[expert] USB Zip config -- Solved!

2001-02-23 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear Alex and friends: Thanks so very kindly for your help. I was able to solve the USB Zip configuration problem on my LM72 with your instructions. Some of it was relevant, some not. But without your instructions I could not have done it: Here is the data: 1) At the end of /etc/rc.local I adde

Re: [expert] gui login panel

2001-02-23 Thread Collins Richey
On Friday 23 February 2001 11:51, Will wrote: > From what I can tell, the KDM list gets built at boottime by > /etc/rc.d/init.d/mandrake_everytime, which calls /usr/sbin/fndSession, > which calls /usr/sbin/chksession, which builds the kdm config file from the > entries in /etc/X11/wmsession.d Ma

RE: [expert] Samba Question

2001-02-23 Thread Ira M. Bargon III
I think the problem might be with nmbd. Here is the error its reporting. Its reporting an error with the domain master browser name. I dont know what this is. Any help would be great. [2001/02/23 18:07:23, 0] nmbd/nmbd_browsesync.c:find_domain_master_name_query_fail(360) find_domain_master_n

Re: [expert] USB Zip on LM72 -- Please help

2001-02-23 Thread A V Flinsch
On Friday 23 February 2001 13:26, you wrote: > Dear friends: > > I have just installed a new Iomega USB Zip 100 on my dual-boot > Linux/Win98. I have installed the Iomega software in Windows and > connected the hardware and the Iomega USB Zip works perfectly in > Windows. > > Now, the question is

Re: [expert] missing hd?

2001-02-23 Thread J . A . Magallon
On 02.24 Tom Strickland wrote: > > > On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 11:43:27AM -0800, Ron Heron wrote: > > > > hmmm, are you sure it's on hdd? hdd is the slave of the first ide > > > slot. AFAIK, hdd is the slave in the SECOND ide channel... > > > > If fdisk says no response, then it is truly missin

Re: [expert] HP UX compatibility... Correction!

2001-02-23 Thread Ken THompson
On Friday 23 February 2001 10:13 am, you wrote: > I stand corrected by MS. Can Linux users run Solaris apps? IE5 is available > for Solaris. > -- Forwarded by George Jones/US/ABNAMRO/NL on > 02/23/2001 12:09 PM --- > > > George Jones > 02/23/2001 12:11 P

Re: [expert] Script to correct kde2.1 control center problem

2001-02-23 Thread Ken THompson
> I am tired of doing this so I am writing the script to do it for me. > How/where would I place this script in order to ensure that it runs > whenever I login to my account? Maybe in here: /etc/rc.d/rc5.d Below is the Caption from the script file. # This script will be executed *after* all the

Re: [expert] missing hd?

2001-02-23 Thread Tom Strickland
On Sat, Feb 24, 2001 at 02:26:24AM +0100, J . A . Magallon wrote: > > On 02.24 Tom Strickland wrote: > > > > On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 11:43:27AM -0800, Ron Heron wrote: > > > > > hmmm, are you sure it's on hdd? hdd is the slave of the first ide > > > > slot. > AFAIK, hdd is the slave in the SECO

Re: [expert] missing hd?

2001-02-23 Thread Tom Strickland
On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 03:06:56PM -0800, Ron Heron wrote: > Tom, can you send me your /var/log/kernel/info file? This is extremely > puzzling. What's the ouput of #mount -a ? more info: when I try to mount /dev/hdd1, I get: #mount -t ext2 /dev/hdd1 /tmp/td mount: /tmp/td is not a valid block d

RE: [expert] HP UX compatibility...

2001-02-23 Thread Daryl Johnson
The only HP-UX I have used has been on HP Risc processor boxes. If the s/w was compiled for one of these then it certainly won't run on a pc. Regards Daryl > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Ace Frehley > Sent: 23 February 2001 21:00

Re: [expert] Offtopic, sortof?: Apple Macs and networking

2001-02-23 Thread Praedor Tempus
I've got it all working now. Thanks for the info. I am now visable to the various Mac choosers AND with the afpfs module I can now mount Mac volumes on my PC and read/write to them. This last was the main thing I was fighting with all this for. As for the module, does it compile for you wit

RE: [expert] Samba Question

2001-02-23 Thread Daryl Johnson
Sounds to me as if you may need to check the docs (extensive) that came with Samba. I have had similar problems with Samba and the problem was finally resolved when I imported a file into the Windows (NT in my case) registry which reset the windows machine to accept un-encrypted passwords. Once

Re: [expert] tjk: qmail?

