On Sunday 12 August 2001 21:31, Michael Picco wrote:
> Having just switched a pair of boxes from Mandrake 7.1 to 8.0,
> I've had my run of problems getting things working again. The
> setup here consists of four machines: Win98, Win95 and two
> Mandrake 8.0. They are all connected via a four-port hub as a
> local LAN. One of the Mandrake boxes has a modem hanging off of
> a serial port, which I hope to set up as the gateway box. Each
> box has an assigned IP address of the order: 192.168.1.x
>
> One question that keeps nagging at me and impedes my
> understanding is: Will the box that is acting as a gateway have a
> specific "gateway" IP address in addition to the address I've
> already given it?
No, the IP u gave is fine. Also consider setting up SNF as your gateway, ie,
Mandrakes Single Network Firewall. Look for it on Madrakes Products web page.
Its a much securer option and it was made to fullfil that function.
>
> The Samba question is: In order for both Linux boxes to be seen
> by the Win9x boxes, my understanding is that both Linux boxes
> must be running Samba. IF this is correct, should one Samba box
> be set up as the 'Samba server' and the other be set up as the
> 'Samba client'?
No, both should be running Samba server.
Peace
Amien Salie
