Re: [newbie] how do I open....
Are you sure this is an Excel file? IF it is really an Excel file, it should open with OpenOffice, BUT the .exe file extension is *not* an Excel file - it is a Windows executable (program) file! I suggest you double-check with the sender before attempting to open it... Ye it is an Excel file. it is a Self-extracting Archive .( thanks for the site) I decompressed it with Ark which showed an .xls file. When trying to open it with Open office I get: *this file is password protected* I don´t know how to get around that TIA Maryse Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] OT: notebook keyboard fonts peeled off?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sorry for the OOT guys, Have you ever experienced that your notebook's keyboard fonts peeled off? I mean, my notebook now has a blank tut for what was once an A, and now also N, now has become a mere period. I have complained to Acer, but they don't believe it. They said that the keyboard should OK for about 10 years' usage. - -- Fajar Priyanto | Reg'd Linux User #327841 | http://linux.arinet.org 14:20:31 up 6:19, Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (FiveStar) for i586 public key: https://www.arinet.org/fajar-pub.key -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAtukckp5CsIXuxqURAsElAKC7T5FKA8I7ijc2mNcPeJdpjee/1gCfY4OD 5iz50XDDkTIWC1KfaK6f7Nk= =CTYa -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Remote Kontact
On Thursday 27 May 2004 23:38, Klemens Arro wrote: On Thursday 27 May 2004 08:02, Marc Lijour wrote: Le May 26, 2004 12:35 pm, robin a écrit : Klemens Arro wrote: Hy, I was wondering if there is a way to use my Kontact over web. So I could read my mail, check my appointments, view my contacts, read notes etc. over web? I think you need an LDAP-enabled server. There's something about it in the KOrganizer Help pages. Isn't it a IMAP server instead (or POP3)? Security options to investigate: - use POP3s (secure) - use SSH tunnel I guess google may give some tutorials. Sir Robin Thanks for the info, but maybe is there some PHP/Perl/CGI/etc (web based) client what can read Kontact mails/notes/etc? If you keep your mail in IMAP folders you can access it remotely with Squirrelmail web mail. It requires PHP. An RPM is on the mirrors. Not sure what you can do about the diary functions though. derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] how do I open....
M.Schild wrote: Are you sure this is an Excel file? IF it is really an Excel file, it should open with OpenOffice, BUT the .exe file extension is *not* an Excel file - it is a Windows executable (program) file! I suggest you double-check with the sender before attempting to open it... Ye it is an Excel file. it is a Self-extracting Archive .( thanks for the site) I decompressed it with Ark which showed an .xls file. When trying to open it with Open office I get: *this file is password protected* I don´t know how to get around that TIA Maryse As far as I know, you can't open an Excel password-protected file in OpenOffice. Get the sender to save the file again, without the password, and send you the new version - then it should open OK. Margot Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] OT: notebook keyboard fonts peeled off?
Fajar Priyanto wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sorry for the OOT guys, Have you ever experienced that your notebook's keyboard fonts peeled off? I mean, my notebook now has a blank tut for what was once an A, and now also N, now has become a mere period. I have complained to Acer, but they don't believe it. They said that the keyboard should OK for about 10 years' usage. I have a very old keyboard on my other computer where some of the key markings on the most frequently used keys were becoming illegible, so I used a permanent marker pen to reinstate them. As this sounds like a new-ish keyboard, it might be either a chemical reaction to your brand of soap, or rough skin on your fingertips. Try changing your soap, and using a decent hand cream - make sure the hand cream soaks in well before you start typing though, or your fingers will skid all over the place! Margot Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] postfix as local, firewall and rejected messages... long?
On Friday 28 May 2004 03:08, Terence Golightly wrote: List, Where do I begin? First was having no local mail delivery. I thought I'd install Postfix. So I went to Derek Jennings web site. Nice, but I just have a standalone machine with an ADSL connection. I read some of the docs setup some aliases for root and no go. I no get mail. My log files showed rejected messages and a running of the mailq command provided the following: 742CE99E64 342 Thu May 27 01:01:00 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (connect to myhouse.net[220.80.108.83]: Connection refused) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anyway to get local mail I discovered that port 25 needed to be opened on my firewall. So modified the shorewall rules file to permit a tcp connection on port 25 to the fw and into the machine: ### ### #ACTIONSOURCE DESTPROTO DESTSOURCE ORIGINALRATE USER/ # PORTPORT(S) DESTLIMIT GROUP ACCEPTnet fw icmp8 ACCEPTfw net icmp ACCEPTnet fw tcp 25 ACCEPTfw net tcp #LAST LINE -- ADD YOUR ENTRIES BEFORE THIS ONE -- DO NOT REMOV Hope this doesn't compromise my security? Well.. I finally started getting mail from the terminal and into evo 1.4 after finally figuring out delivery was local by mbox or /var/spool/mail/terryg. I still however get the above rejected messages and have tried to look at postfix docs, but there is alot there and I'm want to keep it simple right now. So how can I fix the rejected message and get back to that notion that my postfix mailer works? I have enclosed my /etc/postfix/main.cf file. Thanks for reading, Terry Hi Terry I'll revise my page to make it clear that Port 25 needs to be open in the firewall. I know others have been caught out like that. No it will not compromise your security. If you want to receive mails with SMTP then port 25 has to be open. As for your rejected message. Postfix needs to know the domains it has to receive mail for, and which networks/domains it should relay mail for. Take a look at the mydestination parameter. mydestination should list all the possible permutations of how mail could be addressed e.g. mydestination= localhost, tbox.myhouse.net, myhouse.net, $myhostname, localhost.$mydomain, $mydomain I am a bit confused by your post. You say messages are being delivered, yet you are getting rejected messages? Did you set up an alias for root in /etc/postfix/aliases (and run postalias afterwards) ? I wonder if it is just mail for root which is getting rejected. (Note: In postfix it is impossible to send mail to the normal root mail spoolfile because postfix runs 'chroot' and cannot see the root spoolfile.) If you look in /var/log/mail/info warnings and errors you should see more detailed messages of what is going wrong. HTH derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Blueetooth network with Mandrake how ??
