[Preston] Configuring RH7.3 as a server

[Phil Edwards]

I have just set up RH7.3 as an NFS server with Samba on a PII 233 with 128Mb
RAM and a 4.5Gb HDD and am having one or two problems which I hope someone
can help me with.

1. Can you run Xwindows directly on a server - whenever I try it just
crashes (Xwindows that is not the server). The book I have (RH7.2 Bible)
keeps referring to running utilities (e.g. neat) in a terminal window,
suggesting that Xwindows will run, or am I missing something here?

2. On the subject of the "neat" command, it does not appear to have been
installed on my server (or will not run from the bash prompt), so I can't
actually configure any hosts. Is there a different command I need to use in
ver 7.3 or do I have to install it from CD, in which case, how do I do this?


Initially, I am trying to get the server simply talking to an old Win 98
machine on which I have configured the TCP/IP networking, but when I get
this working I will be using the machine primarily to run network installs
of RH7.0 on a couple of old P133's and just generally play around with the
networking, although later I may just reconfigure the machine as a web
server, but that is some months down the line yet.

Any help will be greatly appreciated
Phil