[SLUG] Re: slug Digest, Vol 29, Issue 62

On Monday 29 August 2005 12:25, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi What you want to do is very easy. Although I am not certain the existing ADSL router you own can be told or configured to be a dumb bridged ADSL modem, much like the Linksys ADSL2MUE units are by default. All this means is that

RE: [SLUG] Re: slug Digest, Vol 29, Issue 62

G'day... Please elaborate, specially why 'and IMHO it would be undesirable' my previous (last post to slug) explained in depth the woes I had trying to use a dynalink router. Every router that I've looked at is hard/obscure when you try to route AND run servers. Also you end up trusting

Re: [SLUG] Re: slug Digest, Vol 29, Issue 62

As for not trusting 'their' firewall to work right, maybe you should reconsider - Especially because this particular device (http://www1.linksys.com/international/product.asp?coid=19ipid=667) runs linux, and iptables - so their firewall uses exactly the same software that your own firewall

RE: [SLUG] Re: slug Digest, Vol 29, Issue 62

Thanks James, I thought this would be the case but I couldn't think of an example quickly. Regards, Michael Kraus Software Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Direct Line 02 8306 0007 -Original Message- From: James Polley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 29 August 2005 4:50 PM To:

[SLUG] Konquie crashing when trying to save Ooffice file

Hi all, I left my daughter in the home office and when I came back, she'd been 'playing' with the 'other elements' of the machine - I know, I've been meaning to create a user id for her. This is a FC3 machine running Ooffice 1.1.3. So, today I go to save an ooffice text file and get the

Re: [SLUG] linux box as router

Hi, On 8/29/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to know it anyone is running a linux box as their adsl router/modem? Very much, alive and kicking. I have an old P2 133 Mhz, x86 system with 128 MB RAM where I installed Slackware and converted it to a router.

Re: [SLUG] linux box as router

Michael Fox wrote: On 8/29/05, Sridhar Dhanapalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This way, you are splitting up the tasks amongst the devices. The modem can use PPPoA (which in many cases is better than PPPoE) but it doesn't hinder firewalling/forwarding. Yes, PPPoA in my opinion appears to be

[SLUG] First time installing application.

I am running Ubuntu and have just downloaded an application from an outside source but do not know how to install it. It sits on the desktop. The file finishes with .bin. Clicking yields a message which tells me to 'rename the file to the correct extension for shell script'. I do not know how to

Re: [SLUG] bulk mail script

Alexander Else [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A task has been allocated to me to send out a mail (possibly with a word/pdf attachment) to a few hundred email addresses in an hour and a half. As i don't have a lot of time to do my homework on this one, i hope someone can point me to one or two

Re: [SLUG] internet

dial up or broadband? Dean Paul Maloney wrote: Hi, Once again I need your help. I can't for some reason do a connection to my ISP without having to go through a lot of key strokes. Is there an easier way and how do I do it. As you can see I am a very early beginner at Linux but compared to the

Re: [SLUG] ubuntu mod perl2

Thanks Gus, It maybe better for me to hunt around for a post API release for Hoary then. I'll check backports. Regards, Ashley On Sun, 2005-08-28 at 16:46 +0100, Angus Lees wrote: At Sat, 27 Aug 2005 13:30:42 +1000, Ashley Maher wrote: I loaded the mod perl2 package into Ubuntu. The

[SLUG] internet connection

Hi, Well I think I have finally worked it out as to how to connect to internet. It takes a while and I have to be hit on the head a few times but eventially it stays in my head. Thanks for all your help as I am now using Linux to send you this email. It is great not to have to go back to that

Re: [SLUG] internet

fc4 should have a nice interface to make it simple Dean Paul Maloney wrote: Sorry dial-up On Mon, 2005-08-29 at 21:47 +1000, Dean Hamstead wrote: dial up or broadband? Dean Paul Maloney wrote: Hi, Once again I need your help. I can't for some reason do a connection to my ISP without

Re: [SLUG] First time installing application.

Open the terminal. Type: chmod +x Desktop/filename.bin enter Desktop/filename.bin enter Then it will install. -- Simon Males [EMAIL PROTECTED] john gibbons wrote: I am running Ubuntu and have just downloaded an application from an outside source but do not know how to install it. It sits on

Re: [SLUG] First time installing application.

On 8/29/05, Simon Males [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: chmod +x Desktop/filename.bin enter Desktop/filename.bin enter Then it will install. Depending on what this needs to do to install, you may have to run this as root (using sudo or su). Of course, running it as root means it can do whatever it

[SLUG] SAMBA weirdness

Hi after 2 weeks of struggling I throw in the towel. Any kind soul able to save the day. I have a samba server, wins support, master domain browser, local master, dns proxy. lmhosts has no effect what so ever resolve order shows this dns (hosts) sort of works ... server:~ # cat

[SLUG] Software Freedom Day 2005 - September 10th

Linux Australia and SLUG is proud to announce Software Freedom Day on September 10! Software Freedom Day is a global initiative to celebrate and give back to the community by taking Free and Open Source software to the streets. SLUG will be celebrating Software Freedom Day by distributing CDs in

Re: [SLUG] SAMBA weirdness

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SNIP My problem is simple: When a host at the end of a VPN wants to talk to the flexlm on a machine on servers network all goes well until the host says 'I'm george' and the machine says 'hey george' and there is no response. (ie for george read CENTRAL2) Howto

RE: [SLUG] Webserver behind ADSL router

Thanks James That looks just like what I want to do for this guy. I had not come across the Bind view directive before. I had a look at the Bind documentation and am now even more confused. Does anyone have a nice explanation of how to use the view directive? I guess this is what is known as

[SLUG] Re: Firefox print crash

Phil Scarratt wrote: Hi Has anyone else had trouble with firefox or thunderbird crashing when you press CTRL+P or select Print from the File menu? I'm using Ubuntu Hoary. It's driving me insane. Currently googling but what is really insane is that after I try something to fix it, I have to

Re: [SLUG] First time installing application.

Thanks James and Simon, it is up and running. The application is called 'cMap', a freebie from 'cmap.ihmc.us'. It is an improvement on the Mind Map way of developing concepts. I gave it a trial run and prefer it to the way Mind Map works. And that triggers a thought - perhaps it might be a

[SLUG] Smb Client GUI

Sluggers, I've a need to provide users with a GUI interface to smbclient. I've found the samba.org/samba/GUI/ page with quite a lot of gui tools on it however some appear to be broken links and other promise a bit but then don't get me want I need. Perhaps someone out there can recommend a

Re: [SLUG] Smb Client GUI

Peter Rundle wrote: Sluggers, I've a need to provide users with a GUI interface to smbclient. I've found the samba.org/samba/GUI/ page with quite a lot of gui tools on it however some appear to be broken links and other promise a bit but then don't get me want I need. Perhaps someone out

Re: [SLUG] Smb Client GUI

Dean Hamstead wrote: i would recommend to you... xsmbclient Did you mean xsmbrowser? I couldn't find an xsmbclient. P. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

Re: [SLUG] Webserver behind ADSL router

On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 08:56:13AM +1000, Richard Luckhurst ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Thanks James [snip] Have a look at the bind 9 admin reference: http://www.nominum.com/content/documents/bind9arm.pdf specifically sections 6.2.19 and 6.2.20 (page 80). In the example below note

Re: [SLUG] Smb Client GUI

Phil Scarratt wrote: I know nautilus allows this sort of thing, Not sure what underlying distro you're using with LTSP, but if it's a gnome distro then this _may_ be of use. Thanks Phil, but... When I first saw Nautilus a thought it was going to be a really neat piece of gear, but I'm

Re: [SLUG] Smb Client GUI

Peter Rundle wrote: When I first saw Nautilus a thought it was going to be a really neat piece of gear, but I'm so disappointed with it. I just find it unusable and the end users don't like it either. What my users want is a simple tool to browse their local disk, and those of other PC's

Re: [SLUG] Smb Client GUI

On Tuesday 30 August 2005 09:30, Peter Rundle wrote: I'm really looking for a cuteFTP equivilent but using SMB. A lot of the GUI tools blurb describe being able to browse the sub-net and then mount shares... Does anyone know of one that can transfer files without actually mounting the share?

Re: [SLUG] Smb Client GUI

Jesus Salvo Jr. wrote: On Tuesday 30 August 2005 09:30, Peter Rundle wrote: I'm really looking for a cuteFTP equivilent but using SMB. A lot of the GUI tools blurb describe being able to browse the sub-net and then mount shares... Does anyone know of one that can transfer files without

Re: [SLUG] Smb Client GUI

quote who=Peter Rundle When I first saw Nautilus a thought it was going to be a really neat piece of gear, but I'm so disappointed with it. I just find it unusable and the end users don't like it either. Would love to get more in-depth feedback from you about this at some stage. - Jeff --

Re: [SLUG] Smb Client GUI

quote who=Phil Scarratt Ahhh yesI've found opening files by double-click doesn't work in that scenario with nautilus either. Usually got to copy the files locally, then open, edit, save and recopy them back - a real fiddle especially if you have to do it often. It depends on the

Re: [SLUG] Smb Client GUI

Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=Phil Scarratt Ahhh yesI've found opening files by double-click doesn't work in that scenario with nautilus either. Usually got to copy the files locally, then open, edit, save and recopy them back - a real fiddle especially if you have to do it often. It

Re: [SLUG] Re: slug Digest, Vol 29, Issue 65

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This may explain almost everything. The (open)vpn non-bridged clients have the wins server pushed to them, but the office machines (out of my juristiction :-) almost certainly do not use the wins server, only broadcast resolution, and you say thus they wont update

Re: [SLUG] Smb Client GUI

On Tuesday 30 August 2005 11:59, Phil Scarratt wrote: Jesus Salvo Jr. wrote: On Tuesday 30 August 2005 09:30, Peter Rundle wrote: I'm really looking for a cuteFTP equivilent but using SMB. A lot of the GUI tools blurb describe being able to browse the sub-net and then mount shares... Does

Re: [SLUG] Smb Client GUI

Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=Phil Scarratt So you're saying that a file say somedoc.sxw on a samba share, if I browse to it using nautilus and double-click to open, it should open in OOo instead of spit the dummy (I can't remember the error)? Or is this something that would work with a later

[SLUG] Re: Smb Client GUI

On Tuesday 30 August 2005 10:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know nautilus allows this sort of thing, Not sure what underlying distro you're using with LTSP, but if it's a gnome distro then this _may_ be of use. I'm old I'm a command line junkie (I love vi) I setup a linux box, in leau of

[SLUG] Simple website CMS?

Hi everyone! I'm looking to setup a very basic CMS for my sister's website. It only needs to be quite simple with the following capabilities: * A blog where she can put up her latest news * Static HTML pages * The ability to create new pages from templates where she can

Re: [SLUG] Simple website CMS?

quote who=Simon Wong I'm looking to setup a very basic CMS for my sister's website. I'd recommend Drupal for something simple and easy to use. It only needs to be quite simple with the following capabilities: * A blog where she can put up her latest news * Static HTML pages

Re: [SLUG] Simple website CMS?

No suggestion per se, just two useful websites.. cmsmatrix.org has details about a whole lot of CMSes, including a feature that allows you to choose the features you want and see what CMSes match. They're not all free though, so make sure you specify a cost that's appropriate (ie, probably $0)