Re: [expert] closing ports

2001-09-24 Thread Gregor Maier
This depends on your server. If the server tries to get the portnumber on which to listen from the services file (get_servbyname) then this would work. But NOT if the the server has a numeric port number in its config (like apache). On 21-Sep-2001 James Sparenberg wrote: All, Coming from

[expert] Cooker questions.

2001-09-24 Thread Christian Dysthe
Hi, I know that Cooker is not expected to be prerfect, but I would still like to know why to following is happening: When I reboot Cooker my laptop if forced to do a memory check when booting up again. Normally a memory check is not done unless set in bios to be performed. I do also get

Re: [expert] parport revisited

2001-09-24 Thread James Sparenberg
Ashley, Ran into a simular problem with a Libretto30. How I got around the problem was by removing the harddrive from the laptop and then using an adaptar I bought that adapts a laptop ide drive to a standard pc ide. I then used my PC to install Linux (making sure I asked for pcmcia support)

[expert] internet connection in 8.1

2001-09-24 Thread Dennis Robertson
Hello List, I am hesitant to ask but, why can't I connect to the internet in 8.1 betas or RC1 using the same kppp setup as in 8.0? When I dial up using kppp I seem to log on to network but that's it, I can go no further. In control centre internet connection says not connected while all my

Re: [expert] Connection Ambiguity With SMB

2001-09-24 Thread Dave Sherman
On Mon, 2001-09-24 at 09:49, Daryl Johnson wrote: I'm puzzled over the way my n/w is behaving atm. I have samba running on my linux box (natch) and NT4 on my laptop. This has been ok in the past. So up until now, all you've done was access a share on the NT4 box? Did you have a share on

RE: [expert] Modem question

2001-09-24 Thread George Jones (IT)
Title: RE: [expert] Modem question Does it absolutely have to be PCI? External modems work far better. George E. Jones IV Store Systems Support Borders Group Inc. -Original Message- From: Dan Axtell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, September 24, 2001 10:31 AM To: [EMAIL

Re: [expert] Modem question

2001-09-24 Thread Randy Kramer
George Jones (IT) wrote: Does it absolutely have to be PCI? External modems work far better. George, Do you have some experience that says external modems work better? For what reason? In my experience, internal modems work very well (as long as they are not winmodems), and are sometimes

Re: [expert] Modem question

2001-09-24 Thread Felix Miata
Randy Kramer wrote: George Jones (IT) wrote: Does it absolutely have to be PCI? External modems work far better. Do you have some experience that says external modems work better? For what reason? In my experience, internal modems work very well (as long as they are not winmodems),

Re: [expert] Where have all the devices gone?

2001-09-24 Thread Al Niessner
Not correct. I did a 'supermount -i disable' and it butchered my fstab but did not create a '/dev/hdc' node nor did it improve my access to the cdrom and floppy drive. Any other suggestions? Al Niessner On Sun, 2001-09-23 at 15:28, civileme wrote: On Sunday 23 September 2001 23:06, Al

[expert] Accessing vfat partition

2001-09-24 Thread Joseph Braddock
I have my pc set to dual boot between Mandrake 8 and Windows 98. That all works fine. My problem is in accessing the vfat partition for Windows. I can open/edit/delete any files on the partition, but when I try to create one, I get an error about not being able to change the ownership of

[expert] Modem question

2001-09-24 Thread Kari Suomela
Monday September 24 2001 11:49, George Jones (IT) wrote to '[EMAIL PROTECTED]': GI Does it absolutely have to be PCI? External modems work far GI better. Since when? KS KARICO Business Services Toronto, ON Canada http://www.karico.ca Want to buy your Pack or Services

Re: [expert] Accessing vfat partition

2001-09-24 Thread Joseph Braddock
That helped some. By changing the group still caused the problem. But, if I change the ownership to my id, then it works like expected. This is only a partial solution, though, because my wife will still get the problem. Where it becomes a real pain is that Star Office hangs when trying to

RE: [expert] Modem question

2001-09-24 Thread George Jones (IT)
Title: RE: [expert] Modem question That has been addressed already. It was early and I didn't have my caffiene in me. I have since clarified my mistake. George E. Jones IV Store Systems Support Borders Group Inc. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: [expert] Accessing vfat partition

2001-09-24 Thread David Joham
If it worked for you, it should work for your group as well, shouldn't it? Set the default group to vfatusers Make you and your wife members of that group Does this work? What about setting the permissions to 777 in linuxconf? David -Original Message- From: Joseph Braddock

Re: [expert] Accessing vfat partition

2001-09-24 Thread Jones,Daniel E.
You are correct, VFAT does not have the concept of owner, so Linux provides one. If you don't specify differently, that will be root. (more likely, it will be whoever executed the mount command - which usually must be root.) However, the mount command can be passed parameters that will set

Re: [expert] Accessing vfat partition

2001-09-24 Thread Dave Sherman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 24 September 2001 02:38 pm, Jones,Daniel E. wrote: However, the mount command can be passed parameters that will set the GID and UID of a vfat-mounted partition. I don't recall the exact syntax - check man for mount. This is what is

[expert] Help with Apache virtual hosting

2001-09-24 Thread Dan Axtell
First, thanks to all those folks who answered my question about modems. I'm setting a small web/email server using LM 8.0 with virtual IP addresses for different domains. However, one site has to be in two languages, where one URI points to an English subdirectory, and the other URI points

Re: [expert] Hostility on the list

2001-09-24 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Monday 24 September 2001 02:33 pm, Ric Tibbetts escribió: I recently made the serious error of replying to a question (on this list), to a person seaking advice on a modem. I did make the mistake of recently switching my mail software, and I missed turning off HTML. I've corrected that.

