Re: [newbie] Setting Up Secure Shell

Mark Weaver wrote: Tim, I've got all these packages installed and I'm not able to connect to my machine using ssh. When I get to the login it asks me for the passwd and then refuses the connection. Are there other files that need to be configured or something that I'm missing? Oh gosh I

[newbie] CUPS/Samba redux

Okay, I decided to take the plunge and try CUPS for printing. Local printer works fine. I have an HP LaserJet 5L on a Windows 98 box that worked fine with good old lpd under 7.1, but I can't get beyond connection refused using CUPS. The share on Windows is set with a password (but not a user

Re: [newbie] MP# encoder?

hellmut wrote: I use grip as frontend and bladeenc as encoder. Works fine! What is a good mp3 encoder to use? I'm a bladeenc fan too. Another one you'll have to install from source, but that's not hard to do. I use ripperX for my frontend -- probably just a bias because a friend was

Re: [newbie] Stop Spaming

"Michael (Nozy) Falzon" wrote: Hi Sorry forgot to add that in, linux mandrake 6.1 Michael, What type of server? If it's a Linux server, linuxconf has a menu for sendmail configuration that's pretty easy to use and will work for those versions of sendmail. For other types of

Re: [newbie] Stop Spaming

Michael Falzon wrote: Hi All ok i have a server at work that is using sendmail 8.9.3/8.8.7 i have stop my one form sending spam mail ( by just only adding the local system to email out ) but this server will not do that it just keeps say will do not relay ( to all mail ) if some can

Re: [newbie] samba conf

Dave wrote: Sorry, I haven't really been following this thread, but it now caught my eye. Were there any specific error messages you receive when trying to access the samba share from Win98? Eric may be right about it being a permissions problem, but if that were the case then even Win2k

Re: [newbie] Confirming deletion

Meph Istopheles wrote: Morning Paul, Thanks Paul, but, as you can see here: # User specific aliases and functions alias ls='ls --color=auto' alias ls='ls --color=tty' I've only these two entries under alias. I checked /etc/bashrc as well. No alias entries at all

Re: [newbie] Spaces in names

Alternatively, assuming you have a directory called "mydir for myprogram" you could do things like "cd mydir*myprogram" and "chown myname:mygroup mydir*myprogram". The only time I run into this is with guys at work who use Windows programs to create mp3s and don't choose the option in the

Re: [newbie] Making a new SWAP partition THANKS!!.

[snippage of the swap discussion for brevity :) ] I remembered reading something recently about the old salt of making swap equal to the size of your RAM being outdated. As I got to this stage in the thread, it struck me where. I actually bought the package for 7.2 because my burner was on the

Re: [newbie] host.allow

The format of hosts in hosts.allow or hosts.deny is: SERVICE: host name e.g: TELNET: mydomain.com FTP: 123.456.789.012 yourdomain.com ALL: 111.111.111. ALL: ALL The first is specifying by domain name which has to be resolvable via DNS or present in your /etc/hosts file to work. The second is

RE: [newbie] host.allow

localhost.localdomain.com or can I leave the .com off? This confuses me for some reason. Dennis -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Holly Henry-Pilkington Sent: Monday, September 11, 2000 8:21 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie