Linux-Misc Digest #660, Volume #18 Sun, 17 Jan 99 14:13:12 EST
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Linux Frequently Asked Questions with Answers (Part 1 of 6) ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: searching for lex (Shani Oren)
Re: IPX PrinterServer and RH 5.1 (Frank Ranner)
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Subject: Linux Frequently Asked Questions with Answers (Part 1 of 6)
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Date: Sun, 17 Jan 1999 18:57:57 GMT
Linux Frequently Asked Questions with Answers
January 3, 1999
This is the list of Frequently Asked Questions for Linux, the free,
POSIX compatible (e.g., *n*x) operating system for just about every
computer hardware platform on the planet. Originally written for
386/486/586 Intel/ISA bus machines, versions exist for Alpha, Sparc,
MIPS, ARM, 680x0, and PPC processors, and many others. ("What is
Linux?") This FAQ is meant to be read in conjunction with the Linux
Documentation Project's HOWTO series. ("Where can I get Linux
material by FTP?" and, "Where can I get the HOWTO's and other
documentation?") The INFO-SHEET and META-FAQ also list sources of
Linux information. Please read them, and, "You still haven't
answered my question!" before posting to a Usenet news group. You can
also get Postscript, HTML, and SGML versions of this document.
("Formats in which this FAQ is available.")
1. Introduction and General Information
* 1.1 What is Linux?
* 1.2 Where do I start?
* 1.3 What software does Linux support?
* 1.4 Does Linux run on my computer? What hardware is supported?
* 1.5 What ports to other processors are there?
* 1.6 How much hard disk space does Linux need?
* 1.7 How much memory does Linux need?
* 1.8 How much memory can Linux use?
* 1.9 Is Linux public domain? Copyrighted?
2. Network sources and resources.
* 2.1 Where can I get the HOWTO's and other documentation?
* 2.2 Where should I look on the World Wide Web for Linux stuff?
* 2.3 What newsgroups are there for Linux?
* 2.4 Where can I get Linux material by FTP?
* 2.5 I don't have FTP access. Where do I get Linux?
* 2.6 I don't have Usenet access. Where do I get information?
* 2.7 What mailing lists are there?
* 2.8 Are the newsgroups archived anywhere?
* 2.9 Where can I find out about Linux and the Millennium (Y2K)
bug?
* 2.10 Where can I find out about security related issues?
3. Compatibility with other operating systems.
* 3.1 Can Linux share my disk with DOS? OS/2? 386BSD? Win95?
* 3.2 How do I access files on my DOS partition or floppy?
* 3.3 Does Linux support compressed ext2 file systems?
* 3.4 Can I use my Stacked/DBLSPC/etc. DOS drive?
* 3.5 Can I access OS/2 HPFS partitions from Linux?
* 3.6 Can Linux access Amiga file systems?
* 3.7 Can Linux access BSD, SysV, etc. UFS?
* 3.8 Can Linux access SMB file systems?
* 3.9 Can Linux access Macintosh file systems?
* 3.10 Can I run Microsoft Windows programs under Linux?
* 3.11 How can I boot Linux from MS-DOS?
* 3.12 How can I boot Linux from OS/2's Boot Manager?
* 3.13 How can I share a swap partition between Linux and MS
Windows?
4. Linux's handling of file systems, disks, and drives
* 4.1 How can I get Linux to work with my disk?
* 4.2 How can I undelete files?
* 4.3 How do I resize a partition (non-destructively)?
* 4.4 Is there a defragmenter for ext2fs etc.?
* 4.5 How do I format and create a file system on a floppy?
* 4.6 I get nasty messages about inodes, blocks, and the like.
* 4.7 My swap area isn't working.
* 4.8 How do I remove LILO so my system boots DOS again?
* 4.9 Why can't I use fdformat except as root?
* 4.10 My ext2fs partitions are checked each time I reboot.
* 4.11 My root file system is read-only!
* 4.12 I have a huge /proc/kcore! Can I delete it?
* 4.13 My AHA1542C doesn't work with Linux.
5. Porting, compiling and obtaining programs
* 5.1 How do I compile programs?
* 5.2 How do I install GNU software?
* 5.3 How do I port XXX to Linux?