Dear Friends, I want to make network connection between my Laptop and Desktop computer at home. They both have usb bluetooth dongle. How can I make connection between these Computers and how can I reach to Internet with my Desktop Computer through the Laptop 's modem.?? Any help is appreciated. Best Regards. H. ERTAS Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
RE: [newbie] Windows type domain with Mandrake 10
Sure, that would probably be helpful. Thanks, Yves -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stephen Kuhn Sent: May 27, 2004 5:21 PM To: Mandrake Newbie Subject: Re: [newbie] Windows type domain with Mandrake 10 On Thu, 2004-05-27 at 21:53, Yves Arsenault wrote: Hello, I was wondering if it was possible to run a Mandrake 10 server as a windows type domain controller for a local network? Yves Not that version matters, but my system here, a MDK 9.1+ setup with Samba 2.2.8a is an NT domain controller - very easily setup with SWAT via Webmin; are you seeking an smb.conf to figure it out? stephen kuhn - owner == illawarra computer services a kuhn media australia company http://kma.0catch.com -- * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents -- A [golf] ball hitting a tree shall be deemed not to have hit the tree. Hitting a tree is simply bad luck and has no place in a scientific game. The player should estimate the distance the ball would have traveled if it had not hit the tree and play the ball from there, preferably atop a nice firm tuft of grass. -- Donald A. Metz --- Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.691 / Virus Database: 452 - Release Date: 26/05/2004 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] OT: notebook keyboard fonts peeled off?
On Fri, 28 May 2004 14:24:10 +0700 Fajar Priyanto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sorry for the OOT guys, Have you ever experienced that your notebook's keyboard fonts peeled off? I mean, my notebook now has a blank tut for what was once an A, and now also N, now has become a mere period. I have complained to Acer, but they don't believe it. They said that the keyboard should OK for about 10 years' usage. - -- Fajar Priyanto | Reg'd Linux User #327841 | http://linux.arinet.org 14:20:31 up 6:19, Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (FiveStar) for i586 public key: https://www.arinet.org/fajar-pub.key -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAtukckp5CsIXuxqURAsElAKC7T5FKA8I7ijc2mNcPeJdpjee/1gCfY4OD 5iz50XDDkTIWC1KfaK6f7Nk= =CTYa -END PGP SIGNATURE- This keeps up and you'll be a touch typist. Worth a lot in today's business environ. Maybe you owe Acer? Lee Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Trashed Laptop
Hi All, I need some tech help. A friend of mine has had her Windows XP Laptop trashed by a number of viri and Trojans a so called friend sent her.They have smashed her Firewall,and killed her AV scanner.The effect is she can no longer boot up at all. Is there any way I can boot up her PC using MKD Move or Knoppix,and copy over the files on the machine,to my MDK only PC,so I can clean them and save them to disc?If the worse comes to the worse,would be possible to connect a USB printer and print them off?Does Ark do spilt Zip files over multiple floppies?Because that maybe an other answer to the problem. My PC has USB ports and a network card,I would prefer to use the USB,because I use the NIC to connect to the net using a cable modem.and I dont want to naff up MAC address for it. Drew Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Autostart of Network Drivers through ndiswrapper
I finally got my wireless linksys card working with ndiswrapper. My problem is that I have to set it up every time I login. I have the alias wlan0 ndiswrapper in /etc/modprobe.conf, and I setup an ifcfg-wlan0 in the network-scripts dir. After boot up I have to log in as root and do: modprobe ndiswrapper iwconfig wlan0 key restricted key here ifup wlan0 Its not that big of deal, but what am I missing that would do this for me? Thanks Jeff -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Blueetooth network with Mandrake how ??
On Friday 28 May 2004 11:58 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Friends, I want to make network connection between my Laptop and Desktop computer at home. They both have usb bluetooth dongle. How can I make connection between these Computers and how can I reach to Internet with my Desktop Computer through the Laptop 's modem.?? Here be dragons; bluetooth is still under development. However BlueZ is included in Mandrake 9.2 out of the box, and you don't *appear* to have to patch the kernel. Check out the TWiKi: http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/BlueTooth and then this link: http://bluez.sourceforge.net/contrib/HOWTO-PAN -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Trashed Laptop
On Friday 28 May 2004 5:34 pm, Drew Martin wrote: Hi All, I need some tech help. A friend of mine has had her Windows XP Laptop trashed by a number of viri and Trojans a so called friend sent her.They have smashed her Firewall,and killed her AV scanner.The effect is she can no longer boot up at all. Is there any way I can boot up her PC using MKD Move or Knoppix,and copy over the files on the machine,to my MDK only PC,so I can clean them and save them to disc?If the worse comes to the worse,would be possible to connect a USB printer and print them off?Does Ark do spilt Zip files over multiple floppies?Because that maybe an other answer to the problem. My PC has USB ports and a network card,I would prefer to use the USB,because I use the NIC to connect to the net using a cable modem.and I dont want to naff up MAC address for it. Drew I should work fine. Assuming that DHCP is done on the modem: Get a cheap ethernet hub, disconnect the modem from the outside world and plug both machines and the modem into the hub. Boot knoppix. If DHCP is done by the ISP: Get your machine up and running on the internet. Find it's IP address with ifconfig. Disconnect it from the modem and connect both machines to each other with a hub or cross-over ethernet lead. Boot knoppix on the failed machine and set its IP address to one on the same subnet as your machine. eg if your address is 192.168.1.1 choose 192.168.1.2. Using the USB is possible, but I don't know how and it probably requires more arcane fiddling. BTW, the MAC address is fixed in ROM on your NIC, and is eight bytes long, usually shown with colon separators. The IP address is the one you can foul up; it is four bytes separated by periods. -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] OT: notebook keyboard fonts peeled off?
