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Subject:    Re: [Systalk]Linux and NT networking advise needed
From:       GK64 () aol ! com
Date:       2001-02-21 4:56:48
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In your mail from2/17/2001 10:51:57 PM Pacific Standard Time 
emanuel@levy.net wrote:

> I build a system for my father and put on suse 7.0 for him. I will be
>  putting it into our home network which is all windows based. I have a 2000
>  Pro system and a Me system. The 2000 Pro system has two network cards in 
it.
>  One out to a cable modem one to my 10/100 switch. I am running ICS on the
>  2000 Pro box. When I attach the Linux system into the switch what will I
>  have to do to allow it to get out to the internet and connect to the shared
>  printer. The printer is physically attached to the 2000 Pro box.
>  

On the linux side.
the only thing you have to do is to config your networkcard with yast to DHCP
the rest does the DNS and DHCPserver of the 2000 ICS hopefully ;-)

Or use i.e.for the eth0 a fixed 192.168.0.x x between 2 and 253 mask 
255.255.255.0
set gateway 192.168.0.1
be shure to set the nameserver to 192.168.0.1
all this can be done with the yast programm in SuSE
or edit it manualy in /etc/rc.config
check with nslookup if it worked

The tricky part is ICS and SMB shares because ICS uses this MSHOME 
workgroupname.  
and your SuSE SMB client is set to PRIVATEWORKGROUP or something else
you have to change this in your SMB (samba) config file.
please read the smb help files. (mini howtos on SMB)
if you running KDE you find the howtos under documentation .....
to mount a w2000 shared printer is possible and in detail discribed

checkout the smbclient and smbmount programm
i.e smbclient -L 192.168.0.1  
or smbclient //192.168.0.1/printername
If you have declared your share in the 2000 and the ICS propperly.
the only drawback is that you open with such a config and without a firewall
a very big hole.

I tested some of those configs with the -whistler- windowsXP
advandced server and you get it to work but 
If you dont have the server license and the security proxy in place. uuuuh. 
ooops.
The other way arround linux as the SMB printer share and as firewall gateway 
to the internet i think is today the better way. 
I would not waste such a fine windows 2000 pro machine to do such basic 
networking shit. 
Use it as Wordprocessor or homecinnema or do some excel
this is what it realy can. if you dont TeX. 
But on the other hand if you like the click and done and dont care about your 
privacy
do as descibed above and your linux client is waiting for input.  
if you want to use the server part of the linux suite
you have to add some registry keys in ICS even to use the HTTPS of apache
ask me.
because ICS is only some kind of NAT or  masquarading.
 


GK64 ... GertK... llaip! :-)




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