Network Connection

[Guest]

I have 3 boxes, 1 XP Home, 2 Linux servers primary and secondary. I cannot
get the XP box to cooperate networking to the Linux boxes. The Windows
Network shows in Samba but won't connect either.

I am also behind a firewalled router, cable not wireless, static IP address
on the otherside of the firewall. All my internal IPs are static, and subnet
masks and gateways IP are correct. The only difference is on XP there is no
DNS Suffix;

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.2.4
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.2.1

I have not figured out how to assign my domain name to it.

I tried connecting to the Linux boxes via Map Network Drive and it seems to
find the computer by \\IP\user name\ but when I use my Linux user name and
password it just keeps flashing the same screen asking for user name and
password.

XP box... Whenever I try to go to my domain or FTP site (located on the
Linux boxes) via internet browser by domain or my static IP I get my router
set-up page(?)

suggestions?

 

[Malke]

I have 3 boxes, 1 XP Home, 2 Linux servers primary and secondary. I
cannot
get the XP box to cooperate networking to the Linux boxes. The
Windows Network shows in Samba but won't connect either.

I am also behind a firewalled router, cable not wireless, static IP
address
on the otherside of the firewall. All my internal IPs are static, and
subnet
masks and gateways IP are correct. The only difference is on XP there
is no DNS Suffix;

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.2.4
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.2.1

I have not figured out how to assign my domain name to it.

I tried connecting to the Linux boxes via Map Network Drive and it
seems to find the computer by \\IP\user name\ but when I use my Linux
user name and password it just keeps flashing the same screen asking
for user name and password.

XP box... Whenever I try to go to my domain or FTP site (located on
the Linux boxes) via internet browser by domain or my static IP I get
my router set-up page(?)

suggestions?

It sounds like you haven't got Samba set up correctly. Since you didn't
mention your distro, I can't give you distro-specific steps. Basically,
you want to:

1. Have smb and nmb running at startup in levels 3 and 5.
2. Configure the Samba server correctly with your Windows information.
3. Create user accounts/passwords in Linux that match the user accounts
and passwords on Windows.
4. Create Samba user accounts with smbpasswd -a username [enter]
5. Since your Windows boxen are Home Edition, you'll have to allow Guest
on Samba.
6. Make sure all firewalls - on Linux and Windows - are properly
configured it to allow the lan traffic as trusted.

I'd add "man samba", but I'm not that mean. ;-)

I don't know what you mean by "try to go to my domain". What domain?
What are you trying to accomplish?

Malke

 

[Guest]

:

It sounds like you haven't got Samba set up correctly. Since you didn't
mention your distro, I can't give you distro-specific steps. Basically,
you want to:

1. Have smb and nmb running at startup in levels 3 and 5.
2. Configure the Samba server correctly with your Windows information.
3. Create user accounts/passwords in Linux that match the user accounts
and passwords on Windows.
4. Create Samba user accounts with smbpasswd -a username [enter]
5. Since your Windows boxen are Home Edition, you'll have to allow Guest
on Samba.
6. Make sure all firewalls - on Linux and Windows - are properly
configured it to allow the lan traffic as trusted.

I'd add "man samba", but I'm not that mean. ;-)

I don't know what you mean by "try to go to my domain". What domain?
What are you trying to accomplish?

Malke
--
Elephant Boy Computers
www.elephantboycomputers.com
"Don't Panic!"
MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User

Samba... that could be a possibility as I am a newb to Linux.

I am using Fedora Core 4 on both Linux boxes. My domain is
thefractalfarm.net, i.e. FQDN. My primary server Linux box 1 is
latcarf.mydomain.net and Linux box 2 is server2.mydomain.net. Box 1 hosts my
FTP and Box 2 hosts my website www.thefractalfarm.net.

I am pretty sure I have all the ports open needed on my router and Linux
boxes. The XP box is another story!

Its late for an old man like me but I will try your steps above tomorrow
after work.
I'll come back and let you know what happened.

thanks
lance

 

[Guest]

It sounds like you haven't got Samba set up correctly. Since you didn't
mention your distro, I can't give you distro-specific steps. Basically,
you want to:

1. Have smb and nmb running at startup in levels 3 and 5.
2. Configure the Samba server correctly with your Windows information.
3. Create user accounts/passwords in Linux that match the user accounts
and passwords on Windows.
4. Create Samba user accounts with smbpasswd -a username [enter]
5. Since your Windows boxen are Home Edition, you'll have to allow Guest
on Samba.
6. Make sure all firewalls - on Linux and Windows - are properly
configured it to allow the lan traffic as trusted.

I'd add "man samba", but I'm not that mean. ;-)

I don't know what you mean by "try to go to my domain". What domain?
What are you trying to accomplish?

Malke
--
Elephant Boy Computers
www.elephantboycomputers.com
"Don't Panic!"
MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User

that worked! While I thought I set it to go to my user Home directory when
XP network logs in to the Linux box I see a bunch of folders I don't
recognize. Some seem to be what I would call system folders because they
appear to be "hidden" if you know what I mean.

This also solved my problem with accessing my web and ftp site from XP. I
did have to edit the windows\system32\etc\hosts file adding the local IPs for
both sites.

Thanks for the help Malke!