Re: [expert] re:samba

2003-04-02 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 02 Apr 2003 6:18 am, Gary Hodder wrote: Hi Richard and others having trouble with samba. Things to change in samba.conf over the default. workgroup = homenet hosts allow = 192.168.100. #change this to the class c you are on os level = 34 #for samba to win election over

Re: [expert] re:samba

2003-04-02 Thread Gary Hodder
On Wed, 2 Apr 2003 09:03:21 +0100, you wrote: On Wednesday 02 Apr 2003 6:18 am, Gary Hodder wrote: Hi Richard and others having trouble with samba. Things to change in samba.conf over the default. workgroup = homenet hosts allow = 192.168.100. #change this to the class c you are on

Re: [expert] re:samba

2003-04-02 Thread Gary Hodder
On Wed, 02 Apr 2003 18:39:44 +1000, you wrote: On Wed, 2 Apr 2003 09:03:21 +0100, you wrote: On Wednesday 02 Apr 2003 6:18 am, Gary Hodder wrote: Hi Richard and others having trouble with samba. Things to change in samba.conf over the default. workgroup = homenet hosts allow =

Re: [expert] open source spreadsheet file format.

2003-04-02 Thread Damian Gatabria
On Tuesday 01 April 2003 11:46, Frankie wrote: its not in xls format... its currently csv, and as far as I know, having a perl script create xls format data would be quiet hard.. Is saving as HTML not an option? Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

[expert] Beyond Release notes

2003-04-02 Thread stefmit
Having gotten my 9.1 pre-order taken care off, and my test upgrade with the 9.1 iso-s downloaded - done, and while waiting for the official package to show up in the mail, a question came to mind: does anybody know of a site similar to: http://www.gurulabs.com/RedHatLinux9-review.html where

RE: [expert] open source spreadsheet file format.

2003-04-02 Thread Frankie
The data is in a mysql database.. The webapp pulls that data out depending on what data they wanted and lists it in html tables.. I have created some reusable code so that if someone clicks download on one of those data pages, it tells the webapp to run the query again and open a download header

RE: [expert] open source spreadsheet file format.

2003-04-02 Thread Frankie
sort of yes... I can make do assumptions about the systems of the end user... nor about their knowledge level. in 90% of office suites, .csv will open in the spreadsheet app.. html files will not.. Therein lies the problem.. CSV is working now.. and its readable in the download file.. so

Re: [expert] Enlarging Swap

2003-04-02 Thread Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva
Ok, 2 swap partitions worked well. But I didn't try yet to give a 'pmsuspend'. To make it available I should set 'resume=/dev/hdxx' in my lilo.conf append. And so, that's why I'm afraid! 2 swaps can cover all 512 mem RAM, but not one alone. On Tue, 1 Apr 2003, David E. Fox wrote: Now that

Re: [expert] re:samba

2003-04-02 Thread Vox
This time Gary Hodder [EMAIL PROTECTED] becomes daring and writes: On Wed, 2 Apr 2003 09:03:21 +0100, you wrote: On Wednesday 02 Apr 2003 6:18 am, Gary Hodder wrote: Hi Richard and others having trouble with samba. Things to change in samba.conf over the default. workgroup = homenet

[expert] Problem with MDK 9.1, gv, ps2pdf...

2003-04-02 Thread Oscar Santacreu
Hi all MDk9.1 here. I have a problem: I can't generate PDF files, and I can't see PS files with gv. Examples: When I try gv test.ps: Error: /configurationerror in --setpagedevice-- Additional information: [/PageSize [612.0 792.0]] Operand stack: --dict:2/2(L)-- Execution stack:

[expert] Benefits of recompiling the kernel

2003-04-02 Thread T E
Hi all, I have searched the web for the answer to my question but have found conflicting info. So I turn to you, experts! What exactly are the benefits of recompling the kernel (besides support for new device)? I have asked this question before, and was told that it optimizes the system to

RE: [expert] Benefits of recompiling the kernel

2003-04-02 Thread Frankie
well, the speed benefits might be negledgable on mandrake, because the kernel is already compiled for a i586 machine.. If however it was a distro that was compiled for i386,, and you had a PIII, athlon or P4, then recompiling could make a significant difference.. the memory footprint could be

Re: [expert] (FIXED) Problem with MDK 9.1, gv, ps2pdf...

