[newbie] using wine - help please
I'm running LM8.1 and have just installed wine from cd2. All I want to do is run an application written on a windows machine using borland C++. It works on my windows machine, and I've now copied it over to my linux box into a folder called /home/neil/software/forwine/server.exe I tried in a shell:- [root@nrpmedia neil]# wine /home/neil/software/forwine/server/server.exe Warning: could not find wine config [Drive x] entry for current working directory /home/neil; starting in windows directory. Warning: /home/neil/software/forwine/server/server.exe not accessible from a DOS drive Warning: /home/neil/software/forwine/server/server.exe not accessible from a DOS drive /usr/bin/winereal: cannot find '/home/neil/software/forwine/server/server.exe' [root@nrpmedia neil]# What needs setting up? I'm at a loss I'm afraid. I can't even seem to find the wine configuration file so i can have a hack. Neil Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Apache, PHP and MySQL problem
Hi All I've got LM8.1 up and running and I have np using apache as a test server on there along with php. However, MySQL is loaded (I chose it to be) but it doesn't work in the way I want it to. First off, I can create a database but only as root. Since I want to interogate/update etc using php on webpages served by apache then I need it to not require root. I've been to the MySQL site but can't seem to find out how to do it... Eek. Also, I've moved the default location for html files to my home directory so I can work on them on the fly on my workstation machine; don't know if this is an issue with this? Is there a MySQL conf file somewhere that I'm missing? I've trawled through the apache ones and they seem fine. Thanks for any help... I just hope there are some people out there who've had this requirement and got it going... Experienced help is what I need I think :( Ta Neil -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Problem with bastille and samba
Hi all I've used the tiny firewall configuration tool within the control centre to configure bastille and it's v v v nicely setup according to http://grc.com however, it stops my samba shares from working!? How can I use this setup but modify the conf file slightly to allow samba shares to work on my local network. Please I don't want to use yet another firewall piece of software/setup... This is find apart from this one aspect. Any info on this would be much appreciated and rewarded with lots of liquid refreshment!!! Neil -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Problem with bastille and samba
Perfect! According to grc I am now very secure (for a 'windows' machine this is very rare, according to his site hehe). However, in order to get it to work I had to also define the PUBLIC services to allow 138 and 139 ports. Strange, although as I say, grc says it's in stealth mode (139 that is) so I guess it's fine, and it didn't work without it so... It said in the comments within bastille-firewall.cfg to also include it in PUBLIC so I guess it's ok. TCP_PUBLIC_SERVICES=138 139 TCP_INTERNAL_SERVICES=138 139 Derek you're a gent, cheers. Neil -Original Message- From: Derek Jennings [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 17 December 2001 11:34 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Linux Newbie List Subject: Re: [newbie] Problem with bastille and samba How about this http://www.mandrakeforum.org/article.php?sid=1467mode=thread; order=0thold=0 You can edit the firewall setup tables and configure it as you please. Derek BTW: Samba needs ports 138 and 139 open if I remember correctly. On Monday 17 December 2001 11:07, Neil R Porter wrote: Hi all I've used the tiny firewall configuration tool within the control centre to configure bastille and it's v v v nicely setup according to http://grc.com however, it stops my samba shares from working!? How can I use this setup but modify the conf file slightly to allow samba shares to work on my local network. Please I don't want to use yet another firewall piece of software/setup... This is find apart from this one aspect. Any info on this would be much appreciated and rewarded with lots of liquid refreshment!!! Neil Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Networking Problem
