Re: direct ethernet connection between computer and printer

2015-10-15 Thread Martin Smith
On 15/10/2015 06:34, rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: Yesterday in the office of my associate, I tried without success to install a HP LaserJet 2100TN in a wired local area network (LAN) consisting of nothing but a i386 running Windows 8, a modem (which I think also is router) and an ethernet switch.

Re: direct ethernet connection between computer and printer

2015-10-15 Thread rlharris
On Thu, October 15, 2015 1:30 am, Reco wrote: > Did this 'configuration report' mention the netmask used by printer? > What about printer's MAC? Yes; the title is "JetDirect Configuration Page", which provides the following: IP ADDRESS: 192.168.1.210 SUBNET MASK: 255.255.255.0 DEF. GATEWAY: 192.1

Re: direct ethernet connection between computer and printer

2015-10-15 Thread rlharris
On Thu, October 15, 2015 2:33 am, Martin Smith wrote: > with most laser printers you can access their control interface with a > browser, just connect your laptop directly to it and point your browser at > the address the printer gives, this is assuming it does not have a front > panel you can acce

Re: direct ethernet connection between computer and printer

2015-10-15 Thread Joe
On Thu, 15 Oct 2015 00:34:14 -0500 rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: > Yesterday in the office of my associate, I tried without success to > install a HP LaserJet 2100TN in a wired local area network (LAN) > consisting of nothing but a i386 running Windows 8, a modem (which I > think also is router) and

Re: A server getting mad

2015-10-15 Thread rudu
Le 14/10/2015 21:32, Sven Hartge a écrit : rudu wrote: All I could gather via phone call during the problem with a top and netstat command on the server is that a "xddlvqhhrd" command is consuming 25% of CPU and that a connection is established with a remote IP by a program named "grep "A"" So

Re: make system boot straight to browser connection

2015-10-15 Thread Richard Owlett
Richard Owlett wrote: [snip] How to do an autologin? In a DE independent way? http://manpages.debian.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=autologin&apropos=1 gave no relevant links. A Google search gave only decade old or DE related links. I currently use Mate, but exploring other desktops(avoiding Gnom

Re: direct ethernet connection between computer and printer

2015-10-15 Thread rlharris
On Thu, October 15, 2015 3:18 am, Joe wrote: > I think you just missed it, until Win7 there was a Telnet client. You > can install/enable one (genuine MS) on 8, I have done it but a while ago, > the details are out there somewhere. Installing anything on the other guy's machine is asking for troub

Re: gnome mouse configuration

2015-10-15 Thread Sven Arvidsson
> That's strange. In GNOME I distinctly recall being able to access a > range of > tabs for all connected pointer input devices (mice, touchpads, etc.). > I'm not > sure. I use Xfce. Yes, there are different settings for mouse, touchpad and tablet. I don't think there's separate settings for eac

spelling error in [Re: make system boot straight to browser connection]

2015-10-15 Thread Richard Owlett
Richard Owlett wrote: Richard Owlett wrote: [snip] How to do an autologin? In a DE independent way? http://manpages.debian.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=autologin&apropos=1 gave no relevant links. A Google search gave only decade old or DE related links. I currently use Mate, but exploring othe

Re: make system boot straight to browser connection

2015-10-15 Thread ???
On Thu 15 Oct 2015 at 03:29:38 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > Richard Owlett wrote: > >[snip] > > > >How to do an autologin? In a DE independent way? > > > >http://manpages.debian.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=autologin&apropos=1 > >gave no relevant links. > > > >A Google search gave only decade old o

Re: make system boot straight to browser connection

2015-10-15 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Thursday 15 October 2015 10:13:17 ??? wrote: :-)) Brian, I rarely laugh out loud at my computer. I did when I saw the sender of this mail. Lisi

Re: direct ethernet connection between computer and printer

2015-10-15 Thread Reco
On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 02:54:31AM -0500, rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: > On Thu, October 15, 2015 1:30 am, Reco wrote: > > Did this 'configuration report' mention the netmask used by printer? > > What about printer's MAC? > > Yes; the title is "JetDirect Configuration Page", which provides the > fol

Re: Unable to Install Stretch on Laptop, not Loading iwlwifi

2015-10-15 Thread ray
> This seems very strange- if you are able to get the free version to boot you > should be able to get the non-free ISO to boot as well. They are identical, > save the inclusion of non-free firmware. Yes. > > The 'no bootable device' message- does this occur when you select the hard > drive as t

Re: systemd alternative for Jessie?

