Linux-Networking Digest #176, Volume #12 Tue, 10 Aug 99 15:13:57 EDT
Contents:
Re: afpd crashes with RH 6.0 ("David Lefebvre")
Re: Feasibility for ip-masq Firewall for 100 users ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Dial In Config. (Clifford Kite)
Re: Linux and MS Proxy (DistressedCanadian)
Dialup, DNS and auto disconnect (Jon Dye)
CU wedged ?????? (M O'Neill)
Mail Server Help! (imcpy98)
Re: HELP with firewalls (thebrownhighlander)
Re: HOME NETWORK CONNECT TO INTERNET BY PPP NOT WORK !! ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: ethernet card problem! ("Srinivas Rao")
ne2000 problem (Kenneth Rush)
Re: IPChains Nightmare (Malware)
IPChains Nightmare ("Andrew Taylor")
Re: ethernet card address ("Rodney Hendricks")
Re: IPChains Nightmare (Juergen Pabel)
Re: Newbie quick question... (QuestionExchange)
Re: Mail Server Help! (QuestionExchange)
Re: Anyone whos successfully use (QuestionExchange)
Re: Newbie quick question... (QuestionExchange)
NIS login problem ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
To whom it may concern: I finaly got kppp working!!! (and I need help with
Netscape!) ("Jonathan Wilson")
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From: "David Lefebvre" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: afpd crashes with RH 6.0
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 11:16:53 -0400
Well, I solved the problem by installing netatalk-1_4b2+asun2_1_3-6_i386, a
version that works with libc6. The one I previously installed was
netatalk-1_4b2+asun2_1_0-5_i386, which works with libc5.
I still have to understand all that stuff with libc5 and libc6. I installed
my first Linux system in '95 and life was wonderful. 540MB of disk was
enough for all my needs. Now, with RH 6, this thing wants to look like
Windoze, disk space wise. And with all the tools and utilities that can be
added, it is starting to get pretty complicated. If it wasn't the case,
where would be the challenge?
Thanks for the suggestion.
David
Dan Stewart wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>I'd suggest heading over to one of the RPM repositories, and check to see
if
>there is a newer version of netatalk (I think there is, but I can't
remember
>the version I'm running). I had a bunch of problems with the original
Redhat
>version, and they went away once I installed the newest version of the
>software.
>
>Hope it helps...
>
>Dan.
>
>In article <7on8hk$afq$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "David Lefebvre"
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>I installed
>>ftp://contrib.redhat.com/libc6/i386/netatalk-1.4b2+asun2.1.0-5.i386.rpm
>>and set up very minimal configuration files. atalkd starts without
>>problems, but afpd keeps exiting out on me because of a segmentation
>>violation.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Feasibility for ip-masq Firewall for 100 users
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 17:21:50 GMT
Anything P-90 or higher (what I am using as a firewall for a T-1) will
definately work, and even a fast 486 should work OK. Just don't try to
run XWindows on it! And about 16M of memory should be plenty, also;
you'd still have memory/clock cycles left for a DNS server, Apache and
maybe even Sendmail.
Pat Finnegan
In article <7opan3$f64$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Ying Q. Li" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> hello, all, I have about 100 users who need internet access (mostly
web
> browsing), I am thinking of pulling in a SDSL, let say 768k/768k, and
setup
> a IP-Masquerade Firewall box used as gateway to the internet. Is this
a
> feasible thing to do? What is the feasible hareware requirement for
this
> Linux box. any suggestion is appreciated.
> Li
>
>
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From: Clifford Kite <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Dial In Config.
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 12:40:12 -0500
bobc wrote:
>
> Hi there and thanx in advance,
> can someone point me in the direction of info regarding seeting up my R.H.
