Re: [newbie] You guys all owe SCO $1399 for your Mandrake
On Saturday 09 August 2003 03:41 pm, Thinker graced me with: > I have been watching this thread for a while and .. well, I may not > know much about Linux but I can say that ... > > 1. Being an American that is married to a German woman, everyone I > know drinks Warsteiner Dark at room temperature. They say it is not > so much that American beer is weak, it is more that they put too > many preservatives and other additives in it. And they say > Americans like their beer cold because they cant stand to taste it > any other way. So I am thinking Warsteiner Dark or Peach Schnapps > chasers and you will all be good to go. > > 2. Being an American from the great state of Tennessee I think all > I have to say is 'Corn in a Jar'. Those of you that know what I am > talking about would agree; this remedy and no one will be mowing > anything anytime soon. > > 3. As for the smaller condoms... Evolution dictates the size of the > male sexual organ. Nature tells us that we 'Americans' don't have > to be equipped for sex with farm animals, > I admit some of my countrymen may be a little smaller than you in > the Outback. We don't have the "Sheepskin for sheep" label here in > the US. > > So yes, I am sure you guys are a little bigger. Otherwise, I > suspect you guys would have some pretty pissed off sheep. > > > Now back to the show... > > > -=Thinkr I've been staying out of this out-of-hand thread for good reason, but... ...your reply is just so funny... ...and so RIGHT! I'm not sure that there's anything that will cure what ails you and kill you shortly after than good ol' corn mash. The evolution stuff, of course, is just the way it is. Waste not, want not..and need not! T :0) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] You guys all owe SCO $1399 for your Mandrake
On Wednesday 06 August 2003 03:17 am, Lyvim Xaphir graced me with: > Yep. I am not kidding. Are these slimeballs a bunch of maggot puke > or what? Let them come and get me. Pistols are loaded, sword's ready, plenty of slingshot fodder... Let'em come. T Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ARTICLE: Novell Acquires Ximian to Expand Linux Solutions and OpenSource Commitment
On Monday 04 August 2003 07:49 pm, Stephen Kuhn graced me with: > On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 00:40, Tony S. Sykes wrote: > > What's SCO going to say about that? Are Novell going to release > > their own version of Linux? > > I honestly think that this is only going to give more credence to > GNU/linux et al; Novell has some serious cash, and giving it to > Ximian - let's keep the mindset that Ximian won't "be assimilated", > is only going to strengthen the OSS position in corporate > environments. With Novell porting applications and services to the > GNU/linux platform, we're in for some serious "revolutions" in the > next two years - at least that's how I see it... That's a good point. Most OpenSource developers are not rolling in the dough. Any serious backing is only going to improve their ability to produce better distributions, applications and systemware. I can't help but prematurely smile over all of this. My inner sense tells me that SCO's bluff has already backfired, and as a result is now strengthening the very infrastructure that they had hoped to leech off of and control. Big business is a dangerous game to play. I would not want to be SCO's elite right now. I can smell the sweat from here. T Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ARTICLE: Novell Acquires Ximian to Expand Linux Solutions and Open Source Commitment
On Monday 04 August 2003 02:55 pm, John Wilson graced me with: > On August 4, 2003 06:59 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > > Ximian (as in Red-Carpet, Evolution, Ximian Connector, Ximian > > Desktop2) has been purchased by NOVELL. Read. This is > > interesting. > > > > http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/030804/sfm098_1.html > > This is interesting. Novell has been making a lot of noise about > Linux lately and how it intends to support it. In that respect > it's probably good news. > > Strictly on the PR side the fact that the former owner of SCO Unix > is building it's Linux committment is a lovely shot at SCO/Caldera. > One would expect that Novell has roughly the same access to the > source code that SCO is whining about and has concluded that there > isn't a problem. It's all very interesting. :-) > > ttfn > > John First IBM. Now Novell. There have been some others not as big or as much in the public's eye. Each had/has a hand in what SCO has been bitching about. This is what we need. One by one, big hitters to step out of the cowling crowds and telling SCO in a business like way they aren't backing down, they're actually pushing harder. SCO (and M$) can only benefit from this if everyone cowers and falls back. I have a lot of respect for these companies for publically stating they are going to continue and/or intensify their interest in Linux. It doesn't matter to me that there's an underlining agenda for each. In the long run, we all benefit if SCO has to back down because no one's listening and no one cares about their perceived propriety. T Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Kmail send fails
On Sunday 03 August 2003 04:11 pm, Cornerstone Community Farm graced me with: > KDE may have a bug. That may be. > I sometimes fail in sending, and it ends up in the out-box. > I have to get it and choose re-send, sometimes several times before > it will send. Only happens every couple of weeks. > I think I'm going to try the earlier suggestion to default to send > later, and enable interval mail checking with a default to send que > messages... I was having the same problem for as long as I was using KMail in its stock MDK 9.1 release. Sometimes, it would happen each and every time I sent out an email and then it wouldn't happen for a while. I noticed some peculiarities. First, it happened most often when KMail was checking email at the time. Could it be that stock version of KMail has difficulty in multi-threading operations? Secondly, it happened more during typical 'business hours' (EDT). As a matter of fact, emails sent in my evening would go out immediately and in less than a second or two. Unfortunately, I still noticed the failure when KMail was checking POP3 accounts at the same time. Last night I upgraded as much of KDE as I could to the latest in Texstar. Now, I am running version 1.5.3 of KMail. I love the subtle improvements (like highlighting misspellings) and that it seems to run a little quicker and smoother. Email have been going out immediately without that churning and waiting. If it was a bug, it would appear, at this early stage of use, that they may have solved the problem. Anyone have anything to add on the performance of the Texstar version over the stock MDK one? T Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] import messages from OE6 into Kmail
On Saturday 02 August 2003 02:08 pm, Fajar Priyanto graced me with: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hello all, > I've been trying to import messages from OE6 into Kmail without > success. The process just stopped after some times. > Has anyone got any idea how to import it? > I use the Tool>Import menu from Kmail. > Thanks. > Fajar. Hi, Fajar, It was posted here once before, but I doubt many thought to save the link. 'Dbfconv' converts Outlook/Outlook Express proprietary DBF database format into *nix MBOX. KMail can import or directly use this format. I haven't used it as yet, but the specs and hype on it look good. http://people.freenet.de/ukrebs/ Your alternative is to import your OE emails into a Windows-based version of Mozilla, Opera, etc., first, as suggested by Franki. A well chosen Win-client will have some format acceptable to KMail. BTW, Evolution 'supposedly' can import OE emails, but up to version 1.2.2, this was barely so. You will catch some, lose many, especially if your OE emails are saved from different versions of OE over time. I haven't tried it in Evo 1.4.4, as yet. It may work. Evo stores in MBOX format. Keep in mind that KMail is happy to allow you to use MBOX and Maildir side by side. You may not want that. To convert MBOX to Maildir, KMail's default, you will need to create new target folders for what you wish to chnage over, making sure that they are designated to be 'Maildir' in the folder creation dialog box. Then, you just copy or move the emails over from the source MBOX to the target Maildir. KMail makes the conversion on the fly. I can sympathize with you. I had been struggling with importing nearly 35,000 OE emails into KMail and Evolution. It still boggles my mind that the one email type most commonly used in the world is not already the most well provided import filter in the *nix world. Must not be obvious enough. I certainly don't buy into lack of cooperation from M$. I doubt that everyone one of these odd-ball makers of some obscure email Win-client have M$'s blessings to hack into their email encryption and data structure to properly import. Apparently someone has, as indicated by the link. Good luck, T Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Evo question (was Evolution archiving)
On Saturday 02 August 2003 08:34 am, Paul graced me with: > Hi T, > > I got 1.4.4. working already, with the RPM's from the site that > Brian pointed out. No problem at all. Good for you! If you can get all the RPM's needed to satisfy dependencies, all's fine. :0) > > > way to change. Have you tried to print an email as yet? I went > > all > > I very rarely print e-mails. I gave it a try, since you mentioned > it. It does print with a very weird font. Even worse: when printing > to a PDF file, the same weird font is used. Wellat least I know it isn't me, or something specific to my layout. I have a RH 9 workstation running the default-installed 1.2.x. I think I'll install 1.4.4 on it and see if I get the same ugly printer font. Maybe someone will jump in here and give us some clues as to how to get rid of this font. I can imagine that printing as a PDF has to be butt-ugly, too. ):0p > > Not a big deal for me, but I can see where the shoe hurts. Dr. Smith used to say on the old TV show, Lost In Space' "Oh, the pain...the pain..." T :0) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Evo question (was Evolution archiving)
On Saturday 02 August 2003 05:56 am, Paul graced me with: > On Sat, 2003-08-02 at 10:42, Brian Parish wrote: > > Hi Brian, > Did you have to jump through hoops to get 1.4.4. installed? I mean, > were there bunches of dependencies to fullfil? > I'd appreciate the info! > Paul When I installed it on my laptop a several weeks ago, I used Ximian's Red Carpet. I found out the first time I tried to upgrade to a newer version of Evolution that this was the best, cleanest way to go. In my judgement, Red Carpet is much nicer and easier to work with than Mandrake's own Package Manager GUI. I did have one problem that made me decide to not use 1.4.4. The printer font was some weird contorted mess that I couldn't find any way to change. Have you tried to print an email as yet? I went all over the Web, Ximian's site, tried a few suggestions, looked around in the configs. I must have been answer-dumb because I just couldn't find any way to get rid of that stupid, useless font. Outside of the font issue, I like 1.4.4. I didn't have that many records in my Handspring and had to dump MDK on my laptop for several reasonsergo, not enough time with it to experience your problem. T Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mozilla and my bank
On Wednesday 30 July 2003 12:11 pm, David graced me with: > I use Mozilla for my personal accounts with one bank. > I have recently started a business account with another bank. > When I enter the account number and password with the new bank and > press go, nothing happens (using Mozilla). I can use my wife's > (retch) Win98 and Explorer and it works fine. > I thought it was the popups at first, I have had this issue before > then I thought it was in how Mozilla identified itself. I have > heard that some banks were going to an Explorer only interface. > I can't seem to find in Mozilla 1.4 any way to have it announce its > anything other than Mozilla. > Any ideas to shed some light on this? I see a lot of really helpful advice thrown here. So, for what it's worth, I'll give you what's happened to me Long story short: I purchased what appeared to be a really outstanding LPI backed course to prepare for my Linux LPI Certification exam (101 & 102). I asked a lot of questions of the rep that I spoke with at SmartCertify.com, then made the decision to purchase the course. The price was great and it had just been released by LPI, so I wasn't sure that I would get it anywhere else. Supposedly this was an exclusive arrangement between LPI and SmartCertify. Lo' and behold, I find upon getting into the course that they use a proprietary front end player called SmartForce to run the Graphical environment of the course that allows me to actually type and see Linux command line results in the course. A great idea, except ...the only Java client that will work with this course is ...ready for this? Yep! You guessed it! M$'s Java!! Sun's Java will NOT work with this Web-based course I purchased. What irony, I thought as I steamed. A Linux course that can only be run on a Windows PC. No, I was not laughing over the irony, and needless to say, I do not have good attitude toward this certification company or LPI for creating the course as it is. That's what hurts most: LPI designed this, not SmartCertify.com. Of course, SmartCertify states that they were so upset with LPI for not letting their people in on the design of the course, as supposedly they are with the other certification programs that they provide. To be fair to SmartCertify, they are one of the largest providers of training tools for computer certifications. Apparently...not so for LPI. OK, I enjoyed this chance to spill my guts about my debacle with SmartCertify and LPI. But, the story leads me to a possible explanation for your problem. It's possible that the banks programmers have used M$-specific Java coding and it won't work with anything but Windows and Internet Explorer. Period. Done deal. If you haven't already done so (and assuming that none of the suggestions made thus far worked for you), I would call the bank and see if they will let you talk with one of the programmers. Ask him/her if they used M$-specific Java coding for the site. Ask them if it has been tested to work with Sun's Java Runtime. I have learned, very expensively, that not all Java is alike. HTH, T Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] User IDs start at 500 or 501?
On Friday 25 July 2003 06:23 pm, Andy Davidson graced me with: > I just installed 9.1 on a new system and ran into a difference > between how the installer creates new users and how drakconf does. > I created a couple of users during the install and they ended up > with uid = 501 and 502. As they always have on previous versions > of Mandrake. > > Then when the system was up I created several more, very carefully > creating them in the same order as on our other systems. After I > spent all the time getting them created and set up, I discovered > that they did not match the uid's on our other systems. It seems > that drakconf starts its numbering at 500. So, using letters for > the order in which I created them, the users were a=501, b=502, > c=500, d=503, e=504, etc. > > I had to rip out all the users from c up, create a dummy at 500 and > redo them. > > Argghhh. Why? > > andy I haven't encountered this problem in Mandrake between the different ways that user accounts can be created. Thanks for the warning! I can sympathize with you. I run both Mandrake and Red Hat workstations connected to a Red Hat server. I found out long after I had set-up my first of the Red Hat PC's that they start users at UID=500, while Mandrake was always starting at UID=501. For the longest time, I couldn't understand why I was having Samba problems with shared files under rthe same user, but from different Linux machines. This was the culprit. Now, whenever I setup a RH workstation or server that needs to have sympathetic UID's, I create the user at the comand line with the correct UID to match those in Mandrake. FWIW, T Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] KEditBookmarks -- Really S-l-o-w!
On Thursday 26 June 2003 09:25 am, Stephen Kuhn graced me with: > On Thu, 2003-06-26 at 23:12, Technoslick wrote: > > I looked at the bookmarks.xml in a text editor. It appears to > > keep only the URL info here. Folder info must be elsewhere; one > > of the other KDE config files. > > Um...as I'm looking at the bookmarks.xml, I clearly see tags: > > > ...and they appear to correspond to folders I've created in my > Galeon bookmarks file...and for all that I've sticky-beaked through > here, there aren't any other references to indexed data structures > other than this lonely bookmarks.xml... Yeah, you're right. I took only a few moments to look at the file and while it stared at me straight in the face, I just didn't see it. Must be all the stuff I have going on here...I need a memory upgrade as well as a new processor... > > Parsing the XML file is obviously taking some time. > > Well, this is more than true - if it's a single text file (in XML > format) and it has several thousand entries, it's not only going to > parse it as XML but then translate it into HTML for usage... Yep. Reasonable. > > Oye! I'd want to start the process with the intent of going out > > shopping with the wife. You know how long THAT kind of a trip > > would take. ;0] > > Undue punishment and torture of yourself is not a good thing. Best > to stay at home and manually edit the file. Much much more fun than > shopping with a woman. Spoken from a man with true experience. I bow to your wisdom. Here's what I have done thus far... I saved my Konqueror bookmarks as HTML to use in Mozilla. Then imported them into Mozilla. The import was fast and without a hitch. I'm in the process of cleaning out the deadwood and uninteresting links. While not speedy by any stretch of the imagination, very acceptable...much faster and smoother than in Konqueror. I'll finish my clean-up work in Mozilla, then spend more time in this browser for now. An interesting observation in Konqueror: Cutting/Pasting of more than one bookmark at a time within KEditBookmarks causes one to show-up as a blank link. Preliminary guess it that they have been foreign language links that show undefinable characters or those in other than English. What doesn't make sense is that it bookmarks them fine from the Web site. I'm trying to keep things simple right now, as I learn to get around Linux, but it looks like no one app group can handle all my needs within the parameters of my equipment. Einstein's theories apparently work in the Link Universe, as well. Thanks for your help, Stephen. And for the sage advice! ;0) T Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] KEditBookmarks -- Really S-l-o-w!
On Wednesday 25 June 2003 06:20 pm, Stephen Kuhn graced me with: > On Thu, 2003-06-26 at 00:19, Technoslick wrote: > > Stephen! That's not fair! You covered all your bases with that > > shotgun approach. ;0) > > (Solly Cholly) > > > I don't doubt all those contribute to my problem. However, I was > > wondering about the way KDE stores and indexes (if any) the > > bookmarks. > > Doesn't it just suck stuff from say, a Galeon .XBEL and convert it > into a Konqueror formatted HTML page? I'm trying to figure out now > exactly how indexing is done, but not getting very far... It's external to the actual *.xml file. > > I do know, though, that it's stored in > ~/home/usernamegoeshere/.kde/share/apps/konqueror/bookmarks.xml > > ...so wouldn't that really have to do with parsing a file of large > size - albeit an XML, but that would/SHOULD be a function of how > Konqueror parses the file...ya? > > > I haven't had the time to sort through all the imported > > links, but many were three levels down, and therefore are up to > > four levels down now. Maybe, KDE has a problem working with that > > kind of hierarchy? > > It's not really a hierarchy - in a static sense - it's a hierarchy > inside of the XML document, though...but overall, it's a static > document; Konqueror would be tripping the light fantastic trying to > sort through it and present "folders" as it were, along with their > contents... I looked at the bookmarks.xml in a text editor. It appears to keep only the URL info here. Folder info must be elsewhere; one of the other KDE config files. This might be some of the reason it's so slow with a large link file that has to be checked and matched to a folder file everytime a chnage is made or a link is added. Parsing the XML file is obviously taking some time. > > I have to sort though all these links, anyway. Many are now dead. > > As I reorganize them, dropping the dead and no longer intersting > > ones, I hope to find a workable compromise. > > Check Status: All > > ...that SHOULD find all yer dead links - but from what I understand > already, it would take a fair long while, ay? Oye! I'd want to start the process with the intent of going out shopping with the wife. You know how long THAT kind of a trip would take. ;0] T Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] KEditBookmarks -- Really S-l-o-w!