On Fri, 2004-05-28 at 17:24, Fajar Priyanto wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sorry for the OOT guys, Have you ever experienced that your notebook's keyboard fonts peeled off? I mean, my notebook now has a blank tut for what was once an A, and now also N, now has become a mere period. I have complained to Acer, but they don't believe it. They said that the keyboard should OK for about 10 years' usage. What - you don't KNOW what keys are which? stephen kuhn - owner == illawarra computer services a kuhn media australia company http://kma.0catch.com -- * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents -- Philogyny recapitulates erogeny; erogeny recapitulates philogyny. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] how do I open....
On Fri, 2004-05-28 at 18:02, Margot wrote: M.Schild wrote: Are you sure this is an Excel file? IF it is really an Excel file, it should open with OpenOffice, BUT the .exe file extension is *not* an Excel file - it is a Windows executable (program) file! I suggest you double-check with the sender before attempting to open it... Ye it is an Excel file. it is a Self-extracting Archive .( thanks for the site) I decompressed it with Ark which showed an .xls file. When trying to open it with Open office I get: *this file is password protected* I don´t know how to get around that TIA Maryse As far as I know, you can't open an Excel password-protected file in OpenOffice. Get the sender to save the file again, without the password, and send you the new version - then it should open OK. Margot There are utilities to do this: http://lastbit.com/excel/default.asp ...else you can surf through www.astalabista.com and see if there's a free utility to take care of this issue... stephen kuhn - owner == illawarra computer services a kuhn media australia company http://kma.0catch.com -- * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents -- Please ignore previous fortune. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
RE: [newbie] Windows type domain with Mandrake 10
On Fri, 2004-05-28 at 21:11, Yves Arsenault wrote: Sure, that would probably be helpful. Thanks, Yves Bear in mind that you're going to have to create a group - for users that use this machine or have accounts on this machine - and sync them with the windows users. It ain't really that hard to get going - easier than created an NT domain in the first place. The attached smb.example will give you some hints. Simple stuff, really - and in using SWAT with Webmin, you can't go wrong. stephen kuhn - owner == illawarra computer services a kuhn media australia company http://kma.0catch.com -- * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents -- True to our past we work with an inherited, observed, and accepted vision of personal futility, and of the beauty of the world. -- David Mamet # Samba config file created using SWAT # from 0.0.0.0 (0.0.0.0) # Date: 2004/05/11 01:29:45 # Global parameters [global] workgroup = KMA netbios name = SERVER server string = SERVER security = DOMAIN encrypt passwords = Yes map to guest = Bad User log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m max log size = 50 socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 printcap name = cups domain logons = Yes os level = 65 domain master = Yes dns proxy = No valid users = @netshare printer admin = @adm printing = cups [homes] comment = Home Directories read only = No browseable = No [printers] comment = All Printers path = /var/spool/samba create mask = 0700 guest ok = Yes printable = Yes print command = lpr-cups -P %p -o raw %s -r # using client side printer drivers. browseable = No [print$] path = /var/lib/samba/printers write list = @adm root guest ok = Yes [pdf-generator] comment = PDF Generator (only valid users) path = /var/tmp write list = @netshare guest ok = Yes printable = Yes print command = /usr/share/samba/scripts/print-pdf %s ~%u //%L/%u %m %I %J [Public] comment = Public Share path = /public admin users = @netshare write list = @netshare force group = @netshare read only = No inherit permissions = Yes guest ok = Yes Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
RE: [newbie] Windows type domain with Mandrake 10
Thank you very much Stephen. The adventure begins. :-) YVes -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stephen Kuhn Sent: May 28, 2004 2:48 PM To: Mandrake Newbie Subject: RE: [newbie] Windows type domain with Mandrake 10 On Fri, 2004-05-28 at 21:11, Yves Arsenault wrote: Sure, that would probably be helpful. Thanks, Yves Bear in mind that you're going to have to create a group - for users that use this machine or have accounts on this machine - and sync them with the windows users. It ain't really that hard to get going - easier than created an NT domain in the first place. The attached smb.example will give you some hints. Simple stuff, really - and in using SWAT with Webmin, you can't go wrong. stephen kuhn - owner == illawarra computer services a kuhn media australia company http://kma.0catch.com -- * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents -- True to our past we work with an inherited, observed, and accepted vision of personal futility, and of the beauty of the world. -- David Mamet --- Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.692 / Virus Database: 453 - Release Date: 28/05/2004 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Trashed Laptop
On Sat, 2004-05-29 at 02:34, Drew Martin wrote: Hi All, I need some tech help. A friend of mine has had her Windows XP Laptop trashed by a number of viri and Trojans a so called friend sent her.They have smashed her Firewall,and killed her AV scanner.The effect is she can no longer boot up at all. Is there any way I can boot up her PC using MKD Move or Knoppix,and copy over the files on the machine,to my MDK only PC,so I can clean them and save them to disc?If the worse comes to the worse,would be possible to connect a USB printer and print them off?Does Ark do spilt Zip files over multiple floppies?Because that maybe an other answer to the problem. My PC has USB ports and a network card,I would prefer to use the USB,because I use the NIC to connect to the net using a cable modem.and I dont want to naff up MAC address for it. Yet another reason to have a Knoppix disk around! I use my Knoppix disk for just such reasons; I boot the customer's machine with it, reconfigure the networking stuff, use LinNeighborhood to connect to my domain and server, copy off the customer's data, then very nicely use my MDK 9.1 disk (in rescue mode) to wipe out the HD so that I can cleanly RE-create and format the partition for a re-install. Aside from that, depending on the partitions format (NTFS or VFAT32) you could use the Knoppix disk to locate the bugs and delete them - but that's heaps of work; better to just re-install. stephen kuhn - owner == illawarra computer services a kuhn media australia company http://kma.0catch.com -- * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents -- If you can't be good, be careful. If you can't be careful, give me a call. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Trashed Laptop
On Friday 28 May 2004 18:34, Drew Martin wrote: Hi All, I need some tech help. A friend of mine has had her Windows XP Laptop trashed by a number of viri and Trojans a so called friend sent her.They have smashed her Firewall,and killed her AV scanner.The effect is she can no longer boot up at all. Is there any way I can boot up her PC using MKD Move or Knoppix,and copy over the files on the machine,to my MDK only PC,so I can clean them and save them to disc?If the worse comes to the worse,would be possible to connect a USB printer and print them off?Does Ark do spilt Zip files over multiple floppies?Because that maybe an other answer to the problem. My PC has USB ports and a network card,I would prefer to use the USB,because I use the NIC to connect to the net using a cable modem.and I dont want to naff up MAC address for it. Drew Maybe I'm a little too simplistic here, but if there is enough space on her laptop, you could try to install - at least a minimal - Mandrake on it. I think it is possible to shrink even a NTFS partition. And if your friend did what my daughter did, namely bought her laptop with WinddowsXP pre-installed, chances are that there is an extra restore FAT32 partition (in M$ palor : D-drive) on it. If so, you can safely let Mandrake shrink that partition and then install a minimal Mandrake on the remaining space. From there, you could burn (it has a burner, right?) the personal files to CD. Finally, reinstall the WinXP, or dump it altogether. HTH Kaj Haulrich. -- * Sent from a 100 % Microsoft-free computer * * http://www.haulrich.net * * running Linux kernel 2.6.4 on Mandrake 10.0 * Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
RE: [newbie] Windows type domain with Mandrake 10
On Sat, 2004-05-29 at 03:53, Yves Arsenault wrote: Thank you very much Stephen. The adventure begins. :-) YVes Yves, I think you'll have fun once you realise how simple it really is; Samba is truly a saviour in as much as it can not only emulate an NT domain but control one better than Windows can. And the speed is awesome. Simplicity is key here - and I do advise that you get to know Webmin and SWAT well - they're your GUI friends - and if you look closely enough at the example configuration, it ain't really all that hard to figure out (and you can make changes on the fly without a reboot). stephen kuhn - owner == illawarra computer services a kuhn media australia company http://kma.0catch.com -- * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents -- O'Brian's Law: Everything is always done for the wrong reasons. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Trashed Laptop
On Sat, 2004-05-29 at 04:05, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Maybe I'm a little too simplistic here, but if there is enough space on her laptop, you could try to install - at least a minimal - Mandrake on it. I think it is possible to shrink even a NTFS partition. And if your friend did what my daughter did, namely bought her laptop with WinddowsXP pre-installed, chances are that there is an extra restore FAT32 partition (in M$ palor : D-drive) on it. If so, you can safely let Mandrake shrink that partition and then install a minimal Mandrake on the remaining space. From there, you could burn (it has a burner, right?) the personal files to CD. Finally, reinstall the WinXP, or dump it altogether. HTH Kaj Haulrich. Kaj, TOO MUCH WORK. K.I.S.S. Keep it simple, stupid (g) Use Knoppix to boot, connect to a network, copy the data to a machine on the network, then blow it out completely. Safer than trying to resize a partition, eh? stephen kuhn - owner == illawarra computer services a kuhn media australia company http://kma.0catch.com -- * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents -- One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say. -- Will Durant Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Trashed Laptop
On Friday 28 May 2004 20:15, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sat, 2004-05-29 at 04:05, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Maybe I'm a little too simplistic here, but if there is enough space on her laptop, you could try to install - at least a minimal - Mandrake on it. I think it is possible to shrink even a NTFS partition. And if your friend did what my daughter did, namely bought her laptop with WinddowsXP pre-installed, chances are that there is an extra restore FAT32 partition (in M$ palor : D-drive) on it. If so, you can safely let Mandrake shrink that partition and then install a minimal Mandrake on the remaining space. From there, you could burn (it has a burner, right?) the personal files to CD. Finally, reinstall the WinXP, or dump it altogether. HTH Kaj Haulrich. Kaj, TOO MUCH WORK. K.I.S.S. Keep it simple, stupid (g) Use Knoppix to boot, connect to a network, copy the data to a machine on the network, then blow it out completely. Safer than trying to resize a partition, eh? Abslutely right, Stephen. That is, if you have access to a server with sufficient space. And sufficient bandwith. Let us assume that our friend has, say 1 GB of data, then what ? And, if I remember correctly, you recently complained about dial-up as the only option down under, right ??? :-; Kaj Haulrich. -- * Sent from a 100 % Microsoft-free computer * * http://www.haulrich.net * * running Linux kernel 2.6.4 on Mandrake 10.0 * Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Trashed Laptop
On Sat, 2004-05-29 at 04:56, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Use Knoppix to boot, connect to a network, copy the data to a machine on the network, then blow it out completely. Safer than trying to resize a partition, eh? Abslutely right, Stephen. That is, if you have access to a server with sufficient space. And sufficient bandwith. Let us assume that our friend has, say 1 GB of data, then what ? And, if I remember correctly, you recently complained about dial-up as the only option down under, right ??? :-; Kaj Haulrich. LAN. Maybe I'm just lucky enough to have a LAN here; no dial-up necessary - just an extra cable plugged into the router/switch. stephen kuhn - owner == illawarra computer services a kuhn media australia company http://kma.0catch.com -- * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents -- Time to be aggressive. Go after a tattooed Virgo. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
RE: [newbie] Windows type domain with Mandrake 10
