[SLUG] SSH idle timeouts

Folks, I've been trying to find a way to stop linux from disconnecting my ssh sessions after some idle timeout period. I can't find any setting in sshd_config to stop this idle timeout from occuring. Could it be somewhere else (such as login or in the securetty settings ?). I only seem to get

[SLUG] Win2k Server and Linux - Active Directory and BIND

Folks, I have a question on adding a W2K server into a Linux environment. I don't know a lot about W2KS, but I do have a lot of Linux experience so I am hoping someone has already done this. We have been forced to upgrade our old 1998 NT 4.0 server to a W2K server. Now the new server will run A

[SLUG] Network printing problem on RH 6.1

Folks, we have an old RH 6.1 server which we use as a database server. For compatibility reasons, we need to stay with RH6.1. However, I had to reload the machine the other night and now network printing will not work. I keep getting the following errors in /var/log/messages when I try to print

[SLUG] Email -> SMS

Folks, rather than not try and reinvent the wheel I was hoping someone here might have done this before. I am trying to set up an email->SMS gateway. Users should be able to send an SMS by sending an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I would therefore like to get sendmail to forward all mail for sms.m

[SLUG] Using SAMBA/Linux to push Windows Group Policies

Folks, I'd love to chuck out a Windows 2000 server however it is used to push group policies down to windows clients. This includes such things as the default proxy, default settings, what the user can/cannot change and other admin things. I was wondering if there is anyway I can do this from a

[SLUG] Installing linux on Sun Blade 100 - firmware password ??

Folks, we inherited a Sun Blade 100 which we are going to "linux" but because it has an existing FW password we cannot get bay further. Does anyone know how to reset the FW password on this box. I don't care about any of the existing settings. Matt -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailin

[SLUG] Getting sendmail to use nullclient

Folks, I need help with a sendmail config. I am trying to get my machine to forward ALL mail through a central mail server. I do not want anything delivered locally (we have a central mail server for all mail). I have configured the sendmail.mc (cf) file to be a nullclient however it still wan

[SLUG] Reducing Postmaster Notify msgs from sendmail

Folks, each day I get about 300+ "Postmaster Notify" emails from my mail server. These are generally because an external email could not be delivered to one of my users because the user did not exist (and thus postmaster gets copied on the warning msg). Now, most of the time, these undeliverable

RE: [SLUG] Secondary MX record - To have or not

. > > Regards > > Rob T > >> -Original Message- >> From: Matt Hyne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: Friday, 20 June 2003 11:59 AM >> To: 'slug' >> Subject: [SLUG] Secondary MX record - To have or not >> >> >> Folks, &g

[SLUG] Secondary MX record - To have or not

Folks, A little Linux unrelated (but I suppose it is since I am using a Linux server) but I have been having some discussions with a number of vendors around the place regarding secondary MX records. There seems to be two camps here - those that do not believe that they are needed (and thus don'

RE: [SLUG] WORD (.doc) to PDF under Linux

I've played around with wvPS (and then ps2pdf) but wvPS pretty much destroys the formatting of most of the word files. Matt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >> Does anyone know of a reliable way to convert a directory containing MS >> Word files to PDF files under Linux. There appears to be plen

[SLUG] WORD (.doc) to PDF under Linux

Folks, Does anyone know of a reliable way to convert a directory containing MS Word files to PDF files under Linux. There appears to be plenty of Windows tools but I cannot find many for Linux. I want to write a script that will run a WORD->PDF conversion nightly so PDF files can be available fr

RE: [SLUG] Printing problems

Correction - it was to my PS laser, not the dot matrix. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > On Behalf Of Matt Hyne > Sent: Thursday, 20 February 2003 10:48 AM > To: slug > Subject: [SLUG] Printing problems > > >

[SLUG] Printing problems

Folks, I have been having trouble printing a particular text file (c-code) to a dot matrix line printer . Instead of printing the document, I get the following: No way to print this type of input files: L -channel Fasttracker "oktalyser" module sound I am assuming this is the magic filter (RH7

RE: [SLUG] Problems with virtual hosts on apache.

3 2:37 PM > To: Matt Hyne > Cc: slug > Subject: Re: [SLUG] Problems with virtual hosts on apache. > > > On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 02:33:35PM +1100, Matt Hyne wrote: > > > > Folks, I have an apache problem that is probably quite > simple to fix but > > I

[SLUG] Problems with virtual hosts on apache.

Folks, I have an apache problem that is probably quite simple to fix but I cannot find the solution. I have set up several virtual hosts on the box and these work fine, however I cannot get the correct virtualhost page if I drop the domainname from the URL. Eg (these are examples, so don

Re: [SLUG] Postfix vs Qmail

Oh yeah, and sendmail is in a chrooted gaol for extra security. M At Friday, 31-01-03 21:17 (+1100), Matt Hyne wrote: To add my 2c worth. I have actually done this painlessly with sendmail. It is installed in the DMZ and filters mail for spam and viruses using the various blackhole lists

Re: [SLUG] Postfix vs Qmail

To add my 2c worth. I have actually done this painlessly with sendmail. It is installed in the DMZ and filters mail for spam and viruses using the various blackhole lists and the amavis virus scanner. It then forwards the emails onto in internal host for delivery. It's been running nicely fo

Re: [SLUG] tftp service was deactivated because of looping

Ok, this is what seems to die, god knows why ? 18238 socket(PF_UNIX, SOCK_STREAM, 0) = 13 18238 connect(13, {sin_family=AF_UNIX, path=" /var/run/.nscd_socket"}, 110) = -1 ECONNREFUSED (Connection refused) 18238 close(13) = 0 At Monday, 0

[SLUG] tftp service was deactivated because of looping

Guys, I am trying to use the tftp-server to load images onto a router, but whenever I access the tftpboot machine, tftp dies with the following error in the /var/log/messages file. tftp service was deactivated because of looping I updated tftp and tftp-server to 0.28, but it did not seem to m

Re: [SLUG] rsync question

At Monday, 04-11-02 20:07 (+1100), Christopher Vance wrote: On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 07:53:34PM +1100, Matt Hyne wrote: : rsync -acz -e ssh /usr/local backup:/backup/hostname : rsync -acz -e ssh /local backup:/backup/hostname : : So I am attempting to rsync /usr/local and /local and clone

[SLUG] rsync question

rsync guru's I am trying to write a backup script that will run each night to mirror some of my directories on another machine (the backup machine). Basically I have a script that produces the following (it is actually a shell script that gets the source directories from another file). rsync

Re: [SLUG] Repair shop?

At Wednesday, 16-10-02 13:32 (+), Voytek Eymont wrote: >** Reply to note from Adam Hewitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 16 Oct 2002 >12:18:14 +1000 > > > > And I have been doing computer technician work for about 8 years now and > > I have always placed the CD ROM on the secondary IDE channel. The reas

[SLUG] Printing Problems with CUPs

Folks, I have been wading through the confusing world of linux printing and CUPS and I am hoping someone can help. I have a linux box that is connected to a couple of LPD line printers (dot-matrix, no graphics). Now if I configure these as raw printers under CUPS then I can print fine however

Re: [SLUG] Billion ADSL Modem/Router

At Friday, 11-10-02 11:55 (+1000), Patrick Kelso wrote: >On Fri, 2002-10-11 at 07:10, Peter Faulks wrote: > > G'day > > > > Looking at going down the adsl road > > > > Does anyone have good/bad experience with the Billion modem? > > http://maitec.statustech.com.au/main.php?s=products&pid=10004

[SLUG] Samba and Linux Help - I need a refresher

Folks, It has been some time since I played with Samba and I wanted to find out what the current status is with regards to setting up a Samba box as a Network Attached Storage box. Basically, I want to use a Linux box as a storage server on a Win2K domain. I have it set up to do serv

[SLUG] Document management system

I am looking for a free/GPL document management system that runs under linux. Basically, we have a number of project files that we want users to be able to check in and out when they make changes (word docs mainly). I would like them to be able to do this via a web interface. Ideally I am lo

Re: [SLUG] Problem accessing POP server remotely

ol (with many stateful firewalls this is normally the case - only open a port if there was an outbound connection first). Is there anyway to tell the pop daemon NOT to try to reconnect on the auth port ? Matt At Sunday, 08-09-02 12:16 (+1000), Martin wrote: >$author = "Matt Hyne" ;

[SLUG] Problem accessing POP server remotely

Guys, I asked this problem before but did not get a solution. Basically, I am running a home POP server and when I access this POP server remotely, it takes some 20secs before POP starts to transfer mail (internally it is immediate). If I telnet to the POP port directly, I see that indeed the

[SLUG] POP problem

I have noticed that if I attempt to POP mail off my home machine (Redhat 7.0), from work, it takes a long time for eudora to connect to the machine. So I did some testing and I did a 'telnet 110'. The tcp connection is set up immediately, however it can take up to 30 seconds for POPD to

Re: [SLUG] New windows virus?

http://www.amavis.org At Tuesday, 16-07-02 13:12 (+1000), Intelligent Dynamic wrote: >G'day... > >For those of us that are even less in the know, can you please provide a >reference for AMAVIS. > >Thanks... > >Mike > >----- Original Message - >Fro

Re: [SLUG] Perl CPAN module install problem - any experts

Ok - I worked it out. I had to install zlib-devel if only the rest were that easy. Matt At Tuesday, 16-07-02 11:21 (+1000), Matt Hyne wrote: >Ok, now I have no idea what I am doing, but I am trying to install some >CPAN perl modules (for another project) and I hit a snag, s

[SLUG] Perl CPAN module install problem - any experts

Ok, now I have no idea what I am doing, but I am trying to install some CPAN perl modules (for another project) and I hit a snag, so I am hoping there is a perl expert out there that can put me back on the rails. I used the command line: perl -MCPAN -e shell to try and install the fo

Re: [SLUG] New windows virus?

Speaking of which - can anyone recommend a good sendmail virus scanner ? I'm looking for one that can scan email attachments for actual viruses - not text "signatures". I did look into AMAVIS but I could not get the perl libraries to install on RH7.3. :-( Matt At Tuesday, 16-07-02 07:08 (+10

[SLUG] mail problems - MX records.

Guys, I have noticed a mail problem on my mail server (my private one :-) ). External mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] works file, however, if someone sends mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] it never makes it to my SMTP server. I checked the MX records and it correctly shows my MX record for hyne.com pointi

[SLUG] LDAP address book - anyone got any suggestions

I am looking for an LDAP addressbook application that has a web front end, and it easy to maintain and configure (linux of course). I looked at http://ldap-users.sourceforge.net/ but it does not support past RH7.0. I have played around with creating my own - but to write the tools so that it

Re: [SLUG] Booting problem with SCSI machine

-06-02 15:18 (+0930), Glen Turner wrote: >Matt Hyne wrote: >>I have been having trouble getting a machine to boot lilo (or anything >>from HDD) after an install of RH7.3. >>Lilo is installed (and I ran it again for good measure) but the only way >>I can get linux to boot

Re: [SLUG] Booting problem with SCSI machine

At Tuesday, 25-06-02 18:20 (+1000), Terry Collins wrote: >Matt Hyne wrote: > > > The machine is a PII-400 with an Intel MB, NCR SCSI adaptor (sym53c8xx) and > > a 4.3Gb HDD. > >Does the kernel specifically recognise the sym53c8xx ? >either it doesn't and/or

[SLUG] CDRW on Linux as a backup medium.

