Re: About networks with windows and linux (fwd)

[Kalum / Grendel <kalum lintux cx>]

On  Fri, 13 Apr 2001, eagle commented thusly,

> One thing I noticed is that one cannot rlogin  as root   though he can 
> login as some other user and do some thing like
> su -l root
> and work as root.

Its for security reasons, you do not want rlogin to send your root
password in clear text if some egghead intercepts it with a packet filter,
the results of what he might do to your system might not be very nice, so
normally to login as root please use ssh which is a secure replacement.

> Thanks once again I will try the samba server and see if it works(it 
> should i guess).

You should get plenty of help here about this, so try it :)

> I wanted the network in such a way that all the transactions on the net 
> that is the sending and receiving of packets are done through linux but 
> the packets be made available to the windows machine surfing the web
> I don't know if that is what they call the router as.

You will need ip masqurading setup too I think in your linux box. 

Best Wishes,
Grendel


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