2001-02-23 Thread Vincent Danen
On Fri Feb 23, 2001 at 01:20:27AM -0500, Tom Kazinci wrote: > Greetings! I would absolutely love to hear some insights about qmail on Mandrake? > > Please forward any comments at all.. > > Thanks. > http://www.qmail.org/top.html I've built rpms for qmail and have been using them for quite a wh

[expert] no kde

2001-02-23 Thread Bruce Endries
I just installed Mandrake 7.2 on a machine. I have installed Mandrake lots of times before, but this time I find I have TWM for a window manager instead of KDE. I tried "switchdesk" but get an error message such as "command not found". I know I went through the install indicating that KDE be i

Re: [expert] missing hd?

2001-02-23 Thread Tom Strickland
On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 11:43:27AM -0800, Ron Heron wrote: > hmmm, are you sure it's on hdd? hdd is the slave of the first ide slot. > If fdisk says no response, then it is truly missing! how many beers did > you have when you did this? :) Ah - if only I could ascribe this to beer! Too much co

Re: [expert] tjk: qmail?

2001-02-23 Thread Vincent Danen
On Fri Feb 23, 2001 at 10:51:25AM -0800, Joe Burks wrote: > Probably not what most people wanted to hear, but... > > I spent the better part of one evening trying to get qmail 1.03 working on > LM 7.2 with no luck. Qmail tends to be particularly difficult to install, > which is almost certain

Re: [[expert] HP UX compatibility...]

2001-02-23 Thread Michael R. Batchelor
Jim Gallagher wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I was wondering, could a binary that was created to be used on HP UX, be > > installed and run under Linux? The reason I'm asking is that I'd like to > > see if IE5 for HP-UX would work under LM7.2 1.What binaries will PA-RISC Linux support?

Re: [expert] gui login panel

2001-02-23 Thread Will
>From what I can tell, the KDM list gets built at boottime by /etc/rc.d/init.d/mandrake_everytime, which calls /usr/sbin/fndSession, which calls /usr/sbin/chksession, which builds the kdm config file from the entries in /etc/X11/wmsession.d Make sure the chksession and fndSession scripts are

Re: [expert] Samba Question

2001-02-23 Thread Ron Heron
I forgot, make sure that the shared directory has the right permisions. To test, just make the permissions 0750. Ron Heron --- Ron Heron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > First, ensure that smb and nmb are running (most likeley, they are): > > [root@heronet kernel]# ps aux|grep smb > root 1122

[expert] Did it! I have netatalk and afpfs working -can mount mac volumes

2001-02-23 Thread Praedor Tempus
Finally did it. I tinkered here and there with /etc/atalk/afpd.conf, atalk.conf, config and got appletalk working on my system. My computer now shows up in the chooser of the networked Macs on my school network. Better yet, I got the afpfs module working so I can now mount Mac volumes on my

Re: [[expert] HP UX compatibility...]

2001-02-23 Thread george . jones
BAH! Jim Gallagher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@linux-mandrake.com on 02/23/2001 04:23:37 PM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: Re: [[expert] HP UX compatibility...] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I was wondering, could a binary that

Re: [expert] NIS problems.

2001-02-23 Thread Andreas J. Guelzow
You can remap the uid's through NIS, but that seems to be really a big pain. It is much easier to ensure that the NIS users use a different uid range than the system accounts. On most systems system accounts use uids below 100 (and more recently below 500). On mandrake on the other hand it s

Re: [[expert] HP UX compatibility...]

2001-02-23 Thread Jim Gallagher
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I was wondering, could a binary that was created to be used on HP UX, be > installed and run under Linux? The reason I'm asking is that I'd like to > see if IE5 for HP-UX would work under LM7.2 > Maybe Linux on a PA-RISC box (http://parisc-linux.org/), but even that wo

Re: [expert] Samba Question

2001-02-23 Thread Ron Heron
First, ensure that smb and nmb are running (most likeley, they are): [root@heronet kernel]# ps aux|grep smb root 1122 0.0 0.4 2580 1188 ?S05:28 0:00 smbd -D root 2563 0.0 0.2 1312 524 pts/0S13:00 0:00 grep smb [root@heronet kernel]# ps aux|grep nmb root

Re: [expert] HP UX compatibility...

2001-02-23 Thread Robin Dunn
> I was wondering, could a binary that was created to be used on HP UX, be > installed and run under Linux? The reason I'm asking is that I'd like to > see if IE5 for HP-UX would work under LM7.2 > It's a totally different processor (PA-Risc) so you would have to find an emulator for not only t

Re: [expert] HP UX compatibility...

2001-02-23 Thread Arnoud.de.Jonge
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I was wondering, could a binary that was created to be used on HP UX, be > installed and run under Linux? The reason I'm asking is that I'd like to > see if IE5 for HP-UX would work under LM7.2 Nope, no chance!

Re: [expert] Samba Question

2001-02-23 Thread Joe Burks
About 7 times out of 10 I find the answer buried in a file somewhere in /var/log/samba. Try accessing the Mandrake box again and look for which file(s) change, then tail those files and see what they say. Samba is pretty good about telling you what happened if you know where it logs to. Als

Re: [expert] HP UX compatibility...

2001-02-23 Thread Ace Frehley
Unless you have a HP-UX emulator, not a chance. Unless someone else can verify? HP-UX is very processor specific and likes to run on HP hardware only. PA architecture to be specific. On Fri, 23 Feb 2001 12:11:43 -0500, you wrote: >I was wondering, could a binary that was created to be used on

Re: [expert] missing hd?

2001-02-23 Thread Tom Strickland
On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 09:51:27AM -0800, Ron Heron wrote: > Try #fdisk -l /dev/hdd > This should paint a good picture for you of what the problem is. #fdisk -l /dev/hdd -> gives no response (just a new cmd prompt) #fdisk /dev/hdd gives: Unable to open /dev/hdd > --- Tom Strickland <[EMAIL PROT

Re: [expert] Samba Question

2001-02-23 Thread Jack Malone
At 10:28 AM 2/23/2001 -0800, Ira M. Bargon III wrote: >I am using Mandrake 7.2. I just configured samba, and on any of my windows >clients i can now see the server, but when i double click on it, windows >gives me an error sayinga that "windows can not find the computer or share >name". I know

[expert] HP UX compatibility...

2001-02-23 Thread george . jones
I was wondering, could a binary that was created to be used on HP UX, be installed and run under Linux? The reason I'm asking is that I'd like to see if IE5 for HP-UX would work under LM7.2

[expert] USB Zip on LM72 -- Please help

2001-02-23 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear friends: I have just installed a new Iomega USB Zip 100 on my dual-boot Linux/Win98. I have installed the Iomega software in Windows and connected the hardware and the Iomega USB Zip works perfectly in Windows. Now, the question is how to configure it in Linux. How, may I ask, should I conf

Re: [expert] tjk: qmail?

2001-02-23 Thread Joe Burks
Probably not what most people wanted to hear, but... I spent the better part of one evening trying to get qmail 1.03 working on LM 7.2 with no luck. Qmail tends to be particularly difficult to install, which is almost certainly the reason it isn't more widely accepted. I've installed qmail m

[expert] Samba Question

2001-02-23 Thread Ira M. Bargon III
I am using Mandrake 7.2. I just configured samba, and on any of my windows clients i can now see the server, but when i double click on it, windows gives me an error sayinga that "windows can not find the computer or share name". I know i havent really gave that much information, but does anyon

Re: [expert] mandrake 8 iso

2001-02-23 Thread Daniel B. Haun
Subject: Re: [expert] mandrake 8 iso Hey, that helped... Thanks muchly, I'm not getting error messages at startup about not "delaying eth0", now, etc etc...And I tried lsmod and it shows that 8139too is loaded. But, I still can't connect to anything, and I'm getting, httpd won't start when

Re: [expert] Orinoco WaveLan solved

2001-02-23 Thread Jason Straight
all one has to do to get the wavelan card working with mandrake 7.2 is to add eth=1 to the opts in /etc/pcmcia/config.opts. The problem is that setting up networking with linuxconf or draknet associates the device eth0 with wvaln_cs in /etc/modules.conf when wvlan_cs actually brings up the dev

[expert] HP UX compatibility... Correction!

2001-02-23 Thread george . jones
I stand corrected by MS. Can Linux users run Solaris apps? IE5 is available for Solaris. -- Forwarded by George Jones/US/ABNAMRO/NL on 02/23/2001 12:09 PM --- George Jones 02/23/2001 12:11 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: HP UX compatibility..

