Re: [expert] best firewall
Hi David, Thanks for the info about netmasq. I find the Bastille hard to set up so I will take a look at it the next time I'll have to set up a firewall. Only the webpage wasn't avalible when I wanted to visit it. Thanks, Wayne >From: David Relson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: [expert] best firewall >Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 07:45:13 -0400 > >At 07:09 AM 4/15/02, you wrote: >>Hi, >> >>You can try the Single Network Firewall from Mandrakesoft. It contains the >>Bastille, a good hardening system and firewall. I believe it also contains >>snort wich is a very good intrusion detection system. You only need a >>whole computer for it. If you don't have an extra computer you can try >>only the Bastille wich can be found at www.bastille-linux.org. You also >>can take a look at www.mandrakesecure.net for other firewalls, tools and >>security info. > >I've been very pleased with netmasq. It's a set of shell scripts to >provide firewall and masquerading services. I really like that its quick >and easy to use. Simply edit a few small text files to indicate which >services to allow and which ip addresses to deny, run the netmasq script, >and your firewall rules are set/updated. > >The author is in our local LUG. He's a SysAdmin at a nearby public >library. netmasq can be found at >http://pulse.cantonpl.org/carl/netmasq.html. > >David > > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] best firewall
Hi, You can try the Single Network Firewall from Mandrakesoft. It contains the Bastille, a good hardening system and firewall. I believe it also contains snort wich is a very good intrusion detection system. You only need a whole computer for it. If you don't have an extra computer you can try only the Bastille wich can be found at www.bastille-linux.org. You also can take a look at www.mandrakesecure.net for other firewalls, tools and security info. >From: Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: expert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: [expert] best firewall >Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2002 22:02:31 -0400 > >What is the best firewall to use with linux mandrake these days? > > > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ Join the worlds largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Is the Speedtouch supported on the SNF?
Can someone tell me how to configure the Single Network Firewall for the Alcatel Speedtouch USB, or isn't it supported? Thanks, Wayne Bornall _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Problem with Mandrake 8.2 and ATI XPERT XL
Start gears from an xterm with the command 'gears -fps' and watch the xterm screen for a report on the speed. Some 3d games work just fine with 3.3.6, others have been compiled against the 4.x series. I haven't tried downloading the tarball and compiling tuxracer myself, but with the precompiled version I get only 0.7 fps in the game under 4.2.0. Under 3.3.6, it errors out looking for a 4.x library file. HTH, Wayne At 11:44 PM 3/21/2002 +0100, you wrote: >Thank you very much, Wayne, >I have the impression that my card was more fast with the 4.1 version, >though I can't play with 3D games with that version. >I still need help. Can someone tell me how can I fix the 4.2 version (if >I can), or how I can install 4.1 from LM 8.1?. OTOH, Wayne, where I can >see the fps? >Thanks, >óscar. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Problem with Mandrake 8.2 and ATI XPERT XL
Well, I'm afraid I can't help you with 4.2.0, but I have one of these video cards and it works great under 3.3.6 and 8.2 rc1. Hardware accelleration works just fine, and it's much faster under 3.3.6 than 4.2.0 (to the tune of 2 to 3 times faster). I've looked around in the past and have yet to find any way of improving performance under 4.x. Well, aside from buying a new card... When you did your install were you presented with a screen that gave you choices for which version of X you wanted to install? I always do an expert install, so I get a screen that has 3 choices; 3.3.6, 3.3.6 with hardware accelleration, and 4.x. Choose the hardware accelleration, and you should see much better performance under 3.3.6 thant 4.2.0. Of course, that also means you can't play Tuxracer, as the rpms provided with the distro require libraries from 4.x. Best of luck, and if you find a way to get better than 100 fps under 'gears' in 4.2.0, let me know. (For comparison, I get 300 - 350+ fps under 3.3.6) HTH, Wayne At 10:56 AM 3/21/2002 +0100, you wrote: >Hi all >Yesterday I installed LM 8.2, and I have a problem with my graphics card >ATI XPERT XL (Match64). The display is very unstable and blinking using >XFree 4.2.0 It works ok under XFree 3.3.6 but is very slow in comparison >with 4.2.0 (or the 4.1.0 version that come with LM 8.1). >Anybody has the same problem? >If I can't solve the problem, can I install the XFree version of LM 8.1? >Please, Help. >Thanks. >oscar. >-- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Samba file creation problem
At 02:10 PM 2/26/2002 -0500, you wrote: >You don't have to run Linux to access a S.A.N.E. networked scanner. There >are windows clients :) Yeah, but that would mean the end users would have to have access to the server, assuming I put the scanner on the server. My boss isn't very keen on that idea... He's not overly confident in our users abilities. :) Wayne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Samba file creation problem
At 12:56 PM 2/26/2002 -0500, you wrote: >Completly off-topic, but why are you not using the function of S.A.N.E. to >network that scanner so that users can access it via the network and save >to their local machine? Er... because we never thought of it? Actually, I wasn't the one that set up the scanning machine. Someone grabbed an existing NT4 machine and put it in place. But at the moment, I haven't gotten my boss to allow anything more than servers (that reside in the server room out of end user reach) to run Linux. I keep trying to sneak one in, but always end up needing the hardware elsewhere. :\ So, now that we've gone off-topic, anyone have any ideas about the weird file creation permissions? TIA, Wayne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Samba file creation problem
Greetings, everyone. I've got a strange little problem happening with file creation on one of my Samba servers here. It's 100% repeatable, but makes absolutely no sense to me. I've asked this on the RedHat list, but got no response, so I thought I'd ask the good people of this list. Here's the situation. My Marketing department has a scanner attatched to a WinNT4 box that they do all of their image scanning through. They scan the image and save the file locally on the scanner machine. They then open the file on their own machines from the scanner box, make changes in Photoshop, and save the file. Here's the weird part. If they save the file directly to the Samba share, permissions are set to 006. However, if they save the file to their desktops first, *then* copy it to the Samba share, perms are set to 766, as shown below. -rwxrw-rw- 1 tracy Market 454264 Feb 18 15:44 svp5.tif ---rw-1 tracy Market 971432 Feb 18 11:24 28034 copy.tif The Samba machine is RH7.1, running Samba 2.0.10-2. In the smb.conf I have set 'create mode' and 'directory mode' to 776. What am I missing here? Thanks in advance for any help. Wayne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] File server
At 05:17 PM 2/19/2002 -0500, you wrote: >Kathy Montgomery wrote: > > > Do I have to use NFS on the server? > >I would suggest not using NFS. I don't know what you can use in Windows >to see files served from NFS. I would suggest either using a Windows >server with the built in TCP/IP Microsoft Networking (it's fairly easy >to set up), or using a Linux server with Samba. I've never set up a >Samba server, so it would be hard for me. Enabling read/write access for NFS shares from a Windows client requires 3rd party software such as DiskAccess. Just adds another layer of instability to an already shaky foundation. Avoid NFS in this instance. > > Any recommended backup strategies? I've heard good things about Mindi and Mondo, but have never had a chance to verify them. My office uses Arkeia, which does have a free home version (1 linux server and 2 clients, IIRC) My experience with it is similar to that of sendmail, can be a pain to get setup correctly, but once it is, it works like a charm. HTH, Wayne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] question on dual linux install
At 04:18 PM 2/2/2002 -0600, you wrote: >Any advice would be greatly appreciated. The only thing I can add to the advice you've already been given is some personal experience. What I've always done during the install of the 2nd (or 3rd, 4th, etc) linux distro is at the bootloader stage. I have always skipped the bootloader stage, finished the install, then booted into my old "stable" install and added a line to either lilo.conf or grub's menu.lst for the new install. You can do it differently, but this has always worked for me with a minimum of fuss. YMMV. >Mike McNeese >Springdale Ar. Small world. I grew up in Springdale, and my folks are still there. Wayne Stout Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] tuxracer won't start
At 01:03 PM 11/14/2001 -0500, you wrote: >Thanks to all who helped. The laptop I was messing with doesn't have 3d >graphics which explains why it wouldn't work there. My co-workers box >has an 8MB ATI 3d rageII+ pci card. The 8.1 installer loaded XFree4 by >default. I'll make sure that glx and dbe is being loaded as a couple of >folks have suggested and go from there. Good luck. I've got an ATI RagePro chipset card (agp), with 8 or 16 meg (can't remember off the top of my head), and the best I can get out of Tuxracer is 0.7 fps. If anyone has any tips, I'd love to hear them. Wayne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Palm dialin ppp connection to Linux
