[SLUG] samba/dns/firewall question

2001-10-28 Thread lukekendall
I'm trying to get Samba working, between Win95 and RH 7.1. I can't get the Win95 machine to see the Linux samba server, though. It is unable to Browse the network neighbourhood. Both machines are plugged into a firewall/4-port ethernet hub, and both can use see the internet, so I know TCP/IP is

[SLUG] Windows ME and samba

2001-10-28 Thread Kevin Waterson
I have a windows machine and wish to print to the printer on the linux machine I have set up the networking and samba and all seems ok I can mount the windows shares using smbmount and transfer files I can see the linux machine in the network neighbourhood thingy. but when I click on it, it

Re: [SLUG] Epson SC3000 RIP - Recommendations

2001-10-28 Thread Michael Sztachanski
Hi, John, not much in open source RIP wise that allow for colour calibration, have have many a correspondance with the guys from Aladin - Ghostscipt, but you should have a look at Caldera Graphics. I´ve installed two of these at 2 large format printing houses. Each RIP runs currently 2 52

Re: [SLUG] Windows ME and samba

2001-10-28 Thread cpaul
On Sun, 28 Oct 2001 19:03:19 +1100 Kevin Waterson wrote: I can see the linux machine in the network neighbourhood thingy. but when I click on it, it prompts for a password and I can go no further. did u tweak smbusers? on redhat it masqerades as /etc/samba/smbusers also - the encrypted

[SLUG] Microsoft XP Anti-Theft Features Cracked within Hours of Product Launch

2001-10-28 Thread Peter Hardy
My money was on it taking at least a couple of days, but there you go: http://sourcewire.com/General/Frames.php?page=Releases/ShowRelease.php?id=13489 -- Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info:

Re: [SLUG] Microsoft XP Anti-Theft Features Cracked within Hours of Product Launch

2001-10-28 Thread Catie Flick
On 28 Oct, Peter Hardy wrote: My money was on it taking at least a couple of days, but there you go: http://sourcewire.com/General/Frames.php?page=Releases/ShowRelease.php?id=13489 Yeah, we have the devils0wn release (no activation thingos) on one of our boxen atm... it's kinda pretty and

Re: [SLUG] Thanks for the meeting

2001-10-28 Thread Terry Collins
Ken Foskey wrote: they get delivered free M$ software because of a contract by the Dept of Education and also some issues around that license. There is an implied threat of action against non-M$ installs. So this is a major win! As I undertstand it, it is NOT free to the school. The cost

RE: [SLUG] samba/dns/firewall question

2001-10-28 Thread George Vieira
One point, I have seen many windows 9X machines where the SMB system is screwed and required removal of File and Print Sharing off the machine/Reboot/Reinstall it and it'll work again. Usually after a boot up of Win9X, you have to wait a while before network neighbourhood collects a list of

[SLUG] mgetty dial-in, same ptp address

2001-10-28 Thread Jeff Waugh
Hi all, So, I have three modems / mgetty instances running on a machine, but it seems that each successive connection gets the same point to point address, regardless of what's in /etc/ppp/options.ttyS*. Those options files look like this: netmask 255.128.0.0 ms-dns 10.0.0.1 ms-wins

RE: [SLUG] Windows ME and samba

2001-10-28 Thread George Vieira
If you are getting an $IPC message asking for a password then you need to enable smbpasswd encrypted file and add the user to it matching the windows users login and password. Read the logs, there is a good explanation in /var/log/samba/* logs... thanks, George Vieira Network Engineer Citadel

RE: [SLUG] mgetty dial-in, same ptp address

2001-10-28 Thread George Vieira
are you sure your not using that IP in the /etc/ppp/options file as it gets read too I'm pretty sure. I'd put all the global information into a common file (ie /etc/ppp/options.server) and then put in the /etc/mgetty+sendfax/login.config /AutoPPP/ - a_ppp /usr/sbin/pppd auth file

Re: [SLUG] mgetty dial-in, same ptp address

2001-10-28 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=George Vieira are you sure your not using that IP in the /etc/ppp/options file as it gets read too I'm pretty sure. It's a zero length file [ bitten by that one before ;) ]. - Jeff -- Boys will be boys, hackers will be hackers, geeks will be geeks, and cyberpunks will

Re: [SLUG] mgetty/ppp on same modem?

2001-10-28 Thread Crossfire
DaZZa was once rumoured to have said: Folks. Is it possible to run mgetty for receiving incoming calls and ppp for making outgoing calls on the same port? Yes. I do this at home. Obviously, the call tyres are exclusive {Duh!}, but if I enable mgetty on the ttyS0 port that my ppp script

Re: [SLUG] mgetty dial-in, same ptp address

2001-10-28 Thread Andre Pang
On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 08:00:42AM +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote: options.ttyS1 has ppp02, etc. These host names are also listed in hosts and DNS, but the connections always seem to connection up like this: ppp1 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol inet addr:10.0.0.1

[SLUG] Fixed! [Was: mgetty dial-in, same ptp address]

