[expert-it] SAMBA !!!

2001-09-04 Thread Giuseppe Distefano
Salve Vorrei sapere come si configura una rete con Samba. Ho 5 Pc tutti con Linux Mandrake e vorrei metterli in rete, utilizzando Samba. I 5 Pc dovranno anche vedere una rete Windows NT. Grazie Anticipatamente Giuseppe Distefano [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[expert] NEW LOGO for MDK ?, i just made one, have look :-)

2001-09-04 Thread Syed Irfan
hello all i was just read mandrakeforum.org the discussion of the mandrake logo was going on, i just thought that i would do some thing about it , i have attached the jpg, any comments let me know. btw if any one wants the gimp .xcf files i shall send it to them, hope u like this one thanks

Re: [expert] Re: [newbie] Ximian Gnome

2001-09-04 Thread Gregor Maier
I just wanted to say that I use quite old machines with gnome and its pretty fast. I use gnome on a PII-350 with 128MB and on a P166, also with 128MB. And I never had serious problems with speed. Maybe it would help to turn off some gimmicks (like animated menus, opaque window moving. color

[expert] Rescue an Install?

2001-09-04 Thread Dennis Myhand
Howdy All: Can someone point me in the direction of the docs which tell how to get into a Linux-Mandrake 8 install after someone has wiped out the boot-loader? I have a disk which has had fdisk /mbr applied to it and I would like to access the install again and run LILO so I can get back to

Re: [expert] Rescue an Install?

2001-09-04 Thread Admin
in my experience, I've had a terrible time...doing what you want...UNLESS, I do a complete install, not a rescue, or a upgradeSORRY. However, you don't have to lose your other partitions, (home,usr,var,...etc) if you do the following Depending on how you've partitioned your linux...all

Re: [expert] NEW LOGO for MDK ?, i just made one, have look :-)

2001-09-04 Thread Admin
first of all...the logo needs to have at least the colors of Linux... yours looks like it would go with RedHat...cause its red...sorry., also, I would try to add a penguin somewhere. Syed Irfan wrote: hello all i was just read mandrakeforum.org the discussion of the mandrake logo was going

Re: [expert] Re: [newbie] Ximian Gnome

2001-09-04 Thread Dave Sherman
On 03 Sep 2001 23:19:57 -0400, Mark Weaver wrote: Sorry about that... sheepish grin didn't mean to rant. Its just that I saw some really nice things in Gnome/sawfish, but got frustrated because it bogged down the machine the way it did. It makes me wonder what in the world they're

[expert] X spinning down...

2001-09-04 Thread Leonardo T. de Carvalho
Hi all. I'm having a intermitent problem here... Sometimes, during the work, my X server refuses to give me credits to use my Display!!! I try to open a browser, a terminal, something, and it didn't open... When trying to open from a terminal I got this

Re: [expert] Rescue an Install?

2001-09-04 Thread Bruno Damour
Dennis, If I remember right this is what I did : - boot on the first install CD - strike F1 and then type 'rescue' at the boot prompt - mount your old main / partition (/dev/hdx) on /mnt/disk - run lilo chrooted : $ chroot /mnt/disk/ /sbin/lilo - reboot and you should get lilo

Re: [expert] Fast KDE

2001-09-04 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday 04 September 2001 12:21 am, Ron Johnson escribió: Object Pre-linking speeds up KDE startup from 2.5 minutes to mere seconds? That's how long it takes my KDE to load with AA turned on. The claim is 30 to 50% faster. In my experience with objprelink'g, 50% is conservative, it's

RE: [expert] Fast KDE

2001-09-04 Thread FLYNN, Steve
This might be a silly question but how do I actually perform this pre-linking act. I've only just upgraded to MDK 8.0 from 6.5 so I've never had this problem before, but I have noticed a considerable difference in KDE startup time since performing the re-install... Steve Flynn NOP Data Migration

Re: [expert] Fast KDE

2001-09-04 Thread Olaf Marzocchi
At 17.33 04/09/01, you wrote: On Tuesday 04 September 2001 12:21 am, Ron Johnson escribió: Object Pre-linking speeds up KDE startup from 2.5 minutes to mere seconds? That's how long it takes my KDE to load with AA turned on. The claim is 30 to 50% faster. In my experience with

Re: [expert] ide cd burner

2001-09-04 Thread Arthur H. Johnson II
If your device for the CDRW is, say, hdc, then add the following to your append line in /etc/lilo.conf: ide-scsi=hdc Reboot, then run cdrecord -scanbus to see if it sees your burner. Arthur H. Johnson II [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Linux Box http://www.linuxbox.nu On Sat, 1 Sep 2001 [EMAIL

Re: [expert] Fast KDE

2001-09-04 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday 04 September 2001 11:40 am, FLYNN, Steve escribió: This might be a silly question but how do I actually perform this pre-linking act. I've only just upgraded to MDK 8.0 from 6.5 so I've never had this problem before, but I have noticed a considerable difference in KDE startup time

