[newbie] Samba vs LinNieghborhood

2003-10-02 Thread Burrows, Scott
Hi all, I have my MDK 9.1 box connected to our Windows network here at work using Samba. From a windows box I can see my linux box on the network. Using Samba alone should I be able to browse the windows network? Currently I dont seem to be able to. If yes can I log onto the Windows network

RE: [newbie] Samba vs LinNieghborhood

2003-10-02 Thread Burrows, Scott
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Samba vs LinNieghborhood On Thursday 02 Oct 2003 7:46 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Derek Jennings wrote: On Thursday 02 Oct 2003 6:25 pm, Burrows, Scott wrote: Hi all, I have my MDK 9.1 box connected to our Windows network here

RE: [newbie] network problem?

2003-10-01 Thread Burrows, Scott
Is it necessary for me to mount everything I wish to be able to see? I'd like to be able to browse the entire Windows network that my MDK 9.1 box is attached to. How can I do that? Surely not by mounting every resource. Scott -Original Message- From: Raffaele Belardi

RE: [newbie] network problem?

2003-09-24 Thread Burrows, Scott
Forgive my ignorance Paul, insn't Samba used to allow Windows users to connect to and use Linux stuff? Scott -Original Message- From: Paul Kaplan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2003 9:39 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] network problem? I am

[newbie] Single passsword access

2003-09-23 Thread Burrows, Scott
Hi all, I work on a windows lan. I have a an MDK 9.1 box that I'd like to give access to all the windows rescoures like: printers, windows boxes, etc. I set up a printer using the cups system but had to supply that system with a userid and password to access the lan. If I mount a share

RE: [newbie] somehow someway somewhere...

2003-09-23 Thread Burrows, Scott
ROFL -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2003 2:33 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] somehow someway somewhere... I love y'all. I do. But I think it's time we start seeing other user groups. (How the

[newbie] Hooking into Windows

2003-09-19 Thread Burrows, Scott
Hi all, Were on a Windoze netework on Win2k boxes here. I have a 2nd box that is MKD 9.1 that I connected to the Windows LAN with no problems. I wanted to access some the Windows resources like printers or other computers so I, using LinNeighborhood, created some mapped or mounted network

[newbie] Hooking into Windows

2003-09-19 Thread Burrows, Scott
Hi all, Were on a Windoze netework on Win2k boxes here. I have a 2nd box that is MKD 9.1 that I connected to the Windows LAN with no problems. I wanted to access some the Windows resources like printers or other computers so I, using LinNeighborhood, created some mapped or mounted network

RE: [newbie] GMO foods

2003-07-29 Thread Burrows, Scott
Is this list moderated? Time to put Farm Boy out to pasture. :) Listen, I love tomatoes as much as the next guy but go hug a tree on your own time cuz we're here to talk about Linux. :) Scott -Original Message- From: Cornerstone Community Farm [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday,

RE: [newbie] GMO foods

2003-07-28 Thread Burrows, Scott
The Linux list sometimes delves into all kinds of off-topic discussions, but we try to take the long-winded talks private or to the OT list Are you kidding? You dont think your original post was not a long-winded diatribe about certain vegtables you appear to have problems with? I'm just

[newbie] Screen saver disappears

2003-07-21 Thread Burrows, Scott
Hi all, Running MDK 9.1 and KDE here. I downloaded a screen saver (The Matrix - very nice), the instructions said to copy the file KMatrix.desktop to /usr/share/applnk-mdk/.hidden/ScreenSavers. Also copy the file kmatrix.kss to /usr/bin. It all works fine. When I look at the sceensavers

[newbie] Network activity indicator

2003-07-10 Thread Burrows, Scott
Hi all, I'm using MDK 9.1. Love it. Is there any way to have a network activity indicator in the task bar at the bottom, similar to to the two network computers that turn on/off when there is network traffic on a Windoz box? That is one small feature about Windoz that I liked. Scott Want to

[newbie] Preventing Popups

2003-07-01 Thread Burrows, Scott
Stephen, How do u prevent the porno popups with Linux? Wife loves it because THERE AIN'T NO MORE PORNO POP-UPS when she's seriously surfing... Thanks Scott Burrows GSBE/EDIView/BSBE OSM Support perotsystems(tm) Office: 407 804-3208 Pager: 407-400-0197 Fax:407-804-3340 E-Mail

RE: [newbie] Vote for Mandrake!

2003-06-26 Thread Burrows, Scott
RANT Mandrake IS popular. Don't base your opinion on how popular Mandrake upon a Novell survey. Geeze before yesturday I don't think I've ever been to Novell's site. No reason to go. How many MDK'ers arn't voting because THEY never go to Novells site and have no idea there's a poll being

RE: [newbie] How to run script on KDE start?

2003-06-26 Thread Burrows, Scott
Stephen, I don't seem to have an autostart under /yourname/Destktop/ I do have an autostart under /home/yourname/.kde/Autostart Is that what you meant? Scott -Original Message- From: Stephen Kuhn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2003 6:40 PM To: newb-mdk Subject: Re:

RE: [newbie] Tip of the Day

2003-06-13 Thread Burrows, Scott
Nice tip. My ye 'ole Book of Knowledge has been enriched. Thanks Joe. Scott -Original Message- From: eric huff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 13, 2003 12:35 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Tip of the Day On Thu June 12 2003 09:07 pm, JoeHill wrote: nohup

[newbie] AOL ID

2003-05-30 Thread Burrows, Scott
Stephen, Do you have a AOL IM id? I have some offline questions for you. Scott -Original Message- From: Stephen Kuhn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2003 9:09 PM To: Mandrake Newbie Subject: Re: [newbie] Creating archive On Wed, 2003-05-28 at 18:56, Anne Wilson

RE: [newbie] AOL ID

2003-05-30 Thread Burrows, Scott
Stephen Kuhn. -Original Message- From: Burrows, Scott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2003 11:10 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] AOL ID Stephen, Do you have a AOL IM id? I have some offline questions for you. Scott -Original Message- From

[newbie] Help! I've killed KDE.