Has anyone successfully used a CDRW on linux for backups ? I am looking to buy one of the cheap LG (IDE) ones now on offer. However the drive docs state that it is only capable of reading CDs under Linux and you need Windows XX to record or rewrite. Can a CDRW be formatted under Linux ? Mat

[SLUG] Booting problem with SCSI machine

I have been having trouble getting a machine to boot lilo (or anything from HDD) after an install of RH7.3. Lilo is installed (and I ran it again for good measure) but the only way I can get linux to boot is to use the boot floppy I created at install time. The machine is a PII-400 with an In

Re: [SLUG] Tsk tsk Cisco...gpl breach..

You will probably find it is actually RH Linux as Cisco has a partnership agreement with RedHat. At Thursday, 30-05-02 21:58 (+1000), Ben Buxton wrote: >Cisco seems to be breaching the GPL by using a Linux distribution >in one of their devices and not mentioning GPL, Linux or source >anywhere:

Re: [SLUG] BPB ADSL & PPPoA

From what I understand, these are the Speedtouch Pro models which can do the authentication themselves - so you do not need to do anything on the client side. For PPPoA, you need an ATM connection which is your modem's DSL port. Matt At Monday, 27-05-02 14:15 (+1000), Howard Lowndes wrote:

Re: [SLUG] Sendmail question

mailertable is probably overkill - I would suggest the MAIL_HUB stuff if you only have a single machine you want to forward it to. At Friday, 17-05-02 13:49 (+1000), Jobst Schmalenbach wrote: >On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 12:02:46PM +1000, Peter McCarthy >([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Howdy all >

[SLUG] Pacific Internet ADSL

Is anyone running Pacific Internet ADSL ? I am tossing around a few ADSL providers looking for the ones with good rates vs good performance. So far, Pacific Internet and Netspace are my preferred, however when I ping/traceroute Pacific's servers (a week or so ago), I get very long response t

Re: [SLUG] Problems with Telstra Cable that have been happening over the last 3 days

ught about adding support for this into Cisco's IOS - but getting time is the problem. Matt At Tuesday, 07-05-02 20:32 (+1000), Craige McWhirter wrote: >On Tue, 2002-05-07 at 14:48, Matt Hyne wrote: > > > > Do Telstra still use this ugly heartbeat - thought they were going

Re: [SLUG] Problems with Telstra Cable that have been happening over the last 3 days

Do Telstra still use this ugly heartbeat - thought they were going to scrap it because it stops people using VPN software. Matt At Sunday, 05-05-02 09:20 (+1000), Paul Robinson wrote: >Hi Sluggers, > I was wondering if anyone else has been having trouble connecting to > Bigpond cable late

[SLUG] Problems with LDAP authentication

I have been having a problem with Red Hat 7.2 configured for LDAP authentication. The authentication works. However, if the LDAP server is down, I cant even log in as root. root and other users are listed in the /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow files, however these do not seem to be read if LDAP

[SLUG] Backup Mail servers (OT)

Folks, finally got my old man's business online and everything except the desktops is running linux (database, gateway, servers). I'm setting up the mail and DNS. The ISP says they cannot give us a backup mail server to host a secondary MX. Does anyone know of any (reliable) groups, ISPs or o

Re: [SLUG] Sendmail giving 553 rejection errors.

rvers ? Matt At Thursday, 11-04-02 10:58 (+1000), Jobst Schmalenbach wrote: >On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 05:46:44PM +1000, Matt Hyne ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > Folks, when I turn _OFF_ the sendmail feature > > > > FEATURE('accept_unresolvable_domains')dnl >

Re: [SLUG] tar backups to tape

ze 32768, wrt 30720, max init. bufs 4, s/g >segs 16 >Attached scsi tape st0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 4, lun 0 > >Arkeia *is* doing a full backup. > >I'll give ctar a go. Maybe tar can't compress as well as Arkeia can? > >Thanks again Matt. > > >On Wed, 2002-04-

Re: [SLUG] tar backups to tape

>reports the speed was 180MB/min. > >There's something I'm doing wrong here and Arkeia is doing right because >I don't understand how Arkeia can backup ~160 faster than tar. > >Any further ideas?? > > > >On Tue, 2002-04-09 at 17:56, Matt Hyne wrote: > > &g

