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Finally, I am enrolled and ready to get going at NC State! I am excited that I got my Credit by Examination back as having been passed, although I would be curious as to the exact details of the test and how well I did. Starting Monday, I have Science, Art, & Literature and on Tuesday is the beginning of my Unix Operating Systems class.

I picked up my books at the bookstore, and the price wasn’t too bad. I came away with a bill under $70.00, including taxes. The Unix/Linux book looks to be pretty straightforward and there are three short novels for the philosophy class.

I spent some time at Habitat today, working on the network, but was alone for the first time in a great while. The rest of the crew was out at the Richland County Fairgrounds setting up for the Home Show. Hopefully, there will be a decent amount of donations coming in. They have had an innovative idea of allowing people to sponsor a square foot of space in the home for $40.00. They will get a certificate and a small pin, in appreciation of their contributions.

Things got a little interesting today as I was trying to set up the network for RCHFH.

The major problem was that the two clients I was running could ping each other, but not the server. I suspected a cable or simple configuration problem, but I tried to ping from the server to the clients, and that worked. I knew it wasn’t the cable.

Next, I tried examining the IP configuration of the clients. All looked normal.

Finally, it dawned on me that I had set up a firewall at one point through the Mandrake Control Cent
er. I took down the ethernet interface and flushed the chains from iptables. That wasn’t successful, so I took eth0 down again and removed the iptables kernel modules entirely. A quick ping later, and I was in business.

Now, the connectivity is restored; Samba actually logged me onto multiple machines and allowed me to connect to the server with the shares that I had set up.