Re: [expert] ide cd burner

2001-09-04 Thread Hoyt
On Tuesday 04 September 2001 11:56 am, Arthur H. Johnson II methodically organized electrons to state: If your device for the CDRW is, say, hdc, then add the following to your append line in /etc/lilo.conf: ide-scsi=hdc Reboot, then run cdrecord -scanbus to see if it sees your burner. I

Re: [expert] Novel Support

2001-09-04 Thread M. Osten
Does anyone know how to connect to a printer on a Novel 3.12 Server? Does anyone know of a good 'HOW-TO' for setting up a Linux box so that it looks and acts like a novel server ? Do a google search for mars nwe. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [expert] Fast KDE

2001-09-04 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 04 September 2001 10:40 am, Olaf Marzocchi wrote: At 17.33 04/09/01, you wrote: On Tuesday 04 September 2001 12:21 am, Ron Johnson escribió: [snip] My Linux takes more time to load than my W98. More than 2'. Do you have anti-aliased

Re: [expert] ide cd burner

2001-09-04 Thread jipe
Hoyt wrote: On Tuesday 04 September 2001 11:56 am, Arthur H. Johnson II methodically organized electrons to state: If your device for the CDRW is, say, hdc, then add the following to your append line in /etc/lilo.conf: ide-scsi=hdc Reboot, then run cdrecord -scanbus to see if it sees your

Re: [expert] Rescue an Install?

2001-09-04 Thread Alexander Skwar
So sprach »Hoyt« am 2001-09-04 um 11:00:46 -0400 : - run lilo chrooted : $ chroot /mnt/disk/ /sbin/lilo - reboot and you should get lilo menu Won't /sbin/lilo -r /mnt/disk do the same thing? Not quite. In your example, you start lilo from the real root and have it

Re: [expert] ide cd burner

2001-09-04 Thread Arthur H. Johnson II
Sorry, your right. I always get that backwards! On Tue, 4 Sep 2001, jipe wrote: Hoyt wrote: On Tuesday 04 September 2001 11:56 am, Arthur H. Johnson II methodically organized electrons to state: If your device for the CDRW is, say, hdc, then add the following to your append line in

[expert] Ext3: journaling metadata or the file contents?

2001-09-04 Thread Oscar
Hi, I have read this from Rajesh Fowkar: - 1. Most journaling fs's currently journal only the metadata (information about inode allocation and so on -- internal structural information about the state of the filesystem), but do NOT actually journal the contents of files. This means that

I'M VERY SORRY : Re: [expert] PBs with LVM over software RAID ( and XFS ? ext2 reiserfs?) I need a BIG advice

2001-09-04 Thread svetljo
SORRY SORRY SORRY well it was a mistake , my and [EMAIL PROTECTED] i've posted the message to all the lists i mean expert and newbie in english, french and italian whithout subscribing from my e-mail so after a time i became e-mails from sympa whether to post my e-mails to the lists and i

[expert] Supermount is back, sort'a?

2001-09-04 Thread Tom Brinkman
Supermount is back as of 2.4.8-18mdk cooker kernel. BUT, I had to edit fstab, and clean (shorten) up my cdrom line to /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount fs=iso9660,ro,dev=/dev/cdrom 0 0 and then supermount only works from the console. Accessing a CD from Konqueror freezes the system so

[expert] Where is /usr/X11/bin added to PATH?

2001-09-04 Thread Joe Smith
A recent upgrade broke remote VNC access on our lab server because the user's PATH no longer includes /usr/X11/bin: xauth is not found and vncserver fails. Users logged in through xdm get /usr/X11/bin added to their PATH, but remote logins do not. Is this the way things are supposed to

Re: [expert] Where is /usr/X11/bin added to PATH?

2001-09-04 Thread Arthur H. Johnson II
If it made you feel better, a good place is /etc/bashrc. You could also create a profile script in /etc/profile.d as well. On Tue, 4 Sep 2001, Joe Smith wrote: A recent upgrade broke remote VNC access on our lab server because the user's PATH no longer includes /usr/X11/bin: xauth is not

Re: [expert] Rescue an Install?

2001-09-04 Thread Arthur H. Johnson II
If you have a boot partition make sure you mount that before running lilo. On Tue, 4 Sep 2001, Alexander Skwar wrote: So sprach »Hoyt« am 2001-09-04 um 11:00:46 -0400 : - run lilo chrooted : $ chroot /mnt/disk/ /sbin/lilo - reboot and you should get lilo menu Won't

[expert] Sis 5595 sensors.

2001-09-04 Thread Arthur H. Johnson II
Has anyone gotten these sensors to work? It is in fact the chipset I have for my hardware sensors, but it will not load the driver. -- Arthur H. Johnson II [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Linux Box http://www.linuxbox.nu Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

RE: [expert] Ext3: journaling metadata or the file contents?

