On Sunday 13 Oct 2002 2:00 pm, Rulon Holm wrote: > I can't get samba to work ever since enabled internet connection sharing. > I have a modem that connects to the internet. the other computer computer > is running WindowsXP. > Could someone help me. THx
Firstly, I am NO expert on networking stuff! Hell, it took me 5 days to get ICS, Samba, NFS and a decent firewall working correctly. Heh, when I finally did get everything going I quickly backed up the /etc dir! If you're using MDK9.0 then I think its something to do with shorewall (firewall). Enabling ICS installs shorewall. I read numerous accounts of people with network problems in MDK9.0. I have only a small lan (2 PCs) and connect to the net via dialup modem. I fiddled with so many config files that I don't know what I actually did (if anything) to fix it. Couldn't figure out how to configure shorewall (even after reading the docs ; ) and belive me, I tried) so I downloaded and installed guarddog and used that to allow services for my lan. Trouble is, shorewall had setup iptables and I think guarddog just adds to what is already running in iptables so effectively I have both shorewall and guarddog running. If I stop both and start either one, there's always something that won't work so I guess I haven't configured guarddog properly yet. Once you have configured everything you could try stopping all relative services (ie. smb, named, dhcpd, shorewall, portmap, nfs, nfslock, etc) and take the network down (ifdown ethX), then restart them. In which case, I'd first start the firewall then bring the network back up (ifup ethX). Then start named, dhcpd, etc. One thing I noticed was that either dhcp or shorewall (can't remember which) was working with the wrong network address. My network is 192.168.0.0 but one of them kept using 192.168.1.0. Oh, and another thing I read somewhere at MandrakeForum is that it is IMPERATIVE to configure your network BEFORE enabling ICS otherwise you run into problems. So I reinstalled and configured the network (as usual) during installation and once the system was running I added the IP address for PC#2 in /etc/hosts and enabled ICS - WROOOONGG! It seems that configuring your network during installation isn't enough and that you must use MCC > Network & Internet > Connection and then enable ICS via MCC > Network & Internet > Connection Sharing. AND I had to use "manual configuration" and "expert" NOT "auto configuration". AND I found that adding my ISPs first DNS Server address in there worked. Like I said, I'm no expert but I had big hassles getting it sorted and got rather confused in the process. If this isn't your problem, I'm sorry for wasting bandwith. Hopefully it might help someone. Sharrea -- Help Microsoft stamp out piracy - give Linux to a friend today
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