Re: [newbie] samba wizard
On Apr 7, 2005 8:54 AM, Isak Lyberth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Where do i find the samba wisard that is shown on the screenshots on mandrakelinux.com? http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/10.1/features/8.php3 i can't seem to find it. Regards Isak Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com You need to install drakwizard - urpmi drakwizard -- Christopher Taylor - Registered Linux User #383327 If this message is sent to a mailing list please 'Reply to List' or re-write the To field. This will save on a lot of duplicate emails going out. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Opportunity to plug OOo at interview
On Apr 5, 2005 1:21 PM, H.J.Bathoorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 05 April 2005 19:14, Aron Smith wrote: It's better at opening *some* Word files than Word is OOo and Word treat whitespace differently.whatch out for that on large docs.pdf is the solution. -- 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 Doesn't OOo export to PDF? If so that can be a big plus on its own. -- Christopher Taylor - Registered Linux User #383327 If this message is sent to a mailing list please 'Reply to List' or re-write the To field. This will save on a lot of duplicate emails going out. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10.2
On Apr 3, 2005 6:52 AM, Elwyn York [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 03 Apr 2005 05:53, Dennis Myers wrote: I am debating whether to upgrade to 10.1 or wait for 10.2 I would install 10.1. I tried out the beta for 10.2 and there were some definite issues. Granted, I did an upgrade and not a clean install, but... The main problem that I had regarded installing packages. Many of the packages wouldn't install because they required older dependancies. 10.1 had been very good for me. With the help of this list, I have the most stable system I've had in 14 years. -- Christopher Taylor - Registered Linux User #383327 If this message is sent to a mailing list please 'Reply to List' or re-write the To field. This will save on a lot of duplicate emails going out. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Cannot access the archives
I have not been able to access the archives today. I s there something that I have wrong? I am using the URL http://archives.mandrakelinux.com The operation is always timing out. Thanks. -- Christopher Taylor - Registered Linux User #383327 If this message is sent to a mailing list please 'Reply to List' or re-write the To field. This will save on a lot of duplicate emails going out. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] To Twiki Editors, Welcome to Newbie Manager and List-Members.
On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 07:38:20 -0500, Mr. Geek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Over time, like others, I have been copying/pasting a variety of tidbits of info and useful command fragments from this list, into a text file, which I keep handy for reference purposes. Many are items which I only need once in a 'Blue Moon', while others are in my text file for quick pasting into a root shell. I keep an open forum on my website where I post these tidbits. I have not posted recently because my system has become quite stable and is almost where I want it. All I need now is to figure out how to get KDevelop to compile Java :) I looked at the Twkiki, but found it somewhat difficult to find what I was looking for. I think that the recurring newsletter is a good idea. Even if it is static (no new content added, just the same mail each time), there are times where we will forget something and that email will really help out. I would suggest things such as Easy Urpmi and logging in as su. Some of the simplest things have made the biggest difference to me. -- Christopher Taylor - Registered Linux User #383327 If this message is sent to a mailing list please 'Reply to List' or re-write the To field. This will save on a lot of duplicate emails going out. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Attempting upgrade to 10.2 beta
I am debating whether or not to upgrade to the 10.2 beta. Primarily the updates in KDE are appealing and some of the others as well. I know that I can get the iso's via bittorrent. Once burnt, how do I go about doing the upgrade? My main concern making sure that I don't lose any data. I can certainly backup my home directory to cd, but if I have to setup the users again then the ids will be wrong. Thanks in advance. -- Christopher Taylor - Registered Linux User #383327 If this message is sent to a mailing list please 'Reply to List' or re-write the To field. This will save on a lot of duplicate emails going out. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Attempting upgrade to 10.2 beta
On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 19:12:46 +, Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 21 Mar 2005 18:10, Christopher Taylor wrote: I am debating whether or not to upgrade to the 10.2 beta. Primarily the updates in KDE are appealing and some of the others as well. I know that I can get the iso's via bittorrent. Once burnt, how do I go about doing the upgrade? My main concern making sure that I don't lose any data. I can certainly backup my home directory to cd, but if I have to setup the users again then the ids will be wrong. Thanks in advance. Christopher, from this I take it that you don't have your /home on a separate partition? We generally recommend having a separate partition because any reinstall or upgrade can leave that partition alone, so there's no possibility of losing data. If you have any spare space, make a new partition and get all your /home copied onto it. I seem to recall people saying that if you create a partition in Mandrake Control Center and say that you want it to be mounted as /home it will ask if you want your data copying across. Perhaps someone could confirm this? Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/) Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels My home is on a searate partition. I am just unfamiliar with the upgrade process. I started with a blank machine and let Mandrake do the rest. At installation, it created the 5 gig root, 1 gig swap, and 24 gig home partitions. I am not sure what files get upgraded and what files get left alone. -- Christopher Taylor - Registered Linux User #383327 If this message is sent to a mailing list please 'Reply to List' or re-write the To field. This will save on a lot of duplicate emails going out. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Attempting upgrade to 10.2 beta
On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 20:42:54 +, Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 21 Mar 2005 20:12, Christopher Taylor wrote: My home is on a searate partition. I am just unfamiliar with the upgrade process. I started with a blank machine and let Mandrake do the rest. At installation, it created the 5 gig root, 1 gig swap, and 24 gig home partitions. I am not sure what files get upgraded and what files get left alone. In any future install, if you select 'use existing partitions' it will overwrite your root partition (it formats it first) but it will only format your /home directory if you choose to let it. I'd say that 5GB is not very big, though, so in a future install, if you have any spare space create another partition, say 4GB, for /usr. That should take some of the strain off it. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/) Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels Should I suggest that for future installs on the twiki? I also thought that the default for root seemed small. -- Christopher Taylor - Registered Linux User #383327 If this message is sent to a mailing list please 'Reply to List' or re-write the To field. This will save on a lot of duplicate emails going out. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] 2 questions on Mandrake Move 2.0
I downloaded and burned the iso image for Mandrake Move 2.0 last night. Everything runs fine, except that it takes considerable time for Konqueror to find websites. Any ideas? Also, I have a 256 meg usb jump drive. Is ther a way, and if so how, to save my settings on it so that I don't have to setup a new user each time, etc. The reason that I am doing this is that I travel and the laptop is issued by the company and I am not supposed to have any non-work related stuff on it. Running through Mandrake and the jump drive would allow me to stayed synced with my home mail and web development without fear of interfering with the laptop. The laptop uses ntfs, so its write protected under Mandrke Move. Any help would be appreciated. -- Christopher Taylor - Registered Linux User #383327 If this message is sent to a mailing list please 'Reply to List' or re-write the To field. This will save on a lot of duplicate emails going out. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Possible alternative format for forum
On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 10:36:04 -0600, Mikkel L. Ellertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Julie Sloan wrote: On Thursday 17 March 2005 09:45 am, SOTL wrote: On Thursday 17 March 2005 11:25, Josenildo Marques wrote: Third-world dial-up connection...? Does that mean that people in the so called third world only have that type of connection ? Isn't it a bit of prejudice on your side ? TTFN Hell man I live in a major US city with Verizon as the phone company and earthlink as the ISP and I only have 4th world service. Would love for Verizon to provide at least 3rd world but the chances of that are null and less than negative infinity. Heh. I went from 36.6Kbps in a major US city to 56Kbps in a minor US town and consider myself blessed. It'll be twenty years before we get DSL. :-\ When I got my house, I had two phone lines put in right away so I would have one for the computer. This was before DSL or Cable Internet was available. The phone company had a shortage of lines in the area, so they used this box that multiplexed two phone lines on one pair of wires. The best I could do was 26.6Kps. You would not believe how happy I was when Telosity started offering DSL in my area. It was worth all the trouble I had to go through to actualy get it installed. (I also loved that they gave you a static IP, and would let you run servers.) Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Just to get back on topic slightly. Gmail does a really good job of keeping the threads together and displaying as a single html page as specified in the original email. Being free and having very few graphics enables it to be quite speedy on almost any connection. My suggestion is to find someone with a gmail account and see about getting an invite. -- Christopher Taylor - Registered Linux User #383327 If this message is sent to a mailing list please 'Reply to List' or re-write the To field. This will save on a lot of duplicate emails going out. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] HP 8450 Printer Driver
On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 22:01:24 +, Charles Rodgers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, First post :-) I've recently started the transition from XP to Mandrake and things are generally going very well. Mandrake is great !! However, inevitably help is needed. Is it possible to get a Linux driver for the HP Photosmart 8450 ? Could someone please tell me where and how. Charles Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com try this site:http://hpinkjet.sourceforge.net/ -- Christopher Taylor - Registered Linux User #383327 If this message is sent to a mailing list please 'Reply to List' or re-write the To field. This will save on a lot of duplicate emails going out. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Bittorrent setup {FIXED]
