Thanks Greg!
It did not work. Problem stills. I also believe that should be a DNS
problem. I will start the network configuration from the begining to be
shure that it will not work.
Bye
pedro
>From: "Greg Stewart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: [newbie] LAN + FTP: Troubles with Netscape and FTP
>Date: 25 Jul 2000 22:41:00 -0000
>
>I have seen the same problem occasionally... I think it may be a DNS
>problem. This is a possible solution (no guarantees):
>
>On the linux box, in /etc/hosts add the ip address and host name of your
>linux box, also add the host name and ip of your windows box.
>
>It could look somthing like this:
>
>
>192.168.0.2 localhost.localdomain localhost
>192.168.0.2 LinuxBox
>192.168.0.1 WindowsBox
>
>And, in linuxconf (can anyone tell I'm still stuck in Red Hat Land?)--in
>terminal, su to root, type linuxconf [enter]--click
>networking|host_name_search_path and make sure that hosts, DNS is selected.
>
>I'm not sure if this is the fix (when this happened to me, I was
>experimenting on a machine with an unsupported video card, and didn't care
>to fool around for very long with troubleshooting. I re-installed linux
>attempting to fix the video 'cause I trashed the system entirely, and the
>netscape thing worked without a problem)
>
>Hope that it helps!
>
>--Greg
>
> > Hi!
> >
> > I have a lan with:
> > 192.168.0.1 (PC with Windows 98 SE with a modem, with internet
>connection
> > sharing)
> > 192.168.0.2 (PC with Linux Mandrake 7.02, that have internet access
>through
> > the Windows PC).
> >
> > Problems:
> > When Win PC is disconnected from internet (dial-up modem), there are two
> > problems:
> >
> > 1. Netscape take a long time to open the mandrake local document (I have
> > changed to start with blank page, but it still open mandrake welcome
> > document)
> >
> > 2. I have wu-ftpd installed. Making FTP to localhost it take a long time
>to
> > login.
> >
> > When Win PC is connected to internet everything is fine.
> >
> >
> > See attached my configuration files
> >
> >
> > What is wrong in my configuration?
> >
> >
> > Thanks in advance
> > Pedro
>
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