Re: [newbie] Home directory

2005-02-20 Thread john
Hello Thanks for response. Sorry for the confusion. I'll try again. When I boot the system the login menu shows user 1, user 2, user 3. Users 1or 2, my wife and I, get the following error messages when I log in to KDE under either user. Message 1: Could not read network connection list.

Re: [newbie] Home directory

2005-02-20 Thread bascule
well the errors make complete sense, a file isn't writable if it doesn't exist and each file mentioned is relative to the /home/user1(2) directories that have been removed, kde needs files in the users home directory to start, it's interesting that you can start icewm without a home directory

[newbie] Home directory

2005-02-19 Thread john
Hello I was setting up rpmdrake to install a program. The list was set up by repository group. When I picked a group, menus started popping up indicating a choice of files to pick from to continue. I could not get this to stop and the repository group never came up. I turned off mcc and

Re: [newbie] Home directory

2005-02-19 Thread bascule
lets see if i get this straight, you had a functioning system? with kde running fine, you tried to install a program using mcc and since then the user's home directory has disappeared? was that an ordinary user? were you running mcc from the ordinary users logon - providing the root password

[newbie] /home/user permissions

2004-11-23 Thread Todd Slater
I just noticed that all user directories in /home allow group and other read access. Shouldn't the default setting for /home/user be -rwx--? Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join

Re: [newbie] /home/user permissions

2004-11-23 Thread JoeHill
On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 15:06:00 -0500 Todd Slater disseminated the following: I just noticed that all user directories in /home allow group and other read access. Shouldn't the default setting for /home/user be -rwx--? Ya, I was surprised by that too when I first noticed. What is your

Re: [newbie] /home/user permissions

2004-11-23 Thread Todd Slater
On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 04:51:43PM -0500, JoeHill wrote: On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 15:06:00 -0500 Todd Slater disseminated the following: I just noticed that all user directories in /home allow group and other read access. Shouldn't the default setting for /home/user be -rwx--? Ya, I was

Re: [newbie] Home network help needed

2004-10-26 Thread Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 26 October 2004 06:32, Russell W. Behne wrote: Today at 00:22, Greg Meyer wrote: On Monday 25 October 2004 09:04 pm, Russell W. Behne wrote: Ok, I got the switch, installed it, and the two hosts can ping each other, but neither can ping the server, and when I try to ping either

Re: [newbie] Home network help needed

2004-10-26 Thread Russell W. Behne
Today at 09:54, Derek Jennings wrote: Yes shorewall will by default block pings from both the Internet and the local network. It will also block ALL traffic from the local network to the firewall. So if you want to run as a firewall AND as a server you must open up traffic to the local

Re: [newbie] Home network help needed

2004-10-25 Thread Russell W. Behne
Wednesday at 10:49, Anne Wilson wrote: Russell, if you don't mind me saying so, you are a sucker for punishment ;-) Get your switch. It's a doddle after that. You won't believe how easy it is after what you were trying to do. Ok, I got the switch, installed it, and the two hosts can ping

Re: [newbie] Home network help needed

2004-10-25 Thread Greg Meyer
On Monday 25 October 2004 09:04 pm, Russell W. Behne wrote: Ok, I got the switch, installed it, and the two hosts can ping each other, but neither can ping the server, and when I try to ping either host from the server I  get this error message: ping: sendmsg: Operation not permitted

Re: [newbie] Home network help needed

2004-10-25 Thread Russell W. Behne
Today at 00:22, Greg Meyer wrote: On Monday 25 October 2004 09:04 pm, Russell W. Behne wrote: Ok, I got the switch, installed it, and the two hosts can ping each other, but neither can ping the server, and when I try to ping either host from the server I get this error message: ping:

Re: [newbie] Home network help needed

2004-10-20 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Sunday 31 October 2004 02:17, Russell W. Behne wrote: Oct 20 at 01:38, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: For one: I've never used 2 or more networkcards for the same net on the same PC before (I use a hubcheapefficient) but I don't think it poses a problem. They should be connected with a