On Wednesday 25 June 2003 08:11 am, Stephen Kuhn graced me with: > > > Has anyone experienced this and/or have any ideas as to what's > > happening and should be done to resolve the problem? Is this just > > a fact of too many bookmarks for my processor and/or Konqueror to > > handle? Any suggestions as to where to look to solve this problem > > is appreciated. I have other browsers, but would rather stay with > > Konqueror for now. > > > > TIA, > > > > T > > I'd venture to say it's got something to do with 1.) the amount of > bookmarks, 2.) file system performance and 3.) HD optimisation. > > (Then again, I always say that, don't I?) Stephen! That's not fair! You covered all your bases with that shotgun approach. ;0) I don't doubt all those contribute to my problem. However, I was wondering about the way KDE stores and indexes (if any) the bookmarks. I haven't had the time to sort through all the imported links, but many were three levels down, and therefore are up to four levels down now. Maybe, KDE has a problem working with that kind of hierarchy? I have to sort though all these links, anyway. Many are now dead. As I reorganize them, dropping the dead and no longer intersting ones, I hope to find a workable compromise. Thanks for jumping in, Stephen. Anyone else experienced this? T Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] KEditBookmarks -- Really S-l-o-w!
I'm running MDK 9.1 on an AMD K6-2/550. Recently, I imported well over a thousand I.E. Favorites into Konqueror. Konqueror has been really stable and smooth up to this point, but now I'm getting a rather weird result whenever I use KEditBookmarks. It takes the better part of a minute for the applet to load. When it finally does, any editing takes around thirty seconds to complete. The first half of that time period, you witness and incomplete screen rewrite. The second half, everything looks normal but the program is locked up as it continues to finish the process. The applet functions, but just takes way too long! Has anyone experienced this and/or have any ideas as to what's happening and should be done to resolve the problem? Is this just a fact of too many bookmarks for my processor and/or Konqueror to handle? Any suggestions as to where to look to solve this problem is appreciated. I have other browsers, but would rather stay with Konqueror for now. TIA, T Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Sun let's the cat out of the bag
On Saturday 21 June 2003 06:49 pm, JoeHill graced me with: > http://news.com.com/2100-1016_3-1018669.html > > It's official, Sun is right in there with MS and SCO. They even > have an ad campaign telling "nervous" IBM customers that they can > switch to Solaris because SCO is not after Sun. No collusion, Joe. When an animal goes down, all the carnivores come out for a piece of the kill. Sun's taking advantage of an opportunity to get at IBM's market, not Linux in general. Others, big and small, who see a way to take a bite will try to do so, too. Just watch and see who all the meat-eaters really are as this drama unfolds. T Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Bookmarks in Galeon
On Thu, 2003-06-19 at 17:43, RichardA wrote: > On 19 Jun 2003 16:39:10 -0400, Technoslick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I did the same, Anne, and I found that while it works properly, its > > really s-l-o-w. Slow to start up and slow to move along the Web. I was > > under the impression that Galeon uses the Gecko engine of Mozilla, or > > something core to it. How can it be that a Gnome app on a KDE platform > > should outperform a neutral one like Mozilla? Is it my system or > > something else? > > > > The truth is I like the pop-up control and tab feature of Galeon over > > Mozilla...I think its better and more intuitive. Then there's the > > better import capability over Mozilla. That one makes no sense after > > how long Netscape has been competing with Internet Explorer! Still, I > > do recognize that Mozilla has aspects of it that makes it a better > > choice over Galeon..for one...lack of dependency on the Gnome project > > architecture and the lack of interaction with KDE. There are other > > reasons for my believing this. > > > > Any ideas why Mozilla would be so much slower? > > > > T > > Mozilla is a bit of a reference implementation, with the web page > composer, email client, exotic programmable interface and so on. Galeon > is the core html engine with a lightweight interface and nothing else, > so it's quicker. On an AMD 500 MHz running under KDE 3.1.0, it's noticeable the difference between the two. I can mange with slow or long start-up. Running slower than the rest, that's bothersome. > > I read that this may change - that they'll split Mozilla into separate > programs. To speed the up programs, allow modular installation, what's their rationale? Thanks for the clarification. I'm just glad its now me or my computer. T Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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On Thu, 2003-06-19 at 17:23, Richard Urwin wrote: > On Wednesday 18 Jun 2003 5:22 pm, Miark wrote: > > http://www.forbes.com/home/2003/06/17/cx_ld_0617linux.html > > At its best it is an object lesson in how damning one can get without saying a > single thing that can be (legally speaking) denied. > > To paraphrase: "HP offer lots of drivers to download. They do not ship Linux > drivers." probably all true, but there may be drivers on their web site and I > know they are effectively available for Linux out of the box. > > I've been up against journalists like them. Vicious arseholes of the first > order. Unfortunately there is no winning move apart from not playing their > game. You gotta wonder about journalists that don't have feedback buttons on their articles. License to kill without accountability or remorse. My first thoughts to send her: "What? And you must think the DOJ was too hard on Microsoft?" Stupid, stupid people with pet biases... T Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Bookmarks in Galeon
On Thu, 2003-06-19 at 15:14, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Wednesday 18 Jun 2003 8:36 am, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: > > > Were you using the most recent version of Mozilla released for 9.1? > > I believe it's version 1.3.1. It's working pretty well for me. > > It's gets very extensive use throughout the entire day without any > > trouble. > > At the point of install it refused to work for me at all. I removed > it, re-installed it, and it has been absolutely fine ever since. I > suspect a problem in the mandrake install script. > > Anne I did the same, Anne, and I found that while it works properly, its really s-l-o-w. Slow to start up and slow to move along the Web. I was under the impression that Galeon uses the Gecko engine of Mozilla, or something core to it. How can it be that a Gnome app on a KDE platform should outperform a neutral one like Mozilla? Is it my system or something else? The truth is I like the pop-up control and tab feature of Galeon over Mozilla...I think its better and more intuitive. Then there's the better import capability over Mozilla. That one makes no sense after how long Netscape has been competing with Internet Explorer! Still, I do recognize that Mozilla has aspects of it that makes it a better choice over Galeon..for one...lack of dependency on the Gnome project architecture and the lack of interaction with KDE. There are other reasons for my believing this. Any ideas why Mozilla would be so much slower? T Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Re[2]: [newbie] [Fwd: [Mandrake Off Topic] LICQ/Dynamicallyopening ports in Linksys router]
On Thu, 2003-06-19 at 02:13, rikona wrote: > Hello Technoslick, > > Monday, June 16, 2003, 12:00:42 PM, you wrote: > > T> No, thankfully. It just has to be an executable that shows itself > T> in calling for services through ports that need to be opened. > > Are you certain that it actually knows that the exact app is running > on the original computer? This might be just port triggering in which > ANY app on *THAT* computer will trigger the port to open, with > returned packets routed to that IP. (The router remembers the IP > address, NOT the app running). It might be that the app name is just > there to help the reader remember which app is using which ports that > are being triggered. 'Port Triggering' is the feature present on this particular router/gateway. No other app but the one assigned in the router, and only to the extent that the range is specified there, will open any additional ports. If I specify the exact name of the executable that will be needing specific ports open, it would seem logical that any client on the network that runs this app will dynamically open the specified ports upon request. I have checked this out. Any PC in this house can run ICQ, simultaneously, at that, and those ports do open up to allow for the need. Secondly, running another IM needing a similar set of ports open, same machine or another, is dead in the water. This feature is specific as well as dynamic, and will not allow other traffic through not specified in the router. That's Port triggering...at least the way Linksys does it. :0) > > You could check this by having two apps that use the same port. Place > one app name in the router table, but run the other app on the same > machine, and see if it opens the port anyway. Been there. Done it. Doesn't work. > > BTW, port triggering does not need H.323 to work, and would work with > the linux box, for any app, just as well. That may be. I was speculating since there was not better to do with my limited understanding. ;0) > > Dynamic port triggering is certainly better than static port opening. You got my vote! I like this feature immensely. If I have to open up my firewall, I want to do so transparently and for the least amount of time. > I am comforted by having the fw first check the md5 signature of the > designated app - if it's OK, then open the port for that app only. Your current firewall, you mean? > > T> Exactly. If you have ICQ (continuing the example) run at different > T> times over the network by different clients, you would need to go > T> into DMZ just to keep up with the requests. If you do that, it > T> can't be a firewall anymore. > > T> To provide software firewalls on each client that would do this as > T> needed, you still would have to put the router's firewall into DMZ or > T> nothing gets through the firewall barrier to the Web. > > Not necessarily. A stateful inspection firewall can provide protection > without needing to create a DMZ. I run a SI firewall, with app-aware > fw's on each computer. The SI firewall does not need a DMZ (at least > for this purpose). The app-aware fw's allow ONLY a specified app for > the designated port(s), and will deny the same port(s) to any other > app. I think you missed my point. My position on this discussion has been geared toward the particular situation in which some of us are in: we use a hardware firewall (via router) and wish to open ports for H.323 communications. If the router cannot open ports dynamically, it will require being placed into DMZ mode (for those that didn't know this, DMZ -- De-Militarised Zone -- means all ports open!) Some routers are not able to provide dynamic ports at all. These will have to be placed in DMZ mode, as well. I have a friend who's using an SMC Barricade router/gateway/firewall that is an excellent device, but not capable of Port Triggering or Dynamic Ports. To video conference, that router must be placed into DMZ mode. With Dynamic Port Triggering, the router automatically adjusts port usage for the specified apps that would need it, as needed. Where I think we are running two separate ideals here is that I'm assuming that whether an SI firewall is in use or not, the router's firewall is still functional. In this scenario, it doesn't matter what the SI firewall will, or will not do. If the last firewall to govern inbound/outbound traffic is the router, it ultimately rules. Do you see my point? I think what you are telling me, correctly so, is that *if* I had a stateful inspection firewall running, and tweaked properly, I wouldn't need the hardware firewall. I wouldn't argue the point. I think you are correct, from what I have read about the way they operate. Be that as it may, it doesn't apply because
Re: [newbie] Insert Name Here
On Tue, 2003-06-17 at 18:16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > so just a little FYI for everyone so you know who you're dealing with! > (by the way, all the "angry marine" aggression is out of my system > after being out for 2 years...wellMAYBE!) I should have known...a "Leather-Neck"! :0) T Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Install - iit's working...almost
On Tue, 2003-06-17 at 16:51, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As frustrated as you have been, I hope you can come to see that you have some place to go when things just aren't going your way. Everybody needs a place like that, you know? :0) Earlier on you were having problems with the Windows association to WinRAR, so I popped in what I knew was confusing you and some others. I just want to address this once more for your own clarity, and because as a Windows user still, this is important to know. WinRAR is a very powerful archive tool, and considered the best GUI interfaced program of its kind in that platform. The latest version have improved in that they can now natively work with ISO images. This isn't a plus for those of us who might be downloading/burning Linux ISO's from Windows. We don't want to open then in Windows for any reason. Outside of that, being able to open, extract from, add to, and even create our own ISO's is a very cool feature. I've been using WinRAR for a long time and prefer it over any other choice in Windows. If having WinRAR associate ISO's to itself causes you concern, no problem. Go into the preferences of the program and find the section that handles associations, then uncheck the last one for ISO's. Windows Explorer and My Computer (one in the same) will change the icons on all ISO's to the plain generic "I don't know what this is!" icon. I was also wondering if you had both My Computer and Windows Explorer set to show details. In M$'s infinite lack of wisdom, file details are turned off. All you have to help you figure out what a file is, is just the icon. Terribly confusing. If this has been turned off, you should turn it on. As you make the transition from Windows to Linux, you will come to appreciate seeing the full name of the files you have on your system. Good luck as you transcend to a higher and more rewarding plane of computing. Remember, it's OK to get mad while in Linux. It's only temporary, and relief stays with you a long time...unlike in Windows. :-D T Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Install - i'm about to take a sledgehammer to mycomputer
On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 08:41, Tom Brinkman wrote: > On Monday June 16 2003 01:44 am, Inhabitant of Zion wrote: > > > Winrar is a form of zip program. Ohh and its mostly a windows > > program as far as I am aware. I don't know of a Linux alternative > > but I bet there is one. > > unrar-3.20-0.beta2.1plf rpm. I use it everyday usin FileRoller as > the GUI frontend to it. Works great, even on very large files with > many many partxx.rar's. > > > > > If you are using windows you need to download a copy of winrar > > and install it to extract the image. Don't worry its freeware. > > > > Extract the image to a tmp folder and you will then have an iso > > file that Nero or any CD writer can handle. > > > > Burn the CD to disk following the CD burning software you haves > > instructions. > > > On Sun, 15 Jun > > > > 2003 19:53:51-0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > i download the iso image, it's in winrar format, i can't > > > extract it and burn it or can i? the computer won't > > > install...lemme put it this way... > > I don't understand this. You're d/l'g .iso images from > Mandrake's site and W98 see them as .rar's? Doesn't make any sense > at all. For about a year or so, WinRAR has a built-in ability to see and open ISO files. Furthermore, if you don't change the default settings withing after installing, double-clicking or 'running' and ISO frm the 'Run' command line with actually start WinRAR and show and open the ISO image. It won't hurt it to do so as long as you don't attempt to extract the contents. > This from several year old memory, but I completely borked > my Mandrake install, and had to use W98 to d/l the Mandrake .iso's, > then used EZCD Creator to make CD's so I could get back to Linux. > No problem. > > If you're really d/l'g Mandrake91-cd1-inst.i586.iso it isn't > a rar archive and winrar won't extract it. Yes, it will extract it if you let it, and do so properly. Whether Windows can accept and protect the long file names and naming conventions used in the files that are not Windows-legal is doubtful. > It just needs to be > burnt to a cd as an image, not a data file. .iso are just one type > of image file, audio CD's are another, any OS. As has already been > suggested, check the md5sum of the iso before, and the CD after > burning. If those check, and the CD won't boot, most likely it's a > hardware or configuration problem. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Bookmarks in Galeon
On Tue, 2003-06-17 at 13:52, Douglas Bainbridge wrote: > On Tue, 2003-06-17 at 17:04, Technoslick wrote: > > On Tue, 2003-06-17 at 11:49, Maurice O'Connor wrote: > > > I have tried to put a current page into bookmarks. I can't find a > > > solution although I looked at every option provided by the menu system. > > > I am new to Galeon and maybe I messed up somewhere or I don't know what > > > to look for. Is there a way? > > > TIA. > > > > > > > > > Note: When Bookmarks are made from currently displayed Web pages they > > are thrown in at the end of your Bookmarks list > INSERT - > > NOTE: In Galeon 1.3.3 they are placed in 'New Bookmarks' instead Beg to differ, Doug. I'm running Galeon 1.3.3 and they surely go to the unassigned section of the list, under no folders. Have you make an adjustment in the settings to cause yours to do this? It's been like this for as long as I can remember, as it is in Mozilla, too. T Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Bookmarks in Galeon
On Tue, 2003-06-17 at 11:49, Maurice O'Connor wrote: > I have tried to put a current page into bookmarks. I can't find a > solution although I looked at every option provided by the menu system. > I am new to Galeon and maybe I messed up somewhere or I don't know what > to look for. Is there a way? > TIA. To Add a Currently Displayed Web Page: 1) Click on Bookmarks Icon above. 2) Click on Add Bookmark. 3) Done! To Add a Bookmark manually: 1) Click on Bookmarks Icon above. 2) Click on Edit Bookmarks. 3) Click on New Bookmark Icon above. 4) Look for "New Site" entry in list of Bookmarks shown and make sure highlighted. 5) Click on Properties Icon above (or right-click on highlighted "New Site") 6) Fill in the information for Bookmark being created. 7) Done! Note: When Bookmarks are made from currently displayed Web pages they are thrown in at the end of your Bookmarks list. To place them in a folder of your choice, you must go into "Edit Bookmarks" and do so manually. HTH T Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] madrake 9.1 network problems
