[newbie] Bastille

Hi folks, Just got my firewall up with interactive bastille. I only have a small problem: it is too good! When the firewall is up, I don't get any SMTP mail from my provider anymore. So I have to go in with fetchmail or shut down the firewall. Can someone point me to the proper setting that I

[newbie] Bastille solved

Okay folks, already got it. I only had to allow 'smtp', no need to futz with port numbers. Paul -- The biggest mistake is believing that there is one right way to listen, to talk, to have a conversation - or a relationship. -Deborah Tannen http://nlpagan.net - Registered Linux User 174403

Re: [newbie] system clock

Do you have anything configured to set your time from a Network Time Protocol (NTP) server, like ntpdate or xntpd? If you don't have your time zone settings correctly configured, then these will set your time to UTC (GMT). The Mandrake Control Centre does not configure the time zone correctly;

Re: [newbie] Increasing Print Darkness

I have noticed that KDE apps print lighter than other apps. To get around this, you can print to postscript and then use xpp. On Sun, 5 Aug 2001 13:07, Franki wrote: I havev this problem as well, I have a kyocera FS800 laser, and it didn't work at all until I found out it is running in HP

Re: [newbie] system clock

what happens if the machine is turned off for a day or two? might be just a large load on the computer, but most often is a sign battery is dieing, and maybe time for a new MOBO On Friday 03 August 2001 22:30, Scott wrote: I keep resetting my system clock to the correct time and date and it

[newbie] Pls help!ASAP

First,I just want to know what tty means? i know that ttyS0 and ttyS1 is for communications port but what is the meaning of tty second i just want to know what do you call USB connection to PC tty - what? is ttyC0 is correct or wrong? Third is what if i have a second cdrom or i have

[newbie] Winmodem ?

Hello, Iam no sureif i have a Winmodem, but when i try to intall theDiamond SupraSST 56 i PRO DT in LM8.0, in the diferent options that i can choose don't it appears. Someone can tell me where i can read and obtain some driver to intall this modem. Thanks.

Re: [newbie] Increasing Print Darkness

On Saturday 04 August 2001 23:07, Franki wrote: I havev this problem as well, snip QT-cups. Increase the dpi. -s On Saturday 04 August 2001 10:14 am, you wrote: How do I change the darkness of printed documents? TIA Dan Have you tried going to the desk top icon and clicking on

[newbie] Can't install pump

I am running LM7.2 and cannot install pump. I attempted to install pump-0.8.11-1.i386.rpm but received the following error: error:failed dependencies libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.2) is needed by pump-0.8.11-1 So I tried to install glibc-2.2.2-10.i386.rpm but received an error that I needed glibc-common.

Re: [newbie] Pls help!ASAP

It was Sun, 05 Aug 2001 21:57:12 -0700 when AOL Systems wrote: i know that ttyS0 and ttyS1 is for communications port but what is the meaning of tty tty is the filename of a device connected to an input resource. second i just want to know what do you call USB connection to PC tty - what? is

Re: [newbie] Another about Uninstalling Mandrake Linux 8.0

Dennis wrote: Use a windows boot disk to boot into dos and fdisk and delete the partition reformat to a fat32 and all the rest and linux is gone Wont't work. DOS FDISK will not delete a non-DOS partition. I don't know how NT and W2K deal with this, but I expect they may operate the same way.

Re: [newbie] Re: (newbie) Dizzy newbie LAN help needed

Steve Maytum wrote: May i just thank people for their offers of help before i begin this epic adventure (well it is for me anyway!) 1) In answer to setting up old machine as dialler/firewall , i have no objections to this , but will still need guidance. My problems may become apparent as

[newbie] Can't install pump or glibc, thus can't get to Internet

I am running LM7.2 and cannot install pump. I attempted to install pump-0.8.11-1.i386.rpm but received the following error: error:failed dependencies libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.2) is needed by pump-0.8.11-1 So I tried to install glibc-2.2.2-10.i386.rpm but received an error that I needed glibc-common.

Re: [newbie] Really small LAN of 2

I agree with Sridhar. I think the fact that the machine's name is localhost, is causing a bit of a problem. It could very well be the firewall as well. But edit this file: [root@r2d2 sysconfig]# cat network NETWORKING=yes FORWARD_IPV4=false HOSTNAME=MACHINE-NAME-HERE

[newbie] USB SanDisk compactflash reader?

Has anyone been able to get the USB SanDisk compactflash card reader to work on LM8? If so how do you go about it?

Re: [newbie] Winmodem ?

Jose: It is a winmodem and, according to the information at www.idir.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html, no Linux driver is available. Regards, Carroll José Manuel González Mayoral wrote: Hello, I am no sure if i have a Winmodem, but when i try to intall theDiamond SupraSST 56 i PRO DT in

[newbie] 'Rumor' of TCP/MS WinXP [Check this out]

Somebody sent this to me today, as he and I usually discuss varied technical issues, and in reading, I thought this was something the groups may like to see. If you've already seen it or commented on, I apologize for the waisted bandwith, but I think this is worth distributing.