On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 17:36:27 +, Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 10 Mar 2005 17:21, Derek Jennings wrote: On Thursday 10 March 2005 14:03, Christopher Taylor wrote: Some of the sites that I am looking at only have downloads via bittorent. Can someone explain what this is and how it is setup? Thanks. Bittorrent is a peer2peer file transfer protocol that is especially good for big files such as iso images. When you join a torrent you download fragments of the file from many people at once and simultaneously you upload to other people. To use bittorrent install bittorrent and bittorrent-gui packages Also make sure the mozplugger package is installed if it is not already. (Restart your browser after installing mozplugger - mozplugger tells your system how to handle most browser file types. For a torrent file it will open up btdownloadgui.py for you) You should then be able to join a torrent just by clicking on the 'seed' file displayed on web pages with firefox/mozilla/konqueror/opera If that does not work then save the torrent seed file to disc and then open MenuInternetFileTransferBittorrentGUI and select the downloaded file. For Bittorrent to work you MUST open your firewall to permit uploading to other users. Bittorrent does not permit 'leeching'. (Taking without giving) In your firewall open ports 6881to 6889 and 6969 If you have an external firewall then forward those ports to your Linux computer. See http://www.bittorrent.com/introduction.html It's also important to configure your upload/download, and don't forget to leave your connection live for a period after you have finished, to help those just starting a download. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/) Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Everything worked fine, for the most part. I tried to download the privateer remake which had a stated file size of 180.5 meg. Bitttorrent ran at ~160 kps up until that point where the percentage went to 99% downloaded. The speed dropped to ~30 kps and kept downloading. There were uploads at a speed of 1 kps the entire time. I went out for the evening with the download still going (200 meg and still going). When I got home the download was complete at 360 meg. The game installed and now I have to learn how to play it. I followed these steps: 1. urpmi bittorrent 2. urpmi bittorent-gui 3. urpmi mozplugger (Failed on real-codec dependancy of mplayer) 4. Went to website of download and clicked on file. 5. Firefox asked to open of save. Open was with bittorent gui so I chose that. Thanks for all of your help. -- Christopher Taylor - Registered Linux User #383327 If this message is sent to a mailing list please 'Reply to List' or re-write the To field. This will save on a lot of duplicate emails going out. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Canon Powershot A85
On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 09:00:54 -0600, Mikkel L. Ellertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mr. Geek wrote: Hey Gang. I'm curious to know how I can go about detecting my digital camera (See Subject above) which is connected to one of my USB 2.0 ports. Mandrake sees the USB ports but not the camera. Digikam and GPhoto seem to be able to work with this camera (It's listed in their respective camera lists, but since it's not being seen on the USB port, nothing is able to connect to the camera. If it helps, Hotplug is installed and running, and my USB mouse has been running for months without a hitch. What's the best way to mount a USB device, in which standard folder, and other than the standard USB Kernel modules, is there anything else needed? FYI, I'm running Mandrake 10.1, kernel 2.6.8.1-12mdk. Are you sure it is not being seen? I have not looked up the camera, but most newer cameras show up as a storage device. Hotplug may have already mounted it as /mnt/camera or /mnt/removable. What does the output of lsusb show? Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com I just purchased a Kodak camera and it was not in the list for didkam, so I looked under the settings where the list of cameras was and saw an auto detect button. This came up with a generic usb camera. I have been using this with complete success. The process isn't automated like the Windows software, but I have a lot more control over what gets downloaded and where. HTH. -- Christopher Taylor - Registered Linux User #383327 If this message is sent to a mailing list please 'Reply to List' or re-write the To field. This will save on a lot of duplicate emails going out. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Bittorrent setup
Some of the sites that I am looking at only have downloads via bittorent. Can someone explain what this is and how it is setup? Thanks. -- Christopher Taylor - Registered Linux User #383327 If this message is sent to a mailing list please 'Reply to List' or re-write the To field. This will save on a lot of duplicate emails going out. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Strange occurance with Firefox install FIXED
On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 17:17:54 +, Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 09 March 2005 14:53, Christopher Taylor wrote: On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 14:12:17 +, Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 09 March 2005 13:28, Christopher Taylor wrote: I had to re-install Mandrake 10.1 due to some stupidity on my parrt. Before I did I backed up my home folder onto CD. After re-installing, I installed firefox and thunderbird with urpmi. I also restored the home folder from the CD. I saw immediately that the firefox was an older rev tried to use the version of firefox in my home folder (from the CD backup). It worked fine, until I tried to save bookmarks. The bookmarks stayed in the list until I shutdown firefox. I tried uninstalling both the older copy via the control panel and deleting the folder that had my backup copy. I then installed 1.0 via the installer. STill the same problem. I did find out that if I logged in to a root console and started firefox that way the bookmarks persisted. It was only starting from my account. I was able to solve the problem by removing the folders, in a root night commander console deleted the mozilla in my root folder and my account folder, the downloading 1.0.1 and installing to a folder in my home. Now I can save bookmarks. Tonight, I am going to try and go through the same procedure with Thunderbird which does not save my accounts. Take a look at the ownership of the files you have restored from the CD. Files contain attributes to determine their ownership and permissions. The ownership attribute is the UID:GID numbers (user and group IDs) If you added your users in a different sequence when you did the reinstall you will have a different UID from last time and you will not 'own' the files you backed up from CD. You will have to be root user to change the ownerships derek -- Derek, That makes sense. The name was the same. I couldn't tell that there were different IDs from the terminal. I did try changing the ownerships at one point, but it was only for the sortcut on the desktop. From the command line ls -ln will list the UID/GID numbers 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 Clearing the profiles, uninstalling, and then re-installing fixed the problem. -- Christopher Taylor - Registered Linux User #383327 If this message is sent to a mailing list please 'Reply to List' or re-write the To field. This will save on a lot of duplicate emails going out. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Strange occurance with Firefox install
