Sirs,
I am running IBM OS/2 ver 4.52 operating system box with two NIC cards and Firewall running a peer to peer TCP/IP/NetBios and TCP/IP file and print sharing.
In the past I had 3 laptops dual boot WIN98 and OS/2. These worked fine. Now I am moving the laptops to Fedora version 9. I have been unable to get any access to the Internet or to see OS/2 box or other Fedora laptops.
The OS/2 box is 192.168.1.1 and laptops are 2, 3, and so on. All the hardware in the laptops are supported by Fedora IBM Thinkpads 600e's and an A21e. I have no idea how to get the Thinkpads with Fedora installed to access the Internet via an OS/2 box and firewall or to share files and dirs.
Help much appreciated.
Regards,
David
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Sirs,
I am running IBM OS/2 ver 4.52 operating system box with two NIC cards and Firewall running a peer to peer TCP/IP/NetBios and TCP/IP file and print sharing.
In the past I had 3 laptops dual boot WIN98 and OS/2. These worked fine. Now I am moving the laptops to Fedora version 9. I have been unable to get any access to the Internet or to see OS/2 box or other Fedora laptops.
There is no Fedora version 9. There is Red Hat Linux 9 and Fedora Core 1 and Fedora Core 2 (just to keep things straight).
The OS/2 box is 192.168.1.1 and laptops are 2, 3, and so on. All the hardware in the laptops are supported by Fedora IBM Thinkpads 600e's and an A21e. I have no idea how to get the Thinkpads with Fedora installed to access the Internet via an OS/2 box and firewall or to share files and dirs.
You don't say whether the laptops use PCMCIA cards or built-in adaptors. You first must make sure that Red Hat Linux 9 (assuming that's what you actually installed) supports those cards. There are a number of cards that Linux doesn't support fully, as the makers don't want to play in the open source community. You can, as root on the command line, run "lspci" to get a listing of what's found on the PCI bus and post it here. We may be able to help.
Assuming the cards are supported, try running (as root and at the command line) "redhat-config-network" on each of the laptops and set up their stuff appropriately.
IP Address: 192.168.1.2 or .3 or .4 (as appropriate) Netmask: 255.255.255.0 Gateway: 192.168.1.1 DNS Servers: As used on the OS/2 box
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Sirs,
I am running IBM OS/2 ver 4.52 operating system box with two NIC cards and Firewall running a peer to peer TCP/IP/NetBios and TCP/IP file and print sharing.
In the past I had 3 laptops dual boot WIN98 and OS/2. These worked fine. Now I am moving the laptops to Fedora version 9.
There is no Fedora version 9. Must be Red Hat 9 which is beyond the official end-of-life. Would suggest moving to Fedora Core 1 or 2 for new installations.
I have been unable to get any access to the Internet or to see OS/2 box or other Fedora laptops.
Sounds like you may have a configuration problem on the Linux boxes. Can they ping each other?
The OS/2 box is 192.168.1.1 and laptops are 2, 3, and so on. All the hardware in the laptops are supported by Fedora IBM Thinkpads 600e's and an A21e. I have no idea how to get the Thinkpads with Fedora installed to access the Internet via an OS/2 box and firewall or to share files and dirs.
Have no experience with OS/2, and if it's running TCP/IP see no apparent reason the connectivity you want shouldn't be possible; but why not put a current OS (i.e. FC1 or FC2) on the firewall and perhaps consider a separate server inside the firewall? Is there a compelling reason to stick with OS/2 if the rest of the environment is moving to Linux?
Phil
Am Mi, den 30.06.2004 schrieb Postmaster um 21:00:
I am running IBM OS/2 ver 4.52 operating system box with two NIC cards and Firewall running a peer to peer TCP/IP/NetBios and TCP/IP file and print sharing.
I have a quite similar environment here and it works fine.
In the past I had 3 laptops dual boot WIN98 and OS/2. These worked fine. Now I am moving the laptops to Fedora version 9. I have been unable to get any access to the Internet or to see OS/2 box or other Fedora laptops.
If you didn't change the OS/2 configuration, there should something be wrong with the setup of your fedora boxes.
As a basic task you should verify that you can ping each fedora box (and the OS/2 server). You may check:
- can you make a ping on each fedora box to its own address (that is checking the basic tcp/ip setup)
- check the file /var/log/messages (use the program less) for any error or warning messages regarding the ethernet cards or the network in general
The OS/2 box is 192.168.1.1 and laptops are 2, 3, and so on. All the hardware in the laptops are supported by Fedora IBM Thinkpads 600e's and an A21e. I have no idea how to get the Thinkpads with Fedora installed to access the Internet via an OS/2 box and firewall or to share files and dirs.
In principle you must activate ipgate on on the OS/2 box (/mptn/bin/setup.cmd) but you should have done that before, otherwise your Win98 / OS/2 client configuration should not have been worked. The OS/2 box must be the default gateway for your Fedora boxes and you are done with internet access. To access files and printers on the OS/2 box you must activate tcpbeui (netbios over tcp) on the OS/2 box which is a little bit tricky if you haven't done it before (you didn't need it for OS/2 or Win98 clients). On the Fedora boxes you must install and configure samba client.
Good luck Peter
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