Linux-Networking Digest #968, Volume #11 Wed, 21 Jul 99 23:13:35 EDT
Contents:
Re: Linux as a server ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Sendmail config overwrite (Paul Trost)
Mail and schedule ("Ernesto Gianoni")
Solution! Xircom Realport RBEM56 CBE PCMCIA Card ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Problems downloading off FTP servers ("Kent Chung")
Re: hook a normal printer directly up to a network? (Human)
Re: Samba problem (Paul)
Re: eth0 & ppp0 problem ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Can't ping ISP ("mikes")
? re compiling dhcpcd 1.3 (Doug O'Leary)
Re: My Dissapointment to find Linux not a viable solution ("Chad Mulligan")
Re: Samba causing broadcast storms?? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
IPX Networking (Stephen Blair)
notebook computer modem! ("Jongwhan Lee")
Networking Problem (Cory Blackburn)
Are two PCI NIC cards possible? (=?iso-8859-1?Q?R=FCtabega=AE?=)
Re: Mac and Linux on TCP/IP (Luis Bou)
Re: Can't talk to modem with ppp (solved) ("Jim Gamble")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Linux as a server
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 02:35:46 +0200
Hello Gerry,
I had just set up the server (SuSe 6.0) for my family. It is designed to run in
24/7. Hopefully my experience can answer some of your questions.
in Server /usr/local/netlogon directory there are three files
local/netlogon> ls
mang.bat mei.bat qiao.bat
These are the scripts that will send over by Samba and run on one of the PCs in
the house whenever me (mang), my wife(mei), or my son(qiao) logon to Windows of
that machine. Following is part of the content of mang.bat
local/netlogon> cat mang
NET TIME \\Server /SET /YES #check Window client clock
NET USE H: /HOME /YES #map my Linux~/ to H drive
NET USE P: \\Server\programs /YES #map win programs dir to P direve
NET USE S: \\Server\shared /YES #map shared dir to S drive.
Everyone will have a H drive when they logon to Windows but the content differ
depends on what is in their home dir (~/) on the server. All user preference
are stored in ~/ on Server so no matter which Windows machine my family members
login, as log as they provid the correct user name and password their
individual preference such as desk top arrangement, emails, address book,
bookmark etc. etc will by applied. Now my son won't able to see and play with
my important business documents anymore.
The Server not only server the Windows. All my PCs at home are dule booting
(Windows, Linux). The Serve also running NFS server so where ever I boot into
Linux I got the same kdm login screen, same home directory.
Besides these features I also setup the firewall and masq so the whole family
can browsing the Internet safely and at the same time. MySQL is running there
too which allow me develp applications for my own company.
The Server is a Pentium 60 PC (the oldest one I got in house), my son hate the
machine because it is too slow for his programs. Now it find itself in the dark
storage room and servering the whole family happly for two weeks (none-stop)
without complains.
> Monte,
>
> Yeah, that side of things is fine.
>
> I guess what I am really looking for is something a bit more robust.
>
> What I would like is something that understood both win95 drive mapping and
> linux scripting and allow some centralized management such as standardised
> scripts that maps drives and printers onto the client win95 PC in such a way
> that the mappings will move with a user if they log on at a different PC.
>
> The samba end of thing on the linux server works fine
>
> I am probably showing my roots as a novell installer here, but hey, we all
> gather prejudices as we grow :-)
>
> Does this make sense or am I missing something thats already there
>
> Gerry
>
> Monte Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > Gerry,
> > You do understand of course that Win95 IS a client? You simply set up
> > tcp/ip on your NIC and point Windows at the linux machine. Thats all
> > their is to it. You install SAMBA on the linux (samba is the *nix
> > version of MS's smb protocol)
> >
> >
> > On Fri, 16 Jul 1999 15:45:57 +0100, "Gerry Kerr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > wrote:
> > >What I am looking for is a client that installs on a Win95 (yes I know
> the
> > >desktop "should" be linux as well) the best equivalent I can think of is
> > >novell's client32 stuff.
> > >
> > >Regards....gerry
> >
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From: Paul Trost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Sendmail config overwrite
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 00:31:10 GMT
I am using SuSE 6.0 and the latest sendmail. I am using Webmin 0.73 to
administrate my system. About every day the sendmail configuration file
resets back to the defaults or gets overwritten somehow. I have to go in
and put in my domain name so I can receive mail again. Does anyone know
what is causing this file to be overwritten or to reset to defaults?
