[expert] Using printer attached to a Win95 box

2001-09-10 Thread Bruce E.Harris
Hi, Is it possible, and if so how, to have my Win95 act as my printer server for my Linux box? I cant get MK 8 to print and have gone to the darkside to print and it is becoming a real pain to work in Win all the time or ftp files over for printing. TIA Bruce Want to buy your Pack or

Re: [expert] Using printer attached to a Win95 box

2001-09-10 Thread Bruce E.Harris
I have tried to add my win95 ptr thru Webmin--Samba, Swat and printerdrake, and every time it wants to load a cups driver--and that is is whole source of my inability to print fm Linux. Not sure what to try now. Bruce Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

[expert] Usenet News server

2001-09-09 Thread Bruce E.Harris
Hi, I am in the process of building a small scall news server. I am studying INN at the moment. Can anyone give me some pointers? Things I am wondering about are news feeds. Where are they, and who runs them? Fees involved, etc. Also wondering if INN is the way to go, or is the another one to

Re: [expert] Cant boot fm HDD

2001-08-29 Thread Bruce E.Harris
I got it fixed, and now have boot win95 and MK 7.2 on my laptop and bootable fm the HDD. I have to use Ontrack and delete it, but that was not very clear how to or what to delete. Under the advanced options, I found remove Dyanmic Overlay. Then I formated the HDD, installed win95 then MK. Work

Re: [expert] FYI: ximian has installer for 8.0....

2001-08-27 Thread Bruce E.Harris
Thanks, I have been waiting for this. Bruce On Monday 27 August 2001 11:42 am, you wrote: I didn't really see this announced anywhere but last night I was on there FTP and found that they have an installer for mandrake 8. Sorry if someone already posted this. Rich

Re: [expert] printer woes

2001-08-26 Thread Bruce E.Harris
Problems persist. I think I have the symbolic links right, but when I start printtool it does not see my printer, when I try detect I get this error Could not find pconf_detect command-line utility required for auto-detection. Make sure that the gnulpr printfilters package is properly installed.

Re: [expert] Cant boot fm HDD

2001-08-26 Thread Bruce E.Harris
I have reinstalled MK 7.2 at least 8 times, because disk drake could not see my partitons, On track was the only way I could figure out to get access to the disk. I did tr fdisk too. Guess I will live with booting fm a floppy. Bruce On Sunday 26 August 2001 05:23 pm, you wrote: Bruce

Re: [expert] printer woes

2001-08-23 Thread Bruce E.Harris
Gregor, Thanks for the tips, but I cant figure out how/what to symbolic link what to what. Can you give me an idea? TIA Bruce I got similiar problems with cups so I switched back to lpd. I uninstalled the cups packages, installed the lpd packages then I downloaded printtool from RedHat

[expert] site copy?

2001-08-21 Thread Bruce E.Harris
Hi, I remember a Gnome app in MK 7.2 that made copying a website pretty easy but cant find it in MK 8. Does any remember the name and if there is a MK 8 version of it? TIA Bruce Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] site copy?

2001-08-21 Thread Bruce E.Harris
It had a GUI interface with that goofy aardvark or whatever the gnome critter is on it. Pretty slick, very intuitive (I never read a thing to get it working). You could select the drill down levels and all kinds of neat stuff. Bruce On Tuesday 21 August 2001 07:18 pm, you wrote: Bruce ==

Re: [expert] Speed of various mail programs--with SSL support??

2001-08-20 Thread Bruce E.Harris
Already did. I grabbed it as soon as I saw your email. It is quick and I do like it but too bad no SSL support. Bruce On Monday 20 August 2001 06:12 am, you wrote: On Sun, 19 Aug 2001 12:29:08 -0400 Bruce E.Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] insightfully noted: BE I am looking into these various

Re: [expert] Speed of various mail programs--with SSL support??

2001-08-19 Thread Bruce E.Harris
I am looking into these various mail clients but need one that supports SSL since my secure mail server demands this. Any recommendations? I am using Mulberry, and Netscape but they are slow. Best Regards, Bruce Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [expert] Ext2 - ReiserFS ?

2001-08-06 Thread Bruce E.Harris
I am running ReiserFS on my main SCSI HDD (using a IDE partition for boot, ReisterFS as well). Even with a dirty shutdown, it bounces right back, only my wintendo FAT32 has problems after a power outage. Never had to do a fsck or anything, just comes right up. BR Bruce On Monday 06 August

Re: [expert] Ext2 - ReiserFS ?

2001-08-06 Thread Bruce E.Harris
drjung, I did lsattr on my ReiserFS and got the following msg: lsattr: Inappropriate ioctl for device While reading flags on fw4_01.pdf So I would gather, ReiserFS does not do what you want. Best Regards, Bruce On Monday 06 August 2001 09:13 pm, J. C. Woods wrote: Dave, Just so as to

[expert] Internal time

2001-07-08 Thread Bruce E.Harris
I am running MDK 8.0 and every since this upgrade my computer will not keep time. It loses about 3 hrs per day. Not sure if the CMOS battery is running down or what. How can I get my system to automatically keep time with a clock standard on the Internet? TIA Bruce

[expert] Help with Install

2001-07-02 Thread Bruce E.Harris
Last night we installed Mandrake 8.0 on a friend's computer. He does not have a CDROM drive, but he does have a cable modem, so we tried the network install. That is, we booted from a network.img floppy and went through the whole program. It mostly worked, but we had a few problems. Because all

[expert] JBuilder

2001-06-18 Thread Bruce E.Harris
Hi, I recently installed JBuilder included with Mandrake 8.0 but it keeps asking for a Serial Number and Key. Is one included with Mandrake. I would like to try before I buy. Best Regards, Bruce

Re: [expert] Mozilla experts

2001-06-17 Thread Bruce E.Harris
My online bankings has a statement that says NS changed their SSL protocol for NS 6.0 and it it not compliant with the standard. If you could fool your bank it may not work anyway. You could use Squid, and set it up to make anyone believe anything. Best Regards, Bruce On Sunday 17 June 2001