Re: [newbie] changing back to kde
I have already tried running "setup", but I get a "command not found" error message when I try. Bruce Go to a terminal either in root or su and type "setup" without quotes. Then go to desktop configuration and choose the one you want - Original Message - From: Bruce Endries [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, May 13, 2000 10:13 PM Subject: [newbie] changing back to kde I re-installed Mandrake 7.0-2 today, and found that somehow I had configured X to start up with gnome. I want the kde desktop. Is there an easy way to change it to kde? Thanks, Bruce Endries Bruce Endries Consulting (607) 433-2677 _ NetZero - Defenders of the Free World Click here for FREE Internet Access and Email http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html Bruce Endries Bruce Endries Consulting (607) 433-2677
Re: [newbie] cable modem
I use Linux with a cable modem on RoadRunner, and it works great. Why don't you try this: Run LinuxConf. Go to Networking, then to basic host info. Then select the tab for your network card (eth0). Click on the optin for DHCP. Back out of LinuxConf, activating your changes. You may have to reboot, I don't know. That's ALL I have to do to make RoadRunner work with Linux. Maybe it will work for you. It's worth a try. Good Luck! Jacob Aaron Holbrook wrote: well I just called them again to try and get the information. They said that they cannot give it out because it changes all the time and they cannot assign a "static address" to me. I ran netcfg and set my eth0 to active, saved, closed the window and tried to ping. It didn't work so i went back into netcfg and my eth0 was inactive again.
Re: [newbie] Samba
I've seen the same thing many times. Here are some suggestions: 1. Make sure you have a linux username and password that exactly matches your windows username and password. 2. Make sure that you have a samba share that is useable by the particular user. 3. Make sure that you have the samba share configured in smb.conf for the particular user, or make it a public share (writable). 4. Make sure smb.conf is configured to use encrypted passwords. 5. Make sure you add the linux/windows user to the encrypted password file by using the command: smbpasswd -a XX where XX is the linux/windows username. You will be prompted for the password. Then try it again. Bruce Date sent: Fri, 19 Nov 1999 17:23:31 -0600 (CST) From: David van Balen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: [newbie] Samba Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Can you log in as your unprivileged user? If so, your problem is probably that you aren't allowing guest logins to your share (you can do this by adding "guest ok" or something like that to the share). Also, check which user account you have set as your Samba guest account. DvB On Fri, 19 Nov 1999, Gerry Doyon wrote: Sounds like an "encrypted password" problem. I bet when you click on the sahre in Network Neighborhood it asks for a password for the a share with "$" in it. If so, you must enable password encryption in your Samba setup. Keith wrote: Hi all, I seem to have Samba up and running after many days of pulling my hair out,and now have another problem.I can see my 2 windows machines and my linux files (i am using LinNeighborhood) and can mount and use the windoze file systems no problem.Now on my windoze boxes i can see the linux box but cannot access it,its asking for a password and i cant for the life of me find out where to put this password.Swat has no offering for a password when i set up my shared linux files.Any suggestions welcome. Thanks -- Keith
[newbie] Use of Mandrake as a server platform
Greetings all; I have been playing with Mandrake at home for a while now, and am considering introducing it at work for use as a fileserver platform for a small (30 or so machines) fileserver using Samba. The one thing that I am concerned about is doing backups. I currently back up about 4GB of data to tape every night, and I'd like to know if anyone out there has a suggestion as to what kind of program to use to do this task. I occasionally need to restore a file or group of files. Is TAR up to a task like this? Is there another program I should be looking at? Thanks in advance. Bruce Endries Bruce Endries Bruce Endries Consulting (607) 433-2677
[newbie] iso CD image
Amidst all the problems you guys are handling, I thought I would just let you know that I downloaded the Mandrake distribution CD-ROM image from ftp.cs.univ-paris8.fr, wrote it to a CD, and successfully installed Mandrake on the first try. This is a great idea, and I hope you continue it as versions go on... Thank you, Bruce Endries Bruce Endries Consulting (607) 433-2677