* 5.4 What is ld.so and where do I get it?
* 5.5 How do I upgrade the libraries withough trashing my
system?
* 5.6 Has anyone ported / compiled / written XXX for Linux?
* 5.7 Can I use code or a compiler compiled for a 486 on my 386?
* 5.8 What does gcc -O6 do?
* 5.9 Where are linux/*.h and asm/*.h?
* 5.10 I get errors when I try to compile the kernel.
* 5.11 How do I make a shared library?
* 5.12 My executables are (very) large.
* 5.13 Does Linux support threads or lightweight processes?
* 5.14 Where can I get `lint' for Linux?
* 5.15 Where can I find kermit for Linux?
6. Solutions to common miscellaneous problems.
* 6.1 free dumps core.
* 6.2 My clock is very wrong.
* 6.3 Setuid scripts don't seem to work.
* 6.4 Free memory as reported by free keeps shrinking.
* 6.5 When I add more memory, the system slows to a crawl.
* 6.6 Some programs (e.g. xdm) won't let me log in.
* 6.7 Some programs let me log in with no password.
* 6.8 My machine runs very slowly when I run GCC / X / ...
* 6.9 I can only log in as root.
* 6.10 My screen is all full of weird characters instead of
letters.
* 6.11 I have screwed up my system and can't log in to fix it.
* 6.12 I've discovered a huge security hole in rm!
* 6.13 lpr(1) and/or lpd(8) don't work.
* 6.14 Timestamps on files on MS-DOS partitions are set
incorrectly.
* 6.15 How do I get LILO to boot the vmlinux file?
7. How do I do this or find out that ... ?
* 7.1 How can I get scrollback in text mode?
* 7.2 How do I switch virtual consoles? How do I enable them?
* 7.3 How do I set the time zone?
* 7.4 What version of Linux and what machine name am I using?
* 7.5 How can I enable or disable core dumps?
* 7.6 How do I upgrade/recompile my kernel?
* 7.7 Can I have more than 3 serial ports by sharing interrupts?
* 7.8 How do I make a bootable floppy?
* 7.9 How do I remap my keyboard to UK, French, etc.?
* 7.10 How do I get NUM LOCK to default to on?
* 7.11 How do I set (or reset) my initial terminal colors?
* 7.12 How can I have more than 128Mb of swap?
8. Miscellaneous information and questions answered.
* 8.1 How do I program XYZ under Linux?
* 8.2 What's all this about ELF?
* 8.3 What is a .gz file ? And a .tgz ? And ... ?
* 8.4 What does VFS stand for?
* 8.5 What is a BogoMip?
* 8.6 What is the Linux Journal and where can I get it?
* 8.7 What online/free periodicals exist for Linux?
* 8.8 How many people use Linux?
* 8.9 How should I pronounce Linux?
9. Frequently encountered error messages.
* 9.1 Modprobe can't locate module, "XXX," and similar
messages.
* 9.2 Unknown terminal type linux and similar.
* 9.3 lp1 on fire
* 9.4 INET: Warning: old style ioctl... called!
* 9.5 ld: unrecognized option '-m486'
* 9.6 GCC says Internal compiler error.
* 9.7 make says Error 139
* 9.8 shell-init: permission denied when I log in.
* 9.9 No utmp entry. You must exec ... when I log in.
* 9.10 Warning--bdflush not running.
* 9.11 Warning: obsolete routing request made.
* 9.12 EXT2-fs: warning: mounting unchecked file system.
* 9.13 EXT2-fs warning: maximal count reached.
* 9.14 EXT2-fs warning: checktime reached.
* 9.15 df says Cannot read table of mounted file systems.
* 9.16 fdisk says Partition X has different physical/logical
...
* 9.17 fdisk: Partition 1 does not start on cylinder boundary.
* 9.18 fdisk says partition n has an odd number of sectors.
* 9.19 mtools says cannot initialize drive XYZ
* 9.20 At the start of booting: Memory tight
* 9.21 My syslog says `end_request: I/O error, ...'.
* 9.22 You don't exist. Go away.
10. The X Window System.
* 10.1 Does Linux support X?
* 10.2 Where can I get an XF86Config for my system?
* 10.3 xterm logins show up strangely in who, finger.
