[newbie] samba as DC

2004-05-19 Thread hugenots
Haiz newbie, can someone mail me working smb.conf file as domain contoler and please point out things I have to be avare of while setting up my own DC. force, my friend, is violence! hugenots [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] 10.0 slower than 9.2?

2004-05-19 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
John Drouhard wrote: On Fri, 2004-05-14 at 09:55 +0200, Raffaele BELARDI wrote: Simple test: same movies that in 9.2 played fine and smooth in 10.0 skip LOTS of frames What video card do you have? If it's an nvidia card, you might need to Nope, it's an ATI Radeon 7xxx (don't remember exact

RE: [newbie] 10.0 slower than 9.2?

2004-05-19 Thread Tony S. Sykes
For the day I had 10 running (many moons ago) it was noticeably faster than 9.2. The gui was nearly there before I clicked the button or hovered over the icon, I didn't do very much in it though before I rebooted and lost X. It was like I said noticeably faster. Tony. -Original

Re: [newbie] Gnome 2.6?

2004-05-19 Thread emnej
Marco Verheul wrote: On Mon, 2004-05-10 at 23:34, Todd Slater wrote: Anybody running Gnome 2.6? I tried it out on a livecd, gnoppix, and was greatly impressed by it--great ui, everything was where I expected it, great options for mime-types and such, the file manager was actually rather fast.

[newbie] AutoCAD2000LT

2004-05-19 Thread Frank
Hi I am attempting to get AutoCAD2000LT up and running within the Wine installation of Mandrake10 Official. To date I have copied the contents of WinMe~ C:\Windows\System and \System32 over to Wine's like folders, I have downloaded and installed the Visual Basic Script thingy and have also

[newbie] Directory Structure

2004-05-19 Thread Betti Ann Preston Smith
I am about to install Mandrake and need some advice on the directory structure I should us. I have a 6 Gig drive which I will dedicate to Linux use. I plan to keep any data that should be used by both W98 and Linux in a separate 5 Gig Fat partition on another drive. I would like to be able to

Re: [newbie] Directory Structure

2004-05-19 Thread Marc Hultquist
You want to install both MDK and Fedora on 1 6 Gig harddrive? I don't know how others feel, but I personally feel that you are pushing the limits here in terms of space :\ Last time I tried fedora on a development machine, it took up a decent amount of space, and well I just don't think I would

Re: [newbie] Directory Structure

2004-05-19 Thread Betti Ann Preston Smith
Marc - Thanks - that is the type of info this newbie needs. Assuming then that I install just one distro, what directory/partition structure should I use and what size should they be? Preston At 09:31 AM 5/19/04, Marc Hultquist wrote: You want to install both MDK and Fedora on 1 6 Gig

Re: [newbie] recording records to hard drive

2004-05-19 Thread eric jackson
- Original Message - From: Aron Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 17, 2004 8:30 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] recording records to hard drive On Monday 17 May 2004 02:28 pm, eric jackson wrote: Hi, I'm trying to record some of my old record albums to my

Re: [newbie] Directory Structure

2004-05-19 Thread David A. Ferguson
Marc - Thanks - that is the type of info this newbie needs. Assuming then that I install just one distro, what directory/partition structure should I use and what size should they be? Preston At 09:31 AM 5/19/04, Marc Hultquist wrote: You want to install both MDK and Fedora on 1 6 Gig

Re: [newbie] Directory Structure

2004-05-19 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
David A. Ferguson wrote: The easyest thing is to have one swap partition and one partition mounted at '/'. This has the advantage of not forcing you to guess how much space to allocate to / v.s /usr. David Not very good idea. At least you should divide / and /home in separate partitions,

Re: [newbie] Directory Structure

2004-05-19 Thread Marc Hultquist
I have to agree with other replies on the list. I would basically for a simple setup do as follows: / - Root Partition /home -Home Direcroties /swap -Rule of thumb, your swap partition is twice the size of your ram, of course it can be bigger. -- Marc Hultquist ComputerKit Systems (Pty) Ltd

