Hi There.


I have just bought a new set of four computers for computation purposes.
I installed Slack current on them, installed a new ethernet card on my PC, and configured a Small DHCP server, so the new ones get configured by it.
I installed webmin on each machine.

The problem is that I cannot see the webmin cgi from the server. I CAN ping and ssh between all them, but the Webmin server is not visible from the others.

I dont know if this is important but the server is in two lans (my new lan and my university's lan).

I started apache on each client and I could not see it from the server.

Any suggestions??


ThanX

LinX

The first thing I would do is start out simple.Do you want all the machines running apache and webmin?Which box has webmin on it and which box is a http server?Start with one box and nmap yourself to see what ports are open and go from there.

yes, I need al the machines running webmin; the apache server was just a test.

netstat says that the port 10000 is open.

Any suggestion??

I'm a little confused the only machine you need webmin on is the one running a server.All the other machines access webmin via the web interface.If you are accessing across a lan make sure all the /etc/hosts are correct.

No, I need webmin running on all them cause four of these don't have monitor, and I want to configure some clients and be able to shutdown, reboot and burn cds from the server.

/etc/hosts is ok, I can ping them for their name:

ping Luana
ping Thais
ping Naomi
ping Liv


and even ssh works fine.

This may be obvious, but have you started your server? (assuming you're using apache 2)
eg. apache2 -k start

Have you tried connecting to http://localhost from a browser on the httpd server machine?

You can also test if the server is running by using a port scan of the machine with apache installed on it. (try netstat localhost)
the usual port for httpd service is 80. Check if 80 is open locally and remotely. You may have an iptables problem. (Some distros come with port 80 closed, though I'm not familiar with the new Slack defaults).

yes, i can see the web server from the machines.

I think it is a iptables problem, but I can't fix it.