Re: [newbie] Samba, Wine And Other Languages

2000-10-08 Thread Rod Baxter
Also make sure you have 2.0.7 or higher if you are using win2k. Rod - Original Message - From: "M." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, October 09, 2000 3:36 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Samba, Wine And Other Languages > Where do I go to post? > > > --- "olof.liung

[newbie] install hangs with 7.1.

2000-10-08 Thread Rod Baxter
My machine boots from the cdrom (or floppy, same result) and after selecting language, then customised install I have to pick from server, normal etc. When I do this I get a message flashed on the screen for about 1 second "Please wait, configuring IDE". This message goes and my machine locks up,

[newbie] 3c905c

2000-10-08 Thread M.
Can someone tell me how to setup Mandrake 7.1/3Com 3c905c for the internet. I get LAN, LANTx AND LANRx lit when I activate "connect" but when I try to browse I get "unable to locate www.". I've used a text editor to add "alias eth0 3c90x" to /ect/conf.modules but I don't think that helped.

[newbie] SBLive Help

2000-10-08 Thread Harvey Cummings
I have a SBLive. The driver installed properly with no errors. However it still will not work. in Sound Drake I get all "-1's", and when I do a "cat /proc/pci" it says that my vidio card, network card, and sound card are all on IRQ 9. I've tried to change the IRQ through the BIOS and then

Re: [newbie] Samba, Wine And Other Languages

2000-10-08 Thread M.
Where do I go to post? --- "olof.liungman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Julio, > > concerning Samba, start at www.samba.org. They also have a very good > mailing > list with a lot of gurus on it. > > Olof > > - Original Message - > From: "Julio Gutierrez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[E

Re: [newbie] Samba, Wine And Other Languages

2000-10-08 Thread olof.liungman
Julio, concerning Samba, start at www.samba.org. They also have a very good mailing list with a lot of gurus on it. Olof - Original Message - From: "Julio Gutierrez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, October 07, 2000 4:05 AM Subject: [newbie] Samba, Wine And Ot

Re: [newbie] netscape backup

2000-10-08 Thread Larry Marshall
> Anybody know how to save mail and bookmarks and transfer to another > system or restore them after reinstall? Netscape bookmarks are stored in bookmarks.html and addressbook(s) with .na extensions. What system do you want to move them too? If it's another Netscape installation (or Explorer)

Re: [newbie] trojan horses

2000-10-08 Thread Mwinold
In a message dated 08-Oct-00 19:30:16 Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << I tried http://www.hackerwhacker.com and I found 2 or 3 ports open that *could* be trojans. ANy way to verify? >> check for utilitys via the box network http://www.boxnetwork.net/

[newbie] netscape backup

2000-10-08 Thread Paul R
Anybody know how to save mail and bookmarks and transfer to another system or restore them after reinstall? -Paul R __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com

[newbie] trojan horses

2000-10-08 Thread Paul R
Anybody know of a way to check for trojan horses? I tried http://www.hackerwhacker.com and I found 2 or 3 ports open that *could* be trojans. ANy way to verify? -Paul R __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://i

Re: [newbie] Kernel stuff

2000-10-08 Thread darrell
Hi Dennis! I tried what you suggested but the card doesn't get recognised (no +). I was thinking maybe I could get it compiled into the kernel somehow. Does that make sense? I tried to do that too, but when I type "make menuconfig" I get a reply "no rule ... blah, blah, blah". I've never been abl

[newbie] GUI for bcrypt?

2000-10-08 Thread Jon Doe
Anyone know of any easy to use GUI's for bcrypt? -- Registered Linux User 181996

Re: [newbie] kwintv

2000-10-08 Thread Ronald J. Hall
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hello Ronald, > I have tryed with both: 0.7 and 0.8 and when making: the mentioned > error. > > With rpm the installation runs, but running kwintv the screen seems like > a codified channel; nevertheless the sound is OK and turner also. > With xawtv I have the sames

Re: [newbie] Kernel stuff

2000-10-08 Thread Dennis Myers
darrell wrote: > > I have added a network card to the machine. It is a RTL8019 ISA card. How do > I get it installed? You should be able to get it recognized and install using harddrake. If in KDE click on DrakeConf and then click on the HardDrake button. If in text console, do an su and then typ

RE: [newbie] Help: How to share StarOffice 5.1

2000-10-08 Thread Ricardo Zevallos
¡Gracias Francisco Alcaraz! Your adviced worked well. The crucial step was installing StarOffice from root with ./setup /net and then doing a final setup from each user... Once again many thanks! Have a nice day. Ricardo At 12:04 PM 08/10/2000 +0200, you wrote: >Ricardo, as root you must i

Re: [newbie] not everything installed??

