Re: [newbie] Confused about domain names
On Monday 17 May 2004 10:38 pm, Steve Mansfield wrote: I'm a little uncertain about which domain name to use for my network configuration. Here's the setup: * I have a small home network. Until today, only one of the machines on it was running Linux - now I've installed Mandrake 10 Community on another. * I own a domain name - let's call it mydomain.com - so when I was installing Mandrake I chose this for the machine's domain. The machine's name is 'photo' So the FQDN for that machine is: photo.mydomain.com. * However, the other Linux machine, called 'scoop' (running SuSE, as it happens) selected for itself the domain 'local' - so that machine is 'scoop.local'. * The domain mydomain.com is actually hosted by a third party, not on my machines. Does any of this matter much? Are there advantages to having both machines using 'mydomain.com'? I thought I'd ask because I've just persuaded my better half to convert to Linux, so a third Linux machine will be joining the network. I've googled a fair bit on this, but nothing I've found really tackles the issue of whether it matters what domain name you choose - simply that you have to have one! Intuitively, I can see that it might be best if all the machines have the same DN - I don't know what it affects, but it seems sensible that they would. But should it be 'mydomain.com' or 'local'? I'd appreciate any thoughts. Here's my setup. Domain name: soronlin.org.uk External DNS: www.soronlin.org.uk - registrar's server, redirected to ISP's server notsaying.soronlin.org.uk - My IP address, ie my router [EMAIL PROTECTED] - MX to notsaying.soronlin.org.uk (priority 10) and ISP mailserver (priority 20) Router: Passes SMTP (TCP port 25) to mercury Internal: mercury.soronlin.org.uk venus.soronlin.org.uk That's worked faultlessly so far. -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Confused about domain names
I'm a little uncertain about which domain name to use for my network configuration. Here's the setup: * I have a small home network. Until today, only one of the machines on it was running Linux - now I've installed Mandrake 10 Community on another. * I own a domain name - let's call it mydomain.com - so when I was installing Mandrake I chose this for the machine's domain. The machine's name is 'photo' So the FQDN for that machine is: photo.mydomain.com. * However, the other Linux machine, called 'scoop' (running SuSE, as it happens) selected for itself the domain 'local' - so that machine is 'scoop.local'. * The domain mydomain.com is actually hosted by a third party, not on my machines. Does any of this matter much? Are there advantages to having both machines using 'mydomain.com'? I thought I'd ask because I've just persuaded my better half to convert to Linux, so a third Linux machine will be joining the network. I've googled a fair bit on this, but nothing I've found really tackles the issue of whether it matters what domain name you choose - simply that you have to have one! Intuitively, I can see that it might be best if all the machines have the same DN - I don't know what it affects, but it seems sensible that they would. But should it be 'mydomain.com' or 'local'? I'd appreciate any thoughts. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] confused by Samba
On Sunday 28 December 2003 23:23, Merlin Zener wrote: Hi all, I'm having another go at trying to get my Mandrake desktop to talk to my WIN2K laptop. I tried a while back but gave up. I think I'm confusing the basic concepts here - I had the impression that I had to use Samba, but just now tonight I've just been reading some help pages and they seem to only talk about using Samba for windows users to log on to the Linux box. Am I trying to use the wrong tool for the job? No, you're not. Samba allows linux/unix and windows systems to communicate - in both directions. If you want to be able to move files in both directions you will need both boxes to be both server and client. On the linux box you must add accounts for each windows user that needs to access, making sure that you have the network name, user account login name and password identical to the windows account - and don't forget that it is case-sensitive. My logic would seem to tell me that I have to have a username and password set up on the WIN2K box so I made one, but I can't find anywhere in Samba to specify the new username and password. I found a Wiki page on Samba basics which says WebMin and SWAT both have methods for dealing with this, and are easy enough to use that I won't cover them. Well that sounded encouraging, so I installed Webmin. After much stuffing around and seemingly downloading the same set of files 4 times I got Webmin running [don't ask me how...]