2003-04-02 Thread Oscar Santacreu
Sorry, I solved the problem by reinstalling the ghostscript rpm. Best regards, Óscar Santacreu. El Miércoles, 2 de Abril de 2003 16:04, Oscar Santacreu escribió: Hi all MDk9.1 here. I have a problem: I can't generate PDF files, and I can't see PS files with gv. Examples: When I try gv

Re: [expert] Benefits of recompiling the kernel

2003-04-02 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Wed, 2 Apr 2003 06:16:09 -0800 (PST), T E [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I have searched the web for the answer to my question but have found conflicting info. So I turn to you, experts! What exactly are the benefits of recompling the kernel (besides support for new device)? I

[expert] class hash not available

2003-04-02 Thread Tru64 User
Having a difficult time upgrading sendmail on Mandrake 9.0 (works like a charm on my other 8.2 machines) Sendmail just came up with 8.12.9 Ran the usual sendmail sh Build, and it works ok. But then, when I try service start sendmail i get an error:: Starting sendmail: makemap: Need to recompile

Re: [expert] Benefits of recompiling the kernel

2003-04-02 Thread Shamot
Where can I download such a patch ? Dne st 2. duben 2003 16:53 Sridhar Dhanapalan napsal(a): On Wed, 2 Apr 2003 06:16:09 -0800 (PST), T E [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I have searched the web for the answer to my question but have found conflicting info. So I turn to you, experts!

Re: [expert] [newbie] Cannot install 9.1 on Vaio

2003-04-02 Thread Jack Coates
On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 23:29, Benedetto Gorini wrote: Hi Guys, could someone please help me to install mdk 9.1 on a Vaio PCG-Z600TEK? It has an external pcmcia cd-rom. When I installed mdk 8.1 and 8.2 I had to use a special boot disk called pcmcia-vaio-memorystick.img that I found in the

Re: [expert] Benefits of recompiling the kernel

2003-04-02 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
The Gentoo kernel patch? You can get it from any Gentoo mirror: http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/mirrors.xml On Wed, 2 Apr 2003 17:15:49 +0200, Shamot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Where can I download such a patch ? Dne st 2. duben 2003 16:53 Sridhar Dhanapalan napsal(a): On Wed, 2 Apr 2003

[expert] Intel 815 Chipset and Xfree86

2003-04-02 Thread Brian Sands
Hello, I have tried to get Xfree86 4.2 and 4.3 to work with my Intel 815 graphics controller. Using Mandrake 9.0 and 9.1 the screen flickers excessively and makes it hard to even look at the desktop for more than a few minutes. Has anyone had any success with configuring this with X? (its a

[expert] ispell installation

2003-04-02 Thread synrat
Why does ispell require that I install some foreign language version in addition to ispell itself ? Really weird. It gives me a choice of these packages when I try to urpmi ispell One of the following packages is needed: 1- ispell-it-0.03-14mdk.noarch 2- ispell-cs-3.1.20-8mdk.noarch 3-

Re: [expert] re:samba

2003-04-02 Thread richard bown
HI Gary Co. Made the changes as listed , but On Wed, 2003-04-02 at 06:18, Gary Hodder wrote: Hi Richard and others having trouble with samba. Add the user and passwd to samba/linux box cut below, save as etc/samba/smbpasswd # user :group change user to match windows user,

Re: [expert] ispell installation

2003-04-02 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Wed, 2 Apr 2003 13:22:28 -0500 (EST) synrat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why does ispell require that I install some foreign language version in addition to ispell itself ispell requires An ispell-dict. ispell is outmoded and replaced by aspell and as such is now little used ao there is no

Re: [expert] Intel 815 Chipset and Xfree86

2003-04-02 Thread Jack Coates
On Wed, 2003-04-02 at 09:34, Brian Sands wrote: Hello, I have tried to get Xfree86 4.2 and 4.3 to work with my Intel 815 graphics controller. Using Mandrake 9.0 and 9.1 the screen flickers excessively and makes it hard to even look at the desktop for more than a few minutes. Has anyone

[expert] re:samba~ maybe progress ?

2003-04-02 Thread richard bown
Hi all, after much hair pulling, and ploughing though the samba help file, I found on the later version of samba entering the a dummy password as in the samba smbpasswd dos'nt work. But using smbpasswd -a user password into a empty file does. Still in the position that thw winblows machine

[expert] 9.1 kudos

2003-04-02 Thread Jack Coates
I've had a fairly rocky upgrade, but now that I'm finally solidly on 9.1 I can offer up three big kudos -- i810 sound is vastly improved, i810 video is vastly improved, and the fonts are extremely sweet. Now I can't wait for Evolution to shift to Gnome 2 and I'm starting to eyeball the XFce4 betas

[expert] 9.1: Icons for Removable Devices

2003-04-02 Thread Norman Carver
Using KDE with 9.1, I have some questions about the new approach for automatically creating desktop icons for removable devices. I don't care for how this shows up on my desktop--with each drive having 3 lines of text like: CD-ROM mounted on /mnt /cdrom2 This takes up a lot of space

[expert] updatedb

2003-04-02 Thread Jack Coates
the daily cron job doesn't do updatedb any more after 9.0 9.1 upgrade. Anyone else seeing this? Intended behavior? -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Are you compliant yet? ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc3514.txt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?

[expert] ircservices on mdk ircd.. (C/N???)

2003-04-02 Thread Frankie
Hi guys.. I have the mandrake ircd rpm installed and running fine.. and now I am trying to add ircservices to the mix.. I have downloaded it, compiled and installed it and started it.. It is returning (in the logfile): FATAL: Remote server returned: ERROR closing link, (no C/N lines) Now this

[expert] IBM viavoice dictation for linux and Mandrake 9.1

2003-04-02 Thread Damon Lynch
Hi everyone, If anyone can get the RPMs from the 8.2 powerpack going under 9.1, I'd be really glad to hear from you. I've tried 4 different java versions, and the closest I got to having it work was Sun's 1.3.1 and ALSA, but there was no mic volume going into the speakpad (even though it worked

[expert] wireless in ML 9.1

2003-04-02 Thread engage
Well, I did a fresh install for ML 9.1 on my notebook since an upgrade from 9.0 broke stuff. (Reboot still doesn't work, though). Anyway, how do I change the configuration to use a shared key instead of an open system setting (for WEP, of course)? ML 9.1 configured the pcmcia wireless card as

Re: [expert] updatedb

2003-04-02 Thread Lorne
On Wednesday 02 April 2003 05:07 pm, Jack Coates wrote: the daily cron job doesn't do updatedb any more after 9.0 9.1 upgrade. Anyone else seeing this? Intended behavior? Mine is working fine and I went from 9.0 to 9.1, via upgrade. ?? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

Re: [expert] Benefits of recompiling the kernel

2003-04-02 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Wed, 2003-04-02 at 09:16, T E wrote: Hi all, I have searched the web for the answer to my question but have found conflicting info. So I turn to you, experts! What exactly are the benefits of recompling the kernel (besides support for new device)? I have asked this question

[expert] 3rd Day Recap

2003-04-02 Thread Kwan Lowe
Onto my third day using the new 9.1 edition. In case anyone's interested, I thought I'd followup on a few items: 1) Sound works beautifully now. It's crisp, doesn't clip, and has not had any dropouts or pauses even while moving windows around. Did Mandrake patch anything that would cause this

[expert] Hard disk repartitioning

2003-04-02 Thread M X
Dear all, I have a 20GB hard disk with a 5GB primary partition(C drive, DOS partition) and 15GB logical partition(D drive, extended DOS partition). The C drive has WinME and all application softwares and has 3.74 GB of free space. The D drive has all my data and has 9.84 GB of free space. I want

Re: [expert] 9.1 First Day recap

2003-04-02 Thread Kwan Lowe
My All In Wonder 128 PCI was also incorrectly detected and now Gatos fails with the message relocation error: xatitv: undefined symbol: __7IWindowPcT1PUlii [snip] I would love to hear if you have success with either or both of these problems. OK, television is working now. I had to rebuild

