Hi On Thursday 07 September 2006 21:57, Per Jessen wrote:

James Hatridge wrote:

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HI all,

I've got a small problem. Computer A is running SuSE 10.1 with Apache2. I can see my public_html files without problem. Computer B is running XP, on this system I can not get to my public_html files. It gives me a "not allowed" error. I'm sure that the net is working because I have samba working fine. Any ideas?

Does apache on computer A allow computer B to view the user-directories?

Yes, but only by Samba. JIM Jim Hatridge Linux User #88484 ------------------------------------------------------ WartHog Bulletin Info about new German Stamps http://www.fuzzybunnymilitia.org/~hatridge/bulletin/index.php Viel Feind -- Viel Ehr' Anti-US Propaganda stamp collection http://www.fuzzybunnymilitia.org/~hatridge/collection/index.php

HI Jerry, On Thursday 07 September 2006 22:36, Jerry Feldman wrote:

On Thursday 07 September 2006 11:28 am, James Hatridge wrote:

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HI all,

I've got a small problem. Computer A is running SuSE 10.1 with Apache2. I can see my public_html files without problem. Computer B is running XP, on this system I can not get to my public_html files. It gives me a "not allowed" error. I'm sure that the net is working because I have samba working fine. Any ideas?

Samba hasn't got anything to do with it.

I know, I just was using this to show that the connect is up and ok.

Make sure that port 80 is open on your web machine and not blocked by the SuSE firewall.

I have the firewall turned off.

Then you need to update the apached config file, httpd.conf to enable the user directories. Search for 'UserDir' in httpd.conf.

Could you give me an idea what I need to change there. I think that I should change something below, but what? ################# <Directory /> Options None AllowOverride None Order deny,allow Deny from all </Directory> # use .htaccess files for overriding, AccessFileName .htaccess # and never show them <Files ~ "^\.ht"> Order allow,deny Deny from all </Files> ######################

You also need to set the correct permissions in the public_html directories. --

All these directories are at least 755. Thanks! JIM -- Jim Hatridge Linux User #88484 ------------------------------------------------------ WartHog Bulletin Info about new German Stamps http://www.fuzzybunnymilitia.org/~hatridge/bulletin/index.php Viel Feind -- Viel Ehr' Anti-US Propaganda stamp collection http://www.fuzzybunnymilitia.org/~hatridge/collection/index.php

On Friday 08 September 2006 3:13 pm, James Hatridge wrote:

Could you give me an idea what I need to change there. Here is a section from the httpd.conf. # # UserDir: The name of the directory which is appended onto a user's home # directory if a ~user request is received. # # The path to the end user account 'public_html' directory must be # accessible to the webserver userid. This usually means that ~userid # must have permissions of 711, ~userid/public_html must have permissions # of 755, and documents contained therein must be world-readable. # Otherwise, the client will only receive a "403 Forbidden" message. # # See also: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/misc/FAQ.html#forbidden # UserDir public_html

# # Control access to UserDir directories. The following is an example # for a site where these directories are restricted to read-only. # <Directory /home/*/public_html> AllowOverride FileInfo AuthConfig Limit Options MultiViews Indexes SymLinksIfOwnerMatch IncludesNoExec <Limit GET POST OPTIONS PROPFIND> Order allow,deny Allow from all </Limit> <Limit PUT DELETE PATCH PROPPATCH MKCOL COPY MOVE LOCK UNLOCK> Order deny,allow Deny from all </Limit> </Directory> -- Jerry Feldman <gaf@blu.org> Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9

On Sat, 9 Sep 2006 16:30:34 +0200 James Hatridge <James.Hatridge@gmx.de> wrote:

I've been playing with this problem today. I added Computer B to the hosts file on Computer A. I can now ping from A to B. BUT when I ping from B to A XP gives me this error:

"Destination host unreachable"

It looks to me that the problem is on the Linux machine. What do you guys think?

The ping is made of 2 parts: * Part 1: Send an ICMP from computer A to computer B. So computer A must know how to get to computer B. * Part 2: Reply of the ICMP from computer B to computer A. So computer B must know how to get to computer A. So your problem in this case computer B, the linux box does not know how to reach the XP. This is usually a route problem or a firewall problem that stops the ICMPs type 0 [Echo request] and 8 [Echo reply]. 1. Does the firewall allows for pings? 2. Yast > Network card > Address set via DHCP or fix IP, if fixed IP, name server and routing 3. Check route as administrator: # route -- Thanks http://www.911networks.com When the network has to work