Cool. Thanks, I had already set up a couple of web servers and DNS servers, and I'm quite familiar with Webmin and have recently been much more comfortable with certain command line funtions. But I've never done anything with Samba. I can't wait to start. Yves -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stephen Kuhn Sent: May 28, 2004 3:09 PM To: Mandrake Newbie Subject: RE: [newbie] Windows type domain with Mandrake 10 On Sat, 2004-05-29 at 03:53, Yves Arsenault wrote: Thank you very much Stephen. The adventure begins. :-) YVes Yves, I think you'll have fun once you realise how simple it really is; Samba is truly a saviour in as much as it can not only emulate an NT domain but control one better than Windows can. And the speed is awesome. Simplicity is key here - and I do advise that you get to know Webmin and SWAT well - they're your GUI friends - and if you look closely enough at the example configuration, it ain't really all that hard to figure out (and you can make changes on the fly without a reboot). stephen kuhn - owner == illawarra computer services a kuhn media australia company http://kma.0catch.com -- * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents -- O'Brian's Law: Everything is always done for the wrong reasons. --- Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.692 / Virus Database: 453 - Release Date: 28/05/2004 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] application on internet explorer
Hi, I am trying to sell an application that runs on Internet Information Server of Microsoft. My problem is that this forces me to show it under Internet Explorer on my notebook and I am using MDK 10 official in it!.I have heard of wine or winexbut I am not an experienced user of linux yet to make it work. Other alternative is to install XP an share the disk with mandrake, but I really wanted to go for a real solution. Thanks! _ MSN Amor: busca tu ½ naranja http://latam.msn.com/amor/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Trashed Laptop
On Friday 28 May 2004 21:12, Stephen Kuhn wrote: snip LAN. Maybe I'm just lucky enough to have a LAN here; no dial-up necessary - just an extra cable plugged into the router/switch. /snip You lucky bastard ;-) Kaj Haulrich. -- * Sent from a 100 % Microsoft-free computer * * http://www.haulrich.net * * running Linux kernel 2.6.4 on Mandrake 10.0 * Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Fail to burn Data DVD:s
Hello. When I try to burn a Data DVD with K3b in Mandrake 10.0 It fails and it says: :-( Failed to change write speed: 8310-11080 Fatal error at startup: Invalid argument I get this debugging output. System --- K3b Version: 0.11.6cvs KDE Version: 3.2 BRANCH = 20040204 QT Version: 3.2.3 growisofs --- :-( Failed to change write speed: 8310-11080 growisofs comand: --- /usr/bin/growisofs -Z /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0/cd -use-the-force-luke=notray -use-the-force-luke=tty -use-the-force-luke=dao -speed=8 -gui -graft-points -V K3b data project -volset -A K3B THE CD KREATOR VERSION 0.11.6cvs (C) 2003 SEBASTIAN TRUEG AND THE K3B TEAM -P -p K3b - Version 0.11.6cvs -sysid LINUX -volset-size 1 -volset-seqno 1 -sort /tmp/kde-pedro/k3b0etIla.tmp -r -hide-list /tmp/kde-pedro/k3bJYERka.tmp -J -joliet-long -hide-joliet-list /tmp/kde-pedro/k3bMISFXa.tmp -udf -iso-level 2 -path-list /tmp/kde-pedro/k3blBJbma.tmp Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] application on internet explorer
Stephen... The problem is that the apliccation is based on asp encoding. And the libraries which were used are specific for Internet Explorer. The server is an HP 3000 NETSERVER running SQL ADVANCE SERVER. I have tried all those browser and none would comply. I hope I could be clearer... From: Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mandrake Newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] application on internet explorer Date: Sat, 29 May 2004 06:22:06 +1000 On Sat, 2004-05-29 at 06:13, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sat, 2004-05-29 at 05:21, di di wrote: Hi, I am trying to sell an application that runs on Internet Information Server of Microsoft. My problem is that this forces me to show it under Internet Explorer on my notebook and I am using MDK 10 official in it!.I have heard of wine or winexbut I am not an experienced user of linux yet to make it work. Other alternative is to install XP an share the disk with mandrake, but I really wanted to go for a real solution. Thanks! So you're saying that the application doesn't run on Mozilla, Netscape, Galeon, Opera or Konqueror, right? stephen kuhn - owner That's what it sounds like to me. I wonder if we can go to any Microsoft mailing lists and get help for Mandrake Linux. ;-) Yet another area where Linux is better. What is your question di di? - -- Brant Fitzsimmons Had to laugh at that one mate. I'm surprised that anyone is going to try to force an application only available through IE in the first place - I just didn't want to out and out flame the dude over that fact; it does amaze me, however, that there are so many folks that are bound and determined to create apps or websites that are soley IE compatible; are they living in Bill's pockets? stephen kuhn - owner == illawarra computer services a kuhn media australia company http://kma.0catch.com -- * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents -- Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing. -- Clive James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com _ Las mejores tiendas, los precios mas bajos, entregas en todo el mundo, YupiMSN Compras: http://latam.msn.com/compras/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] application on internet explorer
Stephen... The problem is that the apliccation is based on asp encoding. And the libraries which were used are specific for Internet Explorer. The server is an HP 3000 NETSERVER running SQL ADVANCE SERVER. I have tried all those browser and none would comply. I hope I could be clearer... From: Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mandrake Newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] application on internet explorer Date: Sat, 29 May 2004 06:22:06 +1000 On Sat, 2004-05-29 at 06:13, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sat, 2004-05-29 at 05:21, di di wrote: Hi, I am trying to sell an application that runs on Internet Information Server of Microsoft. My problem is that this forces me to show it under Internet Explorer on my notebook and I am using MDK 10 official in it!.I have heard of wine or winexbut I am not an experienced user of linux yet to make it work. Other alternative is to install XP an share the disk with mandrake, but I really wanted to go for a real solution. Thanks! So you're saying that the application doesn't run on Mozilla, Netscape, Galeon, Opera or Konqueror, right? stephen kuhn - owner That's what it sounds like to me. I wonder if we can go to any Microsoft mailing lists and get help for Mandrake Linux. ;-) Yet another area where Linux is better. What is your question di di? - -- Brant Fitzsimmons Had to laugh at that one mate. I'm surprised that anyone is going to try to force an application only available through IE in the first place - I just didn't want to out and out flame the dude over that fact; it does amaze me, however, that there are so many folks that are bound and determined to create apps or websites that are soley IE compatible; are they living in Bill's pockets? stephen kuhn - owner == illawarra computer services a kuhn media australia company http://kma.0catch.com -- * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents -- Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing. -- Clive James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com _ MSN Amor: busca tu ½ naranja http://latam.msn.com/amor/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] application on internet explorer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 di di wrote: Stephen... The problem is that the apliccation is based on asp encoding. And the libraries which were used are specific for Internet Explorer. The server is an HP 3000 NETSERVER running SQL ADVANCE SERVER. I have tried all those browser and none would comply. I hope I could be clearer... Where can we see this application? - -- Brant Fitzsimmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] - --- Linux user #322847 | Linux machine #207465 | http://counter.li.org/ 17:10:00 up 4 days, 15:15, 1 user, load average: 1.12, 0.96, 0.73 - --- Press on: nothing in the world can take the place of perseverance. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. -Calvin Coolidge -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFAt6vXDpzwx2t8E5gRAkZgAKCKdA9hlwOzTpXnRcGfGewEMA/Y6gCgkG8H /jZWqaVF6Q28wJs6ViQSYog= =Ovkg -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] application on internet explorer
di di wrote: Stephen... The problem is that the apliccation is based on asp encoding. And the libraries which were used are specific for Internet Explorer. The server is an HP 3000 NETSERVER running SQL ADVANCE SERVER. I have tried all those browser and none would comply. I hope I could be clearer... Just to clarify a few points for anyone possibly confused - the fact that it is running on Windows, IIS5, ASP, and/or MS SQL Server doesn't make the site IE only. There are two factors that affect browser compatibility - the first is the most common stumbling point, and that's how well the website has been designed. Just like someone can write a good or bad bit of HTML, the stumbling blocks are the same with ASP because at the end of the process, the content is being served as HTML. The other (much less common) factor is if http authentication is being used. I know Mozilla supports NTLM authentication now, but I don't know how well it supports it (and any other twisted authentication schemes that MS have thought up). Quote the URL, get people here to confirm that the site is IE only, then talk (nicely) to the people who run the site asking why their site won't work with any other web browsers. -- Mike Coppins [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mikeymike.org.uk/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Mandrake 10 - two IP addresses on one NIC?
How do I configure a NIC to have two IP addresses? The GUI-based configuration system only allows one per adapter seemingly. -- Mike Coppins [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mikeymike.org.uk/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Autostart of Network Drivers through ndiswrapper
On Friday 28 May 2004 18:50, Jeff wrote: I finally got my wireless linksys card working with ndiswrapper. My problem is that I have to set it up every time I login. I have the alias wlan0 ndiswrapper in /etc/modprobe.conf, and I setup an ifcfg-wlan0 in the network-scripts dir. After boot up I have to log in as root and do: modprobe ndiswrapper iwconfig wlan0 key restricted key here ifup wlan0 Its not that big of deal, but what am I missing that would do this for me? Thanks Jeff There's probably other ways to do things like that but here's a quick an dirty hack: Just put/add those commands in /etc/rc.d/rc.local by editing it ( add it at the end) and they'll get run at boot time. Good luck, HarM Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Trashed Laptop
On Friday 28 May 2004 21:16, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Friday 28 May 2004 21:36, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sat, 2004-05-29 at 05:26, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Friday 28 May 2004 21:12, Stephen Kuhn wrote: snip LAN. Maybe I'm just lucky enough to have a LAN here; no dial-up necessary - just an extra cable plugged into the router/switch. /snip You lucky bastard ;-) Kaj Haulrich. There's a fair few folks here that have a LAN at home - I thought you did as well...eh? No Stephen. Our humle habitat has but two stationary PC's and one laptop. We have a T1 connection to the internet with two dynamic IP addresses so we just use a switch. KISS. But we have access to quite some server space out there. But the original poster - I think it was Drew - mentioned nothing about servers and such, so that's why I proposed the resizing option with a minimal linux install. Wonder how he's doing ? Kaj Haulrich. Hi All, I'm getting my hands on the broken beast sometime in the next 12hrs,the owner lives over 200 miles away,but luckily coming to see the wife(Di) and over the holidays,so we could go out for some beer. But now looks like Laptop time while drinking what ever I can get my hands on. Any hows this for a bright idea,Dawn has only one file she realy care about,would in be possible to plug my cable modem into the laptop and email the file or FTP it to online account,such as Lycos,which she can access from XP if and when she gets it going. Drew Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Trashed Laptop
On Saturday 29 May 2004 00:32, Drew Martin wrote: Any hows this for a bright idea,Dawn has only one file she realy care about,would in be possible to plug my cable modem into the laptop and email the file or FTP it to online account,such as Lycos,which she can access from XP if and when she gets it going. Drew Why don't you just keep it for her once it's on your laptop? Or burn it to disc? Why put it up on the internet? Good luck, HarM Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Trashed Laptop
On Saturday 29 May 2004 00:32, Drew Martin wrote: snip Any hows this for a bright idea,Dawn has only one file she realy care about,would in be possible to plug my cable modem into the laptop and email the file or FTP it to online account,such as Lycos,which she can access from XP if and when she gets it going. Drew /snip Yes, but I understood that she couldn't get the XP laptop to boot at all ? - If she can, than what's the problem ? Kaj Haulrich. -- * Sent from a 100 % Microsoft-free computer * * http://www.haulrich.net * * running Linux kernel 2.6.4 on Mandrake 10.0 * Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] postfix as local, firewall and rejected messages... long?