> 6.0 to recive incoming calls ? I have not been able to find anything in the
http://www.swcp.com/~jgentry/dialin2.html
--
Clifford Kite Not a guru. (tm)
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: DistressedCanadian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,microsoft.public.backoffice.smallbiz
Subject: Re: Linux and MS Proxy
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 07:16:05 -0800
How do you run IPCHAINS?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jon Dye)
Crossposted-To: demon.tech.unix,demon.ip.support,unix,alt.os.linux.dialup
Subject: Dialup, DNS and auto disconnect
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 18:06:08 GMT
Hello
I am trying to set up a RedHat linux to act as our e-mail server at my
company. I have configured a ppp connection to our ISP, I have
configured sendmail. I have set the idle timeout on the pp connection
to 60seconds. The trouble is that each workstation connects to the
mail server once a minute. This appears to be causing the mail server
to do a DNS lookup on their IP addresses (or something). This causes
the server to send out DNS requests to my ISP's DNS servers which
keeps the ppp connection open. Is there a way to either stop the DNS
lookups or make pppd ignore them in the idle timeout? I can't set up
DNS or Hosts entries for all the clients because they use DHCP to get
their IP addresses from our NT server.
Any ideas?
Jon
BTW Linux box is running RedHat linux 6.0 if that helps
Jon Dye
jon(at)dyehard(dot)demon(dot)co(dot)uk
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From: M O'Neill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: CU wedged ??????
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 10:37:35 -0700
I recently installed RH5.2 on a 486/33 with a Intel 8/16 Lantasitic NIC.
Periodically the same message pops up. It doesn't seem to be tied to any
particular activity I'm doing. In fact it'll just pop up when I'm not
doing anything. The message is....
CU wedged, status 0240 0000, resetting....
Does anyone know what this means or what causes it? Thanks. -m
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From: imcpy98 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Mail Server Help!
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 23:04:26 +0800
Hi,
I am setting up a mail server on Linux, but I can't receive any mails
outside
the server itself.
I have now a IP address, says 10.0.0.1, and already have it mapped
to domain name, says, abc.com.hk.
I can send and receive mails which are being sent from the mail server.
But I can receive any mail which is sent from any other servers outside.
Something strange is even I can't receive any mails, no mails is returned
or no bounce back mail is got.
I wonder if I have missed anything, that's why I can't send mail to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
What's the incoming and outgoing mail servers should I input, if it
isn't abc.com.hk? What other things I have to ask the ISP to do for me?
I know that we have to do something to the MX record, should this be
done by us or the ISP?
Thanks a lot.
Vicki
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (thebrownhighlander)
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: HELP with firewalls
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 18:02:10 GMT
HI,
Thanks for your help.
The problem was within my network configuration for my win box.
Unfortunately I had misspelled the domain name for the dns lookups.
Everything else if fine and dandy!
In article <EIXr3.1143$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
says...
> @home handles hosts with just the hostname because they expect you to set
> your DNS domain to what they tell you (or they set it via DHCP). They have
> many sub-domains setup, one or more for each city you are in. Your mail and
> news servers are specific to your locale. You can usually fix this in
> either of two ways. First you can use the Fully Qualified Domain Name
> (FQDN) for these servers in the configuration of mail and news clients. You
> do this by putting the local domain after the server name. like
> news.dlls1.tx.home.com for a news server in Dallas TX, or
> mail.plano1.tx.home.com for a mail server in Plano TX. Your second option
> is to add the assigned domain from @home to your domain search list where
> you setup DNS. On your linux box this should be /etc/resolv.conf. It
> should look something like this:
>
>
> domain mydomain.com
> search mydomain.com MY_CITY1.MY_ST.HOME.COM
> nameserver 198.6.1.1
> nameserver 198.6.1.2
> nameserver 198.6.1.2
>
> for the nameserver lines, you should use those provided by @home, they will
> be faster. If you domain line matches the domain given to you by @home, you
> should not have this problem.
>
> I hope this helps. It works for me..
>
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: HOME NETWORK CONNECT TO INTERNET BY PPP NOT WORK !!