* 10.4 I can't get X to work right.
11. Questions applicable to very out-of-date software.
* 11.1 fdisk says cannot use nnn sectors of this partition.
* 11.2 GCC sometimes uses huge amounts of virtual memory and
thrashes.
12. How to get further assistance.
* 12.1 You still haven't answered my question!
* 12.2 What to put in a request for help.
* 12.3 I want to mail someone about my problem.
13. Administrative information and acknowledgments.
* 13.1 Feedback is invited.
* 13.2 Formats in which this FAQ is available.
* 13.3 Authorship and acknowledgments.
* 13.4 Disclaimer and Copyright.
1. Introduction and General Information
1.1 What is Linux?
Linux is an operating system that looks like and performs as well or
better than the famous operating system from AT&T Bell Labs. Linus
Torvalds and a loosely knit team of volunteer hackers from across the
Internet wrote (and still are writing) Linux from scratch. It has all
of the features of a modern, fully fledged operating system: true
multitasking, virtual memory, shared libraries, demand loading,
shared, copy-on-write executables, proper memory management, and
TCP/IP networking.
Linux runs mainly on 386/486/586-based PC's, using the hardware
facilities of the 80386 processor family (TSS segments, et al.) to
implement these features. Ports to other architectures are underway.
(See, "What ports to other processors are there?")
See the Linux INFO-SHEET for more details. ("Where can I get
the HOWTO's and other documentation?")
The Linux kernel is distributed under the GNU General Public License.
("Is Linux public domain? Copyrighted?")
There is a historical archive of all versions of the Linux kernel at
http://ps.cus.umist.ac.uk/~rhw/kernel.versions.html.
1.2 Where do I start?
There are a handful of major Linux distributions. For information
about them, and how they are installed, see Matthew Welsh's
Installation and Getting Started, or IGS for short. It's located at
the Linux Documentation Project Home Page,
http://sunsite.unc.edu/LDP.
In addition, the LDP's Installation HOWTO is located there.
There is a very thorough installation guide on line at
http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/~matloff/linux.html.
Most of the distributions are available via anonymous FTP from various
Linux archive sites. ("Where can I get Linux material by
FTP?") There are also a large number of other releases which are
distributed less globally that suit special local and national needs.
1.3 What software does Linux support?
Linux supports GCC, Emacs, the X Window System, all the standard Unix
utilities, TCP/IP (including SLIP and PPP), and all of the hundreds of
programs that people have compiled or ported to it.
There is a DOS emulator, called DOSEMU. The latest stable release is
0.98.3. The FTP archives are at ftp://ftp.dosemu.org/dosemu. The
Web site is htmlurl url="http://www.dosemu.org"
name="http://www.dosemu.org">.
The emulator can run DOS itself and some (but not all) DOS
applications. Be sure to look at the README file to determine which
version you should get. Also, see the DOSEMU-HOWTO (slightly dated at
this point--it doesn't cover the most recent version of the program),
at sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO.
Work has been progressing on an emulator for Microsoft Windows
binaries. ("Can I run Microsoft Windows programs under
Linux?")
iBCS2 (Intel Binary Compatibility Standard) emulator code for SVR4 ELF
and SVR3.2 COFF binaries can be included in the kernel as a
compile-time option. There is information at
tsx-11.mit.edu/pub/linux/BETA/ibcs2/README.
For more information see the INFO-SHEET, which is one of the HOWTO's
("Where can I get the HOWTO's and other documentation?" and,
"How do I port XXX to Linux?")
Some companies have commercial software available, including Motif.
They announce their availability in comp.os.linux.announce--try
searching the archives. ("Are the newsgroups archived
anywhere?")
1.4 Does Linux run on my computer? What hardware is supported?
Giving Linux a try requires a machine with an Intel '386, '486, or
'586 processor with at least 2Mb of RAM and a single floppy drive. To
do anything useful, more RAM and disk space is needed. ("How
much memory does Linux need?")
VESA Local Bus and PCI are supported.
MCA (IBM's proprietary bus) and ESDI hard drives are mostly supported.
There is further information on the MCA bus and what cards Linux
supports on the Micro Channel Linux Web page,
http://www.dgmicro.com/mca.
