HI all, Two versions of this story: SHORT VERSION: 1. How do I ensure that there are no firewalls enabled in a RH7.2 install? ie if they are enabled what do I do to turn them off?
LONG VERSION: 2. I had an old HP server with a SCSI drive running RH7.2 and shared with Samba. The power supply died and I did not have a spare, as it was an old machine I decided to just move the HDD into another machine running RH8. The network was not enabled on this machine as it had no NIC, so I installed one and ran a RH Upgrade on the RH8 IDE drive to get it to RH9. Apparently I should have selected to leave the boot loader alone, as when it was finished the machine would only boot to a grub prompt, this happened from the HDD and the Floppy. I found that I could edit the files on the floppy and get it to boot the image on the SCSI drive, I coule then mount the IDE drive as /mnt/ide which worked and after much mucking about I finally got the network up and running - had to put a link from /lib/modules to the 2.4.20-8 directory in the IDE /lib/modules, (guess the image on the floppy needed the newer kernel?). Anyways thisworked and I was able to copy my data files from the SCSI drive to a CD using SAMBA. Then I had to shutdown the machine to put all the covers back on and move it into it's normal position. Next time it booted all seemed OK, except it cannot be see on the network and if I try to ping from it I get 'sendto: Operation not permitted'. However it IS getting it's IP address from my Router using DHCP, I have it's MAC address in the router and give it the same IP each time, if I change that IP the IP on eth0 changes accordingly when I reload. eth0 is starting, stopping, reloading etc with no errors that I can find, just it is sealed off from the world. I can always do a complete re-install as I have backupped my data, but I wouldiek to know what is happening. Cheers, -- Simon Bryan IT Manager OLMC Parramatta -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
