Re: [newbie] how do I open....

2004-05-28 Thread M.Schild
Are you sure this is an Excel file? IF it is really an Excel file, it should open with OpenOffice, BUT the .exe file extension is *not* an Excel file - it is a Windows executable (program) file! I suggest you double-check with the sender before attempting to open it... Ye it is an Excel

[newbie] OT: notebook keyboard fonts peeled off?

2004-05-28 Thread Fajar Priyanto
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sorry for the OOT guys, Have you ever experienced that your notebook's keyboard fonts peeled off? I mean, my notebook now has a blank tut for what was once an A, and now also N, now has become a mere period. I have complained to Acer, but they

Re: [newbie] Remote Kontact

2004-05-28 Thread Derek Jennings
On Thursday 27 May 2004 23:38, Klemens Arro wrote: On Thursday 27 May 2004 08:02, Marc Lijour wrote: Le May 26, 2004 12:35 pm, robin a écrit : Klemens Arro wrote: Hy, I was wondering if there is a way to use my Kontact over web. So I could read my mail, check my appointments,

Re: [newbie] how do I open....

2004-05-28 Thread Margot
M.Schild wrote: Are you sure this is an Excel file? IF it is really an Excel file, it should open with OpenOffice, BUT the .exe file extension is *not* an Excel file - it is a Windows executable (program) file! I suggest you double-check with the sender before attempting to open it... Ye it is an

Re: [newbie] OT: notebook keyboard fonts peeled off?

2004-05-28 Thread Margot
Fajar Priyanto wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sorry for the OOT guys, Have you ever experienced that your notebook's keyboard fonts peeled off? I mean, my notebook now has a blank tut for what was once an A, and now also N, now has become a mere period. I have complained

Re: [newbie] postfix as local, firewall and rejected messages... long?

2004-05-28 Thread Derek Jennings
On Friday 28 May 2004 03:08, Terence Golightly wrote: List, Where do I begin? First was having no local mail delivery. I thought I'd install Postfix. So I went to Derek Jennings web site. Nice, but I just have a standalone machine with an ADSL connection. I read some of the docs setup

[newbie] Blueetooth network with Mandrake how ??

2004-05-28 Thread hertas
Dear Friends, I want to make network connection between my Laptop and Desktop computer at home. They both have usb bluetooth dongle. How can I make connection between these Computers and how can I reach to Internet with my Desktop Computer through the Laptop 's modem.?? Any help is appreciated.

RE: [newbie] Windows type domain with Mandrake 10

2004-05-28 Thread Yves Arsenault
Sure, that would probably be helpful. Thanks, Yves -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stephen Kuhn Sent: May 27, 2004 5:21 PM To: Mandrake Newbie Subject: Re: [newbie] Windows type domain with Mandrake 10 On Thu, 2004-05-27 at 21:53,

Re: [newbie] OT: notebook keyboard fonts peeled off?

2004-05-28 Thread Lee Wiggers
On Fri, 28 May 2004 14:24:10 +0700 Fajar Priyanto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sorry for the OOT guys, Have you ever experienced that your notebook's keyboard fonts peeled off? I mean, my notebook now has a blank tut for what was once an A, and

[newbie] Trashed Laptop

2004-05-28 Thread Drew Martin
Hi All, I need some tech help. A friend of mine has had her Windows XP Laptop trashed by a number of viri and Trojans a so called friend sent her.They have smashed her Firewall,and killed her AV scanner.The effect is she can no longer boot up at all. Is there any way I can boot up

[newbie] Autostart of Network Drivers through ndiswrapper

2004-05-28 Thread Jeff
I finally got my wireless linksys card working with ndiswrapper. My problem is that I have to set it up every time I login. I have the alias wlan0 ndiswrapper in /etc/modprobe.conf, and I setup an ifcfg-wlan0 in the network-scripts dir. After boot up I have to log in as root and do:

Re: [newbie] Blueetooth network with Mandrake how ??

2004-05-28 Thread Richard Urwin
On Friday 28 May 2004 11:58 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Friends, I want to make network connection between my Laptop and Desktop computer at home. They both have usb bluetooth dongle. How can I make connection between these Computers and how can I reach to Internet with my Desktop

Re: [newbie] Trashed Laptop

2004-05-28 Thread Richard Urwin
On Friday 28 May 2004 5:34 pm, Drew Martin wrote: Hi All, I need some tech help. A friend of mine has had her Windows XP Laptop trashed by a number of viri and Trojans a so called friend sent her.They have smashed her Firewall,and killed her AV scanner.The effect is she can no longer

Re: [newbie] OT: notebook keyboard fonts peeled off?

2004-05-28 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2004-05-28 at 17:24, Fajar Priyanto wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sorry for the OOT guys, Have you ever experienced that your notebook's keyboard fonts peeled off? I mean, my notebook now has a blank tut for what was once an A, and now also N, now has

Re: [newbie] how do I open....

