[SLUG] Linux as server in Mac environment
Hi, My Dad is running a network of three Mac LC II's on Mac OS 7.5/7.6, one machine acting mainly as file server, two as work stations. He's happy enough with this setup, but would like to have dialup access to this network to do work from home. I'm thinking that a nice solution, and a general cleanup of his network, would be to stick in a Linux box as a file/print/dial up to net/general purpose server, with two Macs acting as workstations, one removed from the current network and brought home for me to play with. ;-) I've got a 486 box spare that I think should be able to manage this. Does anybody have any thoughts on this? Basically the setup I'm thinking of would be the 486 running Linux as a general purpose server, with two Mac LC II's talking to it, the 486 connected to a modem, using diald whenever they wanted to access the net, but also allowing a dial in connection from a Mac LC II at home, if possible as if it was acessing the network locally. Also the need to access a HP printer, which I'm not sure about, but is apparently currently running as a Mac laser printer. Anyone have any thoughts on the possibility/impossibility of this? Or where I could get more info about how best to set this up? I've looked around Apples site, but they don't seem to support anything below OS 8, and all the Linux sites I've found seem to say it should work, but don't tell me how to do it. Thanks for any clues. Tom -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] SLUG Faq-o-matic
Another solution might be to use a WIKI web... someone on SLUG mentioned it a fair while back and I installed it. Here's mine, have a play, edit some stuff under the Linux or Electronics areas. I warn people though, the server doesen't operate 24 hours a day as the power supply fan is too noisy for me to sleep with. http://zzz.penguinpowered.com/wiki/html/GRiPZ/ -- Grant Parnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Ph: 02-8701-4564 Mob: 0408-686-201 Web: http://linuxfreak.com/~gripz No Microsoft products were used in the production of this message. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Re: mount floppy prob
On Mon, Jul 24, 2000 at 11:38:27AM +1000, Dave Fitch wrote: Steve Kowalik [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, 21 Jul 2000, Shera wrote: fstab /dev/fd0/mnt/floppyext2noauto, owner0 0 can you put "auto" instead of ext2 and it works it out? not sure. yes, "auto" tries any filesystems listed in /etc/filesystems, then whatever else the kernel knows about. since i tend to have everything other than ext2 as a module (and thus, the kernel doesn't necessarily "know" about them), i list vfat, ext2, minix, msdos in /etc/filesystems. I also add "user" to the options to allow non-root users to mount floppies also very useful. another one i saw someone use recently for floppies was "sync", just in case someone gets trigger happy with the eject button. 2. mount floppy won't work, you need to specify a directory to mount, so "mount /mnt/floppy' will do it which I find annoying (and more typing) so I create /cdrom and /floppy (or /cd and /fd) and edit the fstab appropriately. just for interests sake, debian defaults to using /floppy and /cdrom and these /etc/fstab lines: /dev/fd0 /floppy autodefaults,noauto,user 0 2 /dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 defaults,noauto,user,ro 0 0 -- - Gus -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Against intellectual property
A paper "Against intellectual property" by Wollongong activist and academic Brian Martin is now online, at http://danny.oz.au/free-software/advocacy/against_IP.html Danny. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
RE: [SLUG] Linux as server in Mac environment
O... the goold old days of NRMA IT. This is from memory and I may be wrong but your Macs may have to get changed to IP rather than Appletalk. I think these days you can get Appletalk over IP but that may require OS8 or OS8.5 not sure. My first attempt would be to get the linux box to file/print share and talk to the other macs first and then attempt the PPP connections next. If you have a linux box at home and at work, then you may have a better chance on getting it working.. -Original Message- From: Tom Massey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, July 24, 2000 9:42 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SLUG] Linux as server in Mac environment Hi, My Dad is running a network of three Mac LC II's on Mac OS 7.5/7.6, one machine acting mainly as file server, two as work stations. He's happy enough with this setup, but would like to have dialup access to this network to do work from home. I'm thinking that a nice solution, and a general cleanup of his network, would be to stick in a Linux box as a file/print/dial up to net/general purpose server, with two Macs acting as workstations, one removed from the current network and brought home for me to play with. ;-) I've got a 486 box spare that I think should be able to manage this. Does anybody have any thoughts on this? Basically the setup I'm thinking of would be the 486 running Linux as a general purpose server, with two Mac LC II's talking to it, the 486 connected to a modem, using diald whenever they wanted to access the net, but also allowing a dial in connection from a Mac LC II at home, if possible as if it was acessing the network locally. Also the need to access a HP printer, which I'm not sure about, but is apparently currently running as a Mac laser printer. Anyone have any thoughts on the possibility/impossibility of this? Or where I could get more info about how best to set this up? I've looked around Apples site, but they don't seem to support anything below OS 8, and all the Linux sites I've found seem to say it should work, but don't tell me how to do it. Thanks for any clues. Tom -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] NT style Guest account in Samba.
