Hi James: My apologies for the way the reply is being done. I think the mail client at netaddress is not formatting it properly. So I am replying via outlook express. Hope this is clearer. I appreciate your time to help me out on this matter.
My comments are below under quoting " Louis>>> " >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< yes, that's correct. gdm is *not* gdmsetup. Log in as root and then type 'gdmsetup', not 'gdm'. gdm is the program which actually does all the work. gdmsetup is its configuration tool. run "ps -ef | grep dm". It will list the details of some of the programs running on your computer. In all probability the right most column will tell you what display manager you're using. If it's not working after all this stuff, tell us which dm it is and perhaps we'll know what's wrong. Louis>>> From a reply from Ken (You may have read his reply as it was Cc to the slug list), I was able to find out where XDMCP is setup from Gnome. So from GDM Configurator I did the following: 1. Selected Options->Expert->XDMCP and tick "Enable XDMCP" 2. I selected the "Chooser" tab and ticked "Broadcast query". For the "Hosts to list" I am not sure what to enter. I just entered the IP of the Enternet card of the Master PC. Anyway I just did the "ps -ef | grep dm". What I see on the rhs are: Sendmail: accepting connections /usr/bin/gdm -nodaemon /usr/bin/gdm -nodaemon (different PID) /etc/X11/X :0 -auth /var/gdm/:0. grep dm However after enabling XDMCP, and rebooting Linux, from the Master PC I restarted XFREE86 with the command Xwin.exe -query 127.0.0.1 This did not work. I do not know what to do in Linux to setup IPs. I only saw the IP 127.0.0.1. However after browsing the web I discovered that this IP is a loopback IP. Another point I noted. When Linux was booting up, I noticed that the "Bringing up interface eth0" FAILED . Could this also be another issue ? The Network card on the slave PC where Linux OS resides as well is a 3Com Network card. Are there special drivers I need to install to get Linux to detect this card or get a PASS when booting ? However in Linux Gnome, from: System Settings -> Network Configuration -> Hardware (tab) shows: 3Com for eth0 device. The Device tab also shows "eth0". I did not add it, so Linux automatically detected the device. > > >What distribution are you using? you might have mentioned but I've > forgotten. Hopefully someone here can tell you what the default > display manager (that's what the dm part is for) is and if there's an > easy way to get to the configuration tool for it. > > Louis> Red hat Linux 7.2 Is it gdm, anyone? Louis>>> as I said above GDM was found. > Louis> tried "Xwin -query 127.0.0.1". An X window opened like in > Louis> Exceed > but I see no Linux login as yet for the above reasons. ok. Again, try this post-gdmsetup. 127.0.0.1 is the wrong address - that's an address reserved for the local machine. The address you're looking for will be 192.168.soemthing.something. probably 0.something. Louis>>> How do I find out this address "192.168.something.something" ???? Seems to me that this has to be manually added. > >oh, and in case you don't know what the IP is on either box, you use > the "ipconfig" command to find out on windows, and "/sbin/ifconfig > eth0" on Linux. > > Louis> I got the IP addresses. However typing the "sbin/ifconfig eth0" > for Linux on slave PC returned something that made no sense to me. Ok, you should read up on this stuff, but, here's the crash course. On my machine, when I type /sbin/ifconfig eth0, this is what I get: $ /sbin/ifconfig eth0 eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:02:A5:9C:F4:FE inet addr:192.168.9.20 Bcast:192.168.9.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:3521 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:4241 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 RX bytes:3206950 (3.0 Mb) TX bytes:332057 (324.2 Kb) (slightly compressed to prevent line wrapping) The line you're interested in is this one: inet addr:192.168.9.20 Bcast:192.168.9.