LAN Help needed

Well, its' been a long road but I finally have a LAN working at home. AS I
have only just begun to utilize this capability I know I have much to
learn. However, I read a lot and I've got lots of time to fiddle. Since
both computers are sitting side by side it's much easier to work out
problems.

So far I've manage to download a color image of wiring diagrams and with a
handy-dandy tool I bought at Home Depot® I've made my own ethernet cables
including a x-over cable between computers. As I already had my first
ethernet card (eth0) configured with ADSL & DHCP (External zone)I just
added a second card for the lan (eth1). I assigned it a permanent IP
(192.168.0.1), enabled masquerading and IP forwarding (internal zone). On
the second computer I assigned the ethernet card (eth0) an address of
192.168.0.2, a gateway address of 192.168.0.1 and after a bit of @#$%!!!
around, I used the DNS address of my ISP in the DNS entry.. That worked.
So I pinged between the two and that was good. Next I pointed my browser
on the internal machine to the IP address of my external machine and
voila', I was looking at my Apache web page.... I pointed to an external
(Internet) address and I was surfing the web... Also, I put the IP of my
internal machine into the address bar of konqueror (192.168.0.2) and I get
the Apache web page of that machine...

So, I finally had my lan working. Stage two... File sharing and remote
control. As I just had received my March issue of Linux Journal I thought
I would try out the article by Marcel Gagne about remote desktop control.

I installed both krfb (KDE Remote Frame Buffer) and krdc (KDE Remote Desktop
Control) on both machines. I issued an invitation from my main box and
used the information in the dialog on my internal machine (krdc) to connect
to my main machine. I am able to control the desktop this way. When I try
to do it in the other direction by issuing an invitation on the internal
machine and using krdc on the main box the main box fails to connect to the
internal machine !!! What might be causing this ???

After I get this sorted out I want to be able to share folders between the
two boxes. I tried to use klisa but I am not having any luck. It wont
start. I get this:

/usr/sbin/lisa
NetManager::prepare: bind (TCP) failed, errno: 98



How do I configure lisa to run on this machine so I can share folders over
my lan ?? Any pointers or links to relevant HOWTO's (prefereably SuSE
HOWTO) or personal experience will be appreciated. Also, is this the best
way to share files since I do use KDE ? What about NFS or SMB ?? Are they
relevant here ??

As I said earlier, I am a LAN newbie. There will be numerous other
questions from me regarding different aspects of a LAN environment in the
comming days/weeks so I am looking forward to working with this group to
take the next steps to becoming a Linux Guru... After a bit of LAN
homework I think I'll finally be about half way there. Also started to
read/use a book on C++ and I guess I'll start doing some programming as
well. The little bit of BASIC programming I've done in the past just
doesn't cut it I suppose....

P.S. Thank you again for any assistance on my way to GURUness... LOL :-)

At least now I can take control of a few friends boxes remotely and fix
there Linux problems from the comfort of home.

There's no place like home..
There's no place like home..
We're not in Kansas any more ToDo !

(Note# It's been a long day of hacking/reading/hacking/reading so I'll
probably not get back to this thread until tommorrow here on the West
Coast..L.A.)

Thanks again.
.

Relevant Pages

  • Re: Hacked and remote controlled computer
    ... look for strange connections with netstat... ... > remote control aplication, which I couldn't found. ... on your LAN that blocks all potentially dangerous ports? ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.security_admin)
  • Re: Useless UK police get their just deserts.
    ... "YOU WANT TO CONNECT A PC TO A REMOTE ... The remote control in question would be one that controls a 3-pin ... Do you simply want to switch the PC off and on at the mains by remote ... your LAN. ...
    (uk.legal)
  • Remote Scheduled Tasks
    ... I noticed that one can browse to a remote compute on my LAN and open the ... Control Panel\Scheduled Tasks folder and right click on an existing task and ...
    (microsoft.public.win32.programmer.kernel)
  • Re: 1 way remote desktop
    ... I am using the local ip of the desktop as seen on my lan ... laptop = 192.168.0.3 ... also remote access connection mgr is up. ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.work_remotely)
  • Re: Remote desktop & Netgear router
    ... if you can connect to the PC from another PC using the "private LAN IP address" over your ... local LAN then Remote Desktop is obviously setup right and working. ... The issue then is the port forwarding on the router. ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.work_remotely)
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