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2017-04-20 Thread Mr Smiley
I hope none of you are falling for this crap Original sender is xxx_dejo...@t-online.de and the link points to xxx_http://webrealmarketing.com/hh/all/index.php?username=debian-user@lists.debian.org i added the xxx's to avoid mail automatic enabled click-able links On 20/04/17 17:06, N

Problems with FAT32

2014-10-06 Thread Mr Smiley
ce between what windows does and Linux does. I'm all Linux here and have to go to a friends up the road to use a windows machine :-( Many thanks to you all Mr Smiley -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Conta

Re: Help with command - cp

2014-01-28 Thread Mr Smiley
On 28/01/14 13:22, Andrew McGlashan wrote: On 27/01/2014 3:05 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: * The --dry-run option will show you what the command will do As I said to Zenaan, it is obviously time for me to bite the bullet of rsync. It seems a significantly better tool for the purpose than cp. Don't b

Re: How to setup a simple email server?

2014-01-26 Thread Mr Smiley
On 26/01/14 09:19, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 1/25/2014 1:09 PM, Garry wrote: I would like to setup a simple email server and run it out of my house. I have everything needed in order to do it. In fact I had one setup successfully about a year ago and crashed it. I can't figure out how I did it. T

Re: Help with command - cp

2014-01-26 Thread Mr Smiley
On 26/01/14 14:26, Lisi Reisz wrote: I am wanting to use the CLI to copy some files from dirA to dirB. I want to exclude all hidden files. Will this command achieve it? :-- cp -Rp /path/to/sourcedir/A/* /path/to/destinationdir/B Thanks, Lisi If you don't put a / after B it will copy all fi

Re: Lenovo R61 Think Pad dead after fewer than five years

2013-11-02 Thread Mr Smiley
Hi, e-bay is your friend, there are thousands of spares for IBM thinkpads :o) On 02/11/13 18:53, Ken Heard wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 In May 2008 I purchased new and started using a Lenovo R61 Think Pad. Originally I installed Lenny on it and subsequently upgraded

Re: ZFS, longterm archive of data and Debian

2013-09-24 Thread Mr Smiley
On 24/09/13 10:08, Jonathan Dowland wrote: It's not clear to me what problem you are trying to solve and why ZFS would be a good solution for it. The elephant in the room, with regards your use case, is backups, IMHO. That said: On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 11:07:57PM -0400, Nick Lidakis wrote: With

Re: samba: mounting as cifs not working (works in Windows though)

2010-08-01 Thread Mr Smiley
sEnabled and now run your smbmout command again, all should be ok Mr Smiley you can ;put everything back without rebooting by changing the 0 or a 1 as below echo 1> /proc/fs/cifs/LinuxExtensionsEnabled A man with a thermometer knows the temperature. A man with two thermometer

Re: samba: mounting as cifs not working (works in Windows though)

2010-07-29 Thread Mr Smiley
Sorry, also try echo 0 > /proc/fs/cifs/LinuxExtensionsEnabled and then smbmount again. It's one of the two, but at the mo can't remember which, but both at the same time won't hurt. Try echo 0 > /proc/fs/cifs/OplockEnabled then try and smbmount again. Mr S

Re: samba: mounting as cifs not working (works in Windows though)

2010-07-29 Thread Mr Smiley
Try echo 0 > /proc/fs/cifs/OplockEnabled then try and smbmount again. Mr Smiley A man with a thermometer knows the temperature. A man with two thermometers is never sure. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe&q

Does anybody understand this !!!! kernel bug with ndiswrapper

2008-11-10 Thread Mr Smiley
I have a wireless pcmcia card, on a lappy. If i use ftp or smbmount or nfs my network connection dies and i get the following ( below ) while transfering files. http seems fine ! and does'nt cause the kernel bug !! I have to reboot the laptop i'm using, anybody know how to solve this or restar

Re: Printing from GIMP

2008-07-27 Thread Mr Smiley
Hi, you have to install gimp-print apt-get install gimp-print then under file, at the bottom 'print' should appear. Go in there and set up your printers Hope that helps --- On Sun, 27/7/08, Marc Shapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Marc Shapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Print

How and where do i remove old kernel images to make space for new ones :o)

2008-05-03 Thread Mr Smiley
Hi all, I'm doing my daily apt-get update and updating my kernal-image is reporting the following. Unpacking replacement linux-image-2.6.18-6-686 ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-image-2.6.18-6-686_2.6.18.dfsg.1-18etch3_i386.deb (--unpack): failed in buffer_write(fd) (9,

Re: prevent writing to unmounted directory

2008-04-24 Thread Mr Smiley
Touch a file on the NAS share with a name such as NAS.HERE, and in your script check that that file exists. If it exists, then it's mounted, if not, then it's not mounted. Ken --- Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 24 April 2008, Damon L. Chesser wrote: > > Chris wrote: > > > Hello,

Re: Can't find ndiswrapper.ko on debian stable :o(

2008-03-04 Thread Mr Smiley
Ken --- Thierry Chatelet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 04 March 2008 22:52, Mr Smiley wrote: > > Hi everybody. > > Many thanks > > > > Ken > > > > ps i have windows xp and Debian stable on my > lappy, > > and debian flies and xp crawls :o) >

Can't find ndiswrapper.ko on debian stable :o(

2008-03-04 Thread Mr Smiley
Hi everybody. I'm trying to install a 3com pcmcia card and need to modprobe ndiswrapper. Problem is it fails. I can run ndswrapper -i /path/to/.inf and all is fine, If i insert the card and do ndiswrapper -l it says driver and hardware present. If i do iwconfig it shows the card as eth1. But t