Re: [newbie] Home network help needed

2004-10-20 Thread Russell W. Behne
Today at 08:57, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: You're getting there:) Apparently you have crossover cabling otherwise you wouldn't be able to ping directly. Actually, I discovered that's not what's happening. I was wondering why I was getting ping responses, but nothing else works. I did a telnet jackie

Re: [newbie] Home network help needed

2004-10-20 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 20 Oct 2004 08:43, Russell W. Behne wrote: The switch should solve this too, shouldn't it? I hope so. With the switch they'll be put back on the same subnet. I'll probably be back with other problems after the switch is installed --- and hopefully running right. Russell, if you

Re: [newbie] Home network help needed

2004-10-20 Thread Russell W. Behne
Today at 21:25, bascule wrote: re: crossover cables Russell, while in general it's true you will need crossover for machine to machine, there are nics that do autodetection of the cable and adjust accordingly, as far as I'm aware that's hardware based, if you happened to have such a nic you

Re: [newbie] Home network help needed

2004-10-20 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Wednesday 20 October 2004 22:46, Russell W. Behne wrote: extra ports for future expansion. I figure that someday I'll throw together on old system, as an X-term put it in my woodshop, and run a cable from there to the switch, that way I'll be able to log in from the woodshop office without

Re: [newbie] Home network help needed

2004-10-19 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Tuesday 19 October 2004 04:50, Russell W. Behne wrote: I want to network 2 computers off of my host. (One for each of my kids.) Right now both new boxes are windows only. I have a couple old hard drives that I will install, one in each box, to use for Linux. I want: 1. Both

Re: [newbie] Home network help needed

2004-10-19 Thread Russell W. Behne
Today at 08:54, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: the address 127.0.0.1 is reserved as local host and you'll be having some trouble trying t get that range of numbers to work. On a private lan you should use ranges like 192.168.0.xxx or 192.168.1.xxx where xxx goes up to 254. That right. I didn't

Re: [newbie] Home network help needed

2004-10-19 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Tuesday 19 October 2004 09:32, Russell W. Behne wrote: H Actually, it would be nice if y'all do drop in and do it all for me, but I'd just as soon everyone just guide me and I'll do all the configuring myself, so that I get familiar with what's what. That way, once it's done, should

Re: [newbie] Home network help needed

2004-10-19 Thread Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 19 October 2004 03:50, Russell W. Behne wrote: I want to network 2 computers off of my host. (One for each of my kids.) Right now both new boxes are windows only. I have a couple old hard drives that I will install, one in each box, to use for Linux. I want: 1. Both computers

Re: [newbie] Home network help needed

2004-10-19 Thread Lanman
Russell W. Behne wrote: I want to network 2 computers off of my host. (One for each of my kids.) Right now both new boxes are windows only. I have a couple old hard drives that I will install, one in each box, to use for Linux. I want: 1. Both computers to be able to dual boot using lilo, Linux

Re: [newbie] Home network help needed

2004-10-19 Thread Stew Benedict
On Mon, 18 Oct 2004, Russell W. Behne wrote: I want to network 2 computers off of my host. (One for each of my kids.) Right now both new boxes are windows only. I have a couple old hard drives that I will install, one in each box, to use for Linux. I want: 1. Both computers to be

Re: [newbie] Home network help needed

2004-10-19 Thread Russell W. Behne
Ok. I'm at the point where I have the 2 extra network cards installed. eth0 goes to my cable modem, and is the default route. eth1 and eth2 are for the 2 kids computers. When I do ifconfig I get this: eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:10:B5:C0:C0:40 inet addr:67.21.58.221

Re: [newbie] Home network help needed

2004-10-19 Thread Derek Jennings
On Sunday 31 October 2004 00:09, Russell W. Behne wrote: Ok. I'm at the point where I have the 2 extra network cards installed. eth0 goes to my cable modem, and is the default route. eth1 and eth2 are for the 2 kids computers. When I do ifconfig I get this: eth1 Link encap:Ethernet