On Tue, 2003-06-17 at 00:07, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > On Monday 16 June 2003 11:44 pm, Technoslick wrote: > > > I bought an Epson C82 earlier in the year but found I couldn't get it to > > network properly off of my Intel print server. I ended up giving it to > > my wife as a direct printer to her computer. Bought me some points, if > > nothing else. ;0) It's a nice printer, nonetheless. > > Yes, we must ensure "domestic tranquility" eh? :-) It as either that or admit to her that I wasted nearly $200 on a color printer I couldn't use. :0] > > > Yes. Sounds like the setting in your router is to keep lease assignments > > indefinitely. I think that was the way mine was by default. > > > > BTW, one of the undesirable aspects of the D-Link DI-701 was the way you > > could program it. Instead of a nice and easy Web access, you had to > > either use their Windows software on a PC directly connected to it via > > serial cable, or telnet into it through the cable. What a pain in the > > ass that was. Has this changed with your model? > > > > T > > That definitely has changed. Now, using any browser under Linux, (I usually > use Mozilla) you log onto the Dlinks assigned IP address, enter a password > and bingo, everything is configurable via HTML pages. They must have learned from the competition, as well as their customers. The old way was very kludge. > > Nice and easy. I already setup 2 new rules under "filters" so I can turn my 12 > and 9 year olds comps 'Net access off at will, still leaving the LAN stuff > going for them. This is for when they are home and I'm not. Not that I don't > trust them. That's a great idea. I probably have such nifty features on mine, too, but have no real need to investigate. My youngest is home for the summer, after her first year of college. I have more of a problem getting her to turn her PC off when she leaves the house. You'd think she was paying for the electricity around here. Not that I don't waste a little myself, running a server all day and up to three workstations and my laptop. When my wife's is on hers, too, I swear we can hear the utility meter outside whirling so fast with the juice-use. ;0) > > BTW, this Dlinks' model number is DI-604. I'll have to take a look at their site some time and read up on their specs. Yours doesn't sound like a low line model. T Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] [Fwd: [Mandrake Off Topic] LICQ/Dynamically openingports in Linksys router]
On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 20:01, FemmeFatale wrote: > At 06:50 PM 6/16/2003 -0400, you wrote: > > >In trying to setup a full chat session with a friend (that is, > >peer-to-peer, not using the ICQ servers), she was able to statically > >open 1024 and away we went. For a full chat session, that's probably all > >that's needed, but you are also doing file-sharing this way? What ports > >are you opening? port 5000 or 8000? > > > >My Linksys is a BEFSR41. Four fully Switched ports, Cable Modem or DSL > >capable. > > > >If I can figure out how to get Linux to use the Port Triggering, I'll > >let you know. > > > >T > > > I can't get the damn router to do port triggering nevermind the OS itself. > > i've got: > > Use the following ports to listen for incoming connections: FROM: 20001 > TO: 20019 > > yes i do filesharing. I jsut then opened that range on the router. Done. Here you got, Kiddo. Attached is a snapshot of my present Port Triggering setup. You see ICQ (Win), NetMeeting and MSN Messenger. These all trigger the opening of the ports specified. 'licq', on the other hand, doesn't trigger the opening of a port. Based on what Stephen said earlier, I think that 'licq' is not the application that is actually requesting the use of these ports. Yes, I am opening the barn doors wide open when they do open, but I also don't run any IM or conferencing software unless I intent to chat or conference. Still, I need to trim back until I find the bare minimum that works. I'm still working with a friend on this. We've both been severely side-tacked lately to finish this up. Make sense, Femme? T :0) <>Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Re[2]: [newbie] [Fwd: [Mandrake Off Topic] LICQ/Dynamicallyopening ports in Linksys router]
On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 19:34, rikona wrote: > Hello Technoslick, > > Monday, June 16, 2003, 3:50:17 PM, you wrote: > > T> My Linksys is a BEFSR41. Four fully Switched ports, Cable Modem or > T> DSL capable. > > It looks as though the Linksys may be getting the app info from Zone > Alarm, which MUST be on each local computer for it to work in that > mode (as I read it quickly). ZA is an app-aware fw, and could relay > that info to the Linksys. > > I'm not sure I understand the advantage of this since ZA must be on > each computer anyway. I'm not using Zone Alarm on any Windows PC's. I do run Ontrack (now V-Com) System Suite 4, which has a configurable firewall that asks for permission before letting anything out. I haven't had the time to play with inbound. The Port Triggering seems to be app-centric in that it only has to be able to identify the programming that is trying to make a whole. As Stephen suggested, Linux apps are not doing all the work, the kernel manages the underlying system requirements. > > T> If I can figure out how to get Linux to use the Port Triggering, I'll > T> let you know. > > It might help if you could find out how the Linksys gets this app > info. Packet Filtering? I'd send in an email to their tech support and see if I get an intelligent answer or the usual tech support gobble-D-gook! :0) T Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Re[4]: [newbie] [Fwd: [Mandrake Off Topic] LICQ/Dynamicallyopening ports in Linksys router]
On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 18:56, rikona wrote: > Hello Technoslick, > > Monday, June 16, 2003, 3:21:54 PM, you wrote: > > T> Your spyware software, commercial or malicious, is going out ports > T> that would be open in all firewalls that allow HTTP access: port > T> 80. > > Not necessarily. Tiny, for example, can be set so that the ONLY app > that is allowed to access port 80 is the browser. You can then browse, > but NO other app can access port 80. Also, a major advantage to using > a non-M$, self-contained browser is that apps using just part of IE > will pop up as non-allowed accesses. Some spyware apps try to 'tag > along' on IE coat tails, to be less evident. I should have said 'hardware' firewalls, as in the routers that we have been discussing here. My boo-boo. You re right, as I later suggested with software firewalls (liek tiny). No software has the dubious honor, as I.E. and Outlook do, for being the most violated. Their probably should be a tribute and a loud wailing done in sympathy, or something like that. ;0) > > T> The general attacks from the outside are going to come in from port > T> 80 because the attacker only has to find you in your Web browser to > T> get at you. > > Not necessarily. A stateful inspection firewall can recognize that > this attempt is not related to your browsers traffic, and will not let > it in even if you are browsing. This would not be the case if you are > being attacked by the site you are visiting, though. Again, I wouldn't argue this and should have been more specific. It's the browser related attacks that are not stopped well by a hardware firewall. Not at the under $100 USD level. Software takes care of that. > > T> I like to think of the hardware firewall as more like heavy armor. > > An excellent combination for the truly paranoid is a stateful > inspection firewall protecting the local net, and individual > app-aware fw's in each machine. Agreed. > > T> With plug-ins, NSN IM and Yahoo Messenger can now do Video > T> conferencing. > > As more and more apps require flexible multi-port operation, the > protection from fw's is becoming like Swiss cheese. :-) And that, my friend, is '..the crux of the biscuit...', as the late Frank Zappa use to say. There's this skittish balance act between securing your PC and/or network against the outside and being able to communicate with it. Most of us (including myself) are trying to divine the secrets of being able to enjoy the wild side of computing without getting our nips clipped from unfriendlies. Throw me the diving rod and dice, will ya'? T Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] [Fwd: [Mandrake Off Topic] LICQ/Dynamically openingports in Linksys router]
On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 18:40, FemmeFatale wrote: > Rikona has hit it. ICQ does this as well it seems as if you look on the > net ICQ tries to use / request (I joke not) 64,000 *yes THOUSAND* > Ports! jesus... no wonder IT security guys hate ICQ. *If* you want to have chat sessions, and audio chat, and file sharing, and send messages to cell phones and receive them from your friends as well, and, and, and...yes, you have to open up the sky for ICQ. However, if all you want is an Instant Messaging (IM) client, port 80 is all you need. No other openings in the firewall. At this point, ICQ is no worse than any other IM, maybe better since it is the more configurable than any other and seems to have more design for serious use. I feel more secure IM'ing in ICQ than Yahoo Messenger or MSN Messenger. Forget AOL...won't even give that app the time of day. If you want to talk about spyware and system resource hogging...say: A-O-L I-M! T Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] [Fwd: [Mandrake Off Topic] LICQ/Dynamically openingports in Linksys router]
On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 18:36, FemmeFatale wrote: > At 06:23 PM 6/15/2003 -0400, you wrote: > > > > >but it makes no > >sense for me to manually open ports 1024-65535 and then just as manually > >shut them down after a chat or video conference session when I have the > >ability to let the router do it dynamically. T > > Dunno which router you have BUT if you get port triggering to work for > your linksys tell me... i can't do it either. Nor does LICQ support > limiting hte ports it uses I found out. :( > > Least the older ver I had didn't... i limit my ports for filesharing & > other shit to 19 ports total. Thats it. not this ridiculous > 2 ports ICQ needs (or says it does) in > windows. Screw that. In trying to setup a full chat session with a friend (that is, peer-to-peer, not using the ICQ servers), she was able to statically open 1024 and away we went. For a full chat session, that's probably all that's needed, but you are also doing file-sharing this way? What ports are you opening? port 5000 or 8000? My Linksys is a BEFSR41. Four fully Switched ports, Cable Modem or DSL capable. If I can figure out how to get Linux to use the Port Triggering, I'll let you know. T Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] [Fwd: [Mandrake Off Topic] LICQ/Dynamically openingports in Linksys router]
On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 14:32, rikona wrote: > Hello Technoslick, > > Sunday, June 15, 2003, 7:31:07 AM, you wrote: > > T> I have a Linksys router/gateway that has the ability to dynamically > T> open ports and port ranges when a certain executable is requesting > T> to do so from a network client. This has worked very well from > T> Windows clients using NetMeeting, ICQ or MSN Messenger for video > T> conferencing and chat sessions, respectively. > > It might be that it only works with Netmeeting or other pgms that > specifically use that capability. No, thankfully. It just has to be an executable that shows itself in calling for services through ports that need to be opened. This is a very limited feature in that it only allows for ten designations. NetMeeting takes up three (if I include the ILS/ULS servers) which means that I lose the opportunity to open ports for two other applications. Once ten designations have been made, that's it. On the other hand, if your network has several clients that would use ICQ, whether one or 100 were on, the ports would open for any client running ICQ. It is a neat feature. I don't believe it is program specific, but it may be that the programs have to H.323 compliant. I would think LICQ is to work with other IM's that are. Wouldn't you? > > I was VERY interested in this idea because it opens up an entirely > different level of protection for the comps on the local net. Without > this, it is necessary to have a separate *app-aware* firewall on each > computer. > Exactly. If you have ICQ (continuing the example) run at different times over the network by different clients, you would need to go into DMZ just to keep up with the requests. If you do that, it can't be a firewall anymore. To provide software firewalls on each client that would do this as needed, you still would have to put the router's firewall into DMZ or nothing gets through the firewall barrier to the Web. > I found this on the net, as a starter: > > > > When Microsoft developed NetMeeting 3.0 they chose to use the existing > h.323 video conferencing protocol. This protocol happens to be > completely incompatible with standard NAT(network address translation) > - the technology used for most internet sharing devices. > > Unlike most TCP/IP applications, NetMeeting uses DYNAMIC PORTS instead > of STATIC PORTS. That means that each NetMeeting connection is > somewhat different than the last. For instance, the HTTP web site > application uses port 80. NetMeeting can use any of over 60,000 > different ports. Putting a web server behind a firewall means opening > a single small hole. Putting a NetMeeting computer behind a firewall > means opening over 60,000 ports - a security nightmare. Which is why running a NetMeeting server locally would be something yo would want to run entirely off on its own network. Most of us wouldn't have a need for a NetMeeting server. Generally speaking, you are going to open ports 1024 through 65,535 for H.323 communications entailing video, sound and chat capability with NetMeeting. That's a whole lot of holes! Other clients can shoe-horn in with fewer ports, but from what few I have played with and what have reports I've read, NetMeeting is *the* top performer --- because it uses such a wide band of ports to carry such heavily laden data at a reasonable bandwidth. Shut down the ports and you bottleneck video and audio conferencing quality and performance. The other choices are not pleasant, either. Gnomemeeting is suppose to be a NetMeeting clone/client. It's got to be as much a security issue in Linux as in the Windows environment. > > A few hardware manufacturers have taken it on themselves to actually > provide H.323 compatibility. This is not an easy task since the router > must search each incoming packet for signs that it might be a > netmeeting packet. This is a whole lot more work than a router > normally does and may actually be a weak point in the firewall. True, but something's got to do it. Better "it" than "me". > > So - it does not seem to be generally useful, and introduced a new > batch of security problems. Too bad. It sounded good. :-) I haven't given up on this, just tabling it for a while, at least until I can regroup for another attack. ;0) T Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] madrake 9.1 network problems
On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 09:37, Derek Jennings wrote: > Well assuming you are using Dhcp then how are you managing to resolve the > hostnames? I believe it can't. I think that BIND, or some flavor similar, does that. > When you ask to ping a host your system will first go to /etc/hosts to see if > there is an entry there (that was a mistake in my original post. I said fstab > by mistake) if there is no entry in hosts, it will go and ask the DNS server. If you look at the choices you have, it's 'hosts', 'dns' and 'bind'. DNS is always outside, it only deals with FQDN's. BIND, if I understand correctly, is the counterpart to WINS in M$land. > > If you are using your ISPs DNS server, there is no way it is going to know > about clients on your local net. If you use your own DNS server (like I use > djbdns) then there has to be some method for the dhcp server to tell the DNS > server when an address has been assigned. I don't think they talk to each other. DHCP is aggressive, though it will allow a static IP to exist without being told to. It works with a table of inclusions and exclusions as well as the range to give out. Doesn't BIND also want the same ranges? Either way, I think BIND and WINS are passive compared to DHCP where assignments go. That has to be the case because they should be run concurrently and they couldn't it they bumped heads. > > If you have a router assigning IP addresses then the router might be able to > tell you, but I have no router so my question is how can I get my linux > gateway to resolve them? The router/gateway/firewall device does because it is expected to. Technically, it becomes several devices and servers in one. Setting up DHCP on a server using software is only part of the total services needed. This is why I stayed away from it on my server. I didn't want my measly little P233 be a Samba file server, email server, DHCP server, BINDS server, and so on and so on. Damn thing would poop out on me in no time! Local names resolution And...more important to me, getting DHCP and BIND set-up correctly required some careful thinking. I'm always forgetting as to whether static devices should be numbered outside the DHCP range or inside with an exclusion. ARGH! I still have to mess around with hosts/lmhosts files for statically addressed devices, so it doesn't make sense for me. Someday, but for my little LAN, static works fine right now. I would statically assign any small network now that I am using mixed platforms.. T Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] madrake 9.1 network problems
On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 12:31, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > On Monday 16 June 2003 10:12 am, Derek Jennings wrote: > > > We were talking about Dhcp. Samba will resolve NETBIOS names for you which > > is entirely a different thing. > > By putting the names/adrresses in /etc/hosts you are using static > > addressing. > > > > derek > > So was I. I guess I don't understand the mechanics too well but what I did > was set DHCP to auto assign IP addressess to my 3 comps (via the Mandrake > Wizard). It gave them: > > 192.168.0.100 > 192.168.0.101 > 192.168.0.102 > > So...then I took these numbers assigned by DHCP and put them into /etc/hosts > so that we could ping each other by alias instead of having to type in the > full quad number. > > Did I do a "no-no"? :-) Technically..Yes. The only reason it is working is that your router has not ended any leases. With routers that have DHCP capability, I believe you can tell all of them (you can with Linksys and D-Link) to never terminate a lease. In essence, you have statically assigned addresses, with one nice catch. This catch refers to Derek's question about how can DHCP alone resolve internal names. Because the router it providing DHCP, it also keeps a table of who has what. When a machine pings an IP, it broadcasting it over the whole network to every device. I believe the DHCP router accepts this request, looks up the assignment in its table and sends back the information in the form of another broadcast. Anyway, if your router is set to never release a lease, you don't need the hosts files setup as you do. Id the leases change, you will some day be in name-resolution hell. On a M$ NT server, WINS provides the local names resolution. I believe BIND does that in Linux. The Samba server has it's own version of a WINS and uses it. Win 9.x clients can actually derive DNS through DHCP, but I don't believe they can get local resolution. > > It all seems to work really well. We all have broadband connections, we can > all ping each other by hostname, and games that never would find each other > before now do... T Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] [Fwd: [Mandrake Off Topic] LICQ/Dynamically openingports in Linksys router]