On Fri, 2004-05-28 at 04:15, Derek Jennings wrote: snip Derek, I did a little more snooping. See below: Hi Terry I'll revise my page to make it clear that Port 25 needs to be open in the firewall. I know others have been caught out like that. No it will not compromise your security. If you want to receive mails with SMTP then port 25 has to be open. As for your rejected message. Postfix needs to know the domains it has to receive mail for, and which networks/domains it should relay mail for. Take a look at the mydestination parameter. mydestination should list all the possible permutations of how mail could be addressed e.g. mydestination= localhost, tbox.myhouse.net, myhouse.net, $myhostname, localhost.$mydomain, $mydomain [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# postconf | grep mydestination mydestination = $myhostname, localhost.$mydomain, localhost proxy_read_maps = $local_recipient_maps $mydestination $virtual_alias_maps $virtual_alias_domains $virtual_mailbox_maps $virtual_mailbox_domains $relay_recipient_maps $relay_domains $canonical_maps $sender_canonical_maps $recipient_canonical_maps $relocated_maps $transport_maps $mynetworks relay_domains = $mydestination Which file do I use to set this variable? I was using webmin to attempt administration. I am a bit confused by your post. You say messages are being delivered, yet you are getting rejected messages? I am getting mail from the local system saying that the message was rejected. Did you set up an alias for root in /etc/postfix/aliases (and run postalias afterwards) ? Yes. I wonder if it is just mail for root which is getting rejected. (Note: In postfix it is impossible to send mail to the normal root mail spoolfile because postfix runs 'chroot' and cannot see the root spoolfile.) If you look in /var/log/mail/info warnings and errors you should see more detailed messages of what is going wrong. May 28 17:59:07 tbox postfix/qmgr[12289]: 742CE99E64: from=[EMAIL PROTECTED], size=342, nrcpt=1 (queue active) May 28 17:59:07 tbox postfix/smtp[8794]: connect to myhouse.net[220.80.108.83]: Connection refused (port 25) the mydestination variable should mention this, shouldn't it? Thanks, Terry Terry Golightly ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... Pittsburgh, Pa Mandrake Linux release 10.0 (Official) for i586 kernel 2.6.3-9mdk-i686-up-4GB 18:26:43 up 2 days, 1:07, 3 users, load average: 0.17, 0.24, 0.12 The time spent on any item of the agenda [of a finance committee] will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved. -- C.N. Parkinson # Default aliases file for postfix # # this file should be in /etc or in /etc/postfix but if you want it in # /etc/postfix you'll have to adjust your /etc/postfix/main.cf file accordingly # # Aliases in this file will NOT be expanded in the header from # mail, but WILL be visible over networks or from /bin/mail. # # Following alias is required by the mail protocol, RFC 822 (and by RFC2142) # Set it to the address of a HUMAN who deals with this system's mail problems. # # For various security reasons, postfix WILL NOT deliver mail as root, so # ensure that the root alias is aliased to a HUMAN user, as otherwise # mail may get delivered to the $default_privs user (nobody). postmaster: root # Many mailers use this address to represent the empty SMTP return # path MAILER-DAEMON: postmaster # Common aliases for system accounts. bin:root daemon: root games: root ingres: root nobody: root system: root toor: root foo:root falken: root # Well-known aliases. admin: root manager:root dumper: root operator: root # traps to catch security attacks decode: root moof: root moog: root # The following aliases are required by RFC 2142 info: staff marketing: staff sales: staff support:staff # Standard aliases also defined by RFC 2142 abuse: postmaster # reports of network infrastructure difficulties noc:root # address to report secuirty problems security: root # DNS administrator (DNS soa records should use this) hostmaster: root # Usenet news service administrator news: usenet usenet: root # http/web service administrator www:webmaster webmaster: root # UUCP service administrator uucp: root # FTP administrator (especially anonymouse FTP) ftp:root # Commonly used group aliases: # staff: postmaster office: postmaster all:postmaster tech: postmaster ops:postmaster # Person who should get root's mail. This alias # must exist. # CHANGE THIS LINE to an account of a HUMAN root: terryg # Note to the user: You must create the alias above! # The root alias *must* exist under postfix because # postfix runs as a non-privileged user and cannot # touch a spool file which is UID/GID
Re: [newbie] Trashed Laptop
On Friday 28 May 2004 23:56, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Saturday 29 May 2004 00:32, Drew Martin wrote: snip Any hows this for a bright idea,Dawn has only one file she realy care about,would in be possible to plug my cable modem into the laptop and email the file or FTP it to online account,such as Lycos,which she can access from XP if and when she gets it going. Drew /snip Yes, but I understood that she couldn't get the XP laptop to boot at all ? - If she can, than what's the problem ? Kaj Haulrich. Hi All This was for when she has reformatted the laptop,or she could download it off the net at work. Drew Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] postfix as local, firewall and rejected messages... long?
