Hi there,
Sorry i can't help you more than this, but...It seems to me that your internet
connection sharing
should come up AFTER your eth0 (plugged into the cable modem) has gotten its ip
address. Is the
connection sharing a "service"? That is, does it have a pointer in /etc/rc.d/rcX.d
where X=your
runlevel (3 for text-based multiuser w/ network, 5 for graphics-based multiuser w/
network)?
If so, it probably looks something like this: /etc/rc.d/rc5.d/S10network except that
it will not
be network, it will be "connectionsharing" or whatever. And the number S10 might be
different. It
indicates what gets started first. Lower number gets started sooner. So maybe your
sharing service
is getting started before the network? This probably shouldn't happen, so try renaming
the
filename (it's a link) to something with a priority number that makes sense.
MAKE SURE YOU WRITE DOWN HOW EVERYTHING WAS BEFORE YOU CHANGED ANYTHING. I don't want
to be
responsible for screwing up your system further :-)
The other stuff, i have no idea about.
Good luck,
j
--- email <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> 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
>
>
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