2001-10-28 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Andre Pang ppp1 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol inet addr:10.0.0.1 P-t-P:10.0.0.120 Mask:255.255.255.255 What does 10.0.0.120 resolve to? Is that ppp01? Yeah. So, /etc/ppp/pap-secrets had three lines explicitly mentioning the IP addresses, like so:

Re: [SLUG] Editing netbank's postscript

2001-10-28 Thread Crossfire
Nick Croft was once rumoured to have said: Thanks to a suggestion from John Ferlito (1 Sept), I've put together a short search-and-destroy pattern-matching perl script to eliminate references to m$ in the Postscript output from Netscape-Netbank receipts and transaction records. Uh? Why

[SLUG] Wacky ping pattern from BigPond Direct

2001-10-28 Thread Jeff Waugh
Anyone know what would cause this? It's a set of ping results from a Big Pond Direct Red Hat machine to a stable machine on a different network. Seems... slightly too neat. PING ipaddress (ipaddress) from ipaddress : 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from destination.com (ip.ip.ip.ip): icmp_seq=0

Re: [SLUG] Wacky ping pattern from BigPond Direct

2001-10-28 Thread Howard Lowndes
I've seen similar pattens of ever increasing ping times and it was down to some sort of DNS problem. If I did a ping -n then the problem went away. Can't help beyond that suggestion. On Mon, 29 Oct 2001, Jeff Waugh wrote: Anyone know what would cause this? It's a set of ping results from a

Re: [SLUG] Wacky ping pattern from BigPond Direct

2001-10-28 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Howard Lowndes I've seen similar pattens of ever increasing ping times and it was down to some sort of DNS problem. If I did a ping -n then the problem went away. Nice one. Not sure why that's happening, but you're right. Thanks! - Jeff -- Socks for the foot

Re: [SLUG] Editing netbank's postscript

2001-10-28 Thread Crossfire
Crossfire was once rumoured to have said: Nick Croft was once rumoured to have said: Crossfire wrote: I'm not entirely sure what you're trying to achieve, but if you're trying to perform a global modification of the positioning of the output, whynot just use translate? C.

[SLUG] Election time...

2001-10-28 Thread Stuart Guthrie
Found a spare 1/2 hour to ask the following of the various federal political parties. Perhaps you might like to do the same (only different)? Apparently they are keen to please at the mo'. The search engine failed to find any links on 'open source', 'linux', 'import replacement' or 'GNU'. Is

Re: [SLUG] Editing netbank's postscript

2001-10-28 Thread Nick Croft
Wow! Nick -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] Editing netbank's postscript

2001-10-28 Thread Nick Croft
... and thanks also! I'm still gonna try and find a way in perl, but meanwhile both the cruft and the space are gone. Nick -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

[SLUG] GUI file transfer using scp (gSCP)

2001-10-28 Thread Simon Wong
Hi all! I'm trying to find an application like gFTP but that uses scp to transfer files. I know I can do command line but for multiple files I think it's neater to use the two window local/remote format. Is there anything like RBrowser for the Mac available? That is a great app that allows

Re: [SLUG] GUI file transfer using scp (gSCP)

2001-10-28 Thread Tony Green
* This one time, at band camp, Simon Wong said: Hi all! I'm trying to find an application like gFTP but that uses scp to transfer files. I know I can do command line but for multiple files I think it's neater to use the two window local/remote format. Is there anything like RBrowser

Re: [SLUG] GUI file transfer using scp (gSCP)

2001-10-28 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Simon Wong Is there anything like RBrowser for the Mac available? That is a great app that allows you to choose multiple formats FTP or SCP/SSH and even lets you open files for browsing as though it were on your own HDD (temp copy I think). Hmm, that sounds pretty cool. Now that

Re: [SLUG] GUI file transfer using scp (gSCP)

2001-10-28 Thread Simon Wong
On Mon, 2001-10-29 at 12:45, Jeff Waugh wrote: Nautilus will be able to do these things very soon; they look like 2.0 features (2.0 will be the port to the GNOME 2.0 platform). According to I thought it sounded like something Nautlius should be able to do. Is development progressing on

Re: [SLUG] GUI file transfer using scp (gSCP)

2001-10-28 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Simon Wong I thought it sounded like something Nautlius should be able to do. Yeah, the Eazel services stuff was pretty cool when it was going, but some of the features like this and viewing tarballs were removed to get 1.0 out. Is development progressing on Nautilus, it seems to

Re: [SLUG] GUI file transfer using scp (gSCP)

2001-10-28 Thread Simon Wong
On Mon, 2001-10-29 at 13:36, Tony Green wrote: secpanel: SecPanel serves as a graphical user interface for managing and running SSH (Secure Shell) and SCP (Secure Copy) connections. Looks like what I'm after (until Nautilus is suitably endowed). I have installed it and will have a try.

