Samba and MTU

[jimbo62]

Well, I have hard drive installations of Knoppix on two computers. Most everything seems to work well, but I need some help on two issues.

First, Samba won't start from the KDE menu item for starting Samba. And when I enter the command that the menu item uses from Konsole, it gives an error message that says something like, "This script can't be run from a regular installation." What does that message mean? Anyway, I have been able to start Samba from Konsole with command "/etc/init.d/samba start". But I am still curious about the failure of the KDE menu item.

Second, on one computer I am connected to a router that is connected to a dial-up modem for internet access. This setup works just fine on WinXP and on Win98. And I have one other computer connected to the router to form a small home network. I can log onto the router from Knoppix but when I try to connect to the Internet, it seems to "stall". I had this problem in Windows when the MTU setting was higher than my dial-up ISP allows. Can someone tell me where and how I can change this setting in Knoppix?

Thanks, jimbo

[shah]

"This script can't be run from a regular installation." What does that message mean?

Above was meant to run from CD. No need to panic.

Two things two check if your browser stall :
1) Your nameserver given by your I.S.P , check in /etc/resolv.conf. Is it there. If no, just add.
2) Your mtu. You can set your mtu in /etc/network/interfaces:
Just add your mtu value at the bottom. EX:
iface eth0 inet static
address 192.168.12.28
netmask 255.255.255.0
broadcast 192.168.12.255
gateway 192.168.12.1
mtu 1472

Good luck

[shah]

Sorry, forgot about the samba thing.
You can set samba to run automatically rather than manually at boot time by running this command once in konsole:
su
update-rc.d samba defaults

[jimbo62]

Thanks shah. Just what I need. How/where is there a reference to stuff like this? You don't have this stuff memorized, do you?

jimbo

[shah]

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