Ri:Re: [expert-it] SAMBA !!

2001-10-02 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Giuseppe Distefano wrote: Ciao A tutti Ho il seguente problema: Ho installato e configurato *Samba* , e non riesco ad entrare nelle directory condivise di *Windows NT 4.0.* Viceversa lavoro benissimo con Win 98, dove riesco ad entrare e copiare i miei file. Vedo tutti i

RE: [expert] Port forwarding with ipchains?

2001-10-02 Thread Franki
yes, I believe it can, I have not moved over to iptables yet, but I believe that there is a FORWARD flag that can do what you want... ipchains can do it as well, but it was experimental last time I checked and now that iptables around, its not likely to get stable... I will be moving to 8.1 and

[expert] 2 questions: urpmi, and gnome problems

2001-10-02 Thread Haim Ashkenazi
Hi well, after a few days of running 8.1 (as desktop, I still have to test it as a server) I must say I'm VERY(!!!) impressed. I didn't like 8.0 (actually this release made me move my servers to debian - it was really unstable and a lot of things didn't work or worked badly). (btw, I DON'T want

[expert] Configuration of login window

2001-10-02 Thread Laurent Duperval
Hi, One of my colleagues asked me how to bring back the @Shutdown@ button in the initial login window. Hes says he used to have it there but then a few weeks ago it disappeared and he's not sure how it happened nor how to bring it back. I must admit that I don't either... L -- Laurent

[expert] C++ for newbies...

2001-10-02 Thread Franki
Hi all, I want to start playing with C++, I have written a good many perl scripts and I think its time to tackle a compiled language, something to cater to speed requirements... I arrived at C++ or JAVA, so I rushed out and got books on both,, Java in a Nutshell, and Sams Teach yourself C++ in

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2001-10-02 Thread Adrian Lynch
I'm in roughly the same position, except for the fact that I'm coming from a web background, html, small bit of JavaScript, even smaller bit of ColdFusion. I've started down the road that is C++ and Java. I use DJGPP for C++ on Windows, and Sun's JDK for Java, both on Windows. I have very little

RE:[expert]C++ for newbies...

2001-10-02 Thread Adrian Lynch
I'm in roughly the same position, except for the fact that I'm coming from a web background, html, small bit of JavaScript, even smaller bit of ColdFusion. I've started down the road that is C++ and Java. I use DJGPP for C++ on Windows, and Sun's JDK for Java, both on Windows. I have very little

[expert] Re: [expert] How to install Mandrake81 3 iso files £¿

2001-10-02 Thread Niklas Herder
Nope, not true. There is a hd.img file in the images directory that is supposed to be able to install from an iso file on the hd, but it fails to do so. /N - Original Message - From: Michael D. Viron [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2001 6:12 PM

[expert] LM8.1 woes...

2001-10-02 Thread Pierre Fortin
Between loads of work, marital changes, more travel, etc., I haven't had time to participate in Cooker... now, I'm regretting not being involved; but I doubt I would have done much Cooker on this particular system... Where to start...? System: ASUS/PII/400MHz, G200, SB PCI128, 3c509 3C59X

RE: [expert]C++ for newbies...

2001-10-02 Thread Franki
thanks, I had already installed djgpp, it came with the sams 24hour book... Altough linux programming is my final goal, I want to start with windows, think it might be easier... Hell, I'd use Visual C++ if I though M$ hadn't changed it away from the standard that much.. So it looks like

Re: [expert] C++ for newbies...

2001-10-02 Thread Guy McArthur
Hi Franki. Does your book mention anything about the Standard C++ Library? It's a cross-platform standard for i/o routines and abstract data types. Many compilers have support for it now, including gcc on linux. Here is a short example: http://guymcarthur.com/resources/code/c++/guess/ As you

Re: [expert]

2001-10-02 Thread Guy McArthur
There are some good free resources for learning java on the web: Thinking In Java, in Html, Word and PDF: http://www.mindview.net/Books/TIJ/ The Java Tutorial http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/ If you're coming from C/C++ I'd recommend getting Java In A Nutshell by David Flanagan,

[expert] whats software update really called?

2001-10-02 Thread Franki
Hi all, I want to be able to ssh -X into my servers and start software manager, but I don't know the name of software update,, I know its not rpmdrake as that is the package manager, I want to start the gui software updater... its linked to grpmi but that doesn't really help me run it from an

RE: [expert] programmin n stuff..

