Jon,
I'm curious,a nd will give you a hand if I can. It would really help to see a
couple of the log files. These can be found in /var/log, and the two that are
of most interest are "messages" and "dmesg". If they aren't huge maybe you can
attach them, or include them in the body of an email.
Noah
Quoting Jon Pamment <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Hi,
> This is going to be long, I'm just not sure what info to give so I'm
> going
> to put in as much as I can in case it "matters".
> I contracted a company (off the authorized partner list) to install
> e-smith
> 4.1 as the server in our office.
> The configuration is a new computer supplied by them for the server with
> 3
> windows98se workstations (existing) with VPN from 1 win98se and 1 win
> me
> home computers. The 3 win 98's had been working peer to peer for approx
> 12
> months without problem.
> The network is a 100 meg using cat5 with an 8 port hub and the server
> is
> connected to Telstra cable. The win98se remote is also on telstra and
> the
> Win ME on Optus@home.
> For the last week and a half we have had an inoperable computer
> network.
> The network runs for about 30 to 90 mins then goes down for between 4-7
> mins. By goes down I mean it shuts down everything. We lose our local
> network, no machine can see any other machine, no web browsing , no
> email.
> The win machines are set to browsemaster disabled.
> VPN is now off.
> BPA login has been installed as 1.3 (as recommended) using the e-smith
> rpm
> for set up.
> I have taken each of the win 98 machines off the network in turn, but
> the
> system still fails. I have also tried only leaving one connected at a
> time.
> Still fails. The only thing we haven't tried is nothing connected to
> the
> e-smith box and then check the logs latter (I'll try that tomorrow).
> It seems the installers have run out of things to try. I believe they
> have
> been discussing this with e-smith but the answer hasn't been found yet.
> I suggested to the installers that I ask here, in case anyone could come
> up
> with the golden answer and they agreed.
> I realize this is light on tech details but I'm a manager not a tech,
> that's
> why I contracted the install. If you need logs or anything else email me
> and
> I'll have them sent to you.
> If you got this far, thanks for taking the time. I'm not sure if this is
> the
> correct place to post this, apologies if it isn't.
>
> Jon Pamment
>
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