Re: [newbie] net config

You can set up ip-masq and forwarding in Connection sharing in the Mandrake Control center. This is a real good samba howto, the one I used: http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/connect/csamba.html -s On Sunday 05 August 2001 11:42 am, you wrote: Hi... I want to configure my mandrake 8...

Re: [newbie] Another about Uninstalling Mandrake Linux 8.0

not EXACTLY the same for an NTFS partition, but as far as nt w/fat32 or ME, is the same On Friday 03 August 2001 23:19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've read the method for uninstalling Mandrake Linux when there was a Win98 previously. Will it work also with in the case of having previously a

[newbie] Domain or Workgroup

Hi Trying to figure out the networking for my 2 computers at home. Both have WIN 2000NT and dual boot linux, 1 with Mandrake 8.0 and one with Redhat 7.1. On the windows networking I never setup domains, but rather only a workgroup. Is this a windows proprietary thing? And thus do I need to

Re: [newbie] Domain or Workgroup

I think of it like this, using TCP=domain (it bee's da MAIN protacol) Winders and netbios/samba ain't for a whole DOMAIN, just for a workgroup. so, to use winders peer to peer, set workgroup. to use a OS that is ready for the whole Domain, you need to have your domian name set (the default is

Re: [newbie] Domain or Workgroup

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tazmun, Both workgroups and domains in NT/2000 are Windows-specific implementations that run over the SMB protocol (which in turn runs on top of TCP/IP, IPX/SPX, or NetBEUI). In Linux, we use Samba to talk to Windows machines over SMB. This is

[newbie] SoundBlaster 16 in Mandrake 8

I have an old Soundblaster 16 that I cannot get to work. I ran sndconfig and it would play the sample sounds in the configuration routine. I think that the first test was the word Hello but I got a Hel sounded like it cutoff. The midi track played fine. Anyway, I tried configuring it

[newbie] Hi all, can someone send me a default smbusers file?

Hi all, I accidently wiped my smbusers file,, and it had the default mapping for admin and guest accounts and I can't remember the format.. can anyone help me out here?? rgds Frank

[newbie] Xcdroast: do not verify audio tracks

Hi all, A small question: is there a specific reason that Xcdroast has the option Do not verify audio tracks? Does verification of audio usually go belly-up where the burn is good?? Paul -- The biggest mistake is believing that there is one right way to listen, to talk, to have a conversation

[newbie] copying files from one to another

I have two laptops on the same network running Mandrake 8. Samba is installed and running on both. It is not clear to me how best to copy files from one to the other for backup and synchronization purposes. Can someone recommend the best method? Andy

Re: [newbie] copying files from one to another

Try drakesync if you'd like. IT will use SSL to do so, or SSH, I can't remember which. You can also use scp. scp FILE.NAME $[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/path/for/file Do a which for scp to make sure it's installed and then check the man page for more information. tdh -- T. Holmes -

Re: [newbie] LOL, neverending apache questions

if you have configured apache to allow index then if it does not find a file with the title index.html (or could be index shtml, or index.php etc.) it should create a real generic one, listing all the files in the directory. as far as getting linuxgeek.shacknet.nu, it worked for me On

Re: [newbie] how I add other hard disk to LM8

On Sunday 05 August 2001 16:11, you wrote: On Sunday 05 August 2001 12:40, you wrote: On Sunday 05 August 2001 02:15, you wrote: On Saturday 04 August 2001 19:36, you wrote: Hi every one! I have hard disk 3.2 GB with linux M8 hda and I want add other hard disk hdd My hdd

Re: [newbie] Domain or Workgroup

Ok gang, I appreciate all of the replies and so it appears that workgroups are fine for now. However I'm completely lost here because no where in all the settings in linux do I see in either Mandrake or Redhat any provisions or field to enter the workgroup name. I'm afraid I'm pretty green on

RE: [newbie] Hi all, can someone send me a default smbusers file?

Create an empty file with touch. Then add your users back with smbadduser -JMS -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Franki Sent: Sunday, August 05, 2001 2:18 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Hi all, can someone send me a default

RE: [newbie] copying files from one to another

While you can do this with Samba, it's not a good idea. Samba was designed to permit sharing files with WINBLOWS machines. As a result it frequently drops Linux/Unix specific characteristics of files... I.E. some permissions, etc. It also has trouble with certain filenames which are permitted

RE: [newbie] Can't install pump

Try using an earlier version of Pump compiled for 7.2. Worst case, go to http://rpmfind.net and grab the source for an earlier version, closer to your distribution and rpm --rebuild pump-0.x.xx-x.src.rpm -JMS -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On

[newbie] Mail question

Can any tell me the difference between Sendmail and Fetchmail? I have Sendmail 8.11.2-14 and Webmin 0.87-1 installed. How can I configure Mail Server (Sendmail) via Webmin. Can I test send and receive mail on local network? If I can, please show me the easiest way to test it. Thank you Tuan