Date: 10 Aug 1999 14:13:40 -0400
You need to use IP masqurading, you need to install the rpm for
it, no recompile of the kernel should be necessary, its compiled
as a module. See ipfwadm man page after installation. Configuration
is relatively simple. I do the exact same myself...
I also run bind (local DNS, caches internet requests) and leafnode for
offline news.
Tom
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From: "Srinivas Rao" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ethernet card problem!
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 14:18:41 -0400
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I have succesfully and without a problem configured two linux boxes on
> my home LAN, but this third one has been a problem.
...
> Ping transmits but receives nothing. I also ran
> tcpdump on one of the other machines and it receives arp commands from
> this faulty machine and replies, but the faulty machine never reacts
Funny you should mention this; I was having exactly the same symptoms w/ my
ethernet card earlier (see my post "Problems with mini-LAN"). It turned out
that I had an IRQ conflict. You can check this by typing:
cat /proc/interrupts
The interrupt count listed for "eth0" or "eth1" should be going up if there
is net traffic. If it isn't, you've to have got an IRQ problem. A web site
that I found helpful is:
http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers
Hope this helps!
-Srini
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kenneth Rush)
Subject: ne2000 problem
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 08:48:08 -0800
I have a NE2000 card running Red Hat 6.0 it works fine.
Try changing the card to a different IRQ and I/O adress.
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From: Malware <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: IPChains Nightmare
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 20:25:32 +0200
Hi Andrew,
you wrote:
> I want to let local machines do what they want and I want to only allow tcp
> connections from my isp's mail servers. As far as I can see I need the
> following
>
> ipchains -P input DENY
> ipchains -A input -s 192.168.1.0/24 -j ACCEPT
There is not named where those pakets are allowed to come in from.
Packets coming from the outside with such an source address are surely
not what you want on your network. Add "-i <interface>" there.
> ipchains -A input -s mail1.demon.net -d 192.168.1.1 -p tcp -j ACCEPT
> ipchains -A input -s mail2.demon.net -d 192.168.1.1 -p tcp -j ACCEPT
Those packets surely are not destinated to one of your private IP
numbers but to the public IP number you get assigned by PPP, DHCP or the
like.
Furthermore these input rules want let any real traffic be happend since
you do not allow answer packets to get in. One reason for this error
might be you did not understand when filtering does happen.
# edit this to fit into your setup
INTERNALIF=eth1
EXTERNALIF=eth0
# by default permit nothing
ipchains -P input DENY
# let packets in that are coming from the internal network
ipchains -A input -j ACCEPT -s 192.168.1.0/24 -i $INTERNALIF
# Let in most packets from the world but not those activly creating a
connection.
# This method is really not perfect in protecting you.
ipchains -A input -j ACCEPT -p ICMP -s ! 192.168.1.0/24 -i $EXTERNALIF
ipchains -A input -j ACCEPT -p UDP -s ! 192.168.1.0/24 -i $EXTERNALIF
ipchains -A input -j ACCEPT -p TCP -s ! 192.168.1.0/24 ! -y -i
$EXTERNALIF
# Now allow the mail-servers to make connections.
# The 0/0 does not really care since you have only one public address
and usally
# trust into your provider not spoofing your internal addresses.
ipchains -A input -j ACCEPT -p TCP -s mail1.demon.net -d 0/0 25 -i
$EXTERNALIF
ipchains -A input -j ACCEPT -p TCP -s mail2.demon.net -d 0/0 25 -i
$EXTERNALIF
> ipchains -P output ACCEPT
> ipchains -A output -s 192.168.1.2 -j ACCEPT
You allow your gateway to use the address 192.168.1.2 as source address
but it does not own it. Whith a default policy of accept you can let it
out et all.
> ipchains -p forward MASQ
> ipchains -A forward -s 192.168.1.2 -j MASQ
This is not false. But does open a big hole. Do you really want
everybody being able to masquerade behind your machine? Change the
default rule to DENY and it does look better.