Linux runs on '386 family based laptops, with X on most of them. There
is a Web page at
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/.
For details of exactly which PC's, video cards, disk controllers, etc.
work see the INFO-SHEET and the Hardware-HOWTO. (See "Where can
I get the HOWTO's and other documentation?")
There is a port of Linux to the 8086, known as the Embeddable Linux
Kernel Subset (ELKS). This is a 16-bit subset of the Linux kernel
which will mainly be used for embedded systems. See
http://www.linux.org.uk/Linux8086.html for more information.
Linux will never run fully on an 8086 or '286, because it requires
task-switching and memory management facilities not found on these
processors.
Linux supports multiprocessing with Intel MP architecture. See the
file Documentation/smp.tex in the Linux kernel source code
distribution.
See the next question for a (probably incomplete) list of hardware
platforms Linux has been ported to.
1.5 What ports to other processors are there?
There is a reasonably complete list of Linux ports at
http://www.ctv.es/USERS/xose/linux/linux_ports.html, and at
http://www.linuxhq.com/dist-index.html.
A project has been underway for a while to port Linux to suitable
68000-series based systems like Amigas and Ataris. The Linux/m68K FAQ
is located at www.clark.net/pub/lawrencc/linux/faq/faq.html. The
URL of the Linux/m68k home page is http://www.linux-m68k.org.
There is a m68k port for the Amiga by Jes Sorensen, which is located
at ftp://sunsite.auc.dk/pub/os/linux/680x0/redhat/. The
installation FAQ for the package, by Ron Flory, is at
http://www.feist.com/~rjflory/linux/rh/.
There is also a linux-680x0 mailing list. ("What mailing lists
are there?")
There is (or was) a FTP site for the Linux-m68k project on
ftp.phil.uni-sb.de/pub/atari/linux-68k, but this address may no
longer be current.
Debian GNU/Linux is being ported to Alpha, Sparc, PowerPC, and ARM
platforms. There are mailing lists for all of them. See
http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/subscribe.
One of the Linux-PPC project pages has moved recently. Its location is
http://www.linuxppc.org, and the archive site is
ftp.linuxppc.org/linuxppc.
There is a Linux-PPC support page at www.cs.nmt.edu/~linuxppc/.
There you will find the kernel that is distributed with Linux.
Apple now supports MkLinux development on Power Macs, based on OSF and
the Mach microkernel. See http://www.mklinux.apple.com.
A port to the 64-bit DEC Alpha/AXP is at
http://www.azstarnet.com/~axplinux/. There is a mailing list at
vger.rutgers.edu. ("What mailing lists are there?")
Ralf Baechle is working on a port to the MIPS, initially for the R4600
on Deskstation Tyne machines. The Linux-MIPS FTP sites are
ftp.fnet.fr/linux-mips and
ftp://ftp.linux.sgi.com/pub/mips-linux. Interested people may
mail their questions and offers of assistance to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
There is also a MIPS channel on the Linux Activists mail server and a
linux-mips mailing list. ("What mailing lists are there?")
There are currently two ports of Linux to the ARM family of
processors. One of these is for the ARM3, fitted to the Acorn A5000,
and it includes I/O drivers for the 82710/11 as appropriate. The other
is to the ARM610 of the Acorn RISC PC. The RISC PC port is currently
in its early to middle stages, owing to the need to rewrite much of
the memory handling. The A5000 port is in restricted beta testing. A
release is likely soon.
For more, up-to-date information, read the newsgroup
comp.sys.acorn.misc. There is a FAQ at
http://www.arm.uk.linux.org
The Linux SPARC project is a hotbed of activity. There is a FAQ
available from Jim Mintha's Linux for SPARC Processors page,
http://www.geog.ubc.ca/sparclinux.html. The SPARC/Linux archives
are at vger.rutgers.edu/pub/linux/Sparc.
There is also a port ("Hardhat") to SGI/Indy machines. The URL is
http://www.linux.sgi.com.
1.6 How much hard disk space does Linux need?
About 10Mb for a very minimal installation, suitable for trying Linux,
and not much else.
You can fit an installation that includes X into 80Mb. Installing
Debian GNU/Linux takes 500Mb--1GB, including kernel source code, some
space for user files, and spool areas.
