Re: [newbie] FSTAB mistake
Thanks to all who replied on and off the list. Unfortunately, I encountered additional problems and decided to reinstall LM 8.0 as that appeared to work better with my hardware Frank McKenna True strength lies in gentleness Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] RE: IP Address
Thanks to all who responded. So the /xx is either a non-exsistant IP address that someone is just using for whatever purpose or the subnet mask for that particular IP address? I hope that everyone has a great week. Frank McKenna True strength lies in gentleness Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] IP address
Hi All, In some previous posts I have noticed people refering to their IP address range as xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/xx. Just curious as to what the /xx refers to. Is it some type of range? TIA Frank McKenna True strength lies in gentleness Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] fstab (long post)
Hi All, In two previous posts I submitted the following. I only saw the first appear so I am resending both messages as one. Sorry for the long post I decided to put an old Creative DVD 2 X in a Mandrake 8.1 box along with a 32 X CD-ROM. Unfortunately, only the DVD (I think) is mounted although both the DVD and CD-ROM show up in Hardrake When I run kdc the DVD shows up as the block D device but it Hardrake it is a block C device. ( I hope that this is correct because I was using a friend's DSL connection to do massive updates) Anyway, if it isn't I hope at least this conveys the idea. I installed autofs to see if this would resolve the proble but to no avail. Civileme suggested that I forward my fstab and get rid of autofs Here is my fstab: /dev/hda1 / ext1 defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 /dev/hdd /mnt/cd rom auto auto user,isocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,sync,exec,codepage=850,ro,n oauto 0 0 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto user,isocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,sync,exec,codepage=85 0,noauto 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0 How would I lose autofs? Thanks Frank McKenna True strength les through gentleness Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] DHCP Revisited
Hi All, I found a great link for setting up DHCP at http://www.isc.org/products/DHCP/ I ran ifconfig -a as root and received the following message: eth0 Link encap:Ethernett HWaddr 00:A0:24:E9:1F;9C inet addr:192.168.0.1 Bcast 192.168.0.255 Mask 255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNINGMULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX Packets:620 errors :0 dropped:0 overruns::0 carriers:0 collisions: 0 txqueulen:100 RX bytes:134995 (131.8 KB) TX bytes15790 (15.4 KB) Interrupt: 12 BASE ADDRESS 0XS800 loLink encap:Local Loopback inet addr: 127.0.0.1 Mask 255.0.0.0 UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU: 16436 RX packets: 550 errors: 0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueulen:0 RX bytes:37216 (36.3 KB) TX bytes 37216 (36.3) Maybe someone can point out where I made a mistake, TIA Frank McKenna True strength les through gentleness Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Just replaced video card and and CMOS battery
Hi All, Using Mandrake 8.1 Sorry for the long post I just replaced my CMOS battery and, as expected, received a CMOS error message. Pressed enter to return to CMOS default. Since I had to remove my video and sound cards to replace the battery I thought that I would upgrade my video card at the same time. Replaced my Matrox Mystique video card with a Radeon 7000 PCI card. Upon boot up, I noticed that the checking for new hardware flashed an error message but I could not read it. Then, after the computer finished booting up, the monitor started flashing just before the GUI to enter in the user and password. I then receive dthe following message: mandrake linux release 8.1 (vitamin) for i586 kernel 2.4.8-26mdk on an i586 / TTY1 INIT: Id x respawning too fast: = disabled for five minutes. Then the screen started flashing again Can anyone please tell me what caused this? TIA Frank McKenna You don't have to like it you just have to do it but it is sure fun to win True Strength lies in Gentleness Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Just replaced video card and and CMOS battery
Thanks Civileme, that did the trick Frank McKenna You don't have to like it you just have to do it but it is sure fun to win True Strength lies in Gentleness Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Can't browse the 'net
Thanks Roly, I do have a NIC. I will give this a try and see how that works. I am trying to set up a DHVP server for my intranet though. Could you please tell me the command to bring my NIC back up. Thanks again, nuch apreciated Frank McKenna You don't have to like it you just have to do it but it is sure fun to win True Strength lies in Gentleness Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] O.T. Modem Lecture
