On Thu, 2006-05-25 at 20:35 +0100, Freedom Web Services wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > I have just installed FC5 to replace RH9 and am encountering loads of > problems in getting it set up as my old RH9 system was. > > I use it mainly as a web server using PHP and Mysql, I had it > networked to my XP machine using samba and had it set up as a dhcp > server. I want to run my internet connection through it as well for > when I expand my network at a later date. > > Ok, I have installed FC5 and set up my second drive which contains all > my work as '/home'. I have also installed dhcp and got that working > ok but thats where my problems start. > > Although dhcp is allocating ip addresses ok I can not access the > server using its name 'linux'. I assume this is due to samba not > running. > > I need to install samba as the system says it is not installed when I > use 'rpm -q smb', so I downloaded 'samba-common-3.0.22.1.fc5.rpm'. > When I go to install it with 'rpm -ivh samba-common-3.0.22.1.fc5.rpm I > get loads of confiction errors. That's probably because you already have samba installed but have not configured it to run. > I have also tried to use the 'Add / Remove software' and 'Software > Updater' from the 'Applications' menu and get an 'Unable to retrive > software infomation' error. > When I try to use yum with the command 'yum install > samba-common-3.0.22.1.fc5.rpm' I get an 'Error: Cannot find a baseurl > for repo: core'. This is probably because you are not connected to the Internet when trying to use yum or one of the GUI tools built on top of it. Paul.
