Re: OT from Tokyo

2003-07-03 Thread Bill Mullen
On Thu, 3 Jul 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2 Jul 2003, at 9:00pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry you were all so offended. I will go back to lurking. I encourage you to take all that stuff with a bit of salt. Long-time members of this list sometimes resemble a group of people

Re: Samba + W2K question

2003-07-03 Thread Bill Mullen
On Thu, 3 Jul 2003, Derek Martin wrote: Yup. Get the sources, unpack them, and have a look in samba-2.2.8a/docs/htmldocs for the file Samba-PDC-HOWTO.html, which I followed carefully and had no problems. One site I've found to be very helpful with Samba is: http://samba.netfirms.com They

RE: Samba + W2K question

2003-07-03 Thread JMoran
-Original Message- From: Cole Tuininga [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 02 July 2003 21:17 To: GNHLUG List Subject: Samba + W2K question ... In any case, I have it set up, created users both locally and in the smbpasswd file. Getting 95/98/Me machines to auth against it was a

Re: OT from Tokyo

2003-07-03 Thread Cole Tuininga
On Thu, 2003-07-03 at 00:36, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2 Jul 2003, at 9:00pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry you were all so offended. I will go back to lurking. I encourage you to take all that stuff with a bit of salt. Long-time members of this list sometimes resemble a group

Re: OT from Tokyo

2003-07-03 Thread Michael O'Donnell
Sorry you were all so offended. I will go back to lurking. Awww, shucks - no need for that. All I was griping about was that somebody along the line decided they could improve those (most excellent!) classic haikus by claiming that they were specifically Japanese-edition-Windows error

RE: Samba + W2K question

2003-07-03 Thread Cole Tuininga
On Thu, 2003-07-03 at 05:08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: NT/2K/XP machines encrypt the password before sending it to the server, and this can cause problems. There's an option in the smb.conf file which (I think) is 'encrypt passwords = yes' which has to be added (if it's not there) to allow

RE: Wireless PDA workstation

2003-07-03 Thread Sharpe, Richard
I recently looked at the pocket pc that Verizon has and went with one of the Palm Tungsten lines, if you want the phone and all the bells and whistles then get the Tungsten W or C models, and they can sync with LINUX (SuSE 8.2 for sure). I think Verizon also offers one of the Palm models. Rich

Re: OT from Tokyo

2003-07-03 Thread Erik Price
Karl Hergenrother wrote: Sorry you were all so offended. I will go back to lurking. internet email great tool for conversation context sometimes lost Erik ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Samba + W2K question

2003-07-03 Thread bscott
On 3 Jul 2003, at 6:27am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: invalid users = root Ding ding ding ding ding! I'm betting that's why you can't login as root. :-) logon path = \\%N\profiles\%u I notice that you have no profiles share specified. That will be a problem with the

Re: OT from Tokyo

2003-07-03 Thread Erik Price
Erik Price wrote: Karl Hergenrother wrote: Sorry you were all so offended. I will go back to lurking. internet email great tool for conversation context sometimes lost Draft 2: wonders of email great tool for discussion, but context sometimes lost I should go into business. Erik

Re: DSU/router/switch/traffic-shaper gizmo (maybe OT)

2003-07-03 Thread Dan Jenkins
We have a need to divide up an Internet feed among several tenants in a building. The feed will come in on a T1 or similar. Upstream provider gives us a CSU and a routable IP block. So we need to plug into the CSU and be a router. Each tenant will need to be on an isolated Ethernet. We will

RE: Samba + W2K question

2003-07-03 Thread Cole Tuininga
On Thu, 2003-07-03 at 08:24, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3 Jul 2003, at 6:27am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: invalid users = root Ding ding ding ding ding! *hangs head in shame* Duh! Commented that line out, and now the smbclient connection will work. When I have a chance to

RE: Samba + W2K question

2003-07-03 Thread bscott
On 3 Jul 2003, at 8:49am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: *hangs head in shame* Duh! Don't feel bad. I did the exact same thing when I was getting up to speed on Samba PDC support. Our stock config file from the pre-PDC Samba had the same line in it (because, lacking PDC support, root had no

Re: OT from Tokyo

2003-07-03 Thread pll
On Thu, 3 Jul 2003, Ben == [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ben I encourage you to take all that stuff with a bit of salt. Ben Long-time members of this list sometimes resemble a group of Ben people sitting around a bar, debating the issue of the day. Ben We're all loud and opinionated, but

destroying data

2003-07-03 Thread Derek Doucette
I had a drive which bit the dust recently, first clicking, proceded to smoke as one of the wires shorted out. So this drive is dead. I was wondering if there was a good way to destroy the data on there before I send it back. I was thinking some sort of magnet, but I'm not sure how strong of one

Re: destroying data

2003-07-03 Thread bscott
On Thu, 3 Jul 2003, at 5:01pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was wondering if there was a good way to destroy the data on there before I send it back. Most of the data sanitation methods available depend on the drive being operational, so you can write to it. I was thinking some sort of

Building a RedHat based kiosk.

2003-07-03 Thread Scott Garman
Hi all, Can anyone offer me some pointers to typical changes made to a kiosk-like RedHat system to make it brain-dead simple for users? For example, I'd like to hide all the details of booting the system, such as the kernel messages and the init script status output. I'd also like to do the same