Re: [SLUG] tar backups to tape

Generally, tapes are streaming, so it is possible that if the transfer rate across the network is slow then more tape may be required for the same amount of data. Really - you need to determine the bottleneck - can you tar from one machine to the HDD on another and see how long it takes - and

Re: [SLUG] Redhat 7.2 crashes my computer

I would not suggest upgrading RH kernels using RPM. Honestly, I would download the latest kernel source from mirror.aarnet.edu.au (I am using 2.4.18 at the moment) and build my own - at least then you know what you are building into it. If you have not built a kernel before, it is pretty easy

Re: [SLUG] Redhat 7.2 crashes my computer

Are you using the default Redhat kernel ? I was having lots of freezes/crashes until I upgraded the kernel and now it has been running for 4 weeks without a problem. I was pretty sure it was not the machine (P90) since it had been running RedHat 5.2 since it was released and had general uptim

[SLUG] NFS mounting between RH7.0 and RH7.2

I am trying to mount a filesystem from a RH7.2 system on a RH7.0 machine. However mount fails with the following errors: [root@panda /mnt]# mount -t nfs wormhole:/export/backup /mnt/misc mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on wormhole:/export/backup, or too many mounted fi

Re: [SLUG] Problems migrating to LDAP passwords

At Wednesday, 27-03-02 14:12 (+1100), Matthew Palmer wrote: >Newlines!!! Newlines what ? Does your mailer have problems wrapping text ? I've never had a complaint from anyone else. >> The only problem I have now is getting pam_ldap to access the LDAP >> database. It tells me it cannot connect w

Re: [SLUG] Problems migrating to LDAP passwords

At Wednesday, 27-03-02 13:13 (+1100), Matthew Palmer wrote: >Argh! Newlines were invented for a reason, dammit! > >On Wed, 27 Mar 2002, Matt Hyne wrote: > >> If I get the name of afailed attribute (eg objectClass 'mailRecipient') >> and search the schemas for

[SLUG] Problems migrating to LDAP passwords

I have been trying to migrate a linux box over to LDAP passwords but I have been running into a few problems with the migration stuff. I am using RH Linux 7.0 and I have the LDAP database up and running ok. The problem is when I use the migration scripts (in /usr/share/openldap/migration or t

[SLUG] Distributed passwords

Guys, I have number of linux boxes here and I want to only have one place that username/passwords are stored (for admin reasons). Rather than go the full overkill and set up NIS, is LDAP (or something else) a better alternative. Anyone with experience - any interesting links ? Matt -- SLUG

Re: [SLUG] redhet crash after power cut

At Tuesday, 4/12/2001 10:13 PM (+1100), Tony Green wrote: >* This one time, at band camp, Craige McWhirter said: >> On Tue, 2001-12-04 at 09:04, Xiaolu Zhang wrote: >> > Last night due to the power cut the redhat linux 6.2 webserver was switch >> > off without showdown. Now I got a error saying th

Re: [SLUG] can I run 2 apache website in the same linux server

At Tuesday, 4/12/2001 03:06 PM (+1100), Xiaolu Zhang wrote: >can I run 2 apache website in the same linux server, if yes, how can I ? Yes: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/vhosts/ Matt -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/li

RE: [SLUG] Network To Network

At Wednesday, 28/11/2001 12:14 PM (+1100), George Vieira wrote: >You can't route internal IPs over the internet... you MUST use a tunnel or >some kind... Well, that depends. From his config, both external IPs were on the same subnet so the ISPs router probably could be bypassed using a static r

Re: [SLUG] Network To Network

At Wednesday, 28/11/2001 11:59 AM (+1100), Lyle Chapman wrote: >To whomever can help. > >I want to connect 2 internal networks together across the internet using >ipchains from 2 Linux routers. Is it possible to do this and have it >tranparent to the internal networks. > >I have tried everything

[SLUG] GPS as a time source

I have a GPS received that I would like to try and use as a time source for NTP. It is a Magellan GPS with a serial data interface. Anyone know if there is any linux software support to use a (this) GPS as a time source for an NTP box ? Matt -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List

Re: [SLUG] Dummy phone line for installfests?

