Linux-Setup Digest #139, Volume #20 Fri, 1 Dec 00 02:13:09 EST
Contents:
Re: Ipmasq and firewall automatic setup (Mark Post)
Re: HELP: Dual OS: Win2000 and Redhat 7.0 (Robert Stratton)
Re: windows VFAT partitions too fat?! (Gill)
pppd/wvdial weirdness in Redhat 7.0 (Kevin Gallagher)
Re: DHCP/BootPC setup trouble ("Joel Ryan")
Re: Hint to restore Ibm Thinkpad after an unsuccessful installation (Ken Bergquist)
Re: Help on rescuing my linux os on my PC (Glitch)
Re: newbi -> samba (Glitch)
PCMCIA Card Installation ("Crymund")
Re: error message when powering down. (Glitch)
Re: Adding Win 98 to a linux machine. (Glitch)
Re: Network problems (Glitch)
Re: USB modem set-up? (Glitch)
rsync auth failed @ERROR ("tin")
rsync auth failed @ERROR ("tin")
Re: ATAPI Zip drive freezes installation ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: newbi -> samba (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren?= Neigaard)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Post)
Subject: Re: Ipmasq and firewall automatic setup
Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2000 04:11:11 GMT
On Thu, 30 Nov 2000 05:30:04 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Is there a shell script to setup
>Ipmasq and firewall automatically?
Not a shell script, but a web site.
http://linux-firewall-tools.com/linux/firewall/index.html
Mark Post
Postmodern Consulting
Information Technology and Systems Management Consulting
To send me email, replace 'nospam' with 'home'.
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From: Robert Stratton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HELP: Dual OS: Win2000 and Redhat 7.0
Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2000 04:11:53 GMT
Cheat,
Go pony up for a copy of System Commander Deluxe, I regullary load up DOS
into a 300 MB partition
NT4 or 2K into a 4 GB partition and linux into a 2 GB partition, and the
instructions on V-Communications
web site are straight forward
Robert
Palm Vx wrote:
> Hello all Linux Guru,
> I'm going to install Linux (Redhat 7.0) on my laptop (H-P OmniBook
> 6000), which currently has Win2000 on it. Here's what I'll be doing,
> please advice if there's something wrong with my procedure or there's
> something that I need to look out. Thanks in advance for al your help.
>
> 1. Repartition: 18GB hard drive by creating 13GB (NTFS) C: drive for
> Win2000
>
> 2. Install Win2000, make sure it boots up OK
>
> 3. Then install Redhat Lnux 7.0, by booting its CD, and setup on
> remainding 5.0GB with custom installaiton
>
> I did this twice, but the laptop boot-up goes direct into Window 2000.
> I would like to setup so I can see the selection menu in order to
> choose which OS I want to use.
>
> PLEASE HELP. THANK YOU ALL.
> -Vincent
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
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From: Gill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: windows VFAT partitions too fat?!
Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2000 06:17:48 +0200
Having looked some more at things, i now suspect the mixup is (partially?)
due to the fact that the two partitions are extended.
windows recognizes both d: and e:
but it reports them both to have exactly the same size (7+ GB) when in
fact d: is only 4G and only e: is 7G.
ive also tried playing with linux's mount -t vfat/auto/msdos and -o fat and
-o blocksize but to no avail.
any advice?
-Gill
On Fri, 1 Dec 2000, Gill wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I've just finished partitioning a new HD (qunatum fireball plusLM 20.5G)
>
> The disk was partitioned the following way:
>
> primary 1) /dos/c (2G)
> 2) / (3G)
> 3) linux swap (.5G)
> extended 4) 5) /home (3G)
> 6) /dos/d (4G)
> 7) /mp3 (7G)
> (dual boot windows-98 and red hat 7.0)
>
> all three win partitions (hda1,hda6,hda7) were defined as VFAT using fdisk
> and yet RH7.0 recognizes ONLY the first.
