November 2000 - openSUSE Edu - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Now I feel really stupid......
by Royal Latin School 09 Nov '00

09 Nov '00

This has got to be the most embarrasing question I have ever asked, but as I wasn't potterring about at the command line level I decided to check out some man pages. Then I got stuck. How do you exit? Regards, Robb Bloomfield, RLS Network Administrator

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quit or exit ? (was: Now I feel really stupid.....)
by kevin.taylor＠powerconv.alstom.com 09 Nov '00

09 Nov '00

> > quit >no > > exit > no There is a really nice story in the O'Reilly DNS book, about a DNS admin who configured a DNS name for a machine in his system, called quit. He aliased this to 'use.exit.to.get.out.of.nslookup' (or something similar) - so that whenever someone typed 'quit' in nslookup (quit is common for ftp type things) - they got the alias, and knew what to do. I *always* type quit in nslookup - don't know why ... but I always do ... At least doing this saves the timeout period, while your DNS server decides it hasn't got a machine called 'quit'. I really liked this solution. Kevin.

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Print sharing
by Jason Good 09 Nov '00

09 Nov '00

Hi all, I've just joined the list having purchased SuSe Linux 7 to try to network a room of around 25 old PCs obtained through "Tools for Schools" in some fashion... I'm wanting to take this in stages and I'd like to kick off by networking a handful of them to share a printer. The PCs are running Win95 and have network adaptors inside them. I've obtained an "Intel Inbusiness Print Station" (basically an adaptor that connects 2 printers to a network, left over from an NT network installation), and I've put Linux on one machine to act as the print server. Now what do I do? :o) Could anyone give me pointers to any documentation or, better still, give me a brief idea of what I need to do. Do I need to use some kind of hub to connect the machines together? My long-term hope (plan being far to strong a word!) is to progress to file-serving the complete room so the pupils no longer need rely on floppies. Thanks, Jay

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List of commands
by Royal Latin School 08 Nov '00

08 Nov '00

Thanks to all who replied, just to say I agree with Roger about creating a list of commands, and I've just found an interesting chart of equivilant MS-DOS commands...... Opinions? Regards, Robb Bloomfield, RLS Network Administrator

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Life after KDE
by Matt Johnson 07 Nov '00

07 Nov '00

Thanks Giles for your advice on how to use "non X" features to get Squid up and running. Midnight Commander was probably the most useful tool. (I used it as an editor too - probably bad form!). Success! I'll put away my manual for a few days! -- Matt Johnson Applecroft __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. All in one Place. http://shopping.yahoo.com/

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Circularity
by ptaylor 07 Nov '00

07 Nov '00

Hi All: I think I have asked this before but if I have it has disappeared into my extensive backlog of files to organise. I am using Squid as a proxy server for my school network with Dialnet as the parent cache. The kids are directed through our intranet which is currently on an NT machine (job to do) and they go out through the proxy to the outside world. However, on the intranet page I have a link to the web mail provided by dialnet so that when the link is activated it goes out through a url to the web mail (for staff and students). I was having problems trying to get the intranet to work initially as it times out. I beleive the way I had it, it would go out through the internet to find the home school's page, come back and look about but time out in the meantime. I have now added an acl to find the local machine so that the intranet page pops straight up, but now the web mail doesn't work, when you click on the link it opens the main page again. Any suggestions (thin evidence accepted). I will attach the squid.conf if this helps. Paul Ps I will not be too offended if you rip my config file apart!

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RE: [suse-linux-uk-schools] Samba Question
by Mr Miles Berry 07 Nov '00

07 Nov '00

Hello Mark, you wrote on 07/11/00 10:05:49: >Does the current version of samba include the capability to act as a NT >Primary domain controller. i.e. validating usernames and passwords etc. > >If so has anybody implemented Linux/samba successfully as a NT PDC >replacement? >Also if possible, which version of Samba/Linux supports these feature. We >have been experimenting with SUSE 6.4 Yes, Samba can act as a PDC. We have Samba 2.0.6, Linux 2.2.14, and use Linux as PDC for a Windows 98 network. Samba is a robust and well constructed bit of code and with the SWAT (or Webmin) GUI is pretty easy to maintain. A good introduction is the O'Reilly book 'Using Samba', which is available on line, the bit about domain control is at: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/samba/chapter/book/ch06_05.html There is also a comprehensive FAQ on PDC support at: http://us1.samba.org/samba/docs/ntdom_faq/samba_ntdom_faq.html However, AFAIK Samba (as such) does not support logon from Win2K clients. Hope this helps. Miles Berry, Deputy Head, St Ives School, Haslemere. http://www.st-ives.surrey.sch.uk This e-mail does not necessarily represent the views of the School.

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Samba Question
by Mark_V_Williams＠flintshire.gov.uk 07 Nov '00

07 Nov '00

Does the current version of samba include the capability to act as a NT Primary domain controller. i.e. validating usernames and passwords etc. If so has anybody implemented Linux/samba successfully as a NT PDC replacement? Also if possible, which version of Samba/Linux supports these feature. We have been experimenting with SUSE 6.4

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Re: [suse-linux-uk-schools] Re: The secret diary of a Linux server builder aged 31 and 3/4
by kevin.taylor＠powerconv.alstom.com 07 Nov '00

07 Nov '00

> 1/ If it's connected to the internet remove X-windows right away :) That sounds a bit extreme, before we know what the PC is to be used for. It could be that starting X with the --nolisten tcp option would do ... One you thing you do have to be careful about though James, is that being nosey and installing everything, will leave you with lots of 'server services' running on your PC - and while you are connected to the internet, any unprotected running service could be a potential security hole. As a general principle, you should only run network services that you *need* on an internet connected machine - and then protect those as much as possible. Kevin.

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Re: [suse-linux-uk-schools] The secret diary of a Linux server builder aged 31 and 3/4
by kevin.taylor＠powerconv.alstom.com 07 Nov '00

07 Nov '00

> Can't get it to talk to the internet or my one connected PC. These are probably 2 quite different problems - so you will have to take them one at a time. I would suggest solve one first, then think about the other (do not change too much in one go). With regards to the network : 1. Is your ethernet card detected ? What make is it ? There should be some messages on boot up about it if it was found ... try following to see your boot messages : #dmesg 2. How have you configured your networking ? Try following (and maybe send us in the output ... ?) # ifconfig 3. If all ok so far (you should probably have an entry for eth0 in your output of ifconfig) then, try pinging your local IP address. 4. If all ok - what is the situation with your client - do you know its networking is ok ? We would really need to know exactly what you have configured/tried before we can help. With regards to the internet : you have to setup ppp - again, you would have to provide details of exactly what you have tried, and what error message outputs you are getting. Kevin.

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