Re: Fwd: Re: [newbie] Missing Posts

1999-07-21 Thread Civileme
I never knew majordomo was from the twilight zone.  My mailbox is full of July 12th posts, about 14 of them.     "Ty C. Mixon" wrote: This is about the 3rd time this has come into my mailbox.   Anyone know why? Check the date too. --  Forwarded Message  -- Subject: Re: [newbie] Mi

Re: [newbie] Installing

1999-07-21 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Best way is to find out what kind it is,but the next best is to look closely at the bottom.and see how many jumpers there are on it,on most drives there's only one,and that will be in the master position already,so just move the jumper over one set of pins and you should be in slave position. So

Re: [newbie] Installing

1999-07-21 Thread Andy Goth
> I don't know about that "special driver" you mention. It sounds like a > problem with your motherboard (or IDE controller not recognizing 2 disks). > If that's so, then what I'm about to say won't help, and may even hurt > (you'd have to re-format the MBR and put that "special driver" on again)

Re: [newbie] Sound -- probably revisited.

1999-07-21 Thread Andy Goth
> Have you run 'sndconfig' yet? I know that Red Hat 5.1 has a program called setup that presents you with a menu of configurators to choose from. It might be in Mandrake, too. Try it.

Fwd: Re: [newbie] Missing Posts

1999-07-21 Thread Ty C. Mixon
This is about the 3rd time this has come into my mailbox. Anyone know why? Check the date too. -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: [newbie] Missing Posts Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 23:16:54 -0600 (MDT) From: Axalon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Yeah and i'm usualy in the year 2000 On

Re: [newbie] Installing

1999-07-21 Thread Andy Goth
> Actually, it sounds like you just need to edit your lilo.conf file. > There's a section on how to do that in the Mandrake docs on the CD, > which you can view with a web browser. After editing the file, you > must run lilo again, i.e., /sbin/lilo > When the boot prompt comes up (LILO boot:), h

Re: [newbie] Installing

1999-07-21 Thread Andy Goth
> With normal IDE-drives you would just switch the master (MA) and the > slave jumpers (SL). With SCSI-drives you would change the assigned > SCSI-ID's. I get the impression it starts to count from 6 downwards for > assigning drive letters. In your case I wouldn't repair what isn't > broken. They

Re: [newbie] Login Background

1999-07-21 Thread Andy Goth
> http://www.acid.org > > doing ansi by hand is a long drawn out proccess i personaly do not enjoy. I'm downloading it now. Is it anything like TheDraw?

Re: [newbie] Sound -- probably revisited.

1999-07-21 Thread John Aldrich
Try logging in as "root" and running (in text console mode) "sndconfig" and see if that doesn't work. Default RedHat6/Mandrake 6 kernels SHOULD come with the SB16 sound installed. What are the settings on this card, btw? Are they the "standard" IRQ5 (or 7) I/O 220, etc? or are they non-standard? A

Re: [newbie] problème de modem

1999-07-21 Thread Andy Goth
> Thank you for your answer. By the way you understood the whole question very > well. Cool. > My modem is an Olitec 56k, and I bought it 3 days ago. Did you intend to use it with Linux when you got it? Do you have the ability to exchange it for another one that's more Linux-friendly? > I he

Re: [newbie] printing from netscape

1999-07-21 Thread John Aldrich
Hmm...do you have your printer set up in Linux? That's What about setting up the printer in Netscape IIRC (unfortunately, not running Linux here yet, and don't currently have access to a Linux box at this moment...) Netscape has it's own Printer config options, plus you have to configure your

[newbie] My turn with printing problems

1999-07-21 Thread Ty C. Mixon
Ok, but it's with Star Office 5.1. I can print a test page from the printer setup screens, but no documents print. Any ideas? -- Ty C. Mixon ICQ #: 26147713 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[newbie] Get rid of theme from outside KDE

1999-07-21 Thread Sean Brzozowski
Somebody heeelp, How can I get rid of the theme from the prompt. I installed one and now can't start KDE _at all_. TIA Sean Brzozowski

Re: [newbie] Sound -- probably revisited.

1999-07-21 Thread Beo d'Wulfie
Oh yes, that was the first thing that I ran. It seems to have no effect at all. :( On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, Matt Stegman wrote: > Have you run 'sndconfig' yet? > > -Matt > > On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, Beo d'Wulfie wrote: > > > The soundcard I'm using is a sb16. > > It doesn't work. I've gone throu

Re: [newbie] printing from netscape

1999-07-21 Thread Lyndon Lininger Sr
Ramon Gandia wrote: > > Lyndon Lininger Sr wrote: > > > > Does anyone know how to print from netscape? TIA > > > > Lyndon Lininger Sr. > > When you display what you want, push the "Print" button. > Netscape sends it to lpr. If it doesn't print, its because > you have a general printing problem

Re: [newbie] old mail

1999-07-21 Thread Ty C. Mixon
I've been noticing it too, but wasn't sure if it was the list, or KMail, as I just switced to an all Linux system. (For me anyhow.) On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, you wrote: > Today I received two messages from this list dated July 12 (today is > the 21st) > > Strange.anyone else have that happen? >

[newbie] old mail

1999-07-21 Thread Lloyd Osten
Today I received two messages from this list dated July 12 (today is the 21st) Strange.anyone else have that happen? Lloyd Osten [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[newbie] SMB Printing woes

1999-07-21 Thread Civileme
VArious people, including me, have reported difficulty printing to printers on other boxes in networks using Festen and/or Venus. I have an UGLY solution for now. In /var/spool/lpd/lp/filter The lines if [ "$PRINTER_TYPE" = "SMB" ]; then bestpath="$bestpath | ${FPIDIR}/smbprint ${SPOOLDIR}

Re: [newbie] Sound -- probably revisited.

1999-07-21 Thread Matt Stegman
Have you run 'sndconfig' yet? -Matt On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, Beo d'Wulfie wrote: > The soundcard I'm using is a sb16. > It doesn't work. I've gone through the help docs and followed their > instructions but still no go. > > Can anyone help with this??? > > A few things to note: > > - Yes, t

Re: [newbie] SAMBA why so dificult?

1999-07-21 Thread Suryo Mataram
I have installed linux several times. This procedure always works. 1. Edit /etc/smb.conf and change the following MAKE SURE that the line "workgroup = MYGROUP' is CHANGED to be "workgroup = (what ever you have in windows under workgroup in settings-control panel-network-identification" 2. Change

Re: [newbie] printing from netscape

1999-07-21 Thread Ramon Gandia
Lyndon Lininger Sr wrote: > > Does anyone know how to print from netscape? TIA > > Lyndon Lininger Sr. When you display what you want, push the "Print" button. Netscape sends it to lpr. If it doesn't print, its because you have a general printing problem (not a Netscape problem). -- Ramon Ga

Re: [newbie] Klicq problems

1999-07-21 Thread Robert Sheskin
On Wed, 21 Jul 1999 14:52:14 -0600, "Ty C. Mixon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ok, I'm not picky about which icq client I use, so where do I get kxicq? > > On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, you wrote: >> On Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:55:51 -0600, "Ty C. Mixon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > >> > Isn't that IRC? I

Re: [newbie] printing from netscape

1999-07-21 Thread Ty C. Mixon
For me, once I set up my printer for Linux in general all I have to do is hit the print button and make sure that it's set to print to lpr and portrait and letter. However, I can't get Star Office to print . . . . On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, you wrote: > Does anyone know how to print from netscape? TIA

Re: [newbie] Klicq problems

1999-07-21 Thread Ty C. Mixon
Ok, I'm not picky about which icq client I use, so where do I get kxicq? On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, you wrote: > On Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:55:51 -0600, "Ty C. Mixon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Isn't that IRC? I'm trying to get into ICQ with Klicq. > > > sorry about that. That's what I get for run