> about the other two it complains that "it's a wrong file system type,
> bad superblock, or too many file systems mounted".
>
> The latter two partitions were formatted from win.
> And obviously the kernel supports vfat (it knows /dos/c)
>
> What can it be then?
> partitions too big?
> location (extended/last)?
> wrong format from win?
> could they not be vfat after all?!
>
> any help would be appreciated:-(
>
> Cheers,
> -Gill
>
> If important the order of installation was:
> 1. partition + RH7.0 install.
> 2. Win98 install.
> 3. Rerun of linux lilo from boot floppy
> 4. format of d:\ and e:\ from win98
> 5. back to linux - hda6,hda7 (and 03:07) are not recognized.
>
>
>
>
>
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From: Kevin Gallagher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: pppd/wvdial weirdness in Redhat 7.0
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 22:46:40 -0600
In Redhat 6.2, I used netcfg to configure ppp0 to connect to my ISP. It
worked flawlessly.
In Redhat 7.0, I again used netcfg to configure ppp0 and then invoked
the script ifup with "ifup ppp0". This time, however, the modem does
not dial out. In fact, the modem isn't even accessed. I then read
every HOWTO document I could find on pppd, networking, dial-up
connections, etc., and tried all their troubleshooting suggestions to no
avail.
I have a standalone Intel Pentium II workstation with no network cards
installed, just a 56K modem.
Using ifconfig and route to troubleshoot what's happening, here's what I
found:
A. After booting the system but before invoking the ifup script, here's
what ifconfig and route show:
[/root]# ifconfig -a
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3924 Metric:1
RX packets:14 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:14 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
[/root]# route -n
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric
Ref Use Iface
127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0
0 0 lo
B. Here's how things look after entering "ifup ppp0" at a shell prompt:
[/root]# ifup ppp0
[/root]# ifconfig -a
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3924 Metric:1
RX packets:14 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:14 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
ppp0 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol
inet addr:10.64.64.64 P-t-P:10.112.112.112
Mask:255.255.255.255
UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST MTU:1500
Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:10
[/root]# route -n
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric
Ref Use Iface
10.112.112.112 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH 0
0 0 ppp0
127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0
0 0 lo
0.0.0.0 10.112.112.112 0.0.0.0 UG 0
0 0 ppp0
I haven't a clue where the Destination address of 10.112.112.112 comes
from and where the internet address of 10.64.64.64 comes from!
C. And here's how things look after entering "ifdown ppp0":
[/root]# ifdown ppp0
[/root]# ifconfig -a
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3924 Metric:1
RX packets:43 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:43 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
ppp0 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol
inet addr:10.64.64.64 P-t-P:10.112.112.112
Mask:255.255.255.255
POINTOPOINT NOARP MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:10
[/root]# route -n
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric
Ref Use Iface
127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0
0 0 lo
[/root]#
Does anyone have any clue what is going on here and how I can fix this
problem?
Kevin
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From: "Joel Ryan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: DHCP/BootPC setup trouble
Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2000 05:21:17 GMT
I'm not familiar with Debian but I believe the standard method to obtain a
DHCP lease is with your ifup scripts
In Redhat its under
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts
My file ifcfg-eth0 is a static ip:
DEVICE=eth0
ONBOOT=yes
BOOTPROTO=static
IPADDR=192.168.1.1
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
My file ifcfg-eth1 is a dynamic ip:
DEVICE=eth1
ONBOOT=yes
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
Like I said, I've never used Debian but I believe most linux dists are
somewhat standard for this. Your files might be located in a different
directory.
Check out the networking howto for much more information.
Someone please correct me if I'm wrong!
-- Joel
"jdunn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I have a debian 2.2 installation already working with
> static IPs . I need to move it to another
> site with another network which uses
> DHCP/BootPC to assign IPs.
> How do I get DHCP working and
> delete the static IPs ?
> The Linux-How-to page on DHCP is
> missing . I think DHCP needs to be in the
> inted.conf but beyond that what do I
> need to edit/change ???
> I'm not even sure it was installed - what .deb
> file is it in ?
>
>
>
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From: Ken Bergquist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Hint to restore Ibm Thinkpad after an unsuccessful installation
Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2000 05:13:07 GMT
They charged you money for this:
Boot from any win9x boot disk. At the a: prompt, do fdisk /mbr
This tells fdisk to erase the master boot record, and !voila! no more
LI(LO)
On Sun, 26 Nov 2000 06:57:54 -0500, "sherif kamel"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I tried to Install Turbo Linux Workstation V 6.0 on my IBM Thinkpad
>i 1250 laptop computer, after I found that I had to postpone the
>installation
>till I had more info about my new system. I decided to use the Restore disk
>that came with the computer since it is meant to restore the HD to the
>original
>condition the computer was when bought, however I encountered 2 problems
>The restore disk's software gave an error since there were linux partitions
>which i sloved by deleting such partions and making a windows 32 bit type
>partition. the restore disk worked fine but when prompted to retart the
>computer all I got was a blank screen with LI printed in the top left corner
>of the screen. Lilo kicked in and was stuck there. Since the Ibm think pad
>doesnt come with a floppy drive I found this solution
>
>Make a CD from a local computer store having the following :-
>
>Zap , a Dos program obtainable from
>www.storage.ibm.com/techsup/hddtech/welcome.html
>
>The second thing is to make the disk bootable , we did this buy copying an
>the image file and using windows 98 s Startup disk utility and when I put in
>the CD-Rom wish i called " Kill Linux " It worked fine and Zap had no
>problem getting rid of lilo 30 mins later i had the system restored and
>running windows 98 .
>
>The way we made it work was they charged 5 $ Canadian in addition to
>the cost of an empty CD-Rom wish is fine with me since now i can restore the
>system back to windows anytime I miss-install a different OS.
>
>I hope this will help anyone who had this problem.
>__________________________________________________________
>Note that the Win98 Startup disk makes a RAM Disk usually dirve "D" in wish
>the compressed files have to be opened in so they can be unzipped.
>I cant remember if it was a self extracting exe or a zip file. however if a
>zip
>file be sure to include the pkunzip utillity in the cd rom .
>____________________________________________________________
>
>Sherif Kamel
>
>
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Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2000 00:30:59 -0500
From: Glitch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Help on rescuing my linux os on my PC
NorbertSchmidt wrote:
>
> In the first place, try to press Strg-Alt-Del shortly after the X-Server
^^^^
what the hell is that? Ctrl-Alt-Backspace kills the X server.
> starts, this should kill the x-server and you should be able to switch
> to a normal Console.
> If everything fails, try to telnet your box from another machine if you
> have a network installed....
>
> good luck
> Norbert
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > If you have somehow gotten a CMOS password, you'll probably have
> > to short the CMOS Reset jumper momentarily (1/2 second should do) on
> > the motherboard. Check the motherboard manual to find out which
> > jumper it is. Then you'll have to reset your CMOS settings.
> >
> > Once you have the ability to boot from floppy, do that.
> > If your boot loader is LILO, you may be able to fix your problem
> > by passing an init level to the kernel that prevents trying to
> > go into X. On some distros, the init level for text mode is 3, on
> > some it is 2. Look at your documentation to see which it is.
> > If text mode is 2, try this at the lilo prompt
> >
> > BOOT> linux init 2
> >
> > This assumes that "BOOT>" is the boot prompt from LILO; that
> > the name of the kernel is "linux" and that run level 2 is the text
> > mode. From there, you can log on and fix "/etc/XF86Config" using the
> > program "XF86Setup". Another option on some distros is the program
> > "xf86config". Note that the case is different between the two
> > programs. I have always had better luck with "xf86config".
