Unknown interface: At boot up time, my Linux box at home displays a few errors. The one that has me stumped is this: unknown interface: down. When I first installed Linux, everything was fine. I noticed this error message after the first week or so. (I've been using Linux for three-four weeks now) I regularly us the commands 'ifup ppp0' and 'ifdown ppp0' to connect to the internet. Just before the message started appearing, I accidentally typed 'if down ppp0'. I can't remember if this gave me an error, or if I got a message stating "interface added". Does this sound like the culprit for the boot time error? Where would I look to remove the interface "down"? Dial on Demand: Is my impression of what dial-on -demand is correct? If I have a machine set up as an Internet router using IP Masquerading and the machine also has dial-on-demand implemented... Will that machine automatically dial out when any other machine on the network requests internet access? And, will it disconnect after a period of time, or when there is no internet activity? (I need to use the same account from a different location and my ISP doesn't allow the same account to log in twice.) SAMBA: I installed SAMBA support when I first set up Linux. I edited the smb.conf file to create a share that the Windows machines on my network could access. However, I am not able to connect to the share. It asks me for a password at which I type my root password. That fails. I then try the user's password. That also fails. Since my network is for family use at home, and I don't have any kind of security going on, (No passwords on any shares on the Win95 machines) I would like to do the same with the linux shares. I would like to share out a "universal" directory on the Linux machine with full permission for all users and no passwords. I have looked through the HOWTO and read the notes in the smb.conf file but haven't had any success in getting this to work. I am sure this has to be possible. Does it have anything to do with the security type in smb.conf? Should I change it from the Unix Username/Password to the Wfw clear text? I don't have a server to validate logons so I can't use SERVER can I? As always, Many thanks to the helpful PS-All of the IP Masquerade info I got this week worked. I had to change the ip_forward flag to 'yes' in the /etc/sysconfig/network script. I then added the appropriate 'ipfwadm' command to /etc/rc.d/rc.local. Worked like a charm! :) *********************************************************************** George H. Lenzer Technology Specialist [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cleveland Heights-University Heights Public Library http://www.chuhpl.lib.oh.us 2345 Lee Rd. Voice: (216) 932-3600 X274 Cleveland Hts, OH 44118 Fax: (216) 371-9148 *********************************************************************** -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-FAQ /RedHat-Errata /RedHat-Tips /mailing-lists To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.