Greeting, everyone. I've got a problem that I'm hoping someone here can help me with. I've tried asking this on another list, but have yet to see anything. I need to get a linux machine set up to answer incoming calls from a Palm-based handheld unit, start pppd, and run an ftp session to another Unix server on our network. (Since this is at my work, I'm using RH 7.1, but if Mdk 8.1 would handle this better, I'll give it a shot) What I've done so far: I found several helpful HOW-TO's on getting the linux machine to answer the phone. mgetty+sendfax is working perfectly in this respect. After a great deal of searching, I finally found a Palm specific howto at http://www.brisse.dk/palm/ppphowto/index.htm that *seems* to work fine. I can now dial in, using PAP and the pap-secrets file, and pppd shows to be running on ttyS2. However, the ftp session never connects. I can ping the ipaddress of the Palm from the dialin server and I can ping the address of the Unix server from the dialin server. I can even su to the dialup user and ftp to the Unix box. Here's the crux of my dilema, though. I need a way of executing a shell script on the remote unix server after the ftp session is over, to automatically upload the transmitted data into our system. Since using PAP apparently doesn't actually log in to the point of sourcing any of the dotfiles (.bash_profile, .profile, etc) I don't see a way to do this automatic upload. Also, trying to use login instead of pap in my /etc/ppp/options file seems to allow the Palm units to log in, but pppd never starts. If these same units dial in to a Win2K server, everything works properly, except the auto-update thing. Obviously, I want to use Linux instead of Win2k, but my boss is pushing me to get this done quickly. (He's not the most linux friendly person in the world) Short of staying on Win2k, saying to hell with the auto-upload-on-logout, and just setting up a cron job on the Unix box, does anyone have any ideas? Thanks, Wayne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] MDK8 / XFree 4.1 performance issues
Greetings, everyone. I've recently decided to try to "fix" something that I find annoying with XFree86 4.1. I have an ATI Xpert@Play 16 meg card (Rage Pro chipset). Under X 3.3.6, I have hardware accelleration with gears running in the 300 FPS range. (I forget the exact number, and I'm not at home to check.) Under 4.1, all I can get is 100 - 104 FPS. According to the XFree86 website, the ati driver has accelleration support for my chipset (Mach64). I've searched through the mail list archives, tried a few of the things mentioned there with no avail. Can anyone point me to a website or some documentation that will help me get a little better performance out of this card under X 4.1? Thanks in advance, Wayne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] dual boot
At 12:34 PM 8/22/2001 +0100, you wrote: >Hi >Im having problems dual booting mandrake with win2000. It can boot in >linu or 2000, but it defaults in to linux if you dont scroll down and >select windows2000. Do you klnow of a way where the boot screen can >default to windows2000. It boots into a linux gui first and then it >lists the O/S I can go into. If it booted into 2000 by default i could >just edit the boot.ini. I have tried to edit the lilo conf and i have >swithed the default to 2000 etc.. but when i restart the linux screen >pops up and it still defaults to linux. > >Any suggestions? There are several ways to do this. You don't mention what version of Mdk you're running (or if you're even running Mdk), but I'll assume you're running 8.0. If you're looking for a GUI tool, go ahead and boot into Linux, and start up X. Start the Mandrake configuration utility, should be right there on the desktop. Go to Boot, then to Boot Config. You'll likely only need to hit ok on the next box, unless you're using Grub as your bootloader, since the program defaults to Lilo. At the next screen, you'll see all the options that Grub/Lilo show you when it starts. Click on Windows, then on Modify, then on Default. Hit OK until you're out of all the screens. You're done. If you want to do it from the console, it's simply a matter of editing /etc/lilo.conf or /boot/grub/menu.lst (I think. Someone will correct me if I'm wrong) making the appropriate changes, and re-running /sbin/lilo or the grub installer script and you're done. Just look at the files to see what needs to be edited. HTH, Wayne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Stupid mail question
Greetings, everyone. I'm sure this is a really stupid question, but here goes. If I want to use fetchmail/procmail for message retrieval and filtering, do I also have to use Sendmail or postfix? I want to keep using my isp's mail server for sending, but all the talk I've seen on various lists about procmail has got me curious and I'd like to give it a try... TIA, Wayne
Re: [expert] gnome-perl Make errors
At 08:17 AM 7/24/2001 -0600, Craig Sprout wrote: >At 09:06 AM 7/24/2001 -0500, Wayne Stout wrote: >>I've searched on rpmfind.net for Xpm and found nothing. I did find the >>xpm (lowercase) package, installed it, and got the same results. > >I'm not 100% certain, but I'd be willing to bet that it is looking for >libxpm, which can be found here: ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/libraries Great idea, but unfortunately no good. I already had libxmp installed. (Wasn't sure, so I had to check when I got home last night) Thanks anyway... So, anyone else have any ideas? Does anyone know of any pre-built RPMS of gnome-perl? Rpmfind doesn't show any. Oh, if it matters, I've tried installing both Pronto and CSCMail from the rpms on the Supplemental Applications cd from the PowerPack, and tried installing both from scratch. Either way has failed thusfar. Thanks in advance, Wayne
[expert] gnome-perl Make errors
Greetings everyone. In my search for a new email client, I decided to try either Pronto or CSCMail. Both require the gnome-perl bindings, so I downloaded the tar file and tried to compile them. The main part goes smoothly, but when trying to compile support got GtkXmHTML or GtkHTML, I'm getting the following error messages. LD_RUN_PATH="" cc -o blib/arch/auto/Gtk/XmHTML/XmHTML.so -shared -L/usr/local/lib xs/GtkXmHTML.o build/GtkXmHTMLDefs.o GXHTypes.o -L/usr/lib -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lgtkxmhtml -lXpm -ljpeg -lpng -lz -lSM -lICE -lgtk -lgdk -lgmodule -lglib -ldl -lXi -lXext -lX11 -lm /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lXpm collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make: *** [blib/arch/auto/Gtk/XmHTML/XmHTML.so] Error 1 I've searched on rpmfind.net for Xpm and found nothing. I did find the xpm (lowercase) package, installed it, and got the same results. Has anyone here gotten either Pronto or CSCMail to work with 8.0? What am I missing? Thanks, Wayne
[expert] build unstripped version glibc
Hello all, I am using Mandrake 7.2 with gcc 2.95.3 and glibc 2.1.3. I downloaded glibc-2.1.3-18.3 src. Is there anyone who can tell me how to build an unstripped version of glibc using this rpm? I mean what I need to change in the spec file. Thanks, Wayne
[expert] unstripped version of glibc
Hello, I am using mandrake 7.2 kernel 2.2.17. I have an application which requires unstripped version of glibc2.1.3. I downloaded one from GNU and the application runs well. But vi and gdb on my machine generate segmentation fault. Do you guys have any idea about how this happened? Or could you tell me where I can download unstripped version of glibc2.1.3 for mandrake 7.2 ? Thanks, Wayne
Re: [expert] imwheel
A couple of easy resources. First, you might want to look over the MUO site (http://www.mandrakeuser.org ), particularly the Mouse in X page for general imwheel tips. Second, search the archives. http://www.mail-archive.com/expert@linux-mandrake.com/ A quick search of the archives for "Netscape wheel mouse" brought a message with this link. I've used it, and it works perfectly for me. http://www.kalamazoolinux.org/tech/ Stephen Boulet wrote: > [snip] > > This is just a me-too post. I don't think it's a problem that only mandrake > has; I think I had the same problem with my debian install. Maybe write the > author of imwheel a message? > > -- Stephen
Re: [expert] Installation - Unsupported ethercard?
I have a Linksys card as well, and 7.2 intaller never recognized it. What I ended up having to do was set my old faithful ISA 3com card as eth0, then head out to Scyld's website and download the latest netdriver src.rpm. After building and installing the drivers, everything works just fine. Interestingly enough, the 8.0 beta2 actually detects the card and configures it properly. Unfortunately, it sees the PCI card before the ISA and sets everything up backwards. Nothing a quick little tweak to /etc/modules.conf couldn't fix, though. http://www.scyld.com/network/tulip.html HTH, Wayne "Matthew O. Persico" wrote: > > I have a LinkSys LNE100TX Ethernet Card. It is not on the list of cards > in the install of 7.2. It does, however, have drivers available. It is > also a descendant of the DECchip Tulip(dc21x4x) card. > > Does this sound workable?
Re: [expert] Urgent: Mandrake Updates hosed?
A common American slang term, like fubar'ed, torked, tweaked, on the fritz, skee-hawed, or my personal favorite, cattywampused. It means they're not functioning properly. HTH Wayne kramer SETH wrote: > > what is up with the word hosed? What exactly does it mean? >
[expert] lost sound
All, for some reason I have lost my sound in mdk 7.2. If I start up xmms and turn it up full I get a very muffled, low volume noise, but nothing substantial. I am using a SBLive soundcard. Can anyone help me with a solution? Wayne _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.
Re: [expert] Question about Nmap scan results
Thanks for the info. I'm assuming that the sendmail daemon is the one that open this port, right? And assuming that I don't actually need sendmail running, that eliminates two more ports for possible abuse. As to Richard's question about ax25, no I don't run those utilities, but thanks for the suggestion anyway. Now my only question is the listen on 1025. From what I've been seeing, this could be anything from bind to blackjack to realplayer. Is there a real need to be concerned about this port? Thanks again, Wayne Tompson Hayner wrote: > >Submission on Port 587 is reserved for email message submission as > specified in this url http://www.landfield.com/rfcs/rfc2476.html. Messages > received on this port are defined to be submissions. The protocol used is > ESMTP [SMTP-MTA, ESMTP], with additional restrictions as specified here. > It's used for ESMTP (considered a better choice than port 25 in most > instances - a lot of SMTP servers use both). Of course, note that the fact > that it says the service is submission means online that this is what the > IANA has reserved this port for so for maximum security be skeptical. > > Thompson > > -Original Message- > Port State Service > 25/tcp opensmtp > 587/tcpopensubmission > 631/tcpopenunknown > 1025/tcp openlisten > 6000/tcp openX11
[expert] Question about Nmap scan results
Greetings everyone! Last night I decided to run nmap on my system and got the following results. I understand everything except for the submission service on port 587. Anyone know what this is? Also, I'm not quite sure what port 1025 is, either. One final question. Do I need to have sendmail installed to use logcheck? Thanks in advance, Wayne Port State Service 25/tcp opensmtp 587/tcpopensubmission 631/tcpopenunknown 1025/tcp openlisten 6000/tcp openX11
[expert] BT848A and ftp client
All, I havea bt848a capture card and cannot get any of the linux software to work with it. None of them let me change any settings, channels etc and kwintv keeps crashing. Any ideas? Also, anyone know a good ftp client? Wayne _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.
