OT?: How to enable my Linux network for W98 machines?
Hello, Does someone have a hint on how to set up W98 machines to work in my (small) Linux (eth-based, 100Mbps) network. One Linux box is used as a gateway, the others have their traffic routed using ipchains. Setting up the ipchains rule and the gateway entry in the othe boxes Linux is sufficient. DNS addresses are given in resolv.conf. 1. Which are the corresponding steps in W98? 2. Giving the IP address, gateway address and the host identity of the IP network driver entries for the W98 box I have been able to ftp to the linux box(es). Which steps are necessary to connect to the Internet via the gateway, from W98. Do I have to install bind for DNS services via named? 3. Since I can ftp to my Linux boxes, if the service was enabled I could log in to Linux from W98, using eg telnet, right? Is it possible to do the reverse, i.e. login to the W98 box(es) from Linux box(es), for example to use remote control tools? Are there any open source versions of such tools (not netbus/backorifice?) and SSH servers/clients available? 4. For file and printer sharing do I have to install Samba? 5. How to enable automatic dial up for pppd, when traffic is present on the other machines? A dial-up ISDN connection is used for this. I have tried diald but did not like it (too long tineouts before releasing the connection). 6. Anything else to think of? Thank you in advance, Svante
Re: OT?: How to enable my Linux network for W98 machines?
i haven't installed it yet myself, but samba seems like the way to go for inter-OS networking (file and print sharing). once it's in, it'll show up in network neighborhood, and connecting is pretty easy. i'm working on doing the same in my office, so if you do something that works, please share! happy holidays, -b On Wed, 22 Nov 2000, Svante Signell wrote: Hello, Does someone have a hint on how to set up W98 machines to work in my (small) Linux (eth-based, 100Mbps) network. One Linux box is used as a gateway, the others have their traffic routed using ipchains. Setting up the ipchains rule and the gateway entry in the othe boxes Linux is sufficient. DNS addresses are given in resolv.conf. 1. Which are the corresponding steps in W98? 2. Giving the IP address, gateway address and the host identity of the IP network driver entries for the W98 box I have been able to ftp to the linux box(es). Which steps are necessary to connect to the Internet via the gateway, from W98. Do I have to install bind for DNS services via named? 3. Since I can ftp to my Linux boxes, if the service was enabled I could log in to Linux from W98, using eg telnet, right? Is it possible to do the reverse, i.e. login to the W98 box(es) from Linux box(es), for example to use remote control tools? Are there any open source versions of such tools (not netbus/backorifice?) and SSH servers/clients available? 4. For file and printer sharing do I have to install Samba? 5. How to enable automatic dial up for pppd, when traffic is present on the other machines? A dial-up ISDN connection is used for this. I have tried diald but did not like it (too long tineouts before releasing the connection). 6. Anything else to think of? Thank you in advance, Svante -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: OT?: How to enable my Linux network for W98 machines?
At 09:13 AM 22/11/00 +0100, you wrote: Hello, Does someone have a hint on how to set up W98 machines to work in my (small) Linux (eth-based, 100Mbps) network. One Linux box is used as a gateway, the others have their traffic routed using ipchains. Setting up the ipchains rule and the gateway entry in the othe boxes Linux is sufficient. DNS addresses are given in resolv.conf. 1. Which are the corresponding steps in W98? In the TCP/IP properties in windows set your IP and Subnet Mask. Gateway is the IP of your Linux box. Under DNS configuration you need to put the DNS IPs of your ISP (which should be in resolv.conf) Here is a link from a the HOW-TO http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/IP-Masquerade-HOWTO-4.html#ss4.1 2. Giving the IP address, gateway address and the host identity of the IP network driver entries for the W98 box I have been able to ftp to the linux box(es). Which steps are necessary to connect to the Internet via the gateway, from W98. Do I have to install bind for DNS services via named? Not if you use your ISPs DNS servers 3. Since I can ftp to my Linux boxes, if the service was enabled I could log in to Linux from W98, using eg telnet, right? Is it possible to do the reverse, i.e. login to the W98 box(es) from Linux box(es), for example to use remote control tools? Are there any open source versions of such tools (not netbus/backorifice?) and SSH servers/clients available? If you have a telnet server running, yes. I have never found a free telnet server for windows that I liked. If anyone knows of one I would love to know. As for a telnet/ssh client for windows, I like putty. http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/ 4. For file and printer sharing do I have to install Samba? I don't know of another way, although I'm not very experienced. However I found samba extremely easy to setup. 5. How to enable automatic dial up for pppd, when traffic is present on the other machines? A dial-up ISDN connection is used for this. I have tried diald but did not like it (too long tineouts before releasing the connection). I have a direct connection so I don't know much about dial on demand. 6. Anything else to think of? Other than reading the HOW-TO linked above and its recommended reads I don't know of anything else. Steven
Re: How to enable my Linux network for W98 machines?
OT?: How to enable my Linux network for W98 machines?Does someone have a hint on how to set up W98 machines to work in my (small) Linux (eth-based, 100Mbps) network. One Linux box is used as a gateway, the others have their traffic routed using ipchains. Setting up the ipchains rule and the gateway entry in the othe boxes Linux is sufficient. DNS addresses are given in resolv.conf. 1. Which are the corresponding steps in W98? 2. Giving the IP address, gateway address and the host identity of the IP network driver entries for the W98 box I have been able to ftp to the linux box(es). Which steps are necessary to connect to the Internet via the gateway, from W98. Do I have to install bind for DNS services via named? Not sure about this stuff. Probably good to read the Firewall and NAT/IP masquerading howtos (there may be even more applicable ones). There's even been articles on this very topic on Linux web sites, so a web search might be useful. 3. Since I can ftp to my Linux boxes, if the service was enabled I could log in to Linux from W98, using eg telnet, right? Is it possible to do the reverse, i.e. login to the W98 box(es) from Linux box(es), for example to use remote control tools? Are there any open source versions of such tools (not netbus/backorifice?) and SSH servers/clients available? Presuming your Linux boxen are not command line only, then you could try VNC. It's source is available and both client and servers are available across a variety of platforms. I have heard that its possible to use it over SSH, but you might need to do some digging to work out how. 4. For file and printer sharing do I have to install Samba? yes :). Samba howto and docs in /usr/doc/samba are your friend. 5. How to enable automatic dial up for pppd, when traffic is present on the other machines? A dial-up ISDN connection is used for this. I have tried diald but did not like it (too long tineouts before releasing the connection). I don't know for sure, but I would have thought that diald had configurable timeouts? 6. Anything else to think of? That should get you started, anyway :) - Chris