On Friday 28 May 2004 23:42, Terence Golightly wrote: SNIP Which file do I use to set this variable? I was using webmin to attempt administration. It is in /etc/postfix/main.cf but you can use webminGeneralOptions'What domains to receive mail for' May 28 17:59:07 tbox postfix/qmgr[12289]: 742CE99E64: from=[EMAIL PROTECTED], size=342, nrcpt=1 (queue active) May 28 17:59:07 tbox postfix/smtp[8794]: connect to myhouse.net[220.80.108.83]: Connection refused (port 25) the mydestination variable should mention this, shouldn't it? Yes Thanks, Terry derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Help can't get root access - am I buggered now??!! :-(
Thursday, May 27, 2004, 11:50:42 PM, you wrote: Robert Walker wrote: Hello all, I was trying to increase the security of my Linux box (famous last words). I am running Mandrake 9.2 set for console login (run level 3). I was reading an article about stopping root logins for Red Hat Linux (v8.0)... Decided to follow the suggestions. This turned out to be a really bad move :-) Anyhow I am now in the situation where I have ended up with: /etc/securetty which is blank (dumb) /etc/ssh/sshd_configwhich disallows root logins (good) I have KDE, X and tightvnc installed but I am not currently using them. I can't 'su' root to execute a command/change to root or login as root either with a remote secure shell or a local shell!! I just get the message: This account is currently not available. So I can't even copy the old securetty~ file back... Do I need to reinstall everything again (would not be fun given the amount of hassle I had setting it all up - especially the driver for the PCI ADSL modem and kernel customisations) and start from scratch?? Is there any other way of getting root access apart from login and su?? Is there anyway to boot from a CD to get root access back?? Or some other solution (possibly mounting the hard disk on another box with Linux installed)?? I usualy keep on of the floppy or CD mini-distributions around for things like this. The other option is to boot by feeding the kernel the option init=/bin/bash. (append=init=/bin/bash) This will boot you directly to the bash shell, bypassing most of the security of the system. You will want to reboot after fixing things. Mikkel Hi Mikkel and Derek, Duh I am so stupid!! Of course should of though of Knoppix!! I was all set to physically take the hard disk out and mount it on another machine... :-) Found my downloaded copy lying 'round didn't work (I hadn't got around to trying it out yet) but thats not a problem with 2mbit D/L ADSL :-) All I had to do was log in as root in Knoppix. Mounted the IDE harddisk as R/W. Changed back the /etc/passwd and /etc/securetty files (I had messed up) to allow access to the root account. Rebooted into MDK 9.2... Sorted!! Root access is working again. Cheers guys. Really appreciate it!! -- Best regards, Robertmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] application on internet explorer
On Friday 28 May 2004 20:21, di di wrote: Hi, I am trying to sell an application that runs on Internet Information Server of Microsoft. My problem is that this forces me to show it under Internet Explorer on my notebook and I am using MDK 10 official in it!.I have heard of wine or winexbut I am not an experienced user of linux yet to make it work. Other alternative is to install XP an share the disk with mandrake, but I really wanted to go for a real solution. Thanks! If you are desperate to run Internet Explorer then $40 will get you Codeweavers Office. It is a version of Wine with a real easy installer for Windows apps. It runs IE6SP1 perfectly. www.codeweavers.com derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] postfix as local, firewall and rejected messages... long?
Derek, Thanks again. I'll fiddle some more with it tonight and let the list know my results. Terry Terry Golightly ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... Pittsburgh, Pa Mandrake Linux release 10.0 (Official) for i586 kernel 2.6.3-9mdk-i686-up-4GB 19:44:21 up 2 days, 2:25, 2 users, load average: 0.12, 0.21, 0.17 Real computer scientists despise the idea of actual hardware. Hardware has limitations, software doesn't. It's a real shame that Turing machines are so poor at I/O. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] recieving 56K dial up connections
Can anyone tell me if it's possible to configure my MDK 10.0 machine to mimick an ISP's behaviour and recieve a dial up connection request with my external modem, then sharing my LAN internet connection with this machine. I use MDK on my test computer at work, it is on the shop LAN and we are soon to install satellite broadband on our network. This will be great for getting large winblows drivers and burning them to disk, but for some things the customers computer needs to be connected to the 'net itself. Currently this ties up an additional phone, but If I could get them to dial up my machine (Phone line running direct from modem to modem) and share the net this way things would be much quicker and easier. -Aidan Holmes. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] application on internet explorer
On Sat, 2004-05-29 at 06:54, di di wrote: Stephen... The problem is that the apliccation is based on asp encoding. And the libraries which were used are specific for Internet Explorer. The server is an HP 3000 NETSERVER running SQL ADVANCE SERVER. I have tried all those browser and none would comply. I hope I could be clearer... Nah, y'all right. You couldn't be more clear. I just get upset with how so many developers and businesses focus on a Microsoft solution without even thinking about those in the real world that don't use Microsoft applications or products - or those that prefer other browsers instead of Internet Explorer. Many people on this list have tried to access their banks via the web only to find that the bank's site is IE specific. It's almost a prejudice in a manner. Using java or php or perl is more cross platform and there are many developer's turning away from the Microsoft solution in order to grasp a larger audience and user base. Just IMO I tend to bash/lash out about Internet Explorer proprietary sites or applications - nothing against you, right? BTW, you can use Crossover Office to get IE working properly. stephen kuhn - owner == illawarra computer services a kuhn media australia company http://kma.0catch.com -- * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents -- When God saw how faulty was man He tried again and made woman. As to why he then stopped there are two opinions. One of them is woman's. -- DeGourmont Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
