I'm a Linux Newbie - trying to learn about it.

I want to set up a Linux fileserver and web host for my home network (i.e. behind my firewall). I can't access the Linux servers from Wintel network properly - help!

I got a Dell 420 workstation with twin 1Ghz PIII cpus, 256Mb, 40G on IDE and 20G on SCSI. Bridged to my WiFi Wintel (W98 and XP mixture) network like this:

LinuxBox - WiredHub - WiFiAP/Bridge - WintelPCs(WinProxy/ApacheWin) - SatModem - Net

I installed Win XP and RedHat 9 (pretty much a complete install) using GRUB dual boot.

Now... The Linux box gets its IP address from Winproxys DHCP service (I think).

From the Linux box: I can browse the Internet using Mozilla. I can ping the wintel boxes using their names or their IP internal addresses. I can browse the Windows Apache server. I can browse the Linux Apache.

From the Windows boxes. I can ping the Linux box using it's IP address (but not it's name - DNS confusion here - don't know where the host/domain should be specified). BUT, I can't browse Linux Apache, even using the IP address - I don't even get a server error message just IEs page not found thing. I can't get to the samba server; I can see it in Network Neighborhood, but I get "path not available" when I try and open it.

Perhaps unrelated, I can't seem to get Linux Apache to run a simple perl script that works fine in a tty terminal window and in Windows Apache - Apache error log says "premature end of script headers" but no other clue where the problem is.

Lot of stuff here, I know - hope someone can make sense of it.

I feel some of this has to do with the network config - DNS and all that - but I don't want to disable DHCP and use fixed IPs on my Wintel boxes. I'm stumped. Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Regards, Ian

Code:

                                           /----\
                                           | PC |(ApacheWin)
/-------\   /-------\   /---------\   {~~~~\----/  /----\
| Linux |___| Wired |___| WiFi AP |~~~{            | PC |(WinProxy)---[SatModem]---Net
|  Box  |   |  Hub  |   | Bridge  |   {~~~~~~~~~~~~\----/
\-------/   \-------/   \---------/   {    /----\
                                       ~~~~| PC |
                                           \----/

Solved it. Turned out to be the default firewall settings in RH9. I disabled the firewall and everything works as advertised.

I guess I'll delve into firewall config now to get it working with the right ports open.