I had to re-install Mandrake 10.1 due to some stupidity on my parrt. Before I did I backed up my home folder onto CD. After re-installing, I installed firefox and thunderbird with urpmi. I also restored the home folder from the CD. I saw immediately that the firefox was an older rev tried to use the version of firefox in my home folder (from the CD backup). It worked fine, until I tried to save bookmarks. The bookmarks stayed in the list until I shutdown firefox. I tried uninstalling both the older copy via the control panel and deleting the folder that had my backup copy. I then installed 1.0 via the installer. STill the same problem. I did find out that if I logged in to a root console and started firefox that way the bookmarks persisted. It was only starting from my account. I was able to solve the problem by removing the folders, in a root night commander console deleted the mozilla in my root folder and my account folder, the downloading 1.0.1 and installing to a folder in my home. Now I can save bookmarks. Tonight, I am going to try and go through the same procedure with Thunderbird which does not save my accounts. -- Christopher Taylor - Registered Linux User #383327 If this message is sent to a mailing list please 'Reply to List' or re-write the To field. This will save on a lot of duplicate emails going out. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Strange occurance with Firefox install
On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 14:12:17 +, Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 09 March 2005 13:28, Christopher Taylor wrote: I had to re-install Mandrake 10.1 due to some stupidity on my parrt. Before I did I backed up my home folder onto CD. After re-installing, I installed firefox and thunderbird with urpmi. I also restored the home folder from the CD. I saw immediately that the firefox was an older rev tried to use the version of firefox in my home folder (from the CD backup). It worked fine, until I tried to save bookmarks. The bookmarks stayed in the list until I shutdown firefox. I tried uninstalling both the older copy via the control panel and deleting the folder that had my backup copy. I then installed 1.0 via the installer. STill the same problem. I did find out that if I logged in to a root console and started firefox that way the bookmarks persisted. It was only starting from my account. I was able to solve the problem by removing the folders, in a root night commander console deleted the mozilla in my root folder and my account folder, the downloading 1.0.1 and installing to a folder in my home. Now I can save bookmarks. Tonight, I am going to try and go through the same procedure with Thunderbird which does not save my accounts. Take a look at the ownership of the files you have restored from the CD. Files contain attributes to determine their ownership and permissions. The ownership attribute is the UID:GID numbers (user and group IDs) If you added your users in a different sequence when you did the reinstall you will have a different UID from last time and you will not 'own' the files you backed up from CD. You will have to be root user to change the ownerships derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Derek, That makes sense. The name was the same. I couldn't tell that there were different IDs from the terminal. I did try changing the ownerships at one point, but it was only for the sortcut on the desktop. -- Christopher Taylor - Registered Linux User #383327 If this message is sent to a mailing list please 'Reply to List' or re-write the To field. This will save on a lot of duplicate emails going out. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Using Mandrake 10.1 as DHCP Server
I currently have a Lynksys Router setup to handle the DHCP on a 192.168.4.0/255.255.255.0 network. The computers are setup with 192.168.4.1 (the address of the router) as the gateway. I tried setting up DHCP on Mandrake and disabled on the router. The Mandrake box could access the internet, but the remaining Windows boxes could not. The gateway on the Windows boxes was set to 192.168.4.111 which is the static IP of the Mandrake box. I tries setting up the Mandrake box as a proxy (I've been using drakwizard to set these up) using squid, but the the Windows box still could not access the internet. I did change the proxy settings on the Windows box to use ip 192.168.4.111 and the port suggested by drakwizard. What is it that I need to do? My goal is to have everything routed through the Mandrake box under one firewall. Eventually I would like to expose the server to the outside world (using dynamic dhcp) so that I can do some remote access when I travel (ftp mainly). Any help would be greatly appreciated. -- Christopher Taylor - Registered Linux User #383327 If this message is sent to a mailing list please 'Reply to List' or re-write the To field. This will save on a lot of duplicate emails going out. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Using Mandrake 10.1 as DHCP Server
