Internet and Networking

[lladnar]

OK, I have been trying to get this working for some time and have had no success so I have decided to ask someone. I have four computers at home. Two windows 98, one running Caldera Openlinux 2.2 and the other running RedHat 6.0

To begin with I had Redhat 5.2 on one a month ago and could dial on to the internet using the Kppp dialer as I couldn't figure out how to do it with all the scripts and things. I formatted and installed 6.0 and OpenL 2.2 and cannot find easy dialer on either of them. Can anyone tell me if there are any and if not how to do it the "hard" way.

Now a little more difficult, once I can get that working, I hope to set up the network I have hardwired to have one of the linux machines dial up whenever anyone on any of the computers tries to access the internet. I have read many HOWTO's and FAQ including Net-3, IP masquerading, Modem, PPP, and others and still cannot even get my modem to dial.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[ninjaz]

If you want to find the PPP packages you're missing, try http://www.freshmeat.net/ or http://www.linuxapps.com/ and do a search for 'PPP'. Both will come up with a long list of PPP utilities that may be what you're after.

If you want to really troubleshoot "the hard way", you should fire up minicom, and try the serial ports in question to see if you can actually communicate with the modem. For instance, If your PPP settings are set for /dev/modem, the symlink in /dev/ could be pointing to the wrong serial port. Typical configurations are ttyS0 (dos COM1) or ttyS1 (dos COM2) on up.

To test the remote side using minicom, once you've got it on the right serial port (its should start up saying ATZ (next line) OK, enter: ATDT number of your ISP

Once it connects, you'll either get "garbage" or a login prompt. If there are login prompts, make a note of them, as you'll need to put them in your chatscript. If there's garbage, your ISP is using either PAP or CHAP. Then, see your distro's ppp docs, or the PPP HOWTO, as they should be helpful once you've got these basic things figured out.

Hope this helps!

[lladnar]

Thank you very much for the help. I can get on the internet now. I still need to figure out how to network the computers. What I am wanting to do is, using linuxconf (or somthing else if someone can tell me how) get Samba working so that my Windows (98) and linux (RedHat 6.0 and Caldera Openlinux 2.2) computers can see each other, then possibly create a domain if I need to, then do IP masquerading so that they can all be on the internet at the same time using one of the linux machines' modems, then use something like diald to connect whenever someone tries to access the internet. I have tried to read the man pages but have not gotten anything working. If someone could guide me through setting up the windows machines (setting up the ip addresses and domain servers) and setting up the linux machine to be the server for all of this I would be very grateful. If someone has a link to where someone has already done this successfully that would work also. Thanks in advance.

Randall

[ninjaz]

For the IP Masquerading, have a look at http://MetaLab.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/mini/IP-Masquerade.html

As for Samba, I don't have any windows machines around, so I'm not too familiar with it.. http://discussions.linuxplanet.com//wink.gif You may want to try the samba homepage at http://www.samba.org/ for documentation.