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 Louis>>> I ran the command on my Linux machine again, and here is all I see for what you said. inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 There is no "Bcast" there !! I also see UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 There is no "UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST". > From the master PC running Windows 2000, I can ping the > "Autoconfiguration IP Address" returned from an "ipconfig" for the > "Ethernet Adapter Local Area Connection" of the slave PC running > Windows 2000. However I still cannot map the network drives of the > slave PC running windows 2000 onto the master PC. Any hints on what > step I am missing ?? umm, ok, this is something entirely different. You told me you wanted to map network drives as a connectivity test. Ping is the right tool for the job for connectivity tests. If you want to "map network drives" you need to use the right tool for that job. anyway, if you can ping in one direction I'd be amazed if you couldn't ping in the other direction (in this configuration anyway). Louis>>> From both Windows 2000 between Master and Slave I can ping both Network cards. However from Linux a ping to the Master PC Network card failed. This may have something to do with the "eth0" failed to come up during boot up. In short you need to use a thing called "samba". I suspect Redhat has a tool to configure this for you - I don't know what it is though. Just before I go any further, if you read any document which tells you to build samba, look it squarely in the face and say "NO I WILL NOT BUILD SAMBA!" - install it from RPMs, you will save yourself much pain. I'm also not sure if redhat 7.x had the version of samba that could talk to windows 2000. It might save you some time and misery to upgrade to redhat 8.0 before you get started with file sharing. Runing "rpm -qa | grep -i samba" will tell you what samba stuff you have installed. Again, there's a gui tool for this, but I don't know it. I get this output: $ rpm -qa | grep -i samba samba-doc-2.2.6-1.0.pre2.2mdk samba-common-2.2.6-1.0.pre2.2mdk samba-winbind-2.2.6-1.0.pre2.2mdk samba-client-2.2.6-1.0.pre2.2mdk samba-server-2.2.6-1.0.pre2.2mdk Louis>>> The above command shows me this: samba-2.2.1a-4 samba-swat-2.2.1a-4 samba-client-2.2.1a.4 samba-common-2.2.1a-4 There is no "samba-server". So I take it that this is not installed. Anyway, peruse these documents for some background on samba. I'd leave samba until you've got your X problems sorted out (for the simple reason that you'll have any network problems solved that way), but if you're really keen they give you some background on how it all works, which will help once you locate your preferred configuration tool and start setting everything up: good overall guide: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/SMB-HOWTO.html some playstation 2 specific stuff, but has some eg config files. http://playstation2-linux.com/download/cfyc/HOWTO_setup_samba.html the samba home page. Documentation is here: http://au1.samba.org/samba/samba.html Louis>>> I will check them out after the Networking is sorted out. > > From Linux machine a ping test on the "Autoconfiguration IP Address" > returned from an "ipconfig" for the "Ethernet Adapter Local Area > Connection" of the Master PC running Windows 2000 returned "Network is > unreacheable". > > Am I using the right IP addresses here ? umm, ok. Can you copy and paste exactly what you're doing here (in linux, just selecting the text will copy it. Middle clicking, or clicking both mouse buttons if you don't have a middle mouse button, will paste). Also paste the output of /sbin/ifconfig. Did you tell your linux box to use an "automatic IP" or something? That may not work, it depends on how your windows computer is configured. Anyone know if windows acts as a dhcp server if there aren't any other dhcp servers around? Louis>>> I have no idea how to add an IP to Linux. Also the Linux on the slave PC does not even have internet connection setup as yet. I am writing this email from the Master PC. I am actually at this stage manually typing the Linux output from above. If I had the networking going I could mount a windows drive on the slave PC within Linux (got to remember how to do that again). Then the copy/pasting would be easy. I also have no clue if I have to add Ips in Windows 2000 so that I can even map to a Network Drive. Of course all this copying and pasting is reliant on you getting the network going, but hopefully this will get you a little closer. I would suggest configuring your linux computer with a manual IP. If you're on a "standard" windows network, 192.168.0.69 is a good one. Your netmask should be 255.255.255.0, and broadcast address should be 192.168.0.255. Then you *know* what IP address to ping from windows. Redhat will have a tool to configure this. Louis>>> What tool is this in Linux. Is it from the "Network Configuration" -> "Hosts" tab ?? Louis. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug