[newbie] Mandrake 9.1 and local area connection icon ?

2004-10-09 Thread Miroslav Skoric
Gentle folks, It makes me wonder if there is something similar to Windows taskbar icon for local area connections (speed: , sent: ___, received: ___ ) but for MDK 9.1 KDE's panel? In fact, I get something like that when a dial up connection is established, but would like to have it with

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.1 and local area connection icon ?

2004-10-09 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Sat, 2004-10-09 at 16:10, Miroslav Skoric wrote: Gentle folks, It makes me wonder if there is something similar to Windows taskbar icon for local area connections (speed: , sent: ___, received: ___ ) but for MDK 9.1 KDE's panel? In fact, I get something like that when a dial

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.1 and local area connection icon ?

2004-10-09 Thread mike
Miroslav Skoric wrote: Gentle folks, It makes me wonder if there is something similar to Windows taskbar icon for local area connections (speed: , sent: ___, received: ___ ) but for MDK 9.1 KDE's panel? In fact, I get something like that when a dial up connection is established,

Re: [newbie] Dual booting with XP

2004-10-09 Thread Keith Powell
On Thursday 07 Oct 2004 19:33, Keith Powell wrote: I am trying to wean a friend off Windows and on to Mandrake, so I have sent him a set of Mandrake CDs to install. He was supposed to install it on its own hard drive, but has changed his mind and wants it on the same drive as WindowsXP. I

[newbie] Problem with playing certain wmv files with Totem

2004-10-09 Thread Paul Smith
Dear All Some wmv files are not played with Totem. Where from could I get the appropriate pug-in (if it exists) so that Totem can play all wmp files? Thanks in advance, Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] how to move mail from KMail (MDK10) to windows

2004-10-09 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 09 Oct 2004 01:30, g2 wrote: Hi folks, I am in a situation where I would like to move all the saved messages I have in KDE mail into a program under windows. I think I might be using the mozilla thunderbird. I do have a fat32 partition that I can see from both the linux and

RE: [newbie] PPPD fails to connect [LCP Config-Requests timeout?]

2004-10-09 Thread Robert Lucencic
Hi, John. Still nothing. KPPP started PPPD, which now actually does something (receives!!!): Oct 9 11:44:08 case pppd[6753]: pppd 2.4.2 started by root, uid 0 Oct 9 11:44:08 case pppd[6753]: using channel 1 Oct 9 11:44:08 case pppd[6753]: Using interface ppp0 Oct 9 11:44:08 case pppd[6753]:

[newbie] Re: Problem with playing certain wmv files with Totem

2004-10-09 Thread Paul Smith
On Sat, 9 Oct 2004 10:18:07 +0100, Paul Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Some wmv files are not played with Totem. Where from could I get the appropriate pug-in (if it exists) so that Totem can play all wmp files? It seems that, after installing xine-win32, the wmv file that I could not play

Re: [newbie] how to move mail from KMail (MDK10) to windows

2004-10-09 Thread Amichai Rotman
Hi Gideon, I don't see why you would like to use such an inferior OS, but... we're here to help - no to pass judgment... ;-) I'm sure Thunderbird supports MBOX format (even Eudora does), so your best bet would be to convert all respective mailboxes to MBOX format (just create a new mailbox

[newbie] executing in the network

2004-10-09 Thread rn001
Hi all; Perhaps this is not an easy question. I don't know. I would like to know if it is possible form the bash to give any statement to execute MS-DOS programs in other computers in the windows network. (I' ve mounted the remote folders tree in /home/javier/smb4k/PCw2k_12/doc_javier) I mean:

Re: [newbie] executing in the network

2004-10-09 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Saturday 09 October 2004 13:44, rn001 wrote: Hi all; Perhaps this is not an easy question. I don't know. I would like to know if it is possible form the bash to give any statement to execute MS-DOS programs in other computers in the windows network. (I' ve mounted the remote folders tree

Re: [newbie] PPPD fails to connect [LCP Config-Requests timeout?]

2004-10-09 Thread John Rye
On Sat, 09 Oct 2004 12:30:45 +0200 Robert Lucencic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, John. Still nothing. KPPP started PPPD, which now actually does something (receives!!!): Ok, [large snip] Let's go back to basics with a few questions. Why did you change from the external modem? They are

[newbie] Network lesson

2004-10-09 Thread aron Smith
OKie Dokie I finaly got both my boxes talking to the internet Now for my next learning experience I would like to use the printer on the first box to print from the second box (Thru a D-Link 604 router) Any one have a How-to on this ? TIA smitty

[newbie] unable to mount/read floppy

2004-10-09 Thread Johan
Hi, Now for years I have seen people having problems with their floppy drive..well now it has happened to me. I have various flavours of linux on this HD..suse 9.1 - mdk 10.0 - ubuntu warty and no problem with floppy. Today installed mdk 10.1 CE. Here is the entry in fstab..looks the exact same

Re: [newbie] Network lesson

2004-10-09 Thread et
On Saturday 09 October 2004 12:21, aron Smith wrote: OKie Dokie I finaly got both my boxes talking to the internet Now for my next learning experience I would like to use the printer on the first box to print from the second box (Thru a D-Link 604 router) Any one have a How-to on this ? TIA

