Col Wilson wrote:

The server SuSE 6.0 the b***** win98

Can someone please help, this is driving me up the wall. I have a linux server downstairs which is meant to serve me for internet and email. My Win98 machine upstairs has a couple of conflicting cards, believe me as soon as I can dump the internal modem I will be very happy. but as my email connection using the server is not working i have to keep pulling out and inserting the modem card which has me and my wife and my aunt something pulling hair out in handfulls.

So far : My server (I shall call it server as that is the label) can auto connect to ISP and I can ping eg www.netscape.com and it's numeric xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx okay.

I really need to at least get email from the win 98 machine so that I can fix the other niggling points. other wise my aunt thingy gets it!

Please please help.

different solutions are thinkable: 1) Let the server do all the work, what means, you fetch *all* your, your wifes and aunts mail with fetchmail from all their different mail accounts round the world and "drop" it on the server in the respectice user account. (all done by fetchmail). From the win98 machine, youŽll pop your mail from your "server" and sent it via smtp to your server. (this affects your Ž98 outlook setup). you must make sure that the nessesary packets are installed. (they were in my default install so I never bothered. I tested this setup once a few distros and reinstalls before) 2) compile a kernel with masquerading support and mask your locak network. then youŽll be able to surf, mail whatsever from your win98 machine. This means reading through some documentation and enabling a few variables in rc.config. Hope this helps a bit Juergen -- ========================================== __ _ Juergen Braukmann mail: brauki@cityweb.de| -o)/ / (_)__ __ ____ __ Tel: 0201-743648 dk4jb@db0qs.#nrw.deu.eu| /\\ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / ==========================================_\_v __/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ -- To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archive at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>>