HI All, I am hoping that someone can help me out. I have been asked to give a talk on Modems this Friday morning to the Edmonton Freenet/Community Network volunteer help desk. This is a charitable not for profit group that attempts to provide connectivity to lower income families and other non profit organizations. I have been asked to speak for about half an hour minimum. I am hoping that a few people can either give me links to some good pages or provide some general info on how they work, hardware vs. software modems, etc. Kind of pressed for time so I don't have the luxury of spending hours searching the 'net. I thank you all in advance and hope that your day is great, Frank McKenna Difficulties increase the closer we approach our Goals Plato ~ It takes a minute to have a crush on someone,an hour to like someone and a day to love someonebut it takes a lifetime to forget someone. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Modem causes mouse to be unistalled
Hi Ron, Thanks but someone else was able to give the jumper settings for COM 2 IRQ 10. Thanks for responding I really appreciate it Frank McKenna Difficulties increase the closer we approach our Goals Plato ~ It takes a minute to have a crush on someone,an hour to like someone and a day to love someonebut it takes a lifetime to forget someone. - Original Message - From: Ronald J. Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2001 9:52 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Modem causes mouse to be unistalled Frank McKenna wrote: If anyone has a manual and can tell me what the jumper settings are it would really be appreciated. TIA Frank McKenna Frank, I've got a Diamond Supra 56k internal ISA modem lying around somewhere. (I used it in my first MB which had ISA slots - my current machine does not - so I went with an external modem) I'm sure I've still got the manual (its a fold out variety). What did you want to know about the jumper settings? I'll try and look it up... -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Modem causes mouse to be unistalled
HI Ed, My eyes must be failing. My son found the FCC number for The Diamond 56 K ISA modem. It is 4V4USA-24801-M5-E After doing a search on Google I found everything but the jumper settings. The FCC site says that the number is no t valid which I thought was odd. If anyone has a manual and can tell me what the jumper settings are it would really be appreciated. TIA Frank McKenna Difficulties increase the closer we approach our Goals Plato ~ It takes a minute to have a crush on someone,an hour to like someone and a day to love someonebut it takes a lifetime to forget someone. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Modem causes mouse to be unistalled
Thanks Charles, Ed, DarkLord :-)) I had gone to the Diamond site before posting this to the list. I checked again including the PDF manual but no jumper settings to be found. Have emailed them twice now but am still waiting but not holding my breath. Would probably turn blue and keel over. Did a search on Google as well but to no avail. There are six pairs of pins (0-5) with pairs (1-5) shorted out by jumpers. Anyone have any suggestions so that my modem does not get uninstalled? TIA Frank McKenna Difficulties increase the closer we approach our Goals Plato ~ It takes a minute to have a crush on someone,an hour to like someone and a day to love someonebut it takes a lifetime to forget someone. - Original Message - From: Charles A Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, December 16, 2001 8:05 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Modem causes mouse to be unistalled On Sun, 16 Dec 2001 09:45:51 -0500 Ed Tharp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: turn OFF plug and pray aware OS in bios, yes that is the first thing. how did you do it? reserve (also in Bios , isa-pnp) an IRQ for the ISA slot slot the modem is in. you might also have to see if there is a setup utility to set the modems IRQ (probly dos based) or if this modem has jumpers or dip switches. On Sunday 16 December 2001 01:51, you wrote: Hi All, I want to desperately get my Linux box online but my modem causes my mouse to uninstall and I currently cannot navigate that well in command prompt mode. My latest acquisition is a 1998 Diamond System Multimedia Communications Division 56 K ISA internal modem Maybe someone will be able to tell me how to stop my mouse from being uninstalled when I insert my modem. I think that I have turned off PnP if that is the first thing that anyone is going to suggest. You are going to have to chage the jumpers on the modem for com port. Right now it is set to use the same port that your mouse is on, this is why you loose the mouse. Your ISA moden will have anywhere from 1 to 3 jumoers, allowin you to manually set the com port, IRQ and I/O address. If you do not have the docs for the modem then check the Diamond site. Charles Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Samba question - making shares invisible
