Linux-Networking Digest #857, Volume #11 Sun, 11 Jul 99 03:14:10 EDT
Contents:
Re: What's the best way AS400,NT,95's -> linux (Bob Schuett)
Re: How Do I Set up a Two-Computer Network? ("Lew")
Re: Netscape, RH 6.0 and pppd (Silviu Minut)
Postscript printer prob (Carsten Aulbert)
Re: Serving with the Enemy... [help!] :o( (William Eckert)
multiple NIC's (Matt)
Help with ftp server config - 550: Permission Denied (Upload Dirs) (Essence)
Re: Need help setting up smail w/o DNS (Joseph Cheek)
Linux + CityLan Cablemodemsetup ([rimbaud])
Re: DNS as root works, no DNS as reg. user? ("Michael Faurot")
Re: netgear card configuration ("William B. Cattell")
Re: X Terminal Under Linux - Where can I get the software? (Chris Harshman)
Re: Linksys Card (JunkDTectr)
Re: Question about Linux and resolv.conf (James Stafford)
How to make Linux _NOT_ use a gateway at all??!! Help! (Evan A. Reidell)
Tweaking Linux / Becoming 'guru' (Chris Harshman)
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From: Bob Schuett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: What's the best way AS400,NT,95's -> linux
Date: Sat, 10 Jul 1999 23:32:23 -0600
If the AS400 is a RISC model (black box) and has a reasonably current
operating system, you will have no problem integrating it into an IP
environment - in fact, it can make quite a nice DNS, DHCP, Web or mail
server. If it is a CISC model (white box), it will do IP well but will not
be much use for any other IP server functions.
I have a mixed network - 4 AS400's, multiple Novell servers, OS2 server,
OS2 gateway. I am presently adding a Linux DNS and gateway to the mix.
What are you using the AS400 for? What model is it? What OS400 level is on
it?
bob
Monte Phillips wrote:
> Has anyone an idea of the best way to approach this network. The
> hardware consists of one AS400, it is the source for main database and
> some specialty apps, 3 NT machines, one is internet gateway, 2 NT's
> generic clients and 3 Win95 machines, also clients. The NT's must be
> able to access the AS400. All are reasonably close proximity =< 100'
>
> I would like to take one of the NT's and turn it into a linux server
> and internet gateway. Need ideas, especially in regards to that
> dinosaur AS400. (no blowing it up or tossing it into the bay ain't an
> option :( )
--
Robert Schuett
CMT Systems Inc.
Calgary Alberta Canada
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Reply-To: "Lew" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "Lew" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How Do I Set up a Two-Computer Network?
Date: Sun, 11 Jul 1999 00:54:36 -0500
Ben-
Ultimately packets have to resolve to a physical device to be transmitted
and received. It looks like Linux doesn't know what physical device to
route to and from. Try
route add -net 192.168.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 dev eth0
route add -host 192.168.0.3
Then type "route" (for me /sbin/route) and you should get something like
this:
[root@roland network-scripts]# /sbin/route
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref
Use Iface
192.168.0.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0
0 21 eth0
127.0.0.0 * 255.0.0.0 U 0
0 3 lo
If you don't get something like this then you can be sure Linux doesn't know
how to route to your ethernet interface. Good luck.
*Lew*
Ben W. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I have two machines I wish to network together. The connection is
> a cross-over RJ-45 cable. Machine A will be running Linux and Machine
> B will be running Windows 98.
>
> Configuration for Machine A:
> I.P. Address: 192.168.0.1
> Subnet mask: 255.255.255.0
> Host name: 192-168-0-1
> Domain name: .192-168-0-1
>
> Configuration for Machine B:
> I.P. Address: 192.168.0.3
> Subnet mask 255.255.255.0
> Host name: 192-168-0-3
> Domain name: .192-168-0-1
>
>
> The biggest obstacle I have right now is pinging either machine. With
> both Machine A and B running Windows 98, I can ping them both. If
> Machine A runs Linux and Machine B runs Windows 98, I just cannot
> get a ping response from either one of them. I tried typing at the
> Linux machine the following command line:
>
> route add -host 192.168.0.3 netmask 255.255.255.0
>
> in order to add Machine B to the Linux routing table, but it complains
> that the netmask is wrong for the I.P. address.
>
> Will someone please direct or suggest some extremely dummy-proof way
> of getting my machines to recognize each other? I have read the
> Net3-HowTo, the Ethernet-HowTo, and DNS-HowTo, but it is very
> confusing.
>
> Thank you.
>
> Ben W.
> Very new to Linux...
>
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From: Silviu Minut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Netscape, RH 6.0 and pppd
Date: Sat, 10 Jul 1999 23:53:43 -0400
Of course.
/usr/bin/netscape is just a wrapper that calls the real program. Back it
up (just in case) and insert the line
/etc/ppp/ppp-on
at the beginning of /usr/bin/netscape, just after
!#/bin/sh
(Assuming, of course, that you use ppp-on to dial.)
Dr. G wrote:
> Does anyone know if it's possible to set up Netscape so that it will
> automatically dial an ISP at startup?
> I have searched "freshmeat" an dother sites to no avail.
>
> Also; Whenever I insert a "link" in a message and click "Apply", then
> clicking "OK" causes Netscape to crash! Does anyone know what causes
> this and if there is a fix?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Darrell
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From: Carsten Aulbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Postscript printer prob
Date: Sun, 11 Jul 1999 08:03:16 +0200
Hi folks,
I think I have a problem with a HP LJ 4000 (Postscript, Duplex). I use
SuSE 6 and kernel 2.2.9 and when I install the printer as a postscript
1200dpi printer under yast, it seems to work quite fine, but if I try to
print something out it does not print the very last page.
If I print only one page it shows (in German: "BEREIT" (READY/ONLINE)
changing with the message "DATEN EMPFANGEN" (GOT ALL THE DATA YOU WANTED
ME TO RECEIVE)) and 2 of the 3 LED are turned on (Ready and Data). If
you want to receive a page now, you have to print an empty page (or
sometimes even two). I called HP, but they dont have a clue about linux,
they just said press the START-button (is it windows???) then everything
should be perfectly ok.
Of course nothing was ok, it doesnt work that way. So, what is wrong
here? I checked both the computers setup (par. port is /dev/lp0) and
then printers setup, both seem ok.
Finally, if you try to print via samba, it works fine, due to
unforeseeable reasons.
HELP!
Cheers
Carsten Aulbert
(Please mail me: [EMAIL PROTECTED]@com) without the @com of
course.
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From: William Eckert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Serving with the Enemy... [help!] :o(
Date: Sun, 11 Jul 1999 00:36:38 -0400
With Apache you can use the mod_proxy with the ProxyPass command to make the
WinNT server appear to be in a subdirectory on the Linux server. For example:
ProxyPass /mirror/foo http://foo.com
When the user accesses the file "http://www.server.com/mirror/foo/bar/junk.asp"
they will get the file "http://foo.com/bar/junk.asp".
Eckert
John Doe wrote:
> Possible to serv ASP pages by redirecting HTTP through Linux?
>
> If your curious why not use Linux for everything... I'd Like To!! However,
> this web interface is a demo for clients etc who have creative needs... for
> that matter so do I :o)
>
> Machine A:
> Linux box acting as router, primary web server, FTP server, pop3, smtp and
> DNS servers. Masquarading
>
> Machine B:
> NT4 machine running IIS4, so can support .asp pages, Access databases and
> SQL Server 7
>
> Machine C and D:
> Win95 and Win98 boxes, for design/games/etc
>
> ADSL Box:
> Quasi-Static IP address (long story), LAN connection, trying to suss out
> pinhole etc so that it just passes everything to the linux box to deal with.
> If anyone has lots of info about the Nokia M10 do tell!! :o)
>
> Essentially want to run linux as main web server, and somehow redirect .asp
> pages to the NT box. Is this possible in Apache as a config extension, or
> does anyone have a script that can be used so that the .asp extension is
> passed to a program/script/shell, which queries the NT server? Worst case
> I'll write the freaking thing... just be nice to know if there are
> tried/tested ones out there already :o)
>
> Of course, I could wait for ChiliSoft to come up with an ASP engine for
> Linux and query the databases on then other machine, however already have NT
> with SQL etc going, so would prefer to use existing hardware/software....
