[newbie] Masq. and Firewall

2001-05-26 Per discussione Rod Upfold
My son uses ICQ, a Java chat program (?) and a last night he tried to connect to some URL that he uses his camera with (he is using Win98). The two chat programs would work and then he would lose his connection to them and then he would have to restart his his chat programs to get reconnected

[newbie] Firewall - Your Personal Choice

2001-05-18 Per discussione Rod Upfold
Right now I am using PMFirewallmainly because it was used by Mandrake in their firewall tutorialbut is there a better firewall than PMFirewall and I am also not too sure if the firewall is up and running...ther is no indication if it is running or not. What is your personal choice of a

[newbie] Non-Graphical Login

2001-05-15 Per discussione Rod Upfold
I don't want to login with the graphical login..either as root or user. I am using LM 7.2...can you tell me how to get back to the non graphical login interface? I want to be able to login as root press return Type in my password press return and if I want to goto graphics, I will then type

[newbie] Hmmmm...Might be a silly question

2001-05-15 Per discussione Rod Upfold
Is there a way to setup my inhome network? What I want to is to put my server in the basement and have no keyboard, monitor or mouse attached to it and be able to control or make adjustments from my other computer somewhere in the house? Hope I made it clear...what my thinking are...or is

[newbie] Networking

2001-05-11 Per discussione Rod Upfold
We are changing over from using 3 modems to a DSL. I am trying to set up a home network to use one DSL connection. I followed the tutorial on networking at Mandrake. The author of the tutorial talks about two network cards in the linux server...the one card would be eth0what about the

[newbie] Mandrake 8

2001-05-10 Per discussione Rod Upfold
Downloaded version 8 and ext...burned the cd's. The ext disk looked okay and so did the installation didk. Started to install and the first problem came when it couldn't uncompress 2nd ramdisk (I believe that what it said...it was last night)...so it said press return to continue on