1.7 How much memory does Linux need?
At least 4MB, and then you will need to use special installation
procedures until the disk swap space is installed. Linux will run
comfortably in 4MB of RAM, although X Apps will run slowly because
they need to swap out to disk.
Some recent applications, like the later versions of Netscape, require
as much as 64MB of physical memory.
1.8 How much memory can Linux use?
A number of people have asked how to address more than 64 MB of
memory, which is the default upper limit. Place the following in your
lilo.conf file:
append="mem=XXM"
Where "XX" is the amount of memory, specified as megabytes; for
example, '128M'. For further details, see the lilo manual page.
1.9 Is Linux public domain? Copyrighted?
The Linux kernel copyright belongs to Linus Torvalds. He has placed it
under the GNU General Public License, which basically means that you
may freely copy, change, and distribute it, but you may not impose any
restrictions on further distribution, and you must make the source
code available.
This is not the same as Public Domain. See the Copyright FAQ,
rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/law/copyright, for details.
Full details are in the file COPYING in the Linux kernel sources
(probably in /usr/src/linux on your system).
The licenses of the utilities and programs which come with the
installations vary. Much of the code is from the GNU Project at the
Free Software Foundation, and is also under the GPL.
Note that discussion about the merits or otherwise of the GPL should
be posted to the news group gnu.misc.discuss, and not to the
comp.os.linux hierarchy.
2. Network sources and resources.
2.1 Where can I get the HOWTO's and other documentation?
Look in the following places, and the sites that mirror them.
* ftp.funet.fi : /pub/OS/Linux/doc/HOWTO
* tsx-11.mit.edu : /pub/linux/docs/HOWTO
* sunsite.unc.edu : /pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO
For a complete list of Linux FTP sites, see, "Where can I get
Linux material by FTP?"
If you don't have access to FTP, try the FTP-by-mail servers at
[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], or
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
A complete list of HOWTO's and Mini-HOWTO's is available in the file
HOWTO-INDEX in the docs/HOWTO directory at the FTP sites, and on the
Web at http://sunsite.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX.html, but
here is a (possibly incomplete) list:
3Dfx HOWTO AX25 HOWTO
Access HOWTO Alpha HOWTO
Assembly HOWTO Bash Prompt HOWTO
Benchmarking HOWTO Beowulf HOWTO
BootPrompt HOWTO Bootdisk HOWTO
Busmouse HOWTO CD Writing HOWTO
CDROM HOWTO Chinese HOWTO
Commercial HOWTO Config HOWTO
Consultants HOWTO Cyrillic HOWTO
DNS HOWTO DOS/Win to Linux HOWTO
DOSEMU HOWTO Danish HOWTO
Distribution HOWTO ELF HOWTO
Emacspeak HOWTO Esparanto HOWTO
Ethernet HOWTO Finnish HOWTO
Firewall HOWTO French HOWTO
Ftape HOWTO GCC HOWTO
German HOWTO Glibc2 HOWTO
HAM HOWTO HOWTO Index
Hardware Compatibility HOWTO Hebrew HOWTO
IPCHAINS HOWTO IPX HOWTO
IR HOWTO ISP Hookup HOWTO
Installation HOWTO Intranet Server HOWTO
Italian HOWTO Java-CGI HOWTO
Kernel HOWTO Keyboard and Console HOWTO
KickStart HOWTO LinuxDoc+Emacs+Ispell HOWTO
MGR HOWTO MILO HOWTO
Mail HOWTO Modem HOWTO
Multi-Disk HOWTO Multicast HOWTO
NET-3 HOWTO NFS HOWTO
NIS HOWTO Networking Overview HOWTO
Optical Disk HOWTO Oracle HOWTO
PCI HOWTO PCMCIA HOWTO
PPP HOWTO PalmOS HOWTO
Parallel Processing HOWTO Plug and Play HOWTO
Polish HOWTO Portuguese-HOWTO
PostgreSQL HOWTO Printing HOWTO
Printing Usage HOWTO Quake HOWTO
RPM HOWTO Reading List HOWTO
Root RAID HOWTO SCSI Programming HOWTO
SMB HOWTO SRM HOWTO
Security HOWTO Serial HOWTO
Serial Programming HOWTO Shadow Password HOWTO
Slovenian HOWTO Software Release Practice HOWTO
Sound HOWTO Sound Playing HOWTO
Spanish HOWTO TclTk HOWTO
