have Windows boxes on a network using DNS and demand
dialled links you will almost certainly need to manage a load
of dumb names in a whole load of hosts files or set up a local
DNS server that primaries for some zones.
Diald never dials for no reason - and the reason is usually
that some Windows box is asking some damn fool questions :-).
Mike
--
A train stops at a train station, a bus stops at a bus station.
On my desk I have a work station...
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From: becky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Modem and Ethernet Card
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 11:46:06 +0800
Hi all,
I am using an ethenet card at an intranet and i am trying to
connect to
internet by using a modem. However, there is a problem here. It seems
that the modem and ethernet card cannot coexist together. I have to
deactivate the ethernet card before i can connect to internet.
Otherwise, we cannot even "ping" the machines in our subnet!!
Becky
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