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There are a number of people who do not understand this. QoS is very misleading but translates into "Quality of Service". Refer to: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/316666 Actually, as the Intel chipset for ethernet does not natively support VLAN tagging, this is M$ solution or an answer to 802.1q VLAN tagging. You may either enable or disable this. The only time it will really matter to you is if you use your Windows machine as a "gateway" for other machines on your network. BTW, I would not recommend you do this as support for port 443 (HTTPS) is faulty.

Peter, the netmask was provided by the ISP! Remember, that the netmask defines the broadcast address (when not otherwise specified). The problem GUYZ is having has nothing to do with the netmask. Best practices, in fact, would to make the netmask something like 255.255.255.248 (allowing 6 machines to be connected to the private network). BUT, you should not do this on this network! Nor should you change the supplied netmask. Remember that the 10. is a class A network and you may divide it up any way you want. People often misunderstand the dotted quad notation. There is no requirement to use CIDR addressing of /8, /16, /24. The dotted quad notation is only to render hex into a more readable decimal notation.

Are these machines running Windoz? Why are you adding a second network (172.16.0.x)? There is no reason to do so. Can you ping PC#1 from PC#2 (and vice versa) using the appropriate 10.1.6.x addresses? You don't say too much about the OSs running so cannot be too much further help. But, when you create additional networks you must tell the machine how to access the new network. So, in your case I am going to guess that your 172.16.0.x was being routed out your gateway and not to the other machine.

BTW, Dan, I really do not much like FC5. I built another AMD x86_64 with 2 GB Ram, Raptor drive (10K), broadcomm fibre ethernet, etc, etc.. I selected, in the installation dialogue, "everything", no firewall (already have one), no selinux protection, etc ... The desktop is sort of "OKAY" but the access to services is totally lacking ... I always select "all" (or try and in this case used server model). I ususally to not vent so much, but I really do not like FC5 for development ... just too much attempt to do a gui for the public ... Okay, for all those that read this. I am a developer and write code for inclusion in the kernel, device drivers (.so or .ko) and want a machine that does what I say it should do, not what the installers think I "want to do". This is become difficult with FC5. UGH!

Hi Dan, So now I have a question. Okay, I know I have not been around for a while, I was in France end of last year to Jan and have been up to my arse in gators since then. Question is: Has anyone successfully implement Bind 9.3.2 using SQL server backend (specifically with postgres)? I can start manually with "/usr/sbin/named -f" and all is well. As root of course, however /etc/rc.d/init.d/named start" seems to cause problems ... Anyone know something I am missing? BTW, the /var/log/messages reports that no connection is available using /tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432 Yes, I have checked connectivity, I can connect ... I must be missing something. Do you or anyone else have ideas?

Hi jediphx (AKA pr-man): I suggest you try DSL (Damn Small Linux) -- Google will get U there. Download that as an iso. Burn to cd and boot. On the DSLpanel you will find "prism2". Configure your card there. Then, click on Netcardconfig. Look for wlan0 and configure that as needed. If you are running your own network, simply use your settings for SID, etc. I would suggest that you first disable WEP to check things out, get a connection, reenable WEP and work on. HTH Bill

Hi Lotus, I am not really familiar with suse, but what you are describing is not OS dependent but samba dependent? You do not say what your corporate network environment is ... So, I suggest you find the file "smb.conf". In this file you will find (I hope, if a standard install) a section "global options". Verify that you do not have a line like: browser master = yes. If you do, change to "no". Restart samba ... guessing again: >service samba restart or /etc/rc.d/smb restart Again, I do not run suse so I am just guessing, but I hope this helps. Bill

I do not mean any disrespect, but why is gef4000 asking for help with IE on a Linux site? Or, is gef... running IE under Linux? So, gef exactly what are you running and on what platform?

You should not have any problems with the Dell. It is pretty simple to dual-boot the system. First, install XP and create a partition of say 40 GB. Perform the complete install and verify that it works. Next, install FC4. The installation will detect the XP system and tell you that it can install GRUB (the OS loader) to enable your booting both XP and FC4. Take that option. Proceed with the FC4 installation. Now, when you start or restart your system, you will be prompted to choose which OS to start. Viola, dual booting. HTH

I don't know that I agree that there is no benefit. I have two new AMD 64 bit machines, each with 2G of RAM and high performance disk drives. I am a bit of a purist, I prefer to compile from source so ... When I build Apache, Gcc as cross compiler, compile very large projects, etc., I see a very noticible performance gain. 30-40% reduction of compilation times vs faster 32 bit processors. If you have enough to keep a fast 64-bit machine busy, enough ram to work in and descent drives, it pays. At least for me. BTW, sorry for the absence. Been abroad for a while working on stuff and had little time for sleep let alone coming here. But, just got back from a week in Jamaica (I know, wrong season) and am a bit rested.

