Re: [expert] Shadowing / intercepting X-sessions?

2000-02-04 Thread Andrew Morton
Iwan van der Kleyn wrote: In a Citrix environment (Winframe or Metaframe) it is possible for an administrator to "shadow" a user-session. That is: to monitor the screen of a user and to take it over. Arguably a rather drastic tool (with regard to privacy-matters) but quite convenient when

Re: [expert] 128 mb mem

2000-02-04 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 02 Feb 2000, you wrote: I heard that mandrake needs line: append="mem=128M" in to /etc/lilo.conf if computer haves more than 64mb. I have 128mb mem and i dont have that line in my conf but still "top" shows that i have 128mb of mem + swap ? Don't sweat it. Only CERTAIN systems need

Re: [expert] 128 mb mem

2000-02-04 Thread Rich Clark
On Thu, 3 Feb 2000, Adrian Saidac wrote: Well, Jean-Louis, It happend that the box has a brand new ASUS board (BIOS 11/99) If I will set the BIOS for OS/2 I am getting only 14M. Go figure!! Again I think that thre is something wrong with the code itself - there are too many people

[expert] getting rid of Gnome Panel?

2000-02-04 Thread John Aldrich
I helped a friend switch their RedHat box from Gnome to KDE, but the Gnome panel is still there how does one get rid of it after typing "switchdesk" and selecting KDE? John

[expert] How do you make an ISDN connection (Fritx AVM PCI - aka BT Speedway PCI)

2000-02-04 Thread David Santon
How do you make an ISDN connection to the net with mandrake 7? TIA DS (Nottm UK) - http://www.santon.clara.co.uk/ -

Re: [expert] How do you make an ISDN connection (Fritx AVM PCI - aka BT Speedway PCI)

2000-02-04 Thread Nick Kay
At 11:11 04/02/00 +, you wrote: How do you make an ISDN connection to the net with mandrake 7? TIA DS (Nottm UK) - http://www.santon.clara.co.uk/ - Start here:-

AW: [expert] SMB Trick: Using linux user accounts for SAMBA

2000-02-04 Thread Joachim Staeck
Hello, Windows encrypts passwords in an ohther way than UNIX, so you can?t convert a UNIX Password to an SMB Password. The only way to use UNIX Passwords is to turn of encrytied passwords in your smb.conf and to force your Windows machines to send passwords as plain text (see Samba Documentation

RE: [expert] 128 mb mem

2000-02-04 Thread Steve Wright
Wrong. I've got 192 megs of ram here and I didn't do ANYTHING to make it see all that RAM. Same here, 196Mb and Mandrake sees the whole lot no probs

[expert] USB mouse

2000-02-04 Thread Jean-Jacques Mallet
Hello I have an USB mouse and I can't have the wheel. When I configure with gpm oder X the imps2 ( with the ZAxis Mapping 4 5) protocol and not the ps2 protocol, all is wrong. With the ps2 protocol it work, but only without the mouse. And an other point : with the redhat 6.0 and the

Re: [expert] LM 7.0 loses the clock setting

2000-02-04 Thread Mohammad R. Salehpour, Ph.D.
Ummm GMT-5=EST? Could you be set on Universal time? Civileme GMT is universal time. I need to figure out a way to tell that the hardware clock is not set to universal (or GMT) time but instead to the local time. A work around could be to actually set the hardware clock to universal time

[expert] pppd dying unexpectedly

2000-02-04 Thread fred . deklein
Hello All, I am new to this list, running Linux for a couple of years now, and recently installed LM7 Install went through okay (albeit a bit long), but I experienced problems with connecting to the internet via kppp. This is the fault report I got: The remote system is required to authenticate

RE: [expert] LM 7.0 loses the clock setting

2000-02-04 Thread Fred Frigerio
TEll your machine that you are on GReenwich =). -Original Message- From: Mohammad R. Salehpour, Ph.D. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, February 04, 2000 9:31 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] LM 7.0 loses the clock setting Ummm GMT-5=EST? Could you be

[expert] SMP

2000-02-04 Thread Werner Niebel
Hi there all, Forgive me if this is a trivial question... Im trying to get Mandrake 7.0 to work with SMP support... I have tried several different things to get it to work and the Kernel panics... I get a message something to the affect AIX7xxx was compiled for vmlinuz... linuz not for smp.

RE: [expert] SMB Help Please.