2015-10-15 Thread Dan Ritter
On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 10:47:48PM +0200, Arno Schuring wrote: > > > Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2015 22:26:53 +0200 > > From: geo...@nsup.org > > > > Le tridi 23 vendémiaire, an CCXXIV, Arno Schuring a écrit : > >> It's been years since I've seen a system where the OS boot took longer > >> than the BIOS bo

fstab entry for a 3.6TB drive

2015-10-15 Thread Sharon Kimble
I'm trying to mount a 3.6TB hard drive formatted and labelled with gparted, and I have twice managed to lock myself out of the computer until I removed the offending line in fstab. This is the fstab line that I'm going to try and use - --8<---cut here---start-

Re: fstab entry for a 3.6TB drive

2015-10-15 Thread Jayson Willson
I would recommend not using "dump" and "pass", set them to 0. Yours sincerely, Jayson Willson 15.10.2015 15:52, Sharon Kimble пишет: I'm trying to mount a 3.6TB hard drive formatted and labelled with gparted, and I have twice managed to lock myself out of the computer until I removed the offen

Re: fstab entry for a 3.6TB drive

2015-10-15 Thread Darac Marjal
On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 01:52:37PM +0100, Sharon Kimble wrote: > > I'm trying to mount a 3.6TB hard drive formatted and labelled with > gparted, and I have twice managed to lock myself out of the computer > until I removed the offending line in fstab. > > This is the fstab line that I'm going to

Re: direct ethernet connection between computer and printer

2015-10-15 Thread Brian
On Thu 15 Oct 2015 at 14:53:16 +0300, Reco wrote: > On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 02:54:31AM -0500, rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: > > > > I brought the printer (and the laptop) back here. I installed tcpdump. I > > see no requests to 0.0.0.0 udp port 67. > > So the printer uses statically assinged IP.

Re: direct ethernet connection between computer and printer

2015-10-15 Thread Brian
On Thu 15 Oct 2015 at 03:45:24 -0500, rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: > On Thu, October 15, 2015 3:18 am, Joe wrote: > > > I'd expect one with an > > Ethernet port to run a simple web server for configuration. > > I have not yet found mention of one regarding the hp2100tn. nmap > > Best not go th

Re: Graphical tools for traffic analysis

2015-10-15 Thread Petter Adsen
On Tue, 13 Oct 2015 14:11:29 -0300 Daniel Bareiro wrote: > Hi all! > > I'd like to know your experience based on these tools and what you can > recommend me. > > Specifically I would like some sort of web tool to interact with Squid > and, moreover, have some graphical tool for graphics of band

Re: direct ethernet connection between computer and printer

2015-10-15 Thread David Wright
Quoting Brian (a...@cityscape.co.uk): > On Thu 15 Oct 2015 at 14:53:16 +0300, Reco wrote: > > > On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 02:54:31AM -0500, rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: > > > > > > I brought the printer (and the laptop) back here. I installed tcpdump. I > > > see no requests to 0.0.0.0 udp port 67.

Re: Putting apt-listchanges and dpkg output in mail sent by unattended-upgrades

2015-10-15 Thread David Wright
Quoting moxalt (mox...@riseup.net): > On Tue, 13 Oct 2015 19:22:55 +0200, Ondřej Grover > wrote: > > It wouldn't be an overkill if there was a simple way to manage a local > > repository and packages with custom modifications. I have looked around and > > it didn't seem that straight-forward. Is

Re: direct ethernet connection between computer and printer

2015-10-15 Thread Doug
On 10/15/2015 07:53 AM, Reco wrote: On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 02:54:31AM -0500, rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: On Thu, October 15, 2015 1:30 am, Reco wrote: Did this 'configuration report' mention the netmask used by printer? What about printer's MAC? Yes; the title is "JetDirect Configuration Pa

Re: direct ethernet connection between computer and printer

2015-10-15 Thread rlharris
On Thu, October 15, 2015 6:53 am, Reco wrote: > Attach Ethernet cable to your laptop and printer via switch. > > Ensure that NetworkManager ignores your laptop's Ethernet interface > (eth0 for simplicity). > > Run (as root): > > ip l s dev eth0 up ip a a dev eth0 192.168.1.200/24 > > "ping 192.168.