On Tue, 8 Mar 2005 15:06:35 +, Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 08 March 2005 14:44, Christopher Taylor wrote: I currently have a Lynksys Router setup to handle the DHCP on a 192.168.4.0/255.255.255.0 network. The computers are setup with 192.168.4.1 (the address of the router) as the gateway. I tried setting up DHCP on Mandrake and disabled on the router. The Mandrake box could access the internet, but the remaining Windows boxes could not. The gateway on the Windows boxes was set to 192.168.4.111 which is the static IP of the Mandrake box. I tries setting up the Mandrake box as a proxy (I've been using drakwizard to set these up) using squid, but the the Windows box still could not access the internet. I did change the proxy settings on the Windows box to use ip 192.168.4.111 and the port suggested by drakwizard. What is it that I need to do? My goal is to have everything routed through the Mandrake box under one firewall. Eventually I would like to expose the server to the outside world (using dynamic dhcp) so that I can do some remote access when I travel (ftp mainly). Any help would be greatly appreciated. The gateway is the box that is physically connected to the internet. That is still your Linksys, so you must set 192.168.4.1 as the gateway address regardless which box is the DHCP server. (I assume the Windows boxes are also on the 192.168.4 subnet) If you are using Squid proxy, then the Windows clients will not need the Linksys as a gateway for browsing, but the Windows clients must be configured to use a proxy on 192.168.4.111 port 3128 If you still have problems check you do not have a firewall on the Linux box blocking access to the proxy. BTW: You could keep the Linksys but set it up to do port forwarding to the Linux box for your remote access. Your Linksys manual will describe port forwarding. You can still use dynamic DNS (which is what I assume you mean by dynamic dhcp) by using ddclient to update dynamic DNS servers with the external IP address of the Linksys. 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 I'll give the 192.168.4.1 gateway a try. I had the Windows box set to use the proxy at the right IP and port. I checked the firewall settings under the control panel and it showed to let everything through. The real trick to exposing isn't the Linksys Router, but the Westell 2200 DSL modem. This does not seem to want to let anything through. I will try googling and see what I can come up with. -- Christopher Taylor - Registered Linux User #383327 If this message is sent to a mailing list please 'Reply to List' or re-write the To field. This will save on a lot of duplicate emails going out. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Using Mandrake 10.1 as DHCP Server
On Tue, 08 Mar 2005 12:08:56 -0600, Mikkel L. Ellertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Christopher Taylor wrote: I currently have a Lynksys Router setup to handle the DHCP on a 192.168.4.0/255.255.255.0 network. The computers are setup with 192.168.4.1 (the address of the router) as the gateway. I tried setting up DHCP on Mandrake and disabled on the router. The Mandrake box could access the internet, but the remaining Windows boxes could not. The gateway on the Windows boxes was set to 192.168.4.111 which is the static IP of the Mandrake box. I tries setting up the Mandrake box as a proxy (I've been using drakwizard to set these up) using squid, but the the Windows box still could not access the internet. I did change the proxy settings on the Windows box to use ip 192.168.4.111 and the port suggested by drakwizard. What is it that I need to do? My goal is to have everything routed through the Mandrake box under one firewall. Eventually I would like to expose the server to the outside world (using dynamic dhcp) so that I can do some remote access when I travel (ftp mainly). Any help would be greatly appreciated. UNless you are planning on setting up a proxy server on the Linux box, set the gateway setting in the dhcpd config to the address of the Linksys box. (192.168.0.1) You will also want to set the name server address (DNS). You may want to consider running a name server on the Linux box, and having the Windows machines use that. This offers a couple of advantages. You can also have it manage the IP addresses for the local netowork. It can also save haing to go to the Internet to look up the names of common sites. This can make getting to the sites faster. You only have to go to the Internet for the first machine that visits the site. A second machine on the locak network visiting the site gets the address that is stored on the Linux machine. If you are interested, I will look in my notes for the name of the one I used to use. It had nice features like reading the dhcp lease file, and adding the machines from there to its database dynamicly. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! Mikkel, My ISP is Verizon Online. I will have to check to see if they are blocking, but I don't think so as you will see below. The Westell modem is also a router with one port. I tried having the modem handling the PPoE and the router set to a static IP in the range of the subnet specified by the modem.The router modem was set with port forwarding to the router and the router was set with port forwarding to the linux box (also a static ip on the subnet). At this point I could ping the assigned dynamic IP (I use http://www.dnsstuff.com). The Linksys router showed nothing in its incoming logs. The Windows boxes could access internet sites by IP only. The name lookup was no longer working. The linux box was fine. This was when the Linksys rep said that the modem had to be in bridge mode. Once put into bridge mode, I could no longer ping the assigned IP, but the Windows boxes could access the named sites. The router is now handling the PPoE and DHCP. My goal is to have the linux box control the other boxes. I think that you are right in that I need to set up DNS. There is a setup for that in drakwizard, but I do not know what to do with it. I believe that it asked me to change the hostname. I explore more when I get home. Thanks for the help everyone. -- Christopher Taylor - Registered Linux User #383327 If this message is sent to a mailing list please 'Reply to List' or re-write the To field. This will save on a lot of duplicate emails going out. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Re: Forum post
On Mon, 7 Mar 2005 13:26:10 +, Anne Wilson
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On Friday 04 Mar 2005 01:27, Christopher Taylor wrote:
If you have already edited it, post a copy here.
Have you added samba users yet? Again, ask if you need help.
Please also make it clear which windows version(s) are running on the
other boxes - there may be slight differences in what's needed.
Hi, Christopher. Sorry for the delay - I've been away.
Here is the contents of the file. Sorry so big. I removed all lines
starting with # to try and reduce the size. Should I have sent as
an attachment?