>
> My other option would be to have two IP's, and have seperate sub-domains for
> linux and NT.... eg www.domain.com and asp.domain.com - however this is
> not easy, cheap or practical for current situation :o(
>
> Suggestions or comments much appreciated...
>
> Cheers,
> John
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From: Matt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: multiple NIC's
Date: Sun, 11 Jul 1999 06:11:41 GMT
I am running Red Hat 6.0, 2.2.5, and I have been trying to get my second
ethernet card up so I can use IP MASQ.
I have a 3c905 for the eth0, which works fine, and is connected to the
cable modem.
But the non-working one is a 3c509, and PnP is turned off! I have tried
used the "append" thing in the lilo.config file I have tried playing
around with "linuxconf" but when I boot the machine it says that it is
delaying eth1, and there is a "FAILED" in red next to it, when all the
others are "OK". Any help would be greatly appericated. I am sorry if
I missed anything, I am kinda new to this. Thanks again.
-Matt
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Essence)
Subject: Help with ftp server config - 550: Permission Denied (Upload Dirs)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 11 Jul 1999 05:48:28 GMT
Hi,
I'm having trouble configuring an ftp server with SlackWare 4.0
(2.2.10 kernel). I was using this configuration with a previous
install of slackware, and it worked. It sorta of works with my
current install. The only problem is users can't create directories.
They get a 550: Permission Denied (Upload Dirs) error.
My Goals
- Give FTP Access to users without allowing them to telnet.
- Allow FTP users to upload to /home/ftp/incoming directory.
- Force users to create a directory to upload files.
- chroot ftp users to /home/ftp but not real users.
Here's what I did, and why. Hopefully someone can help me figure out
the problem.
Edited /etc/shells and added /etc/ftponly entry for ftp user's shell
to prevent them from access account with telnet.
Created /etc/ftponly file with following entry. Not really needed but
what the hell :) It simply displays a message when someone tries to
telnet into the box with an ftp account.
# /etc/ftponly
# ftponly shell
echo " "
echo " "
echo "Access Denied!"
echo " "
echo "Updating Log with Connection Source..."
exit 0
Edited /etc/group and added following entry
ftpers::50:
Created a test ftp account in /etc/passwd
test:9efSXXT1EYmxI:500:50::/home/ftp/./:/etc/ftponly
chown root.ftpers /home/ftp/incoming
chmod 777 /home/ftp.incoming
Edited /ftpaccess and made the following changes
class remote real,guest my.ip.went.here *
upload /home/ftp/incoming/* yes root ftpers 0777 dirs
guestusers ftpers
The * after incoming is supposed to prevent users from uploading to
the root of incoming. At least it did on my previous install. If I
remove it, users can upload files to incoming, and create directories.
However, they cannot upload into directories that they created. I
think this is related to my problem.
Any help would be much appreciated!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joseph Cheek)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: Need help setting up smail w/o DNS
Date: 11 Jul 1999 05:20:37 GMT
perhaps the easiest thing to do would be set up dns on your server for your 4 machines.
joe
In comp.os.linux.networking, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve Harvey) wrote:
> I'm setting up a small (4 machine) subnet which includes a (Debian 2.1)
> Linux machine acting as a Samba server for two of the other machines
> (which are load-balanced web servers runing NT). The Linux box has no
> internet conectivity, but does need to be able to send email to other
> machines on the subnet (to send out cron-generated reports etc.)
> I'm using smail as an MTA, which works fine for local delivery, but
> I can't send to other hosts; sent mail just sits in the outgoing mail
> spool forever. I *think* that the problem is that smail is trying to
> resolve the destination address via DNS, which it can't do, since the
> machine isn't conected to a nameserver; everything it needs to know
> is in /etc/hosts.