2001-10-02 Thread Franki
I already have Java in a nutshell, and Sams Teach yourself C++ in 24 hours, (which seems to be a very readable book, although it doesn't seem to fill all the blanks in at the start.. The Java in a nutshell is a more down and dirty Java book, I have only dabbled in Java so I am concentraiting on

Re: [expert] quake3 and mandrake 8.0 / 8.1

2001-10-02 Thread Joerg Mertin
Hi Folks, well did a fresh install of Mandrake 8.1 (Last verision, downloaded the ISO.) and Quake3/Team Arena etc. and it doesn't work. Might be due to the Kernel. Using 2.4.10 because I wanted to have the improved SB_5.1 Live sound drivers running. Quake always crashes bla - Signal 11 when

RE: [expert] programmin n stuff..

2001-10-02 Thread Franki
thankyou mam :-), That brings up another question I have been meaning to ask,,, mod_perl, I have it runing, how do I use it ??? I have lots of scripts in my cgi-bin, what do I have to do to get the full advantage of mod_perl?? I know there is a perl directory in /var/www do I put my scripts in

RE: [expert] programmin n stuff..

2001-10-02 Thread Guy McArthur
yes, there is a rudimentary compiler for Perl. BUT Perl is written in C, and it's input/output routines etc are already highly optimized. And typically the bottleneck is not the CPU, it's the i/o or talking to a database, etc, so compiling isn't going to make a great deal of difference. Where

Re: [expert] C++ for newbies...

2001-10-02 Thread ddcharles
Hi, You know the @INC perl var, that has all the dirs that should be looked into for packages (for use, etc.)? well, the #include iostream.h line in your script (I am assuming there is such a line) is kind of like a use CGI; line would be in a perl script, and just as perl searches the @INC for

[expert] [DISK QUOTAS]

2001-10-02 Thread Julio Rodriguez
Hi, recently i installed the disks quotas for the users of my mail server, but there is a problem that I can't figure out: When a person write an e-mail for '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' (where domain have the disk quotas) and the user 'someone' have no space left, the MTA sends back a mail

[expert] all-white tux?

2001-10-02 Thread Mike Tracy Holt
Hey~ I'm playing with tuxracer and I've picked it up off of one of the lists but now can't seem to find it; what do you change in the options file for tuxracer to bring back his skin color? Right now it's all-white. tia, Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

[expert] StarOffice Base

2001-10-02 Thread Norman
Hi, I usually use Star Office and have version 5.2 on my Linux-Mandrake 8 PC I recently read that StarOffice Base is available and that it can handle MS Access database files. I have downloaded a .bin file, changed the permissions and then run it as root. I cannot figure out what I am

Re: [expert] StarOffice Base

2001-10-02 Thread Dave Sherman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 02 October 2001 09:51 pm, Norman wrote: Hi, I usually use Star Office and have version 5.2 on my Linux-Mandrake 8 PC I recently read that StarOffice Base is available and that it can handle MS Access database files. I have

Re: [expert] StarOffice Base

2001-10-02 Thread Praedor
It has been awhile...but, if you installed StarOffice as root and without the /net switch, only root will be able to use it. In /usr/local there should be a StarOffice directory. Within this directory, there should be a program directory. In program, there should be a binary called soffice.

[expert] Hdparm with ext3

2001-10-02 Thread M. Khawar Zia
hey, I wanted to know if anyone out there had optimised LM8.1/ext3 with hdparm? If so where there any noticable corruption or stability issues? Is it safe to opitimised using hdparm? I have used hdparm before but it was with ext2. I am not sure if the results will be the same. Any suggestion

[expert] kernel-source rpm problems

2001-10-02 Thread Chuck Lalli
I have upgraded to kernel 2.4.8-26 and am trying now to install the kernel-source rpm (2.4.8.26). I got the following message: ncurses-devel is needed by kernel-source-2.4.8-26mdk 8.1 rc1 had installed ncurses5.2-16. the only ncurses-devel package I could find was 5.2-12 fromrpmfind.net.

[expert] Best FS to use for / ?

2001-10-02 Thread David Guntner
Judging from the review I read from Tom in the Mandrake Forum, it looks like ReiserFS is the best one to use for my needs (looks like it offers the best speed and lowest CPU utilization over-all, unless I'm completely missing something). I always mount a seperate /boot partition as the first

RE: [expert] Sendmail or Postfix config help

2001-10-02 Thread Franki
well, if you are using postfix, go to /etc/postfix and edit main.cf that file is very heavily commented, so just reading it is usually enough to understand what you need to do.. also, postfix.org has links to heaps of pages, lists of error messages with explanations on how to fix them, and lots

RE: [expert] Best FS to use for / ?

2001-10-02 Thread Franki
I don't know about ext3, but I have used reiserfs as / for ages with no problem and fast speed so I dont think you will have any problems doing that at all... I make /boot ext2 (its so small that it doesn't matter as fsck will run in about 2 seconds if there is a problem (I ought to know I

[expert] U.S. Robotics PCI controler-based faxmdem

2001-10-02 Thread Michael McLay
I bought a U.S. Robotics 56K FaxModem model 5610. It uses the PCI bus, but it is not a WinModem. The modem works fine with Redhat 7.1, but when I installed Mandrake 8.1 the HardDrake software detected the modem at configuration time and exited because it claimed the modem was a WinModem. I

RE: [expert] Best FS to use for / ?

2001-10-02 Thread Kevin Krieser
For all practical purposes, ext2 is probably the best filesystem for /boot. 99% of the time, you aren't even going to be writing to /boot, or for that matter even reading from it except when booting. So the benefits of a journalling filesystem isn't really needed. As for /, my feeling is that

Re: [expert] kernel-source rpm problems

2001-10-02 Thread J. C. Woods
Chuck Lalli wrote: I have upgraded to kernel 2.4.8-26 and am trying now to install the kernel-source rpm (2.4.8.26). I got the following message: ncurses-devel is needed by kernel-source-2.4.8-26mdk 8.1 rc1 had installed ncurses5.2-16. the only ncurses-devel package I could find was

RE: [expert] 8.1 final

2001-10-02 Thread Rivera, Oscar
Hi, I got the same error message but with cd 3. I tried several times and got the same error. I will try with a new downloaded cd. -Oscar -Original Message- From: lhon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2001 6:29 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] 8.1

RE: [expert] U.S. Robotics PCI controler-based faxmdem

2001-10-02 Thread Franki
Well, this is outside my area of knowledge... but here is what I would do... look in /etc/modules.conf on the RH7.1 boot to see what modules are getting loaded for the modem,, then boot mandrake, disable harddrake and match the modules config... (you may need to search the net for a driver,

Re: [expert] U.S. Robotics PCI controler-based faxmdem

2001-10-02 Thread s
On Tuesday 02 October 2001 08:23 pm, Michael McLay wrote: I bought a U.S. Robotics 56K FaxModem model 5610. It uses the PCI bus, but it is not a WinModem. The modem works fine with Redhat 7.1, but when I installed Mandrake 8.1 the HardDrake software detected the modem at configuration time

Re: [expert] U.S. Robotics PCI controler-based faxmdem

2001-10-02 Thread Joseph Braddock
As root (or su) open a terminal window and run modemconf and tell it to search for you modem. It may find it. On Tuesday 02 October 2001 08:23 pm, you wrote: I bought a U.S. Robotics 56K FaxModem model 5610. It uses the PCI bus, but it is not a WinModem. The modem works fine with Redhat

Re: [expert] 8.1 final

2001-10-02 Thread David Rankin
Are you guys checking the md5sums on the iso's? I had to download the .inst iso image twice before I got a good copy. (2 hours wasted) What was really weird is after my first download was complete, the file size in bytes was exactly what it should have been, but when I checked the

Re: [expert] Configuration of login window

2001-10-02 Thread Andreas J. Guelzow
Which login window? kdm, gdm or xdm? If you describe how it looks like we can probably figur it out. Andreas Laurent Duperval wrote: Hi, One of my colleagues asked me how to bring back the @Shutdown@ button in the initial login window. Hes says he used to have it there but then a few

Re: [expert] 8.1 final

2001-10-02 Thread Texstar
I had the same problems with my install and what worked for me was to set the bios to boot to cd-rom then turn my computer all the way off and do a cold boot. The installer seems to get hung when trying to go to the 2nd or 3rd cd if you do a warm boot reset after setting your bios. On

[expert] Re: Sendmail or Postfix config help

2001-10-02 Thread Miaoling Chiu
Re: Sendmail or Postfix config help Dear Theo, Linux Journal had an excellent article on setting up Postfix in their October 2000 issue. The article is available online. Go to their website (linuxjournal.com) and use their search engine to find this article: Using Postfix for Secure SMTP

[expert] Fun with printer drivers...

2001-10-02 Thread David Guntner
Ok, I've installed 8.1. During setup, I tried to get my printer configured (a Lexamark 7200), but for some reason, I couldn't get it to actually send the test page across the network to my Win98 machine where the printer is connected. I opted to leave a printer undefined at the time and to

Re: [expert] U.S. Robotics PCI controler-based faxmdem

2001-10-02 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Michael McLay wrote: I bought a U.S. Robotics 56K FaxModem model 5610. It uses the PCI bus, but it is not a WinModem. The modem works fine with Redhat 7.1, but when I installed Mandrake 8.1 the HardDrake software detected the modem at configuration time and exited because it claimed the