[Xastir] dumb question du jour

[Wes Johnston]

KC4PL suggested I do chmod 4555 as well, and I tried it on the phone with him a
few hours ago.  No dice.  We even check my user groups based on his working
setup.  Dont mean to keep shooting down suggestions... hoping to find something
that works.

Wes
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Quoting "J. Lance Cotton" <josecanuc at gmail.com>:

> On Thu,  2 Dec 2004 16:08:50 -0500, Wes Johnston <wes at kd4rdb.com> wrote:
> > Ok, I've gotten sound modem working... I can run soundmodem & and see
> stations
> > being received scroll by on the screen.  GREAT!.
> ...
> > When I make an interface in xastir for ax25 tnc, and call it 'aprs', I get
> > interface 4 hard fail.
> >
> > What'd I do wrong?  How the heck does sm0 interface get mapped to aprs in
> the
> > axports file?
>
> You need to 'chmod 4555 /usr/local/bin/xastir' -- xastir with normal
> permissions cannot access the sm0 network device.
>
> The sm0 device gets mapped to the axports entry based on the callsign
> in the axports compared to the callsign entered in the soundmodem
> configuration.
>
> > Also, the soundmodem is sending samba broadcast info... how do I stop samba
> from
> > broadcasting on this port?  No need in all that junk going out on air.
>
> Stop running samba? ;-)
>
> Seriously, though -- I am not sure. Perhaps there is a setting in
> Samba to not operate on all interfaces, but only specific ones.
>
> --
> J. Lance Cotton, KJ5O
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