Re: direct ethernet connection between computer and printer

2015-10-15 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Reco a écrit : > > You do not need to guess here. Run tcpdump at your laptop, power cycle > the printer. As long as you see requests to 0.0.0.0 udp port 67 - the > printer uses DHCP for configuration. /To/ 0.0.0.0 ? AFAIK, 0.0.0.0 is not a valid destination address, and DHCP requests are sent to

Re: direct ethernet connection between computer and printer

2015-10-15 Thread rlharris
On Thu, October 15, 2015 2:42 pm, Doug wrote: > It should be easy to change, following instructions that came > with the printer. But that is the essence of the problem! The instructions which came with the printer (which are buried in a HP2100TN user manual which I found on line) end with the in

Re: direct ethernet connection between computer and printer

2015-10-15 Thread Brian
On Thu 15 Oct 2015 at 15:01:01 -0500, rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: > On Thu, October 15, 2015 6:53 am, Reco wrote: > > Attach Ethernet cable to your laptop and printer via switch. > > > > Ensure that NetworkManager ignores your laptop's Ethernet interface > > (eth0 for simplicity). > > > > Run (as r

Re: direct ethernet connection between computer and printer

2015-10-15 Thread Reco
On Thu, 15 Oct 2015 21:53:29 +0200 Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Reco a écrit : > > > > You do not need to guess here. Run tcpdump at your laptop, power cycle > > the printer. As long as you see requests to 0.0.0.0 udp port 67 - the > > printer uses DHCP for configuration. > > /To/ 0.0.0.0 ? AFAIK,

Re: direct ethernet connection between computer and printer

2015-10-15 Thread rlharris
On Thu, October 15, 2015 3:01 pm, rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: > My only experience with routers has been with a PC running IPCop, but I > understand that there are small firmware-based routers, which I suppose > include a firewall and DHCP server. Have you any recommendations as to > brand and mode

Re: direct ethernet connection between computer and printer

2015-10-15 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Thursday 15 October 2015 21:38:16 Brian wrote: > No you don't. You only have change the printers's setup to match the > network it is on. You know how to do that with telnet. Brian - Could you give some hints as to how two separate devices can share one IP without some sort of routing? Lisi

Re: direct ethernet connection between computer and printer

2015-10-15 Thread Reco
Hi. On Thu, 15 Oct 2015 15:01:01 -0500 rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: > On Thu, October 15, 2015 6:53 am, Reco wrote: > > Attach Ethernet cable to your laptop and printer via switch. > > > > Ensure that NetworkManager ignores your laptop's Ethernet interface > > (eth0 for simplicity). > > > > Run (a

Re: direct ethernet connection between computer and printer

2015-10-15 Thread Brian
On Thu 15 Oct 2015 at 21:44:56 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Thursday 15 October 2015 21:38:16 Brian wrote: > > No you don't. You only have change the printers's setup to match the > > network it is on. You know how to do that with telnet. > > Brian - > > Could you give some hints as to how two

Re: direct ethernet connection between computer and printer

2015-10-15 Thread David Wright
Quoting rlhar...@oplink.net (rlhar...@oplink.net): > On Thu, October 15, 2015 6:53 am, Reco wrote: > > Attach Ethernet cable to your laptop and printer via switch. > > > > Ensure that NetworkManager ignores your laptop's Ethernet interface > > (eth0 for simplicity). > > > > Run (as root): > > > > i

Re: direct ethernet connection between computer and printer

2015-10-15 Thread Joe
On Thu, 15 Oct 2015 15:01:01 -0500 rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: > On Thu, October 15, 2015 6:53 am, Reco wrote: > > Attach Ethernet cable to your laptop and printer via switch. > > > > Ensure that NetworkManager ignores your laptop's Ethernet interface > > (eth0 for simplicity). > > > > Run (as root

Re: direct ethernet connection between computer and printer

2015-10-15 Thread Joe
On Thu, 15 Oct 2015 23:57:13 +0300 Reco wrote: > Stay away from anything made by Cisco. Good models are expensive as > (and require special training). Cheap > models are spyware-ridden. > Stay away from anything made by D-Link. Those people are unable to > design anything remotely good even if

Re: direct ethernet connection between computer and printer

2015-10-15 Thread Joe
On Thu, 15 Oct 2015 21:58:21 +0100 Brian wrote: > On Thu 15 Oct 2015 at 21:44:56 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > On Thursday 15 October 2015 21:38:16 Brian wrote: > > > No you don't. You only have change the printers's setup to match > > > the network it is on. You know how to do that with teln

Re: direct ethernet connection between computer and printer

2015-10-15 Thread Reco
Hi. On Thu, 15 Oct 2015 22:12:58 +0100 Joe wrote: > On Thu, 15 Oct 2015 23:57:13 +0300 > Reco wrote: > > > > Stay away from anything made by Cisco. Good models are expensive as > > (and require special training). Cheap > > models are spyware-ridden. > > Stay away from anything made

