RE: [newbie] Basic www server configuration
Have you registered (and paid) for your domain with the Internic/verisign? Do you also have a fixed IP address? If so, then talk to your ISP and have them add www.myhost.mydomain.com to their DNS server. Of course you are NOT using myhost.mydomain as a real address right? -JMS |-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of |[EMAIL PROTECTED] |Sent: Friday, June 21, 2002 2:59 PM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: RE: [newbie] Basic www server configuration | | |Hi again and thank you for your reply, |I made the changes and it works better. Now I can connect to |my server by typing www.myhost.mydomain, but only from my own computer. | |Can I make something to connect to it with that name from any |computer in the internet? | |Do I need a DNS for that? In that case, how can I get/configure it? | |Thanks again, | |Ignacio Horcas | | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Cable in, but network dies
Some ISP cable servers ping your machine in different ways and expect responses. It those responses are not seen, you machine may drop off the cable network. Basically their router no longer believes your connection is alive. Overly restrictive firewall rules will sometimes cause this. At the moment I'm suffering from a bad Cable Modem or signal quality issue which also does the same thing. -JMS |-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Miark |Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2002 3:19 AM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: Re: [newbie] Cable in, but network dies | | | Could the way you are running it be either | - bypassing the login/keep-alive process so that when the connection | times out it doesn't get re-made, or | - result in the the linux machine being seen as a second user - | without a valid login. | |I don't think it's not a keep-alive issue because it happens |right in the middle of a download. | |There's no login mechanism at all, really. As far as ATT is |concerned, there is no computer other than the gateway because |I'm running NAT. | | I remember one guy on this list who I helped to get his |cable running, | who would start the connection from his W$ machine, then |fire up linux | and have the connection survive for a few minutes then die. That was | because of this login issue. | |I don't think that's it, but I'm a broadband newbie, so I |won't rule it out. | |Thanks Brian. | |Miark | | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] subscription
Title: Message To what? -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of alexSent: Monday, May 27, 2002 10:08 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [newbie] subscription PLEASE CANCEL MY SUBSCRIPTION THANK YOU IncrediMail - Email has finally evolved - Click Here Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Samba Referance
Did you check out the HTML docs included in 8.2? They are pretty comprehensive. Also SWAT's online help guides you through almost everything. Then, of course there is Samba.org -JMS |-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Brian York |Sent: Saturday, April 27, 2002 7:05 PM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: [newbie] Samba Referance | | |Does anyone know a good webpage resource that has all |of the samba commands and different options and |explanation or a combination of any of the 3? | |Thanks |Brian | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [Fwd: [newbie] REPOST:Samba and Printing to a Windowssharedprinter]
I'm having no trouble printing in either direction from 8.1 to 8.2 and vice versa. Both machines are also connected to Winblows printers under XP. I'm also using the 8.1 machine as a PDC for Winblows. You might want to check the permissions on the 8.2 files. 8.2 tightened up quite a few things, and the defaults tend to disable things like Samba printing and Kups. I remember initially having a similar problem until I did this. Sorry I can't go into specifics as I don't really remember what I did. -JMS |-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Terry |Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2002 2:54 PM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: [Fwd: [newbie] REPOST:Samba and Printing to a Windows |sharedprinter] | | |-Forwarded Message- | | From: Terry [EMAIL PROTECTED] | To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Subject: [newbie] Samba and Printing to a Windows shared printer | Date: 25 Apr 2002 10:54:23 -0400 | | I'm having trouble setting up a windows shared printer using |KUPS and | Samba 2.2.3a in LM 8.2 .. I have a LM 8.1 machine running |Samba 2.2.2 | and KUPS and have no trouble printing to a windows shared printer | through it. Both machines are joined to the domain, and I used SWAT | to verify that all settings are set exactly the same. Our |domain (win | 2k) uses authentication to be able to print to the domain |printers. I | run through the wizard in KUPS to add a windows shared |printer, enter | in my user information for the domain, enter the info on the domain | and print server and print queue name, and things seem like they are | going to work just fine. When I try to print a test page to verify | that it was set up correctly, the document appears in the queue in | KUPS, and just hangs there saying Processing... | | Are there any known compatibility issues with printing between samba | 2.2.3a and 2.2.2? | | Thanks! | | Terry | | | | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] AMD system question
|-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Lyvim Xaphir |Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2002 2:17 PM |To: NewbieMandrake-List |Subject: RE: [newbie] AMD system question | | |I say to P4 advocates, ignore |the smoke and mirrors and look at the man behind the curtain; |click your heels together three times and go home to Athlon. | I've been to OZ thank you. The AMD's wicked witch drove me back to P4's. What am I talking about? Surely not the wondrous AMD processor itself? No. It's a fine beasty in and of itself, primarily due to it's cache. Sadly the support chip manufacturers (Via, Ali, etc.) have a serious uphill learning curve to overcome. So if you want to say use 3D Gaming glasses, TV cards, many peripherals, the AMD's are problematic thanks to these people. Huh? You grunt. What does this fool pretend to know? The clock timer problem with motherboards using Via, Ali, etc. causes both DMA and video problems. (Linux complains about it if you enable debugging in the logs). TV cards will not work as they must perform DMA push transfers, which are upset by the clock timer bug. This same sporadic timing causes flashing when using 3D glasses and NVIDIA's wonderful drivers. Both problems go away when the same hardware is transferred to P4/Intel boards. Low latency audio cards are also affected, as are WinModems (heh, heh, heh... Winmodems are EVIL!) Similarly Creative and other manufacturers have also had to issue workarounds for identical problems. Professional level audio software producers (such as Native Instruments, etc.) also caution users to stay away from the AMD processors for the same reasons. Too bad, because this is really NOT AMD's fault. (Though I'd like to see AMD mimic Intel's thermal protection circuitry, which is sadly lacking on their CPU's.). I clicked my heels together and awoke back in Intel Land, sigh. Though I'm still rooting for AMD, things are still not ready for prime time. My $.02, and worth every penny! -JMS Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] AMD system question
Yes AMD's work fine... Though it's too bad about the problems bugs with all of the support chipsets... E.G. Via, AliMagik, etc. This is not AMD's fault though. -JMS |-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Stewart Taylor |Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2002 1:19 PM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: Re: [newbie] AMD system question | | |Hi there | |Over the years I've had AMD CPUs from 386 to Athlon and never |had any prolems |with any OS or hardware caused by the fact I was running AMD. |For me there is |only one CPU of choice, AMD everytime. | |Stewart | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] AMD system question
Heh, drop a BT8x8 tuner it in, or many other Bus Mastering controllers and it will bite you. Unfortunately I found this out the hard way on 6 different systems I own. The famous clock timer problem screws up DMA transfers on Via, AliMagik chipsets. Abit, Asus, Gigabyte are all plagued by this... -JMS |-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Tony S. Sykes |Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2002 5:02 AM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: RE: [newbie] AMD system question | | |I use an Asus board with amd(xp 1600), no probs, I have always |used amd chips for last 5 years, last 2 on linux, and never |had a problem, with several motherboards, abit, asus, gigabyte |running amd various flavours. | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] pan trouble
Works just great for me. Did you remember to re-configure the save paths? -JMS |-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Paul RodrÃguez |Sent: Monday, April 08, 2002 1:43 PM |To: newbie |Subject: [newbie] pan trouble | | |Anybody try downloading a binary with Pan in 8.2? Does it |work for you even if the binary is not a picture? | | |- Paul R | | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] pan trouble
Well it's neither a problem with 8.2 or PAN. I've upgraded one box and did a clean install on another and both work fine. You might want to try removing the respective PAN configuration files from the .gnome directory and then set things up again. Also try deleting the contents of the PAN data directories where it saves the indexes and downloaded headers. I assume you are downloading Binaries with complete icons right? -JMS |-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Paul RodrÃguez |Sent: Monday, April 08, 2002 3:01 PM |To: newbie |Subject: RE: [newbie] pan trouble | | |I did. I can save pictures fine, but no other type of file. |It happens on two different boxes. It seems to download them |fine, but not decode them. | |- Paul | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Mandrake 8.2, SB Live Digital Speakers
Actually some of the Value cards did (do?) not have Digital I/O by design. -JMS |-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of FemmeFatale |Sent: Saturday, March 23, 2002 5:55 PM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8.2, SB Live Digital Speakers | | |*gack!* Digital output? I'd verify a sneaky suspicion I |have. Dell sent out Live cards too... With a caveat, they had |engineered them somehow so they weren't normal LIVE cards anymore! | |They lacked certain features. | |Check gateways site or newsgroups archives for an answer? | |Femme | |Jim Gentry wrote: Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Mandrake 8.2, SB Live Digital Speakers
Digital output on the SBLive cards does NOT come from the Green output jack. Rather from the YELLOW sub-miniture jack normally used for the Center Channel/Subwoofer, if your card supports this. The card must be set in software to support digital I/O Check the specs (I have). The green jack is analog only AFAIK. -JMS |-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Jim Gentry |Sent: Saturday, March 23, 2002 9:00 PM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8.2, SB Live Digital Speakers | | |FemmeFatale wrote: | |*gack!* Digital output? I'd verify a sneaky suspicion I have. Dell |sent out Live cards too... With a caveat, they had engineered them |somehow so they weren't normal LIVE cards anymore! | |They lacked certain features. | |Check gateways site or newsgroups archives for an answer? | |Femme | |Jim Gentry wrote: | |I have installed ML 8.0, 8.1 and now 8.2 on my Gateway Pentium III. |On 8.0 and 8.1, I could not get satisfactory sound from the Gateway |OEM version of the SoundBlaster Live Value card that came with the |machine. I have the Boston Acoustic Digital speaker set, but the |default installation of ALSA 0.5.10(?) sets the master output of the |card to analog signal. I have confirmed this with an old pair of |speakers. ML 8.2 sets up sound much more reliably than the previous |versions -- I even get sound now from my Hauppauge TV card, but the |output is still analog. | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] PNP Bios - Off or On?
One Caveat: /boot or whatever the /boot directory is in MUST be an EXT2 file system or the kernel will not load! -JMS -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Miark Sent: Friday, December 21, 2001 4:19 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] PNP Bios - Off or On? As part of the preparations for the LM 8.1 installation, I have copied my current /home/me to a separate partition (/archives) that is ext2fs. Am I correct that if I do an expert install, the / and /archives partitions can be ext2fs, and the balance can be one of the journalled formats? Yes, but if you make / ext2, then there isn't much left to make journaled! If /archives is a totally separate partition, then on install I would make everything except /archives journalled. (Then once you've moved your stuff back to /home/me, change the fs on /archives to something journalled, too ;-) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Could Mandrake Kill My Motherboard?
Can you say Ground Fault? If you are finding that you have to keep replacing electronic components associated with a computer, and have external devices plugged in, the FIRST thing you should look for is a ground fault. It is likely that this is shorting out your motherboards over the course of a few days/weeks it takes to degrade the CAPs via the ground fault assault. Make sure that ALL of the devices plugged into your computer are in turn plugged into the SAME power strip with proper plug polarity observed. If you have a LAN, TV-TUNER, Printer, etc. which connects elsewhere also be sure that it's not to blame. A 9-20 volt fault leakage may not burn your computer out in a day, but it will over time causing exactly the type of problem you are seeing... I.E. a few weeks of use the a new motherboard. Just a though. -JMS -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of tester Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2001 5:15 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Could Mandrake Kill My Motherboard? On Thu, 2001-12-20 at 11:17, Kelly McCormick wrote: Thanks for the quick response civil! Nonstop, eh? Err, ok, I guess I meant exclusively although the system does get a LOT of usage, I do sleep once in a while! ;) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Install - CD-ROM not reading CD's 2 or 3
Are you sure they are registering. During installation if you insert CD 2 or 3 and they don't seem to be read, eject the CD, re-insert it and wait a minute or two. Normally after the reader settles down, you'll see it spin up again. If Linux finds the file system at this point, the installation will take off again. -JMS -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Julian Opificius Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2001 1:51 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Install - CD-ROM not reading CD's 2 or 3 Trying to reinstall Mandrake 8.1. For some reason the CD ROM doesn't identify CDs 2 or 3. They are readable on my other computers under MS Windows. Any clues, anyone, please? Julian. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Sound trouble, again, plus joystick
I've posted extensive messages and a mini-howto on getting the SBLive working, on this list... Since I do not feel like retyping the long posts again, please search the Archives. I detail how to get EVERYTHING (except the Live drive, although you'll even find this in the search) working... Joystick, Midi, SoundFonts, etc. One note, DISABLE your motherboard's sound and joystick port first... -JMS -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 7:14 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Sound trouble, again, plus joystick I've got a Soundblaster Live card, plus an integrated i810 sound chip. I'm using the SB exclusively - I don't want to have anything to do with the latter. The sound configuration on my system, which never worked adequately to start with ( =midi nonfunctional), has gone from bad to worse. One day when I started up the system, Linux decided suddenly to detect the i810 to which it had until then paid no attention. Now the situation is that whenever I start up the system I have to run sndconfig to get _any_ sound at all out. The configure functionality in HardDrake can't do anything at all about it: when it tries to play an 8 bit sample with the i810, I get 'sox: Can't open output file '/dev/dsp': Permission denied' (and no sound), and when it tries the same thing for SBLive, I get no errors, nor sound. Now, I'm absolutely losing patience with this PoS. Could someone advice me how to get things in working order? It would be absolutely wonderful to get instructions on how to remove _everything_ related to sound and then reinstall the drivers/whatevers _correctly_ from scratch. Also, I can't figure out how to get my joystick detected. It's an old-fashioned non-USB affair (a Gravis with a rudder wheel), and I have two joy ports to spare, one in the motherboard, one in the SB card. +Cinquo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Samba question - making shares invisible
Non domain windows machine authenticate every time they open a share. Domain controlled machines basically log in once, then have access to the resources allocated on a per user basis. Domain controlled machines can also do some interesting things... E.G. autoconfiguration of printers, network logon scripts, roving profiles, etc. -JMS -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Frank McKenna Sent: Sunday, December 16, 2001 1:58 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Samba question - making shares invisible Hi Michael, To make things easier, you can set up your Linux box as a domain controller and therefore will only have to deal with username / passwords on the Linux side. If you want to pursue that, let me know. Could you please let me know how to do this and why it would be beneficial TIA Frank McKenna Difficulties increase the closer we approach our Goals Plato ~ It takes a minute to have a crush on someone,an hour to like someone and a day to love someonebut it takes a lifetime to forget someone. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Samba question - making shares invisible
Heh, then the much simpler share level authentication is all you need. -JMS -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Mark Weaver Sent: Sunday, December 16, 2001 8:49 AM To: newbie Subject: Re: [newbie] Samba question - making shares invisible On Sun, 16 Dec 2001 06:56:50 -0500 Jose M. Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] studiouisly spake these words to ponder: heavens! all I wanna do is just be able to read and write from the windows box to the linux box and be able to use the Linux printer. honest. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Samba question - making shares invisible
I know exactly what you want to do, but can you get by with something just slightly less? The reason I ask is that one way to make things almost do what you want is to use the [homes] Section type configuration and hide the [homes] share itself by making it non-browseable. (assuming you eliminated all the other shares for the moment...) Each user then only sees ONE entry for themselves when they double click on the server. This entry is user dependant, so if you log in as Jim, all you see is a share called Jim... Of course you can actually use the macro functions to make it appear as machine name, user name, etc. or even the name of a passed variable... (Samba logs in as the authenticated user on the Linux box so you can pass user specific variables this way...) Once this is set up, you can always add shares that you do want everyone to see. You can replicate this technique for multiple shares, and even to point certain users to specific directory shares which only appear when they log in. Yeah I know you talked about it before, but by hiding the homes share itself it almost appears to the user that there are user/login specific shares available... Not really of course... BTW: the NMB portion of Samba could be easily patched to give you what you want if the browseable function was changed slightly. This may be something worth suggesting to the Samba group. Browsing is already controlled by a boolean per share, if instead it could be set to use passed variables then you have your cake and icing... A thought. -JMS -Original Message- From: Jose M. Sanchez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, December 15, 2001 8:48 PM To: 'Julian Opificius' Subject: RE: [newbie] Samba question - making shares invisible Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Samba question - making shares invisible
No it's needed. I'm speculating, but given what you posted it sounds like you almost have everything set up properly. If this is the case the useraccount and/or password being passed is not recognized by samba. If a lib were missing you'ld get this behaviour... Also what version of Windows are you trying to connect with? -JMS -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Mark Weaver Sent: Sunday, December 16, 2001 8:54 AM To: newbie Subject: Re: [newbie] Samba question - making shares invisible On Sun, 16 Dec 2001 00:11:14 -0500 Jose M. Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] studiouisly spake these words to ponder: Password Encryption? as in is encryption turned on? as far as i know it is. is this a bad thing? -- daRcmaTTeR Registered Linux User 182496 Mandrake 8.1 - 3:05am up 6 days, 5:00, 3 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Samba question - making shares invisible
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Frank McKenna Sent: Sunday, December 16, 2001 10:44 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Samba question - making shares invisible Hi Jose, Thank you for your reply and sorry for the long post everyone. 1) Are the user accounts valid. smbclient -L Sambabox -U Windowsuser Have done this for all three users and there does not appear to be any error messages is the Windows Login name (that you used on the Windows machine to log in initially) that you have added to Samba via smbpasswd -a Windowsuser. As far as I know, things are set up correctly for this. The password that I entered while doing smbclient -L Sambabox -U Windowsuser should be the same as the Linux/Windows password or am I wrong Yes and it is case specific! You can get around this slightly by changing the password hashing levels... --- Normally NETBIOS name to IP resolution is done by the DNS, but you probably don't have one. I had DNS set up before I broke my install and had to reinstall the O/S. I thought that I had everything set up the same way as before but that would make sense. I am stumbling around in the dark with this. How would I find out if DNS is running? I know that it is enabled in smb.comf You must then help windows. There are several ways to do this... A) Create a HOSTS file (in the same location as your LMHOSTS or LMHOSTS.SAM example file) which contains the IP - NETBIOS equivalences. Not sure where I would put this or what I would have to put in it. --- The example LMHOSTS.SAM shows you what to do... Basically if the name of your Linux box's SAMBA Netbios name (specified in smb.conf) is SAMBABOX and it's ip is 192.168.0.1 then you put a line in to HOSTS like this 192.168.0.1 SAMBABOX Afterwards ping SAMBABOX Should return 192.168.0.1 C) Enable the WINS component in Samba and create a local HOSTS entry, and then point the workstations to the Samba box's IP for WINS resolution... Have done th is except for the local hosts entry. Could you explain the local HOSTS entry please --- See above... Changing the hashing depth to 8 helps. This is a new term for me. --- The password level = 8 username level = 8 Entries in smb.conf control how many characters in the user name and password Samba will hash in attempting to match the login name and passwords. Say you entered MaryS as a user name and in Windows you also entered the same. Windows loves to change the case of entries. As a result Samba may be seeing MARYS as the username, coming from Samba (or marys). In this case Samba would not accept the user! The USERNAME LEVEL = entry tells Samba to try up to 8 characters changing each to different combinations of uppercase and lower case letters until it gets a match. Without it things must be EXACT. Also remember that Windows uses Encrypted passwords, when you use SMBCLIENT locally you are sending clear text so if it works locally but not remotely (from Windows) it's likely that you do not have encryption set up properly... In my smb.conf, I have encrypted password = Yes. On my Windows 98 box, I have hacked the registry to send passwords in clear text. On my W2K box I did nothing in terms of password encryption and I can still log on. DAMN that's the problem You are not consistent! If encrypted passwords is set to ON in samba then it expects encrypted passwords from Windows. No wonder your W2K box can log in. It's sending encrypted passwords while Windows is not. REVERSE the registry hack in Windows. Make it NOT send cleartext and reboot. --- If smb.conf is correct, you may be missing a crypt lib or something else and/or too high of a security setting... Crypt.lib is a new term as well. When you say security settings do you mean security = user or the settings for Linux itself? --- Neither, the security level for the Linux box overall. You set this during installation and you can reset it in the Mandrake Control center... --- -JMS Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] LILO issues with 2 hard drives.
Eh, this may not be a lilo problem at all. Linux may be getting an erroneous report about the hard drive size (of the primary or secondary) and the location of the boot sector of the secondary. This would result in the behaviour you have seen. The initial installer may have received an erroneous report, now when you run LILO it's putting the location of the boot sectors at the wrong place in it's table. Of course it could be backwards. -JMS -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Ivan Offalich Sent: Sunday, December 16, 2001 8:58 PM To: Mandrake Newbie Subject: [newbie] LILO issues with 2 hard drives. I looked all over the Linux Documentation Project website for this information. I couldn't seem to find it anywhere so I was hoping someone could help me with it on this list. I'll explain my situation. I have two hard drives installed on my computer. hda is dedicated to Windoze. hdc is dedicated to Linux. When I install Linux (I've gone through the process a few times) it has me choose between LILO and GRUB. I have chosen LILO since I've read more about it than GRUB and I have a better understand of how it works. After installing and booting up, I get the choice of booting Linux-Secure, Linux, Linux Failsafe, or Windoze. Everything works fine like it should. When I installed I tried both the normal boot and also the nicer looking boot (the equivalent of vga=791 in the config. file), they both worked fine. The trouble comes afterwards. I edited my /etc/lilo.conf file, saved it, and then typed lilo into the shell. It returned a confirmation that the file was edited properly. When I restarted my computer the BIOS went through its normal checks and when it got to the OS Loading... part the screen starts filling with 01 00 01 00 01 00 01 00 01 etc. I understood that this meant my MBR was corrupted, so I did a fdisk /mbr from my DOS bootdisk. This allowed me to get into Windoze normally and I could of course get into Linux using my Linux bootdisk. I restored the /etc/lilo.conf file to its original condition and typed lilo once more. When I restarted my computer the next time I got the same 1s and 0s. Considering that I took much care into editing the /etc/lilo.conf file originally, this leads me to believe that it wasn't the result of a typo in the file. What it does lead me to believe is that the installation process writes to the MBR differently than LILO does from Linux. I'm not sure if that's the case though. It's also possible that I'm doing something wrong somehow that I don't realize. Is it possible that hda isn't being mounted properly before it's being written to? Does the fact that the drive is used for Windoze make a difference in this case? Is there something else I'm overlooking here? I'd appreciate any help that anyone can offer to fix this problem. I'd like to be able to boot into Linux without a floppy disk again and be able to use LILO properly. Ivan. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Samba question - making shares invisible
- SEEING THE LIGHT with Samba - -- Snip --- I thought of it as a duh, an obvious feature, and that I was overlooking the obvious, but apparently not. The more I think about it, it demonstrates the philosophical difference between Microsoft (the KISS principle) and Unix (the long rope - you either do rope tricks or hang yourself). The idea of iding unavailable shares for the sake of simplicity probably wouldn't occur to a Unix/Linux programmer. Not that it's wrong, just different. --- Snip --- Just like browseable = no, right? No, I want the share to show up or not show up as a function of it's accessibility by the current login - i.e. login-dependant, rather than definition-dependant. -- Snip --- Ouch. You're effectively badmouthing Linux and Samba in the same breath. The problem is as Mr. Spock put it; you are exhibiting two-dimensional thinking. The Microsoft metaphors have you firmly by the throat! Samba does indeed keep it simple with the added advantage of incredible flexibility. This same flexibility is hiding the rather obvious from you, namely you are looking at shares (as defined by the [sharename] headers) in the wrong light. The solution is plainly documented, but often overlooked as a result... So here is ONE way of doing what you want easily... You probably have smb.conf share headers already defined in the file... Such as [Bill] Path = /home/bill public = no valid users = bill [Mary] Path = /home/mary public = no valid users = mary [Mark] Path = /home/mark public = no valid users = mark What you've done is effectively defined things which YOU WANT advertised by Samba discreetly... -WRONG-! Instead what you want is [home] path = /home/%m public = no writeable = yes valid users = bill mark mary @validgroup BTW: Samba will create the directories for you automatically as the users attach, if they don't exist. BTW: The @validgroup definition is another way to define valid users... That's it! Huh? (I hear the scratching of the head from here...) Yes the %m is a Samba on the fly substitution macro, which gets replaced when the user attempts to attach to the share... So when Mark attaches to the \\SAMBABOX\HOME share he only sees /home/mark Likewise when Mary attaches to it, she only sees /home/mary. Etc. Samba provides MANY easy ways to skin the cat. Microsoft provides one. Don't mistake Microsoft's restrictions for EASE OF USE. Your familiarity with Microsoft's metaphors came at a cost. A newbie would be just as clueless with Microsoft's way of doing things as they would be with Samba. Microsoft doesn't make it inherently easy, rather you are used to their way of thinking. Samba/Linux does not require rope tricks, just the same devotion to reading the manual (or playing with things) that you at one point underwent with MS$'s products. Linux can sing, the 800lb gorilla can only grunt. My $.02 worth. -JMS [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Samba question - making shares invisible
Password Encryption? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Mark Weaver Sent: Saturday, December 15, 2001 11:21 PM To: newbie Subject: Re: [newbie] Samba question - making shares invisible well, I found the file LMHOSTS.SAM on my windows machine and now the HOSTS.SAM, LMHOSTS.SAM, and HOSTS file all contain the same information just in case. 127.0.0.1 localhost 192.168.0.1 mdw1982 the linux user is the same as the windows user. I just don't know what else to look at. it's as though the windows machine is mocking me. I bet it is! i'm going to hit the rack for now and maybe get a fresh start in the morning. maybe there's something I'm missing and a good night's sleep will help me see it. thanks for all the help. I'll catch up with you all tomorrow. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Samba question - making shares invisible
There are two components to this... 1) Are the user accounts valid. Before trying anything from Windows, you should always... smbclient -L Sambabox -U Windowsuser Where SAMBABOX is the netbios name of the SAMBA server, and Windowuser is the Windows Login name (that you used on the Windows machine to log in initially) that you have added to Samba via smbpasswd -a Windowsuser. If Samba prompts for a password and shows you a list of shares, it's likely that your problem is not with Samba itself. Which brings us to part two... 2) Samba broadcasts the available shares via it's NMB component. Samba basically tells the machines that Server \\Sambabox has \\Sambabox\share1, etc. shares available. It's up to the Windows machine to make it back to the share itself, or rather to find a way to the Samba server. The Windows Machine needs a way to resolve the Sambabox entry to an IP address. Since Samba is NOT NT it cant use the same mechanism to do this that NT utilizes... Normally NETBIOS name to IP resolution is done by the DNS, but you probably don't have one. You must then help windows. There are several ways to do this... A) Create a HOSTS file (in the same location as your LMHOSTS or LMHOSTS.SAM example file) which contains the IP - NETBIOS equivalences. B) Use a local DNS to do the work C) Enable the WINS component in Samba and create a local HOSTS entry, and then point the workstations to the Samba box's IP for WINS resolution... All three work although A is easiest for small LANs... You should be able to ping the SAMBA box by NETBIOS NAME I.E. ping Sambabox from a command line in Windows should work. Bear in mind that this is different, but related to the FQDN for your machines! Re: USER B It sounds like your login is failing, and you are falling thru to a Guest share which has no rights! You MUST NOT get an invalid password message, if you do Samba normally has rejected the password sent by Windows... See my other posts about this... Changing the hashing depth to 8 helps. Also remember that Windows uses Encrypted passwords, when you use SMBCLIENT locally you are sending clear text so if it works locally but not remotely (from Windows) it's likely that you do not have encryption set up properly... If smb.conf is correct, you may be missing a crypt lib or something else and/or too high of a security setting... -JMS -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Frank McKenna Sent: Saturday, December 15, 2001 10:54 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Samba question - making shares invisible I have a similar problem where I can see all three users of my Mandrake 8.0 box in network Neighbourhood. When I try to log on as user A or C, I get an error message saying that the password is invalid. I can then access user B. When I log on as user B, I can not log on or access any shares. This is driving me nuts as well. Any suggestions? TIA Frank McKenna Difficulties increase the closer we approach our Goals Plato ~ It takes a minute to have a crush on someone,an hour to like someone and a day to love someonebut it takes a lifetime to forget someone. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] SAMBA (was: internet sharing setup)
If you are having problems connecting to shares from Win2K it may be due to how Win2K handles passwords... Make sure you have encrypted passwords turned on in samba. Also make sure that the hash level parameter is set to 8 in Samba. This causes Samba to accept various combinations of upper case and lower case in the password. Effectively if Samba doesn't recognize the password coming from Win2, samba will try sucessive combinations of upper case and lower case letters using the password that was passed to it, in attempting to find a match. Re: Copying files Remember that the Windows browser is showing you the shares. Under Winblows it's easier to Map a drive letter to a share. Then most Windows programs will use the Samba share without a UNC. You can copy files via the windows browser, etc. -JMS -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Lee Roberts Sent: Saturday, December 08, 2001 11:12 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] SAMBA (was: internet sharing setup) At 09:01 PM 12/8/2001 -0500, Jose M. Sanchez wrote: I hope you set up your Win2K machine to be a member of a workgroup and not a domain. Yes, it is a member of the workgroup. But, I get an error message, when double-clicking on the Computers near me icon, that states that I'm not permitted to connect to the workgroup from this location (something like that). But, I am able to connect both ways between the Linux Win95 boxes after straightening out the user/password lists. I can connect to the Win2K machine from the Linux box. I have to figure out how to transfer files now. ls q works but cp doesn't. And I can't seem to connect to the homes directory from the Win95 box even though the homes share icon shows up. But, as I mentioned above I can't connect to the Linux box or Win95 box from my Win2K box. Anyway, thanks for your help the tutorial. It helps me to understand what's going on. There sure is a lot to understand about networking! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Mandrake 8.1 and cdrom
SCSI support is require to be able to write to the drive which is why it is installed. -JMS -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Bob Kauffman Sent: Sunday, December 09, 2001 1:05 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Mandrake 8.1 and cdrom I installed Mandrake 8.1 on my Dell Dimension (PIII) and everything went very welluntil I tried to access my cdrom drive. This machine has a CD RW drive supplied by Dell, and a DVD rom installed later by myself. In checking with HardDrak, I find three cdroms listed: ATAPI 12X DVDROMdev/hdd ATAPI/IDE LG CD-RW CED-8080B dev/hdc ATAPI/IDE LG CD-RW CED-8080B dev/scd0 SCSI This machine doesn't have SCSI support, to the best of my knowledge. Why is Mandrake seeing two RW drives and why is it seeing a SCSI device? I can't rouse the CD RW drive at all it won't light up and I can't eject the tray. Any ideas? -- Bob Kauffman [EMAIL PROTECTED] 573-874-6783 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] filesharing with windows (samba)
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Stojs Sent: Sunday, December 09, 2001 5:31 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] filesharing with windows (samba) Now I have set up a samba server but there are still some problems. When I click home directory I get a network icon in the left field. Under that is ftp archive, local network and web sites. I guess my windows machine should show up under local network. But what I get there is just could not connect to host localhost. Am I looking in the wrong place or is it a configuration problem? --- You are using Konqueror to browse your network. In turn Konqueror relies upon three things being set up properly, 1) Samba itself 2) Lisa/Reslisa 3) You user logins in the K-Control panel Komba is easier to use. --- From the windows side I can find the linux machine and read/write in the samba-public folder.The problem is that I can not write in samba-public folder from within linux. --- Samba folders are merely pointers to real Linux folders you have set up. It sounds like you have not set any up yet! --- How do I share another folder? --- By adding a new entry starting with [sharename] In /etc/samba/smb.conf. --- And is it possible to get read/write access to the samba-public folder? --- You already have access to everything in Linux. Samba does NOT have it's own folders hidden somewhere. Rather you can have a share called [public] which points to a directory somewhere within your Linux machine's hard drive. Where this is, is up to you to decide. -JMS Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] SAMBA (was: internet sharing setup)
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Lee Roberts Sent: Saturday, December 08, 2001 2:32 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] SAMBA (was: internet sharing setup) -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At 06:12 PM 12/7/2001 -0500, Jose M. Sanchez wrote: First: Are all three machines members of the same workgroup? Yes, they are. Are you SURE that you've defined the Workgroup name in Samba the SAME as that used on your other Winblows boxes? Yes, I have. Second: When you log into windows you are asked for a user name and password. This user name and password, gets passed to Samba whenever you connect to a share and browse the network. Not on the Win95 machine. The Win95 machine prompts for a password. --- No, you misunderstand. Whenever your Win9x machine attempts to access a Samba resource or share, what happens first behind the scenes is that Samba requests a user name and password from the Windows machine attempting to access it's share. Windows then passes the user name and passwords you originally used to log into WINDOWS, to SAMBA. Thus if Samba doesn't know the username and/or password, it will fail to show you the share you've created. A symptom of this is exactly what you describe. That is, Windows puts up a dialog box asking for a password, when trying to access the Samba share. Why? Well Windows passed the username and password you used to log in, to Samba, but Samba rejected them. Samba doesn't have the username and password in it's database of valid SAMBA users. Thus a Linux/Unix account AND a corresponding Samba account must exist for each of these login name/password pairs. In other words, both the Windows computers and the Linux box has to have identical user/password combinations? --- Correct, but more importantly Windows and SAMBA must have identical user/password combinations. As a result of this you should also have corresponding LINUX/UNIX logins passwords (though this is not strictly true, for the moment say it is...) Consider SAMBA to be another computer on your network with it's OWN set of logins. Linux is yet another, and so is your Windows box. Windows ONLY passes the user name and passwords to of the currently logged in user to Samba. (Purely as an aside; sitting on your Windows hard drive is a file called USERNAME.pwl The PWL stands for Pass Word List. This file contains the usernames and passwords used by the person logged in as USERNAME. Thus if you log in as Joe, there will be a JOE.PWL on the hard drive. This file is what Windows creates as it builds up a password database for other shares on your LAN...) I.E. you need to use smbadduser and smbpasswd to add the SAMBA users to Linux's SAMBA user/password lists. ALWAYS double check this using SMBCLIENT smbclient -L LINUXBOX -U WINUSER Asks the Samba Linuxbox, to log in as WINUSER and present the shares. LINUXBOX WINUSER == the machine name? --- No. Linuxbox is the NETBIOS/NMB name of your SAMBA server. If you named it Blue_Linux_Box you would type in smbclient -L Blue_Linux_Box -U WINUSER WINUSER is a login name that you are using on your WINDOWS machine to log in there! This effectively tests the ability of Windows to log into Samba. Say at the Windows Login screen you enter Joe for a login name and BigDogs for a password. Then you would type; smbclient -L Blue_Linux_Box -U Joe at your Linux console. This tells Samba that you want to log in as Joe, the same userNAME you are using on your Windows machine. You do this to test if Samba recognizes the Joe account and password. Normally after doing this, Samba will reply Password: You then enter the SAME password you normally use on the Windows machine to log in. If Samba has a correctly configured account for Joe it will then show you a list of all of the shares it has available. When you configured SAMBA, you should have also enabled the NMB component and enabled SAMBA to be the BROWSE MASTER for your network or domain. Done. This is what presents the shares to the Winblows workstations. (the icons). If you havent increase the OS LEVEL in samba, the browse master will be decided by election amoung your computers (REALLY they vote!). When things change the browse list(s) dissappear for awhile until things get sorted out again. The OS level was not changed. --- By default Samba is the equivalent of a Windows NT 3.51 server. It pays to raise the OS level a bit. Why? All of your Windows machines query the network to see who has the highest OS level. The machine with the highest level is normally elected to be the browse master. If your Linux box is up all the time, it's the best browse master. The browse master keeps a list of all the shareable resources on your network, even from other windows computers. If your Linux box is up all the time, make it the BROWSE MASTER so that things will not keep shifting and disappearing. Did
RE: [newbie] internet sharing setup
First: Are all three machines members of the same workgroup? Are you SURE that you've defined the Workgroup name in Samba the SAME as that used on your other Winblows boxes? Second: When you log into windows you are asked for a user name and password. This user name and password, gets passed to Samba whenever you connect to a share and browse the network. Thus a Linux/Unix account AND a corresponding Samba account must exist for each of these login name/password pairs. I.E. you need to use smbadduser and smbpasswd to add the SAMBA users to Linux's SAMBA user/password lists. ALWAYS double check this using SMBCLIENT smbclient -L LINUXBOX -U WINUSER Asks the Samba Linuxbox, to log in as WINUSER and present the shares. When you configured SAMBA, you should have also enabled the NMB component and enabled SAMBA to be the BROWSE MASTER for your network or domain. This is what presents the shares to the Winblows workstations. (the icons). If you havent increase the OS LEVEL in samba, the browse master will be decided by election amoung your computers (REALLY they vote!). When things change the browse list(s) dissappear for awhile until things get sorted out again. If your Linux box is up all the time, make it the BROWSE MASTER so that things will not keep shifting and disappearing. Did you also remember to define the DEVICES (aka IP ADDRESSES) using the INTERFACES = Line? If not Samba will not broadcast it's information until something nudges it. -JMS |-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Lee Roberts |Sent: Friday, December 07, 2001 5:40 PM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: Re: [newbie] internet sharing setup | | |At 02:52 PM 12/7/2001 -0500, Ed Tharp wrote: | |why ftp? could use samba and be up and running and sharing files and |drives |and printers w/ the winders boxes in no time? | |Speaking of Samba, I get the icon for the Linux box to show |up on my Win2K Win95 clients but I can't browse the Linux |box. And if I restart Windows, I have to restart the services |on the Linux box before I can display the network icons again |- that sucks. Win95 asks for a password to try to access the |Linux box - that fails, of course. I used the procedure for |Samba from the techtv.com website. Apparently, it's not that |easy to set up Samba. So, what am I doing wrong? BTW, I can |ping all 3 machines on my network - can't share files with any |of them even though the icons show up on the Windows boxes. |And internet connection sharing works OK. | |No wonder network administrators get the big bucks. | | | | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] PReemptive Strike #2: Memory usage
Here, here! This needs an entry in the FAQ's for LM. This causes so many misconceptions that people normally post the memory leak questions at least once a week. A Notes on memory and memory usage would be in order, starting by quoting your message verbatim. -JMS |-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of civileme |Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2001 1:26 AM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: [newbie] PReemptive Strike #2: Memory usage | | |People who monitor their resources in Windows and know they have to |rebootwhen the memory available drops low are often confused by linux. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Armagetron and Tux Racer Games will not run
You should really launch Tuxracer at least once from an Xterm so that you can see what is really happening. I'll bet that either it's a permissions problem, or your display doesn't really have OpenGL support yet. -JMS |-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Michael Peligro |Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2001 2:18 AM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: [newbie] Armagetron and Tux Racer Games will not run | | |I recently installed Linux-Mandrake 8.1 on my system. For a |Harry Homeowner or a Joe Sixpack like me, I was glad the |installer recognized all my devices and installed properly |without me having to fiddle with cryptic Unix commands or |logging to the dreaded console (which I don't know how to use). | |I really like games, but I CAN'T RUN ARMAGETRON or TUX RACER. |Whenever I launch these games, I can see the hourglass for the |initial runtime processing of the game. The game then |unexpectedly exits. I don't know why it behaves this way. Please help! | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Modem LAN connections in the same box
Kppp bypasses the normal configuration scripts used by LM8.1. You should can KPPP in this situation and enable all of the modules in Linuxconf. Then use Linuxconf to set up your internet connection. Once done set up your LAN (if you are having problems) using Linuxconf. -JMS |-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of lee |Sent: Saturday, December 01, 2001 1:31 AM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: [newbie] Modem LAN connections in the same box | | |hi folks, | |I've got a box here with a modem connecting kppp(which works |fine) and an nic |card(2 actually..1 is mb integrated). I can surf fine via |kppp. I can ping |the proxy(and vice versa) but no other requests go thru..using |squid as the |software. I can post whaever files that might help the wise |ones on here help |me. | |thank you all for your time,,hava great wknd all. | |Lee | | | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] upgrade 192 to 384 MB RAM = 45 minutes to boot
Bring your MB down to 256 megs and give it a try! -JMS |-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of DUSTY SOMERS |Sent: Friday, November 30, 2001 9:02 PM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: [newbie] upgrade 192 to 384 MB RAM = 45 minutes to boot | | |Hi! | |I upgraded my RAM from 192 to 384. Now it takes 45 minutes to |boot with |linux mandrake 8.1. In the beginning it's not slow (but slower than |before). It becomes really slow, when he's starting my |firewall. There's |nothing wrong with the RAM itself, because other OS like |windows 2000 don't |have any probs. |Specifications : |intel celeron 600 MHz |Gigabyte 6WMM7 rev 2.0 (I don't know the exact number sorry) |intel i810 chipset 384 (128+256) MB SDRAM video integrated on |mobo (AGP) with 8 MB shared RAM sound on board | |Thanks for helping me, | |Dusty Somers | |_ |Download MSN Explorer gratis van http://explorer.msn.nl/intl.asp | | | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] SRPMS
Source RPM's are used to create the final distribution rpm's for software. The spec files and patches are all applied against the base distribution. The software is included this way so that changes can be easily isolated against a base. However you should -NOT- be dealing with any of this. RPM does all the work for you! To create a final installable software RPM from a Source (SRPM) merely grab the source rpm and issue a command such as this... rpm --rebuild Software.src.rpm If everything goes ok, RPM will unpack the SRPM, apply the patches and updates configure and compile everything. It leaves the resulting files in /usr/src/RPMS/RPMS/ix86 and /usr/src/RPMS/RPMS/noarch/. You can then rpm -Uvh Software.ix86.rpm to install the newly compiled software. Simple eh? -JMS |-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of |Moshe Kaminsky |Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2001 3:10 AM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: [newbie] SRPMS | | |Hi, | |Maybe someone can explain what are the SRPMS? I usually |install programs from a .tar.bz2 file, using the 'configure, |make, make install' sequence. What should I do with the other |files that I find the SRPM? |(Especially the SPEC files, and the patches). What is the |advantage of using these instead of the plain .tar.bz2 files? | |Thanks, |Moshe | | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] sound does work but xmms dont - mandrake 8.1
I'm not exactly sure which RPM's need to be installed to get everything working. I know that prior to having installed all of the packages and THEN installing the missing RPM's from the CD's (the ones which DO NOT get installed by default) I could not get full sound blaster support. Out of curiosity I started pouring thru the sound source code and noticed that Midi support was a reality. This set me on the path of trying to find out how to get it to work. Having run across Mandrake interdependancies before... I.E. for proper diald operation make sure you install Linuxconf and all of it's modules as well, but only install the diald rpm AFTER you have PPP working via Linuxconf... (WHERE IS THIS DOCUMENTED!) ...I assumed that I would need the extra RPMs' I've helped a few others on the list. Most have done the full installation and then gone back and added the missing ALSA and AUXMIX rpm's. Once done, and following the requisites of letting Mandrake's Control center set things up, then using Kcontrol, auxmix, etc. EVERYTHING works... I have no trouble running XMMS while KDE event sounds play back thru the same card now. Midi works, all the SBLive extra inputs work, the Joystick works, etc. Originally my SBLive was no more than a wave sound card.. With the above it finally became full featured. One exception, Sound Fonts must be less than 32 megs in size... BTW: You've already invested more time than I did. -JMS |-Original Message- |From: Len Lawrence [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] |Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2001 3:04 AM |To: Jose M. Sanchez |Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'Harrison, Neil' |Subject: RE: [newbie] sound does work but xmms dont - mandrake 8.1 | | |On Wed, 28 Nov 2001, Jose M. Sanchez wrote: | | KDE is part of the stock LM8.1 release. |Yep, I did know that. This is the first time I left it out. | | If you haven't installed it you'll probably also be missing other | tools you'll need to get your system to run properly. This |may be why | you are having such difficulty. If you haven't done a FULL | installation all bets are off. Even then the installer omits |about 50% | of the RPM's. |Mandrake should make that clear. As it is I always use expert |mode to ensure that home and data partitions are preserved and |to try and ensure that all needed RPMs are installed - always |miss a few though. On the last but one reinstall the script |got into a loop which did not allow a graceful exit (no |hdlists found, after the partitioning stage) then lost the |partition table. No disk when I tried to reinstall again. 17 |Gbs lost, including hundreds of digital photos collected over |the last two years and six months programming. Am now running |from the secondary disk, which is a lot smaller, hence the |need to streamline the system. This system will only boot from |floppy as well because the default disk is invisible. | | LM8.1 relies on having KDE around like it or not. | | I.E. the KDE Control Center sets up the Alsa-CTRL files used by the | bootup scripts, etc. |Reluctant to reinstall. Maybe a piecemeal installation of KDE |applications? And would KDE Control Center resolve the |access/permissions issue? | |Thanks once again Jose for taking the trouble to reply. |-- |Len Lawrence @ The Thistle Foundation | | | | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Servers
|-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Neil R Porter |Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2001 5:51 AM |To: Linux Newbie |Subject: RE: [newbie] Servers | | |If you already had filesharing setup in windows then (as Derek |suggests) samba will just work out of the box (if not goto |control panelnetworksmake sure filesharing is |ticked/installed... and make sure you have firewall settings |on linux such that it doesn't stop it working. Again, Derek |has a link to where there is help for this. |As for Linux to windows filesharing (i.e. the other way round, cos samba |doesn't do both to my knowledge), I use Komba2 to mount my |Windows machines' files. | WHAT? Check out SMBClient and SMBMount... All Komba2 does is invoke these programs, which are part of Samba. I.E. smbclient -L \\Windowsmachine -U Validuser Where validuser is a username that you have used at least once at your Winblows box to log into the network. (this is important!). If you can do this Samba will let you utilize Winblows printers from Linux, even WinPrinters (read brain damaged printers)! Lisa/Reslisa let's Konqueror BROWSE Winblows shares as well. -JMS Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] sound does work but xmms dont - mandrake 8.1
More drivel from me... From a prior post... -JMS --- SNIP - |-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Oscar |Sent: Friday, November 23, 2001 6:17 AM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: Re: [expert] SB Live! - no midi devices in kde -SOLVED | | |Gracias de nuevo, Jose! |I don't know what of the steps I have followed is the real |fix... I have followed your indications and more: |- Remove all references to sound modules in /etc/modules.conf |- Reboot |- lsmod does not show any sound module. Ok. |- |But I did it before, and the midi devices weren't in KDE |control panel, |so... |I had an idea: In lilo.conf, I changed devfs=nomount to |devfs=mount |after upgrading kernel for security issues. Maybe this did the |trick (or |maybe the trick was to install all rpm's containing the string |alsa;-) |- | |And sfxload... | |Now the midi devices were in kde control center but no sound was |listened when playing any file. |I had another problem... I looked for info in |[EMAIL PROTECTED] and find a post |from you |(JMS) mentioning aumix. | |mmm... | |rpm -q aumix -- package is not installed | |:-P | |Then I installed aumix, set the volumes and TA-D! SB Live |is WORKING |GREAT NOW!! |Thanks! |óscar. | | |Jose M. Sanchez wrote: | |Alsa is started first, then sound during boot, at either init-3 or |init-5... | |-JMS | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Servers
|-Original Message- |From: Neil R Porter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] |Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2001 7:05 AM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Cc: Linux Newbie |Subject: RE: [newbie] Servers | | | |-Original Message- |As does Komba2... by default I think it puts the shares in |/home/user/komba2/... so you can browse with konq. | | -JMS | |Neil | Lisa/Reslisa lets you browse the contents of the shares W/O mounting the volumes... You can see the files and folders, but you can't get to them until you mount them though. But I digress... -JMS Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Clock Synchronization
It's on the CD's Not installed by default. -JMS |-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Anuerin G.Diaz |Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2001 10:20 AM |To: mandrake |Subject: Re: [newbie] Clock Synchronization | | | |im using LM8.1 and i dont have any rdate executable, either as |an ordinary user or as root. ill try to find one tomorrow when |my net connection resumes here in the office. ;-) | |ciao! | |On Tue, 27 Nov 2001 00:04:11 -0700, Lee Roberts |[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- | Hash: SHA1 | | I'm running Mandrake 7.2 and had problems with the clock |even though I had | the proper timezone selected. After running rdate, my clock |is now showing | the correct time. | | On Tuesday 27 November 2001 07:44 am, Anuerin G.Diaz wrote: | | hi to all, | | this is one problem that I shelved that i remembered |just now... | | how do I synchonize the linux clock with the BIOS |clock? The timezone |here is GMT+8. If I select 'Manila' in the timezone, the |BIOS clock gets |out of whack. Setting the clock to GMT or not does not |help. I found a |workaround by not selecting any timezone but Im hoping to |find a proper way |wherein all my pc clocks (especially when Im changing OSes) are |synchronized and I still am in the right timezone. | |thanks! | | |-- | |Programming, an artform that fights back. | |=== | |Anuerin G. Diaz |Design Engineer |25/F Equitable-PCI Tower |ADB Ave. cor. Poveda St., |Ortigas Center, Pasig City, |Philippines 1605 | |Tel no: (632) 6383070 loc 75 |=== | | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] RE: [expert] A7A or A7M? Both work with MDK 8.0 and 8.1
Heh, thanks!
