RE: [expert] 9.1 First Day recap
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Thomas K. Gamble Sent: 31 March 2003 18:11 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] 9.1 First Day recap On Monday 31 March 2003 09:34 am, Brian wrote: And my USB printer does not work now -- I am thinking our USB problems may be related but the device is detected in KDE Control Center and by MTink. I noticed that USB was not working as well. For some reason, none of the modules (usbcore, usb-ohci, etc) were loaded and I had to add them to /etc/modules by hand. Once loaded, all my USB devices worked fine. An install glitch that was overlooked, i assume. I would love to hear if you have success with either or both of these problems. Brian Not quite sure how to fix your problems, but it smells of modules not loading or in need if aliasing. The fact that networking loads OK, seems to point that the module was not loaded at the time it was started by the boot, but once boot has finished all is OK. HTH David. (in a rush) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] Samba hide . prefixed dirs?
hide dot files = yes veto files /^.*/ Couple this with the Windows Explorer setting. Make sure you run the latest version of Samba as there was an issue with the veto files token not working correctly. David. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of J. Grant Sent: 10 February 2003 15:53 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Samba hide . prefixed dirs? Hi, If you mean you don't want them seen on the windows box, it's the show hidden files setting in windows explorer. I did think there was an smb.conf option as well as this explorer option. I'm sure I saw it before, now when I need it I can't find it! Cheers JG Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Modem speeds (slow kbps on dial in server)
Hi All, I have created a dial up account to my home system (MDK 8.2). I dial up using my laptop to get/check email etc. Although reading the howtos and the connection being very stable using AutoPPP, the laptop (Win2K) never reports more than 28kbps, however, when I dial to my ISP directly the laptop gets 56kbps. So I am wondering if I am missing something on my MDK dial-in server. All settings for the modem port speed are 115200 and the mgetty speed for comm is also at 115200. I would like to get 56kbps on this dial up link, so if anyone has got any experiance and could shed any light on this slow connection I would be grateful. David. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] Samba printing - Help!
little snip Original message I've found that the samba settings work best with options use encrypted passwords enabled and allow null passwords enabled as well. Also keep in mind that you may have to capture a printer port and browse to the network printer rather than installing the printer as a pure network printer (this applies when printing to a linux box from a windows machine). Some printers (esp HP laserjet) will not install in windows unless it first detects the printer on a port. Shouldn't apply in the reverse situation though. Hopefully I don't confuse you more. I have less experience printing from linux to windows than windows to linux to be honest. Todd HUGE snip Can we cut the HTML mails from this list...end whinge All my printers are on a linux server, multiple io cards are fitted. I use CUP's for printing. My samaba config is quite basic, but the printers that are visible on the Windows network are all installable. I go into the 'Add printer' dialogue and it allows you to browse the network...just select the one that you want and the insaller does the rest. I have never had to capture the port to do this. If you guys want to see my config, let me know and i'll post it. I do agree about the encrypted password token, also are the printers browsable, this makes things easier.. David. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] Spam protection
OK guys, I played it safe. I spent more time on trying to discover why Postfix was not working, at 5 AM on Saturday morning I noticed that my AV scanner was dumping scanned mail into sendmail. What I thought it was doing was dumping it via smtp on a backdoor port to postfix. Although I had entered the data in /etc/services, I failed to tell the AV scanner where to send it, and also failed to enter the /etc/postfix/master.cf entry for the backdoor service name. I had just commented out the smtp line. As I run in a protected network, the backdoor was a safe option. The end result is that I can now reject mail that I now is dodgy and use the RBL. Thanks for all your comments. David. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Tim C Sent: 24 August 2002 03:58 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Spam protection On August 23, 2002 16:05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have to disagree. I've been using SpamAssassin for a while now, and the number of false positives have made me turn it off. (And I've go the level set at 10) Hmmm. That's odd. My experience has been completely opposite. I had a couple of False Positives in the first week I started using it , but they were all from HTML newsletters that I subscribe to. I simply whitelisted all of the newsletters and I haven't had a FP since.( I use the default level 5) -- Tim C [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] IDE_SCSI problem fresh 8.1 install with tape drive