2000-02-04 Thread Zaleski, Matthew (M.E.)
From: Bug Hunter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] It is difficult to get to work the first time, but a careful reading of the /usr/doc/samba* (or is it /usr/doc/smb*) will tell you. Another good resource for documentation is http://www.samba.org wade Another good source is Samba Server

Re: [expert] pppd dying unexpectedly

2000-02-04 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Fredthere's a thread on this called "Kppp in Air" starting on Jan 21st. There's a bunch of suggestions for possible solutions in there to try out. Please let me know if any of them work as I'm still running 6.1 on my masquerade machine because of the same problem you're experiencing. Alan

[expert] Security settings

2000-02-04 Thread Andreas Müller
Hi all, could someoone halp me with the security settings? I have the highest level set. Now I cannot access ftp/http etc. from my local machine. As much as I understand it, this settings can be changed in /etc/hosts.allow /etc/hosts.deny. Unfortunatly all these setting get ignored. Why? Where

Re: [expert] LM 7.0 loses the clock setting

2000-02-04 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu, 03 Feb 2000, you wrote: I tried that, and selected america/new_yoork from the zone popup menu in DrakeConf datatime panel. When select activate changes and quit and then go back, the selection is gone. It looks to me that LM 7.0 thinks that the BIOS time is the GMT time and then

[expert] [SOLVED] LM 7.0 loses the clock setting

2000-02-04 Thread Mohammad R. Salehpour, Ph.D.
Well, finally I solved it, or found a work around to the clock problem. In /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit there is the following line: CLOCKFLAGS="--hctosys" I changed that line to say: CLOCKFLAGS="--hctosys --localtime" This would tell the system that the hardware clock is set to local time and

[expert] ESS SOLO-1 driver

2000-02-04 Thread Stout, Wayne
Whoever was requesting information about getting the sound working with the SOLO-1 chipset, just go to http://www.alsa-project.org and get the latest driver. I just got the sound working on my laptop with minimal effort. Notes on what I did, I used the --with-sequencer=yes and

Re: [expert] USB mouse

2000-02-04 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu, 03 Feb 2000, you wrote: Hello I have an USB mouse and I can't have the wheel. When I configure with gpm oder X the imps2 ( with the ZAxis Mapping 4 5) protocol and not the ps2 protocol, all is wrong. With the ps2 protocol it work, but only without the mouse. And an other

Re: [expert] removing gnome panel

2000-02-04 Thread John Aldrich
On Fri, 04 Feb 2000, you wrote: On Thu, 3 Feb 2000, John Aldrich wrote: How does one remove the Gnome taskbar when one switches to KDE from Gnome? A friend of mine switched to KDE last night and his machine now has TWO taskbars -- one from KDE and one from Gnome... HELP!!

Re: [expert] ESS SOLO-1 driver

2000-02-04 Thread SUDARKO A
Dear Wayne, I have got my sound working on my laptop (presario 1685) with Mandrake 7.0 I also uses ESS SOLO-1. In the past I have been trying to use alsa-driver without any success, but with Mandrake 7.0 the sound is working without doing any modification/addition. My lucent winmodem is now

[expert] Source request

2000-02-04 Thread Cajus Pollmeier
Hi! Can someone please point me to an RPM, containing the source of the LM6.1 installer? I need to make some small changes in order to install the system on a - very special - machine. Thanks, -Cajus

Re: AW: [expert] SMB Trick: Using linux user accounts for SAMBA

2000-02-04 Thread Rich Clark
On Fri, 4 Feb 2000, Joachim Staeck wrote: Hello, Windows encrypts passwords in an ohther way than UNIX, so you can?t convert a UNIX Password to an SMB Password. The only way to use UNIX Passwords is to turn of encrytied passwords in your smb.conf and to force your Windows machines to send

RE: [expert] looking for software

2000-02-04 Thread Zaleski, Matthew (M.E.)
I believe there is a package that comes with most Linux distributions (on CD) called SPICE. Also check out www.freshmeat.net. Here is something that just got updated today on FreshMeat: --- - --- -- - --- -- - - - -- - subject: Oregano 0.11 added by: Richard Hult on Feb

[expert] /mnt lacks disk space for upgrade?

2000-02-04 Thread Steve Wainstead
Hello, I have been using 6.0 since its release and it has made me very productive. I picked up a copy of 7.0 at the Mandrake booth at LinuxWorldExpo; I tried to do an upgrade using a CDROM install. The upgrade fails, giving me an error message that "/mnt" needs 37M for the RPM packages. I mv'd

Re: [expert] 128 mb mem

2000-02-04 Thread Adrian Saidac
I agree with all of you flame or not. I really need an answer not a status of other systems. Given the fact that Red Hat/Mandrake is keeping a long silence about this make me believe that there is a problem somewhere. Why is showing only on certain systems - THAT'S the mystery!! Civileme wrote:

RE: [expert] 128 mb mem

2000-02-04 Thread Lyle
What they are trying to say, it's not LM or Linux that's at fault. Linux politely asks the BIOS how much memory and it got an answer. It wasn't right, but it got an answer. some other OS's ask in a different way and get the right answer more often. Linux is not a very mature OS from my point