[SLUG] Hardware

2001-10-28 Thread Jon Biddell
Ayone know if there are any major issues running Linux (distro will be SuSE, but that's not really relevant now) on the Athlon 1.2gHz processor ? I've found one for $750 spec'd pretty well as a desktop replacement. Jon --- WTC

Re: [SLUG] Hardware

2001-10-28 Thread Tony Green
* This one time, at band camp, Jon Biddell said: Ayone know if there are any major issues running Linux (distro will be SuSE, but that's not really relevant now) on the Athlon 1.2gHz processor ? I've found one for $750 spec'd pretty well as a desktop replacement. I'm running Linux

Re: [SLUG] GUI file transfer using scp (gSCP)

2001-10-28 Thread Malcolm Tredinnick
On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 02:12:09PM +1100, Simon Wong wrote: On Mon, 2001-10-29 at 13:10, Jeff Waugh wrote: Projects like Galeon have an enormous amount of energy at the moment; Nautilus seems to be having a hard time attracting hackers even though it has a fairly clean and easy to grasp

Re: [SLUG] Hardware

2001-10-28 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Jon Biddell wrote: Ayone know if there are any major issues running Linux (distro will be SuSE, but that's not really relevant now) on the Athlon 1.2gHz processor ? Nup. Choose Athlon/Duron/K7 for processor type when (if) you build your own kernel. -- [EMAIL

RE: [SLUG] FW: Paul Thurrot - a Windows XP summary copycat OSes hey ?

2001-10-28 Thread George Vieira
yeah funny that, and yet (if i'm not wrong) MACs had GUIs before windows. Xerox were the first bring on the GUI and then it was Apple (i think).. then Windows.. Funny thing today, (Don't want to start another thread) I've just noticed the amount of Windows XP advertising going around with the

Re: [SLUG] Hardware

2001-10-28 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Matthew Moor wrote: I've had reasonably good luck with Abit boards, but dealer friends tell me that their QA has gone to crap. This is true. My first Abit board was the KA7-100, for an 800MHz Ath. Something happened that ended up frying the IDE controllers. I went

RE: [SLUG] FW: Paul Thurrot - a Windows XP summary copycat OSes h ey ?

2001-10-28 Thread Booth, Christopher (Aus) - ATP
The link to the article is here http://www.winsupersite.com/reviews/windowsxp_osx.asp He is less kind to Linux and Linux users than Mac OS Yes Xerox did invent the GUI too. Are we just playing catch-up to Windows ? or truly innovating. Chris -Original Message- From: George Vieira

RE: [SLUG] FW: Paul Thurrot - a Windows XP summary copycat OSes h ey ?

2001-10-28 Thread David
Catch up? [david@fast david]$ uptime 4:50pm up 130 days, 3:12, 5 users Need I say more. PS: last downtime was due to hardware upgrade. Machine serves DNS, web and mail, including mailing lists, as well as general GUI workstation apps. PPS: Apple sued Microsoft for stealing their gui

Re: [SLUG] FW: Paul Thurrot - a Windows XP summary copycat OSes h ey ?

2001-10-28 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=David Catch up? Need I say more. Yeah, we're talking user interface. Uptime means nowt in this case, unfortunately. :) PPS: Apple sued Microsoft for stealing their gui ideas (although they lost). For being paid out untold (NDA) amounts of cash values of lost. - Jeff --

Re: [SLUG] FW: Paul Thurrot - a Windows XP summary copycat OSe hey ?

2001-10-28 Thread Stuart Guthrie
IMHO If you missed the ximian demo couple of months ago ..its waaay ahead in terms of innovation - a real outlook-killer. I'm signing up when its released, might even have to boot mozilla as my mail client. Think they need the dosh too. Thurrot is a bit of an MS stooge. Note excessive use of !

Re: [SLUG] FW: Paul Thurrot - a Windows XP summary copycat OSe hey ?

2001-10-28 Thread Adam Kennedy
I actually disagree with the security bit... At least as far as security is concerned, we inherit the benefits of UNIX... Stability doesn't really fall into the inovation catagory... Inovation as far as linux is concerned has just happenned in a range of non-central places. For example, linux

[SLUG] KDE on Debian - per user environment variables

2001-10-28 Thread David Fisher
All, I hope you can be a little more helpful than the wilfully useless lot on Debian-KDE. I am trying to set up some per user environmentals on KDE 2.2.1 on Debian Woody. Eg HTTP_PROXY for my setiathome account, plus adding ~/bin to my personal account's path. Adding these to .bash_profile

[SLUG] automounters

2001-10-28 Thread Jeff Waugh
'tag alles, Gus (and others), which was the automounter you said you preferred on Friday? amd or autofs? - Jeff -- Laughter is a force for democracy. - John Cleese -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info:

Re: [SLUG] KDE on Debian - per user environment variables

2001-10-28 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=David Fisher Eg HTTP_PROXY for my setiathome account, plus adding ~/bin to my personal account's path. Adding these to .bash_profile has no effect (I recall it working for Gnome before I defected). How about .profile? Does KDE have a .kderc ish file like .gnomerc? Anybody

[SLUG] mgetty/ppp on same modem?

2001-10-28 Thread DaZZa
Folks. Is it possible to run mgetty for receiving incoming calls and ppp for making outgoing calls on the same port? Obviously, the call tyres are exclusive {Duh!}, but if I enable mgetty on the ttyS0 port that my ppp script runs on, Bad Things happen. Any clues on how to do this? Access the