> I've read and re-read the smail and smail-config man pages to no avail.
> I've tried turning off all the various "verify" options in the config file,
> but outgoing messages still won't go. I've thought about trying sendmail
> instead, but am afraid I'd just run into the same problem there.
> Any suggestions?
> Thanks,
> Steve
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([rimbaud])
Subject: Linux + CityLan Cablemodemsetup
Date: Sat, 10 Jul 1999 06:16:52 GMT
Just got RedHat 6.0 up and running, it works fine but i can't figure
out how to set up my cable modem so i can get on the net.
We are behind a firewall because the lack of real IP addresses.
This is how the setup looks and works in Windows 95/98.
Hardware:
The modem is connected to the computer via a generic PCI ethernetcard.
Software:
TCP/IP settings: DNS Inactivated, No Gateway, Get IP Address from
server, i also got Microsoft Proxy client installed.
Someone who knows how to make a setup like this work in Linux ?
My ISP knows ?, my isp doesn't know what ICQ is...
Thanks/J
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From: "Michael Faurot" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: DNS as root works, no DNS as reg. user?
Date: 11 Jul 1999 04:36:35 GMT
root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: I feel silly asking this question, but here goes:
: DNS works fine when I'm logged in as root, (I'm using pppd,
: started by root, to connect to my isp). I can browse, email, etc.
: However, as an ordinary user I can't do dns lookups. I can
: ping hosts using their ip addresses, but dns queries fail.
: any suggestions? I recently re-installed everything on my system,
: and i'm now running redhat 6.0 w/ a 2.2.9 kernel. Everything
: worked fine under rh 5.2
If you can resolve as root, but not as a regular user, that sounds like
a permissions issue. Try taking a look at the permissions on
/etc/resolv.conf and insure they're something like 644.
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From: "William B. Cattell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: netgear card configuration
Date: Sun, 11 Jul 1999 06:24:52 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Hey guys!
> I have a problem setting up my Netgear card (a tulip card)on Linux 5.2.
> I tried to activate eth0 in netcfg. But every time I do is getting
> deactivated again
> ifconfig only returns a local loop.
> Thanks for an advice in advance.
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Share what you know. Learn what you don't.
I recently installed a Netgear FA310tx in a RH6.0 machine.
It works like a champ but I used the drivers that came with
the card. They were more recent than the native drivers.
Bill
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From: Chris Harshman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: X Terminal Under Linux - Where can I get the software?
Date: Sun, 11 Jul 1999 01:08:28 -0500
What precisely are you trying to do? Run software on your
Linux boxes, that use the Sun X-Terminals as the display/
keyboard/mouse? You should be able to call up 'telnet'
on the X terminal, and then run the application (e.g.,
Netscape) with the display as an argument (e.g.,
`netscape -display xterminal03:0`)
Alexander Atkin wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> At work we have several Sun 3/50 X-Terminals. They run on Motorola
> 68020 I think.
> I downloaded the specs from Sun and several other places but cannot find
> the necessary software for Linux.
>
> I am running Slackware 3.5 with X-Free86 3.3.2.
> I am very much a novice with X, a real pain to try and get working at a
> decent speed on a 486 which is mostly why we plan to use a 486 per
> machine (or maybe even more than one 486 for each terminal if someone
> tells me how its done) for the program tasks and the X-terminal for
> graphics as 486's tend to have crap graphics cards.
> We have tons of 486's that we could use, most of which are 100Mhz and
> even a few Pentium Overdrive machines, so getting the computer side is
> not a problem. Just configuring and software.
>
> I know enough about Linux to set up a simple router, fileserver,
> printerserver (all on one 486 DX4/100) so im not a total novice. But X
> certainly is the most tricky part to get working.
>
> Alex.
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (JunkDTectr)
Subject: Re: Linksys Card
Date: Sun, 11 Jul 1999 04:16:40 GMT
On Sat, 10 Jul 1999 01:25:59 GMT, In comp.os.linux.networking,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
> In article <7lad0d$2m2$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Strange)
>wrote:
> >Here are some places to look for newer tulip drivers.
> >I am running rev 90.g
> >
> >http://www.linksys.com/support/solution/nos/linux.htm
> >
> >http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/index.html#fast
> >
> >Kengere Kibwage ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> >: I have a Linksys EtherFast 10/100 LAN card that I have not been able to
> >: configure for use on a Red Hat Linux 5.2 machine. Any help I get will be
> >: greatly appreciated.
> >: Thanks
> >: Kengere
> >
> >
>
> I had the same problem. You MUST get the later driver, at least .90 .
>
>
> Core
I can't say why it works for me, I don't know of anything I've
done out of the ordinary. Seems like I may have run modprobe
and/or maybe insmod.
I have 2 of the things in my stock RH5.2 system using the stock
Tulip v0.89H modules. No compiling, nothing. I'm kind of
peculiar that way, I like to keep things as stock as possible.
My system here at home is a HP Pavilion 6355 - 333 Celeron w/
onboard video and sound.
conf.modules contains (pertaining to ethernet)
alias eth1 tulip
alias eth0 tulip
eth0 loads at 0xd000 IRQ3
eth1 loads at 0xd800 IRQ11
Now, when I got my cable modem, I thought why waste a 10/100 card
on a 10BaseT link. I couldn't get a Linksys 10BaseT card to co-
exist with the 10/100, fought that for a week and gave up, wasted
a week for $5. Threw in a second 10/100 and it flew the first
time.
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From: James Stafford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Question about Linux and resolv.conf
Date: Sat, 10 Jul 1999 23:21:03 -0700
James Stafford wrote:
>
> YouDontKnowWho wrote:
> >
> > Does Netscape have an option to start off-line?
> >
>
> I use linux off-line all the time. I use it to connect to the local web
> server and cruise my hard drive.
>
I guess that should have been, I use Netscape off-line all the time.
jamess
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Evan A. Reidell)
Subject: How to make Linux _NOT_ use a gateway at all??!! Help!
Date: 11 Jul 1999 07:01:47 GMT
I don't have a gateway machine or a Cisco router, and I'm
trying to make a telnettable Linux box --- I thought this
would be easy!!!
With others like a Win98 machine, NeXT machine, Sun
workstation, SGI Indy, or Macintosh, I can pretty much set the
IP address to 200.0.0.5 (or whatever) and the netmask to
255.255.255.0, then connect it (via a hub) to another
200.0.0.x machine, and I've then been able to "telnet
200.0.0.5" (well, not Win98 or Mac) or "ftp 200.0.0.5"
(well...)
ANYWAY
the Linux machine keeps asking for GATEWAY numbers and such,
and I can't figure out how to fake it out ---
and it refuses to sit there and pretend that it's 200.0.0.5
so I can ftp to it from another machine!
I'm sure this is a pretty dumb question, but please answer it
anyway!!! Email or post, I just want to ftp into my Linux
box! (Redhat 5.2)
evan reidell
ereidell at mit dot edu
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From: Chris Harshman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,alt.os.linux
Subject: Tweaking Linux / Becoming 'guru'
Date: Sun, 11 Jul 1999 01:13:47 -0500
Can anyone recommend good reading (O'Reilly titles,
URLs, whatnot) with respect to tweaking Linux for
performance? I've been a systems administrator for
4 years now, and I think I've performed ably.
My boxes don't crash, are always available, and
are hacker-resistant. =)
But now I'm being called upon to provide "enterprise-
class" performance out of Linux machines, in general
and in specific circumstances (e.g., tweaking the
kernel to provide specialized performance gains in
areas such as file I/O).
Where might I begin to fill my brain with such information?
I'm not a coder, but I know how to code when necessary.
(No, not `./configure ; make ; make install` - when I
need something done and I can't find software to do it,
I write it. However, it's not always the best optimized
or the prettiest code you've ever seen ;)
For example, say you were on the team responsible for
tweaking a Linux box to go head-to-head against
an NT server for a rematch of the Mindcraft benchmarks.
Where might you turn for tips/tricks/advice?
Many, many thanks in advance!
- Chris
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