I'll have to plug in an external speaker, but I'm not sure it's even powered on long enough to beep! Sounds like a duff MB :shock: That sounds exactly like what I'm doing, but I must be missing a detail somewhere. Are you resetting file protections periodically? Maybe I just need to restart samba s...

I definitely have a problem with DHCP: Dec 22 14:42:58 fahserv dhcpd: DHCPDISCOVER from 00:07:e9:71:ed:2d via eth0: network 192.168.1.0/24: no free leases Dec 22 14:44:47 fahserv dhcpd: Warning: subnet 192.168.1.0/24 overlaps subnet 192.168.1.0/24 Dec 22 14:45:17 ws001 ypbind[221]: broadcast: RPC: ...

There is no user 'David' on the server, only 'fah'. I added root to 'fah's groups. Damn, I don't understand samba either :oops: . My smb.conf dates back to redhat 7.0 and I have not alter it much since then. I have always connect to samba using a user that exist on the server and did not use smbuse...

I'm being dense, but how do I "assign the user that connects to samba with the group root"? I tried adding user root in the samba configuration but it says that user already exists. I'm confused about what a "samba user" is. Nothing to do with samba user. At menu bar, go to System Setting->User and...

What do I have to do to give Samba rw access to files owned by root? This seems like a "bad idea" but if the ws<nnn> hosts run as root, is there another alternative besides manually setting protections on the files every 5 minutes? There is no elegant way around this problem. The most simplest is t...

Samba also remains a mystery. I am back to not being able to monitor my Linux machines from Windows, and I don't understand why. So, it would appear that, despite getting this to work, I don't know everything yet. :lol: The is a 'host allow' line in smb.conf which defaults to 192.168.0 change that ...

Schroinx wrote: Charlie: Have you tried this HD silent mode?

Now you mention it, I just turn it on. Seek noise appears to be lower on the barracuda IV 20GB. The drive is in a lanboy which use to amplify the seek noise.

Do you use the silent fan capabilities? Yes, always in silent mode :D . BIOS has 3 level of control over the fans - Auto, Silent and Enhance. I am not too sure what auto is as it behaves like in Silent mode. In silent mode the CPU fan stays off or at minimum level (~7V) until CPU temp rises above 5...

Congratulations :D We now need another 3000PPD to keep the MAC guys at bay :mrgreen: Dec 21 20:00:40 fahserv dhcpd: Dynamic and static leases present for 192.168.1.101. Dec 21 20:00:40 fahserv dhcpd: Remove host declaration ws001 or remove 192.168.1.101 Dec 21 20:00:40 fahserv dhcpd: from the dynami...

Puzzling, you said the client is executed as it goes through the setup. The client.cfg has the rwx bit enabled so should be readable. You cannot cat client.cfg which suggest you do not have read status. I am assuming you are at the console of the blade, try to make a directory and/or create a file. ...

haysdb wrote: So why don't I have access to them?

What is the output from,

ls -al client.cfg

Charlie.

No one have one of the Fujitsu-Siemens Boards? I have been looking at their webpage and it looks very interesting, especially the D1688. However I have not been able to find any review of this or similar boards. I would be really nice to know if the fan control actually works. I have a fujitsu-siem...

/etc/hosts.allow had the wrong IP address: in.tftpd: 192.168.0. Should be 192.168.1. in my case. It's ironic that I was originally using the .0. subnet but then changed my existing LAN to .1. so I could put the farm on .0., but then ended up just doing a single network. This might be something else...

haysdb wrote:Am I missing any?

The contents of the files

Charlie.

What user ids do the diskless clients run under? root. I am getting Permission denied when the /home/fah/wsxxx is mounted as /fah. What is in your /etc/exports, /etc/hosts, /etc/hosts.allow, /etc/hosts.deny ? Along the same lines, how do I "log in" to the blades to poke around and see how they are ...

Do you know offhand Charlie, whether the information that is displayed on the screen of the network boot clients during boot is logged, or CAN be logged, on the server? A lot of stuff scrolls by before I can read it. You need to put this line inside group. option log-servers 192.168.1.100; I seem t...

Did you have to use the long string to boot?

Charlie.

In other words, this aspect of dnsmasq at least, is much simpler than I was trying to make it. :oops: Phew, I was getting worry dnsmasq was more complicated than BIND :lol: . Before you boot one of your blade, you may consider putting a copy of redhat on it to test all the services are working on t...

I was just having a look at the points some of these MAC guys are producing and one guy's score really puzzles me - NoahJ . On 12/17/2003 this guy summited 1408 WU for a total of 457 points, that averages 0.33 points per WU - weird. Today (12/19/2003) at 09:00PM he summited 34 WU for 41 :shock: . Wh...

David, If you really want to know what pcnut is doing you could install ethereal and analysis the packets on your network. Used apt-get to install ethereal-gnome which has a nice user interface. I once used this to find what was keeping a dial-on-demand connection on all the time - turn out to be th...

Charlie, have you actually done this yourself or are you essentially quoting the web pages that Turmelle and others have posted? Because it looks like hays and you are going around in circles and getting nowhere fast. Currently I have a diskless folding farm in the garage. The server is a P3 1G wit...

search ks.ok.cox.net* Were did this come from? Straight out of the original resolv.conf. I didn't put it there, so it must be something Linux got from my router, which got it from my ISP. Try removing it with a #. The search usually means 'look in this domain first', replace it with search davidhay...

Since the server itself, as well as at least one of the Windows XP machines, are fully functional, I don't think it's a resolv issue. In fact, I don't think it's a dnsmasq issue, or a DHCP issue, at least not on the server. Was the IP for the XP machine assign using MAC or dynamic IP? There is one ...

haysdb wrote: search ks.ok.cox.net*

Were did this come from?

Charlie.

David, Change the /etc/resolv.conf on the farm server to, search davidhays.com nameserver 192.168.1.100 nameserver 192.168.1.1 Remember to restart the dnsmasq server. Another interest point, my setup does not have /etc/resolv.dnsmasq, /etc/dnsmasq.conf. I am running dnsmasq 1-11.1 which was compiled...

David, I guest the two machines that was able to connect to the internet has their IPs in the /etc/hosts file. PSC appears to have a dynamic IP assigned to it. Remember dnsmasq is not a proper dns server, it is a proxy server which first search the /etc/hosts for IP alias and if it is not there it p...

David,

Can you list the output from 'ipconfig /all' on one of the XP machines.

Charlie.

I am up and running on dhcpd (DHCP server) and dnsmasq (name server). It's not perfect, but it is working. The Windows XP machines are set up for purely automatic configuration. No IP addresses in the TPC/IP config and no hosts files. And yet I can ping the host names router, pcnut, htpc, psc, and ...

I think for my next try, I am going to take a REAL close look at Charlie's configuration files, which he listed earlier in this post, and save my experimentation for when I have it 'working' and can then try things one step at a time, documenting as I go, so I know what to undo should something bre...

On the farm server the /etc/resolv.conf needs the following, search [network name] nameserver 192.168.0.200 nameserver 192.168.0.1 I believe this can also be specified in the dhcpd.conf file, in option domain-name-servers, but perhaps other apps need the /etc/resolv.conf file. When a farm client or...