Thanks,
Paul Trost
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From: "Ernesto Gianoni" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.linux,alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.caldera,alt.uu.comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.misc,linux.act.admin,linux.act.configs,linux.new-tty
Subject: Mail and schedule
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1999 21:24:06 -0400
Is any product that you can compare with Microsoft exchange ?
With schedules and Intranetwork productibity etc....
Please help, we WANT to migrate from Exchange to something else my pocket
and my wallet are hurting big time $$$$$ :-(...
THANX THANX THANX
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Solution! Xircom Realport RBEM56 CBE PCMCIA Card
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 00:31:14 GMT
Check out http://www.snafu.de/~wehe/pcmcia_linux.html for the solution
to using the Xircom Realport PC Card. I am a DOS/Windows person and
have little experience with unix in general. The instructions are greek
to me.
If anyone got it working, could you post a step-by-step, command-by-
command, instruction of how to get it working on Mandrake linux (Redhat
linux)? Please include information such as what directory we should be
in and what response we should see.
Thanks.
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From: "Kent Chung" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Problems downloading off FTP servers
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 01:09:04 GMT
I'm running RH6.0 on my firewall machine with ipchains and socks5 proxy up.
For some reason, when I use a ftp client to connect to a ftp server (say
ftp.netscape.com), I get a "protocol error" or a "data port error". If I
use socks5 to connect, I can't connect at all. Is this a socks5 problem or
a firewall problem?? If it is a firewall problem, do I need to load the
ip_masq_ftp.o module like they said in the ip masquerading how-to? If so, I
do I do this??
Thanks...
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From: Human<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: hook a normal printer directly up to a network?
Date: 22 Jul 1999 01:07:27 GMT
But then the problem will be how could I print postscript or from
netscape to that printer on the network using external print server?
Ihave successful in putting the printer on the network which share by
some windoz (NT/98) machines with some linux machines. The only problem
I have is I can print plain text tto the printer from linux but dont
know how to put in filter for print under netscape or others. The
HOW-TO only mentioned the filter if you are connecting the machine to
the linux machine directly, but didnt mention if the printer is on
network. Would someone able to give me some hints on that?
TIA.
In
comp.os.linux.hardware David A. Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote: : On Tue, 20 Jul 1999 20:01:28 GMT, Gaiko Kyofusho
: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> speaketh saying:
:>I was wondering if there was a way that I could hook a normal (hp desk
:>jet model ???) directly to my home network (consisting of 1 winnt box
:>and 2 linux boxes) without having to hook it directly to one of the
:>computers? (I admit that it would be for purposes of convenience
:><arranging the network ing the house> not necessity, for those that
:>might ask "why")
: Netgear's print server and hub combination is $124.09 at CDW. This assumes
: you have an ethernet network.
: Cheers,
: dar
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul)
Subject: Re: Samba problem
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 01:21:42 GMT
hosts and lmhosts are set up. I get a message "The specified computer
did not receive your request"
On Wed, 21 Jul 1999 20:06:34 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Monte Phillips)
wrote:
>BY some off chance did you forget to set up the hosts and lmhost files
>on the NT machine?
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul) wrote:
>>I am running Redhat 6.0. I can telnet and ftp into my Linux box. I
>>configured Samba. I can use smbclient to connect to the Window98 PCs
>>I see the Linux box in the Network neighborhood but when I try and
>>connect it reports that the device cannot be located on the network.
>>Any suggestions
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: eth0 & ppp0 problem
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 00:41:29 GMT
Thanks, I'll give it a shot,
Steve Sims
In article <7n25sg$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
kite@NoSpam.%inetport.com (Clifford Kite) wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> : I currently have a Linux box at home set up as a network server with
> : another Linux box and a Win95 PC connected to it. Everything is
running
> : great, telnet, ftp, ping, samba, yadda-yadda. My problem is while
I'm
> : on the server, ppp0 will not (run/connect to net) while my eth0 is
> : running. So basically I have to shut the network down with
> : /etc/rc.d/inet.d/network stop command. Then I can get ppp0 to
connect
> : to the net/ISP. After I'm done surfing restart the network and all
is
> : well. Something is conflicting but I don't know what, anyone got
any
>
> Take out the default route to the local network and just use a
> network-specific route, e.g.,
> /sbin/route add -net 192.168.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.0
>
> That will work fine for the LAN. Pppd won't replace an existing
default
> route with one through the PPP interface even with the defaultroute
> option.
>
> --
> Clifford Kite <kite@inet%port.com> Not a guru.
