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Thread ID: 31523 2003-03-24 21:00:00 Networking Linux and Windows PCs together wintertide (1306) Press F1
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130592 2003-04-02 22:57:00 This adds to my confusion.

When i left here on Saturday night Vanessa (98) could see 2 computers on Tux-net; itself and Sam

I got back yesterday, and this morning there is only one computer Vanessa sees on Tux-net, this being itself.

Swearing and cursing a bit i searched for a computer called "Sam" and upon finding Sam, placed a shortcut on the desktop. All the right stuff was available, it's just that Sam is no longer part of the "entire network".

I know not if this actually matters, i just wonder, why the change?

.Clueless 		Clueless (181)
130593 2003-04-03 04:15:00 Howdy Clueless,

If you go into the smb.conf you could create a new user or group of users that can access a share. Something along the lines of

[Chris Share]
comment = Chris Share
path = /home/chris
valid users = chris clueless
public = no
writable = yes
printable = no
create mask = 0765

Needless to say you will also need to enable passwords for these users along the lines of
smbpasswd chris -a
Then add the password for that user and then do the same for clueless.
Obviously this can also be done by using swat and you may well find that easier.
HTH 		Gorela (901)
130594 2003-04-03 07:09:00 Thankyou Gorela, that worked a treat!

I got horribly confused with "smbpasswd chris -a" as i thought for a while i would have to put that line into samba.conf somewhere (D'oh!!!!)

Now that i got past that silly moment (OK, hour) and entered it as a command, i have Samba running exactly as i want it.

.Clueless 		Clueless (181)
130595 2003-04-03 07:40:00 It's quite hilarious really! When I typed the previous message it all seemed to be pretty clear, but now that you point it out it definitely does look like I was suggesting you add that to smb.conf

Just goes to show that we often make assumptions that people are on the same wavelength :) As that program (was it "I Dream of Genie"?) said if you assume you make an ass out of u and me

As you say "Note to oneself - Next time make the instructions clear" :) 		Gorela (901)
130596 2003-04-04 03:34:00 I had a visitor today with an XP laptop. "Plug it into the hub" said i. As i had set up the all windows2000 network some time ago with a gateway with the standard IP 0f 192.168.0.1 I assumed that instant connection to the net via my cable could be acheieved if the same laptop was connected breifly onto my network.

Cablemodem---(fixed IP)---
eth1-SAM(SuSE)-eth0(192.168.0.1)---hub---Vanessa(98)

The XP machine completely failed to find any gateway, a computer called Sam, or a computer called Vanessa. I tried another network cable, nothing. The light on my hub came on as soon as the laptop was connected, but for all intensive purposes.. lights on, no one home.

Any ideas why this might be and what i can do to make my network guest freindly???

.Clueless 		Clueless (181)
130597 2003-04-04 05:22:00 Just as a matter of interest are you running DHCP as you only mentioned the gateway IP. If this is the case, it can take a Win PC sometimes up to ten minutes (I have even heard mention of 25 minutes!) for the address to be assigned.

Assuming ( there I go again :8} ) this to be the case it can be better to reboot the PC while it is connected as this will induce it to poll for an address.

If we aren't talking DHCP then.....are you sure everyone had their own IP address :) 		Gorela (901)
130598 2003-04-04 05:35:00 And there lays the problem . . . . sheesh . . . the all doze network that the laptop is normally on uses DHCP, mine uses fixed IP

Jees i'm stupid sometimes . . . how i managed to overlook that i don't know .

Is there a easy fix for this to ensure compatibility when a guest is wanting to connect on my network? Something that offers an IP if one isn't fixed, or is that not possible?

. Clueless 		Clueless (181)
130599 2003-04-04 05:48:00 Errr, you could try running DHCP ;)

SuSE has it on the disk. I still reckon that you'd be better off picking up an old P1 with 500-1000Mb hard drive, load it to the gunwales with RAM and run smoothwall (www.smoothwall.org) or ipcop (http:) on it.

I still haven't tried ipcop yet, but they now have produced an iso which will make loading it far friendlier than before. Smoothwall (and most likely ipcop) will do everything you need, but remember it needs a dedicated PC.

Not as much fun as playing around with the stuff yourself though :) 		Gorela (901)
130600 2003-04-04 07:25:00 For some reason i thought DHCP and fixed IP's were mutually exclusive. I take it that assumption was indeed incorrect.
----There we go the dangers of assumtion yet again.

I'll run DHCP and invite "the laptop" over again.

Running smoothwall or ipcop on a dedicated PC is kindof going against the plan, which is to set up a gateway, fileserver, ftp server, and finally reincarnate the web server, all on Sam. The test would be to tear it down and rebuild it when that stage is completed, just to test that i have learnt what i am doing, learning being the ultimate aim of the excersize.

If i got another PC in, it would be a flasher PC, and would be a dedicated Linux workstation

BTW what does DHCP stand for?

.Clueless 		Clueless (181)
130601 2003-04-04 07:51:00 The good thing about Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol is that you can set ranges for both fixed and dynamic addresses. For additional security you can also map NIC MAC addresses to IP addresses.

With some of my network segments I've got the middle set for dynamic and fixed addresses at the bottom and top of the range. With your set-up you could specify that addresses 192.168.0.100-200 are dynamic.

There is a Mini How To here (www.linux.org) :)
Just thought I'd pop it in since you guys seem to like these links so much ;) 		Gorela (901)
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