Re: Windows Domains? (was: getting a 3C905B network card

["Keith G. Murphy" <keithmur@mindspring.com>]

Erik Price wrote:
> > 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.  

Check out lynx-ssl, or even links-ssl, from the non-US section of Debian.
> > 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, 

You shouldn't need to do this; '/etc/init.d/networking start' should be 
executed at startup.
and be
> > using
> > the web from Linux, but then when I go back to Windows I'm going to
> > have a problem.  

Why do you think this?  Have you tried it?

I don't see how the Windows network settings would affect Linux, or vice 
versa.

Maybe this is all easier than you think.  :-)