Hi All I'm baffled. I have a 3 computer network at home. Using a switch, I have my Linux machine and two other XP workstations all connected. The Linux box acts as a gateway for the net and a print server etc. and the xp workstations are simply used for day-to-day work. I have it set up so I can share files between all 3 computers (using a combination of microshaft's connection wizard thingy and samba/komba2). Everything was fine until recently one of the XP machines stopped sharing it's files (and was unable to connect to the other two computers' shared files), although the other two computers still happily share files and printer. The 'faulty' xp machine still takes it's connection for the net through the linux box though! - so no major network hardware problem I thought/think!? Linux ip: - 192.168.0.1 (gateway) Xpbox1 (faulty share machine): - 192.168.0.2 (mask, 255.255.255.0, gateway 192.168.0.1) Xpbox2: - 192.168.0.3 (mask, 255.255.255.0, gateway 192.168.0.1) Both the linux box and XPbox2 can ping each other, and I can ping both the linux box and the XPbox2 from the 'faulty' XPbox1. However, and perhaps crucially, I cannot ping XPbox1 from either linux or XPbox2. Phew, that took some writing and no doubt has taken some reading if you've bothered to get this far :) Can anyone offer me help please... I know this is not strictly a Linux query as it seems XPbox1 is to blame, but I'm sure someone out there might have some ideas to try at least. Could it be a hardware issue? That's all I could find in the way of help on the MS knowledge base webby. Thanks Neil -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Networking Problem
Hi All I'm baffled. I have a 3 computer network at home. Using a switch, I have my Linux machine and two other XP workstations all connected. The Linux box acts as a gateway for the net and a print server etc. and the xp workstations are simply used for day-to-day work. I have it set up so I can share files between all 3 computers (using a combination of microshaft's connection wizard thingy and samba/komba2). Everything was fine until recently one of the XP machines stopped sharing it's files (and was unable to connect to the other two computers' shared files), although the other two computers still happily share files and printer. The 'faulty' xp machine still takes it's connection for the net through the linux box though! - so no major network hardware problem I thought/think!? Linux ip: - 192.168.0.1 (gateway) Xpbox1 (faulty share machine): - 192.168.0.2 (mask, 255.255.255.0, gateway 192.168.0.1) Xpbox2: - 192.168.0.3 (mask, 255.255.255.0, gateway 192.168.0.1) Both the linux box and XPbox2 can ping each other, and I can ping both the linux box and the XPbox2 from the 'faulty' XPbox1. However, and perhaps crucially, I cannot ping XPbox1 from either linux or XPbox2. Phew, that took some writing and no doubt has taken some reading if you've bothered to get this far :) Can anyone offer me help please... I know this is not strictly a Linux query as it seems XPbox1 is to blame, but I'm sure someone out there might have some ideas to try at least. Could it be a hardware issue? That's all I could find in the way of help on the MS knowledge base webby. Thanks Neil -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Networking Problem
Nope... It's off... Gawd I have no idea what's happening with it :( -Original Message- From: Dave Sherman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 11 December 2001 22:01 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Networking Problem On Tue, 2001-12-11 at 13:03, Neil R Porter wrote: Hi All I'm baffled. I have a 3 computer network at home. Using a switch, I have my Linux machine and two other XP workstations all connected. The Linux box acts as a gateway for the net and a print server etc. and the xp workstations are simply used for day-to-day work. I have it set up so I can share files between all 3 computers (using a combination of microshaft's connection wizard thingy and samba/komba2). Everything was fine until recently one of the XP machines stopped sharing it's files (and was unable to connect to the other two computers' shared files), although the other two computers still happily share files and printer. The 'faulty' xp machine still takes it's connection for the net through the linux box though! - so no major network hardware problem I thought/think!? Linux ip: - 192.168.0.1 (gateway) Xpbox1 (faulty share machine): - 192.168.0.2 (mask, 255.255.255.0, gateway 192.168.0.1) Xpbox2: - 192.168.0.3 (mask, 255.255.255.0, gateway 192.168.0.1) Both the linux box and XPbox2 can ping each other, and I can ping both the linux box and the XPbox2 from the 'faulty' XPbox1. However, and perhaps crucially, I cannot ping XPbox1 from either linux or XPbox2. Phew, that took some writing and no doubt has taken some reading if you've bothered to get this far :) Can anyone offer me help please... I know this is not strictly a Linux query as it seems XPbox1 is to blame, but I'm sure someone out there might have some ideas to try at least. Could it be a hardware issue? That's all I could find in the way of help on the MS knowledge base webby. Thanks Neil -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is it possible you have misconfigured the built-in firewall on that XP box? Dave -- Will the third world war keep Bosom Buddies off the air? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Apache problem
