Re: Network question
Hmmm, OK well I to take care of the occassional laptop I would install dhcpd on one of the linux/Unix boxes and configure a small 192.168.x.x DHCP scope to hand out an IP address when needed. If you have the occassional Windows box then you will be needing samba at some point. Installing samba is easy, if using a package based linux and configuration is trivial because it comes with SWAT a web based configuration utility. Just install samba-server and swat on the *nix box, then point you browser to http://localhost:901 You could also use ftp for file sharing between boxes by installing wu-ftpd or vs-ftpd or similar. NFS is not something I have had a lot to do with so I will let others comment on it. If you could let us know which version of Linux you have then we can advise how to test for the correct software. If you have a rpm based distribution (redhat mandrake etc) then doing rpm -qa | grep -i insert_search_word_here will show you what you have installed . hope this helps I've had UNIX and/or Linux at home for a very long time, but always just one or two independent machines that didn't need to share anything. Then I broke down and got printer sharing working. Now I think I really need to share files. The question: What's easiest to set up? I have a 3-computer network (4 counting an occasional laptop), and I mostly want to do backups over the net by having the old clunky machine with the CD-RW directly copying files. It would be easiest if the subject machine didn't have to get too involved, and I'm not much worried about consistency here. I'm mostly worried about fire and/or dying disk drives, so a little bit of inconsistency is the least of my worries. There are several 36-GB drives involved, but the actual backup traffic will be lots smaller than that. So I'm thinking NFS or perhaps Samba. I'm not using Windoze much, but it does show up from time to time. So: where do I get information? How do I tell if the software's already on my machine? What solutions should I consider? ++ kevin -- Dr. Kevin O'Gorman (805) 756-2986 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://www.csc.calpoly.edu/~kogorman ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users -- James McDonald Systems Engineer Singleton NSW Australia ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Network question
I've had UNIX and/or Linux at home for a very long time, but always just one or two independent machines that didn't need to share anything. Then I broke down and got printer sharing working. Now I think I really need to share files. The question: What's easiest to set up? I have a 3-computer network (4 counting an occasional laptop), and I mostly want to do backups over the net by having the old clunky machine with the CD-RW directly copying files. It would be easiest if the subject machine didn't have to get too involved, and I'm not much worried about consistency here. I'm mostly worried about fire and/or dying disk drives, so a little bit of inconsistency is the least of my worries. There are several 36-GB drives involved, but the actual backup traffic will be lots smaller than that. So I'm thinking NFS or perhaps Samba. I'm not using Windoze much, but it does show up from time to time. So: where do I get information? How do I tell if the software's already on my machine? What solutions should I consider? ++ kevin -- Dr. Kevin O'Gorman (805) 756-2986 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://www.csc.calpoly.edu/~kogorman ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: Network question: Cross network browsing
Well, it only allows connections from its own subnet by default. That's actually sensible behavior for a product that's supposed to protect something as fragile as XP. I'm surprised it was that permissive actually. On Monday 23 June 2003 05:24 pm, Joel Hammer wrote: OK. I found out. ZoneAlarm, a windows security program, thinks that if you are on a local network, 192.168.1.1, then an address 192.168.0.1 is the internet. You would think it would be smarter than that. Geez. Joel On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 06:33:58PM -0500, ronnie gauthier wrote: What the netmask on the box in question? On Mon, 23 Jun 2003 18:37:56 -0400 - Joel Hammer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote the following Re: Network question: Cross network browsing I have a main network and a subnetwork, with a router for the latter. From the main network, I can ping a linux box and a XP home edition box on the subnet, but I cannot ping a second windows box, an XP Pro, on the subnet. I can ping this problem box from within the same subnet. Is this an XP Pro thing or should I look into some sort of firewall on the XP Pro box? Thanks, Joel ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Network question: Cross network browsing
I have a main network and a subnetwork, with a router for the latter. From the main network, I can ping a linux box and a XP home edition box on the subnet, but I cannot ping a second windows box, an XP Pro, on the subnet. I can ping this problem box from within the same subnet. Is this an XP Pro thing or should I look into some sort of firewall on the XP Pro box? Thanks, Joel ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: Network question: Cross network browsing
What the netmask on the box in question? On Mon, 23 Jun 2003 18:37:56 -0400 - Joel Hammer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote the following Re: Network question: Cross network browsing I have a main network and a subnetwork, with a router for the latter. From the main network, I can ping a linux box and a XP home edition box on the subnet, but I cannot ping a second windows box, an XP Pro, on the subnet. I can ping this problem box from within the same subnet. Is this an XP Pro thing or should I look into some sort of firewall on the XP Pro box? Thanks, Joel ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: Network question: Cross network browsing
Is is provided by a dhcpcd server on the router. The ip is 192.168.1.13 with an mask of 255.255.255.0 Joel On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 06:33:58PM -0500, ronnie gauthier wrote: What the netmask on the box in question? On Mon, 23 Jun 2003 18:37:56 -0400 - Joel Hammer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote the following Re: Network question: Cross network browsing I have a main network and a subnetwork, with a router for the latter. From the main network, I can ping a linux box and a XP home edition box on the subnet, but I cannot ping a second windows box, an XP Pro, on the subnet. I can ping this problem box from within the same subnet. Is this an XP Pro thing or should I look into some sort of firewall on the XP Pro box? Thanks, Joel ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: Network question: Cross network browsing
On Mon, 23 Jun 2003 18:37:56 -0400 Joel Hammer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a main network and a subnetwork, with a router for the latter. From the main network, I can ping a linux box and a XP home edition box on the subnet, but I cannot ping a second windows box, an XP Pro, on the subnet. I can ping this problem box from within the same subnet. Is this an XP Pro thing or should I look into some sort of firewall on the XP Pro box? Several silly questions first: 1. does the XP box have a gateway (the correct one)? 2. does the XP box have more than one interface configured? a. if yes, does _only_ the one connected to your subnet have a gateway address (Windoze does something really stupid -- if you have the gateway address on two interfaces and the wrong interface is first in the routing table, then the XP box will attempt to send packets out the wrong interface even though the gateway isn't on its subnet -- dumb, violation of RFCs, etc, but true) b. if no, are you running security (such as it is w/ M$) on the interface? If none of the above, you might try the Windoze lusers list. ;-) Ciao, David A. Bandel -- Focus on the dream, not the competition. Nemesis Racing Team motto GPG key autoresponder: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: Network question: Cross network browsing
OK. I found out. ZoneAlarm, a windows security program, thinks that if you are on a local network, 192.168.1.1, then an address 192.168.0.1 is the internet. You would think it would be smarter than that. Geez. Joel On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 06:33:58PM -0500, ronnie gauthier wrote: What the netmask on the box in question? On Mon, 23 Jun 2003 18:37:56 -0400 - Joel Hammer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote the following Re: Network question: Cross network browsing I have a main network and a subnetwork, with a router for the latter. From the main network, I can ping a linux box and a XP home edition box on the subnet, but I cannot ping a second windows box, an XP Pro, on the subnet. I can ping this problem box from within the same subnet. Is this an XP Pro thing or should I look into some sort of firewall on the XP Pro box? Thanks, Joel ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