At Monday, 26/11/2001 10:27 PM (+1100), Ken Foskey wrote: >Ken Caldwell wrote: > >>Perhaps the SLUG committee could consider the purchase of a RingMaster >>PRO for use at installfests. That way a "dummy ISP" could be simulated >>and Newbies could set up ppp. Later they would probably have only to

[SLUG] Backup solutions

I am looking at a way of doing a SIMPLE bare metal recovery plan for my development linux box. What I am interested in hearing is people's comments on using 'tar' or 'dump' as the backup program and why I would use one over the other. (ie restrictions, advantages etc). My main requirement is

Re: [SLUG] PAT question .. (general)

At Wednesday, 31/10/2001 09:55 AM (+1100), Jean-Francois Dive wrote: >Hi all, > >i was wandering something with PAT: >If you have multiple boxes trying to access the same server on the internet, >going trough the same PAT router, so using the same external ip address: if >the sender stack does Pat

RE: [SLUG] Filenames with spaces - and using a shell script.

quot;`ls -1`"; do echo ">$FILE<"; done > >confirm it displays what you want and then change the ECHO command to do >what you want.. > >BUT remember to use quotes "" around the $FILE > > > >thanks, >George Vieira >Network Engineer &

[SLUG] Filenames with spaces - and using a shell script.

I am trying the write a little script to convert some MS Word files to HTML, however some of the word files contain spaces in their name. Hense, when I use the couple of lines below, it treats the space as a delimiting character and chops up the filename. Anyone know how to get around this wi

Re: [SLUG] was: Internet Connection

Actually, initial studies of the security on Optus left a lot to be desired. There were many reports of people stealing the IP address of other users and using this to avoid clocking up their own bandwidth usage (and the poor bloke who owned the IP address would get slugged with the excessive

Re: [SLUG] ADSL, modem or router

Unbiased view - It all depends on what you want to pay. The Cisco 827 is a nice little router, is simple to setup, has a stack of features and will work stand-alone, but if you want to keep costs down then run a Linux box with PPPoE to a ADSL modem. Your carrier will probably give you the op

Re: [SLUG] TV tuner card: "TV Excel". Also, stereo?

I've got this card working at home - if you still have problems let me know and I will get the settings for you. I don't use the stereo sound. At Saturday, 15/09/2001 06:49 PM (+0800), Mike Holland wrote: >On Sat, 15 Sep 2001, Terry Collins wrote: > >> Grep for excel and see if it is listed. Y

Re: [SLUG] Lost C class ip range

Try: http://www.apnic.net/search/index.html but I have already put your name / company in it and there is no record. You will need to know who allocated them to you have a good chance. M At Friday, 14/09/2001 01:08 PM (+1000), Richard Hayes wrote: >Dear list, > >I purchased a C class network

[SLUG] RedHat Network 'up2date -u' fails with RPM conflict.

Using the redhat network to update my RH box, I am not getting the following failure when attempting an 'up2date -u' Testing package set / solving RPM inter-dependencies... RPM conflict error. The message was: Test install failed because of package conf

Re: [SLUG] own domainname with non-permanent connection?