-JMS
|-Original Message-
|From: Hoyt Duff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
|Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2001 9:36 AM
|To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
|Subject: Re: [expert] A7A or A7M? Both work with MDK 8.0 and 8.1
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|On Tuesday 27 November 2001 03:55, you wrote:
| I have several systems using both sets of motherboards.
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| Yes there is a problem, how it impacts you is for you to decide.
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| It would be nice to disable the log entries in the timer.c code so
| that the kernel does not keep interrupting to generate the log
| message. It's simple to do but no one has so far.
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|Here is one from a friend of mine, Bob Vincent [EMAIL PROTECTED] :
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|Here ya go, unified diff against a 2.4.14-pre7 kernel:
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|--- linux/arch/x86_64/kernel/time.c~Mon Nov 5 06:01:08 2001
|+++ linux/arch/x86_64/kernel/time.c Mon Nov 26 01:29:16 2001
|@@ -482,8 +482,10 @@
| count = LATCH - 1;
| if(time_after(jiffies, last_whine))
| {
|+ /*
| printk(KERN_WARNING probable
|hardware bug:
|clock timer configuration lost - probably a VIA686a motherboard.\n);
| printk(KERN_WARNING probable
|hardware bug:
|restoring chip configuration.\n);
|+ */
| last_whine = jiffies + HZ;
| }
| }
|
|Hoyt
|
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RE: [newbie] Re: [expert] Extras in the DVD release
Eh, you sorta missed the point. Bcast and the like are available on the 3 CD set. The Prosuite DVD release toutes providing additional applications. In point of facts, except for the Mandrakized RPM's of a few already available apps, such as Blender (which you can freely download) the DVD release doesn't really give you anything more in terms of programs. The Web page and marketing blurbs are quick to point out all of these new included applications. Once you purchase the DVD you discover that they are merely demos. -JMS |-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Ed Tharp |Sent: Sunday, November 25, 2001 2:59 PM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: [newbie] Re: [expert] Extras in the DVD release | | |ehhh I got the DVD and Do see a LOT of software that is commercial |quailty.(have you ever used a better program than Broadcast |2000?) geeesss |how much of a bargian did you think you wold be getting? |Poor Mandrake, on the one hand folks complain cause software |that costs BIG |bucks needs a key to complete functionality, and on the other |hand folks |complain there is not enough big buck software avail. |cann't please |everyone. I guess I'll just go and please myself.. | | |On Sunday 25 November 2001 13:53, you wrote: | I bought the powerpack , and of the 7 cd's, two are listed as | comercial applications,, (haven't had time to look yet.) | | so am I to assume that the job lot of them are just demo's?? | I figured | for the price that mandrake probably had | license deals with the vendors that allows them to |distribute them at | low cost,,, (like $5+ shareware stuff you see all over the |internet..) | | didn't know that it was all demo's,,, that should have been pointed | out, in the very least its a possible court case for mandrake if | someone chooses to hold them to the software that the packs are said | to contain, but don't really. | | If microsoft said: Office XP included with winXP, and then just | included word and excel viewer... people would crucify them.. | | false advertising is illegal.. | | I love mandrake, but if they become another company trying microsoft | tactics in order to keep the price up for their shareholders, then I | will drop them like a hot rock and suggest the same with all |the other | people I have suggested it to or set it up for... | | We Want the truth, the Whole Truth and Nothin but the Truth.. and we | CAN SO handle it.. :-) | | | rgds | | Frank | -Original Message- | From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Expert | Sent: Monday, 26 November 2001 2:41 AM | To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Subject: Re: [expert] Extras in the DVD release | | | Yep, makes me so irate, I could just --- | | crack 'em! | | On Saturday 24 November 2001 01:29 pm, Jose M. Sanchez wrote: | Yeap, that's why the Prosuite DVD leaves a bad taste. | | The source RPM's are included, which is nice, but aside |from already | free freebies, the DVD only gives you Mandrakized RPM's for the | programs I listed. | | Yeah it's nice that the RPM's are included for Realplayer, |but since | it's a free release, it really should have been packaged in the | original release, etc. | | -JMS | | |-Original Message- | |From: Mike Tracy Holt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] | |Sent: Saturday, November 24, 2001 12:30 PM | |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |Subject: Re: [expert] Extras in the DVD release | | | | | | | |WHAT? Why would they package demos on disk and |advertise it as | |part of the distribution? I specifically commented on this in | |writing to sales and the lack of comment back lead me to believe | |that they had somehow included full versions. Maybe it was a | |little much to expect, but I think that's false |advertising. When | |you look at the comparison between the different packages, it's | |made to sound like you're getting something more by buying the | |bigger packages. The only thing this helps | |is a person with a dialup connection - in which case, buying a | |prosuite | |dvd with server software isn't necessary anyway (how are |you going to | |run a server on dialup) | | | |This is the third time I've fallen for this - I'm trying |to support | |linux, and feel like I've been ripped off! | | | |Needless to say, I've got a dvd coming in the mail and |hearing the | |all the commercial apps are just time-bombed or demos is really | |annoying. Mike | | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] empty resolv.conf file
If your connection requires DHCP (I.E. a Cable modem or DSL line) for auto configuration, but the ISP is NOT passing this information to you, the connection script will leave you with an empty file. Normally the scripts will automatically generate the resolv.conf file whenever a dhcp based connection on eth0 is brought up. -JMS |-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Sent: Saturday, November 24, 2001 11:02 PM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: [newbie] empty resolv.conf file | | |Could someone explain why my resolv.conf file is empty? I'm |running LM 7.1. (One of these days I'll upgrade when I get |brave enough). | |Every time I disconnect or get disconnected from my isp, I |have to go back in and edit the file before I can reconnect. |search isp nameserver dns nameserver dns | |This wouldn't be as big of a deal except my 11 year old can't |get her email or surf when I'm at work and I won't let her |access root so she can fix the file herself. She flat out |refuses to use anything but LM. I'm trying to raise her proper. | |I can receive mail but can't send mail with netscape 4.73. The |settings in netscape are ok but can't find anywhere else for smtp info. | |Also when I boot up things all get the green OK but when I |shut down I get X font server failed. I can only access |DrakConf from a root desktop. I get the root password prompt |from a user desktop but when I type in the password and click |ok it just closes. | |Are these things related? I don't know if there's anything |else messed up or not but this seems like enough for now. Any |other info you need to help me out? Go easy please. I'm not |that far ahead of my 11 yo with this. | |Thanks, | |Lori | | | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] kde 2.2.2
I have a fairly stock LM8.1 w/all of the software from the CD's (albeit one or two RPM's) installed in a brute force manner... I also performed all of the upgrades via the software manager... I downloaded all of the Textstar RPM's. I then ran the tests as indicated. The rpm -Fvh --test *.rpm passed BUT when I went to install it complained of problems with Xanim w/o a version number. Strange... So I tried a --force since it did not complain about other files... This resulted an a lot of weird circular dependancies. It was complaining about needed versions which were being installed at the same time, again strange as this should not have occurred. I guess the Textstar RPM's are mismarked... Ok so I --nodeps --force 'd it. It died after a couple of RPM's again complaining of strange deps. I did it again rpm --nodeps --force *.rpm. This time it picked up the rest. Everything came up just fine. So far no problems or troubles... -JMS |-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Grant Fraser |Sent: Monday, November 26, 2001 11:23 PM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: [newbie] kde 2.2.2 | | |Anybody else out there able to get it to install? I keep running into |circular dependancies. ie file A needs file B needs file A. Is |there a magic |first file that will just install? Trying to install 10 at at |time doesn't |seem to work, it just generates a longer error message | | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] office 2000 shares
Yes you can do this. Although why you'd want to is another matter. First the problems. Since Winblows constantly goes to different modules, doing this puts a lot of traffic on your network. Office is a big (and bloated) application in itself, compounding the problem. For 3-6 users this may work fine on a 100BaseT network, but beyond that, you are asking for trouble. That said You'll need to copy the ENTIRE Office CD(both CD's if you also want frontpage) to a directory, then root share that directory via Samba, publically. Also it must be browseable. It need not be RW, RO will suffice. Each workstation then performs an installation from the Samba share. During the install you are asked if you want to run from CD. You select this. The installer will remember the path to the Samba share and add in the appropriate registry entries based upon this. A few files will get copied to the local Winblows directories however, so local disk space is still a must. That's it, other than setting up Samba itself. -JMS |-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Frank McKenna |Sent: Thursday, November 22, 2001 9:23 AM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: Re: [newbie] office 2000 shares | | |I would like to try to share the application itself across the |LAN as opposed to just files and documents. | |Thanks in advance | |Frank McKenna | |Difficulties increase the closer we approach our Goals | |Plato ~ It takes a minute to have a crush on |someone,an hour to like someone and a day to love |someonebut it takes a lifetime to forget someone. | |- Original Message - |From: Anuerin G. Diaz [EMAIL PROTECTED] |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Sent: Thursday, November 22, 2001 5:20 AM |Subject: Re: [newbie] office 2000 shares | | | On Wed, 21 Nov 2001 19:54:42 -0700, Frank McKenna | [EMAIL PROTECTED] |wrote: | |Hi All, | |Has anyone attempted to share Microsoft Office 2000 Pro from a | share on |a |Mandrake 8.0 using Samba. | |What would I have to do to set this up | |Thanks in advance, | |Frank McKenna | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] NVidia Drivers
Eh, actually there is a BIG need to perform a cold boot. I went into the specifics of this in prior postings, but the Nvidia chips must be re-inited completely as the NV drivers cannot handle the state the chipset was left in by XFree86's drivers. In addition the Nvidia modules get aliased by /etc/modules.conf at boot so they are properly loaded at invocation... -JMS |-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Robert MacLean |Sent: Thursday, November 22, 2001 9:32 AM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: Re: [newbie] NVidia Drivers | | |there is no need to reboot. | |when you are at the command prompt, edit the config file |and type startx. | |it will then attempt to load x. if it fails it will kick you |back to the console. otherwise it will work | |___ |Robert MacLean |- Original Message - |From: David .. [EMAIL PROTECTED] |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Sent: Thursday, November 22, 2001 4:31 PM |Subject: Re: [newbie] NVidia Drivers | | | | Yes edit the XF86Config-4 before you reboot with the changes needed |for the | video drivers. | | From: R C [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Subject: Re: [newbie] NVidia Drivers | Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2001 01:38:38 -0500 | | Ok, I appreciate all your help. | | I understand why I shouldn't use Software Manager for this |particular | installation. One other thingafter I install these drivers from |console | mode, should I edit my XF86Config-4 file as well, BEFORE rebooting? | | and what should I do in case X will not start afterwards? | | Roger | | On Thursday 22 November 2001 02:17 am, you sent me this message: | because then you would be under x and it would be serious |problems. | | you need to use the RPM command. the software manager merely | interfaces with that anyway. | | ___ | Robert MacLean | | -- | Registered Linux User 244036 | Since August 2001 - LM8.0 | Open Source = Freedom | | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? | Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com | | | _ | Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at |http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp | | | | | |-- |-- | | | 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] No sound - LM 8.1 as user but sound appears when log in as root
Check the security configuration in /etc/security The default is NOT to grant device rights to users, until the admin changes things... -JMS |-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Ethan |Sent: Thursday, November 22, 2001 11:24 PM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: [newbie] No sound - LM 8.1 as user but sound appears |when log in as root | | |Hi all, | |when I log in as a user, I do not get the login sound but when I login |as root, I get the login sound for the KDE desktop 2.2.1. Can any one |advise me on how to get sound again. thanks, | | | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] No sound - LM 8.1 as user but sound appears when log in as root
Eh, as soon as the system reboots, it will be reset by the security scripts. Instead /etc/security/console.perms must be modified. -JMS |-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of meta |Sent: Thursday, November 22, 2001 12:12 AM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: Re: [newbie] No sound - LM 8.1 as user but sound |appears when log in as root | | |Hi, |just give your user rights to use sound device. |Let say u wanna give all user in your system rights to use |sound device. Login as root, |cd /dev/ |ls -al | grep dsp |chmod 766 dsp* | |-m- | |On Friday 23 November 2001 11:23, you wrote: | Hi all, | | when I log in as a user, I do not get the login sound but |when I login | as root, I get the login sound for the KDE desktop 2.2.1. |Can any one | advise me on how to get sound again. thanks, | | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Still Crashing on restart, every time...
I just can't resist this, please forgive... No, promiscuous mode, is what the machine goes into, just before it goes down on you |-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Grant Fraser |Sent: Thursday, November 22, 2001 11:24 PM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: Re: [newbie] Still Crashing on restart, every time... | | |Promiscuous mode? |I've never heard of promiscuous mode. Does that mean it sneaks |past your |firewall at night to find cheap thrills on the internet? | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] nVidia drivers + glms (cpu temperature sensors) for LM8.1
Download both of the .src.rpm files and then rpm --rebuild Nvidia.xxx.src.rpm for each one. Install the resulting RPM's which will be located in /usr/RPM/RPMS/Ix86/ LM8.1 has full sensor support, so you should NOT download cooker files. You merely need to run the sensors configuration scripts to set things up. As a rough rule, avoid cooker files unless you know EXACTLY what you are doing. -JMS |-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Charles Darcy |Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2001 2:30 AM |To: Mandrake List |Subject: [newbie] nVidia drivers + glms (cpu temperature |sensors) for LM8.1 | | |Hi, | |I'd like to install the latest nVidia GeForce drivers in |LM8.1, but the nVidia download site only provides rpm's up to |LM8.0. Is there any chance the LM8.0 drivers rpm will work with LM8.1 ? | |The site also provides a source srpm. If the LM8.0 rpm is |unusable, |perhaps I can generate the drivers for LM8.1 from the srpm ? |(I've never installed from srpm's before.) | |Has anyone had any success with either of these approaches ? | | |I'd also like to install the glms hardware sensors (cpu |temp, fan speed, etc) package. Is the Cooker version safe to use ? | | |Thanks for any help, | | |regards, | |Charlie. | | | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] HardSoftWare
Many Pentium's could not cache over 64 (and or 128 megs) of RAM without the addition of cache ram chips or strips. -JMS |-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Andrew |Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2001 12:43 AM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: [newbie] HardSoftWare | | |Hello, | | I have a P150 (Mboard from M Technology has 3-PCI 4-isa) and |want to make a file server. At the moment it has 32 meg ram. The |mother-board has ram four slots. I am not sure what the best way is |to configure additional ram. Or how much to get, is there a point it |is wasted? 512? 256? | Once I get it set up I hope it will be long term. Now it has |only a 20G ide HD. I hope to add two 40G or 60G HD's and a have a |Promise hardware raid card. | Any and all coments welcome. | Andrew | |Mdrake 8.0 | | Have an extra nice Day!, | Andrew | | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Joystick setup
Title: Message What type of soundcard/joystick interface do you have? -JMS -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Craig Williamson (ENZ)Sent: Monday, November 19, 2001 8:15 PMTo: 'Mandrake Newbie'Subject: [newbie] Joystick setup Hi All, Can anyone tell me how to set up a joystick under Linux. Also, does the throttle control and the VOP buttons work under Linux or is that just wishful thinking. I have an A4Tech Scrollfire SF-5 joystick. Please help.
RE: [newbie] Help: Linux cannot connect mail server via broadband
Gee we've been here before... Assume that the error messages are all correct. For some reason you keep avoiding this conclusion. For some reason the remote server is NOT seeing the password you think you are sending. There may be various reasons for this... I.E. Linux sends NL instead of CR-NL which Winblows sends, etc. You should experiment with telnet until you get a sucessful acceptance of your password. Once you've done that, you'll know how to configure KMAIL and other programs. -JMS |-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Stephen Liu |Sent: Sunday, November 18, 2001 9:39 PM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: [newbie] Help: Linux cannot connect mail server via broadband | | |Hi All People, | |I tried several days but could not make Linux (RH 7.2) |connected to ISP |mail server to download emails via broadband. The cable is |permanently |connected to the PC. Starting Linux, broadband is automatically |connected. I can only send emails but can't download emails. | |I tried both Kmail and Evolution to connect to ISP mail server |with same |result. Each time when I clicked CheckMail, following warning pop-up | |... |. |I said pass your password |And then the server said |-ERR authorization failed | | |Test on fetchmailconf | |Fetchmail Test Result is as follows: | |fetchmail: POP3 +OK 11300 [EMAIL PROTECTED] |fetchmail: POP3 CAPA\r |fetchmail: POP3 -ERR authorization first |fetchmail: authorization first |fetchmail: POP3 USER satimis \ r |fetchmail: POP3 +OK |fetchmail: POP3 PASS * \ r |fetchmail: POP3 -ERR authorization failed |fetchmail: authorization failed |fetchmail: authorization failed on [EMAIL PROTECTED] |fetchmail: POP3 Quit \ r |fetchmail: Query status = 3 (AUTHFAIL) |fetchmail: Normal termination. Status 0 |Done | | |Test ontelnetcommand | |telnet pop.xxx.com 110 |Trying xxx.x.xxx.xxx.. |Connected topop.xxx.com. |Escape character is '^]'. |+OK [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |Typing USER satimis |it prompted |+ok | |and then |Typing PASS xx |-ERR authorization failed |Connection closed by foreign host | |I only use English alphabets and number (0 - 9) in password |and am absolute |sure the USER name and password entered are correct. | |With the same USER name and password I can connect the same |ISP mail server |in Eudora and Outlook Express to download emails. | |Kindly help !!! | |Thanks in advance. | |B.R. |Stephen Liu | | | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Does Mdk 8.1 Use OSS or ALSA for Sound?
Eh, both. Make sure ALL of the alsa related RPM's are installed from the CD's. By default many RPM's are skipped. Make sure you have AUXMIX installed (it appears in Multimedia). Set up your sound from within the MANDRAKE CONTROL panel. Only resort to sndconfig if you can't get very far. You might want to search for the info I posted on configuring the SBLIVE cards... -JMS |-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of James F. Marshall |Sent: Monday, November 19, 2001 1:47 AM |To: Mandrake Newbie List |Subject: [newbie] Does Mdk 8.1 Use OSS or ALSA for Sound? | | |I am having trouble getting my sound card (CS4237B + CS9236) |to work. I cannot tell which sound system Mandrake 8.1 uses. |Is it OSS or ALSA? How does one tell? |-- |Jim Marshall | | | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Monitor
From an xterm... xset s off -JMS |-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of |[EMAIL PROTECTED] |Sent: Friday, November 16, 2001 12:25 AM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: [newbie] Monitor | | |Hello group, | |I have installed Mandrake 8.1 and I would really like the |annoying sleep mode or shutting down of my monitor to stop.' | |anyone have any great ideas?? | | |thnxXsturm | | |-- |It's a beautiful day...don't let it get away... ~U2~ | | | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] password samba
On your Linux box use SMBCLIENT to check that the passwords are correct... I.E. smbclient -L linuxbox -U username It should respond with a password prompt. -JMS |-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of belcoop |Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2001 1:00 PM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: [newbie] password samba | | |When accessing the linuxcomputer from the windows computer, he |says you must |supply a password to make this connection | |Whatever password I try, he refuses. Is there somewhere a |password I don |know? | |I created the shares with swat, localizing them where the user |I created is |(/home/user). I use the same name for the share as the user. | |Somewhere I added linuxuser = sambauser | |How do I crack thsi password? | |Geert | | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Konqueror Help Midi download
Yes, the same holds true for the AWE64. -JMS |-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Newbie |Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2001 12:02 PM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: Re: [newbie] Konqueror Help Midi download | | |Even if I have an old AWE64? | |Ok, I will look anyway. | | | |On Tuesday 13 November 2001 11:51 pm, Jose M. Sanchez wrote: | You might want to look at the SBLive instructions I posted earlier... | | -JMS | | | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Konqueror Help Midi download
You might want to look at the SBLive instructions I posted earlier... -JMS |-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Newbie |Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 8:17 PM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: [newbie] Konqueror Help Midi download | | |Whenever I hit a web page with a |midi file, the web page disappears |and http://kittypuss.org/dialogue.gif | |appears and stays there. | |What is going wrong please? | |Thank you. | | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] limit of cat5 cables? (length)
So true. -JMS |-Original Message- |From: Tim Holmes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] |Sent: Monday, November 12, 2001 2:56 PM |To: Jose M. Sanchez |Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: Re: [newbie] limit of cat5 cables? (length) | | |Actually, there's no tested maximum length for CAT5. However |if you're going by the specs, 100M is the max between some |sort of device. Whether it's a repeater, a hub or something. | |Many of use have done networks where we've used CAT5 much |longer then 100M for whatever reason, and have had no problem. | |But, for those of you who have gone through MCSE or Cisco, or |any network training, they say the spec is 100M, for |performance. The instructor will also tell you after you've |learned the spec, and passed the test, forget the spec! In |the real world, you do what works. More then 100M of CAT5, |works. I think many of us can attest to that. tdh | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] The Best Sound Blaster
The SB16 PCI, by virtue of it's PCI interface has a lower latency when dealing with data xfers. That said, the SB16 PCI card is a junk card for most intents and purposes. It's noisy as hell, doesn't have a lot of features, etc. It was produced as a foray into the PCI sound card market. The SB16 was to be a low end value (read as cheap as can be) card. The AWE 64 was designed to be the high end of the ISA sound cards, featuring the Synth chip, memory module support, gold plated contacts, etc. Though still quite noisy and relatively plagued by higher latencies, it's the better of the two cards. Frankly though, if I were you I'd toss both and grab a SBLive Value. The Value offers everything the SBLive 5.1 does except the bay. The entire SBLive line is built on a single chip. The variations are in final assembly, the add on bay, and packaging. Though not as clean as the Audigy (and it still suffers from phaze inverted rear channels, REALLY, why won't Creative fix this!) it's still a pretty good deal for the 40.00 you can get it for nowadays as an OEM card. -JMS |-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of audiofreek |Sent: Sunday, November 11, 2001 9:10 PM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: [newbie] The Best Sound Blaster | | | I have two spare Creative Sound Blaster cards and one system |to put it on so I decide to use both. One is an AWE 64 ISA, |the other an SB16 PCI. | | Dilemma: | |Both sound good on Quake, xmms and basic sound servers..or do they? | |The different mixers give the AWE64 a bit more |tweakability, including |3D sound. |But if I listen closely I hear less skishing or metal |slicing sounds on |the SB16 and I think it has built-in 3D sound. |I have subwoofers so I can't really tell which gives better bass |quality. | |I just want to hear some opinions from people who use |these two cards, |which is the best sound blaster. (other than the SBLive!, |of course) | |The $$ on a SB Live is a bit 8-( at this point for me. | | |AnyoneAny help...Anytime. | |__ |www.edsamail.com | | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] limit of cat5 cables? (length)
Heh, I've run many single drops of over 200 meters on Cat-5e using 100BaseT w/o problems to connect buildings together. Everything is in the shielding. -JMS |-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Ed Kasky |Sent: Saturday, November 10, 2001 6:19 PM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: Re: [newbie] limit of cat5 cables? (length) | | |Quoting liberally from Ethernet Networks by Gilbert Held: | |The IEEE 8023 standard for 10BASE-T using unshielded twisted |pair at 10 Mbps, maximum segment length is 100 meters or 328 feet... | |Now if you want to get really technical, the 100 meters was originally |meant to consist of 3 segments. |The first segment can be up to 90 meters from a patch panel to a wall |plate. Segments 2 and 3 which can be up to 10 meters in |length allow for |patch cables at each end of the link. | |You are well within the maximum length and it's a lot cheaper than a |wireless solution. | |At 05:37 PM Saturday, 11/10/2001, Paul wrote -= |Hi, everybody. I have a DSL connection coming in to the upstairs |computer. I'd like to connect (withought having to get a new |modem) a |computer downstairs to the same connection. Can I send a cat5 cable |down throught the wall from the router to the downstairs computer? |(approx. 30-40 feet) Is there a limit to cat5 length in order to |remain effective? Do I need a wireless solution? is that even safe? | |Ed Kasky |Los Angeles, CA |. . . . . . . . |My friend has a baby. I'm recording all the noises |he makes so later I can ask him what he meant. |--Steven Wright | | | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] mandrake linux on athlon-based systems?
While you may have experienced this, it's NOT symptomatic of Athlon systems, or even 750's. It's more likely you were running into another problem preventing the first stage kernel load... I.E. it wasn't finding the partition table, etc. At Init you didn't even have a running kernel. -JMS |-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Epicurus |Sent: Saturday, November 10, 2001 12:58 AM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: Re: [newbie] mandrake linux on athlon-based systems? | | |On Friday 09 November 2001 04:55, you wrote: | just wondering how well mandrake/linux works on athlon-based |systems? | are there any issues which i need to be careful about? | | thanks. | |I've got Mandrake 8.0 runing on an Athlon-750 and can point you to one |problem which you might want to watch out for--appearantly |there was some |sort of problem between the kernel and the BIOS which caused |it to fail |booting; it'd lock up right after the INIT 2.78 message. |Easy enough to |fix; just make sure you install the older version of the |kernel as well and |if the new kernel turns out to be a problem, go for the old one. :) | |N. | |Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; name=message.footer |Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit |Content-Description: | | | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Installing new hardware incl. RAM
Some machines cannot handle more than 512mb of memory, or run out of cache for more than 512 megs of RAM. You may want to try with one 512mb strip first, then work up from there. -JMS |-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of skinky |Sent: Friday, November 09, 2001 5:12 PM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: [newbie] Installing new hardware incl. RAM | | |Hi all | |I am about to upgrade the hw in my pc. I currently have: | |1 x 128MB PC133 SDRAM |crappy 1MB S3 PCI graphics card |AC97 onboard sound | |Changing the above with: | |2 x 512MB PC133 SDRAM (not sure whether to leave the old RAM |in also) nVidia GeForce2 MX400 64MB AGP graphics card |Soundblaster Live 5.1 sound card | |If I boot linux after doing the following, is the new hardware |likely to |be recognised? : | |- ensure harddrake and kudzu run on boot, |- shut down the computer |- swap the RAM modules |- install AGP graphics card |- install sound card |- boot into BIOS settings and |- - - disable onboard sound |- - - enable AGP graphics | |Or should I install one thing at a time? Is there anything |tricky I need |to know about installing RAM? I'm just trying to avoid |reinstalling LM8.1. | |Other relevant bits are: Soltek SL-KAV75 mobo and Athlon |TBird 1.0GHz CPU. | |TIA |skinky |-- |But what ... is it good for? |(Engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, 1968, |commenting on the microchip) | | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] midi problem
See my previous posts about setting up a SoundBlaster Live Mini Howto. -JMS |-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of R C |Sent: Saturday, November 10, 2001 1:28 AM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: [newbie] midi problem | | |Good Day Everyone, | |Lately, I've noticed problems with playing midi files while |visiting web |sites. I get the error messge: | | Couldn't open /dev/sequencer | | Probably there is another program using it. | |When I see this message, I'm only running Konqueror Web |Browser at that |moment! | |FYI, the default player is KDE Media Player (noatun) |It also used to play JPEG files as well, but this seems to |cause a crash when |loading JPEG's anymore. | |Anyone have any ideas about this? | |BTW, I just installed xmms and I'm working with that at the |presentshould |I just forget about KDE Media Player and make xmms my defualt |media player? | |TIA | |Roger | | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] MANDRAKE 8.1 INSTALL PROBLEMS
Title: Message -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Matt KoppelmanSent: Thursday, November 08, 2001 7:11 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [newbie] MANDRAKE 8.1 INSTALL PROBLEMS ok i am installing mandrake 8.1 iso on a clean, brand new machine. its an athlon 1.3 - i am having a few problems with it.. the machine has connectivity on my network, but keeps popping up this message at the prompt. "Probable Hardware Bug: clock timer configuration lost - probably a VIA686a motherboard. --- Yes, Linux has identified a real problem with your motherboard. The Clock Timer chip doesn't work properly on your motherboard (and on almost all motherboards equipped with Windbond clock chips, such as most VIA, and ALiMagik based boards). This results in erroneous interrupt driven clock timer pulses. This upsets timing events and time dependant functions. Linux (thankfully) tries to deal with this. Windows cannot (heh, heh). There is not much you can do about this other than turning off the logs for this... --- heres my second problem.. i have installe dlinux about 10 times on this thing.. every time i install, things that SHOULD be there are not.. like plain ol 'ftp' or 'drakxservices' - i cant find any of these on the computer. i KNOW i specified ftp to install from the beginning, and i also have done reccomended and expert installs. --- The installer is a bit confusing. When you say plain ol "ftp" are you referring to the client or the server software? If the latter, there is more than one FTP server package available in the distro. I.E Pro-FTP and WU-FTP, etc. Try rpm -qa | grep ftp to see what actually was installed. Note: the installer seems to miss about 50% of the available packages on the CDs. Go into the software manager to find the rest. I ended up copying all 3 CD's to the hard drive and point the manager to the directories to avoid the constant swapping of CD's needed to install a lot of the packages and dependancies. --- i have installed mandrake linux numerous times problem-free, but not 8.1 as of yet.. anyone have any ideas? or should i take the damn server back? :) --- 8.1 is pretty good and very stable, but does many things differently. This may add to your frustrations. -JMS
RE: [newbie] PAM Questions
PAM authenticates processes. There should be no need to attempt to modify KDM's usage of PAM. What problem are you having... -JMS |-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Dan Ferris |Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2001 6:16 PM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: [newbie] PAM Questions | | |Two PAM questions... | |1. What does pam_stack do? | |2. Which file do you have to edit to change kdm's behavior with PAM? | |please respond directly: | |mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | |TIA, | Dan | | | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] gdm broken in 8.1?