On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 19:45, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 08:46, Technoslick wrote: > > > Untrue, Stephen. > > > > Every application that communicates through a port, or series of ports, > > has a "signature", for lack of a better term. It's best to explain > > through the Windows end just because it works. > > So then would it be identfied as /usr/bin/licq ? Tried that. Believe it or not, I couldn't get the "q" in before it stopped my cursor. Oh, but msnmsgr.exe just fits... Thanks for having a go at, it mate. T Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] [Fwd: [Mandrake Off Topic] LICQ/Dynamically openingports in Linksys router]
On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 19:40, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 08:23, Technoslick wrote: > > > So, what do you think? If 'licq' is running, is *it* requesting the > > ports or some other supporting program? If the latter, any idea what > > that/they might be? I would have thought someone using a Linksys > > Etherfast Cable/DSL Router would have dealt with this issue by now. It's > > a great feature that's not available in all firewalled routers. > > > > Thanks for a shot at anyway, Stephen. > > > > T > > >From what I understand about unix/linux networking, linux (the system > et. al.) is requesting the port be opened, whereas in Windows, the > program is requesting the port. A program under linux would communicate > directly to the kernel, then the kernel would manipulate whatever port > after that. If this is what I have to go up against, it appears that I will have to open the ports manually or go into 'DMZ' for the length of session. That sucks. I think I'll send an email off to Linksys and see if anyone there is playing with Linux while their on beating on M$ pud. I suspect they will tell me that's life and accept it. T <:0[ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] [Fwd: [Mandrake Off Topic] LICQ/Dynamically openingports in Linksys router]
On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 17:08, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 00:31, Technoslick wrote: > > > I've got LICQ configured on my MDK 9.1 workstation with my ICQ accounts. > > I tried to open the needed ports on my router for a full chat session, > > but it doesn't seem to be working. I cannot create a peer-to-peer chat > > session, just IM. Obviously, the router is not seeing 'licq' as the > > program requesting the use of the ports needed to do so. Could this be a > > syntax error on my part? Isn't the name of the executable running, > > 'licq'? > > > > Does anyone know what I am missing? > > > > TIA, > > > > T > > Linux isn't going to necessarily TELL you what program wants to use a > port - just that a port is requesting to be opened. Just "force" open > the ICQ ports and you should be right. I'm not sure that that makes sense, Stephen. If I run "top", I see "licq" running. It would seem to reason that licq would be the program to make the requests through the firewall on the ports that it expects to communicate through...UNLESS, another program or file is actually doing the communicating on behalf of 'licq'. This is very possible since man apps rely on a substructure program to fulfill the desired function. I could just manually open the ports when I want to, but it makes no sense for me to manually open ports 1024-65535 and then just as manually shut them down after a chat or video conference session when I have the ability to let the router do it dynamically. The whole point of 'port triggering' is to allow apps that need port access to trigger the opening of these port for only as long as the app is requesting, then they are closed automatically. I have told the router/firewall which ones to accept in the Web interface. The triggering is nothing more than the executables trying to get through. It works fine in Windows. So, what do you think? If 'licq' is running, is *it* requesting the ports or some other supporting program? If the latter, any idea what that/they might be? I would have thought someone using a Linksys Etherfast Cable/DSL Router would have dealt with this issue by now. It's a great feature that's not available in all firewalled routers. Thanks for a shot at anyway, Stephen. T Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] madrake 9.1 network problems
On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 11:49, JoeHill wrote: > On 15 Jun 2003 10:55:06 -0400 > Technoslick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > > > And when I need to step back and think about where everything is in my > > setup...even my feeble mind can remember the IP address of anything on > > the network. :0) > > Most DHCP "servers" will let you bind IPs to MAC address for more > permanent hosts as well! Best of both worlds, I love DHCP. You actually *remember* the MAC addresses of your NIC's, Joe? You ARE good! :0D T Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] madrake 9.1 network problems
On Sat, 2003-06-14 at 22:24, L.V.Gandhi wrote: > On Saturday 14 Jun 2003 12:16 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > > > DId you logon to your router and adjust things there? I've got a Dlink > > router and it let me assign the range of IP addresses to be used for my 3 > > comp LAN. I'm using DHCP here and it works fine. > > What are the advantages of using dhcp for such small network of three > computers. Kindly explain. I have fixed ips for my LAN of 5 PCs. Some advantages: 1) Great for anyone who periodically inserts temporary clients into their network. (i.e.: service techs, fast-moving families with teenage kids..) 2) Large networks where manually adding entries to all the 'hosts'/'lmhosts' files would be a PITA, especially if clients are transient and variable. 3) Once setup properly, it does make the process pretty mindless on the admin's part. No fuss, no muss. 4) With a router/gateway DHCP server, simple to setup. K.I.S.S. principal, at its best. Some disadvantages: 1) Slight loss of control in assigning devices. Not all networked devices appreciate or can accept DHCP assignment, causing you to interject static addressing and 'hosts'/'lmhosts' usage into the network, anyway. 2) Relying on the DHCP server (which can be a router/gateway device) to manage not only the IP addresses, but in most cases DNS) can be noticeably slower in resolving names. 3) DHCP sometimes gets 'stuck' and will cause IP conflicts. Depends on the device providing DHCP as to whether this happens often or at all. I've had problems both in software and hardware driven DHCP servers. 4) Your client is SOOL if the DHCP server goes down. No IP, no network. With static assigning, as long as two devices work, you have a working network. 5) Can be tricky to setup properly. Mistakes made do not always readily show themselves, making troubleshooting a pain at times, especially if other servers/services are relying upon its accuracy to achieve their programming goals for the network. I could go on, probably, and others could add or argue for/against based on their own experiences. For me, I like things to stay put. Static does that. I prefer DHCP because I don't want to have to bother with it. Right now, my network is setup for static because it seems to be fool- proof and I don't have any more than a dozen clients/devices that need to be IP addressed. Any temp systems added are manually addressed outside the tight range of my permanent network. I don't have conflicts. And when I need to step back and think about where everything is in my setup...even my feeble mind can remember the IP address of anything on the network. :0) HTH T Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] [Fwd: [Mandrake Off Topic] LICQ/Dynamically opening ports inLinksys router]
I have a Linksys router/gateway that has the ability to dynamically open ports and port ranges when a certain executable is requesting to do so from a network client. This has worked very well from Windows clients using NetMeeting, ICQ or MSN Messenger for video conferencing and chat sessions, respectively. To do this, I just have to access the router's Web-based interface and assign the name of the executable to the ports I wish to open when the program is running. I've got LICQ configured on my MDK 9.1 workstation with my ICQ accounts. I tried to open the needed ports on my router for a full chat session, but it doesn't seem to be working. I cannot create a peer-to-peer chat session, just IM. Obviously, the router is not seeing 'licq' as the program requesting the use of the ports needed to do so. Could this be a syntax error on my part? Isn't the name of the executable running, 'licq'? Does anyone know what I am missing? TIA, T Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Hard and soft links
On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 08:28, Jan Wilson wrote: > * Anne Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030613 05:58]: > > I have just realised that if yoiu use kde's 'create a link here', you > > get a hard link. Now I may have completely misunderstood the whole > > theory, but I thought that when you want to make what windows calls a > > shortcut, you really want a soft link? > > Probably. Hard links DO have some nice uses, for example making > successive backups. By copying hard links you can automatically make > real copies only of only the files that have changed. > > > With this in mind, I set out to try to correct the situation. I have, > > for instance a desktop icon called Graphics, which should simply put > > me into /Graphics. This is what happened: > > So you want a link named Graphics, pointing to a directory named /Graphics, > right? > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] anne]$ ln -s Graphics /Graphics > > ln: creating symbolic link `/Graphics/Graphics' to `Graphics': > > Operation not permitted > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] anne]$ > > You know, it took a long time before I got unconfused about that, > myself. What you want is: > > ln -s > > This seems somehow backwards, and the man page uses terms that didn't > make it clear, at least for me. > > > OK - obviously there's something I haven't understood. Not least, > > 'why' it's not permitted. I thought that it would overwrite the > > existing link/icon. Is that not so, or is there some other aspect > > that I have misunderstood? > > If there is an existing file, directory, or link with the same name, > you will have to delete it first. ln won't overwrite an existing file > name. And remember, EVERYTHING in Linux is a file ;-) I'm still struggling to remember this. Reminds me of my MS-DOS days, back in the late '80s when I was using PKZIP at the command line level. It took me a while to remember that you place the name of the archive you are creating before the name of the files you are placing in the archive. Seemed backward to me then. Hmmm...wanna bet the authors/founders of PKZIP/PKWARE were *nix users? ;0] T Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Savage drivers
On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 05:53, Hutton Daniel wrote: > On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 13:23, Charles A Edwards wrote: > > On 12 Jun 2003 10:28:47 -0400 > > Technoslick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > For me, this is a dead issue since the card has been > > > relegated to Windows duty > > > > > > My 1 foray into the realm of the S3/Savage has made its appropriate > > home in my 'piece-of-shit' junkbox. > > It never even performed marginally even in windblows. > > > > > > Charles > > >Yeah...well...you're right. :0[ When I bought it there wasn't any > >thought of using it in Linux, and no idea that it would perform > >marginally in Windows. The price was right at the time. I'm pack-rat, > by > >genetics, so I feel obligated to still give it life. But, your right. > It > >should be guillotined, instead! > > >T > > > Well thanks for all your help guys. I was really pleased to get such a > quick response. I went to work on the machine last night and I tried > the Xtart thing and it failed, so I guess that means that the chipset > is not supported. I happened to have a newish Slackware disk with me > so I installed it to see how it would cope with the savage and it just > defaulted to the Vesa server and that worked fine, even with KDE > 3.1.0. I put the same setup on Mandrake using XFdrake and it worked > fine there too, no surprise. > > I don't really undrestand why Mandrake doesn't default in the same way > after not finding a suitable driver. Does the vesa server mean that > the card is not being used properly (or at all). I would think its > fine for an easy peasy newbie friendly installation if it just > defaults to vesa so at least people can have a look at the desktop and > be happy that the installation has gone ok. People who want to get the > maximum out of their graphics card will soon find out if it's not > being used properly and can go and fix it. I still didn't open the > case, the computer is not mine so I'll avoid doing that until I really > have to. > > Thanks once again for the help, hope I can be of help to you sometime. > Ciao, > Daniel Hutton > Glad that you found a way to get it working. I did try using the Knoppix settings that did work on my particular setup (VESA) on the Mandrake XF86Config-4 and I couldn't get it to work. Someone on the expert list just posted a link to some archived posts that showed how the problem was fixed in the Savage series by transposing the savage driver from a RedHat 9.0 distro. Too bad that I've permanently demoted my S3 Savage 2000 card to Windows duty, it would be great to see if this worked for me, too. T Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How to create a symbolic link?
On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 01:23, Len Lawrence wrote: > On 12 Jun 2003 17:40:14 -0400 > Technoslick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 22:44, Derick Schmidt wrote: > > > Hi > > > > > > Use ln -s > > > > > > for example > > > > > > ln -s /mnt/win_d > > > > Aren't you missing the name of the link in your syntax? > > Not necessarily. If no name is specified the last component of the file > name is used. In this particular case the link will be named win_d in > whichever directory the command is invoked. Gotcha. Thanks for clearing that up for me. :0) T Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] one more
On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 00:13, JoeHill wrote: > http://www.mandrake.tips.4.free.fr/ Looks like another winner, Joe! Thanks, again. Bookmarked and still open for later perusal. I should check with Anne to see if anyone is managing bookmarks on the Twiki. It would be nice to go to a familiar site to get links to everything and anything to do with Linux. T Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Tip of the Day
On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 00:07, JoeHill wrote: > There is, however, a way to truly push a program into the background > from the terminal. Using this method, you can close the window while > keeping the program running: > > nohup gkrellm & > > This simple addition of six keystrokes (space included) signals the > system that you'd like to run the program without a hangup option - > [no][h]ang[up]. In effect, it frees the command from the terminal, > allowing you to close the console without killing the program. > > If you love the power of the console and happen to be a desktop > neat-freak like myself, you'll soon learn to love the nohup command." A good one, Joe. I wondered how to get around this, myself. Thanks. BTW, I subscribe to the Lockergnome Webmaster newsletters. Never even knew they had one for Linux. I should check this out. Hmmm...two good tips. Thanks! T Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Galeon & Flash Plug-in
On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 22:10, Carroll Grigsby wrote: > On Thursday 12 June 2003 08:43 pm, Aron Smith wrote: > > On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 16:35, Technoslick wrote: > > > On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 18:20, RichardA wrote: > > > > On 12 Jun 2003 17:38:12 -0400 > > > > > > > > Technoslick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 17:25, RichardA wrote: > > > > > > On Thu, 12 Jun 2003 21:39:02 +0100 > > > > > > > > > > > > Anne Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > On Thursday 12 Jun 2003 6:01 pm, RichardA wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > T > > > > > > > > It's worse than that, T. As Linux users, we're barred from experiencing > > > > the wonderful world of Shockwave. We'll just have to make do with the > > > > useful part of the web. > > > > > > > > And yes, my plugin is out of date. It goes with my computer, clothes, > > > > music... > > > > > > Right awn, Brother! > > > > who needs ads in Shockwave? usually I find sites that insist on > > Shockwave are not worth watching. > > > > > T > > It is a minor problem here. I do some surfing with 3 year old grandson at > various kiddie sites that intermingle Flash and Shockwave stuff (mostly > www.nickjr.com). Will doesn't want to hear about OSS vs proprietary, nor the > evilness of all things Microsoft; he just wants to play the game. Fortunately, both my daughters are of adults. I got past that issue long ago. Grandchilden are a ways away. By then, Linux will be he 'de facto' O/S and this will have been a moot point for me. ;0) When I was giving Richard a '70s "Right on!", I was replying to the time period I speculated his comment of age, clothes, etc., were based on. I have no personal issues against Shockwave, or any other display media that can enrichen my experience on the Web. My complaints come when the Webmaster takes such liberties as to not allow for visitors' preferences. Those with bandwidth restrictions and/or have throttled down their browsers for whatever their reasons shouldn't be forced to endure these presentations. I have visited sites that used Flash and Shockwave as a means to give a presentation in an environment of choice and need. Both are excellent ways to give someone a tour of your product or explanation of how your service works. It's the opening message crap that is annoying and not fair to many. So, I would like to see all of these rich mediums come to Linux. Your Grandson's attitude about just wanting it to work is shared by all youth of today ( many spouses, I do imagine.) My youngest is 19 and she'd say exactly the same thing. Unfortunately, I could say the same for my wife.:0[ T Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] How to create a symbolic link?
