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> I would appreciate tips, tricks, and/or links concerning configuration of > Red Hat 6.0 networking so I can communicate with other machines, I do not As long as you have the correct information for IP, netmask, gateway, etc, you should be able to get things up and working without too much effort. Redhat has a few network configuration utilities that work nicely if you don't want to deal with /etc/sysconfig files. > wish to run a lot of services. Also does anybody know the best way to > commicate with other machines using VT320 emulation. The network I wish to Nope. > become a member of contains alot of NT, Unix, VMS, and I will be the 2nd > person to run Linux (out of 3000 machines)... :-) I just want to make sure > I don't "mess anything up" on the network. It's usually quite difficult to mess up machines other than your by sheer accident. However, I have a warning after a run-in with Microsoft's bastardized versions of network protocols. DO NOT RUN A SAMBA SERVER AS A PREFERRED MASTER. I have been using this samba setting for a good long time both at home and work. Very basically, it nicely allows machines that open up network neighborhood to use your machine as a master and just read off a list of machines on the neighborhood, rather than searching through often thousands and compiling such a list. I had been using some version of samba a few months ago at school with the setting enabled, and all of a sudden the windoze machines on my group could no longer browse the list and would time out. *nix boxes all worked fine for browsing the neighborhood of course. This went on for about a week (though I was unaware of any problem, having never run into it myself) until I was ceremonious kicked off the network. I was unaware that it was my fault that Microsoft bastardized their protocols enough to allow me to destroy smb sharing with a bad samba setting, yet I managed to lose my network connection for a few days as punishment. So the moral of the story: don't do that. I still use samba as a preferred master both at home and work, and have never run into a problem that affected anyone again (still unsure on the _real_ cause of it). I guess that was just more of a story than a useful warning, but hey it was fun. I think that's the only time I've run into a situation of affecting the connectivity of other machines besides one's own. Brian Conway dogbert at clue4all.net - Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" on the first line of the message body to discuss-request at blu.org (Subject line is ignored).
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