Just put Fedora Core 64 for AMD on two machines with SATA drives in LVM mode and RAID 1. Works well as both are AMD 64-bit processors with a good amount of memory (2GB). (Athlon 3000+). Veeeeeeeeeeeeery Fast. Then, put RHES4 on IBM blade center with dual Xeon processors, 10K rpm UWUF (320 Mbs) drives, Realllllllllllly fast!. So, then I put RHAS4 on a blade (single processor, 1G ram, 10K ultrafast (320) drives. Still impressive. Bottom line, FC4 (64) is darn good! RH ES/AS for 64 bit is getting really, really good. Don't be afraid, jump in the water is fine!

Hi Midnightowner, A couple of things have to be setup correctly on both the Windows box and the Linux server running Samba. Try the following configuration (Note, that all the lines which have C style commenting i.e., // on the lines are my comments. The actual lines do NOT have comments so you must NOT put comments like these on these lines.) Also, your workgroup probably is not PROGRAMMING (mine is) and you need to have BOTH your Windows machine(s) and the Samba server match this. Note capital letters. Next, Netbios (which is windows share protocol) wants to have a machine name or netbios name. My Samba server is called IWILL2. So, simply rename your smb.conf file and replace it with this one with suitable changes. Restart samba with command like (as root): /etc/rc.d/init.d/smb restart Make sure you have defined a user for the samba system. Do this as root with: smbpasswd -a <your name> // Note your name should be same as Linux login name (for now). Last, check that all is good with: smbclient -L IWILL2 -U wbs Note, the server name (-L) IWILL2 will probably not match your name and the user name (-U) wbs will not be the same as your user name, so change them accordingly. If you get a response, not an error, proceed to try from Windows. You should see IWILL2 in your Windows/Network/ etc. Here is a good smb.conf file: [global] workgroup = PROGRAMMING // This MUST BE THE SAME ON WIN netbios name = IWILL2 // Windows wants a machine name server string = Fedora Core 3 - CIFS Server // Some text printcap name = /etc/printcap // Location of printer defs load printers = yes // Permit spooled printing for Win printing = lprng socket options = TCP_NODELAY // Performance enhancement dns proxy = no browseable = yes [homes] comment = Home Directories path = /home/%u browseable = no writeable = yes create mask = 0750 follow symlinks = no # admin users = wbs // When you want to screw down access # valid users = wbs // When you want to limit access [printers] comment = All Printers path = /var/spool/samba browseable = yes guest ok = yes printable = yes guest ok = yes --------- Hope this helps, Bill

Hi Jimxugle, What is HUGE server? It would be helpful if you said what capacity of HD storage you require. I have one server up with 38 Terabytes of HD storage. You seem a little stuck on the DOS-like drive lettering. In theory you could have a virtually unlimited number of block devices (Hard Disk is such a device, typically on an IDE interface). Then, you have the SCSI devices ... /dev/scda etc. However, you have not said what the server is for. Just because you can attach a virtually unlimited number of disks is not of consequence when you don't say how the storage is used. If you will say what the server is for perhaps people will be able to assist you better. HTH Bill

I don't run SUSE but if your version of samba is relatively current (I assume it is) you may want to look at the following: I see a couple of possible problems in your smb.conf file. You fail to set a netbios name. (You are running NETBIOS or CIFS and XP wants your machine named). Also, in your [test] specification you are pointing to an area which does not normally have access permissions for a casual user. You may want to modify [test] so that you bypass this (temporarily) by saying admin users Anybody. Also, in general, you must have a Linux user Anybody as well as a smb user Anybody. This is not true for all releases, but keep it in mind. Here is a copy of my smb.conf file, modified for your network and testing. I run this with XP SP2 and Samba on FC3. [global] workgroup = SPECTRUM netbios name = GREEN server string = Green - Samba Server printcap name = /etc/printcap load printers = yes printing = lprng socket options = TCP_NODELAY dns proxy = no browseable = yes [test] comment = Green - Samba test area path = /usr/local/samba/tmp browseable = yes writeable = yes printable = no admin users = Anybody create mask = 0777 Hope this helps. Bill

Hi amosgeoff, Glad to help. Even "gladder" that it worked without any hitches. Often I find the browser based tools to be a bit buggy. But, I run command line alot too. Bill

