Re: [expert] adding scsi tape drive

2003-02-14 Thread g
g wrote: Michael Noble wrote: Sorry I forgot, I am using Mandrake 9.0 and Adaptec Ultra160 (29160). i am 'old to unix, new to linux', and not up on a solution to your problem. i should have added forgetful too. i just got in from a late night party and thought i would send you this before i

Re: [expert] adding scsi tape drive

2003-02-14 Thread et
On Thursday 13 February 2003 10:51 pm, g wrote: > Michael Noble wrote: > > I have just added a scsi card (adaptec) and a DDS4 4mm dat drive. > > How do I get Linux to know the tape drive is installed and talking > > to it? > > mike, > > please excuse delay in replying. isp and i are having growing

[expert] running applications remotely

2003-02-14 Thread Azrael
Hi all. I have a Mac running OS X, and also it has an X server on it. I want to know how I can run applications from my mandrake box on the Mac. thanks for any help :) -- Azrael ("\''/").___..--'''"-._ `0_ O ) `-. ( ).`-.__.`)

[expert] How to use/share cups printers with vmware3.2

2003-02-14 Thread W. Kasberg
I am using Mandrake 9.0 and vmware 3.2. On a virtual disk I have installed Win98 as guest system. Filesharing through vmware-smb works well. But I cannot use the cups printers. They are shown on my guest system but I cannot connect to them ( I am using a HP 6P on parallel port and 2 other HP prin

Re: [expert] running applications remotely

2003-02-14 Thread James Sparenberg
Easiest way I can think of is to use the vnc client for Mac and do it that way. James On Fri, 2003-02-14 at 05:38, Azrael wrote: > Hi all. > I have a Mac running OS X, and also it has an X server on it. > I want to know how I can run applications from my mandrake box on the > Mac. > > thanks fo

Re: [expert] running applications remotely

2003-02-14 Thread K Montgomery
If you have the X server running, you can telnet/ssh to your Mandrake machine, export the display with the following command (assumes you're using bash): export DISPLAY=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:0 (xxx... is the IP of your Mac) and just run commands from the Mandrake session, like "evolution". Sounds lik

Re: [expert] running applications remotely

2003-02-14 Thread Jack Coates
and to get the whole desktop, login with XDMCP -- scroll down to the end of http://www.monkeynoodle.org/comp/remote-x-cygwin-howto for details. On Fri, 2003-02-14 at 07:06, K Montgomery wrote: > If you have the X server running, you can telnet/ssh to your Mandrake > machine, export the display wit

Re: Fwd: [expert] Best Mandrake yet!!!

2003-02-14 Thread Lorne
On Thursday 13 February 2003 10:07 pm, Jack Coates wrote: > On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 20:58, Lorne wrote: > > On Thursday 13 February 2003 04:13 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: > > > > _ > > > >_ > > > > > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Se

[expert] TyanThunder Pro-CPU heat and hardware integrity

2003-02-14 Thread gikoreno
Hey everyone, I am not sure this is supposed to be in the expert list, but since it's more hardware related I sent it here. I just got a Tyan Thunder Pro system with two Athlon 2000+ CPUs. The power supply I was provided was an ATXGES one, and I just trusted the OEM supplier to have ensur

Re: Fwd: [expert] Best Mandrake yet!!!

2003-02-14 Thread Lorne
On Thursday 13 February 2003 10:25 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: > Don't really know what my level is... I just send em some every month. > (silver standard something like that.) Any who the link is > > http://www.mandrakeclub.com/modules.php?name=Downloads&d_op=search&query= > > and it's a 30 day

Re: [expert] running applications remotely

2003-02-14 Thread Azrael
To let you all know, i worked out how to do it. On mac running x server: /path/to/xhost + ssh to linux box export DISPLAY=mac-ip-addy:0 run-application Thanks for all the answers!!! On Fri, 2003-02-14 at 14:24, James Sparenberg wrote: > Easiest way I can think of is to use the vnc client fo

Re: Fwd: [expert] Best Mandrake yet!!!