Re: [newbie] Home network help needed

2004-10-19 Thread Stew Benedict
On Sat, 30 Oct 2004, Russell W. Behne wrote: Ok. I'm at the point where I have the 2 extra network cards installed. eth0 goes to my cable modem, and is the default route. eth1 and eth2 are for the 2 kids computers. When I do ifconfig I get this: eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr

Re: [newbie] Home network help needed

2004-10-19 Thread Russell W. Behne
Oct 20 at 00:20, Derek Jennings wrote: If you look at the ifconfig display for eth1 and eth2 you will notice that you have not assigned them an IP address. You need to create files called /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1 and ifcfg-eth2 containing for example DEVICE=eth1

Re: [newbie] Home network help needed

2004-10-19 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Sunday 31 October 2004 01:09, Russell W. Behne wrote: So both cards are now reecognised by the kernel.  But pings to 192.168.0.11 and 192.168.0.12 aren't answered; doing a traceroute to 192.168.0.11 shows that the pings are going out the cable modem on eth0 to my ISP's private network

Re: [newbie] Home network help needed

2004-10-19 Thread Russell W. Behne
Oct 20 at 01:38, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: For one: I've never used 2 or more networkcards for the same net on the same PC before (I use a hubcheapefficient) but I don't think it poses a problem. They should be connected with a crossover cable (comparable to a nul modem serial cable) otherwise

Re: [newbie] Home network help needed

2004-10-19 Thread Greg Meyer
On Saturday 30 October 2004 09:17 pm, Russell W. Behne wrote: Oct 20 at 01:38, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: For one: I've never used 2 or more networkcards for the same net on the same PC before (I use a hubcheapefficient) but I don't think it poses a problem. They should be connected with a

Re: [newbie] Home network help needed

2004-10-19 Thread Greg Meyer
On Saturday 30 October 2004 11:00 pm, Russell W. Behne wrote: Thanks for the info on the crossover cable/hub, Greg. One or two last questions, about how much do hubs run? What's the cheapest I can expect? A simple 4-5 port switch (switch is better than hub) should run you $20-$30 US. One with

Re: [newbie] Home network help needed

2004-10-19 Thread Russell W. Behne
Oct 19 at 23:20, Greg Meyer wrote: A simple 4-5 port switch (switch is better than hub) should run you $20-$30 US. What's the actual difference between a hub and switch? As you can probably guess, I'll only want the most bare-bones one that connects the two hosts directly to my server, and

[newbie] Home network help needed

2004-10-18 Thread Russell W. Behne
I want to network 2 computers off of my host. (One for each of my kids.) Right now both new boxes are windows only. I have a couple old hard drives that I will install, one in each box, to use for Linux. I want: 1. Both computers to be able to dual boot using lilo, Linux as

[newbie] Home icon on desktop not working

2004-01-27 Thread Steve Kaufman
When I first got this (9.2) up and running over the weekend and I would double click on the Home icon it would open a window that showed the directories in my home directory. Now when I click on it the icon kind of flashes but no window opens. Any ideas on how to fix this would be

Re: [newbie] Home icon on desktop not working

2004-01-27 Thread Dennis Myers
On Tuesday 27 January 2004 05:39 pm, Steve Kaufman wrote: When I first got this (9.2) up and running over the weekend and I would double click on the Home icon it would open a window that showed the directories in my home directory. Now when I click on it the icon kind of flashes but no window

Re: [newbie] Home icon on desktop not working

2004-01-27 Thread Steve Kaufman
Thx Dennis. I don't know what I did but a lot of things wern't working. I lost my browser which is why the window would not open. I could not open the desktop config either. Since I had no idea what I messed up I just reloaded the entire install. I had just put this in over the weekend so it

Re: [newbie] Home icon on desktop not working

2004-01-27 Thread Ramin
You can simply remove the icon and add a new one for your home directory. After adding the icon and opening your home directory, you probably need to run configure view profiles (in settings) to save your setting so that next time when you click on the icon, it opens you home directory.