2004-05-28 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2004-05-28 at 18:02, Margot wrote: M.Schild wrote: Are you sure this is an Excel file? IF it is really an Excel file, it should open with OpenOffice, BUT the .exe file extension is *not* an Excel file - it is a Windows executable (program) file! I suggest you double-check with the

RE: [newbie] Windows type domain with Mandrake 10

2004-05-28 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2004-05-28 at 21:11, Yves Arsenault wrote: Sure, that would probably be helpful. Thanks, Yves Bear in mind that you're going to have to create a group - for users that use this machine or have accounts on this machine - and sync them with the windows users. It ain't really that

RE: [newbie] Windows type domain with Mandrake 10

2004-05-28 Thread Yves Arsenault
Thank you very much Stephen. The adventure begins. :-) YVes -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stephen Kuhn Sent: May 28, 2004 2:48 PM To: Mandrake Newbie Subject: RE: [newbie] Windows type domain with Mandrake 10 On Fri, 2004-05-28 at

Re: [newbie] Trashed Laptop

2004-05-28 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sat, 2004-05-29 at 02:34, Drew Martin wrote: Hi All, I need some tech help. A friend of mine has had her Windows XP Laptop trashed by a number of viri and Trojans a so called friend sent her.They have smashed her Firewall,and killed her AV scanner.The effect is she can no longer

Re: [newbie] Trashed Laptop

2004-05-28 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Friday 28 May 2004 18:34, Drew Martin wrote: Hi All, I need some tech help. A friend of mine has had her Windows XP Laptop trashed by a number of viri and Trojans a so called friend sent her.They have smashed her Firewall,and killed her AV scanner.The effect is she can no longer

RE: [newbie] Windows type domain with Mandrake 10

2004-05-28 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sat, 2004-05-29 at 03:53, Yves Arsenault wrote: Thank you very much Stephen. The adventure begins. :-) YVes Yves, I think you'll have fun once you realise how simple it really is; Samba is truly a saviour in as much as it can not only emulate an NT domain but control one better than

Re: [newbie] Trashed Laptop

2004-05-28 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sat, 2004-05-29 at 04:05, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Maybe I'm a little too simplistic here, but if there is enough space on her laptop, you could try to install - at least a minimal - Mandrake on it. I think it is possible to shrink even a NTFS partition. And if your friend did what my

Re: [newbie] Trashed Laptop

2004-05-28 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Friday 28 May 2004 20:15, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sat, 2004-05-29 at 04:05, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Maybe I'm a little too simplistic here, but if there is enough space on her laptop, you could try to install - at least a minimal - Mandrake on it. I think it is possible to shrink even a

Re: [newbie] Trashed Laptop

2004-05-28 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sat, 2004-05-29 at 04:56, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Use Knoppix to boot, connect to a network, copy the data to a machine on the network, then blow it out completely. Safer than trying to resize a partition, eh? Abslutely right, Stephen. That is, if you have access to a server with

RE: [newbie] Windows type domain with Mandrake 10

2004-05-28 Thread Yves Arsenault
Cool. Thanks, I had already set up a couple of web servers and DNS servers, and I'm quite familiar with Webmin and have recently been much more comfortable with certain command line funtions. But I've never done anything with Samba. I can't wait to start. Yves -Original Message-

[newbie] application on internet explorer

2004-05-28 Thread di di
Hi, I am trying to sell an application that runs on Internet Information Server of Microsoft. My problem is that this forces me to show it under Internet Explorer on my notebook and I am using MDK 10 official in it!.I have heard of wine or winexbut I am not an experienced user of linux

Re: [newbie] Trashed Laptop

2004-05-28 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Friday 28 May 2004 21:12, Stephen Kuhn wrote: snip LAN. Maybe I'm just lucky enough to have a LAN here; no dial-up necessary - just an extra cable plugged into the router/switch. /snip You lucky bastard ;-) Kaj Haulrich. -- * Sent from a 100 % Microsoft-free computer * *

[newbie] Fail to burn Data DVD:s

2004-05-28 Thread Pedro Blom
Hello. When I try to burn a Data DVD with K3b in Mandrake 10.0 It fails and it says: :-( Failed to change write speed: 8310-11080 Fatal error at startup: Invalid argument I get this debugging output. System --- K3b Version: 0.11.6cvs KDE Version: 3.2 BRANCH = 20040204 QT

Re: [newbie] application on internet explorer

2004-05-28 Thread di di
Stephen... The problem is that the apliccation is based on asp encoding. And the libraries which were used are specific for Internet Explorer. The server is an HP 3000 NETSERVER running SQL ADVANCE SERVER. I have tried all those browser and none would comply. I hope I could be clearer... From:

Re: [newbie] application on internet explorer

2004-05-28 Thread di di
Stephen... The problem is that the apliccation is based on asp encoding. And the libraries which were used are specific for Internet Explorer. The server is an HP 3000 NETSERVER running SQL ADVANCE SERVER. I have tried all those browser and none would comply. I hope I could be clearer... From:

Re: [newbie] application on internet explorer

2004-05-28 Thread Brant Fitzsimmons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 di di wrote: Stephen... The problem is that the apliccation is based on asp encoding. And the libraries which were used are specific for Internet Explorer. The server is an HP 3000 NETSERVER running SQL ADVANCE SERVER. I have tried all those browser

Re: [newbie] application on internet explorer

2004-05-28 Thread Mike Coppins
di di wrote: Stephen... The problem is that the apliccation is based on asp encoding. And the libraries which were used are specific for Internet Explorer. The server is an HP 3000 NETSERVER running SQL ADVANCE SERVER. I have tried all those browser and none would comply. I hope I could be

[newbie] Mandrake 10 - two IP addresses on one NIC?

