Re: [newbie] Setting Up Modems, Printers, and a Home Network
On 29 Sep 2002, Bo [ISO-8859-1] Rosén wrote: sön 2002-09-29 klockan 02.55 skrev Eric S. Dye: I am using Mozilla browser, which I assume is a derivative of Netscape. The other way aound is closer to the facts, I suppose. Netscape 6.x is based on the open source Mozilla 1.x. I am unable to get any sound when I open up web pages. I have downloaded flashplayer, but can't seem to get it functioning. Can someone tell me Mozilla doesn't use the same plugin directory as Netscape. Copy the two flash files (libflashplayer.so and ShockwaveFlash.class) to /usr/lib/mozilla-1.1/plugins/ and it should work. actually, i would use 'ln -s [target] [link]' to create a symoblic link instead. there is no since in wasting space on the drive. if it is still not working make sure that sound is properly configured on your machine using sndconfig. Les Henderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Setting Up Modems, Printers, and a Home Network (NFS vrs SMB)
I have used smb to connect two linux boxes together without problem... which brings me to a question: apart from permissions and such, what benefit is there in using NFS over SMB I have had SMB shares mounted when a system went down and it hasn't caused any major hassles.. but I have heard alot of stories about that not being the case with NFS... Anyone have anything to say here? I'd like to here some opinions.. rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of robin Sent: Sunday, 29 September 2002 1:23 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Setting Up Modems, Printers, and a Home Network Andre Stevens wrote: Hi Derek! Thank you for the reference. I'll check it out as soon as I get soem free time. With reference to the Samba networking, will it allow me to connect my Winodze computers to my Linux computer? Or is it specifically designed for UNIX based systems? Samba is specifically for Linux-Windows connectivity (UNIX-type-only communication is more normally handled by NFS). It has two parts: a client (smbclient) that allows a Linux box to talk to Windows boxes (e.g. read/write files or print) and a server which does the opposite - your Linux box will show up in Network Neighborhood on Windows. Sir Robin -- Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It's lovely to be silly at the right moment - Horace Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Üniversitesi Ankara 06533 http://www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Setting Up Modems, Printers, and a Home Network
have you setup usernames and passwords for her login onto your linux box and vice versa??? smbpasswd username (its also handy to make a unix login for her using her username and password on your box.) Then do the same on the XP machine, add a username and password that you can use in Komba2 to log onto her box. Keep in mind that XP home is limitied to only 3 machines on the network... (pro doesn't have that limit.) rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Linus Drouhard Sent: Sunday, 29 September 2002 12:19 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Setting Up Modems, Printers, and a Home Network Ok, I've tried a lot of things, but I cannot figure out how to connect to my wife's Win XP computer (home version). I get a message which is something about needing a password. I turned off all the passwords, protections, and other junk on her computer that *should* allow it to network. I can *see* the computer but cannot network to it. I've set up the workgroup and am using Komba2 to access her computer. I can do this quite successfully to a W98 box on the network, so I know the network is sound. By the way, I can't network the W98 boxes to her computer either and I refuse to run the special Microsoft program to set up *older* versions of Windows to network to XP. I'm actually kind of glad that Micro is shooting their own foot off. Other people as frustrated as I might give up and switch to the vastly superior Linux OS. In the meantime, I can't convince my wife so I'm stuck still trying to network her computer. Any help, web sites, or just plain commiserating is welcome. Linus On Saturday 28 September 2002 10:05 pm, et wrote: On Saturday 28 September 2002 10:16 pm, you wrote: Are you, by any chance, mean that samba takes the place of pcanywhere? no, samba takes the place of ms file and print shareing serives, Xfree86, and a OS that works correcxtly will allow you to export an XFree86 session (if the network is fast enough) and that will allow you to run the desktop as if you were at the machine... a real OS. At 05:23 PM 9/28/2002 +, you wrote: Andre Stevens wrote: Hi Derek! Thank you for the reference. I'll check it out as soon as I get soem free time. With reference to the Samba networking, will it allow me to connect my Winodze computers to my Linux computer? Or is it specifically designed for UNIX based systems? Samba is specifically for Linux-Windows connectivity (UNIX-type-only communication is more normally handled by NFS). It has two parts: a client (smbclient) that allows a Linux box to talk to Windows boxes (e.g. read/write files or print) and a server which does the opposite - your Linux box will show up in Network Neighborhood on Windows. Sir Robin -- Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It's lovely to be silly at the right moment - Horace Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Üniversitesi Ankara 06533 http://www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com --- Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.391 / Virus Database: 222 - Release Date: 9/19/2002 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Setting Up Modems, Printers, and a Home Network