2000-10-08 Thread Larry Marshall
> i keep noticing every time i do a full installation, not everything is > installed from what little i have gotten to play with i find stuff like gcc, make, and i wide variety of other development programs werent installed, even though i Not sure I can help you much but just for reference, I

[newbie] not everything installed??

2000-10-08 Thread Mwinold
i keep noticing every time i do a full installation, not everything is installed from what little i have gotten to play with i find stuff like gcc, make, and i wide variety of other development programs werent installed, even though i selected developer during the installation, alot of this stu

Re: [newbie] These errors mean nothing to me

2000-10-08 Thread nyxs
Vic wrote: > The following errors mean nothing to me, does someone know if > these are important and what I should do to correct them? > I want to install wine on my system but I can't. > > [root@kittypuss Downloads]# rpm -ivh wine-2909-1mdk.i586.rpm > error: failed dependencies: > rp

Re: [newbie] mappipng and rcp

2000-10-08 Thread nyxs
"bux m.k" wrote: > dear sir, > you have come across the above probleb and i hope you > have oercome this problem.will you please explain as o > how the device mapping can be carriedout between linux > server tolinux server,linux to ms winows and micro > soft windows to linux. > if you can tell us

Re: [newbie] Can't boot into Windows!

2000-10-08 Thread GAPrichard
John, Using a floppy made by and wih the utilities from the version of Windon't that you have installed (and there are several versions of Win95 alone), booting to the floppy and fdisk /mbr should work. I don't know if it would work on versions after Win98, but on any earlier version it wo

[newbie] mappipng and rcp

2000-10-08 Thread bux m.k
dear sir, you have come across the above probleb and i hope you have oercome this problem.will you please explain as o how the device mapping can be carriedout between linux server tolinux server,linux to ms winows and micro soft windows to linux. if you can tell us about 'rcp'command how to us

[newbie] NO INPUT durring installation!

2000-10-08 Thread Ambler Dee
I'm really getting fed up with this problem, the text based install works but... (During installation as the GUI stage of Mandrake 7.1 starts, prompting you to choose a language... my keyboard numlock key light goes out and the whole keyboard stops responding. Plus there is no response from the

RE: [newbie] Can't boot into Windows!

2000-10-08 Thread highland
With Partition Magic 5.0 you can make a two disk boot set that will allow you to boot from your floppy drive. On those disks, is a version of Dos and the PM program. At boot up, it may tell you that the partition table has a problem, and ask you if you want PM to fix it. I have had it cor

[newbie] These errors mean nothing to me

2000-10-08 Thread Vic
The following errors mean nothing to me, does someone know if these are important and what I should do to correct them? I want to install wine on my system but I can't. [root@kittypuss Downloads]# rpm -ivh wine-2909-1mdk.i586.rpm error: failed dependencies: rpmlib(VersionedDependencie

Re: [newbie] kwintv

2000-10-08 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Jeff Malka wrote: > > This is a stupid question on my part, but do you also need a special card to > get TV in Linux or is the software enough? > > Jeff Malka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Registered Linux user 183185 Jeff, as I've heard repeated on here so many times, and I've found it to be very tru

Re: [newbie] kwintv

2000-10-08 Thread Ronald J. Hall
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hello again, > After reach to run cabletv in my computer, I am trying whitout succes to > install kwintv. I have installed all the necessary libs (well, at least > I think); ./configure works fine but when I type make.., the compiler > could not find the files: iostre

RE: Re: [newbie] kwintv

2000-10-08 Thread falcaraz
Yes, it is stupid because how do you believe that I can watch tv using cabletv?. I have an Avermedia Capture98TV that works fine with cabletv and with windows 98. Nevertheless, thanks for read my messages > > Francisco Alcaraz > > Murcia (Spain) > >

[newbie] 7.1 Printing and Samba

2000-10-08 Thread maynord
Hi Mandrake Folks: I am trying to solve a printing problem on multiple machines at the school where I work. I have successfully installed 7.1 on 15 machines. Ten of the machines print to a Samba printer with no problem. I am using the standard 7.1 printer configuration tool to set things up.

Re: [newbie] OT: Seti once more.

2000-10-08 Thread A V Flinsch
On Sun, 08 Oct 2000, you wrote: > >from a bit over 8 hrs, to about 9 1/2 hrs. That's about an 18 or 19 % change > > Interestingly enough my machine now does 5 wu's in 2 days, compared to 4 > in 2 days with version 2.4 > Probably got a "fast wu" or 2 in there over the last few days. -- Alex

Re: [newbie] Can't boot into Windows!

2000-10-08 Thread Alan Shoemaker
John Hendrickx wrote: [snip] > sfdisk reported that the problem was between hda6 and hda9. I used > fdisk to remove the Linux partions and now I'm e-mailing from Windows > again :-) > > The problem seems to be that diskdrake on Linux-Mandrake 7.0 doesn't > understand large disks. It wrote the fau

RE: [newbie] asx?

2000-10-08 Thread highland
Is ".asx" a Mac compressed file extension? Only worked with a month for 6 months at a job, Can't remember for sure. highland -Original Message- From: Mark Weaver [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, October 07, 2000 9:06 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: [newbie]

Re: [newbie] Can't boot into Windows!

2000-10-08 Thread John Hendrickx
--- Alan Shoemaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John Hendrickx wrote: > > Bottom line is that my partition table is all screwed up. Does > anyone know how > > to fix it? > > Johnthe problem I see is that the ending cylinder of hda10 > (Linux) and the beginning cylinder of hda6 (Fat32) are t

Re: [newbie] Can't boot into Windows!

2000-10-08 Thread Alan Shoemaker
John Hendrickx wrote: > > I've found out a little more about the nature of my problem (Linux on my slave > IDE works fine but I can't boot Windows on my masteer IDE after installing a > second Linux system). Basically I guess the partition table is all messed up. > Running diskdrake reports "part

[newbie] Logging in a remote computer?

2000-10-08 Thread Joan Tur
Hallo! I'd like to know how to log in from a computer (let's call it B) as a user i've created in my main computer (let's call it A); so that user will be able to, for instance, use Netscape with it's own messages database and configuration, etc. Thanks. -- Joan Tur. Ibiza - Spain [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: [newbie] How do I find which version of xfree86 do I have?

2000-10-08 Thread John Rye
> What specific True Type fonts would it be reasonable to install so that > Netscape, etc work well? I looked thru the fonts while in windows and noted those I liked. Boiled down to the Arial, Times and Courier types. I then selected them individually from Drakfont. In Netscape I use Arial for

Re: [newbie] Can't boot into Windows!

2000-10-08 Thread Alan Shoemaker
John Hendrickx wrote: [snip] > In any case, the output looks similar to yours. /dev/hda1 is > recognized as a FAT32 boot device. I should be able to boot Windows, > but I can't. > > The problem could be related to the fact that my BIOS doesn't > recognize the geometry of this disk because it's la

Re: [newbie] Can't boot into Windows!

2000-10-08 Thread John Hendrickx
I've found out a little more about the nature of my problem (Linux on my slave IDE works fine but I can't boot Windows on my masteer IDE after installing a second Linux system). Basically I guess the partition table is all messed up. Running diskdrake reports "partitions sector # 15004773) (14652M

Re: [newbie] How do I find which version of xfree86 do I have?

2000-10-08 Thread Jeff Malka
Did not realize DrakeFont does that. Mandrake is great! What specific True Type fonts would it be reasonable to install so that Netscape, etc work well? Jeff Malka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Registered Linux user 183185 - Original Message - From: Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: [newbie] kwintv

2000-10-08 Thread Jeff Malka
This is a stupid question on my part, but do you also need a special card to get TV in Linux or is the software enough? Jeff Malka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Registered Linux user 183185 - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, October 08, 2000 6:15

Re: [newbie] How do I find which version of xfree86 do I have?