2001-09-04 Thread Franki
I won't comment on the differing methods, but from every test I have seen comparing reiserfs and ext3, overall reiserfs kills the performance of ext3 by a largish margin... I have also had heaps of powerouts, (the downside of having offices in a 18 story building with construction going on all

Re: [expert] X spinning down...

2001-09-04 Thread J. Craig Woods
Leonardo T. de Carvalho wrote: Hi all. I'm having a intermitent problem here... Sometimes, during the work, my X server refuses to give me credits to use my Display!!! I try to open a browser, a terminal, something, and it didn't open... When

Re: [expert] X spinning down...

2001-09-04 Thread Leonardo T. de Carvalho
J. Craig Woods wrote: New Mandrake security does not authorize the localhost to connect to the X-server, at least it seems new. Uh? Really? If the localhost can't connect to the X-server, how the user would open a program with a X interface?!?!? You can get around this by

[expert] test, don't open

2001-09-04 Thread falcaraz
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Re: [expert] NEW LOGO for MDK ?, i just made one, have look :-)

2001-09-04 Thread mike
Yeah, this may sound silly, I can run anything I want - I don't need training wheels; I like MDK for the logo (SuSE has a cute mascot, but it wants to be too controlling). On Tuesday 04 September 2001 07:44, Admin wrote: first of all...the logo needs to have at least the colors of Linux...

Re: [expert] Rescue an Install?

2001-09-04 Thread Miaoling Chiu
You can save yourself a great deal of trouble (now and in the future) if you learn how to boot with grub rather than lilo. If you make a grub boot floppy, you can rescue your system and then either install grub to the hard drive (recommended) or resurrect lilo. Learning how to use grub the first

[expert] How to get pptp-client working?

2001-09-04 Thread Lars Nordin
I'm trying to use the pptp-client-1.0.2-5mdk package to connect to a MS VPN server but I don't think I'm calling the program correctly. The documentation says: pptp my.pptp.host debug name cananian remotename ntdialup \ 172.18.0.2:172.18.0.3 In my case the remote IPs are dynamic - given out

Re: [expert] How knows log ....

2001-09-04 Thread Arthur H. Johnson II
Looks like you've been attacked, but your kernel is turning them away. Basically somebody is giggling your doorknob, but the deadbolt is locked. What firewall software are you running? ipchains or iptables? On Tue, 4 Sep 2001, [iso-8859-1] Eduardo P. Román O. wrote: This appear a lot of time

Re: [expert] How knows log ....

2001-09-04 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 04 September 2001 09:48 pm, Eduardo P. Román O. wrote: This appear a lot of time in my log; Sep 2 02:35:32 myhost kernel: Packet log: input DENY eth1 PROTO=17 XX.XX.XX.XX:50255 YY.YY.YY.YY:53 L=72 S=0x00 I=31582 F=0x4000 T=64 (#1)

Re: [expert] How knows log ....

2001-09-04 Thread Dr John
Eduardo P. Román O. wrote: This appear a lot of time in my log; Sep 2 02:35:32 myhost kernel: Packet log: input DENY eth1 PROTO=17 XX.XX.XX.XX:50255 YY.YY.YY.YY:53 L=72 S=0x00 I=31582 F=0x4000 T=64 (#1) where XX.XX.XX.XX is an know IP and YY.YY.YY.YY is my hosts IP. How know what

Re: [expert] wuftp server is unresponsive

2001-09-04 Thread George Petri
On Tuesday 04 September 2001 09:46, M. Osten wrote: Has anyone experienced this before?: [root@tux350 /root]# ftp localhost Connected to localhost.localdomain. Then, 1 and a half minutes later (this delay is consistent): 220 tux350.reisersun FTP server (Version wu-2.6.1(1) Tue Oct

RE: [expert] Novel Support

2001-09-04 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
And I thought I was terse! ;-) -JMS [EMAIL PROTECTED] |-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of M. Osten |Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2001 12:34 PM |To: Dalton Calford |Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: Re: [expert] Novel Support | | | |

[expert] problem going from beta1 to beta2

2001-09-04 Thread Al Niessner
Problems updating from beta1 to to beta2. 1) Choose update option 2) CD spins and RPM database is searched 3) Finds 80 MBytes of packages to update (smaller than I thought) 4) Asks about CUPS server being only server but openssh is also running 5) Error dialog pops up and enters infinite loop.

[expert] How knows log ....

2001-09-04 Thread Eduardo P. Román O.
This appear a lot of time in my log; Sep 2 02:35:32myhost kernel: Packet log: input DENY eth1 PROTO=17 XX.XX.XX.XX:50255 YY.YY.YY.YY:53 L=72 S=0x00 I=31582 F=0x4000 T=64 (#1) where XX.XX.XX.XX is an know IP and YY.YY.YY.YY is my hosts IP. How know what happenend