2002-04-17 Thread Burrows, Scott
Hey all, On my MD 8.2 system while I was attempting to get my internet connection working the speaker started a continuously repeating system beep. It was as if I was holding down the delete key when there was nothing there to delete. The system hung when I attempted to reboot it. I powered

RE: [newbie] Help! I've killed KDE.

2002-04-17 Thread Burrows, Scott
-0500 Burrows, Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey all, On my MD 8.2 system while I was attempting to get my internet connection working the speaker started a continuously repeating system beep. It was as if I was holding down the delete key when there was nothing there to delete. The system

[newbie] What file do I change?

2002-04-11 Thread Burrows, Scott
Hi all, Running MD 8.2 here. What file would the the root user modify if he wanted the change to be seen by users when they logged in? For example if you wanted them to see a Fortune Cookie message. Thanks Scott Burrows GSBE/EDIView/BSBE OSM Support perotsystems(tm) Office: 407

RE: [newbie] What file do I change?

2002-04-11 Thread Burrows, Scott
Thanks Sridhar! Scott -Original Message- From: Sridhar Dhanapalan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2002 10:23 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] What file do I change? On Thu, 11 Apr 2002 08:10:23 -0500, Burrows, Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all

[newbie] Any email clients that work with M$ mail server?

2002-04-09 Thread Burrows, Scott
Hi all, I am envisioning converting our company to Linux but I need an Outlook like client that works with MS mail server. Why? To convince management to do this we must first convert individual desktops, after that we can go after the mail servers. So is there a mail client like MS Outlook

RE: [newbie] KDE3.0 - For Tester

2002-04-08 Thread Burrows, Scott
Civ, Will that LN you created below dissappear if you reboot? Should it also be written in a .conf file somewhere? Scott -Original Message- From: tester [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2002 6:32 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] KDE3.0 On Thu,

[newbie] DCOP broken link

2002-03-20 Thread Burrows, Scott
I just reinstalled MD 8.1, reformatting all partitions in the process. The install went fine. I started KDE, then opened a terminal window and did a ls -a and it shows a broken DCOP server link. Why? My .xsession-errors file says: _KDE_IceTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.ICE-unix should be set to

RE: [newbie] What is ICE and DCOP?

2002-03-18 Thread Burrows, Scott
? On Fri, 2002-03-15 at 11:21, Burrows, Scott wrote: Hey all, Newbie question here. I have a MD8.1 system. What are the following files in my home folder for? If they are corrupted or deleted what happens to the system? 1) ICEauthority 2) DCOPserver_localhost.localdomain_0

[newbie] What is ICE and DCOP?

2002-03-15 Thread Burrows, Scott
Hey all, Newbie question here. I have a MD8.1 system. What are the following files in my home folder for? If they are corrupted or deleted what happens to the system? 1) ICEauthority 2) DCOPserver_localhost.localdomain_0: Thanks Scott Burrows GSBE/EDIView/BSBE OSM Support

RE: [newbie] Resend: KDE does not come up.

2002-03-15 Thread Burrows, Scott
14, 2002 5:08 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Resend: KDE does not come up. Burrows, Scott wrote: Civilme, I was foolishly snooting around my MD8.1 system, which was working fine, as root and now KDE wont come up. Never had a problem before with it. It stops with a message

[newbie] KDE wont start

2002-03-14 Thread Burrows, Scott
Hi all, I was foolishly snooting around my MD8.1 system, which was working fine, as root and now KDE wont come up. Never had a problem before with it. It stops with a message at the splash screen. The application The KDE Splash Screen (ksplash) crashed and caused the signal 11 (SIGSEGV).

[newbie] Why Kroot error?

2002-02-19 Thread Burrows, Scott
Hi all, I've an MD8.1 box. All works well. I type in startx to bring up KDE. I am getting a flashing kroot error message at the bottom of screen. When I open the file .xsession-errors in my home dir I see the following: _KDE_IceTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.ICE-unix should be set to root

RE: [newbie] What does CTRL-ALT-F2 get you?

2002-02-14 Thread Burrows, Scott
Thanks Randy! Scott -Original Message- From: Randy Kramer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2002 2:54 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] What does CTRL-ALT-F2 get you? Burrows, Scott wrote: My system starts up in GNOME. I pressed CTRLALTF1

[newbie] What does CTRL-ALT-F2 get you?

2002-02-14 Thread Burrows, Scott
Hi all, I've just installed MD 8.1. My system starts up in GNOME. I pressed CTRLALTF1 and it took me to a command prompt out of GNOME. This is OK and expected but.. How do I get back to GNOME from there? How is this different then simply clicking the Open Terminal icon in GNOME?

RE: [newbie] OT - If Operating Systems Ran The Airlines...

2002-01-30 Thread Burrows, Scott
Thanks to Michael for pointing those out. The Airlines link is great! Scott Burrows For every victory, let it be said of me,... my source of strength, my source of hope, is Christ the Lord. -Original Message- From: Michael [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: