Re: [newbie] dear god!!! please take me off this is crazy.....!!!!

Question: Why is this forum not on a regular newsgroup. After being on this email forum for 12 hours, I understand where Anthony is coming from... Now that is a very good point! Why on earth is such an active mailing list not in the form of a mailing list??? Hopefully Google/Deja would

Re: [newbie] want my linux work faster and networking

Remember that MS Word is a stand-alone of a whole family of MS Office products. Star Office launches the entire office suite. If MS Office did the same it would need to launch Word, Power Point, Excel, etc., etc. You are not comparing apples to apples. Ineed, but I would much rather just load

Re: [newbie] SAMBA setup/web config

I am trying to set up Samba on my Linux machine but am totally lost. I quite understand and Samba is far too complex for non-techies like you and me. I eventually get it done by resorting to the Samba Step by Step, that just gives yu a very basic fairly low security and very low tech recipe to

[newbie] NFS

Can't seem to get nfs working... strangest thing is that linuxconf lets me install nfs drives and exports, while nfstools are not even installed... mind you, why aren't they? Well, I tried about everything and eventually managed to get nfs installed.. at least I thought I did... but I

Re: [newbie] nfs mount problem

I experience the following problem: [root@srv1 /root]# mount -t nfs srv0:/home/courses /mnt/tmp mount: RPC: Unable to receive; errno = Connection refused I had the same problem. portmap was also up, but when I looked, nfs-tools was not installed... (don't ask me why). And that also wanted

[newbie] NFS

want to share or be shared... :-( Just one of many concerns while installing Mnd 72... :-( Rgds Martin Martin Cleaver MCTranslations/Spot Softwarephone: +31 20 6162224 fax: +31 20 884 1230[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]www.cleaver.nl www.spotsoftware.nl

Re: [newbie] Fontastic - Corel Photo

I loaded Corel PhotoPaint from the CD included with the Brit Linux magazine. I installs fine, but when I run it it says it can't find the 'path for Fontastic' fonts. Same problem with Corel WP Office 2000 (which cost a lotta money!) There are a couple of fixes floating around that seem to

[newbie] Boot problems

does't get me anywhere... I had made a boot floppy this time (last time Mandrake just shot past the option without even letting me make one) but it would appear to be corrupt... (shouldn't Mandrake at least check :-( So anyway, what do I do? Rgds Martin Martin Cleaver MCTransla

Re: [newbie] Boot problems

I had made a boot floppy this time (last time Mandrake just shot past the option without even letting me make one) but it would appear to be corrupt... (shouldn't Mandrake at least check :-( Martinyour descriptions of the assorted problems are somewhat incomplete, but it sounds as

[newbie] Corel Office 2000

I tried installing it on Mandrake 7.2... the fonttastic installer didn't work. That is a reported problem... however I have not managed to solve it with the available suggestions (removing the link to init.d in etc and forcing the install of the fonts.) Does anyone have any further

[newbie] server install of 7.2

the depenmdencies to install RPMdrake itself... (gmessage and gsomething else...) RGds Martin Martin Cleaver MCTranslations/Spot Software phone: +31 20 6162224 fax: +31 20 884 1230 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.cleaver.nl

Re: [newbie] Emergency...solved

Tom, I honestly don't know- all I know is that my bios settings were changed...what preceded it was several attempts to boot, all aborted by me when the 'eth0' interface was unable to be brought up due to some problem probably with my isp. Sounds familiar... it took me months to work out

[newbie] Re: [expert] Newbie question

1) I use Samba step by step, but Linuxconf just ignores and deletes existing smb.conf info :-( Use vi and "man smb.conf" I was able to restore the Samba SbS version and use that, buit it isn't very friendly of linuxconf to chuck away an existing smb.conf (us newbies can't cope with that

[newbie] Kernel

to, I will need very precise instructions... :-( I sound like a newbie, am a newbie and want to remain a newbie... life's too short... Can anyone help me with the necessary change and also ask the powers that be to be a little more informative in the future? Rgds Martin --Martin Cleaver MC

[newbie] Re:

What am I supposed to do with these? WHen you join mailing lists, you are expected to know what to do to get off, and not to spam all its users. -- Martin Cleaver - Original Message - From: Joseph L. Czapiewski [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, September 19, 1999 1

Re: [newbie] Multiple Netscapes... :-(

You specify multiple packages on the same command line such as "rpm -e netscape-common-4.6-1 netscape-communicator-4.6-1 But each of the above apparently refers to more than one package :-( How can I get a lisrt of what is installed (including duplicates? I can't force an uninstall, and

Re: [newbie] Multiple Netscapes... :-(

Now that THAT's out of the way, you specify multiple packages on the same command line such as "rpm -e netscape-common-4.6-1 netscape-communicator-4.6-1 netscape-navigator-4.6-1" you may have to put a comma between each package, but I don't believe so. I was just going to try that from

[newbie] NFS the only problem

I tried to upgrade Mandrake 5.3 to 6, but that was not a success... Several .conf files got zapped and I had to reconstruct my old setup again and didn't manage to get printing to work. So it was time to try again. I thought it might be worth trying RedHat 6 because KDE was now included... but

[newbie] Sound!

