[e-smith-devinfo] Tape driver unit

2001-09-17 Thread Lallement, Denis
Hello, Today I have a seagate STT63200P on parallel port which I am incapable to put on and use it with e-smith!. It works perfectly with W95 and Backup exec software ! I have two ways : * One idea (or method) to connect the actual tape driver on e-smith or

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Static DHCP (was Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Viewing Win2000 shares VIA network neighborhood)

2001-09-17 Thread Michael Doerner
Great, I didn't know about that and apparently it's working fine now. I will definitely prefer this method over my old one where I set up some hosts manually and left the others (majority) for DHCP. The problem that I found seems to be the dhcpd restart after modifying the host table: Sep 18 18:

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Viewing Win2000 shares VIA network neighborhood

2001-09-17 Thread Michael Maxwell
> Sure, but people who don't use DHCP are a significant source of support > problems. Which is why we _strongly_ recommend it, as do other operating > system vendors. I strongly recommend it too. From the point of view of a small to mid size business lan, You would be mad not to uses DHCP. Why go

[e-smith-devinfo] Static DHCP (was Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Viewing Win2000 shares VIA network neighborhood)

2001-09-17 Thread Gordon Rowell
On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 01:57:50PM +0800, Sage Telecommunications <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] > I have taken Gordon's comments to mean that if I assign a host name, mac > address & IP in the e-smith mgr and then reconfig the client computer to use > dhcp then it will pick up the ip etc fr

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Viewing Win2000 shares VIA network neighborhood

2001-09-17 Thread Sage Telecommunications
> DNS/WINS/router settings just happen if you use DHCP. If you set up the > Hostname/Ethernet/IP in the Hostnames and Addresses panel, you can > assign static IPs through DHCP, so you get the best of both worlds. > Just been 'playing with this' and have got a problem :-( In the e-smith mgr I creat

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Viewing Win2000 shares VIA network neighborhood

2001-09-17 Thread Gordon Rowell
On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 03:22:14PM +1000, Michael Maxwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > DNS/WINS/router settings just happen if you use DHCP. If you set up the > > Hostname/Ethernet/IP in the Hostnames and Addresses panel, you can > > assign static IPs through DHCP, so you get the best of both wo

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Viewing Win2000 shares VIA network neighborhood

2001-09-17 Thread Michael Maxwell
> DNS/WINS/router settings just happen if you use DHCP. If you set up the > Hostname/Ethernet/IP in the Hostnames and Addresses panel, you can > assign static IPs through DHCP, so you get the best of both worlds. Yes, Good Point Gordon But i like to do everything the hard way. hehehe :o) > T

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] [DRAFT] raidmonitor rpm + HowTo's

2001-09-17 Thread Darrell May
Darrell May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Next on my ToDo list is to work through loosing the boot hard drive and > the raid recovery process and report my findings. Darrell May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Next on my ToDo list is to work through loosing the boot hard drive and > the raid reco

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Viewing Win2000 shares VIA network neighborhood

2001-09-17 Thread Gordon Rowell
On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 01:49:04PM +1000, Michael Maxwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] > Setup TCP/IP and try pointing the Win2000 boxes at the WINS server on the > e-smith box. > [...] DNS/WINS/router settings just happen if you use DHCP. If you set up the Hostname/Ethernet/IP in the Hos

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Viewing Win2000 shares VIA network neighborhood

2001-09-17 Thread Michael Maxwell
> If you have win9x and winNT machines you'll have to add the NetBEUI protocol > to the network settings of all the machines... > > Kevin Why would you wanna add NetBEUI of all protocol's ? NetBEUI is old, Slow and really no longer used. Setup TCP/IP and try pointing the Win2000 boxes at the WI

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] UPS brand recommendations?

2001-09-17 Thread Richard Ford
The cable it turns out during some testing is to do with the mode of the UPS. A "smart serial UPS" needs a different cable than a "dumb serial" UPS. We had a APC Smart UPS 1000 and the cable that came with it (Dark grey) would make a signal appear with powestatd even if the other end wasn't plug

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Viewing Win2000 shares VIA network neighborhood

2001-09-17 Thread Charlie Brady
On Tue, 18 Sep 2001, Steve Grasso wrote: > I was going to suggest (with Dan) that Samba may be losing out to the Win2k > machines. If this was the case, adding: > > os level = 101 > domain master = yes > local master = yes > preferred master = yes > > to smb.conf might fix it. You can (and shou

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Viewing Win2000 shares VIA network neighborhood

2001-09-17 Thread Steve Grasso
Wayne et al., Are these Win2k Server machines? (I also note that there are no WinNT machines mentioned as part of your network). If so, EVERY Win2k Server is a Domain Controller (there are no such beasts as PDCs or BDCs in a Win2k environment). I was going to suggest (with Dan) that Samba may

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Viewing Win2000 shares VIA network neighborhood

2001-09-17 Thread Dan York
Kevin, > If you have win9x and winNT machines you'll have to add the NetBEUI protocol > to the network settings of all the machines... NO!! You do NOT need to do this and doing so will actually only add to the problems. NetBIOS name resolution works perfectly fine over TCP/IP. The short answ

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] UPS brand recommendations?

2001-09-17 Thread Graeme Robinson
Ben this is really an experienced user phorum question - you will find you answer there. Any UPS with serial cable link will do - make your decision based on the power demands of the system. There is an excellent contrib for the powstatd ups monitor program available and I've written a howto (se

RE: [e-smith-devinfo] Viewing Win2000 shares VIA network neighborhood

2001-09-17 Thread Kevin Van Haecke
If you have win9x and winNT machines you'll have to add the NetBEUI protocol to the network settings of all the machines... Kevin > -Oorspronkelijk bericht- > Van: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > rg]Namens Wayne Baldwin > Verzonden: maandag 17 september 2001 20:24 > Aan:

[e-smith-devinfo] Viewing Win2000 shares VIA network neighborhood

2001-09-17 Thread Wayne Baldwin
I apologize that the following problem may not be related to e-Smith installations or this discussion group, but I'm not sure if Linux / e-Smith is the cause. I encountered a problem when I first added a couple of Win2000 machines to my network of assorted operating systems. I found the

[e-smith-devinfo] UPS brand recommendations?

2001-09-17 Thread Benjamin Lee
Hi all, I'm looking at Uninterruptible Power Supplies for several independent workstations (Winbloze -- 250W) and a Linux server (300W)... recommendations? Good experiences or bad? Obviously I would prefer a brand whose products are Linux friendly (or some dude has *made* Linux friendly ;-) -- e

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] [DRAFT] raidmonitor rpm + HowTo's

2001-09-17 Thread Darrell May
Charlie Brady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > You will need to run LILO with the correct configuration and > arguments so that the system will boot correctly with both drives, and > with either drive in place. But I don't know the details. Charlie, are you are referring to an automatic raid recover