setting up intranet

[Kenn Murrah]

Okay, excuse the EXTREME elementary nature of this question, but at least someone can tell me to RTFM, tell me where to find a tutorial, and send me on my way:

I've installed mandrake 8.1 using the server packages ... now i want to be able to :

1. create a home page on that box, and

2. reach that home from a windows box on the same network.

Like I said, feel free to call me an idiot -- my feelings are not easily hurt -- then point me in the right direction.

And thanks in advance for the help.

Giving new meaning to the word "newbie",

Kenn M

[mangeli]

Are you up and running on the network and can you ping the other machines on your network?

[Kenn Murrah]

well, yes and maybe ...

to summarize my situation, i had a pre-existing 95/98 network running, and i plugged my newly created linux box into the same hub ... and i have successfully accessed the internet from the linux box via my gateway (winproxy) ... and i can SEE the linux box in my windows Network Neighborhood, but if I try to access it, I get an error: "\\xp-mandrake could not be accessed ... The computer or sharename could not be found" ...

so, i'm guessing that, hardware-wise, my network is mostly correct ... like i said, it's been up and running for a while.
thanks.

oh ,,, one more note ... even though i currently have linux booted on this dual boot box, it seems to know the XP name ... and i don't even remember telling linux that name ????

thanks,

kennM

[ 05 November 2001: Message edited by: Kenn Murrah ]

[mangeli]

Ok. What happens if you open a web browser on your 98 machine and you type in http://ipoflinuxbox

(where ipoflinuxbox is the ip address of the linux box?)

[Kenn Murrah]

linux box is 1.0.0.111 ... and when i try to reach http://1.0.0.111/ from the windows machine, i get a "cannot be displayed" message ...

KennM

[mangeli]

Why is your ip address 1.0.0.111 or whatever?

At the very least it should be a 10. address or a 192.168 address... but thats besides the point.

Ok, what happens if you pull up a console and you type

ps ax | grep apache

?

[Kenn Murrah]

as to the IP address, yeah, i know it's wrong ... it's a system i inherited and never changed ... God only knows why they used 1.0.0.1 as the server, but they did ...

anyway ...

i don't even know the meaning of what you told me to try next, much less how to do it ... my apologies ...

[Kenn Murrah]

i think i figured out how to do it ... typed ps ax | grep apache into a console and got the response ....

3048 pts/1 S 0:00 grep apache

is that right?

[mangeli]

Yep. that was it. Try it with

ps ax | grep httpd

(I completly forgot that apache was wrong.)

[Kenn Murrah]

okay, i've done that, but i dont' know what to tell you ...

httpd-perl -f ,,,,,

http-perl DPERLPROXIED .... etc.

[mangeli]

It looks like you might need to install Apache.

[Kenn Murrah]

well, this morning, i gave up and started over, but with similar results ...

i made certain that apache was installed, i changed the addressing to 192.168.1.100 on my linux box and 192.168.1.200 on my windows machine...

even on the linux box, if i use an URL of "localhost" I can see the apache startup page (so i assume it's installed) but if i type "http://192.168.1.100" it can't find the page, even on the same box ...

i'm learning a lot this morning ... like how much i like windows and macs (just kidding) ...

thanks again,

[mangeli]

OK. So apache is installed. Why isn't it listening to the ip address though?

What happens if you ping the linux box's ip address from the windows box as well as the linux box itself?

[Kenn Murrah]

well, if i ping the linux box from the windows box, it times out ... i don't know how to ping the windows box from the linux box ...

this may be relevant ... when i go to the mandrake control center, the LAN configuration is listed as eth0, protocol dhcp, driver eepro100, state up ... but the field for IP address is blank ... if i go to "configure", it has the proper IP address and says the network is already configured ... SOOOOOO, i'm not sure if it's configured or not ... how can i find out ?

again, i REALLY appreciate your help in this.

kenn

[jumpedintothefire]

It's using dhcp to configure the network witch it can't do with out a dhcp server on the lan. Change the dhcp to none and then enter the ip info like address, subnetmask.

[mangeli]

Install slackware :D No, don't. But you do need to make the changes that the post above this one makes.

Get rid of dhcp (I HATE DHCP) and give it a static IP.

Make sure that it follows suit with the rest of the net work. Then try accessing the webpage again. I think we just found your problem.