Re: DHCP Server
A DHCP server will not do this for you. These are two totally unrelated
issues.
A DHCP server provides an IP address to a DHCP client when the DHCP client
boots (and requests) and address. This happens before a "login" screen ever
appears.
Win95 provides no "authentication" by itself. It needs to belong to an NT
Domain or NDS for this. So, without third party support, you're out of
luck.
About the easiest way to provide usage tracking is to have people telnet
into your Linux box. When they log in, they "authenticate" and then you can
just use "ac -p" to get usage stats at the end of each day.
For instance, create a script:
ac -p | sort -n +1 > /var/log/usage/stats.`date +%d`
mail -s "Usage Stats: `date +%D` <email addr> < /var/log/usage/stats.`date
+%d`
This will keep a daily log file for one month in /var/log/usage and will
mail the day's stats to you each day.
You'll want to add a line to /etc/crontab that run's this script each night
just before midnight to make things easy.
Anyway, like I said, there's no way to easily do this on a Win95 box without
shelling out cash to some commercial entity to provide some type of
authentication and logging product for you.
Get Linux to do it all for you for free!
Later,
Kevin Traas Baan Business Systems
Systems Analyst Langley, BC, Canada
Kevin@Baan-BBS.CA (604) 882-8169
http://www.baan-bbs.ca
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> Linux is not user-friendly.
It _is_ user-friendly. It's just not ignorant-friendly or idiot-friendly.
-----Original Message-----
From: Tony Koehn <bigt@ourtownusa.com>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Date: Thursday, September 11, 1997 6:45 AM
Subject: DHCP Server
>Does anyone know how I can setup a DHCP server?
>
>I need a small crash course on how a DHCP server works....
>
>Heres what I need. Will a DHCP server do this?
>
>I have W95 computers on a networks. These machines are accessable to the
>public. I need all time logged from the time a person loggs on the machine
>to when they logg off.
>
>Can I do this with Linux? or Is there a W95 Software package out there
>that does this as well?
>
>Thanks
>
>Tony Koehn
>
>
>
>
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