Nope works fine for me. -JMS |-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Dave Sherman |Sent: Saturday, November 03, 2001 4:16 PM |To: Mandrake-newbie |Subject: [newbie] gdm broken in 8.1? | | |Hello everyone, | |I was just wondering if anyone else has had this problem: Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] current state of anti-aliasing in 8.1
The only problem is that by default you are limited to a VERY SMALL subset of your Ttype Anti-Aliased fonts when it's on, and worst still they all go bold at 14 points. The Xftconfig file example someone posted fixed all of this for me brilliantly. No more 14 point auto-boldface either. Now I have over 100 Anti-Aliased fonts available and they all look pretty good! -JMS |-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Rick [Kitty5] |Sent: Friday, November 02, 2001 6:29 AM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: Re: [newbie] current state of anti-aliasing in 8.1 | | |Turn AA off, restart KDE, turn AA back on, restart KDE | |Tada! | |It was enabled by default for me, but just didn't seem to kick in | |Rick | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Virtual desktops in Linux-Mandrake and XP
I've never understood why Microsoft hasn't adopted this (since they usurp everything else!) It's a very convenient option for most people, and somewhat amazing to those that have never seen it. XP's fast switch helps, but it doesn't really cut it. BTW: You can take this a long way further in Linux. You are also able to add another X-Window session manager launch. This gives you the ability to log in, then flip to another login prompt and log in as a totally different users, with different desktop managers, etc. In turn each of these logged in users has their own set of virtual desktops. Editing the /etc/X11 file enables this. -JMS |-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Robert |Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2001 5:19 AM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: [newbie] Virtual desktops in Linux-Mandrake and XP | | |Just discovered with a download XP can mimick the virtual |desktop which comes |standard with Linux-Mandrake, I suppose with any Linux distro. It nice |looking but clumsy. An obvious rip off, but encouragin since |Linux can excert |some influence on MS. | |My question, and please don't jump over me over the XP and |Linux shit I don't |care either way, is virtual desktops been a part of Linux from |the beginning |or is this a common UNIX options? I enjoy running my four |virtual desktops |when surfing the net, reading email and trying to either |install or adjust |some things on my Linux box. | |By comparison Linux is quicker and smoother. XP has a |simulataneous view of |all four desktop but is slow. Nice feature if it could work right. | |Don't jump all over this I am just asking a question I don't need the |preaching of the gospel of whatever, please! | | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Upgrade/re-install components form ISO Image CDs
Use the Software manager under Configuration/Packaging (I believe it's called). It will also attempt to load dependacies for you... -JMS |-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Stephen Liu |Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2001 10:12 AM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: [newbie] Upgrade/re-install components form ISO Image CDs | | |Hi All People, | |Mandrake-Linux 8.1 |== | |How to upgrade/re-install components from ISO Image CDs which |have not be |selected at 1st installation, not by RPM nor by re-installing |the whole |software | |Thanks in advance. | |B.R. |Stephen Liu | | | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] IEEE-1394 support
Yes it supports Firewire cards. Yes it's Built in so to speak. I had no problem with a cheap (29.00) Taiwanese card. When last I check the kernel sources for this under 8.0, there was no support for the Adaptec cards, though this may have changed under 8.1. -JMS |-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Terry |Sent: Monday, October 29, 2001 12:08 PM |To: Linux Newbie List |Subject: [newbie] IEEE-1394 support | | |Folks, | |I have an opportunity at work to be given a FireWire card to |put into my |machine. Does LM 8.1 support FireWire cards? If so, is there |a general |drive I need to install to use it? Or is support built right in? | |Thanks! |-- |Terry Sheltra |PC Technician/Network Administrator |University of Virginia |School of Architecture |[EMAIL PROTECTED] |434 (or 804) 982.3047 | |Registered Linux User #218330 | | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Binary newsreader
If you have LM8.1 you already have a WONDERFUL newsreader called PAN. For me it's the Killer Linux App. Agent, and others cannot handle the sheer amount of messages that PAN deals with, with aplomb. E.G. I can download, sort and rethread 240,000 message headers in PAN in seconds. Agent and others choke after 10,000. -JMS |-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Søren Neigaard |Sent: Monday, October 29, 2001 12:52 PM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: [newbie] Binary newsreader | | |Do any of you know of a newsreader like NewsBin |(http://www.newsbin.com) for Linux? One that can download the |binaries for all subscribed groups. | |Best regards |Søren | | | | | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Installing new rpms from disks
Aside from the previous fix, you could also copy the contents of all three CD's to your hard drive and point the Package Manager to these new directories, as sources. I did this for expediancy. -JMS |-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Robert Beach |Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2001 3:08 PM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: [newbie] Installing new rpms from disks | | |I'm trying to install more programs from disk. I go through |the list it has |in the software manager then I select install. |It asks for disk three I put in disk 3 it goes a couple of |seconds then spits |it back out. A message pops up saying: Please inster the |medium named disc |3 Supplementary Applications CD (x86) (cdrom3) on device [/dev/cdrom] | |Now I have two cdroms, and I had troubles with the one that |pops out in |windows for some reason. I was wondering if there is a way to |change the |cdrom it uses? | |I'm lost please help | | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] KDE 2.2.1 on MD8...the saga continues...
What RPMdrake problem? So far I've had no problem with it. (Crossing fingers...). -JMS |-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of John Hokanson Jr. |Sent: Sunday, October 28, 2001 2:53 AM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: Re: [newbie] KDE 2.2.1 on MD8...the saga continues... | | |On Sunday 28 October 2001 12:41 am, you wrote: | There is always the possibility that your hardware is to blame. | | |The problem is that these problems aren't random. If they |were I'd be inclined to agree with you. These problems |are reproduceable. Some of them are actually documented |(like the RPMDrake problem). | |- John | | | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Don't install kdebase-nsplugins-2.2.1-7mdk.i586.rpm
The KDEBase plugins work fine for me. You may want to launch Konq from a command line, Xterminal, so you can see what is actually happening to prevent it from launching. I've found that some window decorations seem to screw it up. I had similar problems but they turned out not to be caused by the plugins. -JMS |-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Derek Jennings |Sent: Sunday, October 28, 2001 11:47 AM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: Re: [newbie] Don't install |kdebase-nsplugins-2.2.1-7mdk.i586.rpm | | |On Sunday 28 October 2001 17:03, you wrote: | On Sunday 28 October 2001 01:47 am, you wrote: | It sucks, it will break your Konqueror, | I have no Konqueror now. | | |What does it do to Konq? |I ask because I installed nsplugins, and now I keep getting |problems with |loading Konq in browser or File manager mode. |It just displays the hourglass in the task bar for 15 secs and |then goes away |again. |I can get it back by replacing the .konquerorrc file and then |it works for a |time again after logging out and back in. | | | | | I hate kdebase-nsplugins-2.2.1-7mdk.i586.rpm | | What I did is reinstall an older one over it | |Which version ? | | |Derek | | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] How do I protect my CDs?
Heh, he could encrypt the files on the CD. But I'll bet he is thinking along the lines of come of the copy protection mechanisms used in Winblows. He's a little confused by this. They don't prevent you from COPYing the CD, merely from running the programs, which is different. -JMS |-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Tuan Tran |Sent: Monday, October 29, 2001 12:39 AM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: RE: [newbie] How do I protect my CDs? | | |I don't think you can protect it. Sorry, but it's true. | | |-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On |Behalf Of Paúl Mancheno H. |Sent: Sunday, October 28, 2001 3:56 PM |To: Newbie -Mandrake Linux- |Subject: [newbie] How do I protect my CDs? | |Hi... | | I wanna make my own CD with my CD-burner, but I wonder how |protect it if I |don't want others make a copy from my CD... How do i protect my CD for |no-authorized copies?? | |thanks |-- |Usuario Registrado |de Linux #232544 | | | | | |_ | |Do You Yahoo!? | |Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com | | | | | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] RE: Alsa or xmms? SBLive configuration Howto.
|Jose, I tried it and now I have no sound. When you say delete |all memory |resident modules and references in /etc/modules.conf do you |mean the ones |relating to sound only or everything in modules.conf? You remove ONLY sound related modules from /etc/modules.conf. I hope you made a backup of this file... Joe and other editors do this for you so you may want to check. |I removed them |incorrectly I think and will probably have to reinstall to get |anything to |make a sound. Also, this confuses me and Mandrake should think |about the way |they name things, there is the Mandrake Control Center which |requires root |priveledges and there is the KDE control center which is |accessed from the |desktop control panel without having to give root password. |Which of the two |are you refering to when you indicate the Mandrake Control |Panel. Mandrake Control Panel = Mandrake Control Center = Control Panel KDE Control Panel is normally explicitly stated to differentiate it, AKA Kcontrol, etc. |Sorry for |being so dense, but I sometimes think to hard about how |something is said and |end up miss interpreting. Anyway now I am without sound at |all, so is there |a better way to start over with the sound than doing a new install? Even a new install will only get you back to where you were. Follow my directions. Set up your sound card from the MANDRAKE (Not KDE!) control Center/Panel (there is only one unless you've found something else!). Click on the SBLIVE card in the device list, then it's configure button. Don't worry about not hearing sound (as the volume levels may be way to low to hear at first!) but accept the configuration and reboot. Then do an lsmod and your list should appear like mine with a slew of new entries. Go into AuxMix and set the levels and save the mixer levels from Kcontrol. The latter sets up the Alsa-CTRL configuration files. Now in Kcontrol's MIDI section you'll see 5 entries that did not appear before. One is for the Midi/Joystick port, and the other 4 similar entries are for the EMU10K's Midi Synth which will finally work AFTER you load up a sound font. Select one. Kmidi and clicking on a Midi file from Konqueror (as well as Midi's via web pages) will now play... Etc. -JMS Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] RE: Alsa or xmms? SBLive configuration Howto.
