[OLUG] connection failures

[Nathan Brown]

Ok! if my problem is not socks ... how come netscape is giving me the message
that $socks_ns is a problem?  I can't even find the program or file on my
system .  That is what makes it confusing.
thanks
Nate


Mike McNally wrote:

> Forget about socks.  It is a different way of doing firewalling (a
> better way) and likely has nothing to do with your problem.  When I want
> to know howto make ppp work, I read the PPP-HOWTO, that's why they call
> it a howto.  Have you read the howto?
>
> Have you read the NET3-HOWTO and gotten the right stuff in the files:
> hosts, HOSTNAME, host.conf, resolv.conf?  (I've asked this once before)
>
> Nate, if you are thinking that Linux is just a better Windows, it is
> not.  It's a unix system and the myriad of modules that comprise Linux
> must be tackled one by one.  Slowly but surely you will gain valuable
> unix skills.  The first module to tackle is ppp and some basic network
> stuff which is required to make a connection.
>
> In order to learn unix/linux you will be constantly refering to the
> installguide, the howtos, the man pages, you'll even have to learn how
> to use that stupid info database.  It will not be sufficient to simply
> read error messages that popup on your screen and ask others what it
> means.  A typical unix question is properly phrased like this:
>
> I have read through most of the ppp howto, scanned applicaple sections
> of the net3 howto and read most of the linux install guide, but I am
> still having problems with pppd.  With the debug and kdebug options set
> in the pppd options file my debugging info is as follows....
>         ---
>         ---
> good luck
>
> Mike
>
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