Re: [expert] Hard disk repartitioning

2003-04-02 Thread Jason Greenwood
A had a perfect reply written to this then mozilla crashed =( Damn. Though my reply was a finely crafted piece of prose, it was basically like this. Leave Winders alone. Backup ALL data since you can lose data no matter how careful you are. Defrag d: (extended part.) to minimise chance of

[expert] Printing Problem in MDK 9.1

2003-04-02 Thread rob
ok... Does anyone know what this means and how I could go about fixing it? This is a stock 9.1 Upgrade from 9.0 and whereas printing worked (after a fashion) in 9.0, it does not in 9.1 :( Thanks -- rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] rob]# printerdrake (printerdrake:14345):

Re: [expert] wireless in ML 9.1

2003-04-02 Thread Dave Sherman
engage wrote: Well, I did a fresh install for ML 9.1 on my notebook since an upgrade from 9.0 broke stuff. (Reboot still doesn't work, though). Anyway, how do I change the configuration to use a shared key instead of an open system setting (for WEP, of course)? ML 9.1 configured the pcmcia

[expert] 9.1 URPMI/RPMdrake

2003-04-02 Thread Lorne
Some observations about 9.0 to 9.1 upgrade. I used to have a working ethereal. It no longer works. It now captures frames, but when you click stop, it must hangs. I can never analyze the data I have captured. I just opened rpm drake (which still has the one program borked into 4 pieces

Re: [expert] 9.1 URPMI/RPMdrake

2003-04-02 Thread Lorne
On Wednesday 02 April 2003 09:21 pm, Lorne wrote: Some observations about 9.0 to 9.1 upgrade. Hmmm... well I see why the default urpmi/rpmdrake doesn't work on the downloads. It is configured with: ftp://ftp.club-internet.fr/pub/unix/linux/distributions/Mandrake/9.0/contrib/RPMS/filename The

Re: [expert] 9.1: Icons for Removable Devices

2003-04-02 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 02 Apr 2003 11:51 pm, Norman Carver wrote: Using KDE with 9.1, I have some questions about the new approach for automatically creating desktop icons for removable devices. I don't care for how this shows up on my desktop--with each drive having 3 lines of text like: CD-ROM

Re: [expert] updatedb

2003-04-02 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 03 Apr 2003 1:07 am, Jack Coates wrote: the daily cron job doesn't do updatedb any more after 9.0 9.1 upgrade. Anyone else seeing this? Intended behavior? Under 9.0 it was only done weekly. I manually set it to run daily. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Want to buy

Re: [expert] 3rd Day Recap

2003-04-02 Thread Jack Coates
On Wed, 2003-04-02 at 15:34, Kwan Lowe wrote: ... 3) CDROM is working perfectly now. Not sure what did it, but I had tried jumpering the drive as master and swapped it to different interfaces. It's back on the original master drive on secondary IDE controller but is now working where before it

[expert] 9.1 URPMI/RPMdrake

2003-04-02 Thread Lorne
Okay, one more time and I'm gone for the night. Okay, I jumped the gun, maybe. Since I did an upgrade, perhaps I have got bogus urpmi info in there, and not necassarily the fresh install. DOH! Secondly, ethereal 0.9.602mdk works just fine! Woohoo! No biggy, but it does appear that the newer

Re: [expert] fast mirror

2003-04-02 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Scott Walker wrote on Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 02:33:14AM -0500 : ns.sslug.dk/pub/mirror/mandrake/mandrake-9.1 ftp.unspeakable.org/pub/Mandrake-iso http://www.bitconjurer.org/BitTorrent/download.html Blue skies... Todd - -- |

Re: [expert] Install a newer kernel?

2003-04-02 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Anne Wilson wrote on Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 03:12:39PM +0100 : installed the docs, then the kernel. It ended with the message: look like there was a problem, the default vmlinuz version is not the same of the initrd which mean you have a mdk

Re: [expert] IBM viavoice dictation for linux and Mandrake 9.1

2003-04-02 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 03 Apr 2003 2:50 am, Damon Lynch wrote: Hi everyone, If anyone can get the RPMs from the 8.2 powerpack going under 9.1, I'd be really glad to hear from you. I've tried 4 different java versions, and the closest I got to having it work was Sun's 1.3.1 and ALSA, but there was no

