D-link DFE-530tx

2003-10-31 Thread Kurt sys
Hi all, I'm installing Debian Woody on a new computer. I did already installed Woody before with no problem, but now, I have problems configuring the network card ('till now, I had other network cards). As you could have guessed, it's a D-link DFE-530tx card. It seems none of the 'drivers' wor

Re: windowsNT-network

2003-10-22 Thread Kurt Sys
ing on what shell you use etc. Some standard ones are "/etc/profile" (global for all users; this is where path & stuff is set); "~/.profile", "~/.bash_profile" and "~/.bashrc" for personal/individual logins. But I think there are a number of prob

windowsNT-network

2003-10-20 Thread Kurt Sys
Hi all, I'm having the following situation here: There is a windowsNT network available. I can connect to the network. However, only 'root' can write to the NT-disk. So, I have to connect as 'another user': smbmount //labmetserver/common /mnt/labmet/common -o credentials=/home/kurt/.smbmountcred

Re: safety/permissions

2003-03-25 Thread Kurt Sys
Mail from [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent on Monday March 24 2003 at 16:50 (GMT-0500): > On Mon, 24 Mar 2003, Kurt Sys wrote: > > [...] > > > > I guess another config-file, somewhere is /etc is wrong and > > fetchmail reads that file if it doesn't find the > >

safety/permissions

2003-03-24 Thread Kurt Sys
Hello all, I don't know if there were (a lot) of responses to my last mail(s), since I again did some 'uncareful' things and I lost now and then some mail. Anyway, for the people who want to know, the problem is solved now completely. It was something with my fetchmail configuration. I don't fully

Re: safety/permissions

2003-03-21 Thread Kurt Sys
Hello... I'm really sorry to bother you again. I'm still trying to make my mail working... and I found something else working: I can send emails to [EMAIL PROTECTED] using webmail (on my computer, but I consider this as 'outside'). So, the only thing that doesn't work right now is getting my mail

Re: safety/permissions

2003-03-21 Thread Kurt Sys
Hello again, OK, I tried to make my 'receiving mail from outside' to work, and I lost all my mail that was still on 'the mailserver', due to bad fetchmail configuration file. That's way the previous message(s) is/are not included in this one. But it's important to mention: telnet does work! There

Re: safety/permissions

2003-03-20 Thread Kurt Sys
Eello again, I tried to make my homework as good as possible. I reinstalled 'everything', so all permissions are now default values, except the ones in my homedir. I was able to solve some (other) problems with qmail. Now, I can send mail using qmail. I can receive mail whenever I send a message f

safety/permissions

2003-03-17 Thread Kurt Sys
Hello all, I have a quite serious problem (I guess) and I know, I can only blame myself. Anyway, I want to solve it in a 'nice', non-drastic way. I wanted to make my system somewhat safer, so I started, as it is recommended, changing the permissions and groups. This seemed to work and I thought m

Re: accessing my XP printer from Linux?

2003-02-26 Thread Kurt Sys
Hello again, I don't know a lot about CUPS, printer configuration etc. I just know how I managed to get it to work. Basically, I guess the following lines should work: $ gs -sDEVICE=ljet4 -sOutputFile=foo.hp foo.pdf this will convert a pdf-file to 'printer format' (in this case, HP Laserjet 4)

accessing my XP printer from Linux?

2003-02-20 Thread Kurt Sys
Hi Mark, It took a while before I was able to access network-printers, but what you most probably need is smbclient. You have to make an entry in your printcap-file (of course), then make an smbprint-script and a '.config' file for each networkprinter. Here are my files: --- /etc/printcap : [.

Re: smbprint

2003-02-17 Thread Kurt Sys
J user=kurts passwd=X and this would set the variables, no? I still don't understand why this is not ok... Anyway, the spaces, that was clearly an error. I removed these... tnx, Kurt. Mail from [EMAIL PROTECTED], sent on Friday February 14 2003 at 20:15 (GMT-0500): &g

smbprint

2003-02-14 Thread Kurt Sys
Hello, I try to get samba to work, especially the printing to a windows NT network printer. I can print to the printer by using smbprint etc, but this always takes some time (first 'gs -sDEVICE=ljet -sOutputFile=file.hp file.pdf' followed by 'smbclient labmetserver\\HPLaserJ -Ukurts%x'

emacs->rmail->attachment

2003-01-31 Thread Kurt Sys
Hello, I'm busy 'configuring' my linux (debian) as I like it... Since I'm new, I just installed quite a lot of packages, which I possibly don't need anymore. One of these might be mozilla for reading my email, because I like to use emacs for this -- I really love Emacs, it's great. But now, m

dynamic linker?

2003-01-28 Thread Kurt Sys
27;t load dynamic linker '/lib/ld.so nor /usr/i486-linux/lib/ld.so' -- I tried to make a link to ld-2.3.1.so (ln -s ld-2.3.1.so ld.so), but this didn't seem to change anything. I would like to know what's going on... and it would be even nicer if it's possible to

smbfs and mount

2003-01-24 Thread Kurt Sys
7; user as long as don't try to mount/unmount samba filesystems. The options in fstab simply don't work for smbfs. Is there any solution? thanks in advance, Kurt Sys PS: By the way, I still have a problem with mounting samba filesystems correctly, see an earlier mail of me to th

samba -> some problems

2003-01-18 Thread Kurt Sys
Hello, I'm running Debian (kernel 2.4.16) now for some time, but I don't manage to configure samba (2.2.3a) like it should (I guess). I'll try to explain as good as possible what my problems are... I want to get on a Windows NT intranetserver, to access some data but especially for the printers

xsession

2003-01-03 Thread Kurt Sys
Hello, I have a Debian X session question. I run kdm as display manager and blackbox as window manager. When I startup blackbox, I would like to execute a small script for the slit in blackbox (just putting some applications in the slit). I just don't manage to execute that script. I copied th

Re: Debian -> sound modules

2002-12-30 Thread Kurt Sys
OK, thanks, but apparently, I have to try again... So let's try sound on my laptop. I don't have much information about the hardware, but this is it (and I've added the 'source of the information' between brackets): SoundBlaster® and Windows® sound compatible (website Dell) Sigmatel 9700 audio c

Re: Debian -> sound modules

2002-12-27 Thread Kurt Sys
Ray Olszewski wrote: Comments inline below. At 03:10 PM 12/26/02 +0100, Kurt Sys wrote: Hello, 1. I just can't get sound working. I installed Woody, but it coming with a kernel which doesn't support sound (as far as I understand all well), so I recompiled the kernel with diffe

Debian -> sound modules

2002-12-26 Thread Kurt Sys
nted (I guess). So, it is surely possible to connect to the server and read the stuff, but I really want to know how I have to mount the whole filesystem. I have a password for my own directory (although if I use xsmbrowser, I can read everyones documents with that passwd, but that has someth