[expert] Graphical boot and zope
All, how do I enable the graphical boot instead oif the text boot under 7.2? Also, I turned my machine on this morning and I have another user option on my startup menu as 'zope'. I didn't add this user, so how did it get onto my system? Thanks, Wayne _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.
[expert] Framebuffer device
Can anyone tell me how I can set up the framebuffer device as a video device to use under linux? I have a laptop with an S3Savage/MX video card and none of the traditional drivers work (unless someone knows anything different?) I have used the framebuffer successfully before, but cannot remember the settings for doing this. Any help would be appreciated. WayneGet Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.
Re: [expert] Hello,
Actually, if you have a good high speed connection and a cd burner, you can now download the iso's for the entire Solaris 8 10/00 release. Just check Sun's website and look for the Free Binary License Program. Wayne Rusty Carruth wrote: > > John Wolford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Solaris no longer costs money, depending on the license that you need. ... > > Well, actually it costs $25 shipping, I think mode> > > Close enough to free for most of us, though ;-) > > rc
[expert] Help with escape codes (Kinda OT)
Greetings, everyone. While replacing an old NCR Unix box with Linux, I've run into a slight snag. It seems that bash doesn't interpret the generated rsh commands quite like Unix did (csh, I think). Basically, users on our production machine (another NCR Unix box) run a program that generates a shell command that is executed through rsh on the Linux box. The problem is when the user inserts either double quote or single quote characters in their comment lines. (These programs send faxes out through VSIFax on the Linux machine) The program normally formats the text lines like this: "\""Testing for bad command on quote or ampersand""\" When there are quotation marks in the text, they are formatted like this: "\""Sent 1/2\" and 3\" putty knife""\" What do I need to be using for the escape character in bash instead of the \ ? Thanks in advance, Wayne
[expert] Samba share question
Greetings, every one. Here's a puzzler for you. At my office, we have a linux file server with Samba 2.0.7. Security is set to server, although I've tried domain and user as well. Any pc that logs on and is a member of the NT4 domain can see the shares that they are supposed to be able to see with no problem. We have several pc's that are not part of the domain. If these machines happen to be running NT, everything is fine once I set the user account to "No Password". Here's the really weird part. Win95 machines that are not in the domain are having problems. If I log on to a 95 machine as myself, I can see the files in my personal share, and all the restricted shares that I have access to. But, I cannot see any files in the public share! I can see folders, but there are no files appearing in them. I've tried a ton of different permutations of the /etc/smb.conf file. Nothing seems to change these results. Here's what my current smb.conf shares part looks like: # Share Definitions == [homes] comment = Home Directories path = /s2/%u browseable = no writable = yes [public] path = /s1/public comment = Public Share browseable = yes read only = no case sensitive = yes short preserve case = yes preserve case = yes force group = users guest ok = yes create mask = 0777 directory mask = 0777 [vsiweb] comment = VSI Fax webserver directory path = /usr/vsifax3/webserver valid users = wayne,doug public = no writable = yes printable = no [mis] comment = MIS share path = /s1/mis valid users = @mis public = no writable = yes printable = no [rpt] comment = Reports path = /s1/rpt [sales] path = /s1/sales Does anyone have any suggestions as to what I'm doing wrong here? Thanks in advance, Wayne
[expert] Proving networking issues...
Greetings, everyone. I need some assistance in defending the recently added Linux server to my boss. Over the last few months, we've been having intermittent networking problems, and since the Linux server was the most recent addition (server-wise) to the network, it's getting the blame. So far, we've seen the NIS services die twice over a 3 month period and the NFS service on a seperate NCR Unix box died this morning. I can't see any reason why the Linux server would be "generating excess traffic", as the charges go. So, I need some way to prove the guilt or innocence of the Linux box. I've been looking around for decent network sniffers, but am at a loss for what I'm looking for or at. Is there a good How-to or article I can read to help me figure out if indeed I have managed to horribly misconfigure the server? Thanks in advance, Wayne
[expert] Error message after 2.4.0 upgrade
Greetings, everyone. I've just upgraded my kernel to 2.4.0 and am getting an error message when my pmfirewall script executes. Kernel: Sorry: masquerading timeouts set 5DAYS/2MINS/60SECS I've got ip-tables and ip-chains compiled as modules. I don't get any other errors, and masq-ing is working just fine. Should I be concerned or just blow it off? Thanks in advance. Wayne
Re: [expert] port forwarding for email
Are you talking about local mail or outbound smtp mail? If you want to forward local mail, it's not too difficult. Here's my setup: RH 6.2 Sendmail 8.9.3-20 Webmin 0.82-1 Bring up Webmin, go to the Servers tab, click on Sendmail. Under Sendmail options, the first three listed options are for forwarding. Since I only needed to forward local mail, I simply specified the name of the server that I needed to forward to. I would think that the other forwarding options would cover smtp mail as well, but I personally have no experience with them. Keep in mind that this is what worked for me, YMMV. HTH, Wayne Eric Mings wrote: > > I would like to setup my linux webserver to forward on all mail to > another machine on my LAN. I have a static ip for the webserver but > would use private ip (192.168) for my other machine. The > webserver machine also serves as a gateway to the net and already has > ip masquerading on it. Can someone tell me what I need to do in order > for all mail to be forwarded on to my other machine? Thanks much! > -- > Regards, > > Eric Mings Ph.D.
Re: [expert] What the heck is this daily cron task?
Greetings, This is updating the database used in conjunction with the slocate command. slocate is a secure version of the standard GNU locate command. Specifically the command does this: The -u flag tells slocate to start at the / directory. The -f flag excludes all of the listed file systems. Finally, the -e flag excludes all of the listed directories. Do you need this? Depends. This merely automates the update of the database. If you don't use slocate, or rarely use it, you should be able to safely get rid of this. You can manually run the command at any time. If you use the slocate command frequently, you may want to leave the cron in place. For much more detail, check out the man page. HTH, Wayne Chris Aakre wrote: > > What is this task: > > [chris@localhost cron.daily]$ less slocate.cron > > #!/bin/sh > > /usr/bin/slocate -u -f "udf,nfs,smbfs,ncpfs,proc,devpts,iso9660,usbdevfs" -e > "/tmp,/var/tmp,/usr/tmp,/afs,/net" > > This annoying task looks around on my hard drive for half an hour, consuming > 50% of my CPU time on a PII 300. Is this needed? Can I cancel it? I have no > idea what it's trying to do. > > Thanks in advance. > > -- > Chris Aakre
Re: [expert] 7.2 Sound problems
"Linke, Thomas" wrote: > > Hi, > > you can also use DrakeConf , choose HardDrake. If the system detect the > soundcard you have a + in the first column, click on it and you see your card. > Click on the card, in the right window are the preferences. Now you have a > button to start a configuration tool. Open it and check the values. > Yep, as I said, been there and done that. Tried all permuations just to make sure. NO effect, same bad sound when it works. I am beginning to think that the crystal audio drivers are just plain bad. Does anyone have a good audio card that Mandrake 7.2 can install by default that works? Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
[expert] 7.2 = loss of productivity
Well, for whatever reason, after using 7.1 since it's onset, the move to 7.2 has been a disaster. After the upgrade failed, I was forced to install from scratch. As I said previously, sound is so bad I am turning it off in the BIOS. Today, Helix-Gnome (something else I've used on 7.1) has become unuseable. Two things: whenever I boot up, somehow, the permissions in /etc/X11/gdm/Sessions for Gnome get changed such that gdm login can't access Gnome! I am tired of going to root at every boot and changing those permissions. Even more catastrophic was today, I launched one my standard X-window apps from our servers, and the Windowing system just failed completely and left me back at gdm login. Since Gnome was not available now, I switched to KDE, and tried runing my X-app again. This time the windowing system just hung with a blank screen, forcing me to re-boot (and once again, Gnome is not a option - I think I get the message: use KDE :) So Gnome is unuseable, X-Window seems problematical (is the Sawfish windowing system broke in 7.2?), Sound doesn't work, I can't come close to my 7.1 system. Now I know you will all think I must be some kind of idiot to have all these problems, but let me assure you that I had no such problems in 7.1 and other than installing some applications (like MIT Kerberos) and using standard customizations (like panel auto-hide), everything is default from the installer process. I have tried loading all the updates available for Mandrake and Helix-Gnome, they don't change this behavior at all. Am I the only unfortunate person to have these kinds of problems? Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] 7.2 Sound problems
"Linke, Thomas" wrote: > > Hi, > > I had the same problem, > try to go in the controlcenter and then information -> sound. Check the > I/O, IRQ, DMA . Set the right values depends on your card. > I don't know what control center this is? As I said, I can set all those things via DrakConf running HardDrake, but it makes no difference. I can set the values correctly, but still every sound event in the windowing system, every application that tries to use sound generates a very loud POP from the speakers. I can't listen to CD's or RealPlayer anymore because the sound drops out and distorts with the least CPU activity.
