Windows commands for linux internet
Hi folks, I have a Linux server which serves as an Internet gateway for a 5 PC = (Win9X) network. Everything works find so far and SuSEFirewall is also operating nicely. The problem is the following: The main user of the network wants to have 2 icons on his desktop = (Win9X) such that: By double clicking the first one, the LinuxBox dials-in the internet and = the 2nd logs him out. Any good ideas about this?? The current installation of the Linux Box is a 7.2 SuSE out-of-the-box = installation. Thanx friends. Chris
On Sunday 11 May 2003 22:10, Chris Bek wrote:
Hi folks,
I have a Linux server which serves as an Internet gateway for a 5 PC = (Win9X) network. Everything works find so far and SuSEFirewall is also operating nicely. The problem is the following: The main user of the network wants to have 2 icons on his desktop = (Win9X) such that: By double clicking the first one, the LinuxBox dials-in the internet and = the 2nd logs him out. Any good ideas about this??
You don't want to give that level of control to one user, just use dial on demand. and set it to hang up after 3 minutes. What happens when he clicks the disconnect in the middle of a big download someone else is doing. Time to upgrade that distro, as that one is not supported and has a few security issues. -- _____________________________________ John Andersen
Hi, I run a server tool on my linux box called 'alt+connect'. All my windows boxes have client tools in the tray where they are able to establish an internet connection whenever they want by simply double klicking the icon. The server keeps track of all connections and releases the external line when all clients have been disconnected. To release a connection can be done by simply doubleklicking the same icon. This mechansim eliminates the draw back described below. On the server side you can configure certain users to log in and you can restrict the access to specific dates and time. You can have a protocol of all connections e.g. for billing purposes in company environment or even at home, to control the kiddies. The last URL I have is http://freespace.virgin.net/fuchsia.groan/software/index.html. Regards, Hans-H. Froehlich John Andersen wrote:
On Sunday 11 May 2003 22:10, Chris Bek wrote:
Hi folks,
I have a Linux server which serves as an Internet gateway for a 5 PC = (Win9X) network. Everything works find so far and SuSEFirewall is also operating nicely. The problem is the following: The main user of the network wants to have 2 icons on his desktop = (Win9X) such that: By double clicking the first one, the LinuxBox dials-in the internet and = the 2nd logs him out. Any good ideas about this??
You don't want to give that level of control to one user, just use dial on demand. and set it to hang up after 3 minutes.
What happens when he clicks the disconnect in the middle of a big download someone else is doing.
Time to upgrade that distro, as that one is not supported and has a few security issues.
I have a Linux server which serves as an Internet gateway for a 5 PC (Win9X) network. The main user of the network wants to have 2 icons on his desktop (Win9X) such that: By double clicking the first one, the LinuxBox dials-in the internet and the 2nd logs him out. I would suggest to install putty and generate a ssh key without (or maybe with?) password. With this key the user can login to some special account and perform something like "sudo <command to start inet connection" in
On May 12, Chris Bek <chris001@softhome.net> wrote: the login script and another account for stopping the inet connection. You just have to setup sudo (or wait, I think that even normal users can start/stop an inet connection...). You can even give putty the remote command (just looked it up): Preferences->Connection->SSH->Remote command.
The current installation of the Linux Box is a 7.2 SuSE out-of-the-box installation. Someone else said, that 7.2 is no more supported. This is wrong, it will be supported until 8.3/9.0 (or whatever the next version will be named) is out. But you should regulary run yast online update or fou4s.
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Hi Chris, I had a similar problem with a customer and solved it as followes: - I installed Samba and restricted the use to the internal machines - the two icons simply write "START" or "STOP" to a file exported via Samba, thus representing the user request - a cron-script (running once a minute) determines the current connection state to the internet as well as the current user-request; if these do not match, dial-in or logout resp. is triggered Hope this hint is helpful to solve your problem. Regards Horst Am Mon, 2003-05-12 um 08.10 schrieb Chris Bek:
Hi folks,
I have a Linux server which serves as an Internet gateway for a 5 PC = (Win9X) network. Everything works find so far and SuSEFirewall is also operating nicely. The problem is the following: The main user of the network wants to have 2 icons on his desktop = (Win9X) such that: By double clicking the first one, the LinuxBox dials-in the internet and = the 2nd logs him out. Any good ideas about this?? The current installation of the Linux Box is a 7.2 SuSE out-of-the-box = installation.
Thanx friends.
Chris
Any good ideas about this??
Maybe linserver (http://linecontrol.sourceforge.net/), but you can't have icons on the desktop, you have to use a special client programme. Bye Matthias
Chris Bek schrieb:
[...] The main user of the network wants to have 2 icons on his desktop = (Win9X) such that: By double clicking the first one, the LinuxBox dials-in the internet and = the 2nd logs him out. Any good ideas about this??
I did it for myself with webmin. Icon points to the webmin-URL for the corresponding script. Since I was the only one using the internet, it was fine. Now I have and love dial on demand :-) Stefan
Chris Bek schrieb:
[...] The main user of the network wants to have 2 icons on his desktop = (Win9X) such that: By double clicking the first one, the LinuxBox dials-in the internet and the 2nd logs him out.
Any good ideas about this??
port cinternet / kinternet to win 9X :) sources in smpppd-*.src.rpm ["SuSE meta ppp deamon"] simple protocoll, should be very easy to implement/port. maybe it is already ported, or runs within cygwin. otherwise, if you want, I'd port it for you, contact me privatly. Lars
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