Hi All I have apache setup and running fine using the default /var/www/html folder. Anything I put in there works and gets served no problem. However, I want to change the folder to /home/neil/webpages/html. The folder exists and has the relevant index.html file in it etc. So, I've used netconf to set apache to look in that folder and all I get is:- Forbidden You don't have permission to access / on this server. Apache-AdvancedExtranetServer/1.3.20 Server at nrpmedia.com Port 80 When I try to access the page. What is the problem? I have set the permissions to be everything! (i.e. read write and execute for all - what are the special things? I have left those unchecked anyways?), and the owner is 'neil' and goupr 'neil'. I wonder if I need to put apache in group neil? However, I also tried putting apache as the owner and that didn't work either... hmmm Please help Neil -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] FTP Problem - Please help if you can thanks :)
Hi all I have proftpd setup at home and here at work i'd like to access it. At home I tried it out and it works fine over the home network... using cuteftp here at work produces the following log... basically it hangs a while on Connecting data socket... and then says Failed to establish data socket. What is causing this? I've changed the actual IPs concerned to IP addresses here... just in case - am paranoid! :) Thanks for any help Neil PS I also use apache to serve pages and that's working np. STATUS:Connect: Monday 14:07:46 12-03-2001 STATUS:Connecting to IP addresses here STATUS:Connecting to IP addresses here (ip = IP addresses here) STATUS:Socket connected. Waiting for welcome message... 220 ProFTPD 1.2.2 Server (ProFTPD Default Installation) [nrpmedia] STATUS:Connected. Authenticating... COMMAND: USER neil 331 Password required for neil. COMMAND: PASS 230 User neil logged in. STATUS:Login successful COMMAND: TYPE I 200 Type set to I. COMMAND: REST 100 350 Restarting at 100. Send STORE or RETRIEVE to initiate transfer. STATUS:This site can resume broken downloads COMMAND: REST 0 350 Restarting at 0. Send STORE or RETRIEVE to initiate transfer. COMMAND: pwd 257 /home/neil is current directory. COMMAND: TYPE A 200 Type set to A. STATUS:Retrieving directory listing... COMMAND: PASV 227 Entering Passive Mode (IP addresses here). COMMAND: LIST STATUS:Connecting data socket... ERROR: Failed to establish data socket -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Data Socket problem with proftpd
Hi all I have proftpd setup at home and here at work i'd like to access it. At home I tried it out and it works fine over the home network... using cuteftp here at work produces the following log... basically it hangs a while on Connecting data socket... and then says Failed to establish data socket. What is causing this? I've changed the actual IPs concerned to IP addresses here... just in case - am paranoid! :) Thanks for any help Neil PS I also use apache to serve pages and that's working np. STATUS:Connect: Monday 14:07:46 12-03-2001 STATUS:Connecting to IP addresses here STATUS:Connecting to IP addresses here (ip = IP addresses here) STATUS:Socket connected. Waiting for welcome message... 220 ProFTPD 1.2.2 Server (ProFTPD Default Installation) [nrpmedia] STATUS:Connected. Authenticating... COMMAND: USER neil 331 Password required for neil. COMMAND: PASS 230 User neil logged in. STATUS:Login successful COMMAND: TYPE I 200 Type set to I. COMMAND: REST 100 350 Restarting at 100. Send STORE or RETRIEVE to initiate transfer. STATUS:This site can resume broken downloads COMMAND: REST 0 350 Restarting at 0. Send STORE or RETRIEVE to initiate transfer. COMMAND: pwd 257 /home/neil is current directory. COMMAND: TYPE A 200 Type set to A. STATUS:Retrieving directory listing... COMMAND: PASV 227 Entering Passive Mode (IP addresses here). COMMAND: LIST STATUS:Connecting data socket... ERROR: Failed to establish data socket Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] How to find Space on HD?