Hi Jose, Thank you for your reply and sorry for the long post everyone. 1) Are the user accounts valid. smbclient -L Sambabox -U Windowsuser Have done this for all three users and there does not appear to be any error messages is the Windows Login name (that you used on the Windows machine to log in initially) that you have added to Samba via smbpasswd -a Windowsuser. As far as I know, things are set up correctly for this. The password that I entered while doing smbclient -L Sambabox -U Windowsuser should be the same as the Linux/Windows password or am I wrong Normally NETBIOS name to IP resolution is done by the DNS, but you probably don't have one. I had DNS set up before I broke my install and had to reinstall the O/S. I thought that I had everything set up the same way as before but that would make sense. I am stumbling around in the dark with this. How would I find out if DNS is running? I know that it is enabled in smb.comf You must then help windows. There are several ways to do this... A) Create a HOSTS file (in the same location as your LMHOSTS or LMHOSTS.SAM example file) which contains the IP - NETBIOS equivalences. Not sure where I would put this or what I would have to put in it. C) Enable the WINS component in Samba and create a local HOSTS entry, and then point the workstations to the Samba box's IP for WINS resolution... Have done th is except for the local hosts entry. Could you explain the local HOSTS entry please Changing the hashing depth to 8 helps. This is a new term for me. Also remember that Windows uses Encrypted passwords, when you use SMBCLIENT locally you are sending clear text so if it works locally but not remotely (from Windows) it's likely that you do not have encryption set up properly... In my smb.conf, I have encrypted password = Yes. On my Windows 98 box, I have hacked the registry to send passwords in clear text. On my W2K box I did nothing in terms of password encryption and I can still log on. If smb.conf is correct, you may be missing a crypt lib or something else and/or too high of a security setting... Crypt.lib is a new term as well. When you say security settings do you mean security = user or the settings for Linux itself? TIA Frank McKenna Difficulties increase the closer we approach our Goals Plato ~ It takes a minute to have a crush on someone,an hour to like someone and a day to love someonebut it takes a lifetime to forget someone. Bear in mind that this is different, but related to the FQDN for your machines! Re: USER B It sounds like your login is failing, and you are falling thru to a Guest share which has no rights! You MUST NOT get an invalid password message, if you do Samba normally has rejected the password sent by Windows... See my other posts about this... -JMS Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Modem causes mouse to be unistalled
Hi All, I want to desperately get my Linux box online but my modem causes my mouse to uninstall and I currently cannot navigate that well in command prompt mode. My latest acquisition is a 1998 Diamond System Multimedia Communications Division 56 K ISA internal modem Maybe someone will be able to tell me how to stop my mouse from being uninstalled when I insert my modem. I think that I have turned off PnP if that is the first thing that anyone is going to suggest. TIA Frank McKenna Difficulties increase the closer we approach our Goals Plato ~ It takes a minute to have a crush on someone,an hour to like someone and a day to love someonebut it takes a lifetime to forget someone. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Samba question - making shares invisible
Hi Michael, To make things easier, you can set up your Linux box as a domain controller and therefore will only have to deal with username / passwords on the Linux side. If you want to pursue that, let me know. Could you please let me know how to do this and why it would be beneficial TIA Frank McKenna Difficulties increase the closer we approach our Goals Plato ~ It takes a minute to have a crush on someone,an hour to like someone and a day to love someonebut it takes a lifetime to forget someone. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Soundcard and printer
Thanks Frans, That did the trick In KDE: K - Multimedia - Sound - soundmixer :) Don't forget to unmute the relevant channels. -Frans Frank McKenna Difficulties increase the closer we approach our Goals Plato ~ It takes a minute to have a crush on someone,an hour to like someone and a day to love someonebut it takes a lifetime to forget someone. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Need help to setup LOCAL DOMAIN
Hi, Could please give an example of what you meant by Network Filesystem? recomend setting up a Network Filesystem that serves all the clients as though they where on. Basically (cuz you wanted GUI stuff) setting up a proxy server could probably be done in mandrake control centre maybe under something like firewall configuration. CmdrRoot On 25 Nov 2001 18:41:46 -0800, Tuan Tran wrote: Hi, Could any of you please tell me how to setup my Linux server acts like local (intranet) domain for all other computers (Win Linux). Do I need to use any kind of software to setup local domain? What software is need to setup proxy server on Linux machine? What is the difference between proxy router? Thank you Tuan PS. I am not good at console mode so please give me some GUI to setup these things if you can. _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com =_1006742207-1851-4812 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Frank McKenna Difficulties increase the closer we approach our Goals Plato ~ It takes a minute to have a crush on someone,an hour to like someone and a day to love someonebut it takes a lifetime to forget someone. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] office 2000 shares
I would like to try to share the application itself across the LAN as opposed to just files and documents. Thanks in advance Frank McKenna Difficulties increase the closer we approach our Goals Plato ~ It takes a minute to have a crush on someone,an hour to like someone and a day to love someonebut it takes a lifetime to forget someone. - Original Message - From: Anuerin G. Diaz [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 22, 2001 5:20 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] office 2000 shares On Wed, 21 Nov 2001 19:54:42 -0700, Frank McKenna [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, Has anyone attempted to share Microsoft Office 2000 Pro from a share on a Mandrake 8.0 using Samba. What would I have to do to set this up Thanks in advance, Frank McKenna hi, are you trying to share the files or the applications themselves? if you are sharing the applications then i think wine would be more proper for this one. ciao! -- Programming, an artform that fights back. === Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engineer 25/F Equitable-PCI Tower ADB Ave. cor. Poveda St., Ortigas Center, Pasig City, Philippines 1605 Tel no: (632) 6383070 loc 75 === Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Networking
Hi All, My Mandrake 8.0 box crashed and I ended up reinstalling the O/S. I had my small LAN working and Samba was configured. I just can't remember how I got my network settings configured. Spent too much time setting up Samba to remember what I did to make everything else work. Anyhow, if someone could point me in the right direction it would be apreciated. The more detailed the better because I am still new to Linux. Thanks in advance Frank McKenna Difficulties increase the closer we approach our Goals Plato ~ It takes a minute to have a crush on someone,an hour to like someone and a day to love someonebut it takes a lifetime to forget someone. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Samba
HI all. Rather than imposing by sending a copy of my smb.conf file, I was wondering if someone would be interested in taking a look at it to see where I have made my mistake? Thanks in advance Frank McKenna Difficulties increase the closer we approach our Goals Plato ~ It takes a minute to have a crush on someone,an hour to like someone and a day to love someonebut it takes a lifetime to forget someone. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] LISa
HI Folks, I am trying to browse my LAN but I keep getting an error message saying that LISa is not configured. I have gone into LISa and also the web site and checked the configuration. I still can't find where my mistake is. The only filed that I have not completed is the Host name look up but I am just trying to run a peer to peer LAN right now and I don't think that that would be necessary for what I am trying to do. Any insight would be greatly apreciated Frank McKenna Difficulties increase the closer we approach our Goals Plato ~ It takes a minute to have a crush on someone,an hour to like someone and a day to love someonebut it takes a lifetime to forget someone. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Error messages
Hi Dennis Just wanted to say thanks for the info Frank McKenna Difficulties increase the closer we approach our Goals Plato ~ It takes a minute to have a crush on someone,an hour to like someone and a day to love someonebut it takes a lifetime to forget someone. following means: Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] TinyFirewall Documentation
Go to www.tinysoft.com Frank McKenna Difficulties increase the closer we approach our Goals Plato ~ It takes a minute to have a crush on someone,an hour to like someone and a day to love someonebut it takes a lifetime to forget someone. - Original Message - From: Robert MacLean [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2001 12:24 AM Subject: [newbie] TinyFirewall Documentation Hi I've searched the net and the mandrake site and I can find no information/documentation on TinyFirewall. What I want to do is turn it off so I can load another firewall, and there appears to be no documentation of this. Please help. Thanx Robert MacLean Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
