On Fri, 2002-12-27 at 02:44, Anthony wrote: > Hi. I just installed Mandrake 9. Everything seems to be working > except.... > > The only way to get the dial up connection to work is to first disable > the network card. This is a plain Internet dial up to SBC, using a > Creative 56k ModemBlaster. I assume it is possible to have both > working at the same time since you even do it with Windows! > ...someone can catch the one above - I do it manually and have hacked the scripts to do so because mine did the same and well, I can't have that...
> Second, I want to be able to able to browse my Windows 2000 network > from the Linux box. Is Samba the way to do this? I have looked at the > instructions and it seems quite confusing. Is there any easier way? I > just want to be able to retrieve video, mp3s and docs. > You can edit the /etc/samba/smb.conf file, and change the workgroup name there - that will allow you AS A CLIENT to browse your Windows network - now, on the other hand, when you want to use the linux box as a server/peer to the Windows network, there are some other modifications that need to be made in Samba...but for client browsing, that will do you. -- Fri Dec 27 02:50:00 EST 2002 2:50am up 1 day, 17:35, 5 users, load average: 0.67, 0.39, 0.34 ------------------------------------------------------------------ | __ __ | kuhn media australia | | / ,, /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |=================================| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kuhn | | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |/ ._/ |"""""""""| | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |'. `\ | | | icq: 5483808 | | ;"""/ / | | | | | smk ) /_/| |.-------.| | mobile: 0410-728-389 | | ' `-`' " " | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU | ------------------------------------------------------------------ * linux user:267497 * RH 7.3+ * PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Consulting ------------------------------------------------------------------ "That boy's about as sharp as a pound of wet liver" -- Foghorn Leghorn
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