[expert] mandrake 8 and a kde prob

2001-02-23 Thread Klar Brian D Contr MSG SICN
I have installed Mandrake 8.0 pre beta, and have the problem that konqueror will not keep the setting for user agent. I add * and set the announce as, and add. It shows in the lower pane but upon reopening Control Center, it is gone. Any ideas here ?? Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB (937) 656-2861

[expert] Script to correct kde2.1 control center problem

2001-02-23 Thread Praedor Tempus
I give up. I am writing a script to take care of this pain in the ass each time I login. The script will do: rm -rf $HOME/.kde/share/applnk/p* & cp -Rf /usr/share/kde/applnk/* $HOME/.kde/share/applnk & kbuildsycoca & I have to do this because nothing I do with kde will fix this problem. EVER

Re: [expert] missing hd?

2001-02-23 Thread Tom Strickland
On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 03:07:32PM +, Arnoud de Jonge wrote: > > Noticing that I only have 54 megs left on my / partition, I decided to > > slot in a second hard drive on hdd and partition it up for /tmp /var > > and a second swap. I created new mount points: /tmp2 /var2 and > > formatted the

[expert] Konqueror Fixed

2001-02-23 Thread Ken THompson
Thanks to Preador, S and Gerald I got the durn thang working.. Overall KDE 2.1 seems much nicer than the earlier versons, keep it up K team.. -- Ken Thompson Electrocom Computer Services Payette, Idaho 83661 (208) 642-11701 Web: http://www.nwaa.com Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[expert] missing hd?

2001-02-23 Thread Tom Strickland
Noticing that I only have 54 megs left on my / partition, I decided to slot in a second hard drive on hdd and partition it up for /tmp /var and a second swap. I created new mount points: /tmp2 /var2 and formatted the hard drive using diskdrake. Problem: I accidentally left one of the drive's old p

Re: [expert] Kmail won't open an URL

2001-02-23 Thread Praedor Tempus
You aren't looking for something specific to kmail. You are changing a setting specific to web pages (htm, html, etc) which is the important part. On the first page of the File browsing setup page, go to text and then to html. On the first page, lower portion is a big window which contains,

RE: [expert] mandrake 8.0b and cdrw

2001-02-23 Thread Klar Brian D Contr MSG SICN
I will try the zip drive removal this weekend. If that is no good, I am thinking it is somehow related that the zip and cdrw are on different ide channels and the the scsi card isn't allowing secondary channel to be seen for some reason. Perhaps a quirk in 8.0 Thanks, Brian -Original Messa

Re: [expert] gui login panel

2001-02-23 Thread Collins Richey
On Thursday 22 February 2001 07:25, Jerry wrote: > /etc/X11/wmsession.d > > You should see files in there 01kde, 02gnome and so on, if you open one of > them up you can see the syntax of the file and follow it ad other entries. > You will need to do a complete restart of X and the window manager t

Re: [expert] Offtopic, sortof?: Apple Macs and networking

2001-02-23 Thread J . A . Magallon
On 02.22 Praedor Tempus wrote: > > I am connecting my laptop into my work/university network which is dominated > by windoze and some unices. There are a scattering of Macs around, including > those in the lab I work in. I do not have a "name" for my computer - it is > whatever IP address I

Re: [expert] Offtopic, sortof?: Apple Macs and networking

2001-02-23 Thread J . A . Magallon
On 02.23 J . A . Magallon wrote: > > Then configure netatalk in the linux box to hang on the same AppleTalk > network. > Quoting to myself, there is a flag -zone "My zone" in /etc/atalk/atalkd.conf. -- J.A. Magallon $> cd pub mailto:[EMAIL

[expert] CUPS issue: what mean Device URI in the configuration procedure?

2001-02-23 Thread vmalep
Hello, I'm trying to configure a network printer with the web browser for cups. This printer is on the lpt1 port af an axis boxe, but I'm not sure about the parameters I've to put for the location, the Device and the URI. Can someone explain it to me? Thanks and have a good day, Pierre ***

RE: [expert] webmin

2001-02-23 Thread Franki
Ouch,, unless there is a config file you can add it to,, I would remove and reinstall it.. since there is a newer version on mandrake update anyway, it might be a good time to try it... Frank Hauptle / / _ ---/ / (_)__ __ __ --/ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / -//_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_

Re: [expert] mbr

2001-02-23 Thread lem
hey ira, you can just issue /sbin/lilo -v to restore lilo and its boot loader program. ---lem