Re: [SLUG] Networking advice please.
My experience over hundreds of such installations indicates this: If your Cat5 cabling was installed by your friendly local electrician, you may find she/he has made the connection incorrectly. You will find that the NICs and the 100BASET switch will indicate that the physical connection is there (appropriate LEDs) but data will fail to be transmitted. Incorrect termination is most easily proved by the use of a 10BASET hub or switch which in almost all cases WILL work over incorrectly terminated Cat5 cabling. 100BASET will NEVER work over incorrectly terminated Cat5 cabling. On 14 Jul 2004 at 13:04, bill wrote: I have 3 pc's networked to an ethernet switch, which is connected to the 'Net via a modem router. All works well. My house was cabled for LAN with cat5 cable when it was built. I have connected a pc to each of 2 LAN wall outlets ( in different rooms) with a straight-through (ie not crossover) cable, and have tried connecting the ethernet switch to each of the 4 outlets at the LAN outlet point at the other end of the cabling in my Den. The appropriate set of lights on the ethernet switch fail to light up, no matter which of the 4 outlets at the wall junction I attach it to, even though the other end of one of these outlets has a PC (in another room) attached. Either all of the LAN cabling in the house is defective (unlikely as the other cables for Cable-TV and TV Aerial work), or I am doing something wrong re connecting the remote PC's to the ethernet switch. Should I be using straight-through cable or crossover cable from the wall point to the ethernet switch (I asume straight-through)? How can I test the cabling, short of purchasing an appropriate cable tester? Thanks in advance. Bill -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] remote desktop on linux accessing windows xp
See: http://www.tightvnc.com/ On 12 Jun 2004 at 10:05, Luke (Terry) Vanderfluit wrote: Hi, Is there any s/w out there that does this? thanks, Luke -- = Luke (Terry) Vanderfluit Mobile: 0421 276 282 = -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] MYOB on SAMBA share
A caution here. If as you say you have multiple users and those users are simultaneously accessing the MYOB DB, be very careful about disabling oplocks. Corruption may well follow. If you want to test, you should backup the affected folder FIRST before disabling oplocks. Then test with the maximum number of users pounding away at the same records. Follow-up by inspecting the carnage... ;) On 25 Nov 2003 at 18:22, Del wrote: How can I speed this up? (shoot the users is not an option :) Start with reading the SAMBA manuals (swat pages, on line doco, etc) about oplocks. Turning them off to get better MYOB performance might be your answer. -- Del -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Red Hat discontinues maintenance and errata support
Red Hat has announced it will discontinue maintenance and errata support for Red Hat Linux 7.1, 7.2, 7.3 and 8.0 as of December 31, 2003. Red Hat will also discontinue maintenance and errata support for Red Hat Linux 9 as of April 30, 2004. Red Hat does not plan to release another product in the Red Hat Linux line. Instead, Red Hat will now sell the box-set of Red Hat Linux which now becomes Red Hat Enterprise Linux in three flavours: WS (workstation, what we now use mostly), ES (the stuff we use now on steroids), and AS (advanced server). The Red Hat Linux we know and love will supposedly become Fedora. But how Fedora is linked to Red Hat Linux is another question. So far, all that I have read says that it will replace Red Hat's RPM's. Linux is not mentioned. The announced pricing is as follows: RHLE WS (Linux 3) x86 basic $US179 standard $US299 Itanium,AMD64 --- standard $US792 RHLE ES x86 basic $US349 standard $US799 RHLE AS x86 basic $US1499 premium $US2499 Itanium,AMD64,IBM basic $US1992 premium $US2998 IBM series basic $US15000 premium $US18000 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Red Hat discontinues maintenance and errata support
Red Hat has announced it will discontinue maintenance and errata support for Red Hat Linux 7.1, 7.2, 7.3 and 8.0 as of December 31, 2003. Red Hat will also discontinue maintenance and errata support for Red Hat Linux 9 as of April 30, 2004. Red Hat does not plan to release another product in the Red Hat Linux line. Instead, Red Hat will now sell the box-set of Red Hat Linux which now becomes Red Hat Enterprise Linux in three flavours: WS (workstation, what we now use mostly), ES (the stuff we use now on steroids), and AS (advanced server). The Red Hat Linux we know and love will supposedly become Fedora. But how Fedora is linked to Red Hat Linux is another question. So far, all that I have read says that it will replace Red Hat's RPM's. Linux is not mentioned. The announced pricing is as follows: RHLE WS (Linux 3) x86basic $US179 standard $US299 Itanium,AMD64 --- standard $US792 RHLE ES x86 basic $US349 standard $US799 RHLE AS x86 basic $US1499 premium $US2499 Itanium,AMD64,IBM basic $US1992 premium $US2998 IBM series basic $US15000 premium $US18000 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] WindowsUpdate.com is running a Linux server? O.o
See: http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/holes/story/0,10 801,84074,00.html ... Microsoft is already a customer of Cambridge, Mass.-based Akamai Technologies Inc., which operates a distributed worldwide network that can diffuse DDOS attacks..., ...according to Sean Sundwall, a Microsoft spokesman... Akamai Technologies use distributed clusters of Linux machines to proxy the MS site, thus diffusing DDOS attacks. That is why it seems that the MS site is running on Linux. Russell On 16 Aug 2003 at 20:00, Andar Broment wrote: According to Netcraft's what is that site running? Service ( http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=www.windowsupdate.com ) , www.windowsupdate.com is running MS IIS 6.0 on a linux box as of today. Conspiracy theory or windows update bracing for the MSBlast DDOS? Cool. Muskie -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] IMAP client on Windows
On Sunday 01 June 2003 07:52 am, Nik Belajcic wrote about: [SLUG] IMAP client on Windows I know this is not a Linux question in the strict sense, but snip I am trying to find something that would be more or less a Windows clone of KMail simple but functional - to use as IMAP Windows client. Pegasus Mail www.pmail.com -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Question about text computer game from late seventies/eighties
On 16 Dec 2002 at 16:47, Ron Daniel wrote: Does anybody remember the name of the game which people used to play on their mainframes at university in the late seventies where you explored a labyrinth of caves and tunnels interactively on a teletype machine? Known variously as rogue or hack -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Question on recursive subdirectory in RH7.2 and RH7.3
I found this recursive link on my RH7.2 and RH7.3 machines: lrwxrwxrwx1 root root1 Oct 14 18:53 /usr/bin/mh - . Can anyone shed any light on it? It is creating havoc with a backup I am trying to make: /bin/tar cv /usr -zhf /backup/usr outputs: usr/bin/mh usr/bin/mh/mh usr/bin/mh/mh/mh usr/bin/mh/mh/mh/mh usr/bin/mh/mh/mh/mh/mh usr/bin/mh/mh/mh/mh/mh/mh usr/bin/mh/mh/mh/mh/mh/mh/mh... ad-infinitum... -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Config tools in RedHat 7.3
Does anyone have any experience configuring RH 7.3? Linuxconf has been removed from the 7.3 release and I am wondering if anyone can point me to the replacement for linuxconf (I don't have X installed, so need a terminal based program). -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Config tools in RedHat 7.3
Sorry, Ken, linuxconf DOES NOT exist in the RH 7.3 distro. It has definitely been removed (can't locate it with find either). The RH site doesn't indicate a replacement, and the release notes state it is unstable with 7.3 and that is why it was removed. Now you know why I am trying to locate a replacement system config utility. On 26 May 2002 at 18:34, Ken Foskey wrote about: Re: [SLUG] Config tools in RedHat 7.3 On Sun, 2002-05-26 at 18:05, Russell Ashdown wrote: Does anyone have any experience configuring RH 7.3? Linuxconf has been removed from the 7.3 release and I am wondering if anyone can point me to the replacement for linuxconf (I don't have X installed, so need a terminal based program). Linuxconf still exists just look for it in google. There are some issue with it, if you are happy with it then stick with it. KenF -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Linux not suitable as a fileserver for MYOB ???