(tm)
> /* Speak softly and carry a +6 two-handed sword. */
>
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From: "mikes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can't ping ISP
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1999 20:34:48 -0500
Reply-To: "mikes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: Jan Andres <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, mikes wrote:
>>From my firewall I can ping my Win95 machine and my ISP.
>>From My Win 95 machine I can ping my firewall, but can't ping my ISP
>>
>>What should I check for?
>
>Check whether your firewall does IP forwarding at all.
># cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
It does, the command returned a " 1 ".
>1. You assigned a private IP address to your Windows machine. In this
It has such a number: 192.168.1.2
> case, you must set up the firewall to masquerade outgoing traffic.
I have firewall rules installed, and from what I guess, are activated when I
dial out.
>2. You have a (second) public IP address for your Windows machins.
I tried removing all of my ISP's setting from Win95, leaving nothing but my
ether card and it's settings. I still could not ping my ISP.
> Then you most likely have a firewall rule that filters out ping
> packets.
Is there a way to check ipchain while it is running? How can I trace my
Win95 ping to see where it's going inside of my Linux box? What will
temporarily running the firewall do without ipchains?
-Mike
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Doug O'Leary)
Subject: ? re compiling dhcpcd 1.3
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1999 20:00:05 -0500
Hi;
I recently downloaded dhcpcd ver 1.3. While going through the README, I
noticed a line that said make sure your kernel is compiled with
SOCK_PACKET.
So, I went through the config on my kernel; however, I couldn't find
anything that specifically said SOCK_PACKET. Once the config was done, I
did a grep -i sock_packet on all the files and it was defined (can't
remember the filename at the moment - however, #define SOCK_PACKET 10 was
there), so I'm assuming that it's in the kernel.
Can someone tell me which networking option specifically addresses the
SOCK_PACKET? I'd like to make absolutely sure it's in there. The end
result of this, I hope, is a functioning MediaOne cablemodem.
Thanks for your time.
Doug
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Senior System Admin
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From: "Chad Mulligan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.security.firewalls
Subject: Re: My Dissapointment to find Linux not a viable solution
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1999 18:23:36 -0700
root wrote in message ...
> I don't think ANY of the Internet Virus Scanners were able to
>prevent the recent mayhem via WINDOZE macros, mailers, etc. The
>problem is that the virus/whatever can spread much faster than
>the companies can detect, analyse, destroy, and then distribute
>solutions for their scanning products.
>
That's not entirely accurate, Mcaffee had a fix for explorer.worm before it actually
reached the US. Their download and mail scans are quite effectiv too.
> Although such products have limited value in the sense
>that they will detect and deal with the use of "old" viruses,
>and possibly stop a casual breach of policy, they are not much
>use at all.
>
Mcafee updates weekly on a minimum and my systems check for new updates daily,
automatically.
> Better is a simple security policy on how to deal with
>email attachments (or how to deal with email at all). Such a
>policy has prevented my own networks from being destroyed,
>partly because of how email is handled, and partly from the
>fact that our people are knowledgeable about how to deal
>with unexpected email attachments. We were able to detect and
>deal with recent epidemics without the need for network virus
>scanners.
>
Ours worked as well too, our online scanners only received one or two instances, but I
won't drop them because they weren't needed then, they do catch other things as well.
I posted an article about Melissa crediting all the Email administrators for the minor
impact that particular virus had. Only 50,000 instances in a user base of many
millions isn't an epidemic IMO. (see the ZDNET article)
>rats @ rat-hole . com
>(replies to the sending account get dropped at the firewall...)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Samba causing broadcast storms??
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 02:44:10 +0200
I heared once that Samba and NT will "fight" for the position of master
browser. If you set the Samba so that it try hard to become the master
browser then it probably will provok browser election very often.
Just a wide guess
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am running COL 2.2 on a switched lan as a test box. The lan is used
> by a large number of Netware and NT servers, with a few Unix boxes
> thrown in as well. It was installed right out of the box, a typical
> install, whatever that is. After about 2 weeks of no incidents, the
> infrastructure team was getting reports of dropped connections,
> inability to log in, etc. The term broadcast storm has been used a
> lot, although I am not entirly sure that everyone involved understands
> it meaning (not even sure that I do...) It was somehow traced back to
> my box and another similar box on the lan, both running COL 2.2.