No monitor in GNOME Control Center - Color

2015-10-15 Thread Pascal Obry
In the color management module I don't have any monitor listed since some days. I have some printers thought. My display ICC is still loaded when I logged on GNOME Shell, but I cannot access it nor change it. Note that I'm using GNU/Debian sid, so GNOME Shell 3.18. Am I the only one? Any idea

Re: direct ethernet connection between computer and printer

2015-10-15 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Thursday 15 October 2015 21:58:21 Brian wrote: > On Thu 15 Oct 2015 at 21:44:56 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Thursday 15 October 2015 21:38:16 Brian wrote: > > > No you don't. You only have change the printers's setup to match the > > > network it is on. You know how to do that with telnet. >

Re: direct ethernet connection between computer and printer

2015-10-15 Thread Brian
On Thu 15 Oct 2015 at 22:10:43 +0100, Joe wrote: > On Thu, 15 Oct 2015 21:58:21 +0100 > Brian wrote: > > > On Thu 15 Oct 2015 at 21:44:56 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > > > On Thursday 15 October 2015 21:38:16 Brian wrote: > > > > No you don't. You only have change the printers's setup to mat

Re: direct ethernet connection between computer and printer

2015-10-15 Thread rlharris
On Thu, October 15, 2015 4:24 pm, Reco wrote: >> Is this much of an issue, given that there is apparently nothing >> between Windows 8 and the outside world at the moment? A router more >> spyware-ridden than Windows? > But since OP has a freedom to choose, > why not choose a good thing instead of

Re: Hung on reboot/shutdown

2015-10-15 Thread Anton Byshovets
Ok. I disable 'quiet' & 'splash' in grub. Then I killed X and tried to reboot||poweroff||halt. Last messages before hung: kvm: exiting hardware virtualization sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Synchronizing SCSI cache PS: photo (sorrie for terrible quality): http://i.piccy.info/i9/7669aa392c03f75ccb1ef7a7

Re: direct ethernet connection between computer and printer

2015-10-15 Thread Brian
On Thu 15 Oct 2015 at 22:10:43 +0100, Joe wrote: > On Thu, 15 Oct 2015 21:58:21 +0100 > Brian wrote: > > > > If the printer is to communicate with the computer it needs to have an > > IP like 192.168.100.3.201. Change its IP with telnet. A moment's job. > > > > I assume that was a typo. I beli

Re: direct ethernet connection between computer and printer

2015-10-15 Thread rlharris
On Thu, October 15, 2015 3:59 pm, David Wright wrote: > Quoting rlhar...@oplink.net (rlhar...@oplink.net): >> And it turns out (according to the ISP out there) that my associate is >> receiving via a radio link a single address (192.168.100.3) from the >> DHCP server of the ISP. > If you really mea

Re: direct ethernet connection between computer and printer

2015-10-15 Thread rlharris
On Thu, October 15, 2015 4:03 pm, Joe wrote: > Pretty much any of the well-known names should be OK, ... Thanks, Joe. I am saving this email for the next time I need a router. Russ

Re: direct ethernet connection between computer and printer

2015-10-15 Thread Felix Miata
rlhar...@oplink.net composed on 2015-10-15 17:06 (UTC-0500): > I have read numerous articles on security and I think that I understand > the issues. However, I need a solution, if possible, by tomorrow. The > WRT110 is here on my desk; it works and costs me nothing. An internet router with wire

[SOLVED] [OT] Has my e-mail account been hacked?

2015-10-15 Thread Stephen Powell
On Tue, 13 Oct 2015 04:15:21 -0400 (EDT), Jochen Spieker wrote: > > It looks like the mail was delivered directly through > smtp02.wow.cmh.synacor.com by a user who successfully authenticated > using the username thecoughingcanary. On Wed, 14 Oct 2015 05:04:55 -0400 (EDT), Brian wrote: > > Your

Re: direct ethernet connection between computer and printer

2015-10-15 Thread rlharris
On Thu, October 15, 2015 5:27 pm, Felix Miata wrote: > An internet router with wireless turned off and no connection to a WAN > nevertheless remains a functional switch. Thus "unconnected" it should > function no differently than the ethernet switch mentioned in your OP. Perhaps I do not understan

Re: direct ethernet connection between computer and printer

2015-10-15 Thread rlharris
On Thu, October 15, 2015 5:11 pm, Brian wrote: > An ISP hands out an address in a private range and it is assigned to the > external interface of a router? I do not understand this but know I have > much to learn about networking. Any enlightenment in the offing? No; in the present (original) inst

Re: fstab entry for a 3.6TB drive

2015-10-15 Thread Sharon Kimble
Darac Marjal writes: > On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 01:52:37PM +0100, Sharon Kimble wrote: >> >> I'm trying to mount a 3.6TB hard drive formatted and labelled with >> gparted, and I have twice managed to lock myself out of the computer >> until I removed the offending line in fstab. >> >> This is th

Re: systemd alternative for Jessie?