Hi All, I have just completed a machine swap on my file server which boasts a HP Colorado 14GB IDE/ATAPI drive. I have never had a problem with this prior to 8.1. The scsi component was always missing, I found that I had to add the ide-scsi option into LILO in the 'append' section, hdd=ide-scsi to get it to work. After this latest migration, I cannot appear to get the tape to work (also 8.1). This is what I see: ls -al /dev/st0 lr-xr-xr-x1 root root 31 May 10 21:09 /dev/st0 -- scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/mt lilo.conf image=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux root=/dev/hda1 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append= hdd=ide-scsi devfs=mount vga=788 read-only Example of failure: [root@london root]# tar -cvf /dev/st0 /home tar: /dev/st0: Cannot open: Permission denied tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now [root@london root]# If anyone has any ideas/pointers it would be appreciated. System: Fujitsu P200/90'ish RAM running in console mode (init 3) only serving SAMBA/NFS/POP3/CUPS Thanks, David Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] I am sorry
If everyone subscribed to this list detailed their hardware, very few would have the identical hardware! Any OS that installs out of the box on half of those is worth it's salt. Windows rely on the third party vendors to get the support right, after installing windows you then have to spend another couple of hours installing and downloading the latest patches/drives? I have been using MDK from 6.0, in fact I bought the box version, apart from a DC10 Plus Video Capture card, every piece of hardware I have had has worked out of the box. When Linux says it's installed, everything has always worked. Now that is amazing!!! Now some of you spend lots of money, or have companies supplying the latest kit, give the guys at MDK a break, they cannot always keep the drivers support on the CD's up to date with bleeding edge drivers! Well done Guys! David, -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Lorne Shantz Sent: 24 March 2002 05:17 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] I am sorry Hey gang... one more thing to consider BEFORE you blame a distro. I've been playing with these releases from Mandrake for a long time now. I got 8.1 awhile back and put it on a 1.2 ghz machine and it would lock up, and no way would it install. I tried different CD's and everything I could think of to no avail. I was just about to blame the distro when I tried it on an identical 1.2GHZ machine and it installed flawlessly! I mean beautifully. Something was wrong with the hardware on that one box. Windows installed just fine. ??? Go figure, but before you come to the conclusion it is a bad distro, consider that it may be the hardware has problems. Just a thought. Felix Miata wrote: Cheryl Brannan wrote: At 08:53 AM 3/24/02 +1100, you wrote: Way to go guysreally in the spirit of linux. Let's all mock users who are having a hard time. I disagree. This wasn't a user who was having a hard time and asking for help. This user just wanted to dial up and bitch. Yes and no. He explained that he had a multitude of problems resulting from installation/attempted installation on several systems. No one in her right mind should expect a single post enumerating many problems on many systems to actually result in useful help. That post expressed the same frustration I have encountered on every beta, rc, and release version I tried, which were the whole series of 8.0 8.1 except for the second beta of 8.0 not tried at all, since a happy install of 7.1. After seeing the kind of trouble reported in early 8.2 beta, I decided I'd be wasting my time to try 8.2 before release. It still looks like I should wait for 8.3. There should have been an rc2 and maybe an rc3 before release. -- And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to His purpose. Romans 8:28 KJV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://mrmazda.members.atlantic.net/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Lorne Shantz Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] mount -o loop
HI All, I have a need to mount some iso images at boot time. Is there options to do this in the /etc/fstab ? I have played around with various options but to no avail. I am using 8.1mdk. The mount command works manually, its just the format in the fstab. The fstab man page does not comment on the loop option. Thanks in advance. David Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] Troubles with pop daemon
Put the contents of that script into xinetd.conf, that should be all
required. The ip/range should also be allowed to connect in the /etc/hosts.*
files.
HTH
Dave
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Subject: [expert] Troubles with pop daemon
No matter what I do I can't seem to get the pop daemon to work. I'm trying
to use ipop3d from the imap package and it seems to work ok, but it doesn't
start on boot.
Every help guide says to put some lines into inetd.conf which is
conspicuously absent. In xinetd.d I've got an ipop3 script with:
service pop3
{
disable = no
socket_type = stream
wait = no
user = root
server = /usr/sbin/ipop3d
log_on_success += USERID
log_on_failure += USERID
}
In it.