Re: [newbie] Network lesson

2004-10-09 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 09 Oct 2004 17:21, aron Smith wrote: OKie Dokie I finaly got both my boxes talking to the internet Now for my next learning experience I would like to use the printer on the first box to print from the second box (Thru a D-Link 604 router) Any one have a How-to on this ? TIA

[newbie] logrotate question

2004-10-09 Thread Chris
I've setup logrotate to rotate my /var/log/snort/session.log daily and mail it to me. For some reason its being rotated but not but the old log isn't being mailed, however, I have the same setup for rkhunter that sends me the output of rkhunter after its run as a cron job and before its

Re: [newbie] how to move mail from KMail (MDK10) to windows

2004-10-09 Thread g2
Thanks folks. Yes, I thought I might get more flack for my message than I did. As far as the port, I have since looked at the site for thunderbird, which BTW works on win/mac/linux and it looks like it should be easy to move the mail. I haven't tried it yet, and will certainly return here if I

Re: [newbie] unable to mount/read floppy

2004-10-09 Thread Hoyt Bailey
On Saturday 09 October 2004 11:23, Johan wrote: Hi, Now for years I have seen people having problems with their floppy drive..well now it has happened to me. I have various flavours of linux on this HD..suse 9.1 - mdk 10.0 - ubuntu warty and no problem with floppy. Today installed mdk 10.1

Re: [newbie] unable to mount/read floppy

2004-10-09 Thread Johan
On Sat, 2004-10-09 at 12:07 -0500, Hoyt Bailey wrote: On Saturday 09 October 2004 11:23, Johan wrote: Hi, Now for years I have seen people having problems with their floppy drive..well now it has happened to me. I have various flavours of linux on this HD..suse 9.1 - mdk 10.0 - ubuntu

Re: [newbie] how to move mail from KMail (MDK10) to windows

2004-10-09 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 09 Oct 2004 17:43, g2 wrote: I can definitely reccomend Mandrake to people switching who want to do basic computer functions and not install allot of new software and change things around. Installation was easy and the system and software were very usable. As I'm sure you

Re: [newbie] unable to mount/read floppy

2004-10-09 Thread Hoyt Bailey
On Saturday 09 October 2004 12:27, Johan wrote: On Sat, 2004-10-09 at 12:07 -0500, Hoyt Bailey wrote: On Saturday 09 October 2004 11:23, Johan wrote: Hi, Now for years I have seen people having problems with their floppy drive..well now it has happened to me. I have various

Re: [newbie] logrotate question

2004-10-09 Thread mike
Chris wrote: I've setup logrotate to rotate my /var/log/snort/session.log daily and mail it to me. For some reason its being rotated but not but the old log isn't being mailed, however, I have the same setup for rkhunter that sends me the output of rkhunter after its run as a cron job

Re: [newbie] logrotate question

2004-10-09 Thread Chris
On Saturday 09 October 2004 01:29 pm, mike wrote: Chris wrote: I've setup logrotate to rotate my /var/log/snort/session.log daily and mail it to me. For some reason its being rotated but not but the old log isn't being mailed, however, I have the same setup for rkhunter that sends me the

Re: [newbie] Network lesson

2004-10-09 Thread JoeHill
On Sat, 9 Oct 2004 09:21:28 -0700 aron Smith disseminated the following: OKie Dokie I finaly got both my boxes talking to the internet Now for my next learning experience I would like to use the printer on the first box to print from the second box (Thru a D-Link 604 router) Any one have a

Re: [newbie] Re: Dual Boot Dual HDD

2004-10-09 Thread SnapafunFrank
Adam Messinger wrote: I'm on my work PC, and hence don't have access to Linux for confirmation of this, but I think there's a way to solve your problem in Mandrake Control Center. There should be a Boot category, or something similar, that you can click on in MCC. Under this you should find an

Re: [newbie] how to move mail from KMail (MDK10) to windows

2004-10-09 Thread g2
Anne, Thanks for your message. Yes, I had set up urmp with some additional sources, I am pretty sure including a plf source. However I still found it difficult to browse for software. What I found myself wanting, no doubt from my past experiences with other OS's, were lists of software by

RE: [newbie] re: Allowing SSHD to accept outside connections

2004-10-09 Thread Michael Viron
snip You can also prohibit login by root user by putting the line PermitRootLogin no in /etc/sshd_config (It might be the default I do not remember) snip As of 10.0 (possibly earlier than that) the sshd_config file is under /etc/ssh/sshd_config. You are correct that it does set PermitRootLogin

RE: [newbie] unable to mount/read floppy

2004-10-09 Thread Michael Viron
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hoyt Bailey Sent: Saturday, October 09, 2004 12:08 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] unable to mount/read floppy On Saturday 09 October 2004 11:23, Johan wrote: Hi, Now for years I have seen

RE: [newbie] Partitioning new HD

2004-10-09 Thread Michael Viron
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Kaplan Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2004 4:43 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Partitioning new HD I suggest increasing / to 10-15Mb, then putting everything but /home there. I find this

Re: [newbie] Network lesson

2004-10-09 Thread John Layt
On Sun, 10 Oct 2004 02:21, aron Smith wrote: OKie Dokie I finaly got both my boxes talking to the internet Now for my next learning experience I would like to use the printer on the first box to print from the second box (Thru a D-Link 604 router) Any one have a How-to on this ? TIA smitty