[Preston] Configuring RH7.3 as a server

[John]

Don't wait for tomorrow if you can do it today!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Phil Edwards" <philedwards33@hotmail.com>
To: "Preston LUG" <preston@mailman.lug.org.uk>
Sent: Monday, November 11, 2002 10:49 AM
Subject: [Preston] Configuring RH7.3 as a server


> 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?
>
Phil, I have just checked my RH7.3 box and neat is installeed... It looks
similar to whats available on the control panel / networking panel... If you
get really stuck, look at editing /etc/hosts and /etc/sysconfig/network. In
there you should see hostnae and gateway parms. Also look in the
sub-directory network-scripts, in particular ifcfg-eth0... You can manually
edit these files to include among other things various IP addresses for your
lan... Hope it helps...


>
> 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
>
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