Re: [expert] IBM viavoice dictation for linux and Mandrake 9.1

2003-04-02 Thread Damon Lynch
On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 16:57, Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 03 Apr 2003 2:50 am, Damon Lynch wrote: Hi everyone, If anyone can get the RPMs from the 8.2 powerpack going under 9.1, I'd be really glad to hear from you. I've tried 4 different java versions, and the closest I got to having

Re: [expert] updatedb

2003-04-02 Thread Jack Coates
On Wed, 2003-04-02 at 20:54, Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 03 Apr 2003 1:07 am, Jack Coates wrote: the daily cron job doesn't do updatedb any more after 9.0 9.1 upgrade. Anyone else seeing this? Intended behavior? Under 9.0 it was only done weekly. I manually set it to run daily.

Re: [expert] updatedb

2003-04-02 Thread Dave Laird
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Good evening, all... On Thursday 03 Apr 2003 1:07 am, Jack Coates wrote: the daily cron job doesn't do updatedb any more after 9.0 9.1 upgrade. Anyone else seeing this? Intended behavior? Under 9.0 it was only done weekly. I manually set it

Re: [expert] IBM viavoice dictation for linux and Mandrake 9.1

2003-04-02 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 03 Apr 2003 6:05 am, Damon Lynch wrote: On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 16:57, Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 03 Apr 2003 2:50 am, Damon Lynch wrote: Hi everyone, If anyone can get the RPMs from the 8.2 powerpack going under 9.1, I'd be really glad to hear from you. I've tried 4

Re: [expert] Install a newer kernel?

2003-04-02 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 03 Apr 2003 6:00 am, Todd Lyons wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Anne Wilson wrote on Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 03:12:39PM +0100 : installed the docs, then the kernel. It ended with the message: look like there was a problem, the default vmlinuz version is not

Re: [expert] open source spreadsheet file format.

2003-04-02 Thread David E. Fox
I can make do assumptions about the systems of the end user... nor about their knowledge level. I can understand that. The end user will just get the data and import it into their favorite spreadsheet or what have you. And it's a given that html is not something that is going to come into a

Re: [expert] IBM viavoice dictation for linux and Mandrake 9.1

2003-04-02 Thread Greg Meyer
On Wednesday 02 April 2003 11:57 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: 8.2 and 9.x run different kernel and different libraries. I would not have thought that you would get 8.2 rpms working. If you need something that was not on your download, try plf. Yeah, but the commercial apps should have everything

[expert] Argh! Turned off devfs, and where are the CDs?

2003-04-02 Thread Rob Blomquist
Let's see. One drive is an EIDE DVD-ROM mounted normally, and the other is a CD-RW mounted ide-scsi. I did a ln -s /dev/hdc /dev/cdrom, to create a new link to the missing /dev/cdrom, and while it seems to mount properly, and conform to eject /dev/cdrom, it can seem to be detected in Grip,

Re: [expert] 3rd Day Recap

2003-04-02 Thread eric huff
6) Nitpicks: It would have been nice to have my scroll mouse automatically detected and configured for web scrolling. The green on Yeah, i though it kind of strange that logitech scroll mice were down in the other category instead of next to the logitech non-scroll mouse... Want to buy your

Re: [expert] re:samba~ maybe progress ?

2003-04-02 Thread David Whiting
On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 10:19:57PM +0100, richard bown wrote: Hi all, after much hair pulling, and ploughing though the samba help file, I found on the later version of samba entering the a dummy password as in the samba smbpasswd dos'nt work. But using smbpasswd -a user password into a

Re: [expert] class hash not available

2003-04-02 Thread Marc Berenschot
On Wed, 2 Apr 2003 07:06:35 -0800 (PST) Tru64 User [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Having a difficult time upgrading sendmail on Mandrake 9.0 (works like a charm on my other 8.2 machines) Sendmail just came up with 8.12.9 Ran the usual sendmail sh Build, and it works ok. But then, when I try

Re: [expert] IBM viavoice dictation for linux and Mandrake 9.1

2003-04-02 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 03 Apr 2003 7:42 am, Greg Meyer wrote: On Wednesday 02 April 2003 11:57 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: 8.2 and 9.x run different kernel and different libraries. I would not have thought that you would get 8.2 rpms working. If you need something that was not on your download, try plf.