On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 22:44, Derick Schmidt wrote: > Hi > > Use ln -s > > for example > > ln -s /mnt/win_d Aren't you missing the name of the link in your syntax? T Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Galeon & Flash Plug-in
On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 17:25, RichardA wrote: > On Thu, 12 Jun 2003 21:39:02 +0100 > Anne Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thursday 12 Jun 2003 6:01 pm, RichardA wrote: > > > On 12 Jun 2003 15:44:04 +0200 > > > > > > Steven Broos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 15:00, RichardA wrote: > > > Aren't shockwave and flash almost the same thing? The about:plugins > > > page on my Help menu (Galeon 1.2.5) says "Shockwave Flash" from > > > libflashplayer.so > > > > > > Richard > > > > Not sure - is there Shockwave Flash and Macromedia Flash? I'm sure > > that I was reading a changelog recently that said something about > > removing one of these and replacing it with the other. > > > > Not much help, other than it suggests that there may be an > > incompatibility problem if a developer found the need to change. > > > > Anne > > I don't know. I can do java, flash, shockwave, whatever, but the Epson > URL mentioned earlier doesn't work for me. > > Richard I have to wonder if the Epson site is using a newer version than your plugin supports. T Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] cat of /proc/interrupts doesn't show video card use
I've had some issues with interrupt conflicts on one my workstations, but I believe I have resolved the problem. When I do a: # cat /proc/interrupts I get this: CPU0 0:2512461 XT-PIC timer 1: 36282 XT-PIC keyboard 2: 0 XT-PIC cascade 5: 29033 XT-PIC eth0 8: 1 XT-PIC rtc 9: 3412 XT-PIC soundblaster 10: 0 XT-PIC usb-uhci 12: 550645 XT-PIC PS/2 Mouse 14: 41990 XT-PIC ide0 15:103 XT-PIC ide1 NMI: 0 LOC: 0 ERR: 0 MIS: 0 I see no reference to my video card. I asked another list pal how theirs looked and it was the same situation. Is it normal for Mandrake 9.1 not to assign an IRQ to video, even if the motherboard's BIOS is set to do so? Do I any concerns with this, in anyone's opinion? And lastly, if Mandrake 9.1 is not using an IRQ for video, would it be safe to to tell the BIOS not to assign one? Thanks T Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Savage drivers
On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 13:23, Charles A Edwards wrote: > On 12 Jun 2003 10:28:47 -0400 > Technoslick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > For me, this is a dead issue since the card has been > > relegated to Windows duty > > > My 1 foray into the realm of the S3/Savage has made its appropriate > home in my 'piece-of-shit' junkbox. > It never even performed marginally even in windblows. > > > Charles Yeah...well...you're right. :0[ When I bought it there wasn't any thought of using it in Linux, and no idea that it would perform marginally in Windows. The price was right at the time. I'm pack-rat, by genetics, so I feel obligated to still give it life. But, your right. It should be guillotined, instead! T Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Savage drivers
On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 09:17, Charles A Edwards wrote: > On Thu, 12 Jun 2003 14:09:53 +0200 > Hutton Daniel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Sorry if this is a tough one but I'm really stuck. Many thanks in > > advance to anyone who can help. > > Regardless of what card you have you should always be able to use the > vesa server. > Run XFdrake and choose custom/vesa > > Check you lilo.conf and set 'vga=normal', the default is to run with fb > and you do not want that. > You can also achieve the same results at boot by pressing Esc and > entering linux vga=normal > > > Charles I tried that, worked to a point. I couldn't recover after leaving X. System locked up after receiving a black screen. Turning the computer off/hitting reset was my only recourse. T Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Galeon & Flash Plug-in
On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 09:00, RichardA wrote: > On 12 Jun 2003 13:11:00 +0200 > Chris Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks Steven, > > > > I`ll try the link you`ve supplied > > > > Thanks for your time in responding... > > > > Regards > > > > > > On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 12:46, Steven Broos wrote: > > > I don't think that's flash, but a Java Applet. > > > (www.sun.com) > > > Didn't get that working in galeon yet... but didn't try much :-) > > > > > > Steven > > > > > Actually, that's not a java applet, it is flash - click on the jigsaw > icon and see what it says it can't find the plugin for. > > I'm still on 9.0, but the rpm I have is just an i386 one - > flash-plugin-6.0.69-6.i386.rpm > > Richard No help, I know, but I never could get Flash to work in Galeon under 9.0...even after installing the plug-in. My bad, or just the way it was? Don't know. Haven't bumped into a Flash-rich site to see how it is in Galeon under 9.1, either. I don't even see where to add a plug-in, or what plug-ins I have, under Galeon 1.3.3. Sorry I couldn't offer more. T Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Start up
On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 08:31, Todd Slater wrote: > Hmm, this sounds like bad design in kmail rather than a breach of > etiquette. It is not difficult to imagine times when you would want to > reply and include the original writer's sig. If anything, kmail should > offer the option of turning off automatic deletion of the sig, or allow > the user to select the text from the original to be included in the > reply (select text, click Reply). Sylpheed offers both options. > > How do other MUA's handle sigs in a reply? What else are people > using--kmail, sylpheed, evolution . . .? I usually snip away the sig when replying. Now, anyway. I can't remember if I have always done so or for how long this has been true. I never noticed this problem before. I switched from KMail to Evolution a few weeks ago, once I was able to covert most of my O.E. mail from my laptop. I wanted/needed a PIM as much as an email client, and Evolution does have some nifty features I wanted that were not found in KMail. Of the complaints I have with Evo, yours is not one on my list. FWIW, T Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Savage drivers
On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 08:09, Hutton Daniel wrote: > Hello, > I'm installing Mandrake for an association that I'm part of and I'm > having trouble getting x configured on a dual boot pc with a newly > installed Madrake 9.1. I got all the graphics card info from windows > which tells me that the graphic card is; > S3 Grphics ProSavage DDR with 32Mb memory and a "S3 P4M266" chip set. S3 video chipsets have become a sore subject for me with Mandrake Linux. I have a little less trouble in RedHat, so it's not just a Mandrake-related problem in my mind. If you do a search through the archives (I'm guessing...mmm...maybe April/May) for "S3 Savage 2000", you'll find my previous posts on my own problem. > I didn't open the box to check it and the documentation doesn't say > what the card actually is. >From the position of the video port it > looks like the grafics card might be inetgrated into the motherboard. You are going to have to open the box and take a look. If it's integrated, you'll find that a search of the larger square chips on your motherboard will reveal the exact make and model. If you don't see anything specifically stenciled, it's probably that one with the heat-sink on it. Don't try to remove, that of course. Instead, boot into Windows and see what's listed in Display | Settings or Device Manager. In most cases, the description Windows gives is enough. > X just won't start. I've tried all the savage drivers but none of them > pass the test during installation. I skipped the X set up during > installation and then went and tried again with XFdrake but still no > luck. I've tried both the versions of XFree86 offered to me during > installation. Using XFdrake I checked that the monitor is set up ok > and it has used values which exactly match the values in the manual > so I'm pretty sure the autodetect has worked well for the monitor. You never mentioned what Desktop environment you are booting into or start with 'startx' from the console's shell prompt. Would I be right in guessing KDE? You mentioned no relief in using either XFree86 server. That may not be totally correct. KDE 3.1.0 won't work with the S3 Savage series chipsets regardless of which of the two Xservers you choose. This is not necessarily true of the Gnome Desktop environment or other Windows Managers (WM). Try this: 1) Go into XFdrake and allow the applet to designate the driver. However, you must use the 3.3.6 Xserver. If you are already assigned to the the driver that was originally chosen, XFdrake will not give you a choice, defaulting to whatever you chose last. I found the only way I could change the Xserver was to purposely pick ANY other driver, right or wrong, save and then enter back into XFdrake to pick the correct one. At that point, choosing a new driver responds with a choice of Xservers. Make sure to pick 3.3.6 for this test. Save and exit. 2) Type in 'Xtart', without the single quotes, and press . See if a menu comes up. If not, use 'urpmi' to retrieve and install Civileme's applet from your 9.1 distro CD's (don't know off hand which one it's on, but doesn't matter...'urpmi' will tell you.) # urpmi Xtart 3) Assuming that you chose some or all of the available WM's when you installed 9.1, starting the app at the shell prompt should bring up other choices than just KDE and/or Gnome. Pick any of the WM's. I would suggest IceWM this first time around as that is pretty much like Windows and an easy try. If you find X starting up, your video card is supported. If you still can't... Consider buying a new video card that is better supported, but only after checking to see if the BIOS allows you to turn off/disable the on-board video. > Sorry if this is a tough one but I'm really stuck. Many thanks in > advance to anyone who can help. Tough one? For those of us who have to deal with the problem...yeah. Unfixable? No. Depends on whether you want to run KDE and if your wallet is feeling generous. :0] Feel free to contact me off-list, as well. Don't know if I can be of any more help, but I wouldn't mind sharing my notes. HTH T Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Need Cable-modem help!
On Tuesday 03 June 2003 10:35 am, Ronald J. Hall graced me with: > Just got cable modem service yesterday: > > Tech (of course) said he had never heard of "Linux" (where the Hell > has he been?) > > Anyways, need "hand holding orientated" tutorial or guide to get it > up and running on Mandrake v9.1! > > Thanks guys! I recommend getting a router/firewall to protect yourself from Road Runner. I won't argue over the merits of software over hardware firewalls...I think both sides are equally right and that you should also work the local firewall of your PC, too. However, if you get a Linksys, D-Link, or what-have-you, there's future growth for other PC's to be added without having to rely on any one box to filter out the bad guys. Besides, no Linux user WANTS to have only one Linux PC. Right? So, think ahead for when you'll have two, three, four, five ;-) Enjoy your new found speed. Remember to stay under the speed limit. The ability to go fast is not excuse for doing so. ;-) A copper penny's worth of advice, T Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] aol, html and related issues. round 4
On Sunday 01 June 2003 10:02 pm, g graced me with: > and, in addition to what i wrote before, i say this; > > give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. > teach a man to fish and you feed him for a life time. > > show a newbie bad habits and you teach him wrong for a life time. It's human nature to take the path of least resistance, "g". That goes beyond "newbieism". Any bad habits taught here are usually by accident. Of course, if someone more knowledgable teaches me a bad or lazy way to solve a problem, I would consider it based on it's ability to get the results I want. I am results oriented, though I still want to know "why?". Most newbies are interested in solving a problem. You're being anal about procedures. We tolerate poorly worded questions and lack of thorough reading because we all have been there and understand why it happens. You would filter the less than perfect out of Linux. Sounds like the attitude of some ten years ago. Thankfully, those people are no longer hindering the progress of Linux with their primitive biases. > how many newbies use html? too damn many. Because they don't know it has harmful side-affects and there's been no one to tell them differently. Until now. Accept that and move on to help, instead of complaining. > how many newbies take time to read help files? very few. I really don't know that number, "g". I am sure to agree with you that not enough do. I will also ask you to realize that not all docs were designed for newbies to understand. I can attest to that and would argue with anyone that this is true. And if docs are read and not understood, isn't the point of this list to give the human element, which is often what is needed to break the ice to understanding? > how many newbies make there first question 'how do i send plain > text'? none Duh! That's so stupid. In the world that I live in, the ignorant are not omniprescient. Your standards are way too high for this list and its desired intention. When a newbie lists asks newbies to act like experts to learn how not to be newbies, they need to change the name of their list to 'apprenticing experts'. Today's GUI email clients are designed to make HTML mail automatic and transparent to the user. It wasn't always that way, as you well know. Where it use to be a challenge to find how to make it your default, now it can be a challenge to turn it off. Stop whipping people for not knowing what to do. Lighten up and give constructive criticism, or let it go and mumble your concerns to yourself. > how many experts use html to reply to an html newbie? > too damn many. Again, I found myself in this situation and was repremanded in a very respectful way. Once I was alerted, I investigated the problem and came up with a solution. Someone then told me later on that I should have a line length to keep my lines within readability. I didn't even realize what was happening. It wasn't obvious because I wasn't looking. I was asked to change this and I complied, even thanked the person for telling me. Would you have had me whipped and scourged instead? That's a great teaching method. > most every one who subscribes to this list is aware that there is a > request for subscribers to use 'text/plain'. I would like to see a ratio of numbers to understand what you mean by 'most'. Over fifty percent? Seventy-five? Ninety-nine-point-nine? How can you make such an assumption when you really can't know? Are you telling me that you have the ability to read the minds of lurkers and posters alike and see who does, who doesn't, and form such an opinion? And if you saw such facts posted through one of your Google searches, does that number specifically apply to this list, this forum, this time and place? You have a habit of assuming that everyone around you just knows what's right and wrong. You are right in your motive, I'll give you that. You are terribly wrong in your delivery of a viable solution. > there is no excuse for any user of aol, eudora, mozilla, kmail, > ximian, ole, or multitude of other email progs, to send text/html. > yet they do. There's no excuse for making a mistake, not knowing the answer to a problem, not being able to do something correctly, not being able to see the way to make something work. So? Welcome to what makes us Homo Sapiens. That's why our courts have judges, we have lawyers to plead our side of the story, why we give second chances and accept apologies. > why? because they really do not give a damn about anyone but them > selves. or so it seems, because they continue to send text/html. You must be psychic, "g". For you seem to be the only one I have met that can make such generalizations without proof and be indignant about no one taking you seriously. You have no proof or any numbers to base such a negative bias on. You are being negatively anal about a real issue that deserves attention. > crawl my butt, flame me, call me what
Re: [newbie] Lexmark X73 via samba does not print
On Friday 30 May 2003 12:56 pm, Lady Mark graced me with: > I have tried to install a printer with LM 9.1. The printer, a > Lexmark X73, is connected to a XP machine (192.168.1.101). Its > share name is LexmarkX. I am 192.168.1.100. > > Printerdrake detected the network, installed samba (with MDKGROUP, > whereas the rest of the network is Mshome), detected the printer, > the brand and model, got a driver (for a X42), even gives me a > printer status when I send a test page (printer ready), but no page > prints. > > Where should I look for the glitch ? > > Thank you for your help. > > Lucy-Ann My first step, reagrdless of problems, would be to change the workgroup name on your network to one or the other. Make it 'mshhome' or 'MDKGROUP'. Secondly, I would place the name and IP address of your printer in all the 'hosts' and 'lmhosts' files, as they apply: LexmarkX192.168.1.101 If you are statically addressing your network (manually assigning the IP addresses for all devices and PC's), you should place these references in those files. It could be that you are looking to send the print spool to "LexmarkX", but the computer doesn't know how to resolve that into an IP address, in this case "192.168.1.101". If you are running DHCP, you will need to check that to see if it shows assignments to the printer at that address. If you are statically addressing the printer, but using DHCP for everything else, you will need to place the printer name and IP in the 'hosts' and 'lmhosts' files as well as exclude that IP address from the DHCP range. There could be other concerns with your setup, Lady Mark, but these are two that seem obvious enough for me to comment on. The rest would be in your Samba setup, I would presume. HTH T Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Free-Form Database -- Still Looking
On Thursday 29 May 2003 11:53 pm, rikona graced me with: > Hello Technoslick, > > Thursday, May 29, 2003, 7:30:56 PM, you wrote: > > T> Once extracted, you run the install file and it your done in > T> seconds. > > I prefer the Linus installs over Winblows. This one installs like the old DOS apps. Park it and run it! ;-) Installing the library is only necessary if you don't have it already. Yes, it was "fast" and "easy". > T> The only caveat is that the hyperlink feature is not active in > this T> version. They say, soon to come. > > The linux/lite version is missing quite a few features compared to > the paid ones. The reasons for this are two-fold. The Lite version is..Lite. Secondly, it is really underdeveloped at this point. It just released not long ago. > T> Since I use it in Windows, I'm pretty familiar with the program. > It's T> so simple to use, but please ask if you have any questions. > > Does it really put everything in a data base? Yes. Been stable so far. The largest db I have is on PCM Tips that I carry transfer to it from subscribed emails. A good way to keep this stuff together and neatly viewable/printable with a small footprint. I have no idea how many entries of articles...maybe only a hundred or so. I just started to use it a month ago. > How complex can the searching be - complex boolean, with proximity? Noep. Simple text searches...sorry. :-( > Can you 'see' each thing in a search result and scroll through > quickly? That you can do. If I find that site with the more advanced stuff, I'll come back here and post it for all. T Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Free-Form Database -- Still Looking
On Thursday 29 May 2003 11:47 pm, rikona graced me with: > I looked at it. The free/linux version is quite small in capacity. I know. Linux is a new venture platform for them. It will take time before the really improve the product to the level of the Win stuff. > I've got a LOT of stuff, and the main task is finding things. I'd > have to get their largest Enterprise version to meet my capacity > needs. I use in Windows the Lite version, and it's search capabilities are extremely simple: no boolean logic. > Also, they don't talk about the search capabilities. dtSearch can > do the very sophisticated and complex searches needed to get > exactly what you want in a sea of info. Well, from the sounds of it, that would be expected to. dtSearch aparrently carries a hefty price to go with its abilities. > Last, but not least for me, they seem to put things in a > proprietary data base, as does askSam. From my previous > experiences, I'd NEVER use such an approach again. Proprietary is much easier to manage so it would be the norm. However, I thought I saw on an earlier serch result some apps that could work on text, SQL, PHP, etc., databases. I can't remember where it was. I'll have to look again, as it doesn't look like this app can do what you want. I get so ticked off when I forget to bookmark where I've been. Unless those pesky crows have been eating my breadcrumbs left behind... T Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT: Letter from Novell to SCO
On Thursday 29 May 2003 10:42 am, Technoslick graced me with: > Here's the link that Sridhar passed along in an earlier post. > Mention made of Linus being taken to task. I skimmed it, but I am > sure that the news must be posted many other paces by now. I had > the feeling early on that IBM would not be the only one to be > harassed. Once you start to point a fingerthat finger travels > around. > Stubbid me.. :-( http://www.pclinuxonline.com/modules.php?name=News&new_topic=4 Sorry... T Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT: Letter from Novell to SCO
On Thursday 29 May 2003 09:30 am, Marc Oestreicher graced me with: > > >>IBM, Novell, now Linus... > >I must have missed something here. Has Linus been drug into this > to? >I wonder if anyone has thought about sueing Tux? Here's the link that Sridhar passed along in an earlier post. Mention made of Linus being taken to task. I skimmed it, but I am sure that the news must be posted many other paces by now. I had the feeling early on that IBM would not be the only one to be harassed. Once you start to point a fingerthat finger travels around. T Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT: Letter from Novell to SCO
On Thursday 29 May 2003 08:27 am, Marc Oestreicher graced me with: >Are they committing commercial suicide or is that just the way > it appears when mocro$oft uses another company as a pawn? It would > be interisting to hear the conversations going on between closed > doors the last month but I suppose that we can only guess. Hmmmthat does make me wonder now if there's an exchange of monies between M$ and SCO, or maybe future promises, that could make SCO want to spend all this time and money ruining their reputation beyond repair, alienate themselves with every respectable firm in the international computing community. Oh! I just came up with the wildest scenario! M$ is backing SCO behind the scenes with the idea that if they could win some leverage, M$ could step in and buy them out, having the beginning of a lucrative monopoly on UNIX source code. And if SCO fails to achieve any of this, M$ backs away from their dealings leaving SCO to sink beneath the angry mobs and go under as a business...still acquiring them for even less to create their own UNIX/Linux. We know M$ never creates anything, just acquires it. Jeezzz. If I was dreaming this in my sleep, I would classify it as a bona fide nightmare. :-0 T Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Free-Form Database -- Still Looking
I posted a request for opinions, experience and recommendations on this a while back. I can't remember where it went, but it seemed that I didn't find what I was looking for. So, I wish to ask again for any suggestions and advice on a general purpose free-form database that doesn't have the learning curve of Perl or SQL. The need if for me to maintain an off-line, portable database of bits and pieces of whatever I have learned or found. I want it to be something like askSam, but it doesn't have to be as powerful. Flat is fine, though I would like to be able to create and use hyperlinks within each document. I also don't want to make this manual (like using HTML or XML locally.) Any ideas, suggestions? All welcomed. TIA, T Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] WM's in general
On Tuesday 27 May 2003 10:34 pm, MG graced me with: > Not sure if this is what you are talking about but, I boot to run > level3 and use this little session selector. I like it better than > kdm or gdm. Its on the MDK8.2 cd's not sure about later versions. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mike]$ Xtart > > WELCOME to Sessions Selector > > 1 KDE > 2 gnome > 3 WindowMaker > 4 Enlightenment > 5 blackbox > 6 XFce > 7 IceWM > 8 Sawfish > > Which do you choose? (number) > > mike I used Civileme's 'Xtart', too...for a while. Whether it's a matter of environment deficiencies or what...under different managers some programs won't run or come up properly. If I remember correctly, Blackbox won't allow me to exit, so I end up crashing it with --BackSpace>. Is there suppose to be some limitations within each of these due to environment differences from switching from one to the other? I love little applet, but the results have been frustrating at times. T Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] *Fast* file contents search tool?