2015-10-15 Thread Joel Rees
You say potato, I say, potato, ... On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 2:56 PM, Mart van de Wege wrote: > Alex Moonshine writes: > >> On Wed, 14 Oct 2015 07:49:08 -0500 >> Richard Owlett wrote: >> >>> What has the end-user, with a single machine, gained today from >>> the adoption of systemd? >> >> Speakin

Re: make system boot straight to browser connection

2015-10-15 Thread Joel Rees
On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 5:29 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: > Richard Owlett wrote: >> >> [snip] >> >> How to do an autologin? In a DE independent way? >> >> http://manpages.debian.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=autologin&apropos=1 >> gave no relevant links. >> >> A Google search gave only decade old or DE

Re: fstab entry for a 3.6TB drive

2015-10-15 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 10/15/15, Sharon Kimble wrote: > Darac Marjal writes: > >> Also, does /back-a exist (mount won't create the mountpoint itself, so >> your root filesystem should have a "back-a" directory entry)? >> > Thanks Darac. > > This is what I've ended up doing - > > --8<---cut here--

Re: Unable to Install Stretch on Laptop, not Loading iwlwifi

2015-10-15 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 08:28:14AM +0300, moxalt wrote: > On Tue, 13 Oct 2015 12:21:16 -0700 (PDT), ray wrote: > > > The above reference was for the 'free' version. I have not been able to get > > the non-free to boot. I have wiped the Win OS and now it just says no > > bootable device. So I w

Re: direct ethernet connection between computer and printer

2015-10-15 Thread David Wright
Quoting rlhar...@oplink.net (rlhar...@oplink.net): > On Thu, October 15, 2015 3:59 pm, David Wright wrote: > > Quoting rlhar...@oplink.net (rlhar...@oplink.net): > >> And it turns out (according to the ISP out there) that my associate is > >> receiving via a radio link a single address (192.168.100

claws-mail does not display menu-bar

2015-10-15 Thread briand
I have two jessie systems. The one i'm typing this email on has a claws-mail with a menu bar, and the other does not. Both are running xfce. This seems like either a window manager thing. Every other app i've tested has a menu bar. ugh Any ideas ? thanks brian

Re: claws-mail does not display menu-bar

2015-10-15 Thread briand
On Thu, 15 Oct 2015 21:16:47 -0700 wrote: > > The one i'm typing this email on has a claws-mail with a menu bar, and the > other does not. > ugh. press F12 that's horrible UI design. Menu bar goes away without a hint of how to get it back ? Brian

iscsi support in Jessie

2015-10-15 Thread Harald Dunkel
Hi folks, Some years ago I have setup an iscsi target using targetcli 2.0 on Wheezy. Actually it works pretty well, but there were some serious upgrade problems to 2.1 and 3.0, making targetcli go away for Jessie. See #764005 and #751226. I lost confidence in a newer version. Now I have to instal

Re: iscsi support in Jessie

2015-10-15 Thread Reco
Hi. On Fri, 16 Oct 2015 08:06:16 +0200 Harald Dunkel wrote: > Hi folks, > > Some years ago I have setup an iscsi target using targetcli 2.0 on > Wheezy. Actually it works pretty well, but there were some serious > upgrade problems to 2.1 and 3.0, making targetcli go away for Jessie. > S

Re: fstab entry for a 3.6TB drive

2015-10-15 Thread Petter Adsen
On Fri, 16 Oct 2015 00:57:11 +0100 Sharon Kimble wrote: > Thanks Darac. > > This is what I've ended up doing - > > --8<---cut here---start->8--- > /dev/sdb1 /mnt/backa ext4defaults,nofail 0 2 > --8<---cut here---e

Re: iscsi support in Jessie

2015-10-15 Thread Harald Dunkel
On 10/16/15 08:06, Harald Dunkel wrote: > Hi folks, > > Now I have to install a new iscsi target (using Jessie, hopefully). > Which iscsi solution would you recommend? > PS: Here is what I found so far: * iSCSI Enterprise Target (http://sourceforge.net/projects/iscsitarget/files/) looking at th

FW: xfsdump package not available in testing?

2015-10-15 Thread James Homuth
_ From: James Homuth [mailto:ja...@the-jdh.com] Sent: October-15-15 11:29 AM To: debian-test...@lists.debian.org Subject: xfsdump package not available in testing? Poking around the Debian packages website, xfsdump should be available in Stretch per that page (link included below). H