Linux-Networking Digest #238, Volume #12 Sun, 15 Aug 99 20:13:33 EDT
Contents:
Re: Linux newbie vs. cable modem ("Steve Cowles")
samba confusion w. Win98 (Josh Flechtner)
Re: Samba & Win 9x clients: automatically mapping drives ("Mike Redrobe")
which how-to? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
PPP problem with 2.2 kernel ("Gray McCord")
Re: Linux as a file server (mike murray)
Re: Linux newbie vs. cable modem (Trancelucid)
Re: Newbie and Ethernet Card (Charles van Trappen)
Re: pppd -demand. Is it better than running diald? ("Mike Redrobe")
Re: samba confusion w. Win98 (Josh Flechtner)
Why use real IP's when I can use virtual? (Sleiman)
Re: modules???? (Marc Ohmann)
NE2000 NIC performance, 10bT, half dup (Tim Moore)
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From: "Steve Cowles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux newbie vs. cable modem
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 1999 22:48:42 GMT
This condition is caused by the Linux resolver trying to turn
www.netscape.com into an IP address.
Possible causes are:
1) You do not have your ISP's Nameserver addresses listed in
/etc/resolv.conf. Mine looks like this, NOTE: I run a caching only
nameserver, you don't have to run a caching only nameserver in order for the
linux resolver to work. But the order in which the nameserver entries are
listed determines how the resolver will try and resolve a FQDN (Fully
Qualified Domain Name) into an IP address.
<cut/paste from /etc/resolv.conf>
search mydomain.net
nameserver 192.168.9.17
nameserver xxx.xxx.2.1
nameserver xxx.xxx.2.2
2) If (1) above is setup properly, then your default route is probably not
set. When you type netstat -rn, do you have an entry similar to this (your
IP will be different than what is shown here, the xxx one)
0.0.0.0 xxx.xxx.96.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0
eth1
Steve Cowles
SWCowles at gte dot net
Trancelucid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi there,
> I'm quite new to Linux, and I can't get my cable modem to work. I have
> Red Hat 6.0.. it detected my ethernet card fine, I gave it the right
> ip's, but when I open Netscape and enter a url, it says "Connect:
> Contacting Host: www.netscape.com..." and then stays there idling.
>
> Another exemple is with ping, if I do "ping www.netscape.com", it just
> idles there w/o writing anything to the screen (not even an error
> message).
>
> I read Net3-Howto, but it did'nt help me much, since I bought Linux
> Unleashed, and it has almost the same info..
>
> Thanks,
> Jaune
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From: Josh Flechtner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: samba confusion w. Win98
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 1999 18:05:40 -0400
Greetings:
I've set up samba on a Linux server, a Dell 450 MHz box with RH 6.0.
'samba status' reports smbd and nmbd as working fine. The network is an
Ethernet (eth0, with eepro100 module). 'ifconfig eth0' reports a running
Ethernet.
However, when booting from a win98 machine I'm hitting a snag. An
error dialog appears reading something like "Unable to authenticate
password". Is this the encryption problem I've heard about ?
Where do I fix it, on the server or on the local Win box ?
I'm sure I'll have more problems to ask about. I'm completely new to
this, and I'm trying to set up a network for my company. Any advice on
setting up and testing samba will be hugely appreciated.
Josh Flechtner
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From: "Mike Redrobe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Samba & Win 9x clients: automatically mapping drives
Date: 15 Aug 99 19:35:26 +0000
On Thu, 13 May 1999 21:55:53 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lee
Allen) wrote:
>Under Samba, I (think) I have to "map a network drive" on the Win 9x
>client via point & click. If the client ever boots when the server is
>down (or not available), then the client will display a prompt, "Do
>you want to reconnect the next time you log in?" If the user says
>"No", the mapping is gone, and must be recreated manually.
I think this only happens if you have
Client for Microsoft Networks->properties->Logon and restore network connections
change that to quick-logon...
>How can we avoid this problem? Is there some script capability in Win
>9x that remap the drives for us?
type this into a file called mapdrives.bat:
net use n: //server/share
net use m: //server/anothershare
A better way would be to enable domain-logons in samba, then put a similar script
to the above in the netlogon share, so all terminals get the same shares.
--
Mike
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: which how-to?
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 1999 22:28:58 GMT
I am running SuSE 6.1 on box #1. I run win95 for
the kids on box #2. I only have www access on box
#1. Which how-to should I read for accessing the
internet from box #2 through box #1?
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Share what you know. Learn what you don't.