Just typing ipop3d as root lets me type in typical mailbox type commands
(user pass list last ...). Telnet to 110 gives connection denied.
rc.firewall
#!/bin/bash
echo Enabling Forwarding
echo
echo 1/proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
iptables -P INPUT ACCEPT
iptables -F INPUT
iptables -P OUTPUT ACCEPT
iptables -F OUTPUT
iptables -P FORWARD ACCEPT
iptables -F FORWARD
iptables -A FORWARD -i eth0 -o eth1 -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j
ACCEPT
iptables -A FORWARD -i eth1 -o eth0 -j ACCEPT
iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -i eth0 -p tcp --dport 80 -j
REDIRECT --to-port 3128
iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -i eth0 -p tcp --dport 81 -j
REDIRECT --to-port 3128
iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth1 -j MASQUERADE
iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -i eth1 -p tcp --dport 5900 -j
DNAT --to-destination 192.168.0.1
iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -i eth1 -p tcp --dport 5800 -j
DNAT --to-destination 192.168.0.1
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[expert] MDK 8.1 scsi-emulation and IDE Tape drive
Hi All, I have just had to rebuild a server and decided to use 8.1. This box previously ran 8.0 with a HP Colorado IDE 14 Gb tape unit. This worked great. With the 8.1 installed there was no /dev/st0, I assumed that for whatever reason, ide-scsi was not installed (8.0 was automatically installed). I have looked about the forums and some suggest that the kernel needs to be rebuilt. Other suggestions appear to add a line to lilo.conf, hdd=ide-scsi. This instance hda is the boot device and hdd in the tape unit. Anyway, with the line added to lilo.conf the /dev/st0 now exists but cannot write to the device using normal methods. I guess I am missing something. I really would not like to rebuild the kernel unless I have no choice (never done it before) because the box is a P120, so it could take a while. Any suggestions would be great! DMESG = 'dmesg|grep hd' Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=scsi ro root=301 hdd=ide-scsi devfs=mount ide_setup: hdd=ide-scsi ide0: BM-DMA at 0x4000-0x4007, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio ide1: BM-DMA at 0x4008-0x400f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio hda: QUANTUM FIREBALL CX20.4A, ATA DISK drive hdb: CD-ROM Drive/F5D, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive hdd: HP COLORADO 14GB, ATAPI TAPE drive hda: 39876480 sectors (20417 MB) w/418KiB Cache, CHS=2482/255/63, UDMA(33) hdb: ATAPI 48X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache, UDMA(33) Thanks Dave. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] MDK 8.1 scsi-emulation and IDE Tape drive
Thanks James, added the 'nomount' option to the lilo and it now works fine. I wonder if 8.2 will be more intelligent and revert to 8.0 logic for this? Dave. On Wed, 13 Mar 2002 21:15:57 -0800 James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 13 Mar 2002 20:48:27 -0500 David Stevenson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David, You shouldn't need to rebuild the kernel if the dev is now created. I've got an ide-scsi cdrw in my box and in order to get the writes to work correctly I had to change append devfs=mount to append devfs=nomount. Once I did it started to burn correctly and in fact I haven't had a bad burn (that wasn't by my own foobar) since. Maybe this will work with the colorado as well. This by the way is one of the biggest differences between the 8.0 and 8.1 for causing headaches. (IMHO) James Hi All, I have just had to rebuild a server and decided to use 8.1. This box previously ran 8.0 with a HP Colorado IDE 14 Gb tape unit. This worked great. With the 8.1 installed there was no /dev/st0, I assumed that for whatever reason, ide-scsi was not installed (8.0 was automatically installed). I have looked about the forums and some suggest that the kernel needs to be rebuilt. Other suggestions appear to add a line to lilo.conf, hdd=ide-scsi. This instance hda is the boot device and hdd in the tape unit. Anyway, with the line added to lilo.conf the /dev/st0 now exists but cannot write to the device using normal methods. I guess I am missing something. I really would not like to rebuild the kernel unless I have no choice (never done it before) because the box is a P120, so it could take a while. Any suggestions would be great! DMESG = 'dmesg|grep hd' Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=scsi ro root=301 hdd=ide-scsi devfs=mount ide_setup: hdd=ide-scsi ide0: BM-DMA at 0x4000-0x4007, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio ide1: BM-DMA at 0x4008-0x400f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio hda: QUANTUM FIREBALL CX20.4A, ATA DISK drive hdb: CD-ROM Drive/F5D, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive hdd: HP COLORADO 14GB, ATAPI TAPE drive hda: 39876480 sectors (20417 MB) w/418KiB Cache, CHS=2482/255/63, UDMA(33) hdb: ATAPI 48X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache, UDMA(33) Thanks Dave. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] What firewall to use in MDK 8.1
thanks, but that didn't seem to make any difference. for what ever reason iptables -A INPUT -p udp --dport -i ppp0 -j DROP doesn't make any difference. port 139 remains open to the outer interface. Just checking, ppp0 is your external i/face? Dave. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] What firewall to use in MDK 8.1
