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NFS Install probs.
by Corner Paul 12 Feb '01

12 Feb '01

Quietly lurking, I have hit a small problem with an NFS install on a distro I'm compiling. Assembling all the RPM's on the server along with the install shell, everything seemed to be going fine - The early NFS installs of just the base packages worked a treat and the machine would boot up without a problem..... Now I have the bulk of the programs put together for this distro - When I do an NFS install, it all goes as I expect. But on booting up the new machine, lilo does what it should, the kernel starts to load, then trouble. I get an error message "crc error --system halted--". This is before any of the system checks or init scripts are run. I'm rather stumped as to what the problem is, any ideas folk ?? Regards, Paul.

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Re: [Alug] Fw: Very Important New Lethal Virus
by MJ Ray 12 Feb '01

12 Feb '01

Toby Jaffey <toby(a)earth.li> writes: > Ha! I laugh in the face of VBS mail viruses. > User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.12i As will most people here. Kindly refrain from posting security alerts to this mailing list, even those about Linux but *especially* those for Windows. If anyone has the expertise to verify and compile alerts, please share your skills with the wider community on a bigger dedicated security list. As for we mere mortals, I suggest everyone subscribes to a dedicated alert mailing list, eg those at www.linuxsecurity.com -- MJR

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Fw: Very Important New Lethal Virus
by Simon Parkes 12 Feb '01

12 Feb '01

Thought you'd like to be aware of this one..... Simon ----- Original Message ----- From: Nadeen Abdel-Khalek <Nadeen(a)securitypartnerships.co.uk> To: Dan Harris <dharris(a)securitypartnerships.co.uk>; Dan Harris <dharris(a)securitypartnerships.co.uk> Sent: Monday, February 12, 2001 5:51 PM Subject: Very Important New Lethal Virus > > Just Detected... > ...Harmful Virus in the form a VBS. Please see details below. THIS IS BIGGER > THAN THE LOVE BUG. > Thus far, a patch has not been created, but is being developed. The only way > to block it at the moment is with MAILSweeper, creating a manual text > analysis for the word KOURNIKOVA. > If your organisation uses MAILSweeper, please contact us for any advice, and > if you require our helping in setting up the manual text analysis. > > Information on "Anna Kournikova" virus > The virus analysts at Sophos have received a number of calls regarding a new > in-the-wild virus known as VBS/SST-A (also known as Kalamar or Calamar). The > virus fools users into thinking it is a jpeg picture of Russian tennis > player, Anna Kournikova. It does this by sending itself as an attached file > called AnnaKournikova.jpg.vbs. > This Visual Basic Script worm forwards itself to addresses in your Outlook > address book. The virus can use the subject line "Here you have" in this > email. > Sophos researchers are analysing the virus and will release an IDE file > </downloads/ide/> later today. > Sophos recommends customers subscribe </virusinfo/notifications/> to our > email notification service for new viruses discovered in the wild. > > > > Regards, > Nadeen Abdel-Khalek > 0118 902 7849 > > > ********************************************************************** > This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and > intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they > are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify > the system manager. > > This footnote also confirms that this email message has been swept by > MIMEsweeper for the presence of computer viruses. > > www.mimesweeper.com > **********************************************************************

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Introduction message about merville and a plea for help [Rob Somerville]
by me＠merville.net 10 Feb '01

10 Feb '01

Hello all. I don't know if I am a Linux newbie or not [If you can compile kernels OK are you a newbie ???] but I have been using Linux for over a year now and am very, very impressed. I try and use Linux instead of MS whenever possible. Unfortunately I have to use MS as well and I boot Win 2000, DOS and Redhat quite happily on my PC. I work as a senior tech support specialist and I also have a good grounding in electronics. Reason for joining ALUG ? Apart from living in Mileham, I think meeting some experienced users would be good as it will knock a good chunk of Microsoft out of me !!! Of course, I will be happy to contribute my limited Linux knowledge but I realise there are lots of far more experienced people then me out there ... Oh yes, and I have a real nasty problem with a Promise Fasttrak controller module that I cannot compile against the vanilla RH6.2 2.2.x kernel or the latest 2.4.x kernel release. Promise support is naff, and they only distribute the SMP module in .o format ... I can boot the box OK as Linux is on a standard IDE drive, but it bombs when insmod tries to load ft.o for the RAID drive with unresolved symbols. I can install ft.o fine on a clean install using the 'expert text dd' options, and mount drives etc. but when I recompile the kernel [I need NTFS support] I get unresolved symbols. Using the insmod -f option does not allow the module to load. I am including SCSI and RAID support in the kernel. I have also checked the symbol versioning : mv .config 000.cfg make mrproper mv 000.cfg .config make dep clean modules modules_install bzImage As I cannot get the source to this module am I doomed to having no NTFS support ? Any suggestions, comments, brickbats etc. more than welcome. Thanks.