I upgraded from Festen to Venus and everything looked okay. But then I found out that NFS didn't wpok (easy to solve: it was no longer loaded automatically :-( Samba didn't work either, but that was solved with the latest bug fix. Now I am left without sound (no snfconfig can be found) and I

[newbie] Upgrades

)... Rgds Martin --- Martin Cleaver MCTranslations/Spot Softwarephone: +31 20 6162224 fax: +31 20 6838188[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] home page: http://people.a2000.nl/mcleaver

Re: [newbie] samba

"smbclient:error in loading shared libraries: /usr/lib/libreadline.so.3: undefined symbol: BC" Maybe the 2.03 binaries are compiled for different libraries than come with M6, and you'll have to recompile them under M6? Just a thought... Maybe a very good thought... but I get the

[newbie] Upggrade

I upgraded from 5.3 to 6 and was amazed to see that everything seemed to be okay. KDE started up and all my apps were there and seemed to start okay. But my joy was premature. I cannot print at all (the process gets locked in the spool directory and nothing comes out of the printer)and

Re: [newbie] Upggrade

I upgraded from 5.3 to 6 and was amazed to see that everything seemed to be okay. KDE started up and all my apps were there and seemed to start okay. But my joy was premature. I cannot print at all (the process gets locked in the spool directory and nothing comes out of the

Re: [newbie] TNT2 and Venus

I've got a Guillemot MAxi Xentor Video card (Nividia TNT2) and I'd like to install Venus. I've heard that it should be possible to use the TNT(1) driver as a TNT2 driver for X11. And which Linux mailer softwrae made it possible for you to immitate Outlook Express so well: Rgds

Re: [newbie] Relevance of Mandrake

Another reason why Mandrake is doomed... how can they keep on updating it, if they don't get any morey for it? Simple answer: they don't. I learned my lesson when KDE updated to 1.1.1 and installing it on my Mandrake proved impossible (worse: I lost my Xwindows) If you want it cheap,

Re: [newbie] Good KDE Email and NNTP programs?

the nicest email program I found was PMMAIL (www.southsoft.com), but they dont yet have a linux version of it.. just OS/2 and Doze.. -turgut And it doesn't even support IMAP, so cannot really be considered a serious contender. too would love to find a good email/news client, as Netscape for

Re: [newbie] Relevance of Mandrake

Doug Brown wrote: In response I muttered a couple of things about extra tidbits that come with Mandrake but I did not sound very convincing, even to myself. Are you forgetting about cost? RH 6.0 Official is $80.00 with the core version $40.00. I paid, like, $1.89 plus SH for Mandrake

[newbie] Mandrake and KDE 1.1.1

I've been sweating blood around here because what looked as if it should be a simple upgrade that even a newbie like me could tackle left me without a graphics desktop (which a newbie like me can't do without :-( The install script for KDE 1.1.1 won't work with Mandrake, but the answer was

[newbie] Printer

I fear I did something silly and have now lost my parallel port. I can't print, and when I look (in file manager) at /dev/lp1 it says "Could not read file: /dev/lp1. File does not exist or access denied. That's my printer! :-) How can I revive an ailing /dev/lp1? Rgds Martin -- --- M

Re: [newbie] Printer

: lpr: connect: No such file or directory jobs queued, but cannot start daemon. Rgds Martin Martin Cleaver wrote: I fear I did something silly and have now lost my parallel port. I can't print, and when I look (in file manager) at /dev/lp1 it says "Could not read file: /dev/lp1. File

Re: [newbie] Printer

Steve Philp wrote: I fear I did something silly and have now lost my parallel port. I can't print, and when I look (in file manager) at /dev/lp1 it says "Could not read file: /dev/lp1. File does not exist or access denied. That's my printer! :-) I restarted linux and found that lp1 was

Re: [newbie] RealPlayer 5.0 setup

Jeanette Russo wrote: If you are using the Red Hat rpm. player that one is missing a codec and will not run. Try the Linux ELF player you get it on the same page. Sounds like a great idea... but hard work for a newbie... why doesn't RA ebug it's contribution? Rgds Martin -- --- Martin

Re: [newbie] Printer

Jeroen Eijskoot wrote: I fear I did something silly and have now lost my parallel port. I can't print, and when I look (in file manager) at /dev/lp1 it says "Could not read file: /dev/lp1. File does not exist or access denied. That's my printer! :-) I restarted linux and