[newbie] UDP

1999-07-21 Thread James J. Capone
Does anyone know of a Program that can Send UDP packets with different IP addresses in it. Where I work out some of our Equipment uses CDPD like a open communications line that uses IP address. What we want is to test out having say 100+ of our units pinging us at the same time. Then have a Pro

[newbie] printing from netscape

1999-07-21 Thread Lyndon Lininger Sr
Does anyone know how to print from netscape? TIA Lyndon Lininger Sr.

[newbie] Sound -- probably revisited.

1999-07-21 Thread Beo d'Wulfie
I'm new to the list, and very new to Linux. The only thing I've mastered at this point is how to do the installation from a cd. *chuckle* Anyhow, here is my problem and my apologies if this has been covered before. I've installed RH6.0/mandrake. The soundcard I'm using is a sb16. It doesn't work.

Re: [newbie] Klicq problems

1999-07-21 Thread Robert Sheskin
On Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:55:51 -0600, "Ty C. Mixon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Isn't that IRC? I'm trying to get into ICQ with Klicq. > sorry about that. That's what I get for running my mouth before I'm awake ;-). I never had luck with klicq but kxicq works great. And that is for icq. It docks

Re: [newbie] Re: Linux/MS networking connectivity was (no subject)

1999-07-21 Thread Seth Rosen
I'm sorry this list doesn't allow embeded links: Click on this link about, Joining an NT domain with Samba 2.0: http://us1.samba.org/samba/ftp/docs/htmldocs/DOMAIN_MEMBER.html At 02:13 PM 7/21/99 -0700, you wrote: >What you are talking about is SAMBA. It's not that it's impossible it's >just tha

Re: [newbie] Clock wont show correct time

1999-07-21 Thread Steve Winston
mandrake did post a site for a patch to cure the clock problem, but I can't find it anymore. It was a month ago, I think --- James Capone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > We are having this problem sort of at > work. We change it VIA > LinuxConf and even a few others and it keep

Re: [newbie] Klicq problems

1999-07-21 Thread Ty C. Mixon
Isn't that IRC? I'm trying to get into ICQ with Klicq. Ty On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, you wrote: > On Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:56:47 -0600, "Ty C. Mixon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Ok, as I know some of you have klicq working, I'm hoping to get some help. It > > connects to the server, but then t

Re: [newbie] SAMBA why so dificult?

1999-07-21 Thread Axalon
This is by the way the most common thing overlooked when setting up a linux/windows smb file shareing system On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, Axalon wrote: > > Did you import the registry hack for encrypted passwords? it's in > /usr/doc/samba-%{version}/ > > On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, stephan schutter wrote: >

Re: [newbie] Clock wont show correct time

1999-07-21 Thread James Capone
Hello, We are having this problem sort of at work. We change it VIA LinuxConf and even a few others and it keeps Defaulting back to GMT a few hours later. We have run Grep and Tail commands and everything and still can not figure out why it happens. But if you go to the Mandrake site,

[newbie] Re:

1999-07-21 Thread Brett Jones
I would suspect it's a permissions related thing. The ftp dir is set up to be it's own world (for anon ftp at least) that people can't get out of, and into your sys. Here is a URL to a great samba howto: http://www.sfu.ca/~yzhang/linux/samba/toc.html Follow it to a tee and it will work like a

[newbie] Re: Linux/MS networking connectivity was (no subject)

1999-07-21 Thread Seth Rosen
What you are talking about is SAMBA. It's not that it's impossible it's just that there is some planning and configuration that needs to be done on both ends. First you should (or the MCSE's should visit ) www.samba.org all of the doc's are there. Now you seem to imply that you want the linux box

[newbie] MandrakeUpdate.pm Script File

1999-07-21 Thread David Peerless
Is it possible to edit the MandrakeUpdate.pm script file so that it will update the system using the rpms from the 'cooker' directory instead of the 'updates' directory? Also, is there any way I can get the script file to clean-up and delete the files from the '/tmp' directory after the update i

Re: [newbie] SAMBA why so dificult?

1999-07-21 Thread Hidong Kim
Hi, Stephan, Here's a really good samba installation guide http://www.sfu.ca/~yzhang/linux/samba/index.html. Good luck, Hidong stephan schutter wrote: > > -- Forwarded Message -- > Subject: > Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1999 05:46:56 -0500 > From: stephan schutter <[EMAIL PROTE

[newbie] Re:

1999-07-21 Thread Bert Bullough
you would need to use samba to do this. stephan schutter wrote: > Is there any one there that knows how to use linuxconf to set up windows > connectivity -- I have seen 3 MCSE people try for 2 hours! It should not, can > not be that impossible! > > All I want to do is share a couple of folders t

[newbie] Re:

1999-07-21 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, you wrote: > Is there any one there that knows how to use linuxconf to set up windows > connectivity -- I have seen 3 MCSE people try for 2 hours! It should not, can > not be that impossible! > >From what I've read, if you want to be able to talk to an NT network, you HAVE t

Re: [newbie] new computer means new linux questions

1999-07-21 Thread Alan Schussman
Thanks, Sean. The nvidia drivers did the trick! -alan | note my new non-Whitman email address: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | Bye-bye Whitman; I'll be writing from U of Arizona in August! |

[newbie] big modem problem (bis)

1999-07-21 Thread Sebastien DRUON
I tried www.olitec.com to fix the incompatibility between my internal modem Olitec 56k, but no drivers are proposed at this day. If anyone knows an address where I can find it ... Thanx

[newbie] Re: your mail

1999-07-21 Thread Axalon
Did you import the registry hack for encrypted passwords? it's in /usr/doc/samba-%{version}/ On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, stephan schutter wrote: > Is there any one there that knows how to use linuxconf to set up windows > connectivity -- I have seen 3 MCSE people try for 2 hours! It should not, can >

Re: [newbie] I CANT BELIEVE IT

1999-07-21 Thread Hidong Kim
Sinful Weeper wrote: > > HELLO ALL! > > Sorr for the caps, im really really happy, I followed the instructtions Alan > gave me and downloaded from glibc2, the new xsis actually worked!! I'm in > XWINDOWS KDE ! I love this :) :) > I just wanted to thank you all for putting

[newbie] SAMBA why so dificult?

1999-07-21 Thread stephan schutter
-- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1999 05:46:56 -0500 From: stephan schutter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Is there any one there that knows how to use linuxconf to set up windows connectivity -- I have seen 3 MCSE people try for 2 hours! It should not, can not be tha

Re: [newbie] Clock wont show correct time

1999-07-21 Thread Bert Bullough
run linuxconf from command line. you can do all kinds of nifty stuff here, including change the clock Jo wrote: > GMT would be 5-7 hours ahead of US times. Sorry don't know the answer either. > > "Ty C. Mixon" wrote: > > > Looks like you have your clock set to GMT. I know there is a way to tell

No Subject

1999-07-21 Thread stephan schutter
Is there any one there that knows how to use linuxconf to set up windows connectivity -- I have seen 3 MCSE people try for 2 hours! It should not, can not be that impossible! All I want to do is share a couple of folders to everyone and access my user folder in the nt box. I have Linux Mandrake

Re: [newbie] DHCP problems (fwd)

1999-07-21 Thread Theo Brinkman
Well, I'm in the process of grabbing the dhcpcd package from Cooker. In the mean time, I'm trying to hook up to an NT network, is there any more info I'll need? I changed the pump line in /sbin/ifup to include the -h option, but had no luck. - Theo Axalon wrote: > > On Tue, 20 Jul 19