Re: [newbie] recording records to hard drive

2004-05-19 Thread eric jackson
- Original Message - From: Josenildo Marques [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 17, 2004 6:02 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] recording records to hard drive On Mon, 2004-05-17 at 18:28, eric jackson wrote: Hi, I'm trying to record some of my old record albums to

Re: [newbie] Directory Structure

2004-05-19 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Wednesday 19 May 2004 08:42 am, Betti Ann Preston Smith wrote: Marc - Thanks - that is the type of info this newbie needs. Assuming then that I install just one distro, what directory/partition structure should I use and what size should they be? Preston At 09:31 AM 5/19/04, Marc

Re: [newbie] XFree86-DRI

2004-05-19 Thread Ron Hunter-Duvar
On May 11, 2004 10:35, Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: I'm trying to install the KDE game mahjongg 3D (http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=12553PHPSESSID=23d79a4e78002 9a6433767155a41f066) ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] rhd]$ /opt/games/bin/mahjongg3d-hires Xlib: extension XFree86-DRI missing on

Re: [newbie] defraging

2004-05-19 Thread Michael Tienhaara
Thanks to everyone for all the replies. Regards, Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

[newbie] Package to turn off the LCD monitor of a Notebok

2004-05-19 Thread Donato
Hi to everyone, I have Mandrake 9.2 on My Notebook Compaq evo 1020v, and i have enabled the screensaver that automatically turn off the monitor. But when this happen, i see that the LCD isn't really off because a thin light comes from the LCD while when i use Windows XP it turns all off (at the

[newbie] MDK 10 Final ISOs?

2004-05-19 Thread Amichai Rotman
Hi there, Is it possible to get MDK 10 Final as an ISO image? The official MDK site lists only the files - no ISO... Thanks, ::. Amichai Rotman The Jerusalem Linux Club - Founder. UIN#: 6401746 Registered Linux User#: 201192

Re: [newbie] recording records to hard drive

2004-05-19 Thread John Richard Smith
eric jackson wrote: - Original Message - From: Josenildo Marques [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 17, 2004 6:02 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] recording records to hard drive On Mon, 2004-05-17 at 18:28, eric jackson wrote: Hi, I'm trying to record some of my

Re: [newbie] geforce mx4000/nvidia

2004-05-19 Thread robin
frankieh wrote: John wrote: Hello Would appreciate any information or links that would help with installation and setup of a new video card. I am running md10 official with 2.6.3-7 kernel. I thought the nvidia drivers were included on the installation cd's but can't locate them. Thanks in

Re: [newbie] KPPP: Kernel PPP support

2004-05-19 Thread Katinka Peter
On Wednesday 19 May 2004 01:16, et wrote: On Thursday 29 April 2004 01:55 am, Katinka Peter wrote: On Wednesday 28 April 2004 09:26 am, Katinka Peter wrote: Since I`ve updated from 8.2 to 10.0 Official, I cannot connect to the internet anymore. When I try to connect using KPPP, the

[newbie] Mdk-10-official! bittorrent problem! (cd1-cd3 only!)

2004-05-19 Thread Ricardo Castanho de Oliveira Freitas
Hi! I'm in trouble because I can't download the official mdk10-CD1-CD3!!! ALL the OTHERS are functioning perfectly! i.e., bittorrent and etc!! The link for mdk10-CD4 is working correctly! As a club member, I thought I could, but is there any catch? Any Help? Ricardo Castanho --

Re: [newbie] dev file question

2004-05-19 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Grant wrote: Hello! I had my win modem working with penggy to dial up to AOL, but every time I restarted the computer I had to: rm /dev/modem because there was a different symlink in there, and then: ln -s /dev/modem /dev/tts/LT0 This worked great for a while, but yesterday things were acting

Re: [newbie] 10.0 slower than 9.2?

