After a full day of computers...

From: JPB (jpb_at_email.pt)
Date: 10/16/04 

Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2004 18:23:00 +0930

I'm getting too tired to think, so please help me fix my last two issues
- likely simple ones for the old hands here. To start with, both the
computers in question run SuSE 9.1 Pro and nothing but.

Firstly, I got my wireless cards to work; finally. Now all is well -
except when I input the WEP passphrase in Yast and activate same in the
router, both computers get cut off; permanently. I then have to go back
to an ethernet connection (ifup eth0), so as to be able to access the
router and get rid of encryption again. Then, bingo, it all works again.
So where's the catch?

All I've done is set the WEP passphrase (tried both 64 & 128-bit
incryption with same unsatisfactory result) in the router. Then I go to
YAST and input the same in the "Passphrase" field in "Wireless
Settings". I only need one key and the authentication mode is "open". --
Please advise...

The other issue is LAN file sharing. I've had no trouble getting the
printer to work (connected to one machine & the other accessing it
through the CUPS server). Easy, that one.

I've set up a NFS server and a client on each machine, with the
wildcards set to the name of the other computer. Allocated directories
to share (/home) and went with defaults in "options"
(ro,root_squash,sync). The machines can see each other, as well as the
shared directories, with no problem. However, the exported directories
cannot be mounted - if I try to do that in Konqueror, I get just an
empty directory. There is a message on boot stating that "permission was
denied" by the server to mount the directories. -- So no doubt I've
stuffed up the necessary permissions somewhere. Please point me towards
the right solution - I'm sure it must be something despicably basic! :-)

Thanks, guys.

JPB