Malware
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From: "Andrew Taylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: IPChains Nightmare
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 18:52:17 +0100
Hi,
Ok, the first thing to do is to admit I'm an IP-Chains virgin. I've
hopelessly bodged together my firewall and it basically allows me to connect
from my machine 192.168.1.2 to my server 192.168.1.1 and use it as a gateway
to my ppp link. Now I've spent today at work reading the how-to and I must
admit it makes a lot of sense. I've created my rules which in theory are
great, however, in practice they don't work. Is there anywhere I can go to
get some more examples.
I want to let local machines do what they want and I want to only allow tcp
connections from my isp's mail servers. As far as I can see I need the
following
ipchains -P input DENY
ipchains -A input -s 192.168.1.0/24 -j ACCEPT
ipchains -A input -s mail1.demon.net -d 192.168.1.1 -p tcp -j ACCEPT
ipchains -A input -s mail2.demon.net -d 192.168.1.1 -p tcp -j ACCEPT
ipchains -P output ACCEPT
ipchains -A output -s 192.168.1.2 -j ACCEPT
ipchains -p forward MASQ
ipchains -A forward -s 192.168.1.2 -j MASQ
Any comments ?
Andy
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From: "Rodney Hendricks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.unix.programmer
Subject: Re: ethernet card address
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 02:12:55 +0800
Yep. Run ifconfig - normally resides in /sbin
in your eth0 entry you'll have HWaddr which is you ethernet address.
ROd.
Andre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi everybody,
>
> is there an easy way to get the ethernet card address of a computer?
> I'm on LINUX and UNIX systems using gcc.
>
> Thanks a lot
> Andre
>
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From: Juergen Pabel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: IPChains Nightmare
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 14:39:21 -0400
ipchains -P input DENY
ipchains -A input -s 192.168.1.0/24 -j ACCEPT
ipchains -A input -s mail1.demon.net -d 192.168.1.1 -p tcp -j ACCEPT
ipchains -A input -s mail2.demon.net -d 192.168.1.1 -p tcp -j ACCEPT
ipchains -P output ACCEPT
ipchains -p forward DENY
ipchains -A forward -s 192.168.1.0/24 -j MASQ # the /24 just in case you
want to expand
i think this should do...since you seem to be worried about security i'd
read articles about ipspoofing and stuff...and since you only want tcp
connects from those mail hosts, why don't you configure your hosts.allow
and hosts.deny files?
jp
Andrew Taylor wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Ok, the first thing to do is to admit I'm an IP-Chains virgin. I've
> hopelessly bodged together my firewall and it basically allows me to connect
> from my machine 192.168.1.2 to my server 192.168.1.1 and use it as a gateway
> to my ppp link. Now I've spent today at work reading the how-to and I must
> admit it makes a lot of sense. I've created my rules which in theory are
> great, however, in practice they don't work. Is there anywhere I can go to
> get some more examples.
>
> I want to let local machines do what they want and I want to only allow tcp
> connections from my isp's mail servers. As far as I can see I need the
> following
>
> ipchains -P input DENY
> ipchains -A input -s 192.168.1.0/24 -j ACCEPT
> ipchains -A input -s mail1.demon.net -d 192.168.1.1 -p tcp -j ACCEPT
> ipchains -A input -s mail2.demon.net -d 192.168.1.1 -p tcp -j ACCEPT
> ipchains -P output ACCEPT
> ipchains -A output -s 192.168.1.2 -j ACCEPT
> ipchains -p forward MASQ
> ipchains -A forward -s 192.168.1.2 -j MASQ
>
> Any comments ?
>
> Andy
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From: QuestionExchange <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Newbie quick question...
