I have a working LAN running Debian Testing updated 2 or 3 times a week, with samba connecting to a WinXP machine. I also have a working ipmasquerade setup using this firewall script.
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/IP-Masquerade-HOWTO/firewall-examples.html This allows the Winxp machine to get its internet from the host through the LAN. Everything works at this point. ifconfig shows eth0 as what /etc/network/interfaces says it should be. _______________________________________________________________ # This file describes the network interfaces available on your system # and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5). # The loopback network interface auto lo iface lo inet loopback address 127.0.0.1 netmask 255.0.0.0 auto eth0 iface eth0 inet static address 192.68.1.100 netmask 255.255.255.0 _________________________________________________________________ Today I tried Debian on the client machine and was having trouble with samba running on both machines. It seems that they both wanted to be the master. So I decide to run NFS while Debian is running on the client, and samba while the client is running WinXP. The host, I figure, will just run both at all times (maybee i went wrong there?). Installing nfs-common, nfs-kernel-server, nfsbooted, portmap and a couple dependencies, libidmap1 and libevent1. I then configure everything as seen here. http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/NFS-HOWTO/server.html Now! /etc/network/interfaces is still the same as before, except running ifconfig gives this output __________________________________ eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0D:87:D1:11:CC inet addr:169.254.223.155 Bcast:0.0.0.0 Mask:255.255.0.0 UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b) Interrupt:177 Base address:0xe800 ___________________________________________ I have no idea where that ip address is coming from, but client 192.68.1.200 is now not seeing the host, which is supposed to be 192.68.1.100 but is now 169.254.223.155 for whatever reason. Running ifdown eth0, then ifup eth0 gives this error SIOCSIFADDR: File exists Failed to bring up eth0. although now ifconfig will have this output eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0D:87:D1:11:CC inet addr:192.68.1.100 Bcast:192.68.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b) Interrupt:177 Base address:0xe800 The correct ip address now, but still not able to ping in either direction. debian:~# ping 192.68.1.200 PING 192.68.1.200 (192.68.1.200) 56(84) bytes of data. ping: sendmsg: Operation not permitted ping: sendmsg: Operation not permitted (Is this a firewall?) The next step that i take is to dpkg -P all of the nfs related packages that I installed, reboot, this problem still exists. Can anybody tell me where I went wrong? Dan L. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
