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mrsbrownI finally cracked and grabbed the 700MHz M/c J has been ignoring. The installation of Fedora worked this time.
Now I have a learning curve.
I spent this evening with Apache and Samba, as well as miscellaneous - what do I have to do to get around in Gnome - type things.
I learnt that it is not a good idea to change the desktop to anything other than Gnome - I ended up with a screen and an obscure left mouse click list of "things I don't want to do, now how do I get out of here again" It's a bit like changing the default language on the mobile phone to Russian.
I can get my desktop m/c to show me the "you have apache working correctly" screen, when I use the linux m/c ip address, but then couldn't work out how to access the static ip from my isp to do the same thing - I think it might have something to do with the firewall on the router => I'll try again from work.
I also got started on being able to 'see' the linux box from windows and vice-versa. Unfortunately, my eyes are now crossed and my brain is glazing over as I read the instructions I have been able to find.
Bed now.
Now I have a learning curve.
I spent this evening with Apache and Samba, as well as miscellaneous - what do I have to do to get around in Gnome - type things.
I learnt that it is not a good idea to change the desktop to anything other than Gnome - I ended up with a screen and an obscure left mouse click list of "things I don't want to do, now how do I get out of here again" It's a bit like changing the default language on the mobile phone to Russian.
I can get my desktop m/c to show me the "you have apache working correctly" screen, when I use the linux m/c ip address, but then couldn't work out how to access the static ip from my isp to do the same thing - I think it might have something to do with the firewall on the router => I'll try again from work.
I also got started on being able to 'see' the linux box from windows and vice-versa. Unfortunately, my eyes are now crossed and my brain is glazing over as I read the instructions I have been able to find.
Bed now.
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Date: 2004-04-26 07:14 am (UTC)The trick is to use the file manager, a lot. There are some good system tools but nothing beats editing apache config files by hand. You learn a few tricks really quickly, and once you have a basic apache config going you rarely need to change it.
Get SWAT going to help configure SAMBA, that's really a good tool and actually better than doing it by hand-editing the config file.
Get used to using the command line. Use "man" a lot. If in doubt try learning things like "locate" to find files, see if you have things installed, etc. Find sites like www.fedoranews.org which will explain how to use yum to grab packages off the internet, and how to rebuild things (e.g. from .src.rpm files) to get them to work right on Fedora if you got them from somewhere else (eg: RHEL).
You probably can't access your external static IP from inside your network. That's because it's bound to outside the firewall and the firewall can't turn it around and send it back inside when it already came from inside. Some very clever firewalls can do that (it's called "Bidirectional Source NAT") but I doubt you have a very clever firewall. What is the IP address btw?