Re: [newbie] Mail question

At 07:37 PM 08/05/2001 -0500, Matt Greer wrote: On Sunday 05 August 2001 19:32, Tuan Duc Tran wrote: Can any tell me the difference between Sendmail and Fetchmail? Sendmail is for sending mail, typically to send your outgoing mail over to your isp so they can then send it to the recipient from

RE: [newbie] copying files from one to another

snip You export the mount points of the devices you want to share, start NFS and on the other machine mount the remote machine... snip In order to run NFS, you must start portmap first, otherwise remote mounting of the nfs share will not work. Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User

[newbie] Restore Session

Hello List - I once made the mistake, when logging out of KDE, of checking the button that says Restore Session for the next login. Now everytime I login the same windows are opened automatically. Can anyone tell me how to clear this session out so I can start with a clean session each

[newbie] KDE session

Hey there, One way to fix that is to go into the KDE Control Center. Once you start that, go under the system heading and then session manager. There is a checkbox there next to restore session... Good luck! -Nick

RE: [newbie] Kernel compilation

Carroll, Thanks, I could get the information in this place and I compiled the 2.4.6 kernel and believe it or not it worked out! Just a little complain about supermount, but it worked anyway. So far, no problem. Unfortunately when I tryed to install the package of the modem's driver I got a

Re: [newbie] Domain or Workgroup

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 You will need to use Samba. When setting up Samba, you will need to enter the workgroup name that the Windows boxes are using. Mandrakeuser.org has a decent howto for setting up Samba. Dave On Sunday 05 August 2001 18:53, thus spake tazmun: Ok

Re: [newbie] Restore Session

Tom Malone wrote: Hello List - I once made the mistake, when logging out of KDE, of checking the button that says Restore Session for the next login. Now everytime I login the same windows are opened automatically. Can anyone tell me how to clear this session out so I can start with a

[newbie] Cannot su

Hi I've been using Mandrake 8.0 for a few months and enjoy it very much. However, today I find I cannot su to root anymore from a user account. In a terminal I su, type in root password, and get this: [user@localhost user]$ su Password: File Size Limit exceeded [user@localhost user]$ Similarly,

Re: [newbie] Cannot su

Hugh, This sounds as if you have user or disk quotas enabled, and have exceeded one of the hard limits. As root, open linuxconf, config--File Systems -- Disk Quotas. Either relax them (ie, increase the default values) or disable disk quotas. Also check to make sure that your drive(s) aren't

Re: [newbie] Cable Modem

If you're running a cable modem you have a static IP for the moment. They may change it later, but usually they wait a few months. As root, run this command. [root@r2d2 /root]# /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd status Apache is running. httpd: 25635 25634 20976 20975 19872 19871 19870 19869 1095

[newbie] Mouse locks up in KDE

When I click on an icon in KDE it locks up the pointer about 20% of the time. Since ctl-alt-bs or ctl-alt-del doesn't work at all I have to hit reset. It's pretty hard to get very far into an X session without having to hit reset. GPM is not installed on my machine. This is a new Mandrake 8.0

[newbie] net config

Hi... I want to configure my mandrake 8... because I want to use them like aproxy server and file share server (samba) I configured my lan card, and when I try it with ping command, work fine... but I can't config ip-masq and samba... can anyone help me...? I want to know how to configure

RE: [newbie] Domain or Workgroup

windows can use either as can linux... read this... (someone else just posted this, i used it too, works great.) http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/connect/csamba.html time to hook your teeth into samba... its not that tough, you could cut and paste his example into your smb.conf and just make

Re: [newbie] One last Apache question

sorry I have been away for a few days, just checking my mail once every now and then... each directory (and file too) can have it's own permissions and owners, with no one else able to effect the files in ways the owners have not allowed. On Saturday 04 August 2001 01:56, Jon Doe wrote:

[newbie] LOL, neverending apache questions

How do I let people into directories? I have a directory /var/www/html/media/download that I don't want to have to make an html file for, I would like people to just beable to browse that directory. As of right now I just get a not found error. WHen you put in the address it takes you to

[newbie] RPM wont uninstall packages

Hello, This is my first post to this list. So far my mandrake installation is going great, but I'm having one problem. I can't get RPM to uninstall packages. If I enter rpm -e package it claims that package is not installed. If I try to install the package, it tells me its already installed

[newbie] ATI

Hello. Does anyone know if there are any drivers for an ATI Rage Mobility? I am not having a pleasant experience trying to install LM7.2 on my laptop. I am unable to get any viewable output. I have tried multiple color display, pixels and Hz. Generic 640x480 gets me a the best display but

Re: [newbie] SoundBlaster 16 in Mandrake 8

run Kmix and make sure the levels are respectable to hear (half way) and that in BIOS, plug and pray aware OS is set to OFF. On Sunday 05 August 2001 14:05, Linus Drouhard wrote: I have an old Soundblaster 16 that I cannot get to work. I ran sndconfig and it would play the sample sounds in