RE: [newbie] Network neighborhood

2001-02-05 Thread David Thompson
ramblings, but is swat akin to webmin and requiring https (secure)? awaiting flames as i have no idea what i am talking about! bascule On Monday 05 February 2001 10:51 pm, David Thompson wrote: As far as the HOWTO, I have an excellent example for a step-by-step installation of SAMBA

RE: [newbie] SWAT

2001-02-02 Thread David Thompson
I cannot reach this. I can ping my linux 7.0 machine from my Win2000 machine, but cannot telnet, ftp, or reach this port. I CAN reach the APACHE server from Win2K by typing http://192.168.1.1 (my machine's IP address for home network) and it works! Put a :901 on the end and it can't

Re: [newbie] Disk Formatting

2001-01-25 Thread David Thompson
The DOS is easy... c:\format a: where a: is the drive to format. - Original Message - From: "SoloCDM" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Linux-Mandrake Newbie" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2001 10:07 AM Subject: [newbie] Disk Formatting Prior to now, I used the following to

[newbie] No lights on hub

2001-01-24 Thread David Thompson
Esteemed Linux'ers, I installed linux on my Pentium 90 Mhz box along with a brand-new RTL8139 NIC 10/100 Mbps, and connected the NIC to a brand-new NewMedia Livewire Hub with Cat5 wire. I also purchased 2-additional RTL8139 NIC's and installed them in my NEC Pentium 200 MMX computer running

Re: [newbie] Cable Modem Woes

2001-01-24 Thread David Thompson
I may be breathing air too close to the exhaust pipe, but I had the same eth0 failed during initialize message as you. I solved it by doing a total re-install of Linux on my machine. Not knowing what I was doing during the first install, but after the third install I've never had the eth0

Server Setup Problems: Was Re: [newbie] Mandrakesoft CEO defends Linux

2001-01-20 Thread David Thompson
Thank you for responding Mark. I want to run LM 7.0 as a server only, with a command-line interface. I running Cat 5 wire through a 8-port hub. My Linux box (Server) is the following: CPU: 90 Mhz Pentium RAM: 32 MB Audio: None Samba: Ver 2.0.6 NIC: Realtek 8139 - PCI Bus 10/100 Mbps HD: IDE

Re: [newbie] Mandrakesoft CEO defends Linux

2001-01-19 Thread David Thompson
See comments embedded... - Original Message - From: "Sridhar Dhanapalan" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; "Adrian Smith" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2001 7:51 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandrakesoft CEO defends Linux snip While I believe that Linux can be an

Re: [newbie] Compiling Kernel, Are lots of Warnings normal?

2001-01-05 Thread David Thompson
David, Could you give me any tips on what you did to get your modem working? I am still using my modem from my Windows 98 SE2 machine. I still don't have my network working so basically, linux is a standalone machine until I get it working. I don't know what is necessary to tell linux

Re: [newbie] Eth0 probs

2001-01-05 Thread David Thompson
Hey!! Good question, because I have the exact same message that I'm battling through too. I'll be interested in seeing any helpful replies. David Thompson - Original Message - From: "Rj Aguila" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 05, 2001 9:17

Re: [newbie] I thought I was super user??

2001-01-04 Thread David Thompson
That's the answer. I don't even have a subdirectory "/sbin/". I installed Mandrake 7.0 (Air) from CD and selected all options when prompted for which files to load. Guess I'll just do without for now... :-( - Original Message - From: "bosmanp" [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] I thought I was super user??

2001-01-03 Thread David Thompson
Ah yes, I typed my question in wrong. On the linux screen I typed it in as you suggested - with case sensitivity. I also signed in as "root", not "Root". - Original Message - From: "Leif Erik Tronstad Svanø" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "David Thompson"

[newbie] How do I change linux IP address?

2001-01-02 Thread David Thompson
even have Samba server up and running, but am trying to assemble this system little by little as time allows. Sure appreciate any advice. TIA, David Thompson