[K12OSN] server not forwarding packets for Windows clients
Les Mikesell
les at futuresource.com
Mon Jan 30 19:32:52 UTC 2006
On Mon, 2006-01-30 at 13:25, Petre Scheie wrote:
> I've got a k12ltsp server providing DHCP addresses to a bunch of Windows machines. The
> intent is to turn the Windows boxes into thin clients with Universal Boot Floppies(tm)
> or at least dual-boot systems. The server is a two-nic config, and I installed it this
> past weekend. But today, when people are back in the office, the Windows clients are
> getting addresses from the DHCP on the server, but any requests directed to the internet
> are not getting any response. I ran tracrert from a W2K box: it got as far as the
> server but no further. It's as if the server isn't forwarding any requests that come in
> eth1 to eth0. I turned off iptables, but that made no difference. It seems something
> is off in the routing/NAT'ing/masquerading, but what?
Does 'chkconfig --list nat' show that it is on in runlevel 5?
If not, do:
chkconfig nat on
service nat start
But I thought this should be enabled in a default k12ltsp install.
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
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