[expert] 7.2 Sound problems
I just did a re-install of 7.2 on my freshly re-formatted drives (which used to have 7.1 on them, but the upgrade left a big mess). I still have assorted problems which didn't exist in 7.1. Sound is very annoying. It clicks and pops when effects are played. When playing CD's it is distorted and sometimes just drops out altogether. I was hoping a clean install would fix things, but no luck. Here is the error I get on startup: kernel: isapnp: Card 'CS4236B' kernel: isapnp: 1 Plug & Play card detected total kernel: ad1848/cs4248 codec driver Copyright (C) by Hannu Savolainen 1993-1996 kernel: cs4232: dma, dma2, irq and io must be set. modprobe: /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdk/misc/cs4232.o: modprobe: Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters modprobe: init_module: Device or resource busy modprobe: /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdk/misc/cs4232.o: insmod /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdk/misc/cs4232.o failed modprobe: /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdk/misc/cs4232.o: insmod cs4232 failed sound: Loading sound module (cs4232) failed And when doing a insmod after startup from root, I get this: insmod cs4232 Using /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdk/misc/cs4232.o insmod: a module named cs4232 already exists And then in messages, after startup the following errors are reported: modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-4 - maybe not related? modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-180 - maybe not related? kernel: ad1848/cs4248 codec driver Copyright (C) by Hannu Savolainen 1993-1996 Nov 20 09:32:20 wwilson modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-service-0-3 kernel: ad1848/cs4248 codec driver Copyright (C) by Hannu Savolainen 1993-1996 Nov 20 09:50:33 wwilson modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-service-0-3 And in kernel/errors I found this: cs4232: dma, dma2, irq and io must be set. When I do a lsmod I get this: cs4232 2960 0 (autoclean) ad1848 16848 0 (autoclean) [cs4232] uart401 6384 0 (autoclean) [cs4232] sound 58368 0 (autoclean) [cs4232 ad1848 uart401] soundlow 464 0 (autoclean) [sound] soundcore 2800 5 (autoclean) [sound] And /etc/modules.conf has this in it: alias sound-slot-0 cs4232 options sound dmabuf=1 options sound-slot-0 io=0x530 irq=5 dma=1 dma2=1 mpuio=0x330 mpuirq=-1 Now these setting I verified using HardDrake and running the sound configuration program. I can hear things, but lots of loud pops, faint and scratchy sound. I have systematically gone through all the setting and while many of them work, none work better than these. Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] Getting new motherbaord.. new isntall?
Scott Tyson wrote: > > I'm going to be getting a new MB soon. Most likely an ASUS CUSL2. My > question is how will Mandrake respond to me swapping out my ASUS P2B > for the new MB? I know Windows wont have any issues since I've done it > before but I've never done it with Linux. Will I have to do a new > install? You shouldn't *have* to do a new install. When I upgraded my MB, Mandrake didn't have much to say about it. I had a few issues with moving from an ISA SB to on-board VIA sound, but that was really about it. Kudzu (if you have it installed) did a fine job for me. On 7.1, anyway. I suppose if there are a lot of hardware changes (i.e integrated audio, video, nic, etc) you might want to do any install, but I doubt that it would really be necessary. HTH. Wayne Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] Cable Modem Connection 7.2
I had a few problems with my cable modem setup as well, but mine all turned out to be caused by me. I found that when I had set up the eth0 interface under linuxconf, I had specified a different IRQ than what the isapnp file was setting up. As soon as I fixed that, (and made sure /etc/resolv.conf was correct) everything works perfectly. HTH, Wayne James W. McComas" wrote: > > I installed 7.2 with only one problem. > The startup runs up to lo correctly (even blinks the cable modem light). > Error mess on eth0 ( can't configure dhcp) > Configured networking via Drake Config and/or linuxconf the same way as RH 7.0. > On start up network I get a time out error. Looked at rc5.d and didn"t see any > pbviouserror. Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] email
Depends on the setup of the Exchange Server. If the accounts are POP3, then any email client will work. If the accounts are native Exchange accounts, I think you're screwed for the moment. Trade Client looks promising, but the last time I tried it (several months ago) it wasn't stable enough for use on my system. HTH, Wayne "Yacketta,Ronald J" wrote: > > Hello all!! > > Does ne1 know of a email client that will pull email from an exchange > server? > I have been keeping my laptop hanging around with win2k for the sole reason > of email.. If I can find a decent console/kde application that will > comunicate > with exchange I will drop this bag-o-sh!t Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
[expert] 7.2, Java, and Netscape
Greetings, all... Ok, I've seen the messages about Konquerer not doing Java correctly, and I've seen that the Konquerer website says that the bug should have been fixed with cvs-20001028, but my question is this... Has anyone managed to sucessfully get java pages to work with the Netscape included in the 7.2 release? Every time I try to use any site (iwon.com, jackpot.com, gamesville.com) that uses java, Netscape locks hard. Are we still dealing with the 100 dpi fonts issue that several messages in the archive talk about? All in all, I really like the new release, especially KDE2. Konquerer looks like it will be replacing Netscape on my machine if I can get this java thing to work. I hate booting back into 98 just to play online games. :) Thanks! Wayne Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
[expert] Tape backup and Library systems
Greetings, all. I have a couple of questions about backups. My company is looking into setting up a linux file server / backup server to replace the current NT based backup server and NFS based file server. Here are my questions. First, we're looking at using Arkeia as the software. Anyone have experience running this and backing up a mixed Win95/NT environment? (approx 60 pcs and 5 or 6 servers) Second, we're also thinking about a tape library system, but I've found very little information about supported models. Do I need to be looking at the interface card or the library system itself? I'm not the sysadmin, but since I'm the only one that knows much about Linux, I get the job of researching. :) Thanks for any assistance, Wayne Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] UMP midi plugin for Netscape
I was having the same problem until I created $HOME/.netscape/plugins and copied ump.so into that directory. One of those things that you shouldn't have to do, but that got it working for me. As always, YMMV. Wayne Charles Curley wrote: > > Has anyone gotten UMP (http://pubweb.bnl.gov/people/hoff/), a midi > plugin > for Netscape, to play on Mandrake Linux 6.1? I have installed the > library > and timidity. I can go to the test page > (http://pubweb.bnl.gov/people/hoff/midiSamplePage.html), and click on > the > "click here" link. The first time I did this, a file downloaded, then > Netscape went to the next page, but I heard nothing. Subsequently, > Netscape simply goes to the next page, and again I heard nothing. > > The mime types appear to be set up correctly. Here is the relevant part > of my ~/.mime.types: > > #mime types added by Netscape Helper > type=audio/midi \ > desc="UMP plugin version 1.10" \ > exts="mid,midi" > #mime types added by Netscape Helper > type=audio/x-midi \ > desc="audio/x-midi" \ > exts="mid,midi" > > I did check on another web site > (http://www.bluemountain.com/eng3/david/TUheadsd.html), and got no joy > there. Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] Screen Dump
I had a similar question several months ago (except I needed to print, not dump). Some kind soul suggested using xv, which comes with the distribution. It works incredibly well, and you have the option of printing or saving the screen capture. As a bonus, it will capture a single window insted of the entire desktop if you wish. Just my opinion, YMMV. Wayne Ken Thompson wrote: > > Will some kind soul explain how to use screen dump? > I need to dump various screens and then send them as attatchments and I'm > at a complete loss. > There doesn't seem to be a man or info entry for screen dump, where can I > get information? > Thanks all, > -- > Ken Thompson WA7SYR Licensed Radio Amateur since 1971 > Electrocom Computer Services Payette, Idaho 83661 > 1-888-642-7101 Local Calls 642-7101 > Sales - Services - Repair > Web: http://www,nwaa.com > E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Registered Linux User #183936 > > > Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: > Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list. Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
[expert] LM 7.1 and RoadRunner service
Greetings everyone. I'm about to get RoadRunner through my local cable company, and I've done some research, but I'd like someone to double-check me. I've already set up a small metwork with my wife's Win98 machine, and we can share the internet connection through dial-up. I know I have to get one more ethernet card, but that's not a big deal. Eth0 currently goes out to the local network, so eth1 will go to the cable modem. I've set up the firewall with pmfirewall already, but I know I'll have to re-run the setup script to change the external connection. It's not a static ip, so I know I'll need to run either dhcp or pump. I gather from past messages that Mandrake defaults to pump, is this correct? Does it really matter? Do I need to be concerned about PPPoE? How will I know if this I should? Anyone else have any experience with the RR service in Kansas City that may have some gotchas to look out for? Thanks in advance. Wayne