Have you added the line: iptables -A INPUT -i ppp0 -p udp --dport 139 -j DROP to your iptables script. Dave. On Sun, 27 Jan 2002 13:42:41 -0500 daRcmaTTeR [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 25 Jan 2002 07:26:23 -0700 Lee Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] studiouisly spake these words to ponder: I made the statement that none of my UDP ports are blocked. Most are showing closed but there are a couple showing open. I would have expected that the default policy would be DENY but that doesn't appear to be the case. I'm trying to learn the details about creating iptables so that I can resolve this issue. Also, I am allowing access to TCP port 22 (using Bastille) but I can't seem to connect to it even though a port scan shows it open (just another problem with Bastille). Like I previously stated, it's a good thing I don't have anything on the Linux box that needs to be secured at this time. :-D I can relate to the a UDP port needing to be closed, and not being able to get it done. At the moment I'd love to get port 139 closed to the outside interface, but no matter what it's just not working out that way. Prolly something simple that I'm missing. As for your port 22 if you've got Portsentry running it's very likely that it detected your connection attemtp and has done it's thing in blocking access to that port. That is a very common occurance. Since you can't connect even though a port scan shows it open I'm willing to bet that it's cause Portsentry is blocking access. -- daRcmaTTeR windows = where do you want to go today Mac = go where you want, do what you want today MDK-linux = been there, done that, got the tee shirt, why do you ask? Registered Mandrake Linux User # 186492 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] What firewall to use in MDK 8.1
OK, did you reflush/restart your firewall? I am not an expert, but this is as far as my firewall knowledge goes. Dave. PS. My 139 is closed. On Sun, 27 Jan 2002 16:38:39 -0500 daRcmaTTeR [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 27 Jan 2002 20:22:15 -0500 David Stevenson [EMAIL PROTECTED] studiouisly spake these words to ponder: Have you added the line: iptables -A INPUT -i ppp0 -p udp --dport 139 -j DROP to your iptables script. Dave. as a matter of fact, yes...i did try that but it didn't seem to help. At the time I was having a scan done on my system. That port read as open before the rule was added and again after the rule was added. thats why I was perplexed about it. -- daRcmaTTeR - Registered Linux User 182496 - 3:19pm up 21 days, 5:52, 2 users, load average: 0.78, 0.53, 0.37 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] I want my BKSPC back!
On Sat, 26 Jan 2002 16:34:11 +0200 Michel Clasquin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [Well, it looks like the newbie list is stumped, so let's try the big guns] Hi gang All of a sardine my backspace key behaves like a delete key - ie it deletes to the right rather than to the left. Please tell me where to fix this - It's driving me insane! -- Michel Clasquin, D Litt et Phil (Unisa) [EMAIL PROTECTED]/unisa.ac.za http://www.geocities.com/clasqm This message was posted from a Microsoft-free PC All in all, you're just another brick in the wall- Pink Floyd The command 'stty' is your baby, 'stty erase ^H' will sort it (I hope). Dave. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Laptop pcmcia / ifup
Hi All, Returning to the ongoing saga of getting a firewall installed on a laptop. I have now aquired a 3-Com PCMCIA card that is recognised by a default install of MDK6 and 8.0. When I say recognised I mean that 'cardctl' reports the correct card and loads the correct driver as detailed in /etc/pcmcia/config. However, the eth0 interface is not initialised. I get an error telling me that incorrect parameters were used for 'ifup'. I think this really means that 'ifup' cannot find the eth0 interface. If I manually load the card using 'ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.1' then eth0 works, I can ssh to local network OK. But why these problems? According to the online docu I have found, the eth0 iface always loads. I think I am missing something obvious here. Can anyone direct me to the obvious? TIA Dave. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Re[2]: [expert] Firewall install - smoothwall
On 12 Jan 2002 12:24:41 +0100 Tobias Marx [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was thinking about that, but I am put off by the 32mb or ram min quoted on the MDK site. The laptop only has 8mb. I have succesfully loaded mdk 6 and 8 on the laptop, although I did not install any WM's or X as I thought it might fall over. I am happy configing a machine via manually editing text files. But, does SNF need to install X? If I have to buy an old 486'ish box, then I may as well use smoothwall. Any comments on the SNF and X? TIA Dave btw, what about mandrake snf (single network firewall)? it's based on mandrake 7.2 (ala kernel 2.2.19) and should support every hardware the standard mdk 7.2 supports. on a first glance it seems as if it supports the same features as smoothwall, too. you'll find it here: http://www.mandrakesoft.com/products/snf -- Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends. - Gandalf Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