On Tuesday 27 May 2003 07:14 pm, Derek Jennings graced me with: > Install the slocate package and then in a root terminal type > 'updatedb' > It will index every file on your computer and you can perform a > quick search with the command 'slocate string' > > The database will update itself weekly, but first you must install > the 'anacron' package. Derek, I've been using 'slocate', but have been manually invoking 'updatedb'. I have 'cron' already loading on boot-up as a service. Will it matter if I also have 'anacron' running as well as 'cron'? What's the difference between 'cron' and 'anacron' in the sense of why I have one over the other, or why I would run both? Thanks in advance for clearing this up for me. T Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] cd-burning on 9.1
On Tuesday 27 May 2003 01:29 pm, Tom Brinkman graced me with: > On Tuesday May 27 2003 06:45 am, Technoslick wrote: > > This is good stuff, Tom. Have you ever posted your own "HOW-TO" > > on mixing, normalizing and burning anywhere that I can get my > > hands on it? > Actually I've posted much the same info about CL burning of > CD's over the past year or so. A search on the archive for biso, > bdcd and bacd will probly turn'em up. Most of my stuff is just my > preferences (opinions ;) based on the CD-Writing HOWTO and 'man > cdrecord, mkisofs, cdparanoia, normalize, mp3_check' with others > suggestions and ideas added in. I know you have, but it's not the same as seeing it all nicely gift wrapped as an article from A- Z. A lot of newbies are still finding out about Google, best ways to search the lists and where else to find answers. The HOW-TO's that come with a distro are anywhere from fair to excellent, from easy to understand to far in outer techno space. It's nice to see a local-yocal authoring who has already earned some respect for soild and useful experience. >To tell the truth, I've gotten the impression most people still > prefer to cling to usin a GUI frontend to do all this stuff for > them. It's just my view that many don't understand (or care to) the > ramifications and pitfalls of lettin GUI make choices for them. > Specially when it comes to 'on the fly' burning processes and > speeds, any OS. I use to be one'a 'em. Your helping me here, Tom. You gotta stop talkin' or you are going to fall into my trap. :-) You just said it. You don't know why more people don't use the CL. Soeducate them! Give the people a HOW-TO on gettting the most out the CL, as you explain to them how to burn music and audio CD's. See? You are slowly falling into my power of persuation. :-D > Their preferences and choice are surely their right, but I > still think they'd be better off exploring the docs and becomin > familiar with cdrecord, mkisofs, cdparanoia and such. If nothin > else it would make some of the options in GUI's better understood. > Probly many less coasters too ;) I have to accept that as an axiom. One must explore the starting points. All you would do is put your own twist, to the point, step-by-step, as you see it, into the article. > Anyhow, the HOWTO already exists on your system under > Documentation | Howto's and 'man ...' If everybody just adopted > my preferences, and didn't develop and post their own, I'd (we'd) > miss out on maybe findin even better ways to do stuff. That's > certainly a good, if not the best, part of how I learn to do stuff. What's wrong with your preferences as a starting point? Newbies don't have a lot of preferences. That's why they come here. For answers and to get some! :-) I'm not pushing you or anything. Nope. I wouldn't do that to you. But, I would be remiss in not making my point. You should write some stuff up. I won't bring it up anymore. OK? T P.S. Be happy to carry on the OT on racing, off-listanytime. I mean it! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] cd-burning on 9.1 >>> this one DEFINITELY OT
On Tuesday 27 May 2003 02:03 pm, Tom Brinkman graced me with: > > On Tuesday May 27 2003 06:45 am, Technoslick wrote: > > You realize it will be hard to talk > > about 'puters and Linux over the din? ;-) > > Not after the race, back at the travel trailer parked just > outside the track :) 'Course we'd havt'a wait till after we > actually watched the race. Hmmm...sounds like another most excellent OT > We usually record the broadcast so when > we get back from the track we can figure it out better ;) Because we start the drinking before or after the race? > Nothin > like bein by the fence tho, with 30,000 horsepower blowin by at 200 > mph, door handle to door handle, nose to toes ; Been doin it > for many years ;) There's a rush to watching a live race that you can't get on TV. You also can't appreciate how fast they are until you see one go right by you! > Unlike some stock car fans, I like the road courses. If nothin > else it adds variety to the sport. I like short tracks the best > tho, Bristol TN, Richmond VA. WoO on dirt is another favorite. > Battleground Speedway, Houston, or TMS, Fort Worth. Yep. Variety makes what you like all the better and still expands your tastes. Once in a great while, I'll see some World of Outlaws on TV. I like sprints cars. We have dirt and asphalt short-track here in the Northeast, too, but not like the south has. > Yeah, it was ;) Drivers can be a touchy subject. Mama didn't raise no fool. ;-) > 'Course my > other favorites are the Corpus Christi boys, Texas' team, Terry and > Bobby Labonte. The names are very much familiar. Truthfully, I don't even get to watch what I really like, either: Formula and Can Am, or any other road course stuff. No time and never know when it is on. Besides, I have hungry Linux mouths to feed. No time for such nonesense. ;-) > Twice a year, the campground at Talladega becomes Alabama's > second largest city. 500 acres of jammed in RV's, and Mardi Gras > every night ;) I've had tickets for both races (April-Oct) for > some ten years now ;) Maybe you should speak to Mandrake about having a Linux convention there at about that time...(I am trying to keep this thread on topic!) :-D T P.S. Seriously, thanks for the enlightenment. Someday, I hope to get back to following the racing I love. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] ftp weird server reply error in Mandrake update
On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 09:55, Frankie wrote: > I got messages like that too.. > > I rather suspect is due to the massive amount of 9.1 downloading that is > going on.. > > servers not accepting new requests... stuff like that.. > > see if its still happening next week before you go messing with your setup.. > > > rgds > > Franki I suspected as much, but wanted the warm fuzzies of someone else's opinion. "...weird server reply" has got to be almost as cryptic as some of the M$ error messages I use to get. It would be nice if there was one extra error trap that said something like "Go away! Too much traffic! Leave me alone for a while!" I could handle that. Thanks, Franki. I can wait. T :-) -- "Procrastination is not a disease! It is a way of life..." -- Technoslick Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] ftp weird server reply error in Mandrake update
In the last couple of days, I have noticed a peculiar difficulty in
using Mandrake Update. I get the following error message on nearly all
packages that I select for updating:
Error during download
There was an error downloading package:
ftp://
Error: ftp weird server reply
Do you want to continue (Skipping this package)
Yes No
This had never happened in the past. Is this due to a change on the
mirror site I have been using, due to the release of 9.1? Or is it a
matter of corruption on my system?
TIA
T
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Re: [newbie] Club access to 9.1
On Thu, 2003-03-20 at 15:56, Miark wrote: > No, everybody gets access at the same time, probably sometime > Friday or this weekend. > > Miark thanks, Miark -- Technoslick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Club access to 9.1
Does anyone know for sure if Club members will have access to 9.1 ISO's before the general public? T -- Technoslick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Off list for a while
On Sat, 2003-03-15 at 14:21, civileme wrote: > So goodbye.. > > Civileme Good luck to you, Civileme. T -- Technoslick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Help - Can't get printer on lan working
On Wed, 2003-03-12 at 22:37, Greg wrote: > I did it I got it to work It took some fooling around with it but it does work > now I had to delete all of my old printer setups and start over Thanks very much > for your help I owe you one > Greg I may have to look into one of those combo router/print servers when it comes time to replace my Linksys router. I'm glad I could help, Greg. T :-) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Help - Can't get printer on lan working
On Tue, 2003-03-11 at 18:19, Greg wrote: > I do have a staic ip for my router It is 192.168.123.254 Where would I enter the > the ip number What program would I use to set it up > Thanks Greg Greg, I went to SMC's Web site and downloaded the manual for the four-port unit with print server. The manual does an excellent job of describing how to set-up the print server to work with Windows-based computers, but gives you two sentences at the very end to explain how to do this in UNIX (and Linux): "Follow the traditional configuration procedure on UNIX platforms to setup the Barricade print server. The printer name is "lpt1." I read this to mean you will use your router's IP address as the name of the print server and "lpt1" as the name of the server's queue. So, this is how I would put your information in as a LPD printer: Queue Name: my_print (whatever you want to call your print queue) Queue Type Server: 192.168.123.254 Queue: lpt1 Then select your appropriate driver for the printer you have. Do you know how to set-up a printer in Mandrake? If so, chose LPD at the onset and you will get to where you would add the information I gave you above. If you don't know how to add a printer, the easiest way is to go into your Mandrake Control Center. You will be prompted for your root password. Enter it and then choose System, then Printers. You should be fine once you chose LPD as your print server type. Let me know if you bog down anywhere in this process, on list or off. T Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Help - Can't get printer on lan working
On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 22:35, Greg wrote: > Hi Everyone I need help to set up my 9.0 box to printer to my printer server on > my lan The windows Machines can print to it using prt local port The print server > is a Barricade router with the print server built in > I have tried but I can not get it to woth with Linux My printer is a HP 600c > Any one have any ideas Thanks Greg Sorry for the typos...cold fingers in a northern climate. :-) T. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Help - Can't get printer on lan working
On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 22:35, Greg wrote: > Hi Everyone I need help to set up my 9.0 box to printer to my printer server on > my lan The windows Machines can print to it using prt local port The print server > is a Barricade router with the print server built in > I have tried but I can not get it to woth with Linux My printer is a HP 600c > Any one have any ideas Thanks Greg Hi, Greg, I use an Intel NetportExpress 10/100 print server, so maybe I can help you. I am not familiar with the Barricade router, but have seen such devices advertised locally and on the Web. My print server can be statically addressed or get its IP through a DHCP server through a local LAN. Since yours is also a touter, I suspect that you must statically address your router? Whatever that IP address is (say 192.168.1.1 or 192.168.0.1, etc.), you can either use that IP as the name of your LPD server, or if your router allows such, give a name to the device (mine's 'gateway'). If you name it, and you are not using local DHCP, WINS support through Samba-winbind, you will need to enter its IP and name in 'hosts' to be sure that it gets resolved. Check with your manual to see if there is a 'queue' name for the LPT port on the router. You will need this, as well. So, here's how I would set-up my printers using my device under and LPD/UNIX print server in Linux: Queue Name: eps1550 (I have an Epson ActionLaser 1500...old timer) Queue Type Server: print (I could have used its static IP - 192.168.1.51) Queue: lpt1_passthru (I have two LPT ports and one serial. lpt1_passthru, lpt2_pathru, etc.) Then select your appropriate driver for the printer. The set-up is similar under all distros. Does this help any? T Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Epson printer warning!
On Saturday 01 March 2003 01:39 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > Okay, about a week ago I posted a message about problems I was having with > my Epson C62 printer. Isn't it true on the newer inkjets that you need to apply a software 'patch' to reset the chip, or fool it, into thinking that the refill is brand new? A friend who refills her own told me she had to do this to get her own refils to work. This was in Windows, BTW. T Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Samba question
My question deals with a current setup of two MDK 9.0 clients and one MDK 9.0 server running DHCP and Samba with winbind. The network is a mixture of Windows clients (presently Win 98 SE and Win 2K) and MDK 9 clients, all DHCP clients. The server is setup to be Master as well as Local Browser and provides WINS support to the Win clients. I have had some permissions problems in getting clients to be able to have write access to public and secured shares, but I have finalled got that resolved (I think!) In one of the two MDK clients, my certification file for 'public' contains the variable "%" for username and this works fine with my own password. The other box is virtually identical in setup (hosts, resolv.conf, hosts-allow, hosts-deny, etc.) and refuses to connect and mount 'public' without my actual username present. Network info was updated through 'netconf' on both and appear identical. All mounts were created using MCC | Mount Points | Samba mount points. I did try to using the "%" for password as well, but obviously this is not a generic variable. I cannot find any reference to the variable used for 'password' that would pass on the correct value for whomever happens to be logged in when the shares are accessed. Is there one? Can anyone explain why one MDK box cannot utilize the "%" variable while the other can? TIA T Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] MandrakeClub Renewal
On Thursday 27 February 2003 11:07 pm, James Dawson wrote: > My finances are rather tight right now so I don't know if I can afford to > renew at Silver level but I can't find an option online to renew at Bronze > level. Second, is it possible to renew paying on a month-to-month basis > rather than a single payment? I may find the same will happen to me when my silver membership is up for renewal. I think I will have to scrutinize the benefits beyond helping the org survive when that time comes. It is ironic that they need the money, yet are so conservative as to not play the odds and gamble that more people will go for a monthly option than will try to cheat them out of premiums and downloads. I think they need to take a risk here. Nothing ventured, nothing gainedand maybe (as in my case?) something lost... T Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Test Post
On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 20:07, FemmeFatale wrote: > On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 12:23, Technoslick wrote: > > Test post...please ignore > > > > > > > > No. That'd be cheating. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] This fellow needs help. His mails are being rejected.
On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 20:11, FemmeFatale wrote: > > Perhaps a stupid question here... But would using your adelphia acct & > routing the email thru some kind souls own > postfix/sendmail/qmail/whatever server help ? I know ppl on this list > run the damn things & even I'd be willing to set one up specifically for > that purpose (Plus the knowledge & sweating I'd gain/do over it would be > fun. heh am I selfish or what!?) > > TTYS I didn't catch your meaning..."souls"...so I can't be sure that I am answering you correctly. It would seem to me that it wouldn't matter how I route the email at my end. Once it is out on the Internet, the email is at the mercy of the servers and routers that process it and move it. I have to bypass the Adelphia email servers to get around this problem. At least, that's what I am being told and what makes sense to me. Anyone have a better idea? T Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] This fellow needs help. His mails are being rejected.
On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 18:40, Terry Smith wrote: > I'm the fellow that needs help :-). Or put another way, another unhappy > Adelphia customer (the only high speed access available in my > neigbborhood). > > This is a test msg, passing the email through an SMTP server at work. > > Terry Smith > Cape Cod USA Yes...congrats to you for finding the only way to get around this problem without dropping Adelphia. I know how you feel... T Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] This fellow needs help. His mails are being rejected.
