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| SMSainju | Posted
on 22-Jan-03 12:58 PM
Life looks good for Linux Readmore Enjoy!! SMSainju |
| Vision | Posted
on 22-Jan-03 02:16 PM
SMSainju ji (or any IT professional) I need help connecting red hat 7.3 to MS network, connect to network printers and network drives/shares etc. Please help! |
| SMSainju | Posted
on 22-Jan-03 02:31 PM
Vision ji, If you have RH7.3 CDs, one of them has RPM source of SAMBA, or you can download samba from samba.org. once you install it, read the samba configuration file and just follow the steps. Once samba is up and running, you should be able to share your files/directory/printers with others and vice-versa. Good luck and welcome to the world of Linux. SMSainju |
| Vision | Posted
on 22-Jan-03 03:55 PM
SMsainju ji, Bad start with Linux...I can't even get in, can't remember the darn ROOT password. I do have three CDs. On my first installation attempt, it gave me choice to create a BOOT floppy at the end. But now I can't seem to boot from the hard drive. I CAN only boot from floppy. Second installation attempt in progress...I'll have to get back to you on Samba stuff SMsainju ji. |
| PremPujari | Posted
on 22-Jan-03 05:54 PM
SMS jyu, Pretty soon I'll be asking you about LINUX, so get ready for that. :) by the way, which is the better firewall, that i can download for free?? zoneAlarm?? Any other??? just curious, just installed zoneAlarm though!!! Thank you. |
| czar | Posted
on 22-Jan-03 06:52 PM
Prem Pujari, If you can get a hold of it, Black Ice Defender is a good choice. I've also had some pretty good results with Norton Personal Firewall too, assuming its for a single user PC. If you are using broadband, then a DSL Router/Switch with Firewall is an inexpensive and easy install-n-forget [but keep yer fingers crossed] solution. Netgear/DLink offer a few choices in this category. If its for a network, the choices get wider, but your throughput requirements, network design along with appetite for config / tweaking will determine your choices. A hardware only, or software only or combination solutions are on offer. Check Point offers some very comprehensive solutions, Cisco, of course you are aware has this base covered too. Of course, what IT proposes, finance disposes..these are difficult times for IT budgets.. but heck..you already know this..so why am I preaching to the converted ? Happy hack-tracing ! Hop..hop..hop..! ;) |
| Suna | Posted
on 23-Jan-03 07:37 AM
Czar You said "If you are using broadband, then a DSL Router/Switch with Firewall is an inexpensive and easy install-n-forget [but keep yer fingers crossed] solution". Can you elaborate? I am using just that at work and would like to find out the glitches of that. pseudo-IT person parey!ali ali kaam chalau type kya ta. |
| arch119 | Posted
on 23-Jan-03 08:15 AM
PremPujari, As far as a free personal firewall is concerned, I recommend zonealarm. It has several security levels which u can choose according to your firewall needs (from pajama-loose to chicken-tight configuration) . Once u install it , u will start noticing those background spywares installed in ur box , trying to send ur info. to remote servers as well as the newbie hackers trying to access ur box from outside and of course, u can freely control them. |
| SMSainju | Posted
on 23-Jan-03 08:40 AM
Vision ji, if you forgot your root password, try booting to single user mode usually when you see lili or grub try linux 1 this will allow you to be at the root level without logging into the system. then simply use passwd for root and change the password. Of course you can turn this option on or off. You should be able to boot from your image from the hda. You can always create a boot disk later. use the dosutil from your RH7.3 CD #1 using rawrite. Hope this helps. Regarding Firewall stuff PP ji asked me, I usually use hardware (firewall). I have a cisco and sonic wall. not much into software firewall. sorry couldn't help you on that. Check your binaries on one of the CDs. or Just simply go to Samba.org or gnu.org. It is pretty straight forward. SMSainju |
| SMSainju | Posted
on 23-Jan-03 08:52 AM
Vision ji, There are total of seven run levels in Linux (including 0). Use man telinit and read the instructions. By the time you see nice GUI in linux, you will be on run level 5/6. Or simply try /sbin/runlevel to see where you are at. there are many applications running on different run levels. to see what is running on what level, try /sbin/chkconfig --list while you are ready to install SAMBA, i highly encourage to turn the system into level 3 to avoid conflict with other apps/daemons. read more on telinit. to do so, simply use telinit 3. this will take you to level 3. and this is where you should be installing your SAMBA... This is not a must be will be much secure. Drop me an email if you need further info/assistance. SMSainju |