. But in the Samba Share Manager page the only thing I can see that is relevant is the link Edit Samba users and passwords. But clicking on that only gives me the message No Samba users defined - without giving any hint as to how to define them. In webmin you can 'convert unix users to samba users'. You will then need to check each user account and make sure that you have selected to use a password, and defined the password. The other way is to use a root console with the command smbpasswd -a user_name which will then ask for a new password. I did some more reading and googling without finding a helpful instruction page [man Samba doesn't help much, for example! LOL]. Before I go any further I thought I'd better check in with you guys - to get back to the question at the top of this email: am I using the wrong tool? [or trying to...] There is an excellent O'Reilly book called Using Samba, which is available for download. It is meaty, though. I used it a lot when I was learning how to set samba up. There is also a diagnostic set originally designed by Andrew Tridgell, to which I have added some comments to cover the fact that some commands have changed over the years. A copy is attached. HTH Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? In some of the following tests I have commented alternative commands that seem to be needed with later versions of Samba. It appears that nmb -L is replaced by nmblookup. DIAGNOSING YOUR SAMBA SERVER This file contains a list of tests you can perform to validate your Samba server. It also tells you what the likely cause of the problem is if it fails any one of these steps. If it passes all these tests then it is probably working fine. You should do ALL the tests, in the order shown. I have tried to carefully choose them so later tests only use capabilities verified in the earlier tests. I would welcome additions to this set of tests. Please mail them to [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you send me an email saying it doesn't work and you have not followed this test procedure then you should not be surprised if I ignore your email. ASSUMPTIONS --- In all of the tests I assume you have a Samba server called BIGSERVER and a PC called ACLIENT. I also assume the PC is running windows for workgroups with a recent copy of the microsoft tcp/ip stack. The procedure is similar for other types of clients. I also assume you know the name of a available share in your smb_conf. I will assume this share is called tmp. You can add a tmp share like by adding the following to smb_conf: [tmp] comment = temporary files path = /tmp read only = yes These tests also assume version 1.9.14 or later of the samba suite. If you have version 1.9.13 then see NOTE 1 below. TEST 1: --- run the command testparm. If it reports any errors then your smb_conf configuration file is faulty. TEST 2: --- run the command ping BIGSERVER from the PC and ping ACLIENT from the unix box. If you don't get a valid response then your TCP/IP software is not correctly installed. Note that you will need to start a dos prompt window on the PC to run ping. If you get a message saying host not found or similar then your DNS software or /etc/hosts file is not correctly setup. It is possible to run samba without DNS entries for the server and client, but I assume you do have correct entries for the remainder of these tests. TEST 3: --- run the command smbclient
Re: [newbie] Confused
On Monday 29 Dec 2003 09:23, Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 29 December 2003 03:17, John P. Santucci wrote: I get the Mandrake boot up screen. It loads up till the last section of the loading screen and then the black screen and I hear the KDE music. This is a 3 disk package I received from Linux Format magazine. Not the download version. That is the final rc Anne Anne, Not quite correct, From LXF magazine Note that the screenshots are from an install of Mandrake 9.2 RC2, the final release candidate. This is because the pages were written before Mandrake was able to send us the final 9.2 release for the discs. -- http://www.poogle.co.uk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Confused
On Monday 29 December 2003 10:36, Poogle wrote: On Monday 29 Dec 2003 09:23, Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 29 December 2003 03:17, John P. Santucci wrote: I get the Mandrake boot up screen. It loads up till the last section of the loading screen and then the black screen and I hear the KDE music. This is a 3 disk package I received from Linux Format magazine. Not the download version. That is the final rc Anne Anne, Not quite correct, From LXF magazine Note that the screenshots are from an install of Mandrake 9.2 RC2, the final release candidate. This is because the pages were written before Mandrake was able to send us the final 9.2 release for the discs. Sorry - you are absolutely right: I remember reading that. And there were considerable changes between rc2 and the real release, I think, which might account for some of the problems seen. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Confused