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From: "Gray McCord" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: PPP problem with 2.2 kernel
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 1999 17:56:55 -0500
I've been running a linux node successfully on various versions of the 2.0
kernel (currently 2.0.33) and decided to update it to 2.2.11. When I did
this , my automated ppp dialup has stopped working. I get a message is the
syslog stating something like "setserial/setrocket blah blah is deprecated
and then pppd exits. I also got a message indicating that using setserial
on /dev/cua0 is obsolete and needs to be changed to /dev/ttS0
Does anyone have any idea what this could be?
Thanks!
Gray
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From: mike murray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux as a file server
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 1999 18:02:34 -0500
"William B. Cattell" wrote:
> Steve Grant wrote:
> >
> > I am fairly new to Linux and I would eventually like to replace our Novell
> > file servers with Linux in a small office environment.
> > Is there a Windows 9x client available for this purpose? Something like
> > the Novell Client would be wonderful, or is it more complicated than a
> > simple client to access files on a Linux server from a windows network?
> > If you know of any freely available, I would like to get the URL so I
> > could give them a try at home.
> >
> > Any help would be appreciated.
> > Thanks
> >
> > Steve
> >
> > ------------------ Posted via CNET Linux Help ------------------
> > http://www.searchlinux.com
>
> Right off the bat I'd say you'd be spinning your wheels
> quite a bit. NetWare is good for basic file and print
> sharing. Linux can do it but you'd have a ton of stuff to
> do to get there. IMHO a switch like that would have a bad
> ROI. If you needed to put a web server online, a database
> server, etc. then Linux would definately give you a good
> ROI. FWIW.
>
> Bill
> (14 yrs w/NetWare, 5 yrs w/Linux)
> --
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> http://members.home.com/wcattell
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> Park not thy Harley in the darkness of thine garage, that it
> may collect dust for want of being oft ridden. Ride thy
> Harley
> with thy brethren, and rejoice in the spirit of the road.
> --------------------------------------------------------------
If you are running a non 2000 compliant Novell version (like I was), then the
investment in
Linux 6.0 Server running Samba is very small indeed compared to upgrading the
Novell.
I switched our Novell 3.12 for Redhat 6.0 server running Samba & was surprised
by the speed
increases..
Works great for our small office. Win 95 Win98 clients using tcp/ip & windows
client & windows
file & print sharing.
Wedo have the ocassional file get corrupted using a dos program. I haven't
figured out
the problem with the file locking thing yet.
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From: Trancelucid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux newbie vs. cable modem
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 1999 19:13:30 -0400
Someone emailed me saying most cable setups use DHCP.. and I had
installed Linux with "static IP address". So I reinstalled it, but now
it won't resolve anything at all.. In my /etc/resolv.conf, I have the
following:
----
search videotron.ca
----
which is my isp.. As for the nameservers, I don't know what to add...
Should I add the IP of videotron.ca, or my own IP? Also, concerning the
problem I have right now (unable to resolve hosts), will editing
/etc/resolv.conf fix this, or do I have to modify other files too?
Thanks,
Jaune
Steve Cowles wrote:
>
> This condition is caused by the Linux resolver trying to turn
> www.netscape.com into an IP address.
>
> Possible causes are:
> 1) You do not have your ISP's Nameserver addresses listed in
> /etc/resolv.conf. Mine looks like this, NOTE: I run a caching only
> nameserver, you don't have to run a caching only nameserver in order for the
> linux resolver to work. But the order in which the nameserver entries are
> listed determines how the resolver will try and resolve a FQDN (Fully
> Qualified Domain Name) into an IP address.
>
> <cut/paste from /etc/resolv.conf>
> search mydomain.net
> nameserver 192.168.9.17
> nameserver xxx.xxx.2.1
> nameserver xxx.xxx.2.2
>
> 2) If (1) above is setup properly, then your default route is probably not
> set. When you type netstat -rn, do you have an entry similar to this (your
> IP will be different than what is shown here, the xxx one)
> 0.0.0.0 xxx.xxx.96.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0
> eth1
>
> Steve Cowles
> SWCowles at gte dot net
>
> Trancelucid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > Hi there,
> > I'm quite new to Linux, and I can't get my cable modem to work. I have
> > Red Hat 6.0.. it detected my ethernet card fine, I gave it the right
> > ip's, but when I open Netscape and enter a url, it says "Connect:
> > Contacting Host: www.netscape.com..." and then stays there idling.
> >
> > Another exemple is with ping, if I do "ping www.netscape.com", it just
> > idles there w/o writing anything to the screen (not even an error
> > message).
> >
> > I read Net3-Howto, but it did'nt help me much, since I bought Linux
> > Unleashed, and it has almost the same info..
