Hi ya'll... first and foremost I really enjoy this site. Most of the members here are very helpful and "kind". I want to give a shout to AnyWeb for providing this for the masses. With the ass kissing aside, I would like to ask you guys this:

 

I have a small home network with a win98(laser printer), XP(workstation), MacOS X(workstation), and ClarkConnect Linux server(apache, ftp, mysql, etc). I am having issues with file sharing with my MacOS box and windows and I can't see my linux shares at all from X.

 

I would like to know if there is a better distro of linux I can use that can serve all of the machines on the network like a winadvserver running Active Directory. I want all of my computers to live in a happy file sharing environment without the usage of windows as the primary domain controller.

 

The budget is null and the machine I would like to install the Linux distro is a 400celeron, 256mb sdram, about 40gigs hdd. I would really like a Active Directory replacement for my network. Distro and package suggestions are very welcome.

 

Thanks

we now have 100 registered members and countless guests every day

 

not bad for two months existance !!

 

thanks to all for your help in promoting the site,

 

lets make it grow even more :)

 

congrats go to Ritter, for becoming an Admin of this site

 

for all his hard work with wallpapers/contribs and general cooln3ss

 

cheers

 

anyweb

I installed the package from nvidia for the most recent version of the nforce2 chipset, but the onboard lan will still not function in linux. Are there more steps to do after installing the package to get it to work?

 

It works when I boot to XP so I know the hardware is good.

My real name is Trevor. I just installed RedHat 9, it is my first Linux install. I am dual booting with XP. I am a windows and networking guru, just need to get my linux up to snuff.

 

I will have lots of questions but this looks like the right place to get help.

Are you only allowed to access certain programs when you ssh into you box from another comp?

Ok.

 

First off, configuration info

 

Athlon 1ghz, (32 bit obviously) redhat 9 (2.4.28-9) using vsftpd

 

factoids

 

* I have successfully configued vsftpd to be publicly available on the internet.

* I have configured anonymous user logins

* anonymous users can download whatever they can SEE

* anonymous users can create directories

* anon users can enter those directories and upload files to them

 

 

What they can't do is..

 

Delete directories (and I don't want them to be able to)

Delete files in directories (and I don't want them to be able to)

Browse directories they created after uploading something to them

 

The /incoming and /pub directories can be uploaded to, and the files that are put there, are visible, but not downloadable.

 

But if someone makes a sub-directory in /incoming .. they can cd to it, and put files. but they cannot see the files they put, and cannot download them, obviously.

 

 

Reasoning, as I see it is, that the /incoming and /pub directories are

-rwxrwxrwx

files that are uploaded to /incoming get tagged as -rw--------

 

directories that are made in incoming are tagged as -rwx-------

 

How can I get the directories made in /incoming to be tagged AUTOMATICALLY so that anonymous users can 'browse' and download files from them, and the same for the files too.

 

I mean, I can put files there, then from the box itself (via ssh or right from it's k/b and mouse) can set the right flags.. but I want the chmod to happen automatically

 

I want anything 'pushed' into there to be -rwxr-xr-x (I assume.. this means I'll be able to have an "anonymous ftp site") with full functionality so.. how do i set this up (chmod 755 ?) to happen on the fly

Here is a screenshot of win2k running cygwin with XFree86. I have my fedora desktop X forwarded to it, as you can see. I did this by installing cygwin (http://www.cygwin.com), and using my cygwin term i just type startx. with my X session running on the windows box, I then open a terminal and [ ssh -X linuxbox ] this turns on X forwarding to the windows box. Once connected with ssh just type [ nautilus ] to open the remote desktop gui.

 

A local ISP blocks port 25 so mail users cannot use my smtp server. I need to redirect port 2525 to 25 so my users can bypass this.

 

Ive done this on bsd servers but cant get it to stick with iptables on linux. I have use different variations but here is one of the commands i have tried:

 

iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -i eth0 -p tcp -dport 2525 -j REDIRECT --to-port 25

 

any help would be most appreciated.

 

cool beans.

 

questorX

im installing fedora core 1 on a laptop and it hangs at installing docbook-dtds-1.0.22.1.noarch - any idea? completely clean install, all defaults... any ideas?

tell me what you think, and tell me what country you are accessing the server from please and what speed line you are using to connect to it

 

cheers

 

anyweb