Re: [newbie] Can't find KDE - sitll nothing

2001-09-11 Thread etharp
have you tried to ping the winders machine ip? there is a lineighbothood in the KDE menu under networking other, also you might check out komba2. In Linux, it is neccassary to mount drives or shares and smbclient nameofwindersboxorIP should get a list of available shares on that windows box

Re: [newbie] Can't find KDE - sitll nothing

2001-09-11 Thread Richie de Almeida
Now the hard question. How do I wind up actually getting to the Windoze machines? Its not like I can go into network neighborhood or anything like that! grin Go have a look for 'Komba' on www.rpmfind.net or www.tucows.com. I'm using it at work to do all of my networking as I haven't had

Re: [newbie] Can't find KDE - sitll nothing

2001-09-11 Thread Ronald J. Hall
s wrote: snip Well, samba's pretty much the way to go if you want to file share with windows machines. Here's the site I used, it's alot simpler (easier to understand) than some of the howto out there. http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/connect/csamba.html There is also a little app called

RE: [newbie] Can't find KDE - sitll nothing

2001-09-10 Thread Franki
PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Can't find KDE - sitll nothing Well I tryed typing startx and a lot of shit came up on the screen. Some of them were: **None of the devices configured devices were detected** Fatal Error: no screens found Maybe it's just not installed

Re: [newbie] Can't find KDE - sitll nothing

2001-09-10 Thread s
ewww. X don't seem to be set up. As root, type: XFdrake to set it up and try startx again. -s On Monday 10 September 2001 12:53 pm, Juliana wrote: Well I tryed typing startx and a lot of shit came up on the screen. Some of them were: **None of the devices configured devices

Re: [newbie] Can't find KDE - sitll nothing

2001-09-10 Thread Jon Doe
On Monday 10 September 2001 01:58 pm, you wrote: then you need to configure x... I am surprised you didn't do it when you installed Mandrake.. He may have configured X during install. I had the same problem with mandrake 8.0. For some reason x would just crash even though I configured it and

Re: [newbie] Can't find KDE - sitll nothing

2001-09-10 Thread s
On Monday 10 September 2001 10:19 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: s wrote: What you need to do is ifdown eth0 first then dial up. (and ifup eth0 to restart it) -s Hey there! I was wondering about that. I've been trying to get my 3 computer systems setup with 2 windoze boxes and my

Re: [newbie] Can't find KDE - sitll nothing

2001-09-10 Thread Juliana
Well I tryed typing startx and a lot of shit came up on the screen. Some of them were: **None of the devices configured devices were detected** Fatal Error: no screens found Maybe it's just not installed... What should I do now? Try typing: startx. Don't worry