2003-02-14 Thread Jack Coates
On Fri, 2003-02-14 at 08:26, Lorne wrote: ... > > did that for a long time and it was better than VMWare. However, I had > > to give the work laptop back when I changed jobs and had to minimize the > > number of computers overall when I moved (noise considerations, mainly). > > Still if you have mo

[expert] domain authentication using browser

2003-02-14 Thread Jack Coates
Hey, I have a intranet website that I occasionally need to use, which does windows domain authentication. If I view it with IE, it pops up a UID/PWD/Domain auth window. Ditto for co-workers using Moz on Windows. Moz/Galeon on Linux gives: "Error: Access is Denied." This smells like browser detect

Re: [expert] TyanThunder Pro-CPU heat and hardware integrity

2003-02-14 Thread Jack Coates
On Fri, 2003-02-14 at 08:26, gikoreno wrote: > Hey everyone, > > I am not sure this is supposed to be in the expert list, but since it's more >hardware related I sent it here. > > I just got a Tyan Thunder Pro system with two Athlon 2000+ CPUs. > The power supply I was provided was an ATXGES one

[expert] Samba printing

2003-02-14 Thread Anne Wilson
I have a win98 box that needs to print to my local printer. I tried setting it up under samba to use the cups printers, but couldn't get it to work. Then Stephen Kuhn told me to load the windows printer driver onto the box, print nothing until it had finished all its rebooting schemozzle, then

Re: [expert] TyanThunder Pro-CPU heat and hardware integrity

2003-02-14 Thread paul mccarthy
- Original Message - From: "Jack Coates" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, February 14, 2003 9:29 AM Subject: Re: [expert] TyanThunder Pro-CPU heat and hardware integrity > On Fri, 2003-02-14 at 08:26, gikoreno wrote: > > Hey everyone, > >

Re: [expert] [Fwd: [newbie] Creating a GDM greeter theme]

2003-02-14 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
hi, take a look at www.kde-look.org and search for splash screens... bye Clovis. Terry Sheltra escreveu: Hello all, I sent this to the newbie list a few days ago, and got no response from anyone. So I thought I'd try here on the expert list. If anyone out there has any suggestion for

Re: Fwd: [expert] Best Mandrake yet!!!

2003-02-14 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lorne wrote on Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 08:28:42PM -0700 : > > > > Tried GNUCash yet? I liked it when I had use for something like that > > (I hate to manage money, I stay away from it when I can :) > yea, about 6 months ago. It just didn't do it for m

Re: Fwd: [expert] Best Mandrake yet!!!

2003-02-14 Thread Lorne
On Friday 14 February 2003 10:15 am, Jack Coates wrote: > On Fri, 2003-02-14 at 08:26, Lorne wrote: > ... > > > > did that for a long time and it was better than VMWare. However, I had > > > to give the work laptop back when I changed jobs and had to minimize > > > the number of computers overall w

[expert] Visor woes Continue

2003-02-14 Thread Clif Caldwell
Please feel free to ignore this if your tired of this question or if you are very kind send me the info to my email address. I have been using a serial cradle with my Handspring Visor but it is incredibly slow. After the recent discussions here I decided to try USB again. I am lost. How can you

[expert] Xnest questions

2003-02-14 Thread Chuck Burns
I am playing around with Xnest, and what I am looking for is a gui app that will allow me to, connect via xdmcp to the host of my choice, in a nested window. I know I can type 'Xnest -query host :2' and it will work, but I want to know if there is a small gui app that I can click on, and it'll

Re: [expert] Xnest questions

2003-02-14 Thread Dave Laird
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 G'afternoon, Chuck...everyone else... On Thursday 13 February 2003 12:58 am, Chuck Burns wrote: > I am playing around with Xnest, and what I am looking for is a gui app that > will allow me to, connect via xdmcp to the host of my choice, in a nested >

Re: [expert] Xnest questions

2003-02-14 Thread Chuck Burns
On Friday 14 February 2003 3:16 pm, Dave Laird wrote: *snipped stuff about xnest gui* > > In case your findings come to you off this list, could you please forward > any information you may find about this? I've begun playing with Xnest, > too, and would like to have a gui tooie. 8-) > > Dave certa

Re: [expert] Visor woes Continue

2003-02-14 Thread Robert Goshko
On Fri, 2003-02-14 at 14:00, Clif Caldwell wrote: > Please feel free to ignore this if your tired of this question or if > you are very kind send me the info to my email address. > > I have been using a serial cradle with my Handspring Visor but it is > incredibly slow. After the recent d

[expert] mozilla and printing

2003-02-14 Thread Lorne
Okay, I was sure this was discussed here before, but I can't find it. I use 9.0 and mozilla. I am using cups printing. From Kmail I can print just fine. But from within Mozilla I can not. It has a funky lpr syntax and I don't know how to configure this so I can print to my remote smb printer.

Re: [expert] Visor woes Continue

2003-02-14 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Clif Caldwell wrote on Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 04:00:17PM -0500 : > Please feel free to ignore this if your tired of this question or if > you are very kind send me the info to my email address. No problem, but please next time, don't reply to an existi

Re: [expert] ML9.0:file system completely crashed ext3,"could not find mime type",kde3.0.3

2003-02-14 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 J. Grant wrote on Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 06:38:03PM + : > > mdk9 does not use UDMA5 by default. Your HD/BIOS initalise themselves > to what they consider to be the fastest stable speed and setttings etc > less /etc/sysconfig/harddisks > You can ov

Re: [expert] 2.4.19 ping problem

2003-02-14 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Relson wrote on Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 04:40:35PM -0500 : > > About a month ago, I updated from Mandrake 8.2 to Mandrake 9.0 (with kernel > going from 2.4.18-6mdk to 2.4.19-16mdk) and changed ISPs from DirecTV to > DigitalRealm (with attendant c

Re: [expert] Xnest questions

2003-02-14 Thread Jack Coates
On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 01:21, Chuck Burns wrote: > On Friday 14 February 2003 3:16 pm, Dave Laird wrote: > *snipped stuff about xnest gui* > > > > In case your findings come to you off this list, could you please forward > > any information you may find about this? I've begun playing with Xnest, > >

Re: [expert] Xnest questions

2003-02-14 Thread Dave Laird
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Good afternoon, Jack... On Friday 14 February 2003 02:08 pm, Jack Coates wrote: > > certainly. And here's another question I would like to pose... Let's > > just say I have an old box, and I want to run gdm on it, so I can xdmcp > > into it.. BUT! h

Re: [expert] Xnest questions

2003-02-14 Thread Jack Coates
On Fri, 2003-02-14 at 14:29, Dave Laird wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Good afternoon, Jack... > > On Friday 14 February 2003 02:08 pm, Jack Coates wrote: > > > > certainly. And here's another question I would like to pose... Let's > > > just say I have an old box,

Re: [expert] Xnest questions

2003-02-14 Thread Dave Laird
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Good afternoon, Jack... On Friday 14 February 2003 02:35 pm, Jack Coates wrote: > er, whuh? I didn't ask the question, I posted the answer :-) Read the > URL, it's how to do what he asked. Did I do *that* in front of millions? Egad. Oh, about those

Re: [expert] running applications remotely

2003-02-14 Thread Vincent Danen
On Fri Feb 14, 2003 at 06:24:37AM -0800, James Sparenberg wrote: > Easiest way I can think of is to use the vnc client for Mac and do it > that way. ssh -X linux_boxen make sure you use an xterm or something within X, and not something like Terminal.app (although this depends if you're using App

Re: [expert] running applications remotely

2003-02-14 Thread Vox
This time Vincent Danen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> becomes daring and writes: > On Fri Feb 14, 2003 at 06:24:37AM -0800, James Sparenberg wrote: > >> Easiest way I can think of is to use the vnc client for Mac and do it >> that way. > > ssh -X linux_boxen make it even nicer: ssh -x user@linux_box

Re: [expert] mozilla and printing

2003-02-14 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Lorne wrote: Okay, I was sure this was discussed here before, but I can't find it. I use 9.0 and mozilla. I am using cups printing. From Kmail I can print just fine. But from within Mozilla I can not. It has a funky lpr syntax and I don't know how to configure this so I can print to my remote

Re: [expert] Xnest questions

2003-02-14 Thread James Sparenberg
On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 01:21, Chuck Burns wrote: > On Friday 14 February 2003 3:16 pm, Dave Laird wrote: > *snipped stuff about xnest gui* > > > > In case your findings come to you off this list, could you please forward > > any information you may find about this? I've begun playing with Xnest, > >

Re: Fwd: [expert] Best Mandrake yet!!!

2003-02-14 Thread James Sparenberg
On Fri, 2003-02-14 at 08:31, Lorne wrote: > On Thursday 13 February 2003 10:25 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: > > > Don't really know what my level is... I just send em some every month. > > (silver standard something like that.) Any who the link is > > > > http://www.mandrakeclub.com/modules.php?na

Re: Fwd: [expert] Best Mandrake yet!!!

2003-02-14 Thread James Sparenberg
On Fri, 2003-02-14 at 08:31, Lorne wrote: > On Thursday 13 February 2003 10:25 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: > > > Don't really know what my level is... I just send em some every month. > > (silver standard something like that.) Any who the link is > > > > http://www.mandrakeclub.com/modules.php?na

Re: Fwd: [expert] Best Mandrake yet!!!

2003-02-14 Thread James Sparenberg
On Fri, 2003-02-14 at 08:31, Lorne wrote: > On Thursday 13 February 2003 10:25 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: > > > Don't really know what my level is... I just send em some every month. > > (silver standard something like that.) Any who the link is > > > > http://www.mandrakeclub.com/modules.php?na

Re: [expert] Xnest questions

2003-02-14 Thread Jack Coates
On Fri, 2003-02-14 at 20:43, James Sparenberg wrote: ... > I do this with VNC all the time. My desktop runs tight vnc but only > inits to run level 3 ... then from work etc I can get into it no > problem. > > > PS rfbdrake and Remote Desktop Connection both provide access this way > ... and it's

Re: [expert] mozilla and printing

2003-02-14 Thread Jack Coates
On Fri, 2003-02-14 at 15:56, Rolf Pedersen wrote: > Lorne wrote: > > Okay, > > > > I was sure this was discussed here before, but I can't find it. I use 9.0 and > > mozilla. I am using cups printing. From Kmail I can print just fine. But from > > within Mozilla I can not. It has a funky lpr syn

Re: [expert] ML9.0:file system completely crashed ext3,"could not find mime type",kde3.0.3

2003-02-14 Thread vatbier
J. Grant wrote: > > Mandrake 9.0 uses UDMA5 automatically (without program hdparm), > > is this configured on booting are is it written at installation of > > ML9.0 in some configuration file? > mdk9 does not use UDMA5 by default. Your HD/BIOS initalise themselves > to what they consider to be the

Re: [expert] adding scsi tape drive

2003-02-14 Thread Michael Noble
tc,hago harddrake2 does see the scsi contoller, where I am having difficulty is setting up the device files in /dev for the tape drive. As for baking up there are many ways to do that g(tar) is very good. Have not looked at dump or or some of the others that are offered on MD 9.0. I wish

Re: [expert] ML9.0:file system completely crashed ext3,"could notfind mime type",kde3.0.3

2003-02-14 Thread J. Grant
e2fsck -f -c /dev/hdX can do it for you now, make sure you are in single user mode though and your HD is mounted ro. I already reinstalled ML9.0, but I tried on this new install "e2fsck -f -c /dev/hda2": and it returned a bunch of errors. And this is after a fresh install. I'll complain about

RE: [expert] adding scsi tape drive

2003-02-14 Thread Robert Wideman
FYI, Dell Linux mailing lists are really good reading for this type of thing. The reason why i say this is b/c this is 50% of the discussion on them. How i know? I used to be in Linux Server Support. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Xnest questions

2003-02-14 Thread James Sparenberg
On Fri, 2003-02-14 at 21:16, Jack Coates wrote: > On Fri, 2003-02-14 at 20:43, James Sparenberg wrote: > ... > > I do this with VNC all the time. My desktop runs tight vnc but only > > inits to run level 3 ... then from work etc I can get into it no > > problem. > > > > > > PS rfbdrake and Remot

[expert] ML9.0: patch VIA to enable UDMA100 not installed but yet reporting UDMA100, Cycle time 120 ns???

2003-02-14 Thread vatbier
I WROTE THE Western Digital Data Lifeguard Utilities to a floppy disk: tested my WD400BB-32CXA0 No errors. Changed with the Ultra Management utility the UDMA setting on the disk itself from UDMA5 (100) TO UDMA2 (33): ML9.0 and ML8.2 report in dmesg: UDMA(33) Win XP reports also UDMA2. I tested in M

[expert] ML9.0: Fresh install, found one file 2 GB big, "e2fsck -f -c /dev/hda2" returns errors:

2003-02-14 Thread vatbier
I reinstalled ML9.0 (for the third time) on 9/2/03 I found just by coincidence in /lib/modules/2.4.19-16mdk/kernel/drivers/scsi: 53c7,8xx.o.gz 2GB big !! I repeat 2GB big (date was normal 20/9/02) and the partition is only 2GB big. What happened ??? I haven't done much configuration yet to th