Re: [newbie] Home icon on desktop not working

2004-01-27 Thread Ramin
Before re-installation, you could try more simpler things. You could for example remove the KDE directory from the home directory. It should create a new one once you login again. If this problem is only for one specific use, you could even remove that user and add a new one. Ramin On

Re: about cables Re: [newbie] home network Mandrake howto

2003-11-15 Thread Richard Urwin
On Saturday 15 Nov 2003 4:22 pm, Anguo wrote: Right now, I am trying to figure out what kind of cables and hardware I have. The setup is temporary and the primary purpose is to setup/upgrade my friend's computer via internet and transfer some big files from my computer. It is also a

Re: [newbie] home network Mandrake howto

2003-11-14 Thread Greg Meyer
On Friday 14 November 2003 12:48 am, Anguo wrote: On Friday 14 Nov 2003 12:57 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: On Thursday 13 November 2003 11:33 pm, Anguo wrote: Hello, I have not been able to find a simple step by step howto for home networking. So far, I have absolutely no experience in

[newbie] home network Mandrake howto

2003-11-13 Thread Anguo
Hello, I have not been able to find a simple step by step howto for home networking. So far, I have absolutely no experience in networking, or any IP address stuff. Right now, I have a friend's computer at home and I would like 1- to share the internet connection with my own computer's

Re: [newbie] home network Mandrake howto

2003-11-13 Thread Greg Meyer
On Thursday 13 November 2003 11:33 pm, Anguo wrote: Hello, I have not been able to find a simple step by step howto for home networking. So far, I have absolutely no experience in networking, or any IP address stuff. This is older, but might be helpful

[newbie] home architecture and PCB schematic software: any favorites?

2003-08-14 Thread Eric Huff
Are there any good programs out there for linux for modeling/designing a house? Actually, probably any CAD software would be ok, but if it has lights, outlets, etc, built in, that would be even better. I'm about to do a bunch more rewiring, and figured it would be fun and useful to document it

Re: [newbie] home architecture and PCB schematic software: anyfavorites?

2003-08-11 Thread Eric Huff
*** Vari-Cad is on the 9.1 distro commerical apps CD. Thanks, i'll give that a look. eric Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] Home network - printing

2003-06-08 Thread Leon Adato
OK, this is a pre-emptive "howto" question. Meaning I haven't tried it at all, but wanted to gather knowledge first and experience afterward. It goes against every ounce of testosterone in my body, of course, because it is tantamount to reading the manual, but I'm willing to cope with the

Re: [newbie] Home partition too small

2003-06-08 Thread Gil Katz
Mount the new HD and the mount point will be /home the wizard will copy all data to the new HD. Gil On Friday 06 June 2003 08:07, Aron Smith wrote: Hey gang anyone know of a way to increase the size of your home partition after adding a new (2nd HD) I only have about 1Gb free out out 20 Gb

Re: [newbie] Home network - printing

2003-06-08 Thread Adolfo Bello
On Sun, 2003-06-08 at 10:57, Leon Adato wrote: OK, this is a pre-emptive howto question. Meaning I haven't tried it at all, but wanted to gather knowledge first and experience afterward. It goes against every ounce of testosterone in my body, of course, because it is tantamount to reading the

Re: [newbie] Home network - printing

2003-06-08 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Mon, 2003-06-09 at 00:57, Leon Adato wrote: I will take my answers in teh form of go read this HOWTO or xxx application is the key grasshopper - go there and seek knowledge further, or even cryptic anagrams which contain web links to the answer. Thanks in advance Leon Adato Find

Re: [newbie] Home network - printing

2003-06-08 Thread rikona
Hello Leon, First, a word of warning. I'm a relative newbie, but I did do something similar to what you want. Experts - please correct my suggestions if need be. First thing I would suggest is to make an 'orig' copy of every .conf file!!! Especially smb.conf, the samba configuration file. You

