Re: [newbie] Samba Question

2002-02-05 Per discussione Anke Max
Gidday Mithrilhall Sorry, I could have given more detail. Samba can have it's own password and user list as well Webmin is a https web browser based administration program which you can use from a win pc To use it point a web browser at https://your_server_ip_address:1 If it's not installed

Re: [newbie] backup app for LM 8.0

2002-02-03 Per discussione Anke Max
Gidday Lyvim and Jim (and others) I have to say thank you to you guys for answers to questions I was going to ask soon, and thanks to Mike for asking. rgrds max On Saturday 02 February 2002 18:28, you wrote: Mike, I know how bad it can be when you're starting from ground zero. I had the

Re: [newbie] Samba Question

2002-02-03 Per discussione Anke Max
Gidday Mithrilhall I know nothing of XP, but I am using Samba (via webmin). Do you have a samba user of the same name and password? In webmin it's easy, you tell it to convert all linux users to samba users. rgds max I'm setting up Samba and I think I have just about everything perfect. I have

[newbie] Unable to log on to Samba - Error writing 4 bytes to socket 5: ERRNO = connection reset by peer

2002-02-02 Per discussione Anke Max
Gidday All I've got a problem accessing my schools samba server. When I left Friday everything was working but there had been a power cut overnight and no access this morning. The problem occurs both from pc's (win98) that are setup for domain logins and pc's that are still peer to peer. Samba is

Re: [newbie] Unable to log on to Samba - Error writing 4 bytes to socket 5: ERRNO = connection reset by peer

2002-02-02 Per discussione Anke Max
Gidday again Some more info. Mandrake 8.0 On the domain controlled pc, it gives me the standard failed to provide valid username or password but on the peer pc, it gives me a network is busy error. As well another error on bootup that may be unrelated is: Feb 2 17:59:14 files

[newbie] Wanted, easy to administer Web Based Email

2002-01-26 Per discussione Anke Max
Gidday all Does anyone know of / have experience with, a good Web Based Email system that I can install on a server running LM 8.0? I need it to be secure, easy to administer, and easy to use. TIA max Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Cron

2002-01-26 Per discussione Anke Max
snip Gidday Derek and everyone else I've been using webmin from a Mac and I can't for the life of me, get it to accept the certificate It asks again and again if I want to continue and I can't find anywhere to turn it off. You wouldn't know of a cure would you? TIA max well I'm

Re: [newbie] Tiny Emacs

2002-01-26 Per discussione Anke Max
Charles Muller wrote: I am trying to learn how to use the Emacs package that came with ML 8.1, but the program runs as a tiny window in one corner of my screen, with microscopic menu fonts. Is there a way to make this window larger, with larger menu fonts? Regards, Charles

Re: [newbie] Cron

2002-01-25 Per discussione Anke Max
Derek said on Thursday, January 24 A nice way to administer cron jobs is with webmin Just install the webmin package and put https://localhost.1 in a browser URL line. You will get a warning message about a self certified certificate the first time you run it. Just accept it. Note

Re: [newbie] internet monitoring

2002-01-25 Per discussione Anke Max
Paul Kraus asked on Thursday Is there a way to setup up Linux so that it restricts access to all internet sites that I don't specify? Can this be done an a user/usergroup setting. Example. I only want some people to only be able to access. www.cnet.com (and all child sites www.cnet.com/*.*

[newbie] Users and groups not working in Webmin 0.84

2002-01-15 Per discussione Anke Max
Gidday all I have Webmin 0.84 and Mandrake 8.0 When I go to Webmin https://192.168.1.1:1/useradmin/edit_user.cgi (that's .../edit_user.cgi ) I get a page that shows me the heading and no form below it to enter new user information. (I seem to be able to do other things OK like add and

Re: [newbie] Who Is Gary? (GeniusWeb)

2001-12-18 Per discussione Anke Max
R C asked on Sunday, December 16, 2001 3:28 AM Who Is Gary? (GeniusWeb) rant Seems obvious to me that the best way to deal with this is to email the personal address for Gary that was supplied, and ask him to sort it. He probably didn't think about changing his subscription address. Had you

[newbie] Problems accessing Samba when having 2 mandrake servers

2001-12-09 Per discussione Anke Max
Gidday Folks I'm just trying to add another linux box to our system. It's to be a samba server. It's got 7.2 on it. Samba appears to be working ok. We have a gateway, firewall, proxy, postfix mail server using 7.2 as well. Somehow samba is being used for the mailboxes on this machine. Now the

Re: [newbie] fetchmail config. for more than one collection point

2001-12-06 Per discussione Anke Max
as many as you like? rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Anke Max Sent: Wednesday, 5 December 2001 8:00 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] fetchmail config.. Gidday Frank Don't know anything about fetchmail

Re: [newbie] fetchmail config..

2001-12-04 Per discussione Anke Max
Gidday Frank Don't know anything about fetchmail but I have a silly question. Have you swapped the two around and put Yahoo first? rgds max Frank asked on Tuesday, December 04, 2001 10:38 PM I have a small fetchmail problem.. I have a .fetchmailrc file in /root that is supposed to check a

Re: [newbie] Upgrading kernel-2.4.13-12mdk.i586.rpm problem

2001-12-04 Per discussione Anke Max
I'm no guru. In a situation where I have something which depends on another and vice versa I put them all into an empty dir and use # rpm -Uvh * This seems to work well. rgds max Hello, gurus! I am using Mandrake 8.1 and I just downloaded the kernel-2.4.13-12mdk.i586.rpm and

Re: [newbie] Still no printing in LM8.1!

2001-12-04 Per discussione Anke Max
Gidday Marcia I have no experience with printing in Linux so this is a long shot. I had untold problems with printing just the odd file on the 14 iMacs at our school and it turned out to be 3 out the many installed fonts just locked up the printer whenever they were used. The error messages I

Re: [newbie] empty messages anyone?

2001-11-30 Per discussione Anke Max
Anuerin G. Diaz reported on Monday, November 26, 2001 4:40 PM hi, i just received one from parthysomething with the body saying No Message Collected the rest has its message attached. i dont see a reason why text attachment should not be viewed. but maybe its just a matter of

Re: [newbie] booting in console mode and seeing booting logs to diagnose problem

2001-11-23 Per discussione Anke Max
Gidday Anguo You couldn't download one of those linux on a floppy distro's and boot from that could you? (Tomsboot?) I'm only guessing here. Then you could make the changes you need to and reboot. Also I've read somewhere about a command something like chroot where you can (I think) change from

[newbie] newbie Has anyone settup a G3 Server with PPC LM in a school

2001-11-19 Per discussione Anke Max
Gidday All This Mac serves 14 iMacs and has 8.6 on it. I've got no software that I can track what the students are doing. I'm not allowed to spend the $1800 odd to upgrade so that I can use stuff to set filespace and printing quotas, track who was on what iMac doing what. Has anyone settup a G3

Re: [newbie] Boot floppy: no initrd.img

2001-11-14 Per discussione Anke Max
Gidday Hugo I've been using part.exe which is a powerful partitioning tool and has a boot manager that is capable of running up to 31 OSs from 31 different partitions http://www.users.intercom.com/~ranish/part/ Could be worth a try? HTH Max - Original Message - From: Hugo Ferreira [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] Tripwire-1.3.1-1.tar.gz

2001-11-13 Per discussione Anke Max
Gidday G So what would one use in addition to (instead of) tripwire and how can things trick tripwire? Thanks Max g answered Anuerin G. Diaz on Monday, November 12, 2001 6:32 PM Anuerin G. Diaz wrote: and what does tripwire do anyway? basically, it is a file security monitor data base

Re: [newbie] My personal response to msn.com and Internet Explorer.

2001-10-30 Per discussione Anke Max
Gidday All Franki, I like it but the paragraph below has a problem. I think it would be better to put it this way. This is not necessary. You may have full functionality but we just can't guarantee it, and neither can anyone else other then Microsoft and its partners. Max This is not

Re: [newbie] Unable to mount root FS on 07:07

2001-10-22 Per discussione Anke Max
Gidday Randy Just a stab in the dark. Have you tried removing the added memory? On one occassion that I know of, 3 individual sticks were faulty and were producing all kinds of weird problems. My friend replaced one stick while trying to track down an intermitent problem on a windoze pc, and the

Re: [newbie] Flip Disk

2001-10-19 Per discussione Anke Max
Gidday Dechao You could try to get hold of a copy of nortons utilities for mac. When I started my current job, they had lost a Mac server harddrive (and didn't have it backed up) and I rebuilt it using nortons. It was tediuous, I had to run it many many times before I got 99% of the data back.

Re: [newbie] All your numbers are belong to us

2001-10-05 Per discussione Anke Max
On Friday, October 05, 2001 4:43 PM, Sridhar Dhanapalan said That's a pity. I bet it was slashdotted. On Thu, 04 Oct 2001 19:29:48 -0500, Michael D. Viron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The website of course no longer exists -- it comes up as a 404 error when you try to access the main index

Re: [newbie] shift causes beep? (and fans stop)

2001-10-05 Per discussione Anke Max
Gidday All On Friday, 5 October 2001 2:08 AM, Manuel Drake wrote: snip Good call, willdo soon... just lost a fan on my Slack server, so the fun goes on... I don't know how many others bother, but when I get a fan that starts to get noisy or stop I get a syringe with some light oil and poke a

[newbie] failed dependencies: menu 2.1.5-29mdk conflicts with rpm-3.0.5-27mdk

2001-09-25 Per discussione Anke Max
Gidday All I'm trying to upgrade some stuff on a mandrake system and need to upgrade rpm to version4 but I get the following error when trying to first upgrade to ver3!# rpm -Uvh rpm-3.0.5-27mdk.i586.rpmerror: failed dependencies: menu 2.1.5-29mdk conflicts with rpm-3.0.5-27mdk When I