On Tue, 18 Nov 2003, Generation NeXT wrote: > Hi, > > I'm desperately trying to get stuff to work. I am > relatively new to Linux, and Mandrake is highly > recommended. So I installed Mandrake 9.1. > > I'm not able to configure my networking setup. I try > the netconf from the KDE Start Applications menu, and > it says I need root. I then tried to setup a log in > for root through KDE, but couldn't figure it out (also > heard this wasn't recommended). I then noticed that > netconf uses linuxconf, so I went to the terminal, and > typed in linuxconf and got the following: > > --------------------------------------------------- > Error message from remadmin :Xlib: connection to > ":0.0" refused by server > Error message from remadmin :Xlib: No protocol > specified > Error message from remadmin : > Error message from remadmin : > Error message from remadmin :Gtk-WARNING **: cannot > open display: :0.0 > --------------------------------------------------- > > (1) So, how do I launch linuxconf? (2) Why doesn't > launching linuxconf work? (3) How can I configure the > network from the command line? > > - Joaquin >
mcc or drakconf is the solution we're really trying to point people to for gui configuration. linuxconf has been moved to contribs. drakconnect is the subsystem of drakconf for networking accessible either from the command line as root (or /usr/sbin/drakconnect as a normal user). This is also available within the mcc/drakconf gui. -- Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft
