Windows Domains? (was: getting a 3C905B network card
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consider one quote level as my original message:
> --- Robert Ian Smit <robian@wanadoo.nl> wrote:
> > * Erik Price <profkyne@yahoo.com> [04-10-2002 22:34]:
> > > argument), so what steps should I take to get DHCP to assign me
> an
> > IP
> > > address?
> > >
> > > ifconfig eth0 address XXX.XX.X.XXX
> >
> > As you say DHCP assigns an address, with ifconfig you can manually
> > add an address (and change other options)
>
> [...]
>
> > You need to make sure that you have an IP-address, use ifconfig
> with
> > no parameters to display.
> >
> > You need a default gateway. Check with route
> >
> > You need DNS. Check /etc/resolv.conf
>
>
> Okay, now I'm having a different problem entirely. I did everything
> you described, grabbing the network information from "ipconfig" in MS
> DOS and then entering it into the /etc/network/interfaces file with
> vi,
> and executing the "/etc/init.d/networking restart" script. It worked
> great. After creating a /etc/resolv.conf (Debian doesn't come with a
> blank one by default), I was able to fetch web pages and even use
> Lynx.
> I was so happy.
>
> So the next step was to paste the STDERR output from my failed
> "startx"
> commands. Unfortunately, I couldn't access my company email account
> from Linux, and using Lynx to access this freebie Yahoo account
> didn't
> work because Lynx doesn't yet support https. So I couldn't post the
> STDERR file! But this is the least of my problems.
>
> Because upon restarting the machine and booting back into Win2k, I
> discovered that I couldn't even log into the machine! It turns out
> that at my company, the login is controlled by something called a
> "domain", which is some kind of network-based authentication system.
> I
> don't really understand it myself. I ended up having to call tech
> support and they managed to help me get it all online, apparently by
> forcing the machine to accept DHCP again.
>
> Does anyone know how to get Linux to work cooperatively alongside
> this
> MS "domain" business? In other words, I could boot right back into
> Linux and execute "/etc/init.d/networking restart" again, and be
> using
> the web from Linux, but then when I go back to Windows I'm going to
> have a problem. And I can't keep calling tech support for this.
> Surely there is another on this list who knows how to handle these
> "domains".
>
> I am grateful for any advice.
>
>
> Erik
>
> PS: In case it's not obvious, I'm not a Windows guru.
>
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