Sorry, that should have been: smbpasswd -a username its sunday, what do you expect??? :-) rgds Franki -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Franki Sent: Sunday, 29 September 2002 3:28 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Newbie Subject: RE: [newbie] Setting Up Modems, Printers, and a Home Network have you setup usernames and passwords for her login onto your linux box and vice versa??? smbpasswd username (its also handy to make a unix login for her using her username and password on your box.) Then do the same on the XP machine, add a username and password that you can use in Komba2 to log onto her box. Keep in mind that XP home is limitied to only 3 machines on the network... (pro doesn't have that limit.) rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Linus Drouhard Sent: Sunday, 29 September 2002 12:19 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Setting Up Modems, Printers, and a Home Network Ok, I've tried a lot of things, but I cannot figure out how to connect to my wife's Win XP computer (home version). I get a message which is something about needing a password. I turned off all the passwords, protections, and other junk on her computer that *should* allow it to network. I can *see* the computer but cannot network to it. I've set up the workgroup and am using Komba2 to access her computer. I can do this quite successfully to a W98 box on the network, so I know the network is sound. By the way, I can't network the W98 boxes to her computer either and I refuse to run the special Microsoft program to set up *older* versions of Windows to network to XP. I'm actually kind of glad that Micro is shooting their own foot off. Other people as frustrated as I might give up and switch to the vastly superior Linux OS. In the meantime, I can't convince my wife so I'm stuck still trying to network her computer. Any help, web sites, or just plain commiserating is welcome. Linus On Saturday 28 September 2002 10:05 pm, et wrote: On Saturday 28 September 2002 10:16 pm, you wrote: Are you, by any chance, mean that samba takes the place of pcanywhere? no, samba takes the place of ms file and print shareing serives, Xfree86, and a OS that works correcxtly will allow you to export an XFree86 session (if the network is fast enough) and that will allow you to run the desktop as if you were at the machine... a real OS. At 05:23 PM 9/28/2002 +, you wrote: Andre Stevens wrote: Hi Derek! Thank you for the reference. I'll check it out as soon as I get soem free time. With reference to the Samba networking, will it allow me to connect my Winodze computers to my Linux computer? Or is it specifically designed for UNIX based systems? Samba is specifically for Linux-Windows connectivity (UNIX-type-only communication is more normally handled by NFS). It has two parts: a client (smbclient) that allows a Linux box to talk to Windows boxes (e.g. read/write files or print) and a server which does the opposite - your Linux box will show up in Network Neighborhood on Windows. Sir Robin -- Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It's lovely to be silly at the right moment - Horace Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Üniversitesi Ankara 06533 http://www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com --- Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.391 / Virus Database: 222 - Release Date: 9/19/2002 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Setting Up Modems, Printers, and a Home Network
sön 2002-09-29 klockan 02.55 skrev Eric S. Dye: I am using Mozilla browser, which I assume is a derivative of Netscape. The other way aound is closer to the facts, I suppose. Netscape 6.x is based on the open source Mozilla 1.x. I am unable to get any sound when I open up web pages. I have downloaded flashplayer, but can't seem to get it functioning. Can someone tell me Mozilla doesn't use the same plugin directory as Netscape. Copy the two flash files (libflashplayer.so and ShockwaveFlash.class) to /usr/lib/mozilla-1.1/plugins/ and it should work. Cheers, Bo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Setting Up Modems, Printers, and a Home Network
Thanks, but where/how do I enter the smbpasswd? Is this on the XP box? On my Linux box? Thanks again. Linus On Sunday 29 September 2002 03:02 am, Franki wrote: Sorry, that should have been: smbpasswd -a username its sunday, what do you expect??? :-) rgds Franki -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Franki Sent: Sunday, 29 September 2002 3:28 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Newbie Subject: RE: [newbie] Setting Up Modems, Printers, and a Home Network have you setup usernames and passwords for her login onto your linux box and vice versa??? smbpasswd username (its also handy to make a unix login for her using her username and password on your box.) Then do the same on the XP machine, add a username and password that you can use in Komba2 to log onto her box. Keep in mind that XP home is limitied to only 3 machines on the network... (pro doesn't have that limit.) rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Linus Drouhard Sent: Sunday, 29 September 2002 12:19 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Setting Up Modems, Printers, and a Home Network Ok, I've tried a lot of things, but I cannot figure out how to connect to my wife's Win XP computer (home version). I get a message which is something about needing a password. I turned off all the passwords, protections, and other junk on her computer that *should* allow it