Netware incorporates proprietary system calls that can be utilised by developers for file locking. date retrieval and many other functions. If you are using mars-nwe the Netware server emulator, it may be that not all these system calls are supported. The calls themselves have changed since Netware 3.11 (which mars-nwe emulates). This may be the source of your problem. Further, if this is the source of your problem, and you are able to get a test system running MYOB, it is likely that if MYOB works fine with a single workstation it will not ALWAYS work well in multi- user mode, it is important that you emulate the customers environment. You will need to test using simultaneous input from multiple workstations, and attempt to cause file read/write collisions. While I have no knowledge of MYOB, my experience with other databases running on Netware servers indicates that file locking failure (and file unlocking failure) is a major cause of database corruption and deadly embrace causing user abort and further file and database corruption. Sad as it may seem, if MYOB will NOT support their product on a Linux server running a Netware emulator, you would be very foolish to proceed. File corruption in an accounting database can be extremely costly for the client (and, ultimately for you if you recommend they ignore MYOB and proceed). Why not downsize (remove all applications) the existing Netware server and leave ONLY MYOB on it? Then install a second, more powerful Linux machine configured as a mars-nwe server, to which the users could authenticate and use as the general purpose fileserver/applications server. To my mind that would be the safest alternative and should earn you kudos from your customer. On 2 Jan 2002, at 17:29, Vince Meissner wrote about: [SLUG] Linux not suitable as a fileserver for MYO I've got a client that uses MYOB Accountant's Office. It's a multi-user practice managment, time billing, invoicing type program. They're looking at replacing their existing Novell server which is at the end of it's life. I had them sold on the idea of a Linux based server until we discovered this little gem from MYOB's support pages. ** Question Is Accountants Office supported on a Linux Server? Answer No, Linux is not a compatible Network Operating System for Accountants Office because of fundamental incompatibilies in file and record locking within Linux and is therefore not supported under any circumstances. Link: http://myobaustralia.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/myobaustralia.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_sid=*kRtyb4gp_lva=010130-51p_refno=010130- 51p_created=980896579p_sp=cF9ncmlkc29ydD0mcF9yb3dfY250PTImcF9zZWFyY2hfdGV4dD1saW51eCZwX3NlYXJjaF90eXBlPTYmcF9wcm9kX2x2bDE9OSZwX3Byb2RfbHZsMj1_YW55fiZwX2NhdF9sdmwxPX5hbnl_JnBfc29ydF9ieT1kZmx0JnBfcGFnZT0xp_li= snip -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Re: ISP requests IP block back
Why on earth would you want an assigned IP block? Private address space should be sufficient for any organisation that requires a block of IP addresses; and private address space offers the unique security feature that individual addresses are not propagated on the Internet past the first firewall or NAT making it extremely difficult (although not totally impossible) for hackers to gain access to your internal machines. For completeness, here is the list of private addresses defined in RFC1597: 10.0.0.0 to 10.255.255.255 172.16.0.0 to 172.31.255.255 192.168.0.0 to 192.168.255.255 My advice is - Give them ALL the addresses back, choose a private address scheme and reassign all your machines. Go through the pain. Reconfigure your router/gateway/firewall/NAT and move on. The advantage for all this once-off pain is that NO ONE will ever again dictate a change in IP addressing in your organisation. You can allocate as many or as few addresses as you wish, making your scheme as complicated or as simple as you need and sub-addressing whatever you want for whichever branch offices that you have, etc. Russell Ashdown On 18 Apr 01, at 18:40, Alan Lee wrote about: [SLUG] ISP requests IP block back I have two IP address blocks snip My ISP has requested one of them back, I have had this address rang for over a year now. snip -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Recommend ISP?
Give AccSoft a try. Unlimited connection time (3 hr disconnect with immediate redial) and unlimited dl. 56k rate. They also have pops all around Australia and can offer very cheap telephone rates to overseas You can contact them on: 02 9281 8163 On 9 Oct 00, at 13:05, Bill wrote about: [SLUG] Recommend ISP? Can anybody recommend a reliable Sydney based ISP who provides an account with no download limits. Time limits/hourly charges would be acceptable if necessary. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