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Re: [Alug] Introduction message about merville and a plea for help [Rob Somerville]
by MJ Ray 10 Feb '01

10 Feb '01

<me(a)merville.net> writes: > on a standard IDE drive, but it bombs when insmod tries to load ft.o for the Bombs? And why use insmod instead of modprobe? That's Mileham, Norfolk, right? Nice place. -- MJR

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Re: [Alug] Samba Saga Volume Three
by MJ Ray 10 Feb '01

10 Feb '01

Jenny_Hopkins(a)toby-churchill.com writes: > Hope I'm not bugging anyone making all these posts on one topic, BTW, not > sure what the etiquette is as this is my first mailing group. :-) Let me > know if I am! Nah, as long as the subject line keeps up with the topic being discussed, I don't think anyone minds. Things like this where it may well come to someone having to pay a visit are probably best off here, but sometimes it's better to ask questions in uk.comp.os.linux, as more eyeballs makes shallower problems. -- MJR

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RE: [Alug] Samba Saga Volume Three
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 09 Feb '01

09 Feb '01

>...if you are using a Win 98 client >then you need to use encrypted passwords. Your smb.conf needs to identify >the location of the encrpypted password file. So, after the line 'encrypt >passwords = yes' you need something like: >smb passwd file = /etc/samba/smbpasswd

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Samba Saga Volume Three
by Earl Brannigan 09 Feb '01

09 Feb '01

Hi Jenny, Don't know whether it's a bit late for this but try : http://www.pcplus.co.uk/imgbank/pdf/168/168.masterclass.linuxbeginners.pdf Regards Earl BTW - there are a few useful articles in this section for anyone interested - worth a browse. People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid. - Soren Aabye Kierkegaard

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Re: [Alug] Samba Saga Volume Three
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 08 Feb '01

08 Feb '01

Thanks Adam. The linux box is at home, but I can tell you what it says, as I made a "test" one from the samba book. [global] workgroup = jenbass encrypt passwords = yes [test] comment = for testing only please path = /export/samba/test read only = no guest ok = yes This tested ok with the testparm, and ran ok with smbclient. I live out in Burwell, BTW, even though i work in Cambridge, - a bit off the beaten track.

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Samba Saga Volume Three
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 08 Feb '01

08 Feb '01

Morning All! Still no luck with Samba at home, so I wondered if I post up my various settings, if anyone sees anything glaringly obvious set wrong, could they give me a shout? Many thanks for your patience..Jenny. (Or are you all gritting your teeth and glaring at your screens by now and I just can't see you?) Windows TCP/IP is configured as follows (jenny 192.168.10.100): IP Address set for windows box 192.168.10.100 subnet 255.255.255.0 WINS config disabled No gateway installed DNS enabled host mossey (linuxbox name) domain jenbass.com DNS search order 192.168.10.101 (linux box IP) All 3 bindings enabled Allow binding to ATM set to NO. Netbios (greyed out) (disabled I assume) (NB: My thinking was that as the windows box is still the one dialling out to the internet at the moment, but the linux box is the one i want to eventually, and is the one with the resolv.conf file, that is why i have set it as having no gateway, but DNS enabled, perhaps arse about face a bit here?) linux box (mossey 192.168.10.101) samba version 2.0.6 can't find nmbd log? etc/hosts shows mossey.jenbass.com so domain name is same as for windows. (?) can ping one from the other happily. Can telnet linuxbox from windows. changed JENBASS to jenbass in smb.conf, no luck encrypted passwords already enabled. .

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