On Monday 29 December 2003 10:38 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 29 December 2003 10:36, Poogle wrote: On Monday 29 Dec 2003 09:23, Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 29 December 2003 03:17, John P. Santucci wrote: I get the Mandrake boot up screen. It loads up till the last section of the loading screen and then the black screen and I hear the KDE music. This is a 3 disk package I received from Linux Format magazine. Not the download version. That is the final rc Anne Anne, Not quite correct, From LXF magazine Note that the screenshots are from an install of Mandrake 9.2 RC2, the final release candidate. This is because the pages were written before Mandrake was able to send us the final 9.2 release for the discs. Sorry - you are absolutely right: I remember reading that. And there were considerable changes between rc2 and the real release, I think, which might account for some of the problems seen. Anne does he have an NVidia or ATI video card? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Confused
I am having a problem that has me stumped! I have a machine running Suse 9.0 flawlessly. I decided to replace Suse with Mandrake 9.2. The install goes perfectly. UNTIL the system reboots and I get a BLACK screen. I heard the KDE jingle, but no image. I have TRIED every setting with NO luck. System: Asus A7V33 MB, AthlonXP 2100 CPU, 512 Meg RAM, NVidia G4 Ti4200 vid card. Monitor is a vpr Matrix 17 LCD. Reloaded Suse and it works fine. Yes, the drive was reformated before and after. So what doesn't Mandrake like about this system that Suse likes? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Confused; Re: [newbie] new mouse
On Sunday 28 December 2003 09:05 pm, John P. Santucci wrote: I am having a problem that has me stumped! I have a machine running Suse 9.0 flawlessly. I decided to replace Suse with Mandrake 9.2. The install goes perfectly. UNTIL the system reboots and I get a BLACK screen. I heard the KDE jingle, but no image. I have TRIED every setting with NO luck. System: Asus A7V33 MB, AthlonXP 2100 CPU, 512 Meg RAM, NVidia G4 Ti4200 vid card. Monitor is a vpr Matrix 17 LCD. Reloaded Suse and it works fine. Yes, the drive was reformated before and after. So what doesn't Mandrake like about this system that Suse likes? hijacking a thread instead of starting a new one did you not set up the video card and monitor? when you say black screen do you mean no writing at all? not even bios info? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] confused by Samba
Hi all, I'm having another go at trying to get my Mandrake desktop to talk to my WIN2K laptop. I tried a while back but gave up. I think I'm confusing the basic concepts here - I had the impression that I had to use Samba, but just now tonight I've just been reading some help pages and they seem to only talk about using Samba for windows users to log on to the Linux box. Am I trying to use the wrong tool for the job? I want to be able to see the files on the laptop, so I can do some editing etc while I'm away from home and then transfer my work to the Mandrake machine without first booting into windows to do the transfer. Even better would be if I could get it so I could run Dreamweaver on my Mandrake box [using Wine???] so I could edit the files right there on the laptop, and continue on next time I boot the laptop away from home again. My logic would seem to tell me that I have to have a username and password set up on the WIN2K box so I made one, but I can't find anywhere in Samba to specify the new username and password. I found a Wiki page on Samba basics which says WebMin and SWAT both have methods for dealing with this, and are easy enough to use that I won't cover them. Well that sounded encouraging, so I installed Webmin. After much stuffing around and seemingly downloading the same set of files 4 times I got Webmin running [don't ask me how...]. But in the Samba Share Manager page the only thing I can see that is relevant is the link Edit Samba users and passwords. But clicking on that only gives me the message No Samba users defined - without giving any hint as to how to define them. I did some more reading and googling without finding a helpful instruction page [man Samba doesn't help much, for example! LOL]. Before I go any further I thought I'd better check in with you guys - to get back to the question at the top of this email: am I using the wrong tool? [or trying to...] TIA for your advice, -- Merlin Zener Piano, Synthesizer Thailand. registered Linux user number 328618 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] confused by Samba
On Sunday 28 Dec 2003 11:23 pm, Merlin Zener wrote: Hi all, I'm having another go at trying to get my Mandrake desktop to talk to my WIN2K laptop. I tried a while back but gave up. I think I'm confusing the basic concepts here - I had the impression that I had to use Samba, but just now tonight I've just been reading some help pages and they seem to only talk about using Samba for windows users to log on to the Linux box. Am I trying to use the wrong tool for the job? I want to be able to see the files on the laptop, so I can do some editing etc while I'm away from home and then transfer my work to the Mandrake machine without first booting into windows to do the transfer. Even better would be if I could get it so I could run Dreamweaver on my Mandrake box [using Wine???] so I could edit the files right there on the laptop, and continue on next time I boot the laptop away from home again. My logic would seem to tell me that I have to have a username and password set up on the WIN2K box so I made one, but I can't find anywhere in Samba to specify the new username and password. I found a Wiki page on Samba basics which says WebMin and SWAT both have methods for dealing with this, and are easy enough to use that I won't cover them. Well that sounded encouraging, so I installed Webmin. After much stuffing around and seemingly downloading the same set of files 4 times I got Webmin running [don't ask me how...]