The Fedora 7 Installation Notes and HOWTOs are done! See the following address:

Background Information:
http://optics.csufresno.edu/~kriehn/fedora/fedora.html

F7 Installation Notes and HOWTOs:
http://optics.csufresno.edu/~kriehn/fed ... f7/f7.html

Please post corrections to any mistakes that you find here.

Hi, hope you dont mind me posting here.

I am new to Linux and stumbled on your howto's one day. I found them very helpful, thankyou.

I am struggling on 1 of them though, the Samba how to. I follow the howto, line by line (inserting my own details of course) and everything checks out right up to the point entitled 'Server-side Verification.

I run the smbclient -L [Server] command and it returns a cannot connect to server message.

It might be me being a bit thick and not understanding the technology but were exactly is this server configured? I have tried various names but non work.

I am making a big assumption here in that I am assuming that the server in question is the actual Linux box that we have been configuring. The reason i am assuming this is that the next section is called 'logging in through windows'.

i could do with a bit of helpt o complete the configuration.

Also, I configured up the ports as described in your firewall howto, but I only get about 50% of the ports when i run nmap as described.

rgds Phree

Welcome Phree!

You are correct in that the Samba server is the Linux server. So when you connect, you connect to the name of your computer. For this to work, you need to make sure that your IP address is in /etc/hosts -- meaning that you need to have a dedicated IP address, and not be using DHCP. If it helps, try connecting to the IP address directly.

As to your firewall, the only ports that you care about with regard to Samba are the following:

Required Ports (TCP) -> 139
Required Ports (UDP) -> 137:138

The other ones do not matter.

One thing that I forgot to mention on the Firewall page is that the nmap command as typed will only give you TCP ports. To check the UDP ports, use the following command:

sudo nmap -sU localhost

Thanks,
Prof. K.

Me, too.



I'm adding Java to F7, and your explanation of SELinux is the bulk of what I understand about it. I usually use www.fedorafaq.org but that page is still stuck on FC6.

system-config-selinux for my install (I've already installed kmod-nvidia via livna) already had checked entries mostly as you recommend. Exception, under "Boolean > Memory Protection" I checked -on- the option Allow all unconfined executables to use libraries requiring text relocation that are.... and immediately under that I noticed "Allow java executable stack"

Is "Allow java executable stack" required?

Thanks, and congrats on a great looking & useful site

Welcome!

"Allow java executable stack" is NOT required.

Thanks for the complement.

Prof. K.

OK, thanks about clearing that up.

... thought I should mention two minor things, specifically about your instructions for Java:

1) at the present time, the current java runtime environment is jre-6u2-linux-i586.bin (release 2), and release 1 isn't available for download

2) when installed on a x86_64 system, the plugin link as posted doesn't work, unless flash-plugin is installed*. In that case, I think, /usr/lib should be /usr/lib64
ln -s /opt/jre1.6.0_02/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/.

*After I did #yum install flash-plugin, clicking my "browser" icon apparently started launching the firefox.i386 plugin. I could tell, because all the multimedia plugins in /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins were no longer there. That seems kind of broken, as if Fedora people are waiting for Adobe to release a 64 bit plugin.

Which reminds me: using the former macromedia mplug.org repo redirected me to install a newer adobe repo. (which enabled itself.) I don't know the details, but it might be worth updating the repo section of your instructions.

I'm still in the process of trying to figure out the best browser setup for me. Part of the decision process includes whether or not to use
an alternative jre. It _might_ be working for me; it can be enabled simply by via ln -s /usr/lib64/gcj-4.1.2/libgcjwebplugin.so /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins This is a GNU project still in developent, which I apparently already had installed.

Ok...

1.) I'll update the notes in about two weeks when I get back to the office -- I'm doing some home remodeling at present. It's taking f o r e v e r to finish.

2.) You are probably right -- I don't have an x86_64 system, so I won't be able to confirm it one way or another.

3.) I'll update the repo in a couple of weeks as well.

Thanks for the heads up!

[EDIT] - The summer is over, and so is the remodeling! I've updated the info on the appropriate pages. Thanks!

Prof. K

Professor Kriehn, it all looks fantastic! The step by step guides look to be a big help. Now if I could only get my hands on that CD that someone said he'd send me...

Hey slacker -- too hard to register as jkriehn, huh? I'll mail the Fedora 7 DVD off to you on Monday. In the meantime, work on partitioning your hard drive (PartitionMagic) so that you are ready to install F7 by the time it gets to you.

Professor Slack - about 5 Mondays have come and gone since the original date of send off. And yet, no discs have arrived in the mail. Do I need to send you a pre-stamped envelope?? Or is the problem getting in the car and driving to the post office?

Greetings sir kriehn and all user

Very nice & usefull + clear information here.

Keep it up so begginer like me can learn more from it.

Thumbs Up!!

Thanks alot for this info. I have been searching everywhere for it and at last i found it thanks again

Nice information thanks for sharing

Hello Kriehn,
I saw this your guide about fetchmail configuration.
I have a mail gateway box with qmail and fetchmail
I configure fetchmailrc to get mail from ISP-Mail Server (i'm using multi-drop)

My fetchmailrc config:
set no bouncemail
set logfile "/var/log/fetchmail"
set postmaster admin@mydomain.com
poll myisp-mail.com
proto pop3
localdomains mydomain.com:
envelope Received
no dns
user "myusername"
pass "mypassword"
to * here
forcecr

I received email correctly but there are 2 option that i can not received email correctly
The first: when my user is in group mail list (example: yahoogroup) so my user can not received email
The second: when my user is using forward mail from other email service (Ex: myuser@yahoo.com forward to myuser@mydomain.com) so my user can not received email
All email was sent to admin@mydomain.com

Please help me.
Thank you
Vinh Huynh

Sorry for the delay.

Set an alias in /etc/aliases. That should do the trick and force e-mail to be delivered to you.