The problems is with NT, U have to "add" a static route to remote classes !! NT only know local and default routes and others have to "add"ed in via the "route add ...." command line!! Good Luck! Alpha Brad Gibson wrote: > Hope someone has had this before: Have a head office with a > Livingston Portmaster 3 with NT servers and others. Remote branches > need v.90 modem dialup access, so I used Redhat 5.1 Kernel 2.0.35 to > act as a simple gateway/router. All TCP/IP connectivity seems fine, > can ftp, ping telnet at great speeds and efficiency. The problem is > however, when trying to access their files off an NT server from a > remote PC (either NT or 95/98) connected through the linux box, file > transfers are intermittent. For example, browsing the domain is no > problems... WINS is implemented and users have no trouble accessing > their folders. The problem occurs when certain files are > transferred. If the user tries to copy a particular file they get the > following NT/95 Error: Cannot copy xxxx: Error Performing Inpage > Operation I have found no similarities, eg, one file of 94k won't > copy, another of similar size will copy just fine. It definately > seems to not like certain files, and smallish files will copy OK. I > searched MS Technet to find a reason for this - the only thing it > could suggest was that the IP packets are being fragmented. I have a > standard MTU of 1500 around the ethernet, and as it happened 1500 > MTU/MRU for the ppp connection. I tried lowering it to 576 and even > 296 without much improvement (apart from an increase in performance > for web and telnet based apps) Any my question... am I looking in the > wrong area? I have spent days trying to resolve this one. I don't > really want to list all my config files here, suffice to say it's a > standard pppd dial script with a standard simple routing table. All > IP's are real internet addresses so theres no NAT issues to deal > with. If anyone can help I would be VERY greatful for their > assistance. Thanks in advanceBrad. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ppp" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