. But in the Samba Share Manager page the only thing I can see that is relevant is the link Edit Samba users and passwords. But clicking on that only gives me the message No Samba users defined - without giving any hint as to how to define them. I did some more reading and googling without finding a helpful instruction page [man Samba doesn't help much, for example! LOL]. Before I go any further I thought I'd better check in with you guys - to get back to the question at the top of this email: am I using the wrong tool? [or trying to...] TIA for your advice, -- Merlin Zener Piano, Synthesizer Thailand. registered Linux user number 328618 You are correct Merlin in saying you do not need Samba server to see files on your Windows Laptop. But you do need samba client. urpmi samba-client That is all you have to do. Now in the url line of konqueror you can put :- smb://ip_add_of_laptop/ and you should see the shares the laptop is advertising. Also if you install LinNeighborhood or komba2 (in contrib) you can have a 'Network Explorer' type interface to browse your Windows network. That should be all you need. BTW: If you have difficulty it might help to run as root :- update-alternatives --auto smbclient derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Confused
On Sunday 28 December 2003 16:05, John P. Santucci wrote: I am having a problem that has me stumped! I have a machine running Suse 9.0 flawlessly. I decided to replace Suse with Mandrake 9.2. The install goes perfectly. UNTIL the system reboots and I get a BLACK screen. I heard the KDE jingle, but no image. I have TRIED every setting with NO luck. System: Asus A7V33 MB, AthlonXP 2100 CPU, 512 Meg RAM, NVidia G4 Ti4200 vid card. Monitor is a vpr Matrix 17 LCD. Reloaded Suse and it works fine. Yes, the drive was reformated before and after. So what doesn't Mandrake like about this system that Suse likes? Is it download version of MDK? If so then it does not have Nvidia drivers. -- Yankl Tiny IT guy. 100 % Micro$oft free. Registered linux users 181086 URL: http://yankele.com --- To mess up a Linux box, you need to work at it; to mess up your Windows box, you just need to work on it. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Confused
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Montag, 29. Dezember 2003 01:17 schrieb yankl: Is it download version of MDK? If so then it does not have Nvidia drivers. But he told us the KDE jingle is heard. If the nvidia driver would cause this, wouldn't then KDE be not loaded at all? Gru / regards ce == Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SuSE 8.0 on a Dell Inspiron 8200: http://home.t-online.de/home/mchristoph.eckert/inspiron8200/ == -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/73UsgCBqix845w0RAoT6AJ9TMkK2JGYXEs11B0mPE+/rdnfEGgCfbdj0 QmFpf61ausnlGwjb6F08Sco= =GfyA -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Confused
On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 01:28:28 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christoph Eckert) wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Montag, 29. Dezember 2003 01:17 schrieb yankl: Is it download version of MDK? If so then it does not have Nvidia drivers. But he told us the KDE jingle is heard. If the nvidia driver would cause this, wouldn't then KDE be not loaded at all? Gruß / regards This sounds like an X server problem. If there is no video right from the get go (after selected in lilo), then I'm not sure. But if he can see stuff until it tries to load X, then he might want to check the settings in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4. There might be a bad monitor setting or something. Try booting failsafe, and choosing text mode with network. Then su to root. Check the /var/log/XFree86.0.log file for any errors and act accordingly. John -- Sun Dec 28 18:43:54 CST 2003 -- Registered Linux User # 315649 Registered Machine # 201001 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Confused about procmail, sendmail, and postfix
I'm confused about the relationships between procmail, sendmail, and postfix. Sendmail is an SMTP agent for sending mail while procmail is a mail filter which filters incoming and outgoing mail, however, postfix is the actual mail daemon that allows you to check mail via POP3 and allows you to send mail via sendmail. Do I understand this correctly. Can someone explain how these programs used together or are the used together at all? thanks for your time!
