[newbie] Accessing my files at home ??

2001-09-18 Thread Adam Cripps
I'm at work today, and realised that I needed a file which is on my machine at home -doh! Today it's ok because I've asked my wife to email me the file. But she's always reluctant to do this, as she's got her hands full with our twin boys. :-) How easy would it be to turn on my home computer,

Re: [newbie] Accessing my files at home ??

2001-09-18 Thread Adam Cripps
Sorry, I didn't make it clear that my wife could just log on the net - give me the IP and I'm away - so, in fact, I wouldn't want those things to be automatic. Adam --- etharp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: my advice is to run appache on the home computer, set any folders you want to be allowed

[newbie] Installing software problems

2001-09-15 Thread Adam Cripps
Ok, this is my first installation from a tar.gz file, so it's all a bit complicated. I decided to take on a nice easy simple installation that would really help me - imwheel - which enables the wheel on your mouse. So, I managed to gzip and then tar, which created a directory. I cd'ed into

[newbie] Grub problems

2001-09-14 Thread Adam Cripps
I installed a lnx4win Mandrake 8.0 on a pc, which would load a text bootloader fine. However, when I decided to uninstall, I deleted the lnx4win folder (in windows) and rebooted. Grub still starts and then, being a complete newbie, I don't know how to get past it. Is there any way of getting