Re: [SLUG] Help with Samba on Webmin

2004-06-29 Thread Ben Donohue
You can use webmin to change the owner and group permissions. In webmin go to the Other tab, File manager, find folder (on right hand window pane) and click on edit button. Change in there. Does this help? Ben Matthew Tse wrote: Hi all, I'm having a hard time using Webmin to administer a box runn

Re: [SLUG] tax office dummy spit

2004-06-29 Thread Rick Welykochy
Matthew Palmer wrote: On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 10:04:46AM +1000, David wrote: Since I steadfastly refuse to run a windows box on principle, what can I do with it to turn it into useful information? Is there any GOOD reason why the ATO should not provide the information as something like a tab-delimi

Re: [SLUG] Wireless pcmcia cards

2004-06-29 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
This one time, at band camp, Stuart Guthrie wrote: > 'Orinoco' chipsets seem to the the best supported although I got an > amtel device going well after considerable effort. Prism 2.5 chipsets are also well supported, particularly if you want to run it in access point mode. -- Rev Simon Rumble

[SLUG] Help Configuring CPAN and wget Issue on Solaris !

2004-06-29 Thread Louis
Hi Sluggers: I hope queries on Solaris is ok on the list. I am trying to setup CPAN on a Sun Sparc Solaris version 8. I am getting problems connecting to download any files after I specify the configurations. Here is the CPAN dump. Note: To connect to http, ftp I use a proxy server. I specified i

Re: [SLUG] Help Configuring CPAN and wget Issue on Solaris !

2004-06-29 Thread mlh
On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 10:40:13AM +1000, Louis wrote: > I hope queries on Solaris is ok on the list. Not until they GPL Solaris! But anyway, this is a perl/wget/proxy question anyway Perhaps your proxy requires authentication? Matt -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://sl

Re: [SLUG] Help Configuring CPAN and wget Issue on Solaris !

2004-06-29 Thread Gavin Carr
On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 10:40:13AM +1000, Louis wrote: > Note: To connect to http, ftp I use a proxy server. I specified it here > with format :port number . Anyway please have a look, and let > me know why I cannot connect at all. > > I've also tried wget for ftp, http to get files from the same

Re: [SLUG] Help Configuring CPAN and wget Issue on Solaris !

2004-06-29 Thread Louis
> On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 10:40:13AM +1000, Louis wrote: >> I hope queries on Solaris is ok on the list. > > Not until they GPL Solaris! But anyway, this is a perl/wget/proxy > question anyway > > Perhaps your proxy requires authentication? Well on the Sun box, within Netscape when I enter manua

Re: [SLUG] Help Configuring CPAN and wget Issue on Solaris !

2004-06-29 Thread Dean Hamstead
just because you get http doesnt mean you get ftp so check that your running ftp through your http proxy also check that your proxy allows you to get to ftp stuff maybe you need to set passive ftp *shrug* Dean Louis wrote: On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 10:40:13AM +1000, Louis wrote: I hope queries on

Re: [SLUG] Help Configuring CPAN and wget Issue on Solaris !

2004-06-29 Thread Louis
Hi Gavin: > On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 10:40:13AM +1000, Louis wrote: >> Note: To connect to http, ftp I use a proxy server. I specified it here >> with format :port number . Anyway please have a look, and let >> me know why I cannot connect at all. >> >> I've also tried wget for ftp, http to get fil

Re: [SLUG] Help Configuring CPAN and wget Issue on Solaris !

2004-06-29 Thread Louis
Hi Dean: > just because you get http doesnt mean you get ftp > > so > > check that your running ftp through your http proxy Not sure how to check this. > also check that your proxy allows you to get to ftp stuff >From the browser I can do this ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/modules/03modlist.

Re: [SLUG] Help Configuring CPAN and wget Issue on Solaris !

2004-06-29 Thread Darren Williams
Hi Louis I have had troubles with wget and firewalls, from /etc/wgetrc file: # Many sites are behind firewalls that do not allow initiation of # connections from the outside. On these sites you have to use the # `passive' feature of FTP. If you are behind such a firewall, you # can turn this on

Re: [SLUG] Dell notebook. Any experiences

2004-06-29 Thread Mike MacCana
On Fri, 25 Jun 2004, Theo Julienne wrote: > Ben Donohue wrote: > > > Any experiences, Good, Bad or Ugly with Dell and Linux? > > I've been successfully running Linux on my Dell Inspiron 8600. I was > originally running RedHat, but am now running LFS. Both work perfectly > with everything. Includi

Re: [SLUG] Help Configuring CPAN and wget Issue on Solaris !

2004-06-29 Thread Gavin Carr
On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 12:39:05PM +1000, Louis wrote: > [Louis] I have tried what you said and it still won't work. I paste below > what I did based on what you said. Please help. Does wget work from the commandline now with your http_proxy and ftp_proxy environment variables set? Can you wget

Re: [SLUG] Help Configuring CPAN and wget Issue on Solaris !

2004-06-29 Thread Louis
Hi Darren: No luck is on my side. I cannot find a wgetrc or .wgetrc anywhere. Anyway I tried passive switch and he it is: + bash-2.03$ wget --passive-ftp ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/modules/03modlist.data.gz --13:22:15-- ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/modules/03modlist.data.gz => `03

Re: [SLUG] Help Configuring CPAN and wget Issue on Solaris !

2004-06-29 Thread Louis
> On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 12:39:05PM +1000, Louis wrote: >> [Louis] I have tried what you said and it still won't work. I paste >> below >> what I did based on what you said. Please help. > > Does wget work from the commandline now with your http_proxy and ftp_proxy > environment variables set? Ca

Re: [SLUG] Help Configuring CPAN and wget Issue on Solaris !

2004-06-29 Thread Peter Chubb
> "Louis" == Louis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 12:39:05PM +1000, Louis wrote: Louis> http_proxy //152.76.224.188:3128 This looks wrong -- should be http://152.76.224.188:3128 I suggest you set this in a set of environment variables and try from the command li

Re: [SLUG] Wireless pcmcia cards

2004-06-29 Thread Kevin Saenz
Ok what 11g cards come with either chip set also where can I find them? I have got the D-link card working but I can't use airsnort as it needs one of the below cards. Also I can't use the wep option. (Well I have tried the iwconfig wlan0 key s:today settings but I get a weird error) This one

Re: [SLUG] Help Configuring CPAN and wget Issue on Solaris !

2004-06-29 Thread Kevin Saenz
Does the windows manager from Sun count ;-) (it looks a little OSX to me) I hope queries on Solaris is ok on the list. Not until they GPL Solaris! But anyway, this is a perl/wget/proxy question anyway Perhaps your proxy requires authentication? Matt -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mai

Re: [SLUG] Outlook 2003 and imap

2004-06-29 Thread Kevin Saenz
Found out what the problem was the workstation wasn't sending any passwords. Has anyone had problem with outlook 2003 accessing imap servers. it doesn't seem playing friendly with my mail server. I know that dovecot has configuration options to make LookOut! work: # Workarounds for various client