Re: [newbie] Confused about procmail, sendmail, and postfix
It was Wed, 16 May 2001 10:02:11 -0500 when Mark Johnson wrote: I'm confused about the relationships between procmail, sendmail, and postfix. Sendmail is an SMTP agent for sending mail while procmail is a mail filter which filters incoming and outgoing mail, however, postfix is the actual mail daemon that allows you to check mail via POP3 and allows you to send mail via sendmail. Do I understand this correctly. Can someone explain how these programs used together or are the used together at all? Sendmail and Postfix are actually the same kind of thing. Both are Mail Transport Agents. They deliver e-mail. Procmail can be used to sort e-mails into different folders, forward it, delete it, copy it, etc. Procmail can be called to run from within the config files of Sendmail or Postfix. After the sorting etc etc your e-mail program will pick up the mails in the separate mail folders. Hope this clears you up. Paul -- There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum. -Arthur C. Clarke http://nlpagan.net - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 7.2 - Sylpheed 0.4.66
[newbie] Confused about the differences between RedHat and Mandrake
I thought that Mandrake was an optimized version of Redhat. Which encompassed the removal of legacy code for pre-Pentium machines? Is that right? What are the side effects effects of this optimatization? The reason I'm asking I'm starting to get intersted in embedded linux and it looks like embedded developers are using RedHat 6.0 for their development platform and don't guaruntee smooth development on Mandrake and other linux enviroments. But I don't understand what the issues are
Re: [newbie] Confused about the differences between RedHat and Mandrake
It started out as optimized Redhat, but it's grown to be somewhat different, though usually compatible with Red Hat. I have no idea how the embedded side of it works though, so I guess you'll just have to see for yourself by trying it. I thought that Mandrake was an optimized version of Redhat. Which encompassed the removal of legacy code for pre-Pentium machines? Is that right? What are the side effects effects of this optimatization? The reason I'm asking I'm starting to get intersted in embedded linux and it looks like embedded developers are using RedHat 6.0 for their development platform and don't guaruntee smooth development on Mandrake and other linux enviroments. But I don't understand what the issues are -- Anthony http://binaryfusion.net Press any key to continue, or any other key to quit.
[newbie] CONFUSED
OK, I unsubscribed the right way and didn't recieve any email for about a week, and today I got email from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Did someone subscribe me again or what could have happen?
Re: [newbie] CONFUSED
On Wed, 05 Jan 2000, you wrote: OK, I unsubscribed the right way and didn't recieve any email for about a week, and today I got email from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Did someone subscribe me again or what could have happen? Hmm...dunno. Maybe someone did, or maybe the list got corrupted and they had to switch to an old copy of the addresses or something... anyway if you want off, I'd unsubscribe again. John
Re: [newbie] CONFUSED
On Wed, 05 Jan 2000 13:26:04 -0500, you wrote: OK, I unsubscribed the right way and didn't recieve any email for about a week, and today I got email from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Did someone subscribe me again or what could have happen? They might have had to replace the user list from a backup. If you were on the backup list it would be just like you had not unsubscribed. Just unsubscribe againand keep your fingers crossed. g
Re: [newbie] CONFUSED
Try unsubscribing again. I think something happened to the server. I didn't get anything for about 4 days from newbie or expert. Jamey Patrick wrote: OK, I unsubscribed the right way and didn't recieve any email for about a week, and today I got email from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Did someone subscribe me again or what could have happen?
