Re: Red Hat 6.1

["Ian Wright" <nospam [at] iw63.freeserve.co.uk>]

Hi Richard,

Thanks for the offer, I might need to take you up on it but it will probably
be good for my soul if I try to sort it out a bit more on my own first.
There are a few questions you could perhaps answer if you would, probably
very simple things to you but intensely confusing to me!
1.    Why do none of the HOWTOs etc. refer to my system!!!!!     rhetorical
question but this is the biggest source of annoyance at the moment.
2.    I've recompiled the kernel on one of my machines to include nfs as it
was just a module before but it still doesn't seem to be working - how can I
test if nfs is working or not (RH5.2 machine 2.0.36 kernel ) ?  I tried
rpcinfo -p and that gave me:-
program    vers    proto    port
100000    2        tcp        111    portmapper
100000    2        udp        111    portmapper

no sign of any nfs stuff.
On the other (new) machine, nfs seems to be already compiled in as when I
altered fstab a bit and forgot to put in an end return cahracter, I got an
error message on startup saying that it could not mount nfs. However, on
this machine (RH6.1 2.2.12 kernel), rpcinfo -p gives:-
program    vers    proto    port
100000    2        tcp        111    rpcbind
100000    2        udp        111    rpcbind

The HOWTOs and the RedHat help files all talk of 'mountd' and 'nfsd' neither
of which seem to be on my machine!

The annoying thing is that I can get at the other 2 machines from the new
one but not the other way round.
I have also set up the smb.conf file on the new machine to match the one on
my existing machine as close as possible - the different kernels of course
have different structures for this file! - and, while I can smbmount the
windows machine onto the new linux machine, the windows machine won't see
the new linux one in 'network neighbourhood' - nor can I 'ping' it from the
windows machine. Any clues where to look?
thanks

Ian
--
Ian W. Wright
Sheffield  UK


----- Original Message -----
From: Sheflug <richard [at] sheflug.co.uk>
To: <sheflug [at] vuw.ac.nz>
Sent: 15 February 2000 13:41
Subject: Re: Red Hat 6.1


> Ian
>
> > I can't seem to find XF86Setup or anything
> > similar in RH6.1 to let me choose the default resolution - any ideas?
> >
>
> Type in "setup" and then go through the Red Hat setup tool.  I can
> come round and help you with your network if you like ?  I might be
> able to sort it out ?
>
> Thanks
>
>
> Richard
> Sheffield UK
>
>
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