Re: [newbie] Visio replacement

2000-11-15 Thread Gerry Kirk
So is there a Visio-like tool for Linux or not? I'd like to know, too. Thanks. Gerry At 11/16/00 02:05 PM, you wrote: Hi all.. BTW, if anyone who uses Visio and is interested in a Mailing List, I run one at egroups.com, and you can find the details in my .sig Cheers! Mark Harrop [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] error sharing home directories in samba

2000-10-29 Thread Gerry Kirk
[homes] is a special share. You don't need to specify a path to the files. My samba share looks like this: [homes] comment = personal files browseable = no read only = no create mode = 0754 # so files created in the user's public web directory are readable by others Gerry

Re: [newbie] apache

2000-10-26 Thread Gerry Kirk
Do you have an index.html page in the directory you have defined as the user dir? Gerry At 10/26/00 03:17 AM, you wrote: What's the 'trick' to getting a user dir to work in apache? I keep getting 'forbidden' no matter what I try. I've tried to set the user dir at 755, grp=users the public htm

[newbie] difficulty accessing files from one server to another

2000-10-25 Thread Gerry Kirk
I have two servers (A and B), one whose role is a file server (B). It has the /home filesystem. The other server (A) mounts the /home directory from this server. I'm having problems with security when trying to access these files from A. When I am root, and do a ls /home/gerry -l command, I

[newbie] Installing additional components after installation

2000-10-20 Thread Gerry Kirk
I'm more familiar with SuSE, which uses YAST/2 for a setup tool. With it I can check what programs are installed, do a search of other packages to install, and install something off of a CD. What is the standard tool for this in Mandrake? RPM? Thanks, Gerry