> >
> > In comp.os.linux.setup Jianxin Wang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Hi , I have Linux mandrak 7.0 installed on my PC. Yestoday, I
> > > accidentally changed the configuration file (XF86Setup), and afterward,
> > > I can not start the X server. The os constantly tries to start the
> > > server, and left the screen blank most of the time. Is there any fix for
> > > it? I guess that I may have to use the flopy boot disk to start the os
> > > or reinstall the os, but something suprizing happened after I tried to
> > > put the flopy into the drive: lilo ignores the flopy disk and still
> > > tries to start the os from the hard drive(I am sure the flopy drive is
> > > woring properly) ! I guess that I may need to change the CMOS settings,
> > > so I rebooted the machine and hitted the DEL key to invoke the CMOS
> > > setup, I got another surprise: I can not access the CMOS setup screen!
> > > the computer askes me to "Please enter current password:"!
> > > I have never setup any password using the option of the setup superuser
> > > password in the CMOS, I had no trouble before in accessing the CMOS
> > > setup. What had happed here? What should I do to enable the CMOS access
> > > and rescue my linux os? Please help!
> >
> > > JW
> >
> > --
> >
> > -- Gene Wiggins
> > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> --
> Norbert Schmidt
> Optische und elektronische Geraete Juelich
> Rheingasse 8-10
> 53113 Bonn
> Germany
>
> Tel: +49 228 9838625
> Fax: +49 228 631339
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Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2000 00:35:53 -0500
From: Glitch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: newbi -> samba
it depends if u want file access which is what samba will allow or
terminal access which telnet will allow (NT does provide a telnet daemon
right?)
S�ren Neigaard wrote:
>
> I need to access a Windoze NT Domain from my Linux workstation. What do I
> need to accomplis this? Do I need to setup a samba server, or can I do with
> less?
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From: "Crymund" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: PCMCIA Card Installation
Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2000 14:03:39 +0800
Dear all,
I have just setup a Linux RedHat 6.0 on a laptop. Everything is fine and I
am now able to get into the GNOME/KDE interface.
I would like to install the driver for a PCMCIA card. I slotted in a "Xircom
CreditCard Ethernet 10/100Ready", then I restarted the system. The card is
not detected, I supposed. I have no idea on how to install the driver for
any PCMCIA card. May I know:
1. How should I verify that the driver for PCMCIA controller has been
detected and installed correctly ? The laptop come with a Ricoh cardbus
controller.
2. How should I install the driver for any PCMCIA card that is slotted in ?
3. If everything is fine, can I have hot swap of PCMCIA card just like
Win98/2000 ? How should I stop the driver before the eject the card?
Any advice will be very much appreciated. Thank you.
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Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2000 01:15:40 -0500
From: Glitch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: error message when powering down.
Sounds like you got RAID support in your kernel and something is
happening with the md driver.
Recompile w/o RAID support and the md error should disappear.
Not sure why the first error is appearing.
quit crossposting as well
dana wrote:
>
> What does all this mean? aumix: error opening mixer[] sending all
> processes the kill signal.. md: recovery thread got woken up md recovery
> finished md recoveryd(6) flushing signals.
> What does all this mean? I am blind, and had to put all this on tape to
> type it, too much to remember. Please e-mail back, or post in the news
> group.
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Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2000 01:19:24 -0500
From: Glitch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Adding Win 98 to a linux machine.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I have redhat 6.2 running on my Inspiron Laptop.
>
> Due to the requirements of my current project(a driver
> is available only on Win 95/98), I have to install Windows 98
> on this machine.
>
> I don't want to lose my linux partition. Is there any *SAFE* method
yeah, backup your data and use any program you want to repartition your
drive. Create a small boot partition in teh beginning of the drive for
Linux, then create a partition for Windows and then create a 3rd for
Linux, and a 4th if u want a swap partition. Install 98 first and then
reinstall Linux.
Besides Partition Magic I dont think there is a program available that
allows resizing of partitions w/o losing data but some people still back
their data up b/c they don't want to take chances.
> to add windows 95/98 to a linux machine? I know partition magic. But, I
> am not sure whether it is a safe option though.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> deva
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
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Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2000 01:20:55 -0500
From: Glitch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Network problems
It may be that Linux doesn't know your default route, which would be the
IP of your router. U can use the 'route' command to set your def. route.
HTH
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I recently switched from DSL to Cable modem service and consequently
> tried to get the network up and running on my RH6.0 box. I thought
> it was going to be real easy since all I had to do was enable DHCP
> and things would work. But things did not turn out to be rosy.
>
> Here is what is happening. The DHCP client grabs an IP address and
> an ifconfig shows that I have the right IP address, netmask and the
> interface is UP. My routing table is correct. I dont have socks
> configured. I can ping my own IP address. I cannot see the IP world.
>
> My resolv.conf is fine. I cant even ping the router. I'm stumped.
> I have a Kingston Ethernet card which is based on the DEC21* chip and
> so use the tulip driver.
>
> I'm out of ideas can any of you please suggest more troubleshooting
> ideas ? Is there some utility to dump out ethernet frames and see
> what's happening ?
>
> thanX
> -Srikanth
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
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Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2000 01:23:35 -0500
From: Glitch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: USB modem set-up?
check Linuxdocs.org first to see if the USB modem is even supported. You
will also need USB support in your kernel. I doubt the USB modem is
supported but I could be wrong.
"Petrus..." wrote:
>
> 1) Is there somebody who can tell me how set up my Hamlet Silver Surfer USB
> Modem? Should I load some modules (which of all of that ones and how?)
> 2) Somebody can tell me why all Linuxes I install on my ASUS A7V M.board
> with AMD Duron 650 can well recognize my Creative SoundBlaster 128 (ES1371),
> but the kernel can't load the module telling that the device is busy??? (The
> card is good: on my Windows OS everything it's OK!)
>
> Thanx to everybody for your help!
>
> LINUX forever:::::))))
>
> Petrus....
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "tin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.security,comp.os.linux.setup.comp.os.linux.help,linux,linux.admin.isp
Subject: rsync auth failed @ERROR
Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2000 14:34:29 +0800
when i using auth i got this error message
Password:123456
@ERROR: auth failed on module test
i checked my password is not wrong.
did i missing somethings?
one more question how to type rsync client real time mirror to rsync server
in command line?
which options using? -?
i want when server deleted file then client side will automatically del ,
and when server create file then client side will automatically create that
file
thank you very much
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From: "tin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.admin.news,linux.redhat
Subject: rsync auth failed @ERROR
Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2000 14:36:23 +0800
when i using auth i got this error message
Password:123456
@ERROR: auth failed on module test
i checked my password is not wrong.
did i missing somethings?
one more question how to type rsync client real time mirror to rsync server
in command line?
which options using? -?
i want when server deleted file then client side will automatically del ,
and when server create file then client side will automatically create that
file
thank you very much
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: ATAPI Zip drive freezes installation
Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2000 06:25:10 GMT
In article
<UtET5.33$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Philip Zlotorynski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> My internal ATAPI Zip 100 drive appears to be
halting the installation of
> Mandrake Linux 7.2. It is the slave device on
the secondary IDE controller.
> It is recognized by the install routine as hdb,
and then an error appears
> that reads "hdb: lost interrupt" and it loops
that message over and over and
I have exactly the same problem, and I'm also
looking for the solution ...
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren?= Neigaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: newbi -> samba
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2000 08:05:55 +0100
I want file access... Do I need to set up a samba server, or can I just
mount the NT Domain some how?
> it depends if u want file access which is what samba will allow or
> terminal access which telnet will allow (NT does provide a telnet daemon
> right?)
>
>
> S�ren Neigaard wrote:
> >
> > I need to access a Windoze NT Domain from my Linux workstation. What do
> > I need to accomplis this? Do I need to setup a samba server, or can I do
> > with less?
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