Sirs,
After installing Mandrake 8.0 and moving this machine into being my
proxy/intranet/fileserver, I have developed a number of problems...
Any help for any of these would be much appreciated.
1. I configured Mandrake 8.0 on this machine as a proxy server to my
cable modem. That all worked great using Mandrake's new internet sharing
function in the Mandrake Control Centre. Unfortunately, if I reboot the
machine, my external network card (to the cable modem) fails to obtain an
IP address. I cannot obtain an IP address at all until I remove the
internet sharing, and actually reboot the computer itself without internet
sharing available.
I am then able to obtainan IP address, and turn the internet sharing back
on.
Basically, I have not yet figure out why it will not obtain an IP address
at boot if the internet sharing is on. Anyone?
2. Before making this machine my permanent server, I was running a Dell
Poweredge 4100/200 Windows NT4 server. While that was running, I was able
to use a simple little smb.conf file that I whipped up quickly which
shared the drives I needed...
Now that this is the server, that little smb.conf file doesn't work at
all, so I wrote a new one that I figured should work (admittedly, I am by
no means an expert at anything here). Anyways, here is the new smb.conf
file;
[global]
unix password sync = no
workgroup = DEVELOPMENT
netbios name = Nadya
encrypt passwords = no
security = user
map to guest = never
password level = 0
null passwords = no
allow hosts = 192.168.0.*
os level = 30
preferred master = yes
domain master = yes
wins support = no
dead time = 0
debug level = 3
load printers = yes
interfaces = eth1
[printers]
comment = Canon S400
available = yes
printable = yes
browseable = yes
public = yes
[homes]
comment = home
available = yes
browseable = yes
public = no
writable = yes
allow hosts = 192.168.0.*
user = lyric
only user = no
write list = lyric
valid users = lyric
[storage]
available = yes
browseable = yes
path = /storage
public = no
guest only = no
writable = yes
allow hosts = 192.168.0.*
user = lyric
only user = no
admin users = lyric
write list = lyric
valid users = lyric
[data]
available = yes
browseable = yes
path = /home/data
public = no
guest only = no
writable = yes
allow hosts = 192.168.0.*
user = lyric
only user = no
admin users = lyric
write list = lyric
valid users = lyric
eth1 is my internal NIC. I am the only person here that i want to have
access to any of the shares on Nadya (The linux server).
This allows the service to start fine, but when i try an smbclient -L
Nadya I get this;
doing parameter load printers = yes
doing parameter interfaces = eth1
pm_process() returned Yes
added interface ip=192.168.0.1 bcast=192.168.0.255 nmask=255.255.255.0
Client started (version 2.0.7).
resolve_lmhosts: Attempting lmhosts lookup for name Nadya<0x20>
resolve_hosts: Attempting host lookup for name Nadya<0x20>
Connecting to 192.168.0.1 at port 139
session request to NADYA failed (Not listening for calling name)
resolve_lmhosts: Attempting lmhosts lookup for name Nadya<0x20>
resolve_hosts: Attempting host lookup for name Nadya<0x20>
Connecting to 192.168.0.1 at port 139
session request to *SMBSERVER failed (Not listening for calling name)
my limited understanding has left me with my mouth open shakig my head on
this one... again, I could really use assistance here... I don't want to
return to a Windows NT4 server unless I have to.
3. One other oddity. Mandrake 8 installer refused to see sda on my
Adaptec 2940 UW when the device was configured for ID 0. The SCSI channel
has 4 hard drives, and one CD-ROM drive. Their IDs while I was running
Mandrake 7.2 were 0-3 for the hard drives, and 4 for the CD-ROM. I also
have a 20 GB IDE Maxtor drive on there just for some raw storage space.
Now, in order to install Mandrake 8.0, I had to change the drives so they
use 1-4 for their IDs, and the CD-ROM uses ID 5. I also had to change the
boot device ID setting in the 2940UW's BIOS. I boot to SCSI and SCSI
only.
While toiling with the setup, I tried every possible drive ID
configuration, as well as trying other version of linux. Every other
installation of a different version or distribution of Linux that I tried
had no problem with the original configuration, but this one died every
time.
Oh, I also tried removing the IDE drive thinking hat might have caused
the problem, that was still a no go.
Anyways, like I said earlier in the email, any help for this would be
greatly appreciated... This has me slightly aggravated at this point, and
I would rather keep from ruining good hardware.
Thanks
Anthony
