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Teresa and Dale wrote: |
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> It had a bug, she tried to fix it and deleted something. Boat anchor |
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> after that. O_O |
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Hence the concept of "not running as root"... ;) (and yes, it can |
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apply to non-UNIX systems too) |
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>> PS. Block 135-139, 445 and 3389 ports to/from the Internet at the LAN |
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>> periphery. Otherwise, your box could get backdoored before you even |
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>> had a chance to run any M$Windoze updates. ;-) |
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Amen. It's happened to me. |
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> I think most if not all my problem is the Linksys router. I don't think |
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> I have it set up to let the two systems connect to each other. I'm not |
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> sure where to even start either. She lost the book to the thing. I did |
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> trial and error to get the internet working. |
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The little "reset" button on the back of the router may just be your |
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best friend round about now. Hold it in with a pen or something for |
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about 5 seconds, until it reboots itself. The default settings for the |
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router (disclaimer: all Linksys routers I'm familiar with) make it get |
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its external address from DHCP, assign all internal addresses via the |
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same, permit all internal->internal and internal->external connections, |
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and refuse all external->internal connections. |
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In any case, Google is your friend... |
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http://dotancohen.com/howto/linksyssetup/index.php and you can Google |
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your specific model for even better results. |
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> < sighs > |
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> Dale |
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> :-) |
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Chin up, the worst is yet to come! ;) |
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And anyway, a Gentoo router > a Linksys one any day. :D |
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