2004-05-28 Thread Mike Coppins
How do I configure a NIC to have two IP addresses? The GUI-based configuration system only allows one per adapter seemingly. -- Mike Coppins [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mikeymike.org.uk/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?

Re: [newbie] Autostart of Network Drivers through ndiswrapper

2004-05-28 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Friday 28 May 2004 18:50, Jeff wrote: I finally got my wireless linksys card working with ndiswrapper. My problem is that I have to set it up every time I login. I have the alias wlan0 ndiswrapper in /etc/modprobe.conf, and I setup an ifcfg-wlan0 in the network-scripts dir. After boot up

Re: [newbie] Trashed Laptop

2004-05-28 Thread Drew Martin
On Friday 28 May 2004 21:16, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Friday 28 May 2004 21:36, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sat, 2004-05-29 at 05:26, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Friday 28 May 2004 21:12, Stephen Kuhn wrote: snip LAN. Maybe I'm just lucky enough to have a LAN here; no dial-up

Re: [newbie] Trashed Laptop

2004-05-28 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Saturday 29 May 2004 00:32, Drew Martin wrote:     Any hows this for a bright idea,Dawn has only one file she realy care about,would in be possible to plug my cable modem into the laptop and email the file or FTP it to online account,such as Lycos,which she can access from XP if and when

Re: [newbie] Trashed Laptop

2004-05-28 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Saturday 29 May 2004 00:32, Drew Martin wrote: snip Any hows this for a bright idea,Dawn has only one file she realy care about,would in be possible to plug my cable modem into the laptop and email the file or FTP it to online account,such as Lycos,which she can access from XP if and

Re: [newbie] postfix as local, firewall and rejected messages... long?

2004-05-28 Thread Terence Golightly
On Fri, 2004-05-28 at 04:15, Derek Jennings wrote: snip Derek, I did a little more snooping. See below: Hi Terry I'll revise my page to make it clear that Port 25 needs to be open in the firewall. I know others have been caught out like that. No it will not compromise your security. If

Re: [newbie] Trashed Laptop

2004-05-28 Thread Drew Martin
On Friday 28 May 2004 23:56, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Saturday 29 May 2004 00:32, Drew Martin wrote: snip Any hows this for a bright idea,Dawn has only one file she realy care about,would in be possible to plug my cable modem into the laptop and email the file or FTP it to online

Re: [newbie] postfix as local, firewall and rejected messages... long?

2004-05-28 Thread Derek Jennings
On Friday 28 May 2004 23:42, Terence Golightly wrote: SNIP Which file do I use to set this variable? I was using webmin to attempt administration. It is in /etc/postfix/main.cf but you can use webminGeneralOptions'What domains to receive mail for' May 28 17:59:07 tbox

Re: [newbie] Help can't get root access - am I buggered now??!! :-(

2004-05-28 Thread Robert Walker
Thursday, May 27, 2004, 11:50:42 PM, you wrote: Robert Walker wrote: Hello all, I was trying to increase the security of my Linux box (famous last words). I am running Mandrake 9.2 set for console login (run level 3). I was reading an article about stopping root logins for Red Hat Linux

Re: [newbie] application on internet explorer

2004-05-28 Thread Derek Jennings
On Friday 28 May 2004 20:21, di di wrote: Hi, I am trying to sell an application that runs on Internet Information Server of Microsoft. My problem is that this forces me to show it under Internet Explorer on my notebook and I am using MDK 10 official in it!.I have heard of wine or

Re: [newbie] postfix as local, firewall and rejected messages... long?

2004-05-28 Thread Terence Golightly
Derek, Thanks again. I'll fiddle some more with it tonight and let the list know my results. Terry Terry Golightly ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... Pittsburgh, Pa Mandrake Linux release 10.0 (Official) for i586 kernel 2.6.3-9mdk-i686-up-4GB 19:44:21 up 2 days, 2:25, 2 users, load average: 0.12,

[newbie] recieving 56K dial up connections

2004-05-28 Thread Aidan Holmes
Can anyone tell me if it's possible to configure my MDK 10.0 machine to mimick an ISP's behaviour and recieve a dial up connection request with my external modem, then sharing my LAN internet connection with this machine. I use MDK on my test computer at work, it is on the shop LAN and we are

Re: [newbie] application on internet explorer

2004-05-28 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sat, 2004-05-29 at 06:54, di di wrote: Stephen... The problem is that the apliccation is based on asp encoding. And the libraries which were used are specific for Internet Explorer. The server is an HP 3000 NETSERVER running SQL ADVANCE SERVER. I have tried all those browser and none