I have been working on setting up IP MASQ on my home network (using
RH6 as server with dial up modem connection and Win98 on another
computer as a client) and making some changes to services the Linux
box runs with security concerns in mind as recommended by Robert
Ziegler's Linux Firewall and Security site at
http://rlz.ne.mediaone.net/linux/
and in doing that removed some services using ksysv.
The ones I removed were amongst this list: amd, autofs, gated, nfs,
nfsfs, routed, snmpd and ypbind. I don't have much of a handle on
what these various services do but taking them away hasn't seemed to
create any problems (except the one described below). I am still
able to
run KDE without a problem.
But when I am using Midnight Commander in text mode, every once in a
while
the usual screen will be replaced by a stream of error messages that
seem
to be coming from queries that the Win98 machine sends to the Samba
server
I run on the Linux machine. The messages are not formatted properly
but
complain of the lack of a WINS server. When I get these messages, if
I
type the clear command, I get my MC screen back and can carry on.
I suppose this is an elementary problem but since I am at a less than
elementary skill level with networking and Linux, I don't know where
to
look to solve it. I don't know whether one of the services needs to
go
back in or whether I have to reconfigure some network or Samba
configuration files to deal with the problem.
Any suggestions?
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Ken Walker mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.island.net/~kwalker/
ICQ 27178269
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