Re: [Fwd: Re: [newbie] unable to ping to/from my windoze box]
On Wed, 2004-02-04 at 04:29, Anne Wilson wrote: [...snip] I'm not sure what's gone before, Merlin, but here's my thoughts. Assuming you're using 9.2? Try kdesu That brings up konqueror with root priveleges, I believe. You should then be able to right-click /etc/hosts and edit it. HTH Hi Anne, No, I'm using 9.0 - and it didn't work; it said No command specified. Must be some new addition I guess. -- 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: [Fwd: Re: [newbie] unable to ping to/from my windoze box]
On Wed, 2004-02-04 at 07:58, Steve Kaufman wrote: [...snip] As a newbie this command intrigued me so I played with it and the way to use it is 'kdesu kedit /etc/hosts' and it will then prompt you for root password and when you put it in it should open the file in edit and you can then save it. yes, that worked - thanks Steve. So now I'm back to the original problem. I was able to edit my /etc/hosts file so it now reads: 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost 192.168.0.10laptop.workgroup laptop 192.168.0.20cel2gthai.workgroup cel2gthai But the problem is still the same as before: If I set the NIC to auto in DrakeConnect it hangs on bringing up ETH0 when booting, and I can't ping to/from the laptop. If I set it to 192.168.0.20, then the machines can ping, but the internet doesn't work. And I haven't even got to the stage of getting Samba sorted yet... -- 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: [Fwd: Re: [newbie] unable to ping to/from my windoze box]
On Wednesday 04 February 2004 11:20, Merlin Zener wrote: On Wed, 2004-02-04 at 04:29, Anne Wilson wrote: [...snip] I'm not sure what's gone before, Merlin, but here's my thoughts. Assuming you're using 9.2? Try kdesu That brings up konqueror with root priveleges, I believe. You should then be able to right-click /etc/hosts and edit it. HTH Hi Anne, No, I'm using 9.0 - and it didn't work; it said No command specified. Must be some new addition I guess. In 9.0 you should have File Manager - Super User Mode. Using that you can open /etc/host with kedit, kwrite or any other editor and save the amended file, because you need the root password to access FM-SUMode. 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: [Fwd: Re: [newbie] unable to ping to/from my windoze box]
On Wednesday 04 February 2004 04:31 am, Merlin Zener wrote: So now I'm back to the original problem. I was able to edit my /etc/hosts file so it now reads: 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost 192.168.0.10laptop.workgroup laptop 192.168.0.20 cel2gthai.workgroup cel2gthai But the problem is still the same as before: If I set the NIC to auto in DrakeConnect it hangs on bringing up ETH0 when booting, and I can't ping to/from the laptop. If I set it to 192.168.0.20, then the machines can ping, but the internet doesn't work. And I haven't even got to the stage of getting Samba sorted yet... -- Merlin Zener eth0 hanging usually means your machine is looking for a DNS server on a LAN. You have dial-up--right? Give the machine a static IP. The problem with no internet (you actually can dial-out and connect but can get no farther than that--correct?), would be with your /etc/resolv.conf You need something like this as the only line in /etc/resolv.conf search workgroup nameofyourisp.com local For good measure, your /etc/sysconfig/networkshould look something like this, and nothing else, at least for now: HOSTNAME=cel2gthai .workgroup NETWORKING=yes Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [Fwd: Re: [newbie] unable to ping to/from my windoze box]
On Tuesday 03 February 2004 21:10, Merlin Zener wrote: Hello good people, I'm trying this ***yet again***. . . You may remember I couldn't edit /etc/hosts before with kedit; someone suggested I try gedit - that didn't work either because it wasn't there. Well now, after finally managing to stay connected long enough to download it and the dependencies it still won't work. Here's what I got, just now: [EMAIL PROTECTED] merlin]# gedit /etc/hosts Xlib: connection to :0.0 refused by server Xlib: No protocol specified (gedit:3156): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0.0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] merlin]# I don't understand why this is so hard. First, I am running KDE as a desktop - I thought kedit was the KDE editor? And gedit is the Gnome one? Do I have to be running Gnome for gedit to work? [I don't see how it would make any difference - I'm starting it from the text box anyhow...] And what's so special about this hosts file that I need to edit it with a special program? Isn't it just plain text? Or is there some other issue - do I have to shut down the network first before editing that file? [I don't know - I'm clutching at straws here...] If so, how do I do it? What I really need, is a clue... I'm not sure what's gone before, Merlin, but here's my thoughts. Assuming you're using 9.2? Try kdesu That brings up konqueror with root priveleges, I believe. You should then be able to right-click /etc/hosts and edit it. HTH 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: [Fwd: Re: [newbie] unable to ping to/from my windoze box]
Hi Merlin, I am not 100% certain on the syntax, but I had this happen once too. If you log into X as a user and change to root, this effect can sometimes happen. To prevent that, you can run xhost + from the commandline before starting X (from runlevel 3, not sure where to put it when you use runlevel 5). That allows anyone to connect to the X server. In which lies a vulnerability, because that also can give outside folks access to your X server. But that is what has helped me run graphical utilities in X as root. man xhost tells: NAME xhost - server access control program for X SYNOPSIS xhost [[+-]name ...] DESCRIPTION The xhost program is used to add and delete host names or user names to the list allowed to make connections to the X server. First, I am running KDE as a desktop - I thought kedit was the KDE editor? Yes. And gedit is the Gnome one? Yes Do I have to be running Gnome for gedit to work? No, you only need the gnome libraries installed. Good luck, Paul -- Windows: Where do you want to go today? MacOS: Where do you want to be tomorrow? Linux: Are you coming or what? http://www.nlpagan.net - Linux Mandrake - Thunderbird 0.5a/20031217 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
