Re: Cable Modems??

2002-09-08 Thread David Lane
Ping is definitely NOT obsolete.Before I speculate too much you should post the IP address you are trying to ping or telnet to.Most cable and DSL modems contain their own IP's that are in the private range.If your trying to ping or telnet to one of those you can give it up,the user can but you on

Firewall Configuration...

2002-09-08 Thread Sriram Narasimhan
Hello, I am using Red Hat 7.2 running 2.4.7-10 I seem to be having a problem changing the firewall configuration. When I installed Red Hat I didn't bother to set the firewall and it defaulted to the "High" Security level. I am trying to change this to a customized firewall configuration, by

Re: ssh error message

2002-09-08 Thread Alan Womack
Do you have the file: /etc/ssh/sshd_config? Please try running sshd from the command prompt. Alan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please rea

Re: ssh error message

2002-09-08 Thread Peter
Thanks! [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Can you post the portion of your log entries which show some details? > You may have to turn on debugging features to get the output. Sep 8 09:52:46 philonline apmd: apmd startup succeeded Sep 8 09:52:46 philonline sshd: Starting sshd: Sep 8 09:52:46 philonl

Re: Cable Modems??

2002-09-08 Thread Ray Olszewski
Hal -- Without some details, I doubt anyone here is going to be able to help you. To the extent that the problems derive from details of Windows XP ... well, this is a Linux list, so I doubt we'll be of much help at that level in any case. First, what is the address? How stable is it? (What I

Cable Modems??

2002-09-08 Thread Hal MacArgle
Greetings: In the country we'll probably never have a cable modem but my son does and that opens the query box as to how I can learn more about them and their use.. He gave me his IPv4 address, which is, to me, odd that it's Class A, and I used 'nslookup' and 'DiG' to get his human address.. Try

How to remotely access Samba server over land-line phone with win9x client

2002-09-08 Thread Shaggy Im-erbtham
I am looking for a simple poor man's solution and not an elaborate big business set-up This is the situation: We have a Samba server (Slackware with kernel 2.2.17) which shares files including MS Office, graphics, mp3s, etc over several win9x clients in the office. This has been running sm

Re: Making APM more accurate

2002-09-08 Thread pa3gcu
On Sunday 08 September 2002 09:43, Theo. Sean Schulze wrote: > The battery in this laptop is over two years old, so I can't rule out the > possiblity that this is battery induced. I am just trying to avoid laying > out the money (about $125) it will cost to find out. > > What I was thinking, thou

Re: Making APM more accurate

2002-09-08 Thread Theo. Sean Schulze
The battery in this laptop is over two years old, so I can't rule out the possiblity that this is battery induced. I am just trying to avoid laying out the money (about $125) it will cost to find out. What I was thinking, though, was that apm(d) would track this internally by measuring the st