Re: [newbie] Home partition too small

2003-06-06 Thread Derek Jennings
On Friday 06 Jun 2003 6:07 am, Aron Smith wrote: Hey gang anyone know of a way to increase the size of your home partition after adding a new (2nd HD) I only have about 1Gb free out out 20 Gb Easy Insert your new disc drive. Partition it with diskdrake. Log on as root Mount the new drive

Re: [newbie] Home partition too small

2003-06-06 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2003-06-06 at 15:07, Aron Smith wrote: Hey gang anyone know of a way to increase the size of your home partition after adding a new (2nd HD) I only have about 1Gb free out out 20 Gb Why not move the /home partition to the new hard drive and be gone with all the problems? -- Fri Jun

[newbie] Home partition too small

2003-06-05 Thread Aron Smith
Hey gang anyone know of a way to increase the size of your home partition after adding a new (2nd HD) I only have about 1Gb free out out 20 Gb -- Aron Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] /home ownership changes itself

2003-03-25 Thread Vahur Lokk
Have a look at /etc/passwd on both distributions and synchronize them - at least for the users. It would seem to me that one distribution uses different user numbers for the users; for instance, mandrake starts at 500, the other distro might start at 100. Naah, it started at 501 ;-) Case

[newbie] /home ownership changes itself

2003-03-24 Thread Vahur Lokk
Hello! I have installed Mandrake 9.0. Yesterday I installed ALT Linux Junior (Russian Mandrake derivative) on an empty partition. Both installations share one /home partition. Problem is, if I have used ALTLinux and reboot to Mandrake, my home directory belongs to another user. If I use

Re: [newbie] /home ownership changes itself

2003-03-24 Thread Derek Jennings
On Monday 24 Mar 2003 12:07 pm, Vahur Lokk wrote: Hello! I have installed Mandrake 9.0. Yesterday I installed ALT Linux Junior (Russian Mandrake derivative) on an empty partition. Both installations share one /home partition. Problem is, if I have used ALTLinux and reboot to Mandrake, my

Re: [newbie] /home ownership changes itself

2003-03-24 Thread David E. Fox
change directory ownership and only then log in as user. What is the problem and how to cure it? Have a look at /etc/passwd on both distributions and synchronize them - at least for the users. It would seem to me that one distribution uses different user numbers for the users; for instance,

Re: [newbie] home network vision (kind of long)

2002-11-11 Thread Technoslick
- Original Message - From: BCSoft@TowerTraining [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Newbie@Linux-Mandrake. Com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 10, 2002 4:45 PM Subject: [newbie] home network vision (kind of long) Help, help, help Since downloading and installing ML 8.2 I have been bit

Re: [newbie] home network vision (kind of long)

2002-11-11 Thread Technoslick
PM Subject: [newbie] home network vision (kind of long) Help, help, help Since downloading and installing ML 8.2 I have been bit by the Linux bug and now want to set up a home network. I ordered ML 9.0 from CheapBytes and have tried to install it on an old Hsing Tech motherboard with a Cyrex 686

[newbie] home network vision (kind of long)

2002-11-10 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Help, help, help Since downloading and installing ML 8.2 I have been bit by the Linux bug and now want to set up a home network. I ordered ML 9.0 from CheapBytes and have tried to install it on an old Hsing Tech motherboard with a Cyrex 686 processor and a BocaLAN 2000 network card. I apparently

Re: [newbie] home network vision (kind of long)

2002-11-10 Thread Lanman
Richard; Before deciding what to do with your server, start by asking yourself if you plan on using it for quite a while, and whether or not it will become an important piece of your network. Slapping a server together out of spare parts and setting it up as a learning experience is always a good

Re: [newbie] home network vision (kind of long)

2002-11-10 Thread Robin Turner
Correct memory should only be an issue with a really old mobo - these days it's just a choice between SDRAM (Athlons, Celerons and Pentiums I-III) and DDRAM (Pentium IV, which you obviously don't have). It's possible that you have a duff RAM chip. Otherwise go for a lower speed RAM or get a

RE: [newbie] home network vision (kind of long)

