![]() ![]() Finding out from xterm would certainly be a whole heap easier than running back and forth between a user's PC and the computer room, or getting users to try things while I checked from the computer room. Perhaps Squid had died, or there were mistakes in the Access Control Lists in the Squid config file. Once I had an xterm or two running on the server, I could quickly determine why the user could not access the Web. I mean real access, with multiple xterms, not that pathetic excuse for a Telnet client Windows has. Eds.Īs I sat in front of a Windows system at a customer site recently, flustered while trying to fix a user's Internet access problem, I wished I could have access to the customer's Linux-based Internet gateway. ![]() And if anyone knows how to beat death or taxes, be sure to tell us how in the forums. LinuxWorld column, Richard Sharpe will show you how to integrate Linux and Windows and work around Windows' weak points. But there are ways to make Windows cooperate with Linux, and thus simplify our work lives until that legacy OS is no longer as ubiquitous as the Reaper or the taxman. No matter what the future may hold, at present you still can't avoid any of them. ![]()
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