Date: 10 Aug 1999 19:1:5 GMT
> Hello everyone, I'm relatively new to Linux and I was
> hoping to setup a small network between two PCs, a Win98
> machine and my Linux box. I've gone through the net-3 howto,
> ethernet how-to, and the samba-howto... but do I really need a
> domain name since this is just a local lan? or gateway's, and
> dns's, etc etc... I guess what I'm asking is what are the bare
> bone steps to setting up a small lan with file sharing
> capabilities? I've already done the following (1) get network
> cards detected properly by both PC's... (2) I can ping the
> Linux box and I can ping the win98 box but I'm kinda lost from
> here... do I need to setup the routing table for just simple
> networking? is there any more configuration that needs to be
> done before I setup samba? agh... soo much to learn... Ken.
You probably should use a domain name, but it doesnt need to be
legit (Mine is House, and the computers are like Celery.house)
As for samba, configure the Computer name, workgroup (should
match the win 98 machine) and the shares you want. There are
example conf's in /usr/docs/samba-[Version]/samples That
should do filesharing for windows (SMBCLient is the linux end,
though smbmount might be better)
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From: QuestionExchange <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Mail Server Help!
Date: 10 Aug 1999 19:1:19 GMT
> Hi, I am setting up a mail server on Linux, but I can't
> receive any mails outside the server itself. I have now a IP
> address, says 10.0.0.1, and already have it mapped to domain
> name, says, abc.com.hk. I can send and receive mails which are
> being sent from the mail server. But I can receive any mail
> which is sent from any other servers outside. Something strange
> is even I can't receive any mails, no mails is returned or no
> bounce back mail is got. I wonder if I have missed anything,
> that's why I can't send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] What's the
> incoming and outgoing mail servers should I input, if it isn't
> abc.com.hk? What other things I have to ask the ISP to do for
> me? I know that we have to do something to the MX record,
> should this be done by us or the ISP? Thanks a lot. Vicki
Where ever your DNS server is, it is not listing your Mail
server in the MX records. If its a legit domain, you need to
talk to the top level domain servers (The biggest DNS under
your control ;-) ) So if the mailserver is mail.abc.com.hk,
you need to talk to the ABC.com.hk domain, and if abc.com.hk is
the mailserver, you need to talk to the com.hk, unless your
using the same named mailserver (I.e. your serving abc.com.hk,
and your mailserver is abc.com.hk) in which case, you need to
talk to abc.com.hk's DNS
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From: QuestionExchange <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Anyone whos successfully use
Date: 10 Aug 1999 19:1:31 GMT
> I've posted various forms of this question on 5 groups, but no
> one has answered yet. I need someone to help me get Linux-
> Mandrake running KDE or GNOME on the Internet. They say L-M is
> very much like RH so please don't think you can't help just
> because you don't run Mandrake! (this is copied from
> comp.os.linux.networking) Hi, I need some assistance with
> kppp. I set my connections up using linuxconf. Kppp will dial
> the modem (Creative Labs Modem Blaster) and start to log in,
> but in the end it reports: "Error Timeout expired while
> waiting for the PPP interface to come up!" Additionally, I
> think it's a problem with kppp (I'm not sure though), because
> when I use the connect in linuxconf it doesn't complain. But I
> don't know how to test that to make sure (I've only had it
> installed for 3 days) I'm using Linux-Mandrake 6.0 I don't
> have to use kppp, but what else am I going to do? I tried using
> minicom, and I think it worked, but I couldn't get Netscape or
> any thing else to work. I'm also having trouble with floppies.
> When I try to mount one (or do anything with it, for that
> matter) I get the message "Error: you must specify a filesystem
> type" but Linux mandrake comes with controls that are supposed
> to auto mount and auto detect the filesystem type. If there's
> any one who has successfully used Linux-Mandrake or Red Hat (or
> just KDE or GNOME) to connect to the Internet and other basic
> things (mounting floppies, CD, zip drives, setting up Ethernet
> (Samba), adding and removing programs), that would be willing
> to correspond with me, I'd REALLY appreciate it. Thank in
> advance. JW [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Your PPP setup sounds correct. One tricky thing might be that
your ISP uses passive mode instead of active which I think pppd
uses by default. I'm not big on Kppp and don't have access to
it from here but I do think I remember somewhere in the
configure menus there to be a check box for setting passive
mode. Do you know if your Internet link is live when you
connect with linuxconf? You can test it by connecting with
Linuxconf, switching to another console (Alt+F1 through F6) or
open a new xterminal and try to ping a host on the internet
(ping www.yahoo.com). The problems with your floppy and CD-
ROM drive probably comes from the settings for your filesystems
for these devices (defined in the file /etc/fstab). Go into
Linuxconf under Config -> Files Systems -> Access local drive.