teTeX HOWTO Text-Terminal HOWTO
Thai HOWTO Tips HOWTO
UMSDOS HOWTO UPS HOWTO
UUCP HOWTO Unix and Internet Fundamentals HOWTO
User Group HOWTO VAR HOWTO
VME HOWTO VMS to Linux HOWTO
Virtual Services HOWTO WWW HOWTO
WWW mSQL HOWTO XFree86 HOWTO
XFree86 Video Timings HOWTO X Window User HOWTO
The following Mini-HOWTO's are available from
http://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/mini/:
3 Button Mouse mini-HOWTO
ADSM Backup mini-HOWTO
Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Loop (ADSL) mini-HOWTO
AI-Alife mini-HOWTO
Advocacy mini-HOWTO
Apache SSL PHP/FI frontpage mini-HOWTO
Automount mini-HOWTO
Backup with MSDOS mini-HOWTO
Battery Powered mini-HOWTO
Boca mini-HOWTO
BogoMips mini-HOWTO
Bridge mini-HOWTO
Bridge+Firewall mini-HOWTO
Bzip2 mini-HOWTO
Cable Modem mini-HOWTO
Cipe+Masquerading mini-HOWTO
Clock mini-HOWTO
Coffee mini-HOWTO
Colour ls mini-HOWTO
Cyrus IMAP mini-HOWTO
DHCP mini-HOWTO
DPT Hardware RAID mini-HOWTO
Diald mini-HOWTO
Diskless mini-HOWTO
Ext2fs Undeletion mini-HOWTO
Fax Server mini-HOWTO
Firewall Piercing mini-HOWTO
GIS-GRASS mini-HOWTO
GTEK BBS-550 mini-HOWTO
Hard Disk Upgrade mini-HOWTO
IO Port Programming mini-HOWTO
IP Alias mini-HOWTO
--
Robert Kiesling
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Shani Oren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: searching for lex
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 1999 11:28:12 +0200
Hm...
All, pls igonore a similar question by me... This is answered here
apparently...
O.S.
Frank Hale wrote:
> Brassel Claude wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have a standart SuSE 5.3 installation, and I need "lex". Where can I
> > find it ? Is it a standart package ?
> >
> > Please Help !!!!
>
> Do you have the SuSE cd's? It should be on there. Look for Flex (lex)
> and Bison (yacc).
>
> --
> From: Frank Hale
> Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> ICQ: 7205161
> Homepage: http://members.xoom.com/frankhale/
> Jade: http://jade.netpedia.net/
>
> "Excuse my english I went to a US public school"
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From: Frank Ranner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: IPX PrinterServer and RH 5.1
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 1999 23:18:33 +1100
"Ryan C. Payne" wrote:
>
> I appreciate your help, however I am not trying to print to a novell server...
> The device attaches to the centronix port on your printer and takes a RJ-45 cable
> on the other side. Specs are at
> http://www.svec.com/graphics/product/printservers/pn6125.htm.
>
> It works rather nicely for the Windows machines that I have, but now that I have
> added a Linux machine, I would like to be able to print from that, too.
>
> Thanks again!
>
It appears that the server emulates a Windows printer and a Netware
printer. Since it
doesn't do TCP/IP and Samba doesn't do IPX we can rule that out. However
Linux can run
Netware server software. The MARS_NWE package allows LinuX to emulate a
Netware 3.x
server, including print queues. The print box can then be attached to
the 'Netware' print
queue. Linux can the use nprint (part of ncp utils) to print to the
Netware queue.
Another possible solution may be to define a print share on your W95 box
that prints to
pn6125. The linux box can then use smbprint to print to the W95 box,
which then spools to
the server.
I'm sorry that the ideas above seem a bit clunky, but the correct
solution would involve
getting a better print server that supports lpr/lpd over IP as well as
Windows printing. I
guess the obvious solution of chucking the print server and using the
Linux box to drive the
printer directly, and using Samba to provide Windows print services was
rejected for some
reason?
Regards, Frank Ranner
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