Hi, I have a domain with 1 Samba server authenticating users. 1 NT server serving files via the enabled guest account. Now I want to add another Samba server offering a printer share. What would be the most basic smb.conf to create a totally open-to-anyone print server? Is there a NT style guest account in Samba? Bernhard -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] WAP browser?
Dear all, Is there any WAP browser for *nix? Text base, for X, whatever... Thanks. Pigeon. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] WAP browser? (And more)
Is there any WAP browser for *nix? Text base, for X, whatever... Geez maybe I should ask in the first e-mail as well, sorry about that. :P What about WAP development apps? Including wbmp converting apps, wml compiler, etc? Thanks again. :) Pigeon. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] WAP browser?
Hi Pigeon! On Tue, 25 Jul 2000, Pigeon wrote: Dear all, Is there any WAP browser for *nix? Text base, for X, whatever... Thanks. Probably not much help, but could be a lead. There is WAP browsers for palm and there is palm emulators for X so this might be the way to go. Also if you are developing WAP pages it might be better seeing them on the reduced interface given by the palm. The palm emulator you can find at palm.com and the WAP broswer I think i found at IBM somewhere. Cheers, Benno -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
RE: [SLUG] Linux as server in Mac environment
Tom, The Linux box will act just fine as a PPP dialup machine. Configured with ipchains to do NAT, and preferably a caching DNS server and DHCP daemon you should be able to browse the web quite happily from the Macs (assuming you get IP over Ethernet going on MacOS 7.x). You could also run Squid or Apache as a web cache... You'll find a little more difficulty getting the Appletalk file and print stuff going but it isn't too hard, and fortunately is an independant problem of the internet connection. Look for the netatalk downloads and HOWTOs which are around the place and you shouldn't have too much of a problem. You may want to keep the Mac around as a server until you have that working flawlessly. Regards, John Wiltshire -Original Message- From: Tom Massey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, 24 July 2000 9:42 pm To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SLUG] Linux as server in Mac environment Hi, My Dad is running a network of three Mac LC II's on Mac OS 7.5/7.6, one machine acting mainly as file server, two as work stations. He's happy enough with this setup, but would like to have dialup access to this network to do work from home. I'm thinking that a nice solution, and a general cleanup of his network, would be to stick in a Linux box as a file/print/dial up to net/general purpose server, with two Macs acting as workstations, one removed from the current network and brought home for me to play with. ;-) I've got a 486 box spare that I think should be able to manage this. Does anybody have any thoughts on this? Basically the setup I'm thinking of would be the 486 running Linux as a general purpose server, with two Mac LC II's talking to it, the 486 connected to a modem, using diald whenever they wanted to access the net, but also allowing a dial in connection from a Mac LC II at home, if possible as if it was acessing the network locally. Also the need to access a HP printer, which I'm not sure about, but is apparently currently running as a Mac laser printer. Anyone have any thoughts on the possibility/impossibility of this? Or where I could get more info about how best to set this up? I've looked around Apples site, but they don't seem to support anything below OS 8, and all the Linux sites I've found seem to say it should work, but don't tell me how to do it. Thanks for any clues. Tom -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