I know with www.dns2go.com that you can tell it to set your IP address to 0.0.0.0 when/if you go offline (regularly if you use Telstra ADSL). Generally, a static IP addr on Telstra's ADSL network will set you back a considerable amount for little more gain - they consider this a bigpond direct

Re: [SLUG] Apache serving .doc files

Could you be a little more specific ? Matt At Tuesday, 12/06/2001 10:22 AM (+0200), Artur Hefczyc wrote: >> >> I am trying to get my Linux based apache web server to serve some .DOC MS >Word files. However I am having the following problems. >> >> 1. When I click on the link, the file starts d

[SLUG] Apache serving .doc files

I am trying to get my Linux based apache web server to serve some .DOC MS Word files. However I am having the following problems. 1. When I click on the link, the file starts downloading as (garbled) text into the netscape window. 2. If I shift-select the link, I can download the file but the

Re: [SLUG] Proxy Filtering

junkbuster works really well - www.junkbuster.com (I think). M. At Wednesday, 23/05/2001 09:28 AM (+1000), John Ferlito wrote: >Does anyone know of any proxy filtering products that integrate >well with squid. The only product I currently know about is a thing >called smartfilter sold b

Re: [SLUG] Getting a dial in up to speed

Yeah - I've never been able to get my 33k6 modem to connect past 28k8, just put it down to bad phone line or crap netcom modem. M On Wed, 16 May 2001, Michael wrote: > > 56K is only done when your dialing a digital modem rack that has such > sup[port. > > So if your 2 systems in question are

Re: [SLUG] PPTP or IPSec Windows Client to Linux Server

At Wednesday, 2/05/2001 01:35 PM (+1000), Del wrote: >> >> >> Has anyone had any success connecting a Windows client machine to a Linux VPN >server using PPTP or a IPSec. > >Yes, using the Linux PPTP server. I don't have the URL for it at the >moment but you can check my home page under Linux

Re: [SLUG] PPTP or IPSec Windows Client to Linux Server

At Wednesday, 2/05/2001 01:35 PM (+1000), Del wrote: >> >> >> Has anyone had any success connecting a Windows client machine to a Linux VPN >server using PPTP or a IPSec. > >Yes, using the Linux PPTP server. I don't have the URL for it at the >moment but you can check my home page under Linux

[SLUG] PPTP or IPSec Windows Client to Linux Server

Has anyone had any success connecting a Windows client machine to a Linux VPN server using PPTP or a IPSec. I am also looking for a FREE Windows IPSec client. I've read some HOWTO's but they don't really go into this all that much. I want to use an existing windows VPN client or one that is

Re: [SLUG] Telstra ADSL & Debian vs RedHat

I've seen minimal problems with ADSL reliability however the advertised performance vs their actual performance does vary. (Actually, redundancy is something that Telstra have yet to discover - when they do the outages should go to almost 0). I've run some tests between two Sydney connected AD

[SLUG] using rcp as root

I'm trying to work out what permissions I have to change on two machines to allow me to 'rcp' as root from one machine to another. I have added both machines to /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.equiv but I still get permission denied messages - [root@panda /etc]# rcp /etc/smb.conf panda-new:/et

Re: [SLUG] Using SSH server with Netscape.

Yeah - I just threw squid on the box and changed the port to 8080 - now everything is hunky dory. Matt At Tuesday, 17/04/2001 04:54 PM (+1000), Martin wrote: >Matt Hyne wrote: >> >> I am trying to setup SSH so I can use a windows based SSH client to tunnel netscape >(htt

[SLUG] Using SSH server with Netscape.

I am trying to setup SSH so I can use a windows based SSH client to tunnel netscape (http) traffic through the SSH connection. I have the client side set up and all http requests are going out over the SSH connection as required but the linux box that is the SSH server is not forwarding this

Re: help me plz,,,,, Re: [SLUG] Cisco 827 ADSL Router

You need to add the nameserver address to your windows networking config. At Tuesday, 3/04/2001 04:45 PM (+1000), Munreik wrote: >hi, > >my freind jason told me u guys can help me cos i got problemz.. > >anywayz on windows 2000 profess edition sp1a i cannot not connect to >web sites or anythi

Re: [SLUG] Cisco ADSL router config for Telstra ADSL network

This time I'll add the attachment At Tuesday, 3/04/2001 04:10 PM (+1000), Matt Hyne wrote: >For those that requested it, here is the config I have successfully used on the >Telstra ADSL network. > >This configuration has been tested on the 827 series but should also wor

[SLUG] Cisco ADSL router config for Telstra ADSL network

For those that requested it, here is the config I have successfully used on the Telstra ADSL network. This configuration has been tested on the 827 series but should also work on any router with an ADSL WIC card. Ensure that you set up the enable and secret passwords and I also suggest user

Re: [SLUG] Cisco 827 ADSL Router

Have it running nicely - even with a dynamic DNS service and NAT+PAT to pipe certain ports through to a linux server. I will post the config here later today. Matt At Tuesday, 3/04/2001 03:01 PM (+1000), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Hi Everyone, > >Perhaps not the right place to post this, but

Re: [SLUG] Re: Telstra ADSL and recurrent recurrent lost connections.

At Tuesday, 30/01/2001 11:54 PM (+1100), Alan Lee wrote: >You know why it was out? If you dont know why something like this is out, I >dont think you have any reason to scream and yell about it. A few major >bits of their equipment was fried, in a storm in VICT. In my opinion that is a poorly d

[SLUG] Telstra ADSL offerings.

I've been trying to get some sense out of Telstra for weeks but just hit a brick wall. Does anyone know whether Telstra offer a STATIC ip address for ADSL users. I have a NAT-ed network that I would like to be able to set up PAT on so I can receive an SMTP and SSH feed. Does anyone know what

Re: [SLUG] Private ADSL connection possible?

> >I'm not sure if you can just plug two ADSL modems into a each end of a >phone connection and have it work. It is certainly an interesting idea. No this will not work - you need a DSLAM at the end of the copper, and then something to authenticate and forward your traffic to the ISP that you

Re: [SLUG] Private ADSL connection possible?

At Wednesday, 24/01/2001 06:05 PM (+1100), Jobst Schmalenbach wrote: >All, > >Is it possible to setup a private ADSL connection from >my home computer to our company? > > * What do I need? > * Can I just set that up or does Telstra need to get involved? > * Any URLS for this particular matter? Yo

[SLUG] Fetching mail from a remote mail server

Folks, I've been asked by a family member if I can help them with their email system. They are running a Linux server + database which is connected to the net via a dial-on-demand modem. What we want to do, is have all the mail for the domain (ie all mail to mydomain.com.au) downloaded by the

[SLUG] Kernel 2.4.0 compilation warnings.

folks, I am getting stacks of the following warning messages when trying to build the 2.4.0 kernel sources. Anyone got any suggestions ? warning: pasting would not give a valid preprocessing token Matt -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://

Re: [SLUG] Running Linux headless

On Wed, 25 Oct 2000, Peter Faulks wrote: > > I know this subject was discussed recently, but I have a new twist.. > > I need to demonstrate a cgi programme to a client. (So I can ask them > 'whaddya want to happen here') > > I've got a spare box I can stick Linux on, but it's not got enuf grun

[SLUG] New RH 7.0 Respin ISO images

Can anyone tell me what the RedHat 7.0 RESPIN ISO images have that the old ones didn't ? ie: 7.0-i386-respin-disc1.iso, 7.0-i386-respin-disc2.iso Further, there now also seems to be a file called 7.0-i386-upgrade.iso. Anyone know what the hell this is ?? As usual, there are no docs to go wi

Re: [SLUG] Re: ADSL

At Friday, 29/09/2000 05:49 PM (+1100), Angus Lees wrote: >On Fri, Sep 29, 2000 at 12:06:52PM +1100, Bernhard Lüder wrote: >> No definite;y not. They would be jeapordies their ISDN product. >> >> If you want a fixed IP go to IPRIMUS or ONE.NET. >> > >telstra certainly intend to offer static ips

Re: [SLUG] Any Modem Gurus?

If you can connect and ping, there is nothing wrong with your modem. Can you ping the DNS addresses in /etc/resolv.conf - if you can, then it is probably a problem with your config. If you cannot, then I suspect these are the problem. Matt At Thursday, 28/09/2000 11:15 AM (+1000), Gregg wro

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