Your /dev/fd0 and /dev/cdrom should be in there. Press enter to
modify their specifications. You want to make sure both are
"User mountable" (so that any user on the system can read the
floppy, this could be a security problem if a lot of people are
actually sitting down to use your system, such as in a lab or
something but a most of the time it is probably fine). Also
make sure the 'Type' is defined correctly. The floppy should
probably be ext2 and the cdrom should be iso9660 Hope this
helps, Jesse
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From: QuestionExchange <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Newbie quick question...
Date: 10 Aug 1999 19:3:35 GMT
> Hello everyone, I'm relatively new to Linux and I was
> hoping to setup a small network between two PCs, a Win98
> machine and my Linux box. I've gone through the net-3 howto,
> ethernet how-to, and the samba-howto... but do I really need a
> domain name since this is just a local lan? or gateway's, and
> dns's, etc etc... I guess what I'm asking is what are the bare
> bone steps to setting up a small lan with file sharing
> capabilities? I've already done the following (1) get network
> cards detected properly by both PC's... (2) I can ping the
> Linux box and I can ping the win98 box but I'm kinda lost from
> here... do I need to setup the routing table for just simple
> networking? is there any more configuration that needs to be
> done before I setup samba? agh... soo much to learn... Ken.
You probably should use a domain name, but it doesnt need to be
legit (Mine is House, and the computers are like Celery.house)
As for samba, configure the Computer name, workgroup (should
match the win 98 machine) and the shares you want. There are
example conf's in /usr/docs/samba-[Version]/samples That
should do filesharing for windows (SMBCLient is the linux end,
though smbmount might be better)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: NIS login problem
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 18:21:56 GMT
Hi,
I am trying to setup a NIS server and client. Somehow, I can never
login on the client side. I can do a 'ypwhich' and 'ypcat
passwd.byname' on the client and the server and NIS accounts seem fine.
I also editted the nsswitch.conf file to make sure things are good.
There was a netgroup problem when I initialized the server. Could this
be the problem?
Thanx
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From: "Jonathan Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: To whom it may concern: I finaly got kppp working!!! (and I need help with
Netscape!)
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 18:14:46 GMT
I'm using Linux-Mandrake 6.0, KDE and a Creative Labs Modem Blaster modem.
Kppp would start to dial up, then I'd get a message saying the time out
expired while waiting for the ppp interface to come up. I finally e-mailed
the one of the kppp authors and told me to:
a) change the Line Termination setting from CR/LF to CR
b) change the speed of the serial port. The higher the better. The most
important part is to change it at all (that's a bug)
I did that, and it successfully connected! However, I can't get any browsers
(Netscape) or mail programs (Kmail) to work.
Any tips would be appreciated.
Since I can't get Netscape or Kmail to work, I'm not sure kppp is really
working. Does any one know of a command or something to test it out? Would
anyone care to give me some advice on Netscape or K-mail? I don't have to
use kppp, I any one has a better idea. I tried minicom, it seemed to
connect, but my browsers and mail programs, didn't work on that, either.
BTW, my ISP is flashnet. Are their any other Linuxers who use flashnet
(Dallas, TX)?
I would like to correspond with other Linux-Mandrake or Red Hat 6 or KDE
users.
Hoping to use Linux for real, not just as an excuse to read newsgroups on my
windoze machine:-),
JW
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