For the unknown interface.
Look at the files in /etc/sysconfig the ifcfg-??? files are the interfaces
it trys to startup on bootup (if ONBOOT=yes is set)
Chances are you used diald-config and either diald-config-metered or
diald-config-unmetered....if you do then do this. (Get rid of
them...they're more harmful than useful.)
rpm -e diald-config-unmetered or metered Whatever.
rpm -e diald-config
cd /usr/doc/diald*
cp connect /etc/ppp
vi /etc/ppp/connect Then change the phone number, USERname, PASSWDORD
COMMAND fields apropriatly.
vi /etc/diald.conf Then uncomment the fifo line, change the ttyS? line.
Then restart diald.
killall diald
diald
less /var/log/messages
Hit ctrl-F
New console screen....Alt-F2
ping 1.1.1.1
Should bring diald up.
Now Samba.
Either adduser guest (or pcguest (whatever is defined in /etc/smb.conf)
then vi /etc/passwd (be careful in this file) and delete the *
So, it would look somewhat like this;
guest::505:505:RH Linux User:
This makes it so the guest account will have no password.......DON'T DO IT
THIS WAY!!
Setup you Win95 for Windows Network (DO NOT set it to Logon to NT Domain!!!!)
If you now do logon to your win95 box....simply change your logon name to
match your account on your linux box. Then when you dble click the linux
box in Network Neibourhood, it will simply ask you for your linux password.
There is someway to change your logon name through samba, But I can't
recall where I read about it.
Let me know if this works out or not. Or if this isn't to clear on howto do
it.
Dan
DO NOT SETUP WIN95 TO LOGON TO AN NT DOMAIN!!!!!!!!!!
Else you will have to setup an NT system and put it on your network as a
PDC.....Man did I learn this the hardway ;)
Good thing I had a spare computer to do it with. =)
At 08:47 AM 6/11/98 -0400, George Lenzer wrote:
>Unknown interface:
>
>At boot up time, my Linux box at home displays a few errors. The one that
has
>me stumped is this:
>
>unknown interface: down.
>
>When I first installed Linux, everything was fine. I noticed this error
>message after the first week or so. (I've been using Linux for three-four
>weeks now) I regularly us the commands 'ifup ppp0' and 'ifdown ppp0' to
>connect to the internet. Just before the message started appearing, I
>accidentally typed 'if down ppp0'. I can't remember if this gave me an
error,
>or if I got a message stating "interface added". Does this sound like the
>culprit for the boot time error? Where would I look to remove the interface
>"down"?
>
>Dial on Demand:
>
>Is my impression of what dial-on -demand is correct? If I have a machine
set
>up as an Internet router using IP Masquerading and the machine also has
>dial-on-demand implemented... Will that machine automatically dial out when
>any other machine on the network requests internet access? And, will it
>disconnect after a period of time, or when there is no internet activity?
(I
>need to use the same account from a different location and my ISP doesn't
allow
>the same account to log in twice.)
>
>SAMBA:
>
>I installed SAMBA support when I first set up Linux. I edited the smb.conf
>file to create a share that the Windows machines on my network could access.
> However, I am not able to connect to the share. It asks me for a
password at
>which I type my root password. That fails. I then try the user's password.
> That also fails. Since my network is for family use at home, and I don't
have
>any kind of security going on, (No passwords on any shares on the Win95
>machines) I would like to do the same with the linux shares. I would like
to
>share out a "universal" directory on the Linux machine with full
permission for
>all users and no passwords. I have looked through the HOWTO and read the
notes
>in the smb.conf file but haven't had any success in getting this to work.
I am
>sure this has to be possible. Does it have anything to do with the security
>type in smb.conf? Should I change it from the Unix Username/Password to the
>Wfw clear text? I don't have a server to validate logons so I can't use
SERVER
>can I?
>
>As always,
>Many thanks to the helpful
>
>PS-All of the IP Masquerade info I got this week worked. I had to change
the
>ip_forward flag to 'yes' in the /etc/sysconfig/network script. I then added
>the appropriate 'ipfwadm' command to /etc/rc.d/rc.local. Worked like a
charm!
>:)
>
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