[global]
workgroup = MSHOME
Check that this *exactly* matches the entries on your windows boxes. Case
sensitivity has messed up a lot of networks. If you can, change the network
name on all boxes to lower-case. The reason for that is that windows doesn't
always do what it says it's doing, and you need to be absolutely sure that
the network name matches.
server string = Samba Server %v
message command = /usr/bin/linpopup %f %m %s; rm %s
If you don't use winpopup you can get rid of that one.
printcap name = cups
load printers = yes
printing = cups
printer admin = @adm
log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
max log size = 50
map to guest = bad user
security = user
encrypt passwords = yes
smb passwd file = /etc/samba/smbpasswd
unix password sync = Yes
OK
pam password change = yes
You probably don't need that.
passwd chat = *New*UNIX*password* %n\n *Re*ype*new*UNIX*password* %n\n \
;*passwd:*all*authentication*tokens*updated*successfully*
username map = /etc/samba/smbusers
I believe you only need that if you are mapping user names that you can't
match across systems. I'd comment it out unless you are certain you need it.
socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192
OK
/usr/share/samba/scripts/smbldap-groupshow.pl %g|awk '/^gidNumber:/ {print
$2}' dns proxy = no
I doubt if you need that.
[homes]
comment = Home Directories
browseable = no
writable = yes
;[printers]
;comment = All Printers
;path = /var/spool/samba
;browseable = no
Only needed if you are sharing printers across the network.
# to allow user 'guest account' to print.
;guest ok = yes
;writable = no
;printable = yes
;create mode = 0700
;print command = lpr-cups -P %p -o raw %s -r # using client side
printer drivers.
;use client driver = yes
[print$]
path = /var/lib/samba/printers
browseable = yes
write list = @adm root
guest ok = yes
inherit permissions = yes
But it probably doesn't make sense to have this enabled if the other bit
isn't. My printers section is:
[printers]
comment = All Printers
path = /var/spool/samba
browseable = no
# to allow user 'guest account' to print.
guest ok = yes
writable = no
printable = yes
create mode = 0700
# =
# print command: see above for details.
# =
print command = lpr-cups -P %p -o raw %s -r # using client side printer
drivers.
# print command = lpr-cups -P %p %s # using cups own drivers (use generic
PostScript on clients).
# If you install drivers on the server, you will want to uncomment this so
# clients request the driver
use client driver = yes
[print$]
path = /var/lib/samba/printers
browseable = yes
write list = @adm root
guest ok = yes
inherit permissions = yes
# Settings suitable for Winbind:
# write list = @Domain Admins root
# force group = +@Domain Admins
but I do share printers.
[pdf-gen]
path = /var/tmp
guest ok = No
printable = Yes
comment = PDF Generator (only valid users)
printing = bsd
printcap name = cups
#print command = /usr/share/samba/scripts/print-pdf file path
win_path recipient IP
print command = /usr/share/samba/scripts/print-pdf %s %H
//%L/%u %m %I %J
lpq command = /bin/true
;[tmp]
; comment = Temporary file space
; path = /tmp
; read only = no
; public = yes
[public]
comment = Public Stuff
path = /home/samba/public
public = yes
writable = no
write list = @staff
;[fredsprn]
; comment = Fred's Printer
; valid users = fred
; path = /homes/fred
; printer = freds_printer
; public = no
; writable = no
; printable = yes
;[fredsdir]
; comment = Fred's Service
; path = /usr/somewhere/private
; valid users = fred
; public = no
; writable = yes
; printable = no
;[pchome]
; comment = PC Directories
; path = /usr/pc/%m
; public = no
; writable = yes
;[myshare]
; comment = Mary's and Fred's stuff
; path = /usr/somewhere/shared
; valid users = mary fred
; public = no
; writable = yes
; printable = no
; create mask = 0765
[HPPhotoSmart
Re: [newbie] Re: Forum post
On Mon, 7 Mar 2005 14:45:07 +, Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 07 Mar 2005 13:59, Christopher Taylor wrote: Anne, Thanks for getting back. I had a problem last night and had to re-install 10.1. Unlike windows, you probably didn't need to. However, there are times when, as a newbie, it's frankly the easiest option. I did it a couple of times myself ;-) This time I selected everything available (game station, work station, servers, etc.). After installing, I went to the control panel and went to Samba mounts. I searched for servers and the Windows pc was found. Somewhere along the line it asked me for a user, password, and domain. I put this in and was able to mount the two harddrives. At this point I would have to say the problem is solved. I did not really add a Samba user, I just put in my regular login info when it asked. Is there anything else I should be doing? This means that the windows box is acting as the server and you are the client. That's fine until you want the Mandrake box to allow the windows box to see something. Leave it for now - but don't wait until it's too urgent - and we'll help you get a basic samba set up when you need it. Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/) Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCLGjzkFAvMr/nNX8RAvn7AJ4ufAjyzdtKFkWzSgMvVR6VihnGZwCeJYJ0 qsnDtVXCiX3Ife+jG0iwjcQ= =KhRS -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 Anne, Thanks. RIght now the Windows box is headless. It's just there so I can access my old pictures and files. From time to time my wife wants to get on it to use Photo Impact. At some point I may get a monitor for it and give it to my son (8 yrs old). At that point, I'll also get another hardrive for this computer and back everything up there. I will probably keep Windows on that one as that is what he is learning on in school. Its only a 500MHz so everything is slow. It should be ok for what he'd need though. It has Open Office and can connect to the internet. I don't see any need for it to see the Linux box. Who knows that the future may hold. -- Christopher Taylor - Registered Linux User #383327 If this message is sent to a mailing list please 'Reply to List' or re-write the To field. This will save on a lot of duplicate emails going out. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Locked Myself Out
I feel sort of foolish, but I don't know what to do. I inadvertantly did a chmod 777 recursive on the whole system while logged into a root console. Now I cannot log in to the control center or a root console as it says that my root password in incorrect. How can I fix this mess I made? My system is set to automatically log me in so I do not even know how to log in as just the root. -- Christopher Taylor - Registered Linux User #383327 If this message is sent to a mailing list please 'Reply to List' or re-write the To field. This will save on a lot of duplicate emails going out. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Locked Myself Out
On Sun, 6 Mar 2005 19:52:11 -0500, et [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 06 March 2005 07:23 pm, Christopher Taylor wrote: I feel sort of foolish, but I don't know what to do. I inadvertantly did a chmod 777 recursive on the whole system while logged into a root console. Now I cannot log in to the control center or a root console as it says that my root password in incorrect. How can I fix this mess I made? My system is set to automatically log me in so I do not even know how to log in as just the root. have you tried as a single user (hit escp when lilo gives you a choice of kernels/os and type linux 1. then when it boots 'passwd' will get you going -- linux counter #167806 (http://counter.li.org/) website=http://ed-tharp.kicks-ass.org; I can do that, but I don't know what the permissions were to begin with. I have backed up my data. I will probably re-install. I've only been up two weeks, so there is not alot that I've really done yet. -- Christopher Taylor - Registered Linux User #383327 If this message is sent to a mailing list please 'Reply to List' or re-write the To field. This will save on a lot of duplicate emails going out. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Locked Myself Out
On Sun, 6 Mar 2005 20:15:52 -0500, et [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 06 March 2005 08:09 pm, Christopher Taylor wrote: On Sun, 6 Mar 2005 19:52:11 -0500, et [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 06 March 2005 07:23 pm, Christopher Taylor wrote: I feel sort of foolish, but I don't know what to do. I inadvertantly did a chmod 777 recursive on the whole system while logged into a root console. Now I cannot log in to the control center or a root console as it says that my root password in incorrect. How can I fix this mess I made? My system is set to automatically log me in so I do not even know how to log in as just the root. have you tried as a single user (hit escp when lilo gives you a choice of kernels/os and type linux 1. then when it boots 'passwd' will get you going -- linux counter #167806 (http://counter.li.org/) website=http://ed-tharp.kicks-ass.org; I can do that, but I don't know what the permissions were to begin with. I have backed up my data. I will probably re-install. I've only been up two weeks, so there is not alot that I've really done yet. as log as you know how you got it botched... msec? also msec can help you reset all the permissions, if you can log in as root. just msec 4 enter, then msec 2 enter and you will be back toi a usable default. -- linux counter #167806 (http://counter.li.org/) website=http://ed-tharp.kicks-ass.org; Thanks for the help. I re-installed and am pretty much back to where I was before. I just need to install the HP printer driver and setup the digital camera and I'll be back. -- Christopher Taylor - Registered Linux User #383327 If this message is sent to a mailing list please 'Reply to List' or re-write the To field. This will save on a lot of duplicate emails going out. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Forum - OT
On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 07:15:26 +, riccardo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 02 March 2005 10:14 pm, Christopher Taylor wrote: This is to help me in case I need to re-install In Linux, most things can be fixed, without re-installing. best rgds I'm still used to Windows. It would be nice not to have to re-install and loose all the data. I think I'm going to like this. Chris Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] any question
You could try Wine. Your software might not be listed as supported, but that doesn't always mean that it won't work. On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 15:34:55 +0100, Stefan Tulak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've installed mandrakelinux for one month and I'm very pleasured. I think, this is very good operating system. But, I have small problem. I've got mobilphone with GPRS and I don't know how to join it with PC, because software for my phone is made for windows. Can you help me and tell me, how to do it? Or can you tell me what program can run windows applications? -- Christopher Taylor If this message is sent to a mailing list pleasse 'Reply to List' or re-write the To field. This will save on a lot of duplicate emails going out. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Re: Forum post
On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 12:18:35 +, Anne Wilson
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Christopher, I just looked at your forum, particularly about the Samba
problem. I did see that someone advised you to use LinNeighborhood (this is
one of several options for viewing shares) and assumed that I had missed
something in the thread. Neither LN nor anything else will help you if you
have mistakes in your /etc/samba/smb.conf. If you have not edited that file
yet make a backup file (cp /etc/samba/smb.conf /etc/samba/smb.conf.orig)
before you edit. There's a lot of really useful comments in the file, but
you will want a slimmer working copy.
If you have already edited it, post a copy here.
Have you added samba users yet? Again, ask if you need help.