RE: [expert] help
The FIND command will find files that are named whatever you put in. Ex. 'find /home -name bubba.txt' will search all subdirs of /home and report all the places it finds a file called bubba.txt. it sounds like you want to use the RGREP command. The difference between grep and rgrep is that rgrep will recurse into subdirs where grep won't. So, an example of what you're looking for would be: rgrep -i sometext *.txt This starts at the current directory you're in and looks at all .txt files in all the subdirs for the phrase 'sometext'. The -i switch ignores case, which comes in handy from time to time. HTH. Wayne -Original Message- From: J A Shamsi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2000 8:14 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] help Hello I would like to search for a "specific text" on my machine. I would like to know all the FILENAMES and PATHS which contains a SPECIFIC TEXT. I know i have to playwith FIND or GREP but if any one of you have any idea please let me know thanks j/s __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/
[expert] Unexplained crashes
Ok, I'm a wee bit confused here. My Linux box has started hanging and rebooting for no apparent reason. ( I know there's a reason, and I'm pretty sure it's my fault. :) ) Here's the scenario. I've been running Mandrake 7.1 on my desktop for a few week, everything was going along nicely. I installed it on my laptop and gave ReiserFS a shot. Worked like a dream. So, I decided to re-install and use Reiser instead of ext2 on my desktop. After doing this, everything seemed ok for about half an hour or so, then in the middle of an Xboing game, the computer rebooted automagically. Struck me as odd, but the box came up just fine. (I really like how a ReiserFS box comes back after a crash, btw) Logged back in and started another game of Xboing. (I can't help it, I like this game) Just like before, the box rebooted. My first thought was that the game was somehow causing the system to reboot. (I know, I've spent too much time providing support for MS products) So, when the box comes back up, I don't start a game, I just let it sit while I do something else in the room. Yep, it rebooted again. As a test, I powered the computer off, and left it off for the rest of the evening. The next day, I boot back into Linux, start X and dial up to my ISP. We tool along for a while, longer than 30 minutes, then the box hangs completely. No alt-fkeys here, it took a hard boot to come back. I try again a couple more times, not dialing in, but having various programs going, and get another hang and another reboot. Now I'm thinking I have some flaky hardware combination that doesn't like Reiser, so I do another complete re-install and put everything back to ext2. Unfortunately, the problem still exists. Doesn't seem to be tied to any particular program, nor does it have a definate time before it flakes, it will hang or reboot seemingly at will. Hadware specifics: Cyrix 6x86 PR200 64 meg ram (72 pin SIMMS) 13 gig Maxtor hard drive: 2 Windows partitions (total approx 6 gig), /, /usr/local, and /home (approx 2 gig each)+ 250 swap linux partitions Trident 9685(?) PCI video card X 3.3.6 running SVGA server Running default MDK kernel The only thing I haven't tried is resetting my BIOS settings. I had tried to add an old 512 meg hard drive (only under Windows) to move some large files home from work. The drive never would work, and I removed it from the pc. I'm not at the computer, so I can't give you the log files right at the moment, but I can get them pretty easily. Anyone have any ideas? I've even used Tom's rtbt floppy to delete the linux partitions completely, then try inistalling again. Thanks in advance for any help. Wayne
RE: [expert]
Personally, I use Netscape's mail program. I use it under Windows some too, so it's familiar. Other than that, Spruce wasn't bad last time I looked at it, and Tradewind looked promising, but I don't know it it's still in development... Just my 2 cents. Wayne -Original Message- From: Daniel Baker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, July 10, 2000 9:48 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] Hey, What would everyone recommend for an Email Client? (pop3) I am using what came with Mandrake's KDE and was wondering if there is anything better out there? Thanks for your time. -- SwordBlayde
[expert] RE:
Thanks for the tip, unfortunately, I have no network adapters on this laptop (yet). I've downloaded the most recent alsa drivers, maybe those will help. Or, maybe I revert to 7.0 on the laptop Thanks again, Wayne -Original Message- I had somthing of the same problem with RedHad 6.0 and mandrake 7.1 I noticed that if I compiled my Ethernet Driver Before configuring sound I would not have sound even though the sndconfig showed their was a device, it ran through the motions of testing, did not report an error but did not emit a single peep. The first time (RH6) I would set up sound and make sure it worked, then compile and install my Eth0 driver. With this turn around (MDRK 7.1) I intalled everything in the main install, then DISABLED my Eth0, Rebooted, ran sndconfig. Re-enabled Eth0 and I was Golden. Hope this helps. SwordBlayde
RE: [expert] install problem: partition detection
I've got a 13 gig Maxtor drive, and I'll give you the same advice I was given when I asked this question. Don't use the MaxBlast software. Basically, let Windows and the BIOS think that there are only 8 gig (or however many your BIOS can see). Linux, specifically LILO and Grub, don't need this software and can see the full hard drive just fine. The one thing you will want to do, if you're not running 7.1 or don't have the latest LILO is to make a small /boot partition near the front of the drive. Fortunately, LILO was changed recently to remove the 1024 cylinder restriction, making this unnecessary. Hope that helps. Wayne -Original Message- From: Jonathan Wolfgang [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2000 12:00 AM To: Mandrake Expert Subject: [expert] install problem: partition detection Hello, I have a 20 gig Maxtor hard drive installed in my pc. The BIOS does not recognize the full capacity of the drive so I am using their release of EZ-Drive called MaxBlast. Naturally, Windows works fine. I have Partition Magic 5.0 Pro and have partitioned the drive for FAT32 and also Ext2 file systems. When trying to install Mandrake 7.1, the partition program only shows one large FAT32 partition and a tiny 7 MB partition at the end of the drive. I'm assuming this is due to MaxBlast being installed on the drive. If I press the "restore partition table" button (in Expert Install Mode) the Ext2 partitions are shown, but the remaining FAT32 partition is shown as a blank or empty partition. I am not brave enough to continue the installation because I am afraid that my Windows partition will be destroyed. I have checked for a BIOS upgrade, but the most recent one available is from 1997 and does not mention anything about large hard drive detection. I have previously installed RedHat 6.1 with the exact same partitioning scheme and it detected everything properly. I am wondering if there is any command that can be passed to the installation routine that can help this. Is there an updated boot disk that may help the partition detection? Many thanks, Jon
[expert] INstalling 7.1
I have downloaded all of the files for 7.1 and now want to install it. Can I install it off the hard drive, or do Ihave to install from CD? Cheers, Wayne
[expert] 7.1 and ESS Solo-1 sound
Greetings everyone! Just got my 7.1 cd's from Cheapbytes and I've run across an interesting little snag trying to get sound on my laptop (Acer Travelmate 512DX) running. Sounddrake finds the sound "card" (I've always hated integrated sound and video), identifies it as an ESS Solo-1 (ESS 1969). If I remember correctly, 7.0 said it was a 1938. Anyway, after clicking on ok, I'm presented with the list of sound cards with the Solo-1 hi-lighted. Unfortunately, all the values for IRQ, DMA, etc, are -1 and I can't change them. I don't get any sound at all. Anyone have any ideas? Since it worked in 7.0, I tried installing the sndconfig and dependant rpms, but still no go. Many thanks in advance. Wayne
[expert] eth0 failing on install
After putting my burner back into my linux box, I couldn't get my SCSI card and burner working so I thought the easiest way would be to reinstall MDK7. I did so, and everything went smooth until I rebooted and couldn't get my eth0 to initialise. I used a dhcp option before, though if I try to use it this time, I cannot access the network. If I manually put in my IP addy, I get an OK when MDK initialises my eth0, but still cannot access the network. I have searched high and low for answers, and if anyone here can help me, I am at wits end and would appreciate it immensely. Thanks, Wayne
[expert] Moving /home
I want to move my /home directory to another drive. Someone mentioned and article from a linux mag that had this exact procedure in it. Would someone be able to point me in the right direction, or help me out with this? I have tried to do it based on what I know, but I obviously don't know enough!!! Wayne ** ** Wayne Petherick Humanities and Social Sciences Bond University ** **
[expert] Kernel won't recognise burner
I am trying to install my burner back into my linux box and am using drakconf to do it. I would like to mount it as "burner" in my /mnt directory and have made the appropriate /burner there. When I try to add it under drakconf, I get the message that the kernel doesn't recognise this as a valid block device (I am trying to use /dev/scd0 for the burner). All of the manuals I have says this is a valid device, but for some reason it won't work. Can anyone give me a suggestion? Thanks, Wayne