to network. I can *see* the computer but cannot network to it. I've set up the workgroup and am using Komba2 to access her computer. I can do this quite successfully to a W98 box on the network, so I know the network is sound. By the way, I can't network the W98 boxes to her computer either and I refuse to run the special Microsoft program to set up *older* versions of Windows to network to XP. I'm actually kind of glad that Micro is shooting their own foot off. Other people as frustrated as I might give up and switch to the vastly superior Linux OS. In the meantime, I can't convince my wife so I'm stuck still trying to network her computer. Any help, web sites, or just plain commiserating is welcome. Linus On Saturday 28 September 2002 10:05 pm, et wrote: On Saturday 28 September 2002 10:16 pm, you wrote: Are you, by any chance, mean that samba takes the place of pcanywhere? no, samba takes the place of ms file and print shareing serives, Xfree86, and a OS that works correcxtly will allow you to export an XFree86 session (if the network is fast enough) and that will allow you to run the desktop as if you were at the machine... a real OS. At 05:23 PM 9/28/2002 +, you wrote: Andre Stevens wrote: Hi Derek! Thank you for the reference. I'll check it out as soon as I get soem free time. With reference to the Samba networking, will it allow me to connect my Winodze computers to my Linux computer? Or is it specifically designed for UNIX based systems? Samba is specifically for Linux-Windows connectivity (UNIX-type-only communication is more normally handled by NFS). It has two parts: a client (smbclient) that allows a Linux box to talk to Windows boxes (e.g. read/write files or print) and a server which does the opposite - your Linux box will show up in Network Neighborhood on Windows. Sir Robin -- Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It's lovely to be silly at the right moment - Horace Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Üniversitesi Ankara 06533 http://www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com --- Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.391 / Virus Database: 222 - Release Date: 9/19/2002 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Setting Up Modems, Printers, and a Home Network
I tried that. Her XP box refuses to let me in. I should be ok with the three computers. Is this three computers networked to the XP machine? (total of 4) or three computers total? What did you use to network your XP box? Komba? Samba? something else? Thanks for the help. Linus On Sunday 29 September 2002 07:24 am, Olaf Marzocchi wrote: WinXP ask for a pass but it doesn't check it. If you know there isn't any password, simply press enter: everything should work fine (it worked with me, XP home). Olaf At 06.18 29/09/2002, you wrote: Ok, I've tried a lot of things, but I cannot figure out how to connect to my wife's Win XP computer (home version). I get a message which is something about needing a password. I turned off all the passwords, protections, and other junk on her computer that *should* allow it to network. I can *see* the computer but cannot network to it. I've set up the workgroup and am using Komba2 to access her computer. I can do this quite successfully to a W98 box on the network, so I know the network is sound. By the way, I can't network the W98 boxes to her computer either and I refuse to run the special Microsoft program to set up *older* versions of Windows to network to XP. I'm actually kind of glad that Micro is shooting their own foot off. Other people as frustrated as I might give up and switch to the vastly superior Linux OS. In the meantime, I can't convince my wife so I'm stuck still trying to network her computer. Any help, web sites, or just plain commiserating is welcome. Linus On Saturday 28 September 2002 10:05 pm, et wrote: On Saturday 28 September 2002 10:16 pm, you wrote: Are you, by any chance, mean that samba takes the place of pcanywhere? no, samba takes the place of ms file and print shareing serives, Xfree86, and a OS that works correcxtly will allow you to export an XFree86 session (if the network is fast enough) and that will allow you to run the desktop as if you were at the machine... a real OS. At 05:23 PM 9/28/2002 +, you wrote: Andre Stevens wrote: Hi Derek! Thank you for the reference. I'll check it out as soon as I get soem free time. With reference to the Samba networking, will it allow me to connect my Winodze computers to my Linux computer? Or is it specifically designed for UNIX based systems? Samba is specifically for Linux-Windows connectivity (UNIX-type-only communication is more normally handled by NFS). It has two parts: a client (smbclient) that allows a Linux box to talk to Windows boxes (e.g. read/write files or print) and a server which does the opposite - your Linux box will show up in Network Neighborhood on Windows. Sir Robin -- Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It's lovely to be silly at the right moment - Horace Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Üniversitesi Ankara 06533 http://www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com --- Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.391 / Virus Database: 222 - Release Date: 9/19/2002 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com olaf kjws.com for every kind of mail, except spam! :-) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Setting Up Modems, Printers, and a Home Network
Thank you Carroll! I check the Linux Mandrake site often, so I'll keep looking there for info. Thanx again! Dre---Do you Yahoo!? New DSL Internet Access from SBC & Yahoo!