Hi All Might sound like a trivial question (and most prob is!)... but if on windows I want to know how big each partition is and how much space i have left and have used etc it's easy... how can I do this in linux... I installed LM8.1 and took the default partitioning (if memory serves it was a bit for swap and about 3GB for home and 15GB for the rest - 20GB hd)... I can see my file system fine.. but I want to know where I can store big files and when I am running out of space etc ... ta Neil Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Servers
If you already had filesharing setup in windows then (as Derek suggests) samba will just work out of the box (if not goto control panelnetworksmake sure filesharing is ticked/installed... and make sure you have firewall settings on linux such that it doesn't stop it working. Again, Derek has a link to where there is help for this. As for Linux to windows filesharing (i.e. the other way round, cos samba doesn't do both to my knowledge), I use Komba2 to mount my Windows machines' files. If you have any probs setting these up then I might be able to help since I've only just done it myself and haven't quite had time (approx 1 month lol) to forget how I did it yet. :) Neil -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Derek Jennings Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2001 10:34 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Servers I think you are right. I have not seen any facility for Samba to use Netbeui. But there is no need. Windows computers by default bind file sharing to both Netbeui and TCP/IP Is there a particular reason why it has to be Netbeui ? Derek On Wednesday 28 November 2001 03:11, you wrote: On Tue, 2001-11-27 at 20:32, Robert Boggs wrote: In windows I have a small network set up. I use netbeui, and I wish to do the same in linux using Samba, with netbeui. Can anyone tell me how to set these up. I really like the new Mandrake. I think I may go to it as my full time system. My wife, however cannot do this, as she is blind and has JAWS for windows, and there is not any GUI talkers for linux, that we know of. This is why I must set her systems up to access my box from Widows. I wish someone could make a system for linux that would talk in x and gnome and KDE. Please help. You may E-mail me at [EMAIL PROTECTED], if you wish. As far as I know, Samba only works with TCP/IP networks. I could be wrong. Dave Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Servers
|-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Neil R Porter |Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2001 5:51 AM |To: Linux Newbie |Subject: RE: [newbie] Servers | | |If you already had filesharing setup in windows then (as Derek |suggests) samba will just work out of the box (if not goto |control panelnetworksmake sure filesharing is |ticked/installed... and make sure you have firewall settings |on linux such that it doesn't stop it working. Again, Derek |has a link to where there is help for this. |As for Linux to windows filesharing (i.e. the other way round, cos samba |doesn't do both to my knowledge), I use Komba2 to mount my |Windows machines' files. | WHAT? Check out SMBClient and SMBMount... All Komba2 does is invoke these programs, which are part of Samba. nice gui though I.E. smbclient -L \\Windowsmachine -U Validuser Where validuser is a username that you have used at least once at your Winblows box to log into the network. (this is important!). If you can do this Samba will let you utilize Winblows printers from Linux, even WinPrinters (read brain damaged printers)! Lisa/Reslisa let's Konqueror BROWSE Winblows shares as well. As does Komba2... by default I think it puts the shares in /home/user/komba2/... so you can browse with konq. -JMS Neil Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Servers
|-Original Message- |From: Neil R Porter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] |Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2001 7:05 AM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Cc: Linux Newbie |Subject: RE: [newbie] Servers | | | |-Original Message- |As does Komba2... by default I think it puts the shares in |/home/user/komba2/... so you can browse with konq. | | -JMS | |Neil | Lisa/Reslisa lets you browse the contents of the shares W/O mounting the volumes... You can see the files and folders, but you can't get to them until you mount them though. oh But I digress... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] How to find Space on HD?
Thanks to all who replied.. I only knew about du.. So df and kwikdisk were nice to find out about! -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Ronald J. Hall Sent: 28 November 2001 14:07 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] How to find Space on HD? Neil R Porter wrote: Hi All Might sound like a trivial question (and most prob is!)... but if on windows I want to know how big each partition is and how much space i have left and have used etc it's easy... how can I do this in linux... I installed LM8.1 and took the default partitioning (if memory serves it was a bit for swap and about 3GB for home and 15GB for the rest - 20GB hd)... I can see my file system fine.. but I want to know where I can store big files and when I am running out of space etc ... ta Neil Hi Neil. No problem just do a du or df on the partition in question. For further use of these two commands, do a man du or man df. BTW, if you are using KDE, just right-clicking on a folder, and picking properties will calculate the size... -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] The problem with Linux
Ummm, where did that come from? Calm it down a bit please. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Ed Tharp Sent: 25 November 2001 20:03 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] The problem with Linux Rick, you remind me of a child of say,,sixteen, who believes the world they have seen is it, and views the universe as beeing all from their (limited) perspective. M$winders is not how _I_ think the world should look, _I_ want to decide, and I am willing to allow that one mans cluster f#ck is a nother mans orgy so maybe...just maybe...the folks that reallly enjoy being a sheep, can. and those who think that they might have to learn to paint to keep the cave from being like every other cave can also RTFD to keep their virtul cave as they need it to be. that while my car may be slow, it can lift your car, and put it on a shelf. On Sunday 25 November 2001 13:36, you wrote: newbies shouldn't have to use the shell prompt to install something. exactly - we dont have GUI's just for fun, if the GUI tools dont provide the power of there shell counterparts, then why the hell not!! windows is almost exclusivly gui, and there is no end of extremly complicated and powerful software. one other point, man pages are good, but may be difficult for a linux newbie to interpret. documentation needs to be in a easy-to-use help gui inside of the gui application, or formatted as easy-to-understand .html files that the newbie can just click around in. (fortunately, mandrake has made a good effort on this end). MDK have made the effort, but they still managed to include quite a few duff links (links to other pages in the docs - not on the web) again, if linux is to become mainstream on the desktop, it needs to overcome the above hurdles, namingly making everything extremely simple and easy for the new computer/linux user. and that's the problem - there are loads of Linux users who share this dream, and there is an equal number trying to go in the opposite direction and keep Linux as Unix as possible. Everybody is developing to their own ideals, no definite direction or purpose, forcing users to have both the super GUI and the Unix installed at the same time as neither do everything 100% Rick Kitty5 WebDesign - http://Kitty5.com POV-Ray News Resources - http://Povray.co.uk TEL : +44 (01270) 501101 - FAX : +44 (01270) 251105 - ICQ : 15776037 PGP Public Key http://pgpkeys.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0x231E1CEA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] linux facts for presentation
Their's a site dedicated to Business cases using linux on the mandrake site if that's helpful at all. http://www.mandrakebizcases.com/ Neil -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Bill Winegarden Sent: 18 November 2001 17:33 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] linux facts for presentation Hi, I have the opportunity to deliver a presentation (probably StarOffice presentation method) on the linux operating system. What I would like from the list is some information on linux facts ...more to point, some instances of successful implementation in industry and institutions such as small to medium community colleges. Cost benefits, installation and training issues shouldn't be missed. Now that I have my laptop fully functional I will be using Mandrake to showcase Mandrake. If anyone has done a similar presentation and has some tips, I'm all ears. Please note, I'll be delivering to a group that is referred to as a Technology Advisory Committee that has been thoroughly indoctrinated in MS. Presentation length is approximately 20 minutes. I have no problem putting together the presentation, I just need the backup facts. Thanks for this and all previous that got me this far, Bill W. ps...is it true that MS uses linux to run its msn mail server? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Setting up the Firewall to work with SAMBA
Hi all (but esp Derek) I followed http://www.mandrakeuser.org/mub/viewtopic.php?topic=2189forum=617 and got everything set up and working great!.. The problem is this, I had no ping from the XP box to the linux server until I followed the advice in the above link and killed bastille (/etc/rc.d/init.d/bastille-firewall stop). However, this enables samba to work but disables the net sharing (I have linux on the net and serving the XP machine)... I'd basically like to know a way of setting up bastille or something else that will work as a firewall and let samba work too as I can't seem to have the two on at the same time and I really don't want the situation that everytime I boot the linux server up that I have to kill bastille and then run net connection sharing daemon to get that up again. Please advise a hopeful(less) newbie. Ta Neil -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] filesharing and firewalling and ftp services HELP PLEASE!
Hi all I have LM 8.1 setup with an adsl connection networked and sharing the net connection to 2 win machines. I'm having problems setting up samba and firewalling and ftp services properly. 1) How can I tell which processes are running... I have read about samba and learn that it doesn't necessarily start up auto at boot time.. how can I tell whether it is running somewhere in the background? Also, when I try to test it the localhost doesn't seem to be setup correctly.. it's unknown.. omg.. how can localhost be unknown? but it is.. what have I done wrong here.. 2) this relates to number 1 in the sense that I have plenty of ways of configuring a 'firewall' available to me however I don't know which firewall is being used (whether more than 1 is actually running?!) etc.. I just installed the whole of LM with all options ticked when I installed it and notice that it says starting bastille firewall as it boots up.. again, which one is being used and how can i tell ? (any suggestions for which firewall would be best accepted thankfully!) 3) I have full web and ftp services.. and while I'm happy(ish) with the web hosting (although it hasn't been tested as being crack proof - and no doubt isn't with current settings!) I am definitely NOT happy with the ftp setting.. AGAIN, how can I tell which ftp proggy is giving the box the ftp service? I can ftp in from a remote comp, however, if i use a user account on the LM box as the login then I can literally go round the whole file system.. eek.. i don't want this.. instead some way of making it only present a folder or two of my choosing would be safer.. I know it's a lot to ask of this list.. and it's a long email to read (made even longer by these few words).. but if i can get some help here it would be much appreciated as I really want to use linux (apache etc) instead of IIS spits to one side Neil - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Got Office XP?
WOW, I can't believe it!... lol... hmmm, solution: uninstall Office and Windows. Here goes... :) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Rick [Kitty5] Sent: Friday, November 09, 2001 3:50 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Got Office XP? You might want to look at this http://www.guninski.com/vv2xp.html Rick Kitty5 WebDesign - http://Kitty5.com POV-Ray News Resources - http://Povray.co.uk TEL : +44 (01270) 501101 - FAX : +44 (01270) 251105 - ICQ : 15776037 PGP Public Key http://pgpkeys.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0x231E1CEA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Mouse wheel won't work
Hi all Perhaps a trivial question, but I can't get my genius mouse wheel to work. I'm using mandrake 8.1 and it won't scroll in any application at all. ta for any help Neil Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Problems with XMMS
Dear all Not a life threatening problem I admit, however when playing mp3s in the background things seem to go a little smoother somehow. When playing a list of mp3s using XMMS (nice winamp clone!) everytime (between tracks) I get the error 'Couldn't open audio' please check that: 1) You have the correct output plugin selected 2) No other program is blocking the soundcard 3) Your soundcard is configured properly 1) Now, as far as I can tell my output plugin is correct (OSS driver 0.9 [libOSS.so]) since it plays fine and, after dismissing the dialogure box and pressing the forward to next track button, continues to play fine until the end of THAT track - when the error comes up again! Plus the fact that other o/p plugins available do not work at all. 2) I have no idea whether another prog is blocking the soundcard.. I have system sounds enabled, but. 3) And as for my soundcard, I have no idea whether it is configured properly since it was done automatically it seems, however, again, I have no problems with anything but XMMS in this regard, so my first thoughts were NOT to change these settings. (I am running the PCPlus mandrake 7 linux install.. with AMD 600 Vibra128 PCI sound card (creative).) Anyone had a similar problem? Any help would be much appreciated. Neil -- (¯`·._.·'¯`·- poo -·'¯`·._.·'¯) [EMAIL PROTECTED] in Linux world or [EMAIL PROTECTED] in the real (lol) world (¯`·._.·'¯`·- poo -·'¯`·._.·'¯)
Re: [newbie] Help!!