>
> Is this typical behaviour for Samba? Or the linux box in general? I
> never left samba running for very long, once it showed up in network
> neighborhood in my 95 pcs, I shut if down until I could be sure of
> exactly what it was doing. What puzzles me is the service was shut down
> when these complaints came in; by shut down I mean running
>
> samba stop
>
> as root. Is Samba, or some component of it still running after this? I
> see messages of it being loaded at boot, but it doesnt appear on the
> lan until samba start is run. Again, all settings were at defaults,
> using a static IP address that was specifically assigned for this text
> box.
>
> Any info helpful,
>
> Tony
>
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From: Stephen Blair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: IPX Networking
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1999 22:05:38 -0400
Can anyone tell me where to get the latest ipx stuff. I've downloaded
ipxripd but unfortunately I'm
unable to compile it on my machine (RH6.0). Anyway, what I'm trying to
do is provide IPX to ppp clients and allow them to access the Novell
Server. Any ideas?
Thanx in advance for any advice and/or help
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From: "Jongwhan Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: notebook computer modem!
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 10:22:08 +0900
Hello I installed RedHat 6.0 hangul version.
I'm using a notebook computer.
My pcmcia modem is on COM2.
ln -sf /dev/ttyS1 /dev/modem
if then, can I use my modem?
I activated minicom (I want to use seyon, but in this version, I couldn't
find it. I've install this as custom)
No response.
Is the modem setting okay?
or
minicom problem?
I tried to check pcmcia modem installation, couldn't find any.
from Korea.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cory Blackburn)
Subject: Networking Problem
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 01:18:33 GMT
I have a slackware 4.0 machine as a firewall running ipforwarding and
ipmasquarading to two windows machines. Everything appears to be set
properly however my propblem is that the windows machines loose their
internet connection after 5 to 10 mins. Nobody seems to know why. The
linux machine never looses it's connection. The windows machine never
loose their connection to the linux machine. All machines can be
pinged and receive pings at any time. Just that after 5 to 10 mins of
ie: using irc on the windows machine... it goes down. Any suggestions
would be great tks !
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From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?R=FCtabega=AE?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,alt.linux
Subject: Are two PCI NIC cards possible?
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1999 21:36:53 -0400
Greetings. I am trying to install a second ethernet card in my RH6
system for masquerading. I have a 3Com card using the 3c59x module on
eth0 and have my ADSL modem plugged up to that..it works great. It is
sharing IRQ 9 with my SCSI card (advansys module) and everything is
working properly. But when I installed this Linksys Etherfast card
using the tulip module under eth1 and restarted kerneld, I got message
"Delaying initialization" for eth1. I then did a cat /proc/pci and it
turns out that this Linksys card is trying to use IRQ 9 also. All cards
in question are PCI and I know that the BIOS assigns IRQ for PCI cards.
Is there a way to change the IRQ for this card? I edited the
/etc/conf.modules file to set the linksys card using the tulip driver to
io=0x300 irq=10 but it didn't change anything. It seems that the module
can't change settings for PCI cards, is this right? What should I do?
Thanks. . .
--
"Imagination is more important than knowledge"
-Albert Einstein
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Luis Bou)
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: Mac and Linux on TCP/IP
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 03:49:37 +0200
James Campbell Andrew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> david <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > I have successfully connected my PowerPC to my Linux box through the
> > serial port using a null modem cable and a communication sofware called
[...]
> I have heard that I could set up a PPP connection.
> > Does someone know how to do this ? Are there resources on-line for this
>
> First the good news - it *can* be done (after all, that's effectivley
> what's happening when you connect to the Internet). Now the bad news - I
> can't off hand remember how. I believe you should read up on the Linux
You'll have to setup a ppp server and a ppp client. The only PPP server
for the MacOS I know of is the VicomSoft Internet Gateway, payware. So
probably you'll prefer the PPP-HOWTO and see to setup the Linux as PPP
server. As for the client, OT/PPP makes null-modem PPP connections a
snap: just select nullmodem in the popup menu for modem type. I know I
did it with FreePPP (or it was back at the MacPPP times?) by just
telling it to ignore dialtone and go online.
Good Luck
--
Greetings from Spain,
Luis Bou, lbou(at)atlas(dot)uvigo(dot)es
Header address faked to avoid spam
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From: "Jim Gamble" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Can't talk to modem with ppp (solved)
Date: 22 Jul 1999 01:55:10 GMT
For anyone following this thread:
The problem appears to have been an incorrectly configured IRQ on the modem
port. After running "setserial /dev/ttyS3 auto_irq autoconfig" the ppp and
chat scripts worked perfectly. (The "setserial" command did re-allocate
the IRQ line.)
Jim
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