Re: [newbie] Setting Up Modems, Printers, and a Home Network
Hi Derek! Thank you for the reference. I'll check it out as soon as I get soem free time. With reference to the Samba networking, will it allow me to connect my Winodze computers to my Linux computer? Or is it specifically designed for UNIX based systems? Thanx again for your help! Dre---Do you Yahoo!? New DSL Internet Access from SBC & Yahoo!
Re: [newbie] Setting Up Modems, Printers, and a Home Network
On Sat, 28 Sep 2002 06:03:08 -0700 (PDT) Andre Stevens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Derek! Thank you for the reference. I'll check it out as soon as I get soem free time. With reference to the Samba networking, will it allow me to connect my Winodze computers to my Linux computer? Or is it specifically designed for UNIX based systems? Thanx again for your help! Dre--- Samba allows networking between Windows and Linux/Unix computers. It comes in 2 parts Smaba-client and Samba-server. Samba-client allows you to browse Windows computers and mount their shares. It is very easy to set up. Just install it and you are then able to mount windows shares. There are many ways to mount the shares. My favourite way is to install a package called komba2 which will give you a nice GUI very like Windows Network Samba-server is more difficult, and allows Windows computers to access shares on your computer. You have to define which folders can be accessed and set up the security system for those who are allowed to access them. You can configure the server in 3 ways. 1/ By editing the file /etc/samba/smb.conf by hand. - This is actually quite easy since the file is full of comments and examples. 2/ By using a web based utility called SWAT Install the samba-swat RPM and then browse to localhost:931 3/ By using a web based utility called webmin. Install the webmin RPM and then browse to https://localhost:1 Webmin manages lots of other services other than Samba and is very good. derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Setting Up Modems, Printers, and a Home Network
On Saturday 28 September 2002 09:05 am, you wrote: Thank you Carroll! I check the Linux Mandrake site often, so I'll keep looking there for info. Thanx again! Dre--- - Do you Yahoo!? New DSL Internet Access from SBC Yahoo! samba can do all sorts of kwel stuff, but was (as far as I know) first for connecting windows boxes to *nix boxes. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Setting Up Modems, Printers, and a Home Network
Are you, by any chance, mean that samba takes the place of pcanywhere? At 05:23 PM 9/28/2002 +, you wrote: Andre Stevens wrote: Hi Derek! Thank you for the reference. I'll check it out as soon as I get soem free time. With reference to the Samba networking, will it allow me to connect my Winodze computers to my Linux computer? Or is it specifically designed for UNIX based systems? Samba is specifically for Linux-Windows connectivity (UNIX-type-only communication is more normally handled by NFS). It has two parts: a client (smbclient) that allows a Linux box to talk to Windows boxes (e.g. read/write files or print) and a server which does the opposite - your Linux box will show up in Network Neighborhood on Windows. Sir Robin -- Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It's lovely to be silly at the right moment - Horace Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Üniversitesi Ankara 06533 http://www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com --- Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.391 / Virus Database: 222 - Release Date: 9/19/2002 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Setting Up Modems, Printers, and a Home Network
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 28 September 2002 7:16 pm, Bob Garsson did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: Are you, by any chance, mean that samba takes the place of pcanywhere? no, samba replaces network neighberhood, VNC and rfbdrake replace pcanywhere. - -- I knew I'd been living in Berkeley too long when I saw a sign that said free firewood and I said who is firewood and what did he do? shane Profile at: http://dmoz.org/profiles/shen.html Proud to be a DMOZ editor since 10-98 Mandrake Users Club Member http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/club/ Registered linux user #101606 http://counter.li.org/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9lmtKBwq+ZwvIN/oRAroAAJ9G9NFHU8HSwispbJDRfgpT6cdoGwCfbLcI sRB+mP5M/W4XszS8I6d/ekg= =EAAA -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Setting Up Modems, Printers, and a Home Network
On Saturday 28 September 2002 10:16 pm, you wrote: Are you, by any chance, mean that samba takes the place of pcanywhere? no, samba takes the place of ms file and print shareing serives, Xfree86, and a OS that works correcxtly will allow you to export an XFree86 session (if the network is fast enough) and that will allow you to run the desktop as if you were at the machine... a real OS. At 05:23 PM 9/28/2002 +, you wrote: Andre Stevens wrote: Hi Derek! Thank you for the reference. I'll check it out as soon as I get soem free time. With reference to the Samba networking, will it allow me to connect my Winodze computers to my Linux computer? Or is it specifically designed for UNIX based systems? Samba is specifically for Linux-Windows connectivity (UNIX-type-only communication is more normally handled by NFS). It has two parts: a client (smbclient) that allows a Linux box to talk to Windows boxes (e.g. read/write files or print) and a server which does the opposite - your Linux box will show up in Network Neighborhood on Windows. Sir Robin -- Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It's lovely to be silly at the right moment - Horace Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Üniversitesi Ankara 06533 http://www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com --- Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.391 / Virus Database: 222 - Release Date: 9/19/2002 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Setting Up Modems, Printers, and a Home Network
El vie, 27-09-2002 a las 12:42, Andre Stevens escribió: Are there any sites that explain how to set up internal modems and printers for Linux? For printers, see http://www.linuxprinting.org/. For modems, you'll have to first identify it. I have a sinking feeling that you have a so-called winmodem, so take a look at http://www.winmodem.org/. -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://www.srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Setting Up Modems, Printers, and a Home Network
To Anyone. I am using Mozilla browser, which I assume is a derivative of Netscape. I am unable to get any sound when I open up web pages. I have downloaded flashplayer, but can't seem to get it functioning. Can someone tell me how to get sound for my browser. Java is checked, but still no sound. I would really appreciate some advice. Thank you... Eric S. Dye, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Setting Up Modems, Printers, and a Home Network
Ok, I've tried a lot of things, but I cannot figure out how to connect to my wife's Win XP computer (home version). I get a message which is something about needing a password. I turned off all the passwords, protections, and other junk on her computer that *should* allow it to network. I can *see* the computer but cannot network to it. I've set up the workgroup and am using Komba2 to access her computer. I can do this quite successfully to a W98 box on the network, so I know the network is sound. By the way, I can't network the W98 boxes to her computer either and I refuse to run the special Microsoft program to set up *older* versions of Windows to network to XP. I'm actually kind of glad that Micro is shooting their own foot off. Other people as frustrated as I might give up and switch to the vastly superior Linux OS. In the meantime, I can't convince my wife so I'm stuck still trying to network her computer. Any help, web sites, or just plain commiserating is welcome. Linus On Saturday 28 September 2002 10:05 pm, et wrote: On Saturday 28 September 2002 10:16 pm, you wrote: Are you, by any chance, mean that samba takes the place of pcanywhere? no, samba takes the place of ms file and print shareing serives, Xfree86, and a OS that works correcxtly will allow you to export an XFree86 session (if the network is fast enough) and that will allow you to run the desktop as if you were at the machine... a real OS. At 05:23 PM 9/28/2002 +, you wrote: Andre Stevens wrote: Hi Derek! Thank you for the reference. I'll check it out as soon as I get soem free time. With reference to the Samba networking, will it allow me to connect my Winodze computers to my Linux computer? Or is it specifically designed for UNIX based systems? Samba is specifically for Linux-Windows connectivity (UNIX-type-only communication is more normally handled by NFS). It has two parts: a client (smbclient) that allows a Linux box to talk to Windows boxes (e.g. read/write files or print) and a server which does the opposite - your Linux box will show up in Network Neighborhood on Windows. Sir Robin -- Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It's lovely to be silly at the right moment - Horace Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Üniversitesi Ankara 06533 http://www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com --- Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.391 / Virus Database: 222 - Release Date: 9/19/2002 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Setting Up Modems, Printers, and a Home Network
Are there any sites that explain how to set up internal modems andprinters for Linux? Also, I'd like to set up a home network and put my Linux computer on it. I currently have Mac, Win98, WinME. They're not networked yet (I'm a real novice), and I need some information about how to go about setting this up. My Linux version is currently 7.1, and I do plan to upgrade to 8.2. Any help you could offer would be greatly appreciated. Dre---Do you Yahoo!? New DSL Internet Access from SBC & Yahoo!