2002-11-10 Thread Ryan Moe
A board that old will more than likely require 72 pin SIMMs that MUST be installed in pairs. Either the remaining memory is DIMM or it isn't installed in pairs. Is the 64MB in there now installed as 2 32MBs or 1 64MB? If it's 2 32MBs then the board takes SIMMs. Also do you know how much

[newbie] Home Network Problems

2002-08-25 Thread Richard Ingram
Hi, OK my home net, at the moment is as below: CableModem-XP PC--Linux PC Now I have some questions: 1. I have Internet Connection Sharing on the XP box, this doles out an IP to the Linux box via DHCP. I can browse from the Linux box, read news, email and ftp no problems. However

[newbie] Home directory

2002-03-25 Thread Marcia
Dear All, I have Linux Mandrake 8.1 and all of a sudden after working fine for months my home directory will not open when I push the panel icon. It tries but fails. I can open it if I go to the file manager and open the directory but not from either the panel or desktop icon. It worked fine

Re: [newbie] Home directory

2002-03-25 Thread Todd Slater
On Mon, 25 Mar 2002 10:21:06 -0600 Marcia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear All, I have Linux Mandrake 8.1 and all of a sudden after working fine for months my home directory will not open when I push the panel icon. It tries but fails. I can open it if I go to the file manager and open the

[newbie] Home Network: What's Next?

2002-01-09 Thread Robert McNealy
To everyone- Goal: -I want to convert my Win2k ICS network to a Mandrake 8.1 Network -I want Printer and Drive sharing for all -I want Internet access for all -I want a firewall -I want a webserver Problem: -I don't know how to get my network and internet setup with Mandrake 8.1 for other

Re: [newbie] Home network Samba question

2001-08-13 Thread Brandon Caudle
schedule is already full. -- Henry Kissinger From: Michael Picco [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Michael D. Viron [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: Linux Mandrake Newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Home network Samba question Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2001 13:59:41 -0700 Michael D. Viron wrote: One

Re: [newbie] Home network Samba question

2001-08-12 Thread Michael Picco
Michael D. Viron wrote: One question that keeps nagging at me and impedes my understanding is: Will the box that is acting as a gateway have a specific gateway IP address in addition to the address I've already given it? Yes. All Gateways have at least 2 IPs (sometimes more depending on

RE: [newbie] Home network Samba question

2001-08-12 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
Michael D. Viron wrote: One question that keeps nagging at me and impedes my understanding is: Will the box that is acting as a gateway have a specific gateway IP address in addition to the address I've already given it? Yes. All Gateways have at least 2 IPs (sometimes more

Re: [newbie] Home network Samba question

2001-08-12 Thread Amien Salie
On Sunday 12 August 2001 21:31, Michael Picco wrote: Having just switched a pair of boxes from Mandrake 7.1 to 8.0, I've had my run of problems getting things working again. The setup here consists of four machines: Win98, Win95 and two Mandrake 8.0. They are all connected via a four-port

Re: [newbie] home directory limits

2001-08-04 Thread Tim Holmes
Well... back to the issue at hand. :0) What do you get from this command? [timh@r2d2 timh]$ df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hde5 13G 1.8G 10G 15% / /dev/hdf6 9.8G 794M 8.6G 8% /backup /dev/hdf5 9.8G 438M 8.9G 5%

Re: [newbie] Home networking

2001-05-22 Thread Pedro _
See http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/connect/cmlan.html bye From: Jamie Kerwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Home networking Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 10:27:06 +0100 The network that I will have is 1 linux machine connected to 2 win 98se /ME

[newbie] Home networking

2001-05-21 Thread Jamie Kerwick
I have just got my home network working fine in windows (98se to 98se to win2000) now i want to get my linux partition networking with one of the 98se machines. However, being fairly new to both linux and networks to be honest i don't really know where to start. My network is a very small one,

[newbie] /home and LM72 install enigma

2001-01-23 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear friends: Here is something for you to chew over. I wonder if any of you have had this problem: The last two times that I reinstalled LM72, I discovered that when I clicked on my /home directory, LM72 would NOT install any files from the second CD. I had formatted only hda, NOT hdb (/home)

