Re: OT: Help with simple Linux maintenance

2009-06-16 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Jun 16, 2009, at 2:44 AM, Gal Goldschmidt wrote: I guess I can buy a router, configure it and sent it to her, the problem is who will connect the right cables in the right place. It should be pretty simple. With one computer, it's 2 cables. If you go with the wireless option you can

Re: cifs replacing smbfs - how to set up?

2009-06-16 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 5:19 PM, Herouth Maoz wrote: > Up until recently I used to have smbfs mounts to all the development and > some of the production servers in my company. I used to mount as a > particular user in the host machine, and then every write, mode change, time > set etc. was done as

Re: cifs replacing smbfs - how to set up?

2009-06-16 Thread Herouth Maoz
Quoting guy keren : in the samba server file you have a 'workgroup' name - give this as the 'domain' to the cifs mount options. also, you can run the samba server on the linux machine in debug mode, re-connect the client, perform the operation and start reading the log... it's not trivial, but

Re: cifs replacing smbfs - how to set up?

2009-06-16 Thread Herouth Maoz
Quoting Oleg Goldshmidt : FWIW, I see similar effects when the server is Windows. I have a different setup, I run VMware VMs on my work laptop, and I mount a share on the host (WinXP 64 bit) in Linux VM (CentOS 5.3). After initial hiccups I worked my way through the various "security" tabs in th

Re: OT: Help with simple Linux maintenance

2009-06-16 Thread Ez-Aton
I have had to fake the entire add/remove software for Cellcom cellular modem with a tech support until I broke and just asked for the default init strings. This was funny. I was "removing the drivers through the control panel and through 'add-remove software'", "rebooting" and then "reinstallin

High availability virtual ip

2009-06-16 Thread Biran, Yahav (Yahav)
i have two linux machines, that are running on the same LAN. i would like to find a way to set HA IP. i was thinking on creating virtual ip that will ride on the exiting eth. lets say 10.0.0.1 and 10.0.0.2 and the VIP will be 172.16.4.1 both will run an infinite loop of:while (ping 172.16.4.1) do .

Re: High availability virtual ip

2009-06-16 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
2009/6/16 Biran, Yahav (Yahav) : > i have two linux machines, that are running on the same LAN. > i would like to find a way to set HA IP. > i was thinking on creating virtual ip that will ride on the exiting eth. > lets say 10.0.0.1 and 10.0.0.2 and the VIP will be 172.16.4.1 > both will run an in

Re: OT: Help with simple Linux maintenance

2009-06-16 Thread Dotan Cohen
>> and Netvision are thieves who want our money, not our business. They >> deserve neither. > > That may be true, and certainly they (well, Barak) want our business > because of the money we pay, can't fault that, can we?... FWIW, > Netvision have always (since 1996 for me) provided decent Linux >

Re: OT: Help with simple Linux maintenance

2009-06-16 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Gal Goldschmidt writes: > From time to time I get blocked, especially if I switch the hardware > connected to the modem. > I guess I can buy a router, configure it and sent it to her, the > problem is who will connect the right cables in the right place. I don't experience this problem. It is

Re: High availability virtual ip

2009-06-16 Thread Marc Volovic
Hi First, the problem is not an IP, but the mac-ip mapping and ARP caching strategies. Second, don't use ping. Third, do use project 'heartbeat' and 'fake'. They provide what you need. M ---MAV Marc. Volovic +972-54-467-6764 m...@swiftouch.com Sent from my iPhone On Jun 16, 2009, at 6:

Re: High availability virtual ip

2009-06-16 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Marc Volovic writes: > Hi > > First, the problem is not an IP, but the mac-ip mapping and ARP > caching strategies. > > Second, don't use ping. > > Third, do use project 'heartbeat' and 'fake'. They provide what you > need. Heartbeat is a component of Linux-HA, which is why I pointed to the latt