Topic: Losing network connection, and disk partitions

[Per Nordenstam]

Hi ! Last week i was searching the net for a nice Linux server/gateway for my local net.
Found the E-Smith thru freshmeat.net It works nice! All but one thing I loose net connection after a while if I'm not froce the server to ping my machine every 90 sec.I should also say that for my small local net with only two users I managed to get by with only 350Mb in diskspace.. (270Mb + 80Mb) Well thats only cause i made a change in the "Ks.cfg" to:
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clearpart --all
part /boot --size 5
part / --size 250
part swap --size 80
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Hopefully that ping porbs aint to hard to fix .. but i would be pleased to get a hint.
//Per

[Per Nordenstam]

Hi ! Here are some corrections to my message!
I have newly got and installed the e-smith server/gateway.Works fine ... almost, though there are some problems.
1. I loose connection to the net through my server if do not force it to ping me every 90 sec. Why is that so and what to do to fix it?
2. When i now have intalled all and got it to work, how do i get back to the console? That menu shows in two of the consoles it's just needed in one.
3. I have got my self a hub to get connected like it is designed to be. But i like to get connected without the hub, only got two users, so I wonder how to get the third netcard to work in the server, if it's possible!?
4. I can only telnet to the server as root, how do i make the change so that i can telnet to server as any user from the local net.
Otherwise it works just fine!
Ps the change in the Ks.cfg came out a bit wrong cause it lost wordwrap. So just skip the long "---" signs. Thanks again.

[Joseph Morrison]

Hello Per, I'm not sure about the ping problem. What kind of network cards are you using? As for the console, the GUI runs on virtual terminals 1 and 2, and Unix login prompts are on terminals 3-6. As for operating without a hub, do your cards have BNC (10B2) connectors? You could use thinnet to connect your three computers without a hub. Getting it to work with all three cards in the e-smith server would require customization. As for telnet, you can change the user shell from /bin/sshell to /bin/bash by changing the file: /etc/e-smith/events/actions/create-user. Good luck!