[expert] Changing home drive
I have my home directory on a 6 gig drive that I would like to put in another machine. Does anyone know a good source of information or could anyone tell me how to change my home drive under linux, and move all of my existing programs a directories to the new drive? I would appreciate any help. Wayne
[expert] SO 5.3
I have gone to Suns web site and tried to download Staroffice 5.2. I click all of the right buttons, and select English Linux (x86) but when I get to the end and the software can be dl'd the only file that comes up is a .bin file. Is this the right one for MDK7? If so, how do I install it? I was under the impression this was a Solaris binary file but I may be wrong. Thanks, Wayne
Re: [expert] Logging into NT network with Linux client
> Ok, here's the scenario. I'm trying to setup a Linux box here at work. > What I'm trying to figure out is what I need to do to log into our network > (WinNT Enterprise). Any thoughts? > As several others have pointed out, you need to install Samba. From here, ir really depends on what you're connecting to on the network. For example, at my office, I'm the only one running Linux (except for out firewall, which runs Redhat 5.2), and we do most of our work by connecting to Unix servers through terminal emulation in Windows. I simply added the ip addresses to all these server to my /etc/hosts, and telneted from an Eterm session. Our mail server is running Exchange 5.5, and is fortunately set up as pop accounts, so I could use any email client and configured the pop mail server settings to use the ip address of the Exchange server. I didn't actually bother trying to figure out postfix or sendmail, but simply used Netscape's mailer. (They weren't paying me to figure out linux, unfortunately) Same thing for the firewall. Plug the ip address into the proxy server boxes, everything worked fine. To browse the network, I ended up using XSMBrowser (or mayne jusr SMBrowser, check Freshmeat). I had tried Gnomba and other similar programs, but didn't have much luck. Once I figured out what the ip address was for the DNS machine, I was able to connect to the NT boxes I needed. Never tried connecting to individual pc's, nor did I attempt to make my linux box seen on the network. Of course, I work for a company with 21 employees, so all of our machines have hard coded ip addys. Couldn't tell you what might need to be done for system assigned addresses... HTH, Wayne
[expert] ext2 under windows
I have not yet been able to shake windows for a few tasks and I was wondering whether you can get any software to read ext2 filesystems under windows. I often DL stuff under Linux, boot into windows and then forget to xfer the stuff over which means a reboot blah blah blah. Any software to handle this task? Thanks, Wayne
Re: [expert] Mandrake rpm's
Joe, go to www.rpmfind.net. They have all of the i586 files you need. Wayne On Fri, 2 Jun 2000, Joe Heafner wrote: > Hello. > > Why is it so difficult to find rpm's compiled for i586? I know that > using software compiled for i386 on my Pentium will work just fine, but > if possible I'd really like to use the former. However, all the software > archives that I know of only stockpile i386 packages. Are there other > archives that I don't yet know about? > > Thanks, >
Re: [expert] Where to get Helix Gnome
Martin, I went to the www.helixcode.com webpage, went and had a look at the Packages page and that told me everything I needed to UG to version 1.2 (I printed this page out). Then I went to www.rpmfind.net and went to their RPM database, and just downloaded each of the files I needed. Some need to be installed before others but it will tell you this when you install them (dependencies etc). I am now using V1.2 and it is sweet. A whole lot faster, and a lot more stable (and a little better looking). Wayne
[expert] Terminal window for programs
I have a mail checker that will execute programs for you when mail arrives on a pop server but cannot get it to automatically run pine when mail arrives. I assume that it is because Pine uses a terminal to run. Is there a command line argument that will fire up Pine in a term when mail arrives, something perhaps like: pine -terminal or terminal -pine ??? If anyone knows of a tip, I would appreciate it. Wayne
Re: [expert] Helix Gnome
Allen, is it relatively easy to install? I am using MDK 7 and was wondering does it just start now from your log on screen instead of the old gnome? I like the looks of it and have to admit the current version is a little buggy so I look forward to using 1.2 Thanks, Wayne On Tue, 30 May 2000, Allen Bolderoff wrote: > I am using helix here, and it is great - Very smooth, clean and just all round > brilliant. > > I couldn't go back to kde if I wanted to - The new Gnome is just so-unclunky. > > Allen > -- * * Wayne Petherick Criminology Department Bond University * *
[expert] Helix Gnome
Just wondering whether anyone has heard of Helix Gnome and whether this is the same as stock standard Gnome that comes with most distro's. Does it upgrade or change anything that it shouldn't and is it still usable with other Gnome software? Cheers, Wayne ** ** Wayne Petherick Humanities and Social Sciences Bond University ** **
RE: [expert] Printer on network...
As long as you have Samba configured correctly, there's really nothing to it. All I've ever had to do to reach the printer hanging off of my wife's Win98 pc is run printtool after making sure Samba is configured correctly. Same thing with my office pc. Configure Samba, run printtool. You might want to put the IP addy for the W2000 box in your /etc/hosts file to make things easier. The Printing HOW-TO makes reference to a Mini HOW-TO dealing with this subject, but I couldn't find it. It also says the printer in question is perfectly supported. HTH Wayne. -Original Message- From: Andrew Vogel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, May 26, 2000 8:04 AM Hey everyone. I've got a small network set up at home... Mandrake Linux 7.02 networked to my Windows 2000 machine via a hub. I've got a printer (Panasonic KX-P1124) attached to the back of the Windows machine. I'm looking for step-by-step process to get the printer to work with Linux, but I'm coming up blank. Can someone help?
[expert] Downloadable fonts
I have a program asking me for the path for downloadable fonts and printer commands. I am desparate to print from this program, but cannot locate the directory. If anyone could tell me where these are usually stored I would appreciate it. Wayne
[expert] Palm pilot
I would appreciate some help from anyone who has managed to get their palm pilot up and running on MDK. I have kpilot running but for some reason, it is not working. Thanks, Wayne
RE: [expert] 37 bottles of asprin later, he decided to ask for he lp.
> On Thu, 18 May 2000, you wrote: > > Try replacing /c with /dev/hda1 (or whatever your Windows share > is on). I'd > > replace /cdrom with /dev/cdrom, too. > > Does this mean I need a seperate partition on the hard drive to devote to > windows type stuff? Does it need to be a windows type partition > or a ext2fs? > The only partitions i have on my hard drive are: > /dev/hda1 ext2fs > /dev/hda5 linux swap > Ah, I mistakenly assumed that you had a dual boot system. Just goest to show I shouldn't assume anything. If you don't have a Windows partition, I really have no idea what to do to get Wine to work... Sorry. Hopefully some kind soul has managed to get this working and will share their knowledge. Wayne
RE: [expert] GNOME instead of KDE...
IIRC, it means someone is sending mail from an old MSMail server. Never did figure out why MSMail servers like to attatch stuff to SMTP messages... Wayne -Original Message- From: Anton Graham [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2000 8:14 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] GNOME instead of KDE... Submitted 17-May-00 by Harlan Whitley: | [-- octet-filter file type: "MS-DOS executable (EXE), OS/2 or MS Windows" --] | | WINA20.386: DOS/Windows executable Excuse me, but *what* is this? -- _ _|_|_ ( ) *Anton Graham /v\ / <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /( )X (m_m) GPG ID: 18F78541 Penguin Powered!
RE: [expert] 37 bottles of asprin later, he decided to ask for he lp.
Try replacing /c with /dev/hda1 (or whatever your Windows share is on). I'd replace /cdrom with /dev/cdrom, too. I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong, but I've always seen the message about drive A, unless there was a floppy in the drive. That's how I got my Wine working. Unfortunately I haven't had much time to try to get anything more advanced than Freecell working. HTH, Wayne -Original Message- From: Ivan Trail [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2000 9:06 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] 37 bottles of asprin later, he decided to ask for help. hello: Whne trying to execute a Wine application This is what I get: Could not stat /mnt/fd0, ignoring drive A: Could not stat /c, ignoring driveC: Could not stat /cdrom, ignoring drive D: Warning: could not find wine.conf [Drive x] entry for current working directory /home/Ivan; starting in windows directory. Invalid path 'c:\windows' for windows directory Perhaps you have not properly edited or created your Wine configuration file. This is either /etc/wine/wine.conf or $HOME/.winerc or it is determined by the -config option or from the WINE_INI environment variable. Wine has used /etc/wine/wine.conf as configuration file. I have also attached the wine.conf file. If any one can help me out and get me running with wine, I would deeply appreciate it. Please use "bonehead" language as I am still struggling through all the command line stuff, although I am past the "Help I can't turn my computer on!" stage. Many thanks. Ivan Trail.