Hi back, The USB file system won't show in /etc/fstab, type the command: mount with no arguements as shown. You should see usbfs in there, something like: usbfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw) This would indicate that usb support is loaded for file systems. I will have to check how the z515 driver is supposed to work. I will do that, as soon as I get the chance. In the mean time, try using other drivers for the printer. I see a few printers in the "Z" line for Lexmark, don't know which are USB, but I would start there. Bill

Hi Carl, Your shutdown -h command simply means "halt" and "now" means now. This was just an orderly power off of a system It would seem that you did not setup VPN or you would not be in this pickle. I'll try to help (I run it to alot of locations) but you really need to provide a lot more info. What version(s) of the Linux kernel are you running? Can your boxes "see" each other by "ping"? This may not work if your firewall drops ICMP packets, but it is worth checking. Do you know how to use the firewall configuration tools? You will want to be able to provide more info using them later. Are you running DNS servers on your endpoints (one or the other or both)? If you will post this info, I will try to help you. Bill

Hey JB, fstab is a file, not a command. Therefore, you could say: cat /etc/fstab and look at the file system table. Try command: man fstab for an explaination of contents. Next /mnt is a mount point. So, when you want to refer to a device or mountpoint for the mount / unmount operations, you must fully specify the path beginning with the root or "/", so your command would be: umount /mnt/etc/fstab BUT, this makes no sense, fstab is a file - remember. When in doubt, just type: mount and you will get a list of mounted filesystems. You can only unmount what is mounted. You will note there is not a mount point for /mnt/etc/fstab. I have forgotten which model Lexmark you have. Is it USB? BTW, Lexmark was aquired by IBM (If I recall correctly). Lexmark did try often to emulate the majors. Before you attempt to install drivers (can be really frustrating), have you tried to print by specifying other manufacturers (IBM) first? HTH Bill

Well you have come to the right place. Most of us here have either a lot of computers on a network, have installed a lot of different Linux distros, or both. I think you are short on RAM. Put at least 512 MB in. Also, don't know the LG CDROM. If it is just a reader, add $5 or $10 more and get a writer. If you are putting up a development machine / server you will definately want to be able to back your work up. CDs are dirt cheap these days and all serious development work should be backed up! Next, if you are using FC3 machine for the purposes you say, specifically as a gateway, server and development machine, *** DON'T DO IT *** I would assume that you would put firewalling up, even still the purpose of a gateway/firewall is to ISOLATE all machines and processes from the internet. You would not want a failing firewall to permit your work to be corrupted. Yes, certainly one could put all this stuff in one box, but if you are not VERY network savvy and VERY familiar with setting up iptables to build a good firewall, you are only begging trouble. If I were you, I would purchase a firewall router (On EBay for about $25.00). The beauty of these devices is once configured, they are maintennance free. Additionally, they function as NAT routers which make it easy to route incoming requests to different boxes (Apache, SQL, ftp, etc.) really easy to setup and alter to suit your changing test needs. Hope these thoughts help.

I have a few of them. USB external drives use a common protocol. Just about any major manufacturer will probably work okay. However, remember that your HDD will be accessed using the SCSI emulation system and will therefore be accessed as such. HTH

You don't provide much info here. What distro of Linux? Can you connect using Windows or other system? I assume this is cabled with ethernet. Are you sure that standard TCP/IP setup with DHCP for getting settings is not correct? As you say ppp does your ISP use PPPoE? Sorry, you just have to be a bit more specific about what requirements are and what you are using.

WinModems are just that Windows Modems. They rely on processor to do the work. To my knowledge, there are no drivers for any winmodems for Linux. You can pickup a Linux compatible PCI modem for under $50.00 U.S. If you have a spare PCI slot, just drop one of those bad boys in and you are set. Else, get an external device (USB or RS232) for a bit more. HTH

I've used USB cameras with success when running GnomeMeeting. You don't state what distro of Linux or what the application is. So hard to suggest too much. However, if your budget permits, consider a PCI card like Pinnacle or Hauppage. They are TV tuner cards with S-Video and Composit inputs. Both can capture at a max of 30 fps. If you have a camera (an old video camera is great) you will have a much better system. (Also, you can watch TV while working). LOL If the aforementioned is not practical, please be a bit more specific as to your distro, needs etc. HTH Bill

Hi JustBill, Sure, go there, follow the link "current". Now you are in a bigger directory. In this directory you will find "dsl-0.9.3.iso". That's what you want. Click on it and save to disk. Burn .iso image from that. Bill I

First, you may want to check the bios settings to see if the adapter is enabled in your machine. Assuming it is, I know this is a RealTek chip and RealTek does have drivers available for RH up to 9.0. I will guess that the Rh9.0 driver will function with FC2. http://www.realtek.com.tw/products/products1-2.aspx?modelid=15 Good Luck, Bill