Anyone know Red Hat 8 and Win 200 server like the back of their hand? i need a little help, i need to get a red hat box andf a windows box to talk, telnet, ftp and Http. Been beating my head against a wall for the past week trying to get these 2 boxes talking

Have you got the network settings/connections on both machines set?

Are you on a closed network or connected to the Internet with the two boxes?

Is the Win 2000 Server running Active Directory, and if so... does your Red Hat box have the proper domain name for the 2k Server domain?

Is the Win 2k server set up as a DHCP server or are you using static IP addresses?

Are you trying to get the Red Hat box to authenticate to the Win 2k server? If so, you have to have matching user names on Red Hat and an account on the Win 2k server with the same name.

Are you using a subnetted IP address scheme?

Also, which services are you wanting to run on each box? Do you want telnet, ftp, http,etc to run on both? My guess is you are more concerned with the Linux side of things. The W2K Server side should be very straight forward. It sounds like you are just talking about the IIS engine which, if you want, can just set to allow anonymous logon for all of those services. Just make sure your security/share settings on the folders you are poking at are allowing the "Everyone" user access. Get that working and then scale back the security from there.

As far as the Linux side, I know there are some extremely talented Linux users on this board that should be able to help you with that. I ain't one of 'em =)

Its just going to be the 2 boxes. I have to get them both to ftp, http,telnet from each other. Its been giving me a friggen headache. While i have set up a bunch of Windows machines i have yet to mess with 2000 Advanced Server and I have never messed with Linox.

Is there any specific error message or problem you are running into with the W2K side? IIS covers a very broad range of topics so it's hard to recommend a solution without the exact problem.

If IIS is installed (which it is by default), then you should be able to put in the IP address of the W2K Server into a web browser and it will pull up the default web page. Beyond that, start looking at settings in your Internet Services Manager under Administrative Tools. This is where all the magic happens =)

Telnet is a bit different than HTTPand FTP so leave that alone for now.

i have to beable to do it from the W2k box to the RH box and the other way around so i have to configure BOTH boxes to beable to do it from the other 1

i have to beable to do this for a final in class, the damn school im in has me taking IT 2 before i can start on my Networking classes for my CCNA

Start simple and work your way to the more complicated issues. First of all... can you ping from one machine to the other? Can the W2K Server "see" the RH box and vice-versa?

If not, then you have a layer 1 or layer 2 problem. Make sure your physical connections are good, then look at the IP addresses and such. If you can ping teh machine then you can at least "see" it.

After that, the rest is just configuration. Someone in an earlier post mentioned using the anonymous login and set that to "Everyone". That will work and should give you the connectivity you need.

In your W2K server, make sure your "Everyone" group/user has sufficient permissions. If all you are worried about at this point is connectivity, go in and set everything wide open. You can always close up the security issues later if need be. Obviously this is not what you would do in a real world situation, but if it gets you the desired result for your test then go for it.

For those RH gurus out there... I know W2K administration and domain configuration quite well, but I'm not that good with Red Hat. Does Red Hat lend itself to being set up as a member server or a domain controller in an W2K environment? If so, this would solve a lot of your problems. Member servers in a W2K environment are considered trusted by default and should allow http,ftp, telnet etc.

Just some thoughts... I hope it helps.

Ok, ok, sorry I didn't get to this earlier.

To my right, sits my Redhat 8 box. I'm typing on my Windows 2000 box.

Are you supplying DHCP or static IP addressing to the two machines? If you're using static IPs on the two boxes, make certian that they're bothing seeing your DNS infrastructure correctly. Lacking that, you won't get any sort of by-name connectivity between the two.

So, as has been mentioned, lets start with the basics: What are the IPs of the two machines? Can they ping each other by IP?

Type ifconfig eth0 on your Redhat box and cut and paste the values here. Type cat /etc/resolve.conf and cut and paste the values here. Type ipconfig /all on your 2000 box and cut and paste the values here. Type cat /etc/shadow and paste the values here. (Ok, just kidding about /etc/shadow... ...but check the rest, ok?)

Anyway, once we know that they can see each other, FTP, TELNET are all just IP based functions. You'll need to bring up those services on each box. I'll pretend you're running Gnome, so ramping those services up on Redhat is child's play. (We'll discuss /etc/init.d if you want, but...) They're on your start menu, under Service Configuration, or, in /usr/bin/readhat-config-services (requires X).

Windows 2000 you can find them your Administrative Tools section of your control panel, but I'm all for right-clicking my computer and choosing MANAGE.

This helping?