[PLUG] Samba connection problem - RH7.3 box to WinME

[Dan Young]

Stephen Liu said:
> When connecting to broadband I am compelled using dynamic IP address

Yeah, DHCP seems to be the norm w/ broadband services these days. FWIW,
many of these places use long lease times on the DHCP leases, effectively
giving you a static IP w/o the administrative headache for them. I use
attbi and have 92:50:54 left on my currernt lease as I write this. None of
this has much to do with what you are asking. Sorry...

> Shall I set the IP address of the LAN card as 172.34.34.38 ???

You probably want to pick a pair of private IP addresses (i.e. not routed
by core Internet routers) for the interfaces. These ought to work:

192.168.0.1  <-- Samba box
192.168.0.2  <-- Intranet interface on WinME box

Here are the ranges for the other private networks:

-----------------------------------------------------------
|         RESERVED PRIVATE NETWORK ALLOCATIONS            |
-----------------------------------------------------------
| Network | Netmask       | Network Addresses             |
| Class   |               |                               |
-----------------------------------------------------------
|    A    | 255.0.0.0     | 10.0.0.0    - 10.255.255.255  |
|    B    | 255.255.0.0   | 172.16.0.0  - 172.31.255.255  |
|    C    | 255.255.255.0 | 192.168.0.0 - 192.168.255.255 |
-----------------------------------------------------------

> In WinME box
> There are 2 LAN cards, one for connection to Internet via broadband and
> another for Intranet

Sounds like you might benefit from having a router/firewall, if you want
to keep a home network setup more permenantly. Folks on this list might be
able to give more information if you're looking to roll-your-own solution
via floppyfw or somesuch. Several vendors (SMC, Linksys, D-link, etc.)
make these if you want to buy-and-play. Cheap too; I found a D-link for
$48 at newegg.com.

-Dan Young
-Parkrose School District