[newbie] Hey guys

1999-07-21 Thread Morpheus The Sinful Weeper
HEy guys I just scored an internship with a local ISP, they're giving me a silicon graphics to work with, i need any tutorials, websites, or books you could point me to i really need to get good at this thanks a lot in advance

[newbie] script help

1999-07-21 Thread Robert Sheskin
I have a little log analysis perl script that I am trying to run. When starting form a terminal it works fine with the following in an executable script; #! /bin/bash echo "Mail Stats Log Analysis" echo "" su - root -c "DISPLAY=$DISPLAY; export DISPLAY; aterm -bg black -fg yellow -e perl /usr/bi

Re: [newbie] modem big problem

1999-07-21 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, you wrote: > >%_I've got a very big problem with my MODEM : > I bought an internal Olitec 56k and I can't use it with Linux : I'm > using kppp and it always tells me that my modem is busy, but no > application is using it at this time ... > > try www.olitec.com/linux.html. U

[newbie] SOLUTION: updatedb/slocate problem

1999-07-21 Thread Nicholas Ritter
I found a solution to that updatedb problem. Do this: 1) slocate -u / 2) updatedb & The system will be slow for a bit, but it doesn't error out anymore. If the above doesn't work, you me need to do this before step 1 above: 1) pico /var/lib/slocate/slocate 2) Don't type anything, just save an

Re: [newbie] Installing

1999-07-21 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, you wrote: > I just got Linux-Mandrake 6.0 from a friend. I've never used RedHat or > Mandrake Linux. I've used Slackware 3.6 and 4.0. I'm not sure how to go > about installing Mandrake 6.0. I've looked for help files but nothing > really says anything definite. It's a

[newbie] I CANT BELIEVE IT

1999-07-21 Thread Sinful Weeper
HELLO ALL! Sorr for the caps, im really really happy, I followed the instructtions Alan gave me and downloaded from glibc2, the new xsis actually worked!! I'm in XWINDOWS KDE ! I love this :) :) I just wanted to thank you all for putting up with me and everything, you guy

Re: [newbie] Installing

1999-07-21 Thread Matt Stegman
I don't know about that "special driver" you mention. It sounds like a problem with your motherboard (or IDE controller not recognizing 2 disks). If that's so, then what I'm about to say won't help, and may even hurt (you'd have to re-format the MBR and put that "special driver" on again). /etc/

[newbie] modem big problem

1999-07-21 Thread Sebastien DRUON
I've got a very big problem with my MODEM : I bought an internal Olitec 56k and I can't use it with Linux : I'm using kppp and it always tells me that my modem is busy, but no application is using it at this time ...   If you can help me ... Thanks Sébastien Druon

Re: [newbie] problème de modem

1999-07-21 Thread Andy Goth
> J'ai acheté un modem Olitec 56K interne et je n'arrive pas à le faire > fonctionner avec linux : kppp considère le modem comme occupé alors > qu'aucune application ne l'utilise. > Si vous pouvez m'aider à résoudre ce problème ... I don't know very much about French, but I think I get the genera

Re: [newbie] Installing

1999-07-21 Thread Andy Goth
> Now, if you want to share your Computer between Windows and > Linux, you will have to get advice elsewhere. But I would > strongly suggest a second hard drive by itself for Linux; > it works best. In RedHat mailing list it was unearthed that > in a significant number of cases Windows 98 (but n

Re: [newbie] Login Background

1999-07-21 Thread Andy Goth
> Eh, personaly i'd have just installed aciddraw onto my dosemu image ;) Aciddraw? And what does dosemu have to do with this?

Re: [newbie] Installing

1999-07-21 Thread Andy Goth
> I just got Linux-Mandrake 6.0 from a friend. I've never used RedHat or > Mandrake Linux. I've used Slackware 3.6 and 4.0. I'm not sure how to go > about installing Mandrake 6.0. I've looked for help files but nothing > really says anything definite. It's as though they're afraid you'll cras