Re: [expert] SHIT
I must say, the criticism here would appear to be about Netscape and not MDK. The crashing of netscape is fairly well documented across Linux distro's and is not unique to MDK. My two cents worth. Wayne - Original Message - From: Keymer Stanley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2000 4:50 PM Subject: Re: [expert] SHIT > > As they say " A bad workman always balmes his tools!" > > - > Stan > > On Thu, 11 May 2000, Mahmuth Mathumbha The III wrote: > > > I think MDK is shit > > Netscape craches all time and there > > are no any other good browser that works better! > > >
Re: [expert] Kmail-SMTP
Aaron, thanks for the tip. I have printed that e-mail and have kept it on file for next time. I have to say though, apart from a few problems with the set up, I am now using Pine and can strongly recommend it for anyone looking for a solid email app. Wayne At 08:05 PM 5/10/00 -0500, you wrote: >Wayne, try telnetting to port 25 your IP address > >It would be like this > >telnet 205.287.45.3 25 > >If you get no response, your sendmail SMTP server is not responding. > > >(Assuming you are firing it up at start-up) > >Also try /etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail restart (or status) > >See what happens and check your logs.. > >Good Luck -Aaron > > >Wayne Petherick wrote: >> >> Tom, >> I had the same problem as you. Unfortunately I couldn't fix mine either, >> except by doing exactly what you did and setting it to sendmail. My IT >> department couldn't help me because they don't support linux. WHat did I >> do? Switeched to Pine, and haven't looked back. Took a while to set up, >> but what an e-mail prog! You should check it out. >> >> Wayne >> >> On Wed, 10 May 2000, Tom Brinkman wrote: >> >> > >> > Last Saturday I when I tried to send email using Kmail with >> > File|Settings|Network set to SMTP, localhost, port 25, I got an >> > error message "Cannot open SMTP connection to host localhost for >> > sending". For quite some time (years) I've been using Kmail/SMTP. >> > >> > I changed Kmail's option from 'SMTP' to 'Sendmail' and was >> > immediately able to send mail. I have no idea what caused SMTP >> > to suddenly stop working, or even where to look to fix it. I >> > have read the 'mail' howto, and searched the Mdk mailing list >> > archives to no avail. >> > >> > Can somebody point me in the right direction for getting SMTP >> > working again. I have a problem with using the 'sendmail' option >> > in Kmail because it instantly puts mail in the 'sent mail' box, >> > even if I don't have a connection to my ISP. IOW's there's no >> > indication that the mail is being sent, or queued for later as >> > there is with Kmail's SMTP option. Besides, it's bothering me >> > what I might've done to break SMTP. >> > >> > FWIW, I use Staroffice for reading news groups. It's set to >> > SMTP for mail, and it hasn't had any problems. >> > >> > TIA, >> > >> >> -- >> * >> * >> Wayne Petherick >> Criminology Department >> Bond University >> * >> * >
Re: [expert] Kmail-SMTP
Tom, I had the same problem as you. Unfortunately I couldn't fix mine either, except by doing exactly what you did and setting it to sendmail. My IT department couldn't help me because they don't support linux. WHat did I do? Switeched to Pine, and haven't looked back. Took a while to set up, but what an e-mail prog! You should check it out. Wayne On Wed, 10 May 2000, Tom Brinkman wrote: > >Last Saturday I when I tried to send email using Kmail with > File|Settings|Network set to SMTP, localhost, port 25, I got an > error message "Cannot open SMTP connection to host localhost for > sending". For quite some time (years) I've been using Kmail/SMTP. > >I changed Kmail's option from 'SMTP' to 'Sendmail' and was > immediately able to send mail. I have no idea what caused SMTP > to suddenly stop working, or even where to look to fix it. I > have read the 'mail' howto, and searched the Mdk mailing list > archives to no avail. > >Can somebody point me in the right direction for getting SMTP > working again. I have a problem with using the 'sendmail' option > in Kmail because it instantly puts mail in the 'sent mail' box, > even if I don't have a connection to my ISP. IOW's there's no > indication that the mail is being sent, or queued for later as > there is with Kmail's SMTP option. Besides, it's bothering me > what I might've done to break SMTP. > > FWIW, I use Staroffice for reading news groups. It's set to > SMTP for mail, and it hasn't had any problems. > >TIA, > -- * * Wayne Petherick Criminology Department Bond University * *
[expert] [newbie] Mutt or Pine
Howdy all, I have read all of the mutt and pine how to's and man pages that exist and still cannot get either to work. I appear to have my fetchmail set up properly in that it downloads my mail fine, but I do not know where to!!! I am guessing that where it downloads it to is where I have to point my Pine MUA to, but I cannot find in any how to's where this is and how to set it up. I would appreciate if anyone would avoid the temptation to point me to another how to (unless of course it is written for a complete spoon!) and give me some straightforward settings so I can get (preferably Pine) my mail up and running. I am gettting frustrated with underdeveloped GUI's. TIA, Wayne
[expert] Re: [newbie] Video Cards - Any Recomendations?
Joe, you could always try the various TNT cards that are out there. Most of them will come in PCI and AGP so you should shop around. Wayne At 02:47 PM 5/3/00 -0400, you wrote: >The only decent PCI video cards on the market are the 3DFX VooDoo cards but >even with those I don't think you can get video out on anything but there >AGP cards not on their PCI cards. The Viper 550 and all the ATI cards are >AGP. >Sorry > Charles >- Original Message - >From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Wednesday, May 03, 2000 10:58 AM >Subject: [newbie] Video Cards - Any Recomendations? > > >> >> >> I am looking for a good video card with video-out jacks (don't really need >PC >> TV). I have been longing for a Diamond Viper 550 card for a long time, >now, but >> since I have been toiling with Linux, I have heard some disparaging >comments >> about S3 cards in general not being "Linux Friendly" - Does anyone know if >this >> is true for the Viper 550? If so, what card would you recommend? I need >speed - >> good gaming and 3D performance - I don't have an AGP bus, so it would have >to >> come in PCI flavor - I've been hearing good things about ATI's >> "All-in-Wonder"... any opinions? >> >> >> >
Re: [newbie] Re: [expert] VCD Player
Sorry. next question! I have tried this but can't locate the actual movie files. This has to be done from the command line and I don't know what they are called. Any help would be appreciated Wayne On Sun, 30 Apr 2000, you wrote: > You can use "mtvp" instead of "mtv". It comes with mtv, but it's the > command-line version, and doesn't cut the audio. > > Jean-Michel Dault > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > On Sun, 30 Apr 2000, Wayne Petherick wrote: > > > Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2000 09:38:00 +1000 > > From: Wayne Petherick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: [expert] VCD Player > > > > Anyone know of a good FREE vcd player for linux? I am trying to use an > > unregistered MTV at the moment but the audio cuts out until it is registered. > > > > THanks, > > > > Wayne > > -- *** *** Wayne Petherick Criminology Department Bond University *** ***
Re: [expert] Use of Windows may be hazardous to your Linux
I have linux installed on the primary partition of my HD, with windows installed on the second. The disk was originally split using dos fdisk, though the first partition was formatted using diskdrake. I want to run a Nortons utils speed disk on my C drive, but now I am not so sure!!! Will nortons effect it or is it only wind'ohs defrag that will f&*k it up? Wayne
Re: [expert] USB SCanner
Thanks Chris, I think it may be a matter of waiting for some generic third party drivers to come along. Damn, one more thing I have to use windows for... Wayne On Sat, 15 Apr 2000, you wrote: > Wayne, > > I have a Canon 620U USB, and I looked for SANE drivers but could > not find any (although I believe some other brands of USB scanners > are supported). I emailed Canon asking about their policy wrt Linux and > their hardware, and the response I got was that they had no immediate > plans to support Linux. > > Chris > > > >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< > > On 4/12/00, 3:33:51 PM, Wayne Petherick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > regarding [expert] USB SCanner: > > > > Any advances on how to get my Canon 630U usb scanner to work with linux? > WHat > > are the names of the USB ports on a machine under linux? > > > Wayne -- *** *** Wayne Petherick Criminology Department Bond University *** ***
RE: [expert] My network connection is messed up.