Re: [newbie] @home and Mandrake

2001-01-16 Thread manuel dopp
started with @home). regards, manuel dopp -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: Pascal Poirier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Datum: dinsdag 16 januari 2001 3:34 Onderwerp: [newbie] @home and Mandrake Just asking a quick question for a friend that I am helping install

[newbie] @Home cable setup for inter net connection with mandrake 7.2

2001-01-16 Thread Michael Williams
Please, I want to set up cable inter net connection ISP=@Home. I have already installed Mandrake 7.2 and missed something with inter net connection ___ Visit http://www.visto.com/info, your free web-based communications

[newbie] @home and Mandrake

2001-01-14 Thread Pascal Poirier
Just asking a quick question for a friend that I am helping install mandrake. She is on the @home network and is having trouble logging in. There are directions on the mandrake user website on how to do it for a static ip and I am looking to do it for a dynamic one since she has had little luck

[newbie] @home

2000-11-16 Thread manuel dopp
Who can help me with setting up the @home network on a linux mandrake 7.2 system. I have already set op my network card and it's working on my microshaft windblowse NT dhcp server but when i try it on the @home dhcp server it's not working. who can help me? manuel dopp holland

[newbie] Home network problems

2000-11-03 Thread Dana
I am attempting to network a Mandrake 7.0 (as server) with a Win98. When the Win98 trys to conect I get the following message in var/log/messages: dhcpd: DHCPREQUEST for 24.163.154.74 from 00:50:ba:43:c7:aa via eth1: ignored (not authoritative) What do I need to do to make it authoritative if

Re: [newbie] /home question

2000-07-28 Thread Hellmut
Thanks! The /home directory is on an own partition and survived the new install. ;) Take care! On Sat, 22 Jul 2000, you wrote: Hi! When I install linux over an old installation (no upgrade), will the partition with /home also be affected? Is your Linux installation all in one

Re: [newbie] /home question

2000-07-24 Thread Roderick F.Lazaro
On Sat, 22 Jul 2000, you wrote: Hi! When I install linux over an old installation (no upgrade), will the partition with /home also be affected? Is your Linux installation all in one partition? If it is then it is affected. But if /home is in another partition you can opt not to format that

[newbie] /home question

2000-07-22 Thread Hellmut
Hi! When I install linux over an old installation (no upgrade), will the partition with /home also be affected?

Re: [newbie] /home question

2000-07-22 Thread Phil Burton
If /home is a different partition than the rest, you can tell the new installation to mount the partition, but *not* to format it. That's the way it works here, and should do fine. Phil On Sat, 22 Jul 2000, Hellmut wrote: Hi! When I install linux over an old installation (no upgrade), will

Re: [newbie] /home question

2000-07-22 Thread Paul
On Sat, 22 Jul 2000, Hellmut wrote: Hi! When I install linux over an old installation (no upgrade), will the partition with /home also be affected? No. I have upgraded several times already, and everything at /home stayed the way it was. Paul -- No man would listen to you if he didn't know

Re: [newbie] @home (was DSL) Correction

2000-05-28 Thread Dave Lers
On Sat, 27 May 2000, Romanator wrote: Yikes. This is a case of not pasting some lines as shwon below: Under: /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 DEVICE="eth0" IPADDR="24.xxx.xxx.xx" NETMASK="Subnet_mask" "255.255.254.0" ONBOOT="yes" BOOTPROTO"none" DHCP_HOSTNAME="cr123456-a"

Re: [newbie] @home (was DSL) Correction

2000-05-28 Thread Romanator
I know.. I was completely lost in a maze of new syntax. And, the installation and connection to the Internet should have been completely transparent. The installation and user guide(I'm sorry) were very poorly edited. In my case, I found that I had manually edit my files. I would have added

Re: [newbie] @home (was DSL)

2000-05-22 Thread Dave Lers
On Sun, 21 May 2000, Romanator wrote: Are you set up to some sort of @Home cable service? I am racking my brains trying to configure my LANcity modem with my cable service through Linux Mandrake 7.0. I can't believe it is taking so long? I am ready to give up on this!! I didn't have to do

[newbie] Home Network

2000-05-02 Thread Mike Thompson
Can anyone recommend a system I can use like Intel's Anypoint to connect my Linux and Windoze machines over my home telphone wiring?

