[newbie] one problem sorted just makes room for another

[Fraser Kendall]

Servers sorted.  This message comes to you from kppp.

LineOne (0845 0345 UK numbers) support linux-mandrake, at least (www.lineone.net)

Can anyone help me to configure my sound card?

Fraser

[newbie] problems with server identity

[Fraser Kendall]

Please could you help. I am a complete beginner with the 
linux-mandrake system. Through a hair-raising process of trial and error, 
I am slowly getting to grips with the power that it confers. I am having a 
problem with getting information online, e.g. email (sending and receiving) and 
netscape.. I keep getting the error message that 'the following 
hosts are unknown' these include home.Netscape etc. The message tells me 
that there is a problem with the name server and refers to SOCKS. I do not 
understand any of this. I can connect to the internet via kppp; when 
online, if I enter the address of a page in its numerical form (e.g. the LineOne 
home page, http://207.200.83.29) into the 
Location box in Netscape, I load this page, whereas if I enter it in words (e.g. 
http://www.lineone.net ) I can not. 
However, even when I have loaded netscape by entering the number address of the 
page (is this its URL?), I can not follow the links by clicking on them, but if 
I add an extension (e.g.207.200.83.29/users.html) I go to that page. In 
short, there appears to be a fundamental problem with netscape not being able to 
read any information unless it is entered directly into the location box in a 
specific manner. I have tried to configure Netscape using Preferences, but 
it does not work that way. I can not use kmail either. If I try top 
send mail, I get the error message that the smtp server can not be contacted; if 
I try to receive mail, I get the error message that the server can not be 
contacted. This feels intuitively like a single group of 
problems, i.e. the programs are reading the information from somewhere that I 
have not yet configured. Please could you tell me where the information on 
servers, addresses etc is likely to be held. It is highly likely that I am 
completely wrong and so if you can suggest anything else, I would be very 
grateful. This mailing comes from the other hard disc set up for 
W95/IE5/OE. I have asked the Netscape help desk three times but they won't 
even reply! I haveextreme difficulty understanding the messages that 
fly about on this newbie list (I am a cell biologist, not a computer 
programmer!) so any advice will have to start" from the $ prompt in 
konsole" or "login as root,open kppp,....". Thanks, 
Fraser Kendall

Re: [newbie] fstab mtab left overs...

[Fraser Kendall]

you did what?

  - Original Message - 
  From: 
  Adrian Smith 
  
  To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
  Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2000 3:44 
  PM
  Subject: [newbie] fstab  mtab  
  left overs...
  okie, here is what i did.in /mnt i had the usual 
  win_cwin_dtype things.i went into fstab  changed things 
  about (did this using KDE  graphical interface) so that the drives would 
  mount aswindoze (win_c)games (win_d)so, that worked.if i go 
  into /mnt then go into /windoze then i am on my win98 C: drive.the odd 
  thing is, the win_cwin_dare still in /mnt also. if i go into them, 
  they are empty.what up with this?? can i simply delete these as 
  root? or is there some other solution?second part of 
  thisi can read from my fat32 drives, but i can not write to some of 
  them.i checked in fstab  mtab. all my fat32 drives are mounted 
  with the "rw" option, so this should put them in read-write mode, 
  yes??thanks muchAdrian Smith'de telepone 
  dudeTelecom Dept.x 7042[EMAIL PROTECTED]