On Sun, 2003-02-09 at 11:52, Greg Meyer wrote: > The same exact problem that adelphia has. Thank you very much for clarifying, > I now have the info that I need to speak with the ISP again. > - -- > Greg Greg, I just wanted to follow-up with you, and let everyone else one the list know, about my on-going battle to get any posts through from an Adelphia SMTP server. After a lengthy talk with a tech support personnel at Adelphia, yesterday (one many before), it would seem that Mandrake's listserv is blocking all emails sent from Adelphia's SMTP servers. Why? Last year, around late summer, Adelphia experienced a rash of spam attacks that nearly broke their system and also propagated the attacks to others. It was the opinion of the tech support person that Mandrake is blocking all email send from their servers because of this. I have already discussed my own problem with Mandrake, and in fairness to their efforts, they did try to manually add my address to their system to let me through. It didn't work. Reverse look-up was what was also killing me, as it seems to be the case in this thread. Anyway, I wanted to let everyone know that there isn't anything that can be done at Adelphia's end. They have nearly migrated all their several million customers to the new email server systems, so as it is today is as good as it will get from them. They are now pointing the finger to Mandrake and saying that Mandrake must remove Adelphia from their list of spam domains. How I was able to get around my problem was to use the SMTP server of my dial-up account (this is one reason why I am broke all the time...) by authenticating through my email client. It works fine, as long as the ISP is set up to allow this. Coincidentally, my test post triggered a return email from an anti-spam agent that my Dial-up ISP is using, forcing me to do a one-time validation. No big deal, really. While my solution is of very little help to Adolpho, it would be to anyone who has been trying to use an Adelphia SMTP server to communicate with this list (or some others?) Don't ask me why I didn't think of this soonersometimes I get so deep into the forest that I wouldn't know what a tree looked like if I bumped into it...I apologize for interrupting the thread, but I had hoped that this information would have some value to everyone. T Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Test Post
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Re: [newbie] looking for easy, cheap, way to share files, cable connection between two boxes
Of course, Stephen is very correct, and Brandon's two Option's work great, however... What's best from a standpoint of ease, security and performance is purchasing an internet gateway/router/firewall from Linksys. Mine is a four port switch, as well, but they also make even smaller units. I think the going rate for this device is around $70-80 USD. That may sound a little steep for your wallet, but consider these advantages over using a second NIC in the MDK 8.2 box: 1) Switches allow full duplex communication. Both your machines get 100% of the bandwidth for network and Internet. When your 8.3 machine is print spooling for the XP machine, you will appreciate the lighter feel on that machine while you are still trying to work or surf the Web. You set-it up through your Web browser for static addressing (my recommendation for this set-up), or go super-easy and let it DHCP the IP addresses for the two machines. Plug each machine into the device and your DSL or cable modem into the device. 2) While Linux's software firewall has a lot more options and control capability, a hardware firewall is always preferable since it is harder to hack. You can run both, if you are that paranoid. I would always opt for that extra warm feeling of a hardware firewall. In this case, it comes as part of the package. 3) You do not need to have your 8.2 machine running for the XP machine to surf the web! 4) When the time comes to add another machine, you can add either a tiny five port Linksys Workstation Switch to the device or a hub. With the cross-over, you still have to start over again. 5) The cost of the device will pay for itself over the cost of a second IP from your provider in the first or second year, depending on the amount you are asked to pay. The device will comfortably handle up to 32 computers simultaneous connections to one IP address from the high-speed source, depending on how you set the rest of the growing network up. None of this relieves the need for you to have 8.2 running for Samba services. Check out http://www.linksys.com for what they have. There are other brands that work.I make no bones about being very biased toward hardware devices to provide ancillary protection. I can be very cash poor at times, so I am not always able to go high-tech, either. You have choices. T :-) - Original Message - From: "joe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, December 15, 2002 10:08 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] looking for easy, cheap, way to share files, cable connection between two boxes On Sun, 2002-12-15 at 16:42, FemmeFatale wrote: > At 03:00 PM 12/15/2002 -0600, you wrote: > >. Stephen, can you share the internet with a > >crossover cable? > Yes provided the cable goes to a Hub/router/whatevers Uplink Or #1 > port. thats what that port is for. > OK now I am confused (again), I was thinking from what Stephen wrote that my XP/mdk9.0 box would be connected to my 8.2 box with the crossover cable, and that (8.2) box would have another NIC connected to my cable modem as usual.I thought a hub/router/whatever was unnecessary with this setup. I also thought this would suffice for both file sharing and for sharing the cable connection.Was I wrong? Also what is the #1 port? Joe. 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] CDROM troubles
It appears that you do not have supermount runnning. It would show up in your fstab like this: none /mnt/cdrom supermount /dev/scd0,fs=auto,ro,--,codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask 0 0 0 So, you do need to unmount before switching CDs, then mount again. T - Original Message - From: "Brandon Vanderberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, December 15, 2002 4:35 PM Subject: [newbie] CDROM troubles Hi folks, sorry for the FAQ. But, I've read lots of howto's and tons of threads on the subject in various boards, and am more confused than when I started. The trouble is with my IDE CD-ROM burner. I'm not trying to burn at this point, just read data CDs reliably. Right now it's hit and miss. An example: ls /mnt/cdrom - I see the files. cp /mnt/cdrom/*.jpg /home/me/documents/ - Some files make it, some don't ls /mnt/cdrom - I see a list of files, but each says it's an invalid file or directory. I believe I need to switch to ide-scsi from ide-cd, but I'm not sure. Is there a simple way to get this working? The howto's I've read seem to require a mastery of Linux I just don't have. Info: Mandrake 9.0 cdrecord -scanbus Cdrecord 1.11a32 (i586-mandrake-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2002 Jörg Schilling Linux sg driver version: 3.1.24 Using libscg version 'schily-0.6' scsibus0: 0,0,0 0) * 0,1,0 1) * 0,2,0 2) 'LITE-ON ' 'LTR-32123S ' 'XS0R' Removable CD-ROM 0,3,0 3) * 0,4,0 4) * 0,5,0 5) * 0,6,0 6) * 0,7,0 7) * more /etc/fstab /dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /dev/hda6 /home ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom auto codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-1,noauto,nosuid,ro,user,nodev 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 none /tmp tmpfs defaults 0 0 /dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0 -- ~Brandon [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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] Linux installation & Router Advice
Femme, For the longest time, I was letting my Lynksys router/firewall/gateway do the DHCP for my mixed O/S network. During that time, my NT 4.0 Server was acting as a Primary Domain Control (PDC) and a secured resource center file sharing between my business and family needs. I had no problems with this set-up, letting my MDK 8.2, 9.0 and RH systems acting as DHCP clients. All that was necessary was to make sure that my router/firewall.gateway was set up correctly to assign addresses as I wanted them to be. Once I set-up the RH 8.0 file sharing server (I had already removed the NT server from the network long before), I had some issues with this set-up using Samba. Instead of playing to much with this, I just went to static addressing all around, making sure that my HOSTS and LMHOSTS files were proper and synchronized. It's been this way since and I have had no problems or complaints to share. With my own network, being down is really difficult for me to accept. Sometimes, it causes me to take the shortest means to my goal and I lose the chance to learn how to get what I want done my way. Sorry, I can't give you any ideas at to why the static addressing was the way that worked for me. However, you can mix and match. Keep the router DHCP server, Windows boxes as clients and make the Linux boxes static. You will need to set-up HOSTS/LMHOSTS files on every machine for the static addressed machines to be "seeable" by the DHCP clients by their netbios name, and you will need to make sure you set-up the router as your gateway for the Linux machines and your ISP DNS server(s) for DNS. HOSTS and LMHOSTS files only need to be created once and then copied to all machines as needed, so this isn't as messy as it sounds for a small network. Does this help any? T - Original Message - From: "FemmeFatale" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, December 14, 2002 4:22 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux installation & Router Advice > >FWIW, I had installed 8.2 when we put a router in for the adsl. The >changeover from shared connection to PPPoE was painless, and I have seen no >problems that relate to the router issue. When I upgraded to 9.0 no problems >emerged either. > >Maybe I'm missing something, but it seems on my experience to be a non-issue. > >HTH > >Anne Thx Anne. However my experience has been... Odd. I went to install linux, everything went fine & I chose "DHCP connection" as I had always in the past. The Router I use is acting as a DHCP Server after all, giving out addy's for our comps here. Fine... Install went OK, it couldn't update packages but I expected that. Rebooted into linux, it was fine. No internet. That was my first clue something was amiss. Fiddling with things with both the expert & novice controls I found out that I had to disable "DHCP/Bootp" & enable a static IP addy. WTH? Makes no sense, and I had to put in gateway & DNS numbers (the routers IP sufficed here). Yet in Winsucks it works fine as a DHCP Server!? OK something is amiss... but what? - FemmeFatale Good Decisions You boss Made: "We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts." - Source: Dilbert 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] OT: Free-Form Linux Database
Thanks for the referral, Spence. I took a look at the site. It looks pretty powerful and capable. It also looks a little initmidating for me a this point. Learning curve is an issue; I haven't delved in XML as yet. I've bookmarked the site and will seriously look into it when I get some free time. T - Original Message - From: "Spencer Anderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, December 13, 2002 12:15 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] OT: Free-Form Linux Database Check out eXist at exist.sourceforge.net. It's supposed to be a free-form java based database for text documents. I haven't had time to really looked at it but it may help you. If you get it up and running, let us know on the list. Spence On Fri, 13 Dec 2002 11:52:02 -0500 "Technoslick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would like some feedback from anyone who has found and is using any > free-form database program in Linux. Something similar in nature to askSam. > I wish to migrate all of thousands (literally) emails, tech notes and other > minutia to an easily accessible and usable program that allows advanced > search, sorting, formatting and printing capabilitities (not command line). > Free-form, not structures, is the key! My search on the Web has given me > only two possibilities so far: 1) Use command lines Linux utilities (like > 'grep', etc.) and text files; or 2) A program like TreePad, which is > available for both Windows and Linux platforms. Importing capabilities are > crucial. I also do not want to tie this database to any email program. > > Anyone tried/using TreePad? How is it from a data managability standpoint? > Does it seem to work well in Mandrake Linux? > > Any other possibilities? > > TIA, > > > > > > 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] OT: Free-Form Linux Database
I would like some feedback from anyone who has found and is using any free-form database program in Linux. Something similar in nature to askSam. I wish to migrate all of thousands (literally) emails, tech notes and other minutia to an easily accessible and usable program that allows advanced search, sorting, formatting and printing capabilitities (not command line). Free-form, not structures, is the key! My search on the Web has given me only two possibilities so far: 1) Use command lines Linux utilities (like 'grep', etc.) and text files; or 2) A program like TreePad, which is available for both Windows and Linux platforms. Importing capabilities are crucial. I also do not want to tie this database to any email program. Anyone tried/using TreePad? How is it from a data managability standpoint? Does it seem to work well in Mandrake Linux? Any other possibilities? TIA, T Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] MS Intellimouse error
I think it is rather weird that it does this, but then it isn't that big a deal for me to stay away from that rodent until shutdown (or maybe, in your case, boot-up) is finished. Problems like these I can live with as long as I find the source of the problem and see something I can do keep it from happening. I wonder if Mandrake is already aware of this issue? You mentioned that USB hasn't been very reliable under 9.0. I never used USB in the short time that I had 8.2 running, so I have no comparison on my end. The other USB devices I have tried to us with this particular box (IBM Webcam and DCS Pro Digital Camera) have both failed to be recognized or usable. I am sure that it is a combination of my lack of understanding, the proper software loaded and device incompatibility with Linux. So, what else is new? :-) I guess I really can't be sure that I am having any problems with USB to defend or deny the issues. As for the use of USB in a mouseI wouldn't hesitate, if I was you, to buy new mice USB capable. I think most come with a USB --> PS/2 adapter, so you get the choice as to how you want to make it work. You gotta love modern technology. It's about choices that weren't there before. However, I wouldn't throw your PS/2 rodent away as yet. If you are experiencing the same problem/result as I am, there's no need to buy a replacement. Let me know if what is happening with you is the same as with me? It makes me feel a little more confident that my box isn't just getting pissy with me from time to time. ;-) Yes, I do believe all my computers have it in for me. Doesn't everyone feel the same about theirs? T :-) - Original Message - From: "Angus Auld" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2002 11:38 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] MS Intellimouse error - Original Message - From: FemmeFatale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 17:51:47 -0700 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] MS Intellimouse error > At 11:19 PM 12/9/2002 -0300, you wrote: > >** > > > >Thanks for the reply Femme, > >I was actually under the impression that it would "easier" to use > >the MS Intellimouse as a PS/2. I haven't tried it as USB. > >It's working OK really, just the occasional error comes up. > > > >I am dual-booting an MS system too...no probs with the mouse there. > >Shouldn't be either...after all it's an MS mouse! > > > >I do have a free USB port. You think it would be better to try that? > >Mdk 9.0 hasn't been the most USB friendly system. I had quite > >a battle to get my Epson USB printer up and printing! :-( > >I did get it working though, after a scrap. Works OK now. > > > >Thanks for the help. All the best. > > > >--Angus > > > >"Success is the art of being who you are." > > > Dear Sweety: > > Some info for you tho: USB is faster in its polling rate than > PS/2/2. Once you try it you never want to go back, especially if you > game! Caveat: It can be a bit hard to setup. Email me off-list for help > if you wish. > > Finally, USB Offers a way of working around IRQ's & their conflicts, should > that be a problem... as it is all daisy chained off of one central > "HUB". Hard to explain but basically think of a pinwheel. The centre is > the Master HUB controller chip on the mobo. From there it will allocate > addresses & Space for each USB Device in use at any one time. > > The explanation can be more complex of course, but you get the idea. > > As for it being better in terms of performance, see above. And honestly > I've had nothing but smooth sailing on anything from 8.0 - 8.2 on > MDK. Haven't tried it on 9.0 yet tho. So I will load that today & See for ya. > > The Only time i had trouble was in 8 or 8.2 I think when I had to have the > mouse be on a PS/2/2 port to install the system. After that I ran > "Mousedrake" in a term & set it to USB. > > So... have fun! > --- > Femme > Thanks for for your insights and explanation FemmeFatale (fatal woman...hmmm). I'm not having any IRQ conflicts or anything like that, and I'm not a gamer. Is there any noticeable difference in performance between USB & PS/2 when just doing regular non-gaming computing? I will wait to hear how your USB mouse works with Mdk 9.0. Maybe I'll switch to USB too. Thanks for your kind offer of off list help too. You're definitely a sweety ;-) I think Technoslick is on to something about jarring the mouse causing the error. I usually reach down to turn on
Re: [newbie] unreadable files? :-/
Sounds like 'them' visited you once before! Thanks for the tip. I'll remember that the next time I am playing my music and get the urge to see what's inside a file with 'cat'. Poor Angus..I hope they didn't take him, too. ;-) T - Original Message - From: "Ron Bouwhuis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 8:00 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] unreadable files? :-/ LOL Of course, if you ever want to check whether a file is safe (i.e. readable ASCII) or not before you cat or vi or less it, is to use the "file" (no quotes) command first. Of course, if you like your terminal going postal on you, cat away! Ron. --- Technoslick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Real funny, Angus! Good one! Look at what that > curiosity brought me > > I was playing an audio CD in KsCD when I decided to > open a terminal, 'su' > over to root and cat 'message' in /boot. That's when > the joke was on me. All > of a sudden I got a flurry of Morse code beeps > through my speakers, making a > mess of my music. So, I closed the terminal window, > but the Morse code kept > on coming! Gee-e-e-e-z-z-z-z! I think to myself, I > gotta shut this noise > down. Well, now I am faced with having to turn off > my blessed music or see > if the 'bleeping' noise (no cussing implied) would > end on its own. the > bleeping noise (cussing now intended) just kept on > coming, so in disgust (I > hate to interrupt my music) I closed KsCD down. The > Morse code stopped. Wow! > I was so relieved. > > OK. So...I got caught doing a stupid thing. I mean, > curiosity killed the > cat, right? The only thing that bothers me is what > that bleeping noise was > about. It sounded familiar, somehowI know that I > have heard this stuff > before.Hmmm...Yes! I remember now! Wait! Oh NO! It > can't be?! Geez, I can > see them coming, out of my kitchen window. NO! > NoNot again! They took me > once! No...! OMG!!! No-o-o-o-o-o.. > > T ;-) > > Moral: Don't ever 'cat' a binary file in Linux. It's > extremely noisy and > just infuriate's the hell out of 'them'. And they > will come for you, just as > they have for me. Oh yes, they will come > > - Original Message - > From: "Angus Auld" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2002 11:33 AM > Subject: [newbie] unreadable files? :-/ > > > Greetings, I am having a strange thing > happen > I am quite certain that just a couple days ago I was > able to read, and even > edit, a file/s. Now I am not even able to read them. > Not as plain text > anyway. They are now being identified as "unknown" > type. When I open them, > they are just so much code. :-/ > > Now, unless I have completely gone off my rocker, > something strange is > happening here.and I don't know what it is. > > Could somebody who is running Mdk 9.0 out there have > a look in /boot, and > check the files; message-text or message-graphic, > and verify for me whether > they are plain text files that can be read? > > I have read permission on them, and even as root I > get the same thing. > > I'm experiencing a glitch with lilo, and am curious > about this "happening". > > TIA for any help. > > > > --Angus > > "Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, > but around in > awareness."--James Thurber > > *** > *Reg. Linux User #278931* > *** > *Power by Mandrake Linux 9.0* > *** > > -- > ___ > Get your free email from http://mymail.operamail.com > > Powered by Outblaze > > > > > > > > > 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 > __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com 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] unreadable files? :-/
Real funny, Angus! Good one! Look at what that curiosity brought me I was playing an audio CD in KsCD when I decided to open a terminal, 'su' over to root and cat 'message' in /boot. That's when the joke was on me. All of a sudden I got a flurry of Morse code beeps through my speakers, making a mess of my music. So, I closed the terminal window, but the Morse code kept on coming! Gee-e-e-e-z-z-z-z! I think to myself, I gotta shut this noise down. Well, now I am faced with having to turn off my blessed music or see if the 'bleeping' noise (no cussing implied) would end on its own. the bleeping noise (cussing now intended) just kept on coming, so in disgust (I hate to interrupt my music) I closed KsCD down. The Morse code stopped. Wow! I was so relieved. OK. So...I got caught doing a stupid thing. I mean, curiosity killed the cat, right? The only thing that bothers me is what that bleeping noise was about. It sounded familiar, somehowI know that I have heard this stuff before.Hmmm...Yes! I remember now! Wait! Oh NO! It can't be?! Geez, I can see them coming, out of my kitchen window. NO! NoNot again! They took me once! No...! OMG!!! No-o-o-o-o-o.. T ;-) Moral: Don't ever 'cat' a binary file in Linux. It's extremely noisy and just infuriate's the hell out of 'them'. And they will come for you, just as they have for me. Oh yes, they will come - Original Message - From: "Angus Auld" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2002 11:33 AM Subject: [newbie] unreadable files? :-/ Greetings, I am having a strange thing happen I am quite certain that just a couple days ago I was able to read, and even edit, a file/s. Now I am not even able to read them. Not as plain text anyway. They are now being identified as "unknown" type. When I open them, they are just so much code. :-/ Now, unless I have completely gone off my rocker, something strange is happening here.and I don't know what it is. Could somebody who is running Mdk 9.0 out there have a look in /boot, and check the files; message-text or message-graphic, and verify for me whether they are plain text files that can be read? I have read permission on them, and even as root I get the same thing. I'm experiencing a glitch with lilo, and am curious about this "happening". TIA for any help. --Angus "Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness."--James Thurber *** *Reg. Linux User #278931* *** *Power by Mandrake Linux 9.0* *** -- ___ Get your free email from http://mymail.operamail.com Powered by Outblaze 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] Menu settings
Ditto. :-) T - Original Message - From: "Anne Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, December 02, 2002 11:16 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Menu settings On Monday 02 Dec 2002 4:00 pm, Technoslick wrote: > Are you asking about the menu choices added to the the very top of the > starting menu in KDE3? If so, that is called the Quick Start area. To > adjust the number of entries that show up go to 'K | Configure Panel | > Preferences'. Click on the 'Menus' tab. At the bottom, you will see where > you can designate how many, and whether they should be 'frequently used' or > 'recently used' menu choices. Thanks T. You know, it's like looking for numbers in Yellow Pages. If they have an ordinary small entry I can find it, but if they have one of those big boxed entries I look straight past it. Doh! Anne 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] Menu settings
Are you asking about the menu choices added to the the very top of the starting menu in KDE3? If so, that is called the Quick Start area. To adjust the number of entries that show up go to 'K | Configure Panel | Preferences'. Click on the 'Menus' tab. At the bottom, you will see where you can designate how many, and whether they should be 'frequently used' or 'recently used' menu choices. HTH T - Original Message - From: "Anne Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, December 02, 2002 10:08 AM Subject: [newbie] Menu settings Under 8.2 I found how to increase the number of 'frequently used' entries at the top of the K-menu. I can't find the setting now in 9.0 Can anyone remind me where it hides? Anne 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] Software sources manager - cant find disk 2
Here's what I have in mine for CD #2: URL: removable://mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/RPMS2 hdlist path: ../base/hdlist2.cz This is referring to the 3-CD downloaded version of MDK 9.0. I have no problems with installing from my second CD. I don't know if this matters, but I do have 'supermount' active. Hope this helps. T - Original Message - From: "John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, December 02, 2002 5:16 PM Subject: [newbie] Software sources manager - cant find disk 2 Hi When I installed Mandrake 9.0, it seemed to not be able to read disk 2. However, I can access disk 2 from the desktop, and it displays the contents OK. In the software sources manager, I try to add this disk - URL: removable://mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/RPMS2, path: ../base/hdlist2.c, and get the message "Unable to update meium; it will be automatically disabled@ Can anyone help? John 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] Mystery files
I get these, tooAren't they cookies? I got them from Mandrake when I logged into their site. Am I wrong? If I delete them, they seem to come back. T - Original Message - From: "Anne Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, December 01, 2002 1:43 PM Subject: [newbie] Mystery files Over the last few days a number of files have started to appear in /root directory, 0 bytes long, and with names like AnneW.9e106fe0bfeac45383fe3cb29d0fcb8b.annelinux.f1f180988055626824525c69b0a d458c.dif Any ideas? Anne 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] Sndconfig probs
Changing the BIOS to non-pnp was the only way I could get sndconfig to work for me with an SB AWE 64 in MDK 9.0. I learned through that, and others, that it should be set to off whenever possible. Hopefully, it's that simple for you, too. T - Original Message - From: "Anders Lind" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, December 01, 2002 12:58 PM Subject: [newbie] Sndconfig probs Hello friends, I have some trouble with Sndconfig on mdk 9.0, it seems that it either can't find my AWE 64 soundcard or that it just hangs. When I click for it to search for my card it looks like it searches, but on all other Redhat or Mandrake-dists it has found it after like two seconds. For checking purposes I tried to insmod sb and it says that module is there. Anyone that can point me in the right direction, one thing that can have to do with this is that I had to change the setting in BIOS to non-pnp-OS which I am gonna try and see if that helps me. Best Regards, Anders 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] Using Samba With Linux Clients
Thanks to everyone for helpful the advice! As it turned out, my problem was both hardware and software config related. I had to publish the netbios name of the server in the smb.conf file (overlooked) and I had mistakenly connected two workstation patch cords on shared ports of my hub, negating the server when this particular workstation was running as well. Once these issues were resolved, my MDK 9 box had no problems seeing the shares. Oh, well...live and learn. :-) BTW, LinNeighborhood does work well! I am glad it was recommended in the listserv. I do have one question, though it probably is irreverent at this point... All workstations are statically addressed with synched, corresponding 'hosts' and 'lmhosts', as they need apply. Therefore, I do not use a WINS server, or any other names resolving server. Host.conf refers to 'bind' for lookup, if 'hosts' should fail. Bind is not installed or running. Should it be? Is it necessary in a small network where everyone knows who everyone is? Thanks for the help. I feel so-o-o-o-o much better having my little baby up and running! T - Original Message - From: "Technoslick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, November 30, 2002 11:05 AM Subject: [newbie] Using Samba With Linux Clients I finally got around to setting up my Linux server, with the main idea being to use it for file sharing on the network. As my luck would have it, I cannot get my MDK 9.0 computer to "see" what's inside of my Samba shares off the server. What makes this a concern to me is that I "can" see and use the shares off of all of my Windows PCs, which are made up of Win 2K, Win XP and Win 98 SE. I can see them from my MDK 9.0 box, just can't "see" anything within. Here's a condensed version of my 'smb.conf', with all the commented out sections removed: [global] # workgroup = NT-Domain-Name or Workgroup-Name workgroup = WORKGROUP # server string is the equivalent of the NT Description field server string = Samba Server # This option is important for security. It allows you to restrict # connections to machines which are on your local network. The # following example restricts access to two C class networks and # the "loopback" interface. For more examples of the syntax see # the smb.conf man page hosts allow = 192.168.1. 127. # this tells Samba to use a separate log file for each machine # that connects log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log # Put a capping on the size of the log files (in Kb). max log size = 0 # Security mode. Most people will want user level security. See # security_level.txt for details. security = user # You may wish to use password encryption. Please read # ENCRYPTION.txt, Win95.txt and WinNT.txt in the Samba documentation. # Do not enable this option unless you have read those documents encrypt passwords = yes smb passwd file = /etc/samba/smbpasswd # The following are needed to allow password changing from Windows to # update the Linux system password also. # NOTE: Use these with 'encrypt passwords' and 'smb passwd file' above. # NOTE2: You do NOT need these to allow workstations to change only # the encrypted SMB passwords. They allow the Unix password # to be kept in sync with the SMB password. unix password sync = Yes passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u passwd chat = *New*password* %n\n *Retype*new*password* %n\n *passwd:*all*authentication*tokens*updated*successfully* # You can use PAM's password change control flag for Samba. If # enabled, then PAM will be used for password changes when requested # by an SMB client instead of the program listed in passwd program. # It should be possible to enable this without changing your passwd # chat parameter for most setups. pam password change = yes # This parameter will control whether or not Samba should obey PAM's # account and session management directives. The default behavior is # to use PAM for clear text authentication only and to ignore any # account or session management. Note that Samba always ignores PAM # for authentication in the case of encrypt passwords = yes obey pam restrictions = yes # Most people will find that this option gives better performance. # See speed.txt and the manual pages for details socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 # DNS Proxy - tells Samba whether or not to try to resolve NetBIOS names # via DNS nslookups. The built-in default for versions 1.9.17 is yes, # this has been changed in version 1.9.18 to no. dns proxy = no # Share Definitions == [homes] comment = Home Directories browseable = no writable = yes valid users = %S create mode = 0664 directory mode = 0775 # NOTE: If you have a BSD-style print system there is no need to # specifically define each individual printer [printers] comment = All Printers path = /var/spool/
Re: [newbie] Using Samba With Linux Clients
No, I haven't as yet. With Francisco's and Stephen's recommendation as one or both of those choices, I will try one out. I just thought that there would have been a 'native' application or applet within every Linux distro that goes along with the loading of the Samba client to do this. I can see where you can load a client at the console level, but no GUI to do this (I am not even sure that the MCC Mount Drives section is working right, either.) Sorry to have confused you. My Win machines hooked up so easily, it was a dream. I just can't get the Linux boxes to see the insides of the folders. I'll try one of these GUI client/managers and see what happens. Thanks. T - Original Message - From: "Anne Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, November 30, 2002 5:15 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Using Samba With Linux Clients On Saturday 30 Nov 2002 9:25 pm, Technoslick wrote: > Hey, Anne, > > Thanks for being the first to jump into my problem. :-) > > I think that the bulk of my problem is not understanding how to configure > the Samba client. The 'smb.conf' file, as far as the server is concerned, > seems pretty straight-forward to me. So, how does the client mount the > shares? How did you configure your MDK client? Or was your server also the > client (the only Linux machine in the house?) > > I will look over your smb.conf and try a few changes that make some sense. My Linux box is for the moment the only one, so server and client. The others are 2 win98s, 1 w2k and 1 win_me (though that's a laptop that plugs in so rarely I can't vouch for that working properly). I've just installed LinNeighbourthood, which most people seem to be recommending. On the 8.2 setup I used Komba2. I've got both loaded, now, so I'll try them out when the kids are doing homework! That's the best time to be sure that they are switched on. I thought you said that you could not see the files within the folders, which I took to mean the windows pcs. If you're talking another linux box it shouldn't need samba, should it? I thought samba was just the 'language interpreter' for want of a better phrase, between linux and windows. Obviously I can't try this at the moment, but I would have thought that LinNeighbourhood or Komba2 would be able to see and mount the shares, samba or not. Have you tried either? Anne Anne 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] Using Samba With Linux Clients
I can't remember what I installed as WM's, but if I had any of these on the box, wouldn't at least one of them have shown up as a menu choice or something? Anyway, I will check them out; see what I like. Since Francisco has a good word to give for LinNeighnorhood, I will try that one out first. It just doesn't make sense that my books only speak of hooking Windows machines as clients and nothing about Linux machines as the same. BTW, where does 'lisa' come into this? I thought that was an app that was suppose to give me that "Network Neighborhood' capability? T Stephen wrote: You can mount the share though either MCC (Drive mount), or get LinNeighborhood, Gnomba, (you already have XFSamba on your box if you installed all the wm's with MDK 9), Komba, KSamba-plugin, GSmb... -- Sun Dec 1 08:35:00 EST 2002 .o0 linux user:267497 0o. |____ | kühn media australia | / \ /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | .\__/ || | | | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kühn | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |/ ._/ |"| | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |'. `\ | | |icq: 5483808 | ;"""/ / | | | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| | mobile: 0410-728-389 | ' `-`' " " | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU Coralament*Best Grötens*Liebe Grüße*Best Regards*Elkorajn Salutojn Will this never-ending series of PLEASURABLE EVENTS never cease? 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] Using Samba With Linux Clients
Stephen Kuhn mentioned this, too. As I said, the Win boxes were a cinch. All I had to do was browse through the Network Neighborhood. I'll check it out. Thanks for your referral! T - Original Message - From: "Francisco Alcaraz Ariza" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, November 30, 2002 4:52 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Using Samba With Linux Clients I solved all my problems with the next url: http://mozillaquest.com/Linux02/LinNeighborhood_Network_Neighborhood_Story-0 1.html Now we have 10 computeres, 6-8 runing linux (1 Debian Woody, the rest Mandrake 9.0) and 2-4 runing windows 98; we share files without problems in a very transparent way; the windows computers never knows that they are sharing files with linux boxes; but the linux computers, thanks to LinNeigborhood knows what computer are using windows and what linux. El Sáb 30 Nov 2002 21:25, Technoslick escribió: > Hey, Anne, > > Thanks for being the first to jump into my problem. :-) > > I think that the bulk of my problem is not understanding how to configure > the Samba client. The 'smb.conf' file, as far as the server is concerned, > seems pretty straight-forward to me. So, how does the client mount the > shares? How did you configure your MDK client? Or was your server also the > client (the only Linux machine in the house?) > > I will look over your smb.conf and try a few changes that make some sense. > > Thanks, > > T > > P.S. Thanksgiving was a a great change of pace! More of thatlater. ;-) > > > - Original Message - > From: "Anne Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Saturday, November 30, 2002 2:27 PM > Subject: Re: [newbie] Using Samba With Linux Clients > > On Saturday 30 Nov 2002 4:05 pm, Technoslick wrote: > > I finally got around to setting up my Linux server, with the main idea > > being to use it for file sharing on the network. As my luck would have > > it, I cannot get my MDK 9.0 computer to "see" what's inside of my Samba > > shares off the server. What makes this a concern to me is that I "can" > > see and > > use > > > the shares off of all of my Windows PCs, which are made up of Win 2K, Win > > XP and Win 98 SE. I can see them from my MDK 9.0 box, just can't "see" > > anything within. > > Hi, Techno, > > OK - you gave me the kick I needed to get my network running again - I had > it > fine under 8.2, so it wasn't a big job. > > I had a lot of problems similar to yours when I first set up, and got a lot > of > help. The main lesson appears to be 'kiss'. I would try a simpler setup > first, then when that is working you can assess whether you need anything > more. I've confirmed that the win98 boxes can see my shared directories > and also reach their own home directory. I can't confirm the w2k box until > nigel > is back from holiday. > > Here's my smb.conf > > [global] > workgroup = lydgate.net > server string = Samba Server %v > security = user > smb passwd file = /etc/samba/smbpasswd > wins support = yes > local master = yes > domain master = yes > preferred master = yes > os level = 99 > encrypt passwords = yes > log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m > max log size = 50 > socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 > printcap name = lpstat > printing = cups > dns proxy = no > ; message command = /usr/bin/linpopup > ; share modes = yes > hosts allow = 192.168.0. 127. > ; interfaces = 192.168.0.1/24 > interfaces = eth0 > password server = anne-linux > username level = 3 > netbios name = anne-linux > load printers = yes > ; username map = /etc/samba/smbusers > ; name resolve order = wins lmhosts bcast > > [homes] > comment = Home Directories > writable = yes > browseable = no > > [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). > # The following two commands are the samba defaults for printing=cups > # change them only if you need different options: > ; lpq command = lpq -P %p > ; lprm command