| Biruwa | Posted
on 23-Jan-03 09:20 AM
Vision, It seems your lilo(linux loader) was corrupted or something. So you will need to install lilo. For this just type lilo and press enter. The LILO installation process should now run. Mr SMSainju , You said above: You should be able to boot from your image from the hda. Can you please elaborate on that. |
| queen | Posted
on 23-Jan-03 12:21 PM
Can some one suggest a good anti-virus out there free for a Windows XP. Thanks |
| Vision | Posted
on 23-Jan-03 04:51 PM
Thanks for your input on my questions. Before I throw you more questions, I wanna emphasize that yesterday was my first day of using Linux, hence my knowledge is very limited and I might not comprehend you fully. I had been successfully avoiding Linux for years, but after reading SMsainju ji's "life looks good for Linux" thread yesterday, I was prompted to find my old set of Linux CD's, blow up my windows and install the darn thing. SMsainju ji's occasional pro Linux, windows dissing thread may have also contributed to my action. And now I have it installed, let’s see what it has to say. SMsainju ji, as per your advise, I checked my level and I am running on level 5. Also I have installed SAMBA from the website you suggested. The name of the file I downloaded is ‘Samba-latest.tar.gz’ as per the advise from the website. When I was logged in under ‘GNOME’ session, the error I got when I attempted to open SAMBA was ‘Nautilus has no installed viewer capable of displaying’. Soon I discovered the KDE session and that problem was resolved. I was also able to connect to Jet Direct printer and successfully print the test page after providing the machine with the IP address. But now, the error message I get from the HP 5si laser jet is ‘bad transmission’ on every attempt to print from Linux. My biggest challenge, however, is to join the darn thing to the Windows NT domain and to be able to log in to the domain as a client machine. I would also like to be able to map to all my network drives that are running on windows 2000 advanced server. As far I understand, Linux also uses TCP/IP, but are there any alteration needed in terms of protocols? And I must be able to connect to Windows 2000 terminal server. And I’ll have to find a way for Lotus Notes R5 to run on it. It’ll be super if Deltek accounting softwares, which runs on oracle platform can be run. Anything less…. is discouraging. Smsainju ji, you’ve got me started, now let’s see how far you can take me :) |
| SMSainju | Posted
on 24-Jan-03 10:47 AM
Vision ji, As I have said earlier, Linux is like a manual car. If you know how to drive one, it is so much fun and you have better control over it than the one that has automatic transmission. If I got you started, by no means, don't count on me to how far I can take you :) It is the patience and your drive, I guess, will take you to wherever you wanna go. I hope you'll continue like many others and support the open source movement. I know that IBM is porting Lotus NOtes to Linux. If and when the popularity of Linux soars to at least 15-20% on desktop market, my hunch is that many software industries will rethink their business model to other alternatives. SAMBA should be fairly straight forward. I think your best bet is to get hold of the docs or try linuxdocs.com KDE is what I use most of the time. I think it is a much nicer window manager on any clone of UNIX. Enjoy!!! SMSainju PS: Linux already supports IPv6. |
| Vision | Posted
on 24-Jan-03 01:22 PM
SMsainju Ji, Thank you for shedding some light. Agree I need some patience with this. I'll holler at you when I get chance to spend more time with this. As of yet, it still sits here without any network connectivity. Time allowing, it'll be great if you can shed some light on connecting it to windows network. thanks again! |
| SMSainju | Posted
on 24-Jan-03 02:00 PM
Vision ji, If you want to hook it up to the netowork (internet connection). do the following... 1. /sbin/ifconfig -- this will list the number of eth... 0 1 2 3.. 2. ping to your localhost (127.0.0.1 or simply localhost.localdomain) 3. If your eth0 is up then run netconfig or control-pannel or just simply go thru the menu to find network configuration and enter the ip address or go to /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ and edit using vi or emacs ifcfg-eth0 or 1 .... and put the appropriate IP info. once you set this up turn the eth0/1... down by ./ifdown eth0 and then up using ./ifup eth0. If you have a DHCP connection then easiest way is to go thru the control-pannel and network configuration. USe DHCP instead of static. Once you have this up then you can install SAMBA. Follow the steps in samba config file. Hope this helps. SMSainju |