Darren, thanks for your interest. Can I contact you off-list?
Sure, plenty of smarter people here though.
The project is to configure a Lintel server (Compaq Proliant 2500) for a home network of three PCs and two PowerMacs, providing print server (Lexmark with marknet server - already works great with the Macs), file server with tape back-up and common mail and internet access through a dial-up modem.
Basicly you should be able to get away with a dhcp address which is doled out by your lintel server. I find a static address for my lan cures problems the dhcp on the macs can cause.
Linux always doles out address's starting from 192.168.1.2 by default, I'd suggest assigning static addresses to all the machines, maybe with the macs as even numbers and pc's with odd and work down from 192.168.1.253. This allows you to add a machine to the lan using dhcp and be confident of not having addressing problems when turning on permanant lan members.
The servers nic connected to the lan is usually 192.168.1.1
Nutshell:
tpc control panel
connection = ethernet
connection type = manual
ip address = 192.168.1.x x = a number between 2-254
subnet = 255.255.255.0
router/gateway = 192.168.1.1
dns = 192.168.1.1
starting domain = well its not fully needed but handy to fill out, the easiest way to find out is to run winipcfg on a pc connected to the server and push the more info button, the top line is the lans domain name, just remove the pc's machine name and copy the rest.
press the options button ande make sure the alway connected option rather than the "only when needed" option is checked.
That should do it on a default install.
Netatalk uses a non standard port for appleshare, some linux distros will block this port by default once routing is made active, check this if you have installed netatalk and it doesn't work after reading everything plus your best efforts.
Meanwhile, getting back on topic, if I were to try Linux on one of these PCI PowerMacs, what would be the best distro to use?
Best? Yellow dog has all the eye candy a mac user would be used to, I prefer Mandrake which is a little harder to install but worth the effort without getting to deep. Debain or Suse and we start getting a bit geeky for a newish user. The last 3 of these are pc/mac distros which is another reason I prefer MDK to YDL
I hope you can use something in there or one of the other listers will point out my faults, you might find keeping the thread on-list to be better than getting outdated ideas from me directly.
Good luck.
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