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Jaune
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From: Charles van Trappen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Newbie and Ethernet Card
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1999 01:03:41 +0200
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Joe
This could be any of the following causes I think:
- you misconfigured the IO, IRQ stuff for the card (check under Win98
which resources it is using - under Control Panel|System check "Network
adapters", select your NIC and click the properties button - check the
"Resources" tab, which gives you the IO range and IRQ);
- another ethernet module was loaded: check your /var/adm/messages file
for messages like
Aug 12 23:18:25 router kernel: eth0: 3c509 at 0x300 tag 1, BNC port,
address 00 60 8c 96 ea 78, IRQ 5.
Aug 12 23:18:25 router kernel: 3c509.c:1.16 2/3/98
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Aug 12 23:18:25 router kernel: eth0: Setting Rx mode to 1 addresses.
The main thing to look for is basically "eth0".
hope this helps!
cheers
Charles
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I'm trying to set a PC in my house up to act as a network server,
> running Slackware 4.0. I have a D-Link Ethernet card (530TX) which
> uses the rtl8139 chipset. I obtained the source code, compiled it
> according to the directions in the source, and tried to add the binary
>
> to the kernel as a module "insmod rtl8139.o". I get the error message
>
> that "the device or resource is busy". I did a "lsmod", and the
> module
> wasn't listed. Am I doing this incorrectly?
>
> Using Boot Magic, the machine dual boots to Win 98 and Linux. I have
> tested the card under Win98 (peer to peer gaming), and the card works
> flawlessly. The machine has a 4.3GB HD (2.5GB dedicated to Linux and
> its swap partition), 64 meg of RAM, a 24x cd-rom, an Ensoniq Audio PCI
>
> sound card (not active under Linux), and a 300MHZ AMD K-6 processor,
> running on an ASUS TX-97E motherboard.
>
> COuld someone please tell me what I'm doing wrong, or what I need to
> do
> differently?
>
> Peace,
> Joe
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Share what you know. Learn what you don't.
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Joe
<P>This could be any of the following causes I think:
<BR>- you misconfigured the IO, IRQ stuff for the card (check under Win98
which resources it is using - under Control Panel|System check "Network
adapters", select your NIC and click the properties button - check the
"Resources" tab, which gives you the IO range and IRQ);
<BR>- another ethernet module was loaded: check your /var/adm/messages
file for messages like
<P><FONT COLOR="#000066">Aug 12 23:18:25 router kernel: eth0: 3c509 at
0x300 tag 1, BNC port, address 00 60 8c 96 ea 78, IRQ 5.</FONT>
<BR><FONT COLOR="#000066">Aug 12 23:18:25 router kernel: 3c509.c:1.16 2/3/98
[EMAIL PROTECTED]</FONT>
<BR><FONT COLOR="#000066">Aug 12 23:18:25 router kernel: eth0: Setting
Rx mode to 1 addresses.</FONT>
<P>The main thing to look for is basically "eth0".
<P>hope this helps!
<P>cheers
<P>Charles
<BR>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
<BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE>I'm trying to set a PC in my house up to act as a
network server,
<BR>running Slackware 4.0. I have a D-Link Ethernet card (530TX)
which
<BR>uses the rtl8139 chipset. I obtained the source code, compiled
it
<BR>according to the directions in the source, and tried to add the binary
<BR>to the kernel as a module "insmod rtl8139.o". I get the error
message
<BR>that "the device or resource is busy". I did a "lsmod", and the
module
<BR>wasn't listed. Am I doing this incorrectly?
<P>Using Boot Magic, the machine dual boots to Win 98 and Linux.
I have
<BR>tested the card under Win98 (peer to peer gaming), and the card works
<BR>flawlessly. The machine has a 4.3GB HD (2.5GB dedicated to Linux
and
<BR>its swap partition), 64 meg of RAM, a 24x cd-rom, an Ensoniq Audio
PCI
<BR>sound card (not active under Linux), and a 300MHZ AMD K-6 processor,
<BR>running on an ASUS TX-97E motherboard.
<P>COuld someone please tell me what I'm doing wrong, or what I need to
do
<BR>differently?
<P>Peace,
<BR>Joe
<P>Sent via Deja.com <A HREF="http://www.deja.com/">http://www.deja.com/</A>
<BR>Share what you know. Learn what you don't.</BLOCKQUOTE>
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From: "Mike Redrobe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: pppd -demand. Is it better than running diald?
Date: 15 Aug 99 19:38:56 +0000
Andrew Taylor wrote in article
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,:
>I spent days trying with no success to get diald to work, the latest pppd
>with demand dialling took about 30 seconds to set up and works
>fantastically. It's only ever dialled up once when I didn't want it to and
>that was a dns problem. Try it, you might like it.
I use diald here, and for my clients... I haven't tried pppd demand,
it needs a newer kernel.
There doesn't seem to be an option in make menuconfig... is it something
not normally compiled in, or do I need to upgrade ? (RH 5.2)
--
Mike
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From: Josh Flechtner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: samba confusion w. Win98
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 1999 19:21:00 -0400
Josh Flechtner wrote:
> Greetings:
>
> I've set up samba on a Linux server, a Dell 450 MHz box with RH 6.0.
> 'samba status' reports smbd and nmbd as working fine. The network is an
> Ethernet (eth0, with eepro100 module). 'ifconfig eth0' reports a running
> Ethernet.
>
> However, when booting from a win98 machine I'm hitting a snag. An
> error dialog appears reading something like "Unable to authenticate
> password". Is this the encryption problem I've heard about ?
> Where do I fix it, on the server or on the local Win box ?
>
> I'm sure I'll have more problems to ask about. I'm completely new to
> this, and I'm trying to set up a network for my company. Any advice on
> setting up and testing samba will be hugely appreciated.
>
> Josh Flechtner
In regards to the error message I've been receiving it is: "No domain server
was available to validate your password. You may not be able to gain access
to some network resources"
I suspect that there is some sort of conflict between the Windows encryption
and Linux plain-text password acceptence. Should the regedit.exe be altered
or set the server to accept plain-text passwords? Thanks in advance.
J. Flechtner
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From: Sleiman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Why use real IP's when I can use virtual?
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1999 07:35:32 +0800
Hello,
This is the situation I am dealing with: an office already uses 16 real
IP's and there is a need for more IP's. We used a Linux box as a
gateway, kept the 16 IP's and used IP masqing to have more IP's. The
Linux box is connected to a 64K line, and the main use of the internet
in the office is for checking email and surfing the net. Total I would
say there are 25 users.
The question that I face is: now that IP masqing is really a cool idea
and it works, why not have all IP's virtual (except the gateway)? I
haven't tried it yet and I am asking for people's opinion. Is the
compromise in speed too big?
Thanks for the help
Sleiman
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From: Marc Ohmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.misc,alt.os.linux.slackware,alt.linux.slackware,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: modules????
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 1999 18:42:10 -0500
ok, I installed via-rhine as a module -- at least as far as I know how.
I ran "insmod via-rhine"
I added the line "alias eth0 via-rhine" to /et/conf.modules
I uncommented the line in /etc/rc.d/rc.modules for the via-rhine driver
I rebooted and dmesg still doesn't comment on eth0.
thanks again,
marc
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Date: Sun, 15 Aug 1999 16:31:20 -0700
From: Tim Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: NE2000 NIC performance, 10bT, half dup
Summary
=================================
cp, amd /net mount: 409 KB/s
dd w bs=8k, 8k mount: 757 KB/s
cp, 8k specific mount: 793 KB/s
ftp (BIN, /dev/null): 1152 KB/s
network: 10bT, half duplex, point-to-point crossover, 100' CAT-5.
performance related mount params:
noatime,rsize=8192,wsize=8192,udp,nfsvers=3
machine asus:
- Celeron 463MHz, 320MB
- Linux asus 2.0.37 #16 Thu Aug 5 00:08:07 PDT 1999 i686 (RH 5.2 +)
- am-utils-6.0a16-4
- nfs-server-clients-2.2beta44-1
- nfs-server-2.2beta44-1
- ne2k-pci.c:v0.99L 2/7/98 D. Becker/P. Gortmaker
- D-Link DE528 PCI
- RealTek RTL-8029 chipset
machine dell:
- DX4-100, 50MHz, 40MB
- Linux dell 2.0.34 #12 Sat Aug 14 21:50:40 PDT 1999 i486 (RH 5.0)
- amd-920824upl102-10
- nfs-server-clients-2.2beta29-5
- nfs-server-2.2beta29-5
- ne.c:v1.10 9/23/94 Donald Becker
- SVEC-1700 ISA
- RealTek RTL-8029AS chipset
generic amd mount: asus:(pid330) on /net type nfs
(intr,rw,port=1023,timeo=8,retrans=110,indirect,map=/etc/amd.conf,dev=00000002)
8k mount: dell:/ on /dell type nfs
(rw,nodev,noatime,rsize=8192,wsize=8192,udp,nfsvers=3,bg,hard,intr,addr=192.168.10.11)
cp: time cp -v <test file> /dev/null
dd: time dd if=<test file> of=/dev/null bs=8192
ftp: get <test file> /dev/null (ftp has internal time counter)
Each test was done on a separate copy of the same 7.4MB file (an old
4.04 netscape rpm) so as to avoid reading from buffer cache.
For cp and dd, cd to the mounted directory then perform copy operation.
For ftp, ftp to the mounted directory then perform get operation.
All test files were on dell, read from asus.
--
timothymoore "Everything is permitted. Nothing is forbidden."
bigfoot WS Burroughs.
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