2000-10-08 Thread Jeff Malka
Any info as to when 7.2 (not the beta) may become available? Or is 7.2 by definition a beta and we neet to wait for 7.3 for a stable version? Jeff Malka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Registered Linux user 183185 - Original Message - From: Ronald J. Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] OT: Seti once more.

2000-10-08 Thread Paul
It was Oct 8, 2000, 10:20, when A V Flinsch keyboarded: >The combined effect of FFT optimization, pulse detection, and the >extended doppler drift range is that a typical workunit will take about >40% longer to complete with version 3.0 on any given platform. On Yes, I saw that too. >Personally

Re: [newbie] nothing works online

2000-10-08 Thread Andrew Scotchmer
On Sun, 08 Oct 2000, you wrote: > mandrake 7.1 help please > > i installed mandrake 7.1 last week from Linux Magazine CD, everything seemed > to be ok until i got online. > As soon as i am online any mandrake wont boot up any new Aplications or > clients, even console or looking through the hardd

Re: [newbie] OT: Seti once more.

2000-10-08 Thread A V Flinsch
On Sun, 08 Oct 2000, you wrote: > Look what I found at http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/version30.html: > > Optimization of the FFT computation. We have adopted the highly optimized > Ooura FFT routines developed at the University of Tokyo. Our tests show a > 60% client speed up over version 2.x wi

[Fwd: [newbie] connecting via ppp]

2000-10-08 Thread Marc Popejoy
Ted Wager wrote: > Hi.. > Are you using kppp to connect or scripts??...If kppp did you go right > through the setup and check the modem etc??...When you connect using minicom do > you get the pppd garbage back..?? It might be you are not correctly logged in > to the server... > > Rega

[newbie] iostream, fstream, strstream

2000-10-08 Thread falcaraz
Hello When I try to compile kwint, after typing make the computer gives me an error because the iostream.h, fstream.h and strstream.h are not found. It seems that they are libraries of C++, but I have installed all the C++ and C libraries of Mandrake 7.1. Could anybody help me? Thank you very much

Re: [newbie] nothing works online

2000-10-08 Thread Tom Brinkman
> As soon as i am online any mandrake wont boot up any new > Aplications or clients, even console or looking through the > harddrive stops working. (nothing crashes..it just doent do > anything). It's prob'ly the ol' KDE bug. Start Kppp, click on 'setup', hi-lite your ISP, click on 'edit', c

[newbie] OT: Seti once more.

2000-10-08 Thread Paul
Look what I found at http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/version30.html: Optimization of the FFT computation. We have adopted the highly optimized Ooura FFT routines developed at the University of Tokyo. Our tests show a 60% client speed up over version 2.x with a a 4% sacrifice in memory consumption

[newbie] nothing works online

2000-10-08 Thread LtCdData
mandrake 7.1 help please i installed mandrake 7.1 last week from Linux Magazine CD, everything seemed to be ok until i got online. As soon as i am online any mandrake wont boot up any new Aplications or clients, even console or looking through the harddrive stops working. (nothing crashes..it jus

Re: [newbie] Can't boot into Windows!

2000-10-08 Thread John Hendrickx
--- Alan Shoemaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John Hendrickx wrote: > > > > I've screwed up badly. I installed Linux on the second segment of > my > > primary IDE drive and now I can't boot into Windows 95. What's > more, > > if I boot from a floppy my c-disk or any other hard disk isn't > > r

Re: [newbie] Where are the time-zone config files ?

2000-10-08 Thread Renaud OLGIATI
Sorry I explained my problem badly: I dont need to change the time-zone itself, but its definition file, since the date when we go to summer time here in Paraguay seems to have changed. Cheers, Ron the Frog, on the banks of the Paraguay River. On Sat, 07 Oct 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > yo

Re: [newbie] Can't boot into Windows!

2000-10-08 Thread John Hendrickx
--- Alan Shoemaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John Hendrickx wrote: > > > > I've screwed up badly. I installed Linux on the second segment of > my > > primary IDE drive and now I can't boot into Windows 95. What's > more, > > if I boot from a floppy my c-disk or any other hard disk isn't > > re

[newbie] kwintv

2000-10-08 Thread falcaraz
Hello again, After reach to run cabletv in my computer, I am trying whitout succes to install kwintv. I have installed all the necessary libs (well, at least I think); ./configure works fine but when I type make.., the compiler could not find the files: iostream.h, fstream.h and strstream.h and, o

RE: [newbie] Help: How to share StarOffice 5.1

2000-10-08 Thread falcaraz
Ricardo, as root you must install StarOffice in the next way: ./setup /net And then you must install user by user only the necesary files in each home directory (start as a determinated user, go to the Office/program directory and type ./setup; select the appropiate options -more o less 1,4 Mb in

[newbie] Help: How to share StarOffice 5.1

2000-10-08 Thread Ricardo Zevallos
I would like to share StarOffice 5.1. I am working with Mandrake 7.0 and would like to have StarOffice 5.1 available for root, Myself, and visits users. Before, I was able to install StarOffice from Myself user under the directory home/Myself/Office51/ and could use it with root and Myself but w

Re: [newbie] How do I find which version of xfree86 do I have?

2000-10-08 Thread Ronald J. Hall
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'll wait until the final version of MDK7.2 comes out and see what happens > then. :-) I have heard about many nice nice options that are incorporated in > it. Even a hardcore windows magazine over here has done a (for their doing) > raving review of Xfree 4!! > > Pa

Re: [newbie] Linux Format

2000-10-08 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Jay wrote: > > On Sat, 07 Oct 2000, you wrote: > > Jay wrote: > > > > > -- > > > If anybody here reads Linux Format, the UK based Linux mag, then you already > > > know this fact...Linux-Mandrake received a 10 out of 10 rating for 7.1. They > > > called it the best distro around now. > > > > > >

Re: [newbie] [Fwd: ]

2000-10-08 Thread paul
On Sun, Oct 08, 2000 at 08:11:34AM +0100, peter bunce wrote: > I got four of these anybody know what they mean? > > peter b > Subject: *** Security Check, Fri Oct 6 04:02:25 EDT 2000 *** This is a mail sent to you by the Cron job that runs daily. It checks if there are security issues on your

Re: [newbie] How do I find which version of xfree86 do I have?

2000-10-08 Thread paul
On Sun, Oct 08, 2000 at 03:48:31AM -0400, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > Hi Paul. Well, with the full distribution of v7.1 that I have, and picking > "expert" and "developer", it offers you a choice of XFree 3.3.6 or 4.0 > > The original poster should get XFree 4.01 though...lots of bug fixes. ;-)

Re: [newbie] connecting via ppp

2000-10-08 Thread Ted Wager
On Sun, 08 Oct 2000, John Rye wrote: > markOpoleO wrote: > > > > I am having the same problem as Marc is, to clear up our problem i got a > > error messages like this: > > The pppd daemon died unexpectedly! > > Oct 7 18:49:54 localhost pppd[811]: pppd 2.3.11 started by root, uid 0 > > Oct 7 18:

[newbie] [Fwd: ]

2000-10-08 Thread peter bunce
I got four of these anybody know what they mean? peter b >From nobody Fri Oct 6 04:02:25 2000 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: by localhost.localdomain (Postfix, from userid 0) id E9C27C11A; Fri, 6 Oct 2000 04:02:25 -0400 (EDT) To: [EMAIL PR

Re: [newbie] Linux Format

2000-10-08 Thread Jay
On Sat, 07 Oct 2000, you wrote: > Jay wrote: > > > -- > > If anybody here reads Linux Format, the UK based Linux mag, then you already > > know this fact...Linux-Mandrake received a 10 out of 10 rating for 7.1. They > > called it the best distro around now. > > > > Jay > > "May the sound of happ

Re: [newbie] How do I find which version of xfree86 do I have?

2000-10-08 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Paul wrote: > > If you downloaded and installed xfree86 4.0, you'd know it. It is LARGE. > I don't believe it came with the 7.1 distro, but I am not certain (handed > the cd's to someone to copy mdk, so I can't check). > > Paul Hi Paul. Well, with the full distribution of v7.1 that I have, and p

Re: [newbie] Input Device Problems durring instalation!

2000-10-08 Thread Paul
It was Oct 7, 2000, 14:21, when Ambler Dee keyboarded: >(Durring instalation)just as the GUI stage of Mandrake 7.1 starts prompting you to >choose a language... my keyboard numlock key light goes out and the whole keyboard >stops responding. Plus there is no response from the mouse. > >P2400,16