Teresa and Dale wrote:
It had a bug, she tried to fix it and deleted something. Boat anchor
after that. O_O
Hence the concept of "not running as root"... ;) (and yes, it can
apply to non-UNIX systems too)
PS. Block 135-139, 445 and 3389 ports to/from the Internet at the LAN
periphery. Otherwise, your box could get backdoored before you even
had a chance to run any M$Windoze updates. ;-)
Amen. It's happened to me.
I think most if not all my problem is the Linksys router. I don't think
I have it set up to let the two systems connect to each other. I'm not
sure where to even start either. She lost the book to the thing. I did
trial and error to get the internet working.
The little "reset" button on the back of the router may just be your
best friend round about now. Hold it in with a pen or something for
about 5 seconds, until it reboots itself. The default settings for the
router (disclaimer: all Linksys routers I'm familiar with) make it get
its external address from DHCP, assign all internal addresses via the
same, permit all internal->internal and internal->external connections,
and refuse all external->internal connections.
In any case, Google is your friend...
http://dotancohen.com/howto/linksyssetup/index.php and you can Google
your specific model for even better results.
< sighs >
Dale
:-)
Chin up, the worst is yet to come! ;)
And anyway, a Gentoo router > a Linksys one any day. :D
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