Re: [expert] Accessing vfat partition

2001-09-24 Thread Joseph Braddock
Unless I set my id as the default user id, it doesn't work. I have a group set up and have made that group the default group, but it still errors out when trying to create a file, because it is trying to change the owner of the file to the user logged in and vfat won't allow it. In

[expert] Modem question

2001-09-24 Thread Dan Axtell
Hello all, I'm looking for an inexpensive, reliable PCI hardware modem that works with Linux. Most of what I see at computer shows are Winmodems. Does anyone have any recommendations? I'd appreciated it. Thanks, Dan Make a difference, help support the relief efforts in the U.S.

RE: [expert] Help with Apache virtual hosting

2001-09-24 Thread Richard Kuryk
Title: RE: [expert] Help with Apache virtual hosting When you type the url in the browser are you using spanish.org and english.org? I have the same setup and I don't have any problems. I have put my urls in my /etc/hosts file. Rich -Original Message- From: Dan Axtell

RE: [expert] Help with Apache virtual hosting

2001-09-24 Thread Dan Axtell
Bingo! I forgot to put the www in the ServerName directives; I was typing 'www.english.org' and 'www.spanish.org', which failed, but leaving out the 'www' works. Thanks! -- On Mon, 24 Sep 2001 17:19:18 Richard Kuryk wrote: When you type the url in the browser are you using spanish.org

Re: [expert] Help with Apache virtual hosting

2001-09-24 Thread Michael D. Viron
Dan, Try this: --- Begin Configuration Example --- NameVirtualHost 1.2.3.4 VirtualHost 1.2.3.4 User nobody Group nobody DocumentRoot /path/to/spanish ServerName spanish.org ServerAlias *.spanish.org ErrorLog /var/log/httpd/span_error_log /VirtualHost VirtualHost 1.2.3.4 User nobody Group

Re: [expert] Accessing vfat partition

2001-09-24 Thread Jones,Daniel E.
the umask=0,0,0 parameter is setting permissions to 777. Consequently anyone can create or edit the files. Errors would still be returned by applications that attempt to set the actual file owner. So you could a. just click through the warning b. modify the mount for each login. (won't work

Re: [expert] Accessing vfat partition

2001-09-24 Thread Joseph Braddock
Thanks for your help. Joe On Monday 24 September 2001 04:15 pm, you wrote: On Monday 24 September 2001 03:55 pm, Joseph Braddock wrote: I tried changing my /etc/fstab to exactly what you have below except I used win_c instead of windows. I still get the same problem. Are you sure

Re: [expert] Problems with 8.1 RC1, Anybody else?

2001-09-24 Thread ddcharles
Hi, Can you explain why it is a sure-fire problem, or point me to an article explaining it please? Thanks, David Charles When you are logged in and you right click on the desktop and select log off then select shutdown the system hangs on shutting down portmapper Are you trying to use

Re: [expert] Modem question

2001-09-24 Thread John Haywood
On Tue, 25 Sep 2001 02:09, you wrote: George Jones (IT) wrote:  Does it absolutely have to be PCI? External modems work far better. George, Do you have some experience that says external modems work better?  For what reason? In my experience, internal modems work very well (as long as

[expert] Info on IPTables [OT]

2001-09-24 Thread Sergio Korlowsky
After reading several messages of people concerned about security and stoping those nasty scans from nasty WORMS, I thought including this info would be welcomed. I Hope it helps! Sergio Korlowsky 10 MINUTES TO AN IPTABLES-BASED LINUX FIREWALL (Source: LinuxWorld.com) Worrying about the

Re: [expert] Accessing vfat partition

2001-09-24 Thread Joseph Braddock
To all of you who helped on the problem I was having access my Windows vfat partition. Thankyou. It turns out that I had a problem with the Star Office filter that saved in MS Word format. It was the only time it would lock up and not let me save a new document. I could create documents in

Re: [expert] LILO - Fatal Error (for a friend-rush please?)

2001-09-24 Thread ddcharles
Hi, This suggestion will NOT work if your Win2K is installed on an NTFS partition, as there IS NO fdisk in Win2K (and win95 floppy will NOT recognize NTFS drive); You will have to boot into rescue mode (by using the install floppies OR the rescue floppy set you made), and use fixmbr. HTH,

Re: [expert] Modem question

2001-09-24 Thread Galileo
Kari GI Does it absolutely have to be PCI? External modems work far Kari GI better. Kari Since when? If you have any knowledge in electronics yust do the foloing: Open up an external modem and look whats inside and then look at the pci modem. Everything will be clear to you. Also there is

Re: [expert] Modem question

2001-09-24 Thread Ric Tibbetts
I've always had good luck with USR (U.S. Robotics), sportsters, Zoom. Both are reasonable in cost, and never had a compatibility problem with them. Ric Dan Axtell wrote: Hello all, I'm looking for an inexpensive, reliable PCI hardware modem that works with Linux. Most of what