New subject: SAMBA/W2K networking question (Was Re: Fwd: Re: [SLE] Configuring a Router)

31 Dec 2003


      
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From: Nick Selby 
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To: "Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D." 
Subject: Re: [SLE] Configuring a Router
Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2003 16:21:10 +0100
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Hi,
This will seem rude but it's not - you really need to post this reply to me
(thanks for it) to the list itself. The reason is that people use the list
archives as learning tools and reference material, so making this a private
conversation deprives future users of the benefits of the thread.
So how about resending everything below to the list and then I'll reply there?
FYI, there are separate issues here:
The router seems to be routing so that's actually a SOLVED issue.
The telnet into the MS workstation is a second issue; someone on the list 
will
be able to help with configuring your windows box to allow this.
Having your machines truly networked and each others drives available is
another issue, which will involve your sharing the drives on your windows
machines, setting up SAMBA on the Linux machine, mapping the network drives
on your windows box (to allow your windows machines to see the hard disk of
the linux machine) and mounting your windows shared drives on the Linux
machine via Samba (which amounts to the same thing as mapping a network
drive).
Those last issues are all separate, but rather straightforward. SAMBA has a
browser based configuration tool.
So go ahead and re post and I;ll give the same response and add to it, as 
will
other users more expert than me (I have just described most users).
Nick
On Wednesday 31 December 2003 16:13, you wrote:
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WOW!  Let me say that backwards !WOW
Many, many thanks for your quick reply to my query.
Amazingly simple, at least so far
At 08:52 AM 12/31/2003, you wrote:
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On Wednesday 31 December 2003 14:44, Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D. wrote:
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I have just installed a Linksys router on my LAN.  As I am functionally
illiterate with regard to such things (it took me three days and many
hours on the telephone to get my Win2000 box working with the router)
what is the simplest way for me to get the linux machine on my LAN to
communicate with the router?
Oh yes, I have a DSL connection to the internet.
Should be rather trivial.
1. Plug the router into the wall, into the DSL modem and plug your linux
machine into it.
2. I assume you already have the router on speaking terms with your DSL
provider; if not you can do it after you get it on speaking terms with the
Linux machine.
3. Go into Yast and configure the ethernet device you will use to speak
with the router to be DHCP everything - IP, host name, etc. Click okay
and let it run suse config
OK, it's at this point that I don't know what I'm doing.  I have
reconfigured the nic to accept a dynamic IP via DHCP and that seems to
work.  I can log on to 192.168.1.1/Index.htm and that gets me to the
Linksys page via my browser, I assume that is on my router.  The routing
table shows me that I have local and internet interfaces.
I can ping my Win 2000 box at 192.168.1.100, but when I attempt to telnet
in my connection is rejected.  LinNeighborhood AddMachine gives me a query
error when I attempt to access the machine via that route.
I am totally intimidated by the plethora of choices that yast give me for
configuring things - and there lies the continuation of the problem.
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4. You should be able now to ping the router; look in the quick set up
instructions in the box it came in for the router IP address. Open a
browser window and type in the IP address, something like
http://192.168.123.100
5. You should now be looking at the router's configuration page. Enter
your ISP's user name and password and other information it wants and have
the router try connecting. It should be that simple.
HTH!
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