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Small network setup. RFC...
by Rikard Johnels 16 Jun '03

16 Jun '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hell all. I plan to get my disorganized lan up to better standards. This is my planned setup: <isp via adsl> | (DMZ)http/ftp/mail [firewall]------+--[http/mysql/ftp/mail] | +--[login server ] | +-----+ | | [ws1] [ws2] Hardware: Firewall : Alphastation (Linux or ???BSD) DMZ: http/mysql/ftp/mail : AlphaStation (Linux) login server : AlphaStation (Linux) WS1 : Linux WS2 : Linux WS3 : Windows 2000 Server WS4 : Windows 2000/XP (and a few experimental boxes such as QNX, DUX and assorted Win boxes...) My primary question is: What do i use as LOGIN SERVER???? I need it to take care of all user authentications in the system I want a centralized "PDC" to ease the administration of users and accounts. It has to be "platform independent", in that i need both Linux and Windows macines to authenticate through it. Also, i want my external users (mail/web/ftp) to be authenticated by the same system. I do NOT want to have to administrate users in different utilities, i want ONE centralized, common "point of entry". What do i use? NIS? NIS+? LDAP? RADIUS? KERBEROS? If any of you have other comments or sugestions regarding this setup, please feel free to flame/encourage/suggest anything you want. - -- /Rikard - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rikard Johnels email : rjhn(a)linux.nu Web : http://www.rikjoh.com Mob : +46 70 464 99 39 - ------------------------ Public PGP fingerprint ---------------------------- < 15 28 DF 78 67 98 B2 16 1F D3 FD C5 59 D4 B6 78 46 1C EE 56 > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2-rc1-SuSE (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+6wb3WdS2eEYc7lYRAmE7AKCiXEssvpdb0bjjK11URWWIJcLsegCgheP/ zNCqrJvY63N7G+rZ0jyhlfA= =tx4H -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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kmail is not sending my messages...
by Gustavo Adolfo Cerezo Vásquez 16 Jun '03

16 Jun '03

I'm trying to send messages via kmail(1.5.2) in my SuSE 8.2 distribution, it seeems everything works fine when I send a message, but the receiver is not getting anything. The intanet administrator told me that my messages are returning, but the kmail does not notify anything!!! There is a bug or am I forgeting some configuration parameter? (Before I was using the 1.4.3 vesion and I dd not ae this problem? Thanks in advance, Gustavo Adolfo

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Re: [SLE] Cygwin Xwin blocked by Firewall
by John Proctor 16 Jun '03

16 Jun '03

Sorry I meant to say that every time I startup the firewall I cant run Xwin (via Cygwin) >From: "John Proctor" <jproctor0(a)hotmail.com> >To: suse-linux-e(a)suse.com >CC: jproctor0(a)hotmail.com >Subject: [SLE] Cygwin Xwin blocked by Firewall >Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 18:05:11 +0000 > >Hi I wonder if anyone can help, I have set up IP Masquerading and every >time I startup the firewall on the SuSE server I can run Xwin sessions on >the PC's. When I turn off the firewall the Xwin Sessions (via cygwin) >work ok. >I have even tried in the expert option of the firewall wizard allowing >ports 21 through to 10000 thinking it might be blocking port 6000. >I would be extremely grateful for any help John Proctor Tresham Institute >Kettering Northants UK. > >_________________________________________________________________ >Hotmail messages direct to your mobile phone http://www.msn.co.uk/msnmobile > > >-- >Check the headers for your unsubscription address >For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com >Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com >Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq(a)suse.com > > _________________________________________________________________ Use MSN Messenger to send music and pics to your friends http://www.msn.co.uk/messenger

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Scanning for Virus with KMail and ClamAV
by Alfredo J. Cole 16 Jun '03

16 Jun '03

Hi: Does anybody know how I could scan my incoming mail messages using KMail 1.5 and ClamAV? I looked through Google and no luck. Thank you. -- Alfredo J. Cole http://www.acyc.com http://www.clshonduras.com

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Re: [SLE] Choosing Linux Distro
by James Oakley 16 Jun '03