2004-05-19 Thread Ron Hunter-Duvar
On May 14, 2004 01:55, Raffaele BELARDI wrote: ... I remember somebody defining 10.0 speed daemon so I was quite negatively impressed by my results. Has anybody noticed such bad performance? raffaele I never used Mdk 9, but I can tell you I was impressed with the speed of 10.0, both CE and

Re: [newbie] Package to turn off the LCD monitor of a Notebok

2004-05-19 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Donato wrote: Hi to everyone, I have Mandrake 9.2 on My Notebook Compaq evo 1020v, and i have enabled the screensaver that automatically turn off the monitor. But when this happen, i see that the LCD isn't really off because a thin light comes from the LCD while when i use Windows XP it turns

[newbie] another colour calibration tool

2004-05-19 Thread Josenildo Marques
Unlike Kgamma, Scarse is not related to KDE. To download and install it, just use urpmi or grab it from here http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/17/dept/2/idg/Graphics For more info, go to http://www.scarse.org/adjust/ -- josenildo marques icq #289971493 homepage http://cyb.ezdir.net

Re: [newbie] [OT possibly and quite long] Well I won't do that again...

2004-05-19 Thread Derek Jennings
On Thursday 20 May 2004 01:16, Asa Rossoff wrote: Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Your trouble with upstream SMTP servers rejecting your mail may be because thet are doing a reverse DNS lookup as an anti spam measure. They look at the domain name in your headers, scoop.local and do a

Re: [newbie] [OT possibly and quite long] Well I won't do that again...

2004-05-19 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Wednesday 19 May 2004 08:16 pm, Asa Rossoff wrote: I've heard this rumor before, but I have never had any problems with mail delivery direct to various smtp servers as long as I had a fully-qualified domain name on my machine. I am not aware of isp's that validate by reverse-lookup before

[newbie] Dumb Newbie Question

2004-05-19 Thread Edgars Smits
OK, so I'm a real newbie. I've been running 10CE (still waiting for my 10 official DVD to be delivered), wanted to upgrade to Gnome 2.6. Decide to try it myself, using a site in Germany that had 299 RPM's. To make a long story short, I totally hosed up Gnome - to the extent that I can no

[newbie] Checking disk size from C

2004-05-19 Thread Mike Adolf
Greetings If I do 'df' if get /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/part7 49G 755M 48G 2% /home Says I have 48G free. If I run a C program calling statfs(/home, fs), I get: type of filesystem = 61267 optimal transfer block size = 4096 total data blocks in file system=

Re: [newbie] Why is my FAT always corrupted

2004-05-19 Thread David E. Fox
On Mon, 17 May 2004 17:52:23 -0500 David A. Ferguson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the tip. I will look in syslog the next time it happens. I ran a surface scan of the disk and it said ok. I don't know how to test the RAM but I haven't had any other problems at all so I would bet

[newbie] Option glx missing

2004-05-19 Thread David E. Fox
Since installing 10.0 Community, I've occasionally gotten messages from xlib saying that the glx extension is missing on display 0:0. Looking for this, I find in /etc/X11 the main configuration file for Xfree86, and furthermore, in the Modules option, a number of load statements, which did not

Re: [newbie] Dumb Newbie Question

2004-05-19 Thread John Drouhard
On Wed, 2004-05-19 at 22:24 -0400, Edgars Smits wrote: OK, so I'm a real newbie. I've been running 10CE (still waiting for my 10 official DVD to be delivered), wanted to upgrade to Gnome 2.6. Decide to try it myself, using a site in Germany that had 299 RPM's. To make a long story short, I

Re: [newbie] [OT possibly and quite long] Well I won't do that again...

2004-05-19 Thread Asa Rossoff
Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Thursday 20 May 2004 01:16, Asa Rossoff wrote: Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Your trouble with upstream SMTP servers rejecting your mail may be because thet are doing a reverse DNS lookup as an anti spam measure. They look at the