Re: [newbie] Home Network

2000-05-02 Thread Andy
Isnt that whats SAMBA is for? I think hehe - Original Message - From: Mike Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2000 8:20 PM Subject: [newbie] Home Network Can anyone recommend a system I can use like Intel's Anypoint to connect my Linux and Windoze

Re: [newbie] Home recording with Linux?

2000-04-06 Thread David Hugh-Jones
according to this magazine I've got here, most music applications are porting to BeOS rather than Linux. (Better at multimedia.) Dave On Tue, 04 Apr 2000, Ernie mewed: Use Cooledit and wavelab in win2k or windows NT, I run both progs in win2k and have never locked it up. As far as hard

RE: [newbie] Home recording with Linux?

2000-04-06 Thread Todd Wells
PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Home recording with Linux? Could anyone help me please? I am keen to try Linux for home recording due to the instability of Windoze. Firstly let me say that I have absolutely no interest in learning how Linux works - I simply want a stable environment in which to work. I have

RE: [newbie] Home recording with Linux?

2000-04-05 Thread Ernie
PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2000 11:32 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Home recording with Linux? Could anyone help me please? I am keen to try Linux for home recording due to the instability of Windoze. Firstly let me say that I have absolutely no interest in learning how Linux

Re: [newbie] Home recording with Linux?

2000-04-05 Thread Jeffrey Thompson
Hiya, Could anyone help me please? I am keen to try Linux for home recording due to the instability of Windoze. Firstly let me say that I have absolutely no interest in learning how Linux works - I simply want a stable environment in which to work. I have a second HD (2g) and would like to

Re: [newbie] Home recording with Linux?

2000-04-05 Thread Wayne Petherick
Toni, I am no expert but I will tell you that unless you are willing to learn at least a bit of how Linux works then you really shouldn't be using it. First of all, you will drive yourself insane, second of all, it does not run like Wind'ohs. YOu will HAVE to learn about Linux file systems and

Re: [newbie] Home recording with Linux?

2000-04-05 Thread Donny
Sorry to say, don't expect to get alot done without reading a ton, and learning how stuff works! Most of the linux installs are VERY easy if you know a little about what your doing and what everything means. (thus, the reading part). Its very easy to set linux up on your second 2gig drive

RE: [newbie] Home recording with Linux?

2000-04-05 Thread Vic
software yet, tho i've heard of some companies thinking of porting. Ernie -Original Message- From: toni [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2000 11:32 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Home recording with Linux? Could anyone help me please? I am keen

Re: [newbie] @home connection

2000-01-31 Thread TRUB
- Original Message - From: Christopher Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 31, 2000 1:50 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] @home connection You may have to get the DOS driver dsk and boot on DOS and run the setup. There is an FAQ someplace that talks about this. I do

Re: [newbie] @home connection

2000-01-31 Thread BryanMoorehead
:31 PM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: Bryan Moorehead/Link/Allied Holdings) Subject: [newbie] @home connection I have installed Mandrake 7, expert/normal install... install detected both NIC cards and when asked, I input ip, host, gateway and name

Re: [newbie] @home connection

2000-01-31 Thread TRUB
: [newbie] @home connection If your provider is like mine, you should let DHCP handle the info for the EXTERNAL card(ip, host, etc.). You should only have to configure the internal cards information. If you haven't already, try this and see if that helps. Bryan Raymond Wells [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] @home connection

2000-01-31 Thread Eric
I am on athome and having one hell of a time getting the thing to recognize my 3com509b isa card. HELP... - Original Message - From: "TRUB" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 31, 2000 6:43 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] @home connection I am on @hom

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