16 Jun '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 13 June 2003 01:41 pm, H du Plooy wrote: > On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 15:38, James Oakley wrote: > > through all that code and I still sometimes have nightmares. I can also > > tell you of some *very* disturbing features of up2date I discovered...). > > YaST2 is > > Please do, off-list if you don't want go too OT. I'm trying convert a > up2date junkie to try SuSE. He uses RH simply because that's what his > ISP told him to try. Sad... Ok. Basically, up2date operates over a somewhat broken implementation of XML-RPC. The network traffic is a bit hidden from sniffers, probably due to the sensitivity of the information transferred. The source for the XML-RPC server is *not available*. Who knows what they're doing with the information... probably keeping it in a database for the marketing department. They could very easily sell the info. When you first run up2date, you are required to enter your vitals, name, address, email, etc. Then the registration process with the server ensues. The following information is sent (information from Red Hat 7.3): - - Your vitals - Info structure is in /usr/share/rhn/register/rhnreg.py:248 - Info is sent in /usr/share/rhn/register/rhnreg.py:559 (function registerProduct()) - - A unique registration number - /usr/share/rhn/register/rhnreg.py:571 (function sendSerialNumber()) - - A list of the hardware in your system - /usr/share/rhn/register/rhnreg.py:588 (function sendHardware()) - /usr/share/rhn/actions/hardware.py:22 (function refresh_list()) - - A list of the software you have installed (as long as it's rpm, even if the vendor is not Red Hat) - /usr/share/rhn/register/rhnreg.py:600 (function sendPackages()) There are other places to look for the damning code, but these should be enough to prove that they are gathering such information. The funny part is what happens when Microsoft tries to do stuff like this. Slashdot seems to turn a blind eye when Red Hat does it. As for YaST2, *all* of the source is available for your perusal, and the "server" is nothing more than a bunch of files on a bunch of ftp servers, many of them outside of SuSE's control. YaST2 does not send such information to SuSE. Feel free to browse the code yourself to make sure. - -- James Oakley Engineering - SolutionInc Ltd. joakley(a)solutioninc.com http://www.solutioninc.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2-rc1-SuSE (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+7hCb+FOexA3koIgRAl0aAKCPm5ManXP2e6wfT/410JJAPbyz/wCeOHe6 kXRZMbjcwxKYktYmnl+tvag= =kVAq -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Cygwin Xwin blocked by Firewall
by John Proctor 16 Jun '03

16 Jun '03

Hi I wonder if anyone can help, I have set up IP Masquerading and every time I startup the firewall on the SuSE server I can run Xwin sessions on the PC's. When I turn off the firewall the Xwin Sessions (via cygwin) work ok. I have even tried in the expert option of the firewall wizard allowing ports 21 through to 10000 thinking it might be blocking port 6000. I would be extremely grateful for any help John Proctor Tresham Institute Kettering Northants UK. _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail messages direct to your mobile phone http://www.msn.co.uk/msnmobile

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Symlinks and autofs
by Dylan 16 Jun '03

16 Jun '03

Hi All, I've just got to grips with autofs, and overall it seems fine. Is it my imagination or do nfs mounts run a bit faster when automounted? Now, in order to make access to the automounted fs's easier (not having to distribute lists of pathnames to users, etc) I made a directory in each home directory containing links to each automount. Therein lies my gripe: when that directory is entered (actually, even if it's just selected) each link target is mounted (or in the case of a CD, waits for a timeout.) Does anyone know of a way to stop this happening? Is it anything to do with FAM? Cheers Dylan -- Sweet moderation Heart of this nation Desert us not We are between the wars - Billy Bragg

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OS parts management
by Steve Lett 16 Jun '03

16 Jun '03

Hi All, I have been tasked at the office to come up with a solution to our lack of parts and inventory control. I would LOVE to show these goobers how to do this using open source solutions. All the programs I have seen so far for inventory control are quite expensive options. Anyone point me in the right direction for open source parts management/inventory control software? TIA JeepNut In a world without walls or fences, who needs Windows or Gates? Registered Linux User #287453 ---------------------------------------- '87 Street Comanche #24/100 '92 Cherokee '88 Grand Wagoneer '87 Grand Wagoneer ...and they say there's only one... --------------------------------------- -- ______________________________________________ http://www.linuxmail.org/ Now with e-mail forwarding for only US$5.95/yr Powered by Outblaze

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Linux kernel coder puts SCO on notice [OT]
by Jim Barnes 16 Jun '03

16 Jun '03

As the worm turns http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=10018 -- Jim Barnes -- Certainly the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you; if you don't bet, you can't win. -Lazarus Long -- SuSE linux 8.0, 2.4.18-4GB, KMail 1.4 -- 8:32pm up 31 days, 6:08, 6 users, load average: 1.01, 1.11, 1.08

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Printing to a novell print queue from my linux machine?
by Damian Buckley 16 Jun '03

16 Jun '03

Hi, I have set my PC up with suse 8.0, and can see the novell network no problem. I also have the novel client program which successfully allows me to log in and mount my home section.... Only problem is when I try and set the printer side of this up... How do I do this? How do I set my printers up on my linux machine so they will print through the print queue's set up on the novell server? This is the only item which is holding me abck from scrapping windows altogether and going for an all-out linux install.... yippee - I can't wait! Hope someone can help me with this! Thanx in advance Damian Buckley

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