Re: [newbie] Setting Up Modems, Printers, and a Home Network
On Fri, 27 Sep 2002 11:42:07 -0700 (PDT) Andre Stevens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are there any sites that explain how to set up internal modems and printers for Linux? Also, I'd like to set up a home network and put my Linux computer on it. I currently have Mac, Win98, WinME. They're not networked yet (I'm a real novice), and I need some information about how to go about setting this up. My Linux version is currently 7.1, and I do plan to upgrade to 8.2. Any help you could offer would be greatly appreciated. Dre--- www.mandrakeuser.org has lots of nice HOWTos and an active discussion board. You can find evertything you need there. Be careful of generic HOWTOs and out of date material you see on the web. Setting up devices in Mandrake 8.2 is a lot easier than you will read in a lot of material. Printer setup for instance is usually nothing more than pressing a couple of buttons in Mandrake Control Centre. Networking with Samba is not quite so straightforward, but there is plenty of advice on doing it on mandrakeuser. HTH derek - Do you Yahoo!? New DSL Internet Access from SBC Yahoo! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Setting Up Modems, Printers, and a Home Network
On Fri, 27 Sep 2002 11:42:07 -0700 (PDT) Andre Stevens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are there any sites that explain how to set up internal modems and printers for Linux? Also, I'd like to set up a home network and put my Linux computer on it. I currently have Mac, Win98, WinME. They're not networked yet (I'm a real novice), and I need some information about how to go about setting this up. My Linux version is currently 7.1, and I do plan to upgrade to 8.2. Any help you could offer would be greatly appreciated. Dre--- www.mandrakeuser.org has lots of nice HOWTos and an active discussion board. You can find evertything you need there. Be careful of generic HOWTOs and out of date material you see on the web. Setting up devices in Mandrake 8.2 is a lot easier than you will read in a lot of material. Printer setup for instance is usually nothing more than pressing a couple of buttons in Mandrake Control Centre. Networking with Samba is not quite so straightforward, but there is plenty of advice on doing it on mandrakeuser. HTH derek - Hi Andre, a great site to help you w/printers is http://www.linuxprinting.org/ As far as internal modems go, it depends if it is a winmodem or not. I have a winmodem (Conexant HCF chipset), but lucky for me it's one of the few that have drivers available for Linux. Outside of Conexant and Lucent, I don't think there are any winmodems w/drivers available. Hardware modems should be no prob. IMHO you should probably upgrade to 8.2, or 9 first, then try to deal with hardware issues. A Google search for your modem chipset +Linux may be helpful too. Good luck to you. 8-) --Angus Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.--James Thurber Reg. Linux User #278931 -- __ Download the FREE Opera browser at www.opera.com/download/ Free OperaMail at http://www.operamail.com/ Powered by Outblaze Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Setting Up Modems, Printers, and a Home Network
On Friday 27 September 2002 02:42 pm, Andre Stevens wrote: Are there any sites that explain how to set up internal modems and printers for Linux? Also, I'd like to set up a home network and put my Linux computer on it. I currently have Mac, Win98, WinME. They're not networked yet (I'm a real novice), and I need some information about how to go about setting this up. My Linux version is currently 7.1, and I do plan to upgrade to 8.2. Any help you could offer would be greatly appreciated. Dre--- Andre: You've already gotten some good advice, particularly that about mandrakeuser. A good place to check for potential hardware hassles is: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/hardware.php3 If you're already running 7.1 OK, I wouldn't expect any problems with 8.2 (at least none that you haven't already resolved.) Each successive version does a better job with setting up hardware, and 9.0 should be even better. -- cmg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
