Re: networking
From: Doug Mitton (doug_mitton_at_hotmail.x.com)
Date: 11/21/03
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Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2003 17:32:13 -0500
jstaff4747@earthlink.net wrote:
>Doug Mitton wrote:
>
>> So this means that STAFFORD is connected to the internet AND WinXP
>> Home is connected through it to the internet?
>>
>
>Thats right but like I said the connection is not right.
>
>I have gone through internet connection on XP and Internet Explorer so many
>times with so many restarts that I've got to leave that for awhile. Its
>really weird that my stock program can connect so well to the live
>streaming quotes but browsers can't. Also in the stock program it is
>limited as it can't load things like bigcharts.com for graphing stock
>progress - but that is requiring a browser like performance news updates
>then of course don't work in the program either.
>
>Internet connections in Control Panel will not let me add a connection
>refering to the lan. Set up a connection takes me to 1 connect to the
>internet -phone 2. Connect VPN 3.set up home network - changes nothing 4.
>advanced connection (direct) so sort of at a dead end right now
>
>I've experimented with the settings and found some things that don't work
>well that I can avoid but have made no progress in getting the "real"
>connection.
I didn't remember re-configuring Internet Explorer made me do a system
re-boot BUT I haven't done it in awhile. But, I'm sure this is the
reason one of your other applications can access the internet and not
IE ... it needs to be configured for a local network ... or something
like "direct connetction to internet". I'm sure there has to be a
selection to cover it but I don't have a way to try it ... sorry!
>>>However I can use my samba setup on XP to see everything on the linux
>>>machine. I haven't had time to try to get printing working but the printer
>>>on linux shows up in XP but indicates the driver being used is not right
>>>so I guess I will need to use my install disk to get that going/
>
>Samba is showing me everything from both machines but I can't get printing
>to work yet
>
>> Yes, you have to install the printer drivers on WinXP then instead of
>> picking a physical printer port (like lpt0) you pick the printer from
>> the network neighbourhood offering.
If you are browsing then the configuration should be OK now ... its
just to the driver installed now ... I think.
>>>> The problem is that the current runlevel is probably not executing the
>>>> rc.local file.
>
>I've gone through this again and the results are still the same I have to
>load it manually. What I want to try is going back and deleting my entries
>in r.local and then go through the process again,
>
>Just looked at this again my path is /etc/rc.d/rc5.d/ I was needed to
>excute the command as cd /etc/rc.d then ls -s ../init.d/rc.local S99 local
>it took and I think that is going to do it.
In order to find the correct location to put the rc.local file you
have to be able to list the files in /etc/rc5.d/ or at least find out
where this is done on your distribution. I use Debian and thats where
it is, and it was under /etc/rc.d/ in Slackware.
>>>>>ISSUE THREE:
>>>>>
>>>>>Also have XP back up but I now have to use a linux boot disk to get to
>>>>>linux and thats ok. But we can begin with that. I just don't have much
>>>>>faith. I tried quickly yesterday with STAFFORD:192.168.0.2 settings -
>>>>>nothing but I coulld definitely have things in the wrong place.
>
>How do you make a start up floppy for XP?
Apparently thats a security issue ... according to my search you now
boot the WinXP install floppy and select the "R" option to do this
now. I haven't tried it though.
>> At a command prompt type `cat /etc/lilo.conf` or you can capture it to
>No such file or directory
>
>I got into some confusing problems with lilo and win4lin in some other
>installs so I thought I would just try grub this time. But I think
>everything is there its just that the reinstall of XP shut it off and so XP
>now has total control of the boot instead of the boot going through grub
>
>This is my grub.conf
># grub.conf generated by anaconda
>#
># Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
># NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that
># all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
># root (hd0,0)
># kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hdc3
># initrd /initrd-version.img
>#boot=/dev/hdc
>default=0
>timeout=10
>splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
>title Red Hat Linux (2.4.20-8)
> root (hd0,0)
> kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.20-8 ro root=LABEL=/
> initrd /initrd-2.4.20-8.img
>title DOS
> rootnoverify (hd0,1)
> chainloader +1
It looks like it is configured for DOS so just issueing the "grub"
command I think should install it. Make sure you have an emergency
boot floppy for Linux first and make sure the WinXP CD boot option
works as well BEFORE you try to fix grub. Maybe someone who uses grub
will comment ...
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