Too bad, I find the SBLive support in LM8.1 the best yet. I've had no trouble other than initially having to figure out all the nuances of configuration. That the KDE control panel sets the Alsa-ctl config, sampling rate, Midi settings, etc... Are all yet undocumented AFAIK. -JMS |-Original Message- |From: Dennis Myers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] |Sent: Saturday, October 27, 2001 10:54 PM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; newbie |Subject: Re: Alsa or xmms? SBLive configuration Howto. | | |On Saturday 27 October 2001 08:53 pm, you wrote: | The key to configuring the SBLive boards seem to undo everything the | installer does initially. | | It selects a more generic SBLive installation that does add |in all the | modules needed to do all the other things the board is capable off, | namely Synth, Midi, Joystick, etc. | | I'm using an OEM board, which come packaged only with a |CD-ROM, in an | anti-static bag, (I buy them in 20's). | | The Mandrake Control panel does a very good job configuring your | board. | | Remember though that some of the changes do not take effect |until you | reboot, or so I've found. | | This is strange for Linux, and I haven't been able to figure |out why. | Restarting the ALSA and Sound services do not change this. | | Once you have it configured, it will not remain stable |under KDE (so | you hear sound) until KDE is set to the 48000 sampling rate. | | I kept playing with the settings until I found out why KDE was | occasionally starting up sound for me. Changing things to 48000 did | the trick. Also it seems that I have to kick in the sound modules | from time to time by hitting backspace in a Kterminal. Until |I do this | at least once some apps don't appear to produce sound. | | Anyway, keep at it. If you didn't remove all of the modules |during the | configuration, KDE doesn't set things up properly. | | I believe I removed all references in /etc/modules.conf and then | rebooted, before running the Mandrake Control Panel. | | -JMS | | |-Original Message- | |From: Dennis Myers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] | |Sent: Saturday, October 27, 2001 8:19 PM | |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |Subject: Re: Alsa or xmms? SBLive configuration Howto. | | | |Ok, I didn't do it wrong. I now show more stuff in lsmod but don't | |see anything in midi in kcontrol yet. Not a single midi device | |shows. I also | |don't have all the stuff your lsmod shows on sound. Midi being | |the most | |obviously missing. I wonder if it is something to do with | |having an OEM | |SBlive! Doubt it but something is not configuring completly | |like yours. I do | |have more showing in lsmod than I did before I used your setup | |system. I | |don't have any system notification anymore and still don't get | |xmms sound. | |I'll keep working at it. | |-- | |Dennis M. registered Linux user #180842 |I give up, it's time for a different sound card or wait until |Mandrake can |get sound to work without having to go fumbling around in the |dark. The only |sound I get now is from the alsa player and when I click on |the midi icon in |kcontrol it segfaults and dumps me out of kcontrol. Something |isn't working |in this install. The checksums say the d/l'd files were ok, |but sound with |SBlive really stinks, anybody have a better sound card to |recommend. Thanks |for your help Jose, but I think we sank in mid ocean here. |-- |Dennis M. registered Linux user #180842 | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Word processor
Abiword! -JMS |-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Admin |Sent: Sunday, October 28, 2001 12:35 AM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: [newbie] Word processor | | |Hello: | |Looking for a word processor to use under lm8.0, which needs |to be able to |import word documents as well as save in ms word format(if |possible). Any |suggestions? Thanks... | |Dexter | | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: Re: [newbie] LISa
It works for me, I set it up under the GUI. I get a strange problem in that Konq reports that it cannot contact localhost. Very strange since localhost resolves properly and everything else knows what localhost is. Anyway this busies Konq out (where you are probably getting the crash). If I then click on the spinning gear entry, all the other machines appear correctly in the right hand pane. -JMS |-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Derek Jennings |Sent: Saturday, October 27, 2001 1:29 PM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: Fwd: Re: [newbie] LISa | | | |Here's what you do. |Enter this into your rc.local (I actually put it into my |Samba start up |script) | | |lisa -c /root/.kde/share/config/lisarc | | |Then create a file /root/.kde/share/config/lisarc | |Insert this into the file changing the IP numbers to suit your system. | |AllowedAddresses=192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0; |BroadcastNetwork=192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0; |FirstWait=30 |MaxPingsAtOnce=256 |PingAddresses=192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0 |PingNames=192.168.1.4;192.168.1.42;192.168.1.251;192.168.1.1;19 |2.168.1.46 |SearchUsingNmblookup=-1 |SecondWait=30 |UpdatePeriod=300 | | |BTW In my file I give a range of IP addresses for LISa to |ping, AND individual IP addresses. This is not actually necessary. | |Then reboot:) |So long as Samba is working OK you will then be able to browse |the windows shares using Konqueror | |You could use the GUI to set up LISa, but most people get into |a terrible mess trying to do so... | |BTW I cannot get LISa to work under 8.1 Konqueror keeps |crashing when I try to browse the Windows network. If anyone |has succeeded I would like to hear of it. (Komba2 is however a |great alternative!) | | |Derek | |On Saturday 27 October 2001 5:10 pm, Frank McKenna wrote: | HI Folks, | | I am trying to browse my LAN but I keep getting an error message | saying that LISa is not configured. I have gone into LISa and also | the web site and checked the configuration. I still can't |find where | my mistake is. | | The only filed that I have not completed is the Host name |look up but | I am just trying to run a peer to peer LAN right now and I |don't think | that that would be necessary for what I am trying to do. | | Any insight would be greatly apreciated | | Frank McKenna | | Difficulties increase the closer we approach our Goals | | Plato ~ It takes a minute to have a crush on | someone,an hour to like someone and a day to love someonebut it | takes a lifetime to forget someone. | |--- | | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Named and internet connection sharing question
Doing this would prevent named/DNS from getting responses back on it's queries to other servers. If you want to prevent inbound queries you need only avoid defining the internet side interface, for named to use. -JMS |-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Jon Doe |Sent: Friday, October 26, 2001 7:42 PM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: [newbie] Named and internet connection sharing question | | |I have port 53 open for some reason. I want to close it, but I |can't seem to |use the built in firewall on mandrake 8.1 to close it. If I |shut off named |the port closes but I no longer can access the internet with |my window box. Is there a way to solve this and have |connection sharing and port 53 closed? | | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Security for Mandrake
|-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Brian Meadows |Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2001 5:14 AM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: [newbie] Security for Mandrake | | | |Living in a very rural area of Pennsylvania, I have a choice |of exactly one cable access provider, and they're a bit |paranoid, to put it mildly. They've managed to configure their |access systems in such a way as to (deliberately!) prevent use |of a router as a hardware firewall, unless you buy their much |more expensive commercial access. | If Linux can access the internet, there is really no way for them to detect it's usage as a IPCHAINS/NAT MASQ host. Many ISP's are set up to only authorize a specific host, etc. Since MASQ makes all the trafic appear to come from one host, it will work where other systems fail. -JMS Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Help with Telnet
I'm in the same boat with LM8.1 as he is. I've tried all the standard stuff, security, hosts.* files, etc... But no matter what (and yes everything IS installed) I get a connection refused, even when trying a localhost connection. Everything else works. Has anyone been able to get telnetd to respond under LM8.1? -JMS |-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] |On Behalf Of DStevenson |Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2001 5:27 PM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: Re: [newbie] Help with Telnet | | | |By the way, have you installed the telnet server? | |Go to the software manager and install from their. | |Dave | |On Thursday 25 October 2001 11:17, you wrote: | I'm having the same problem as you two - three separate |installs of LM | 8.1, and none of them have a functioning telnet :( Can't figure out | why, but I'll post if I do find out anything. | | Edmund | | -Original Message- | From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] | Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2001 10:11 AM | To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Subject: Re: [newbie] Help with Telnet | | | | I have a similar problem. Sorry I don't the answer for |you, but if I | find the answer to my problem I'll let you know. I have two | computers, one is | running linux as a server and the other is running win 98. I | want to telnet | from win 98 to my linux server, but I can't. It just says |host refused | connection. I don't have a firewall set up, and I do have a | user account | set up for myself on the linux machine. So I don't know |why it doesn't | work. | | Is the same problem you're having? | | mitch | | | | | | | cvine140402@netscape. | | net (Carl Vine) To: | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Sent by: cc: | | newbie-owner@linux-maSubject: | [newbie] Help with Telnet | ndrake.com | | | | | | 10/25/01 12:48 AM | | Please respond to | | newbie | | | | | | | | | | Hi Folks, | | I have a Dell 2400 system with a couple of NICs installed (am also | experiencing the same issue with a laptop w. 2 NICs). | | Basically the problem is that I cannot telnet to any of my local | hosts. I can ping them no problem but when it comes to |telnetting, | all I get is the | login prompt, enter my username and nothing more. Eventually | a message | comes back saying the remote host closed the connection. | | In either case I have used netconf and setup the default |route, the | DNS etc... | | EG: | machine ip, 10.10.10.100 | gateway ip, 10.10.10.1 | DNS (int) , 10.10.10.1 | host network, 203.55.65.xxx | | Ive disabled the 2nd interface, still no luck. | | If anyone can share their troubleshooting tips I would |appreciate it | | Cheers | | | __ | Your favorite stores, helpful shopping tools and great gift ideas. | Experience the convenience of buying online with Shop@Netscape! | http://shopnow.netscape.com/ | | Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Mail account today at | http://webmail.netscape.com/ | | | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? | Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com | | |Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; name=message.footer |Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit |Content-Description: | | | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Help with Telnet
The xinetd.conf setup is done automatically by the installation of the telnet SERVER rpms under LM8.1 In my case everything is set up properly as far as I can tell, but still no local telnet access to LM8.1. -JMS |-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Admin |Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2001 12:33 PM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: Re: [newbie] Help with Telnet | | |Hello: | |Have you installed the telnet deamon/server in your system and |have you made |the necessary additions to the xinetd.conf? I know it might |sound silly, but |sometimes it is the simple things in life, which cause the |most aggravation. |Good luck... | |Dexter | |On Thursday 25 October 2001 09:17, you wrote: | I'm having the same problem as you two - three separate |installs of LM | 8.1, and none of them have a functioning telnet :( Can't figure out | why, but I'll post if I do find out anything. | | Edmund | | -Original Message- | From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] | Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2001 10:11 AM | To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Subject: Re: [newbie] Help with Telnet | | | | I have a similar problem. Sorry I don't the answer for |you, but if I | find the answer to my problem I'll let you know. I have two | computers, one is | running linux as a server and the other is running win 98. I | want to telnet | from win 98 to my linux server, but I can't. It just says |host refused | connection. I don't have a firewall set up, and I do have a | user account | set up for myself on the linux machine. So I don't know |why it doesn't | work. | | Is the same problem you're having? | | mitch | | | | | | | cvine140402@netscape. | | net (Carl Vine) To: | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Sent by: cc: | | newbie-owner@linux-maSubject: | [newbie] Help with Telnet | ndrake.com | | | | | | 10/25/01 12:48 AM | | Please respond to | | newbie | | | | | | | | | | Hi Folks, | | I have a Dell 2400 system with a couple of NICs installed (am also | experiencing the same issue with a laptop w. 2 NICs). | | Basically the problem is that I cannot telnet to any of my local | hosts. I can ping them no problem but when it comes to |telnetting, | all I get is the | login prompt, enter my username and nothing more. Eventually | a message | comes back saying the remote host closed the connection. | | In either case I have used netconf and setup the default |route, the | DNS etc... | | EG: | machine ip, 10.10.10.100 | gateway ip, 10.10.10.1 | DNS (int) , 10.10.10.1 | host network, 203.55.65.xxx | | Ive disabled the 2nd interface, still no luck. | | If anyone can share their troubleshooting tips I would |appreciate it | | Cheers | | | __ | Your favorite stores, helpful shopping tools and great gift ideas. | Experience the convenience of buying online with Shop@Netscape! | http://shopnow.netscape.com/ | | Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Mail account today at | http://webmail.netscape.com/ | | | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? | Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com | | |Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; name=message.footer |Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit |Content-Description: | | | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] LISA
Konqueror utilizes Lisa and Reslisa to do this. It seems that you've set up the broadcast addresses properly to do this, but you may have not gone into Windows Shares in the control panel and set things up there. You need to go there and set up your Workgroup name (which should be the SAME as all other Windows computer's) and then enter the default username and password. This username and password is one that you must have used at least ONCE to log into the windows machine(s) you are attempting to browse. After you've done this, fire up Lisa and Reslisa again, and you should be able to browse. -JMS |-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of shane |Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2001 2:57 PM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: Re: [newbie] LISA | | |sorry, i wasn't clear... | |On Thursday 25 October 2001 10:20, you spoke unto me thusly: | Komba requires Samba to mount the shares. | |yep, and komba runs fine, so thus i know samba also runs. | | You should first try manually mounting the Windows Shares |using samba. | |both manually and in komba i can browse and mount with no |trouble. it is |browsing in konq by way of smb://ipaddy/ or |smb://hostname/share/ that i |can't do anything. it does see the machines (a win2000 and a |win98) and it |shows the shares, but i can not browse the shares themselves. | |-- |I used to be confused, but now I am not that sure anymore.. | |shane |registered linux user #101606 @ http://counter.li.org/ http://www.mystic-light.net/personal/ Proud to be a DMOZ editor since 10-98 http://dmoz.org cause humans do it better! Link different. Profile at: http://dmoz.org/profiles/shen.html Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Security for Mandrake
Ipchains and or socks can be set up so that no client information is reported back. Since most NAT implementations vary, it's extemely difficult for a single technique to detect Masq'd packets. Rather most of these things rely on information passed by the host itself to the remote. Web Browsers, etc. can report things like IP address, hostnames, etc. if queried or sent by the client. Squid can be configured to report itself as a simple browser. Once done remote systems relying upon the characteristics of the requestor are unable to tell the difference. BTW: If you got to the point that the Mac list (as in Apple?) could tell your IP, then your provider does not seem to be blocking proxies and NAT at all. Check out MSN's new web page. It determines the browser you are utilizing based upon initial info sent by the client. Konqueror ALMOST fools MSN... -JMS |-Original Message- |From: Anke Max [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] |Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2001 8:27 PM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: Re: [newbie] Security for Mandrake | | | |Jose M. Sanchez answered Brian's questions on Thursday, |October 25, 2001 | | |Living in a very rural area of Pennsylvania, I have a choice of | |exactly one cable access provider, and they're a bit |paranoid, to put | |it mildly. They've managed to configure their access |systems in such | |a way as to (deliberately!) prevent use of a router as a hardware | |firewall, unless you buy their much more expensive commercial | |access. | | | | If Linux can access the internet, there is really no way for them to | detect it's usage as a IPCHAINS/NAT MASQ host. | | Many ISP's are set up to only authorize a specific host, etc. Since | MASQ makes all the trafic appear to come from one host, it will work | where other systems fail. | |Which tells me, then our system must be set up wrong. When I |subscribed to a Mac list last week, they could tell me which |internal win98 PC IP address the request came from. I thought |this was wrong but haven't had time to look further. We are |running 2.2.15-4mdksecure and Mandrake 7.1. Where do I start |looking to stop this information from going out and masq |properly? Thanks in advance | |Max | | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Changin window manager!
KDM is on the LM8.1 CD's. Any Window Manager under Linux permits you to return to text mode with CTRL-ALT-F1 thru CTRL-ALT-F5. The Window Manager remains running (you can flip back with CTRL-ALT-F6) until you kill it's process. -JMS |-Original Message- |From: Ricardo Castanho de O. Freitas |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] |Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2001 9:10 PM |To: Jose M. Sanchez |Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: RE: [newbie] Changin window manager! | | |On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Jose M. Sanchez wrote: | |Thanks Jose! | |But I like to work on the console/text mode, although mdk8.1 |is changing my mind!!1 ;-) | |I have only gdm and it does not permit to 'return' do text mode! | |[]s Ricardo Castanho | | The easiest way is to utilize the graphical login... | Run kdm or gdm and login, selecting the manager you want. You | could also bring the system up at runlevel 5... init 5 | -JMS | |-- |== |Linux user # 102240 = Machine # 96125 = Seti@home user |== | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Changin window manager!
It doesn't sound like you've done a full installation. You might want to install some of the other packages from the CD's using the package manager. You'll be surprised at how many were not picked up by the default installation. -JMS |-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Ricardo |Castanho de O. Freitas |Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2001 9:47 PM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: Re: [newbie] Changin window manager! | | |On Thu, 25 Oct 2001, Terry wrote: | |Thanks, but I've tried it! |Then I discovered that it is NOT installed! ;-( |But gdm, worked! |But the problem I got and the solution I have now (from the |list!) worked! I used to like to work *only* on the text |mode... but mdg8.1 is really changing my mind on that! | |[]s Ricardo Castanho | | I'm not sure if you could do this, but I'm sure someone will |be happy | to correct me if I'm wrong .. :) Have you tried typing kdm from a | prompt? I believe it's Mandrake's Logon Manager, and if you have | Gnome installed, then you can select it from the list of window | managers that you would like to log in to. Hope that helps! | |-- |== |Linux user # 102240 = Machine # 96125 = Seti@home user |== | | | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Changin window manager!