to get rid of lilo off your master boot record you can boot up with your win98 floppy and type fdisk /mbr that will make it win98 only hope this helps (¯`·._.·'¯`·- poo -·'¯`·._.·'¯) - Original Message - From: Edison Gica [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 29, 2000 4:45 PM Subject: [newbie] Help!! I need help guys! I installed LM 7.0 in my 2nd HD under the 'Recommended' The first thing that came up in setup filesystems was: "I can't read your partition table, it's too corrupted for me. I'll try to go on blanking bad partitions bad magic numbers" Note that I installed the new 2nd HD neither partitioned nor formatted by either Windows or Linux. I clicked 'Cancel' and it went immediately to the setting up of partitions so I selected 'hdb'and 'auto allocate'. I also selected to create a boot disk. And...Charles LM installed LILO on my Windows disk! There was no option after the create boot disk it jumped directly to Configure X! Boy..I did not want that to happen! After installing, it rebooted the computer and LILO came up :( so I entered to go to Linux. The Console mode login session came up but the screen would go on and off, what's wrong? I also tried to boot using the created 'boot disk' and an error came, error 0X10. Would sincerely appreciate any help guys. Is it possible to remove the LILO from my Windows disk and setup Linux to just boot from the 'boot disk'? edison Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [newbie] please help
yes yes yes yes .. i think it's happening to all of us! (ps I wrote this approx 7hours ago lol) (¯`·._.·'¯`·- poo -·'¯`·._.·'¯) - Original Message - From: KompuKit [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2000 4:36 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] please help it still doesn't work right...there is still about a 7 hour delay attached is an email from my ISP about the problem: Hi Kit, We don't do anything that would prevent your messages from being posted. Posting to a news group is essentially the same as sending an e-mail message from andonet.com to another mail server. Some news groups have filters in place which scan the message before posting it. I'll look into this further to see if we can help find the problem. Best regards, One more thing, Often when reading posted e-mail messages users will click on reply to respond to a particular message in a thread. You are probably doing this already, but be sure you click on Send/Receive to actually make the reply message go. I've found that people who read newsgroups will sometimes read several messages, compose one or two replies, read a few more but not send the message until after closing the e-mail program when the messages in the OutBox are finally sent. Finally, I noticed you are using the name SystemsAdministrator in your To: message header, this can cause problems for e-mail programs which automatically fill in the actual e-mail address from a directory. SystemsAdministrator is used by so many ISPs (including us) that when your e-mail directory is updated, a previous username may no longer be associated with the SystemsAdministrator directory entry. Gary Gary Denis HAVLIK wrote: :~okay...I guess Denis fixed the problem...after I emailed him Guess again (hint: I did nothing) cu D -- - Dr. Denis Havlik http://www.ap.univie.ac.at/users/havlik Mandrakesoft||| e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quality Assurance (@ @)(private: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) ---oOO--(_)--OOo- -- Registered Linux User:73821 ===KompuKit=== Kit Goins ICQ# 7110071 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lowell, Mass. Web Designer http://kitdesigns.bizhosting.com WebServer:http://kompukit.dyndns.org (Server Runs between M-F 6pm-12am,S+S 12pm-12am EST) ===KompuKit===
Re: [newbie] Conection?
I had this problem too. You need to define your nameservers probably. Add 'usepeerdns' into the file /etc/ppp/options then connect as usual You can now replace /etc/resolv.conf by /etc/ppp/resolv.conf and that should set you up. Hope this helps Neil On Sat, 27 May 2000, you wrote: hi, it is my first email into the list an i expect that excuse for my english. I install Mandrake-linux 7.0 an when i do a dialup conection the netscape dont go to to anywhere... what i can do for jump into the net with my LM7?? best regards? Carlos Villaronga Venezuela. --