Please also make it clear which windows version(s) are running on the other
boxes - there may be slight differences in what's needed.
Anne
- --
Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/)
Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels
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Here is the contents of the file. Sorry so big. I removed all lines
starting with # to try and reduce the size. Should I have sent as
an attachment?
[global]
workgroup = MSHOME
server string = Samba Server %v
message command = /usr/bin/linpopup %f %m %s; rm %s
printcap name = cups
load printers = yes
printing = cups
printer admin = @adm
log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
max log size = 50
map to guest = bad user
security = user
encrypt passwords = yes
smb passwd file = /etc/samba/smbpasswd
unix password sync = Yes
pam password change = yes
passwd chat = *New*UNIX*password* %n\n *Re*ype*new*UNIX*password* %n\n \
;*passwd:*all*authentication*tokens*updated*successfully*
username map = /etc/samba/smbusers
socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192
/usr/share/samba/scripts/smbldap-groupshow.pl %g|awk '/^gidNumber:/ {print $2}'
dns proxy = no
[homes]
comment = Home Directories
browseable = no
writable = yes
;[printers]
;comment = All Printers
;path = /var/spool/samba
;browseable = no
# to allow user 'guest account' to print.
;guest ok = yes
;writable = no
;printable = yes
;create mode = 0700
;print command = lpr-cups -P %p -o raw %s -r # using client side
printer drivers.
;use client driver = yes
[print$]
path = /var/lib/samba/printers
browseable = yes
write list = @adm root
guest ok = yes
inherit permissions = yes
[pdf-gen]
path = /var/tmp
guest ok = No
printable = Yes
comment = PDF Generator (only valid users)
printing = bsd
printcap name = cups
#print command = /usr/share/samba/scripts/print-pdf file path
win_path recipient IP
print command = /usr/share/samba/scripts/print-pdf %s %H
//%L/%u %m %I %J
lpq command = /bin/true
;[tmp]
; comment = Temporary file space
; path = /tmp
; read only = no
; public = yes
[public]
comment = Public Stuff
path = /home/samba/public
public = yes
writable = no
write list = @staff
;[fredsprn]
; comment = Fred's Printer
; valid users = fred
; path = /homes/fred
; printer = freds_printer
; public = no
; writable = no
; printable = yes
;[fredsdir]
; comment = Fred's Service
; path = /usr/somewhere/private
; valid users = fred
; public = no
; writable = yes
; printable = no
;[pchome]
; comment = PC Directories
; path = /usr/pc/%m
; public = no
; writable = yes
;[myshare]
; comment = Mary's and Fred's stuff
; path = /usr/somewhere/shared
; valid users = mary fred
; public = no
; writable = yes
; printable = no
; create mask = 0765
[HPPhotoSmart|HPPhotoSmart]
printer = HPPhotoSmart
comment = HPPhotoSmart
printable = yes
browseable = no
create mode = 0700
writable = yes
guest ok = yes
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[newbie] Mandrake Forum - OT
I am new to linux in general (1 week) and have decided to put my individual experiences on the internet in a forum format. I have posted small messages for each of the experiences that I have had in the past week. This is to help me in case I need to re-install and need to remember what I needed to do to get things to work. I also hope that it may help others. I have posted here to find out if this is a good idea or not. The link is http://mandrake.cjt-design.com. Different members of the list have helped me and I hope that I can return the favor in the future. Christopher Taylor Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Webserver/network setup
I have recently installed Mandrake 10.1 download version. I am trying to get my webserver running for a small family website. I have a dsl connection. I have a Westell 2200 dsl modem set to pass to a static ip 192.168.1.47. I have a linksys router (gets 192.168.1.47) that has port forwarding and smz set to 198.468.4.111 which is the static ip of my Linux box. All pcs on the router can access the web server. I cannot ping 141.149.80.111 which is the assigned ip (as viewd on the Westell modem and the Lynksys router). Does anyone have any suggestions? I am using the ping utillity at http://www.dnsstuff.com as the test. If I can access via the IP, then I will get a domain name and DNS. Any help is greatly appreciated. Christopher Taylor Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] accessing windows shared drives
I have recently aquired a pc and have installed Mandrake 10.1. I want to keep my old XP box on the network and use the drives. Within XP I set the drives to be shared. How would I access them through the linux box. One drive is fat32 and the other is NTFS. Having the ntfs drive read-only is acceptable. Thanks. Christopher Taylor Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Installing PHP
I'm new to Linux and I just got a 1.8GHz pc with no OS so I downloaded the 3 iso's and installed 10.1. I see that Apache is running. Is there a resource available that would tell me how to install php and mySQL? I would really like to debug my websites locally. Any help is greatly appreciated. Christopher Taylor Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Driver for Fuji FinePix 2650 Camera
Does anyone know if drivers exist for the above camera? I am currently running ML9.1 and did not find this model listed in Mandrake Control Center. Any chance it was added in 9.2? Thanks, -Chris Tracking #: EE10BFD2E2A48344977A8928216122F8240DACB8 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