|-Original Message- |From: Ricardo Castanho de O. Freitas |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] |Sent: Friday, October 26, 2001 1:12 AM |To: Jose M. Sanchez |Cc: 'Ricardo Castanho de O. Freitas'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: RE: [newbie] Changin window manager! | | |On Thu, 25 Oct 2001, Jose M. Sanchez wrote: | |Thanks! I'll try it! | |But ONE of the reasons I'm enjoying mdk is the 'flexibility' |of switching from window manager to text! I know that from |Linux, but from my last experience with other distro's it does |NOT work fully, you can go but, not come back! --- Huh? What do you mean by this? You can always flip into and out of X, unless something is wrong with your system or setup. I've never had any trouble thru many distros. --- | |I was blaming my ex-distro when I discovered the 'guilt' ;-) |it was the bastille firewall, which used tty6 and 7 for |logging purposes and doing that... I could not 'flip' from one |to the other [text to windows manager]. | This is a minor configuration error as Bastille can be re-assigned. |But now I removed my old distro, bastille and I'm enjoying mdk8.1! | |I didn't like 'gdm' very much because it lock us on the |'graphics' ... there is no option to console or text! | Huh again? You can flip out to text any time you want. You can even configure GDM and KDM to enable graphical options to shut down the Window Managers altogether without bringing the machine down. This is available in the Gnome and KDE control Panels. -JMS Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] gigabyte GA-7ZXH
The timer issue is OS independent, and is not related to Linux. 7.2 did not have the routines which attempted to fix the problem AFAIK, whereas 8.x does. -JMS |-Original Message- |From: Sevatio [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] |Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2001 3:04 AM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: RE: [newbie] gigabyte GA-7ZXH | | |Jose, | |That's very interesting what you said. However, this wasn't a problem |when I had the machines running LM7.2. Also, it's not a problem when |running Windoze98. | |Sevatio | | Original Message | |On 10/23/01, 4:51:06 PM, Jose M. Sanchez |[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote |regarding RE: [newbie] gigabyte GA-7ZXH: | | | Yeap, that's the bug, but it's not Linux's fault at all! | | It also happens with my Winblows machines. | | Linux at least TRIES to do something about it. Windows doesn't. | | Reading the timer.h and timer.c comments in the kernel code is most | informative. | | It not only describes the nature of the problem but tells you how | Winbond and ALiMagic VIA don't seem to be interested in |fixing this. | | -JMS | | | |-Original Message- | |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Sevatio | |Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2001 3:20 PM | |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |Subject: Re: [newbie] gigabyte GA-7ZXH | | | | | |I have two machines with the GA-7ZX-1 mobo. LM8.0 made the system | |clock very inaccurate. LM8.1 made that same system clock even | |worse. I'm very | |disappointed with this problem. Although adjtimex can be |used to help | |this, it still results in timekeeping that is less accurate than my | |childhood windup clock. | | | |Sevatio | | | | Original Message | | | |On 10/23/01, 4:33:09 AM, Robert MacLean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote | |regarding [newbie] gigabyte GA-7ZXH: | | | | | | Does any here use the GA-7ZXH motherboard with M8 or M8.1? I want | | to buy it but I just want to see if it will work first. I checked | | mandrakes hardware list and they had the GA-7ZXR (raid |version), so | | I think it will, but I just want to check | |first. It uses | | the VIA KT133A chipset. thanx | | | | ___ | | Robert MacLean | | | | | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Epson Printer
|-Original Message- |From: Sevatio [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] |Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2001 3:40 AM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: RE: [newbie] Epson Printer | | |I'm going to have to write a nasty email to Epson for this chip B.S. | |Jose, since you're knowledgeable in this area, I've got two |questions for |your wise self. I just learned about this Epson scam two days |ago after |my 777 ran out of ink. Prior to that, I had no idea such anti-refill |'technology' existed. :-( | |1: When you use a good cartridge to reset the printer, doesn't |that cause |the cartridge seals to be punctured? | --- Yes, so normally I wait until I have collected a couple of empty cartridges, then when I go to insert a new cartridge, I reset the old ones, and restore the new cartridge into the printer when I am done. BTW: I talked to someone at the web page you posted. Their software attempts to reset the chips directly through a cleaver technique... --- |2: Is this enough to warrant starting a new thread to would |warn everyone |on the list to not buy printers with the anti-refill chips? | The printer manufacturers claim that refills utilize sub standard equipment, etc. I've worked with many pro printing houses who would take great issue with the claims of the big companies. Photographic reviews bear out the complaints that it's the big companies (such as Epson) who are resorting to sub standard inks to lower costs, etc. As such I personally abhor printers without either VERY deep wells, or the ability to be refilled, as it's the end user who is getting taken. I'll stay away from any ink based printer which cannot be refilled, UNLESS the refills are so cheap that there is no point. I'd doubt that I'd even bother if Epson were selling the cartridges for 11.00/each (which they can afford to do given their actual 2-3.00 manufacturing cost) -JMS Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] loadable modules in 8.1
This causes the modules to load AFTER the kernel has already loaded started, which may be problematic with some drives and SCSI adaptor combos. Mkinitrd causes the modules to be preloaded into so that the SCSI adaptors are seen by the kernel as being available at boot time, circumventing problems with say the root partition on a SCSI drive... -JMS |-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of cc tsim |Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2001 6:00 AM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: Re: [newbie] loadable modules in 8.1 | | |Kernel modules to be loaded at boot time belong to |/etc/modules and their settings to /etc/modules.conf |My configuration entries for a scsi adapter | |In /etc/modules | |scsi_hostadapter | | |In /etc/modules.conf | |probeall scsi_hostadapter aic7xxx |alias scsi_hostadapter aic7xxx | | |ciao | |From: Russ Kepler [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: [newbie] loadable modules in 8.1 |Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 16:56:40 -0600 | |All, | |I'm an old hand to UNIX as well as Linux, but after not updating my |system for 6+ years have now replaced my old hardware with new and |grabbed a Mandrake 8.1 to go with. Most things are working |OK, but one |issue I'm having is that loading of scsi modules is somewhat spotty. |After manually loading the scsi-mod it's now automatically loading on |boot, but that's not happening with the advansys module - I |have had to |place a line in /etc/rc.local to load it, and even that's not |reliable. |Before I replace that line with (sleep 10; insmod advansys) tell me |where I'm going wrong, please. | |Once that's solved I'll pester folks to help me understand why device |permissions and owners keep changing on boot as well, and how to pin |'em down. | |-- Russ | |Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? |Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com | | |_ |Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at |http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp | | | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] LISA
LM8.0 put the lisa configuration files in the wrong place! You need to move the reslisarc and lisarc file that the KDE Control panel creates to ~/.reslisarc ~/.lisarc respectively. Use the control panel to add your subnet broadcast address and workgroup computers you want scanned. Lastly, you'll need to modify /etc/rc.d/rc.local to add the startup for the actual lisa and reslisa program. Under LM8.1 relisa dies if I start it this way and I am forced to run it manually as root. It becomes a daemon once run and permits you to browse the Winblows machines from within Konqueror. AFAIK you still need Samba to actually access them, although I may be wrong on this... (Someone correct me please!) -JMS |-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Colin Jenkins |Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2001 3:17 AM |To: linux-newbi group |Subject: [newbie] LISA | | |Hello all, |I just know this must be really obvious, but so far iv'e had |no luck. What deails do you have to enter in Lisa to get |browsing to work? (using lm80) | | | | | |Colin Jenkins |ICQ: 650611 registered linux user 223862 |To be or not to be is true. Or maybe not. | | | | | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] gigabyte GA-7ZXH
Both the VIA and ALiMagiK boards utilize Winbond chips. There is nothing wrong with these boards, but there is a -BIG- bug with the Winbond clock/timer chips. These Winbond chips are what keeps the real time clock going during power offs, etc. It seems that the Winbond clocks will randomly change their reference tick rate, as if they had a bad crystal reference. As a result they will pick up or loose speed. Fortunately Linux tries to work around this and set things right (BTW: Windows does not and you'll gain or loose 15 minutes a day or MORE as a result!), but you'll start to see a slew of messages about this in the kernel logs. You might want to turn this off, and/or not use these boards if you are performing anything which is time intensive. Linux uses an IRQ drive clock to keep it's own separate system clock and then writes out it's time to the CMOS/hardware clock upon power down. This is not foolproof though, and you should really set your machine to a time reference in the Control Panel, so that Linux will adjust itself several times a day. -JMS |-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Robert MacLean |Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2001 7:33 AM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: [newbie] gigabyte GA-7ZXH | | |Does any here use the GA-7ZXH motherboard with M8 or M8.1? |I want to buy it but I just want to see if it will work first. |I checked mandrakes hardware list and they had the GA-7ZXR |(raid version), so I think it will, but I just want to check |first. It uses the VIA KT133A chipset. thanx | |___ |Robert MacLean | | | | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] gigabyte GA-7ZXH
Nope it's common to all Winbond equipped motherboards. Read the timer.h and timer.c kernel files (which is where I originally found all of this) for more info on the problem. If your motherboard does not have the Winbond timer chip you are fine. -JMS |-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of shadowbuilder |Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2001 11:13 AM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: RE: [newbie] gigabyte GA-7ZXH | | |I haven't come across this bug before, was it just in the |early revisions or has it been sorted? I use my PC to |dual-boot with Win98se (for the games)and Mandrake8.1 and i |haven't experienced any problem with the time at all within |either OS. I am glad to hear that Linux tries to work round it though |:) | |Wayne | |-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Robert MacLean |Sent: 23 October 2001 15:24 |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: Re: [newbie] gigabyte GA-7ZXH | | |how do i turn it off? | |___ |Robert MacLean |- Original Message - |From: Jose M. Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2001 4:41 PM |Subject: RE: [newbie] gigabyte GA-7ZXH | | | Both the VIA and ALiMagiK boards utilize Winbond chips. | | There is nothing wrong with these boards, but there is a -BIG- bug |with | the Winbond clock/timer chips. | | These Winbond chips are what keeps the real time clock going during | power offs, etc. | | It seems that the Winbond clocks will randomly change their |reference | tick rate, as if they had a bad crystal reference. | | As a result they will pick up or loose speed. | | Fortunately Linux tries to work around this and set things right |(BTW: | Windows does not and you'll gain or loose 15 minutes a day or MORE |as a | result!), but you'll start to see a slew of messages about this in |the | kernel logs. | | You might want to turn this off, and/or not use these boards if you |are | performing anything which is time intensive. | | Linux uses an IRQ drive clock to keep it's own separate system clock |and | then writes out it's time to the CMOS/hardware clock upon power |down. | This is not foolproof though, and you should really set your machine |to | a time reference in the Control Panel, so that Linux will adjust |itself | several times a day. | | -JMS | | | |-Original Message- | |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Robert |MacLean | |Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2001 7:33 AM | |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |Subject: [newbie] gigabyte GA-7ZXH | | | | | |Does any here use the GA-7ZXH motherboard with M8 or M8.1? | |I want to buy it but I just want to see if it will work first. I | |checked mandrakes hardware list and they had the GA-7ZXR (raid | |version), so I think it will, but I just want to check |first. It uses | |the VIA KT133A chipset. thanx | | | |___ | |Robert MacLean | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] gigabyte GA-7ZXH
Yeap, that's the bug, but it's not Linux's fault at all! It also happens with my Winblows machines. Linux at least TRIES to do something about it. Windows doesn't. Reading the timer.h and timer.c comments in the kernel code is most informative. It not only describes the nature of the problem but tells you how Winbond and ALiMagic VIA don't seem to be interested in fixing this. -JMS |-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Sevatio |Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2001 3:20 PM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: Re: [newbie] gigabyte GA-7ZXH | | |I have two machines with the GA-7ZX-1 mobo. LM8.0 made the |system clock |very inaccurate. LM8.1 made that same system clock even |worse. I'm very |disappointed with this problem. Although adjtimex can be used to help |this, it still results in timekeeping that is less accurate than my |childhood windup clock. | |Sevatio | | Original Message | |On 10/23/01, 4:33:09 AM, Robert MacLean [EMAIL PROTECTED] |wrote regarding |[newbie] gigabyte GA-7ZXH: | | | Does any here use the GA-7ZXH motherboard with M8 or M8.1? | I want to buy it but I just want to see if it will work first. I | checked mandrakes hardware list and they had the GA-7ZXR (raid | version), so I think it will, but I just want to check |first. It uses | the VIA KT133A chipset. thanx | | ___ | Robert MacLean | | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Doing Lynx4win in Windows XP
You can't. Linux cannot write to the newer XP NTFS file system and hence will not run. The Lynx4win doesn't even have NTFS file system modules for older version of NT. BTW: Performance is abysmal under Lynx4win. You are better off installing it on another drive. -JMS |-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Joshua Kurtz |Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2001 11:29 AM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: [newbie] Doing Lynx4win in Windows XP | | |I'm trying to install Mandrake on the same partion as Windows |XP. According to the help files you can do it with Windows |95/98/ME. At the install prompt when I type Lynx4win(spelling) |it runs fine until it trys to access the install files on my |hard drive then I get this error I can not access this drive, |it is not Fat 32 or Fat16 Try again? [y][n] Any ideas how |install it on the same partion as windows Xp without formatting |my hard drive and installing windows 98? | |Any help would be great. | |Thanks | | |Get your own 800 number |Voicemail, fax, email, and a lot more http://www.ureach.com/reg/tag | | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Xwidnows or KDE problem
It sounds like a hardware or video driver problem to me. LM8.1 has been rock stable on 6 machines I installed it on. -JMS |-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Jon Doe |Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2001 12:06 PM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: [newbie] Xwidnows or KDE problem | | |I am all sorts of problems with either the xserver or KDE, not |sure which. At times it just decides to freeze and I mean full |blown windows freeze. I |have to power down to get out of it. Then sometimes if I open |konqueror file |browser the scroll bar just goes crazy and no files show up, |have to use |xkill to get rid of it. Then atlaest half of the time when I |try to shutdown |my PC, I click logout and the screen just goes black and does |nothing. Any one having this same problem? Anyone have a clue |why it is happening? I am about ready to just reinstall, |though I know it happened with my last PC |a few times too. | |Confused | | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] How do I release my IP number?
IP's normally only get released according to a pre-assigned (read sysadmin default, oversight or neglect, heh) value. NT defaults to 5 days of inactivity. But here is the rub, once an ip is available for reassignment it's thrown into a pool of available IP's. It is put at the bottom of the stack. That way if your computer wakes up two weeks later but it's original IP is still available, it will get it back again. So how does Linux force and IP change? The only way I know how to do this is to get Linux to identify itself as a new machine joining the network. Some DHCP servers look at mac addresses, with these you have two choices, ask the server explicity for a new lease, or change the LAN card. In the former case, there are some command line parameters you can issue to the dhcp client's attempt to get the IP that cause this to happen, though offhand I don't know what they are... Other DHCP servers look at the name the Linux box presents itself as. ISP's (like @home) use this a lot. @home may tell you to change the name of your machine to something their DHCP server is looking for. Dependant upon the machine name your computer presents you may or may not get an IP assigned to you... Thus with @home you may have a strange machine name like blah-2304-2 to get onto the internet. Yet other servers look for Netbios machine names for IP assignments. This is a frequent cause of problems because the Netbios machine name may not be the same as the hostname for a particular computer (or Netbios / Samba is not enabled in Linux at boot! ) The bottom line, is that it varies from one dhcp server (and implementation) to another. Ugh. -JMS |-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of |[EMAIL PROTECTED] |Sent: Monday, October 22, 2001 10:56 AM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: Re: [newbie] How do I release my IP number? | | | |Thanks. That didn't do that trick, but it was very helpful to |know anyway. I found out about network stop, too, because you |your lead :). Dont you just love newbs! But that didn't do the |trick. I wanted to release my ip number so I would get a new |one via dhcp. Sorry I that wasn't clear in my first post. The |problem was that the ip number I had was new and wasn't in |synch with my computer's listing in the ip table(s) on the |network. And I can't do anything to get those updated, so I |was trying to release my ip number, in the hopes the when I |got a new one via dhcp that the new one would be added to the |ip table(s). So restarting the network didn't do anything in |that regard, because I just got the same ip number back. | |What I did, to resolve this, was to just type in the ip number |that was in the ip table(s), that I could get by typing host |tcob, the name of my server. It gave me the ip number from |the ip table(s) -- which wasn't the one actually current and |assigned to me. So I just entered it manually with netconf. I |really didn't want to do this, but I had to. | |Is there anything wrong with manually adding the ip assigned |to you with dhcp on a company intranet? | |mitch | | | | | | | |Paul Cox | |[EMAIL PROTECTED]To: |[EMAIL PROTECTED] |Sent by: cc: | |newbie-owner@linux-maSubject: |Re: [newbie] How do I release my IP number? |ndrake.com | | | | | |10/20/01 06:46 PM | |Please respond to | |newbie | | | | | | | | | |On Friday, Oct 19, 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | How do I release my IP number, so I can have a new one assigned from | my intranet dns? | |/etc/rc.d/init.d/network restart (as root) should do the
RE: [newbie] Can't run any GUI from root shell?
It sounds like you have your security cranked up too high... Either lower it or try to su, then host + -JMS |-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Jon Doe |Sent: Monday, October 22, 2001 7:54 PM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: [newbie] Can't run any GUI from root shell? | | |What would cause this? If I open a terminal window, su to root |and type say |kpackage, I get this error: | |Xlib: connection to :0.0 refused by server |Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server |kpackage: cannot connect to X server :0.0 | |Happens with nmapfe and any GUI program. | |I can't even run Mandrake Control Center as su to upgrade. | | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