I had a similar problem, except mine was with smbmount, not smbclient. I found that it was related to the version of Samba. Version 2.0.6 changed the flags on smbmount from '-u username' to '-username=username'. Even using the correct flags, I couldn't connect to an NT4 server on the network. What I found that eventually worked was a program calles xsmbrowser. Once I got the correct address for the domain contriller, I was able to see and mount shares on the network just fine. Look on freshmeat for xsmbrowser, it might help. I'm still not certain what I was doing wrong with the mount command... HTH, Wayne -Original Message- From: Sean Armstrong [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2000 8:10 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] My network connection is messed up. Sorry, I ran smbclient -L win2kcomputerIP and got the following response: added interface ip= bcast= nmask= session request to failed 9Called name not present) session request to(first three digits of IP) failed (Called name not present) Password: (here I entered my password and hit enter) Broken pipe I tried the same command for the IP address to computer with the printer share that I could see on gnomba and got the same except when I added my password I got the following response: session setup failed: ERRDOS - ERRnoaccess (Access denied.) The second one seems to make sense since I only gave it my password and not my username. My password alone should not grant me access to the shares on this computer. My etc mtab reads as follows: /dev/hda5 / ext2 rw 0 0 none /proc proc rw 0 0 /dev/hda1 /mnt/dos vfat rw,nosuid,nodev,conv=binary 0 0 /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount rw,fs=vfat,dev=/dev/fd0 0 0 none /dev/pts devpts rw,mode=0620 0 0 /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount rw,fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom 0 0 Thanx, SA >From: "Stephen F. Bosch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: Sean Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: [expert] My network connection is messed up. >Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 15:17:41 -0400 > >Sean Armstrong wrote: > > > > Ok. I went back and saw that Mandrake had only installed the Samba rpm >and > > did not install the client and common rpms. I installed these and I no > > longer get any freeze ups with SAMBA. However when I click on the >computer > > that contains my share file, my share file does not come up. But when I > > click on the computer that contains the printer share, all of the shares >on > > that computer are visible. (this is working with gnomba by the way) My >share > > file is located on a computer that is running win2000. Could this be a > > problem? I can see the share fine from a computer using Be and from > > computers using NT. Also I get the following error messges when I >shutdown: > > /etc/rc.d/rc6.d/K35.smb: [ := : unary operation expected > > /etc/rc.d/rc6.d/k75netfs: [ := : unary operation expected > > /etc/rc.d/rc6.d/K90network [ := : unary operation expected > > > > And when I boot I get similar messages: > > /etc/rc.d/rc5.d/S10network [ := : unary operation expected > > /etc/rc.d/rc5.d/S91smb: [ := : unary operation expected > > /etc/rc.d/rc5.d/S25netfs: [:= : unary operation expected > > > > Any ideas what could be causing this? > >Sean -- you didn't run smbclient, didja? > >In order to decide in which direction we should proceed, we need to know >if Samba is fundamentally identifying network shares properly. > >So: > ># smbclient -L machinerunningwin2k > >and let's see the output, if possible. > >And what's in /etc/mtab? > ># mount > fstable.txt > >-Stephen- __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
[expert] USB SCanner
Any advances on how to get my Canon 630U usb scanner to work with linux? WHat are the names of the USB ports on a machine under linux? Wayne
[expert] Unzipping a file
How do I unpack a file with a .tar.bz2 extension? Thanks, Wayne
[expert] Growing file sizes
OT but I may be able to explain why your file sizes grow using M$ word... If you are working on a document and click on SAVE instead of SAVE AS, this will only add the changes to the existing document. If you clikc on SAVE AS it will replace the existing document with the one on the screen. This seems to be an artifact of all MS programs. I once reduced a publisher document from 15MB to 900k! Wayne
[expert] hanging on floppy access
I have a problem with my floppy druive that I think is related to supermount. The firts disk I use always reads fine. However, if I take this out and inserta nother disk if I am using a terminal a get an input/output error. If I am using gmc, it juust kicks me back to the parent directory (which would be /mnt). Can anyone tell me what is happening? My fstab is as below... /dev/hda3 /mnt/DOS_hda3 vfat user,exec,conv=binary 0 0 /dev/hdb1 /mnt/DOS_hdb1 vfat user,exec,conv=binary 0 0 /dev/hdd5 /mnt/DOS_hdd5 vfat user,exec,conv=binary 0 0 /dev/hda1 / ext2 defaults 1 1 /dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/hdd1 /home ext2 defaults 1 2 /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount fs=vfat,dev=/dev/fd0 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom 0 0 Thanks, Wayne
[expert] Network
Quick question to ask if anyone knows of any utilities that will watch your network activity. I have a full time connection through my Universities internet server and am obviously open to some problems. What I am looking for is a package that will let me know if anyone tries to get access to my stuff. Thanks, Wayne
Re: [expert] Office Suite for Linux
As far as applixware goes. I would give it a wide berth. I tried the demo the other day and am not suitably impressed. The word program was ghastly, and the less said about the e-mail client the better. Despite its flaws, Staroffice is still your best bet as far as office apps go. Wayne > ==
Re: [expert] Missing RAM - an old chestnut
Have you tried typing lilo to effect your changes? On Thu, 6 Apr 2000, Glyn Millington wrote: > Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2000 09:48:45 +0100 > To: Mandrake Expert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > From: Glyn Millington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [expert] Missing RAM - an old chestnut > > This is an old question but for me its a new machine. > > It's an AMd K6 450 with 32 mb RAM (soon to be increased!) > > On firing up Mandrake 7 (with kernel 2.2.15-0.18mdk), it tells me > I have 23MB ram. I've added > append = "mem=32m" > to lilo.conf with no effect. > Can anyone tell me what is going on here? > Is Linux not detecting the RAM? > Is it discounting space used by the kernel? > > I've trawled the docs but couldn't find any clues. > > TIA > > Glyn M. > -- >** >* "The soul is greater than the hum of it's parts. " * >* Douglas Hoftstatder* >**
[expert] RE: [expert] Modem recognition on laptop Toshiba Portégé 3110CT
What kind of modem does Win98 say it is? I know that the modem on my Travelmate 512 is a winmodem, and I've never had any luck using the linmodem drivers. BeOS, however, sees the modem and works like a champ. HTH, Wayne -Original Message- From: Bois, Mathieu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2000 2:53 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: [expert] Modem recognition on laptop Toshiba Portégé 3110CT Help ! I'm unable to make Mandrake recognize the modem on this laptop. It is an integrated modem (windows98 says it is V90, irq4, ioports 1880-1887 and 1400-14ff) Lothar takes a long time to look for one, but finally doesn't find it. I can't see nothing regarding it in the kernel messages. Do you think it is a winmodem ? Do you know if it there's a chance/mean to make it work on Linux? (it works correctly under win98) Regards Mathieu
Re: [expert] PRINTING
It worked fine before my latest reinstall though. I have had no problems at all up until now, and forgive my ignorance, but I have never used GS, so... Wayne
Re: [expert] PRINTING
Francois,
below is a copy of my printcap file.
Thanks for any info you may be able to provide. It would seem that I can only
print from programs that come with their own printer driver (such as
wordperfect and staroffice) though a test print works fine.
#
# Please don't edit this file directly unless you know what you are doing!
# Look at the printcap(5) man page for more info.
# Be warned that the control-panel printtool requires a very strict format!
# Look at the printcap(5) man page for more info.
#
# This file can be edited with the printtool in the control-panel.
#
##PRINTTOOL3## LOCAL bjc600 360x360 a4 {} BJC600 24
lp:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\
:mx#0:\
:sh:\
:lp=/dev/lp0:\
:if=/var/spool/lpd/lp/filter:
Thanks,
Wayne
[expert] PRINTING
I have my BJC-2000 set up on my Linux box and am having a few troubles getting it to print i ncertain apps. It will print documents from Staroffice no probs at all but will not print from anything else. I can't get it to print from netscape, gedit or any other program. I am using Spruce for my email, and it won't print from there either. In the settings dialog box it will come up with 'lpr' as the place to print but still won't. I am not sure what to do next, I have tried setting up my printer several different ways. Any info anyone has would be appreciated. Wayne
Re: [expert] OT - Spruce
FYI - I downloaded spruce 0.6.2 this afternoon and installed it. It installed without a hitch (though I would have preferred a binary file) and the setup was a piece of cake. The client runs like a dream and handles all aspects of my mail that I could ask for. Not to mention, the GUI is easy on the eyes, and easy to use. If you are after a GUI client, then you should check out Spruce. Wayne
[expert] Error message
After installing the glib version 1.2.7 I am still getting the wollowing error message while trying to run the config on spruce 0.6.2. Could anyone tell me what it means and how I get around it? *** Could not run GTK test program, checking why... *** The test program failed to compile or link. See the file config.log for the *** exact error that occured. This usually means GTK was incorrectly installed *** or that you have moved GTK since it was installed. In the latter case, you *** may want to edit the gtk-config script: /usr/bin/gtk-config configure: error: Cannot find GTK: Is gtk-config in path? *** *** Wayne Petherick Criminology Department Humanities and Social Sciences Bond University *** ***
[expert] OT - Spruce
To those using Spruce, I was wondering whether you could answer a question for me. When I go to COMPOSE or REPLY or FORWARD the compose window that comes up locks Spruce and I have to Nuke the window to get it to close. Do you know why this would be happening? It is a good mail client and I would really like to use it but can't if it keeps locking up. Any help would be appreciated. Wayne
[expert] Mail clients
Thanks for all the excellent responses to my question about good mail clients. Ih ave checked out the others suggested, and am looking into these. I think the problem I am having is that the ones I really like are still in development and as such have bugs, and lots of em. Wayne *** *** Wayne Petherick Criminology Department Humanities and Social Sciences Bond University *** ***
[expert] Mail programs
I am slowly getting used to Linux and am currently looking for a good GUI mail client. At the mo I am using kmail under Gnome and am looking for something a little more !)attractive, 2)functional. I have tried Mahogany, Eucalyptus, XFMail, XCMail, postilion, tkrat, and just about every other one out there. I either cannot get it to work or it is confusing and cumbersome and was wondering who is using what and what they think of it. I would love to get a good GUI client for my machine but most are either in development still or have other problems. Does Corel WP2000 come with a mail client? Or what would others suggest is a good stable way to send, receive and catalog emails? Wayne *** *** Wayne Petherick Criminology Department Humanities and Social Sciences Bond University *** ***
Re: [expert] Best audio/video cards for Linux??
I must say that my GeForce works well under Linux. However, it is a very expensive card and not really intended for Linux so you should consider something a little less expensive. The TNT and TNT2 cards are a good buy, and you shouldn't have any trouble with the majority of SB sound cards. Wayne ** ** Wayne Petherick Criminology Department Humanities and Social Sciences Bond University Gold Coast ** **
Re: [expert] Printer recommendation
Volker, the BJC-2000 and 3000 work fine with Linux. It provides driver for the 4000 and 600, which are the same engines used for the above two printers. I installed a 2000 with no problems and someone else here has installed a 3000 without any hassles. I cannot get mine to print ASCI though, which isn't a big thing for me, but is a consideration if you use ASCI for anything. Mine works like a charm printing graphics and text without a hitch. I could personally recommend the 2000 though for a little more money, I am told the 3000 is a good buy. Wayne ** ** Wayne Petherick Criminology Department Humanities and Social Sciences Bond University Gold Coast ** **
[expert] Compilers
Greetings, everyone. I was going through my system the other day trying to free up some disk space, and I noticed that I have both gcc and ecgs installed. My question is, do I need both of them? If not, which one is the best one to keep? Thanks in advance! Wayne
