Re: [expert] Slow SMB file transfers to XP`

2003-09-02 Thread Brant Fitzsimmons
Greg Meyer wrote: On Monday 01 September 2003 03:13 pm, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: I was the one who asked the question about slow transfers using Samba. I asked on this list and on the newbie list. Still have not received any answers resolving the issue. When a transfer to or from a Samba

Re: [expert] OT: Hardware guru please - advice needed

2003-09-02 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Monday September 1 2003 04:46 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 01 Sep 2003 10:29 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: Anne, 'dmidecode' (as root) will tell you what voltage the AGP slot has, among other bios settings. EG (excerpt from mine), Handle 0x001B DMI type 9, 13 bytes.

Re: [expert] Slow SMB file transfers to XP`

2003-09-02 Thread lorne
On Monday 01 September 2003 03:48 pm, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: Greg Meyer wrote: On Monday 01 September 2003 03:13 pm, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: I was the one who asked the question about slow transfers using Samba. I asked on this list and on the newbie list. Still have not received any

Re: [expert] Mouse locks in KDE Gnome

2003-09-02 Thread lorne
On Monday 01 September 2003 01:17 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 11:47, Niclas Jacobsson wrote: Hi all! I am co-using mouse and monitor with an MS XP Home Client through one of those mechanical switchboxes. XPH manages to loose mouse and get it back working after

Re: [expert] Mouse locks in KDE Gnome

2003-09-02 Thread Lee Wiggers
On Mon, 1 Sep 2003 17:01:23 -0700 lorne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 01 September 2003 01:17 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 11:47, Niclas Jacobsson wrote: Hi all! I am co-using mouse and monitor with an MS XP Home Client through one of those mechanical

[expert] spoofed?

2003-09-02 Thread dfox
Well, I just received a heads up from my isp provider -- seems that there has been some naughtiness (?) going on here.. dunno what to do to fix it. It seems there have been some pings/icmp activity from my system to some other system on the local tsoft network. I can't find anything in my logs

Re: [expert] spoofed?

2003-09-02 Thread HaywireMac
On Mon, 1 Sep 2003 18:19:24 -0700 dfox [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Well, I just received a heads up from my isp provider -- seems that there has been some naughtiness (?) going on here.. dunno what to do to fix it. It seems there have been some pings/icmp activity from my system to some

Re: [expert] Some process changing groups permissions

2003-09-02 Thread Jack Coates
On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 13:08, James Sparenberg wrote: ... I like Todd's method rpm -e msec --nodeps and then put it into the urpmi skip list *grin* James ... It's got its uses, but I agree that the right mistake with msec can royally screw a system. Of course, that's Unix for you; most

Re: [expert] (slight OT) Upgrade cycles discussion

2003-09-02 Thread James Sparenberg
On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 14:59, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: *** James Sparenberg Mon, 01 Sep 2003 13:27:29 -0700 : All, There is an interesting discussion on pclinuxoneline.com (texstar's site.) Dealing with the upgrade cycle and some people wondering if the 9.1 to 9.2 upgrade is

Re: [expert] realtek rtl8180 wlan card -- drivers/modules.

2003-09-02 Thread James Sparenberg
On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 14:21, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: Hello all, I'm trying to get my wlan card to work in my laptop. It's a sweex pcmcia card with rtl8180 chip. Now realtek offers download for drivers but not specifically for the mdk kernel (I'm using the stock 2.4.21-0.13mdk with 9.1). The

Re: [expert] Some process changing groups permissions

2003-09-02 Thread chort
On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 18:10, Jack Coates wrote: On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 13:08, James Sparenberg wrote: ... I like Todd's method rpm -e msec --nodeps and then put it into the urpmi skip list *grin* James Wh? Uninstall msec??? It's a GREAT tool. I'm glad Mandrake includes it.

[expert] Poll: Successful Boot Disk Creation

2003-09-02 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
How many people here can successfully create a boot disk under 9.1 or 9.2 using mkbootdisk and a 1.4 meg floppy? LX -- °°° Linux Mandrake 9.1 Kernel 2.4.21-0.13mdk *Catch Star Trek Enterprise, Wednesdays on UPN*

Re: [expert] Some process changing groups permissions

2003-09-02 Thread James Sparenberg
On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 19:28, chort wrote: On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 18:10, Jack Coates wrote: On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 13:08, James Sparenberg wrote: ... I like Todd's method rpm -e msec --nodeps and then put it into the urpmi skip list *grin* James Wh? Uninstall msec???

Re: [expert] (slight OT) Upgrade cycles discussion

2003-09-02 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
*** James Sparenberg Mon, 01 Sep 2003 19:09:21 -0700 : I know the discussion. And this isn't in the same vein. It's taking on a much more logical attitude. One of the things being talked about is something like pushing urpmi and it's usage as an upgrade tool to the forefront.

Re: [expert] (slight OT) Upgrade cycles discussion

2003-09-02 Thread Jack Coates
On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 19:09, James Sparenberg wrote: On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 14:59, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: *** James Sparenberg Mon, 01 Sep 2003 13:27:29 -0700 : All, There is an interesting discussion on pclinuxoneline.com (texstar's site.) Dealing with the upgrade

Re: [expert] locked -- ps related stuff

2003-09-02 Thread Jack Coates
On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 15:53, David E. Fox wrote: What would cause the following - other than hardware issues - I've only seen this type of behavior a log time ago when I had intermittent power to my HD drives. And that was with an older system. hardware -- overheating, low power, gremlins.

Re: [expert] spoofed?

2003-09-02 Thread Jack Coates
Say hi to Mike for me :-) this is the same box with the ps problems, right? Put the latest checkrootkit on a write-protected floppy and run it on there, I think you might have a visitor. On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 18:19, dfox wrote: Well, I just received a heads up from my isp provider -- seems

Re: [expert] Slow SMB file transfers to XP`

2003-09-02 Thread Michael Viron
Seems like this is related to the stuff discussed in http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;321169 and possibly in http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;321098 . You may also want to try running regedit to do the following: go to

[expert] msec configuration problem

2003-09-02 Thread Avi Schwartz
Hi, This question started actually in the newbie mailing list but it may be more appropriate for the expert list. I setup my machine with security level 4 but I am interested in relaxing some of the permission settings. I made changes to /etc/security/msec/perm.local and then executed msec.

Re: [expert] locked -- ps related stuff

2003-09-02 Thread David E. Fox
hardware -- overheating, low power, gremlins. Well, it was gremlins in the other system -- actually the power cable to the drives was a bit flaky, so anything that would access the drive (ex. df, ls, etc.) would hang, with a corresponding linear increase in the overall load average. This time,

Re: [expert] (slight OT) Upgrade cycles discussion

2003-09-02 Thread Eric Huff
looked like most of the crew doesn't realize you can upgrade with urpmi:-) whatever. I'll upgrade a few weeks after release and hopefully swsusp will start to work on my Vaio laptop. A lot of people have complained of problems while upgrading. Is this not an issue anymore? eric --

Re: [expert] Some process changing groups permissions

2003-09-02 Thread chort
On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 19:48, James Sparenberg wrote: On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 19:28, chort wrote: On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 18:10, Jack Coates wrote: On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 13:08, James Sparenberg wrote: ... I like Todd's method rpm -e msec --nodeps and then put it into the urpmi

Re: [expert] (slight OT) Upgrade cycles discussion

2003-09-02 Thread Jack Coates
On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 20:36, Eric Huff wrote: looked like most of the crew doesn't realize you can upgrade with urpmi:-) whatever. I'll upgrade a few weeks after release and hopefully swsusp will start to work on my Vaio laptop. A lot of people have complained of problems while

Re: [expert] msec configuration problem

2003-09-02 Thread Jack Coates
On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 20:11, Avi Schwartz wrote: Hi, This question started actually in the newbie mailing list but it may be more appropriate for the expert list. I setup my machine with security level 4 but I am interested in relaxing some of the permission settings. I made changes to

Re: [expert] (slight OT) Upgrade cycles discussion

2003-09-02 Thread HaywireMac
On 01 Sep 2003 20:52:45 -0700 Jack Coates [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: I haven't had problems with 8.2 to 9.0 or 9.0 to 9.1 Even more, Just keeps gettin' better an' better... Well, Ok , supermount, but that goes without saying. What 'av the Romans ever done fer us?! -- HaywireMac

Re: [expert] msec configuration problem

2003-09-02 Thread Avi Schwartz
On Monday, Sep 1, 2003, at 22:55 America/Chicago, Jack Coates wrote: On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 20:11, Avi Schwartz wrote: Hi, This question started actually in the newbie mailing list but it may be more appropriate for the expert list. I setup my machine with security level 4 but I am interested

Re: [expert] msec configuration problem

2003-09-02 Thread Jack Coates
On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 21:06, Avi Schwartz wrote: ... puzzling. Seems like a bug -- I can only assume that I've made my changes manually and then altered perm.local so they'll stick, otherwise I should have seen this too. Then there is something else going on since I also did the

Re: [expert] Poll: Successful Boot Disk Creation

2003-09-02 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Lyvim Xaphir wrote: How many people here can successfully create a boot disk under 9.1 or 9.2 using mkbootdisk and a 1.4 meg floppy? LX Problems, here. I usually fdformat /dev/fd0 as normal user but, in 9.2 rc1, it seems I have to umount /mnt/floppy, as root, first. Kernel-2.4.22-1mdk. In 9.1,

Re: [expert] Poll: Successful Boot Disk Creation

2003-09-02 Thread Felix Miata
Lyvim Xaphir wrote: How many people here can successfully create a boot disk under 9.1 or 9.2 using mkbootdisk and a 1.4 meg floppy? Success: once on a non-SCSI 9.1 system Failure: 6-8 times on SCSI (53c8xx) 9.1 9.2rc1 systems (out of space) -- ...[B]e quick to listen, slow to speak and

Re: [expert] Some process changing groups permissions

2003-09-02 Thread James Sparenberg
On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 20:46, chort wrote: On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 19:48, James Sparenberg wrote: On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 19:28, chort wrote: On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 18:10, Jack Coates wrote: On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 13:08, James Sparenberg wrote: ... I like Todd's method rpm -e

Re: [expert] (slight OT) Upgrade cycles discussion

2003-09-02 Thread Eric Huff
What 'av the Romans ever done fer us?! Trippy. We just watched the old Trek where they encountered The Romans in the 20th century. -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] (slight OT) Upgrade cycles discussion

2003-09-02 Thread Eric Huff
A lot of people have complained of problems while upgrading. Is this not an issue anymore? I haven't had problems with 8.2 to 9.0 or 9.0 to 9.1 Interesting. You said you upgraded with urpmi. Does that mean you didn't do an install and choose upgrade, but let urpmi do the work? Either

Re: [expert] (slight OT) Upgrade cycles discussion

2003-09-02 Thread James Sparenberg
On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 22:19, Eric Huff wrote: A lot of people have complained of problems while upgrading. Is this not an issue anymore? I haven't had problems with 8.2 to 9.0 or 9.0 to 9.1 Interesting. You said you upgraded with urpmi. Does that mean you didn't do an install and

Re: [expert] (slight OT) Upgrade cycles discussion

2003-09-02 Thread Eric Huff
Either way, what is the best way to upgrade? I started at 9.1, so i've never encounter this choice before... The beginnings of a tutorial is here. http://pclinuxonline.com/modules.php?name=Newsfile=articlethold=-1mode=flatorder=1sid=7018#32054 Thanks! I added it to our TWiki under

Re: [expert] (slight OT) Upgrade cycles discussion

2003-09-02 Thread James Sparenberg
On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 22:55, Eric Huff wrote: Either way, what is the best way to upgrade? I started at 9.1, so i've never encounter this choice before... The beginnings of a tutorial is here.

Re: [expert] realtek rtl8180 wlan card -- drivers/modules.

2003-09-02 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Tuesday 02 September 2003 04:12, James Sparenberg wrote: 2 questions 1. Do you know what the driver should be. No not really, I'm supposing (going by the readme that comes with the realtek download) the module is rtl8180_24x.o which is part of the download. if it doesn't work as

[expert] KDE apps crash when trying to print

2003-09-02 Thread reginvest
Hello! I just upgraded one comp from 9.0 to 9.1. Did clean install, everything OK, except for that KDE apps crash everytime I try to print. Tried it with KMail, Konqueror, KOffice. Printer setup utility of KDE Control Panel crashed as well, when I tried to take a look at settings. Apps show

Re: [expert] Can KMail be set to filter attachments?

2003-09-02 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 01 Sep 2003 10:54 pm, Praedor Atrebates wrote: Failed. It crashes kmail. I tried to create a new folder in Maildir format, delete it, create a symlink by the same name to /dev/null. I then tried to move an email in one of my other folders into the new /dev/null folder...it crashes

Re: [expert] Poll: Successful Boot Disk Creation

2003-09-02 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 02 Sep 2003 3:46 am, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: How many people here can successfully create a boot disk under 9.1 or 9.2 using mkbootdisk and a 1.4 meg floppy? Under 9.1 I used the gui with success. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org

Re: [expert] Print problems

2003-09-02 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 01 Sep 2003 4:54 pm, Larry Sword wrote: Anne, There are numerous settings you can make to the page and in the print settings. File-Page Setup - Format Options, Margins Headers/Footer. Try playing around with these and then use the File-Print preview to check the page. Oh yes,

Re: [expert] (slight OT) Upgrade cycles discussion

2003-09-02 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 02 Sep 2003 7:39 am, James Sparenberg wrote: On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 22:55, Eric Huff wrote: Either way, what is the best way to upgrade? I started at 9.1, so i've never encounter this choice before... The beginnings of a tutorial is here.

Re: [expert] forgotten knowledge...

2003-09-02 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 01 Sep 2003 6:18 pm, Mark wrote: Hi List, I've forgotten how to do something that I used to know how to do. That is, using cat to combine a list of files into one single file. The problem: the list of files below, I would like to combine into just one file. les_csharp_12_p1.pdf

Re: [expert] KDE apps crash when trying to print

2003-09-02 Thread Dan Gordon
On Tue, 2 Sep 2003 12:00:15 +0300 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello! I just upgraded one comp from 9.0 to 9.1. Did clean install, everything OK, except for that KDE apps crash everytime I try to print. Tried it with KMail, Konqueror, KOffice. Printer setup utility of KDE Control Panel crashed

Re: [expert] locked -- ps related stuff

2003-09-02 Thread ed tharp
On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 23:00, Jack Coates wrote: On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 15:53, David E. Fox wrote: What would cause the following - other than hardware issues - I've only seen this type of behavior a log time ago when I had intermittent power to my HD drives. And that was with an older

Re: [expert] Poll: Successful Boot Disk Creation

2003-09-02 Thread Charlie
On Tue, 2 Sep 2003 12:46 pm, many eyes noted that Lyvim Xaphir wrote: How many people here can successfully create a boot disk under 9.1 or 9.2 using mkbootdisk and a 1.4 meg floppy? LX Define successful? Boots the system with some problems identifying the CD ROM as an SCSI device with

Re: [expert] Print problems

2003-09-02 Thread R N dev
Hi, Angelo. In Mozilla, when I try to change the margin from 0.5 to 1.0 it simply jumps back to 0.5. I haven't tried running it is root - I wonder if it would help - I'll try, in case it's a permission problem. I do think, though, that in older versions I could change it there, so

Re: [expert] Poll: Successful Boot Disk Creation

2003-09-02 Thread Mark
On Mon, 1 Sep 2003, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: How many people here can successfully create a boot disk under 9.1 or 9.2 using mkbootdisk and a 1.4 meg floppy? LX Well...when I first loaded 9.1 thats how I had to do it to get a boot floppy. -- Mark If necessity is the mother of

[expert] Mandrake web site

2003-09-02 Thread Mark
Hi all, is it me or has anyone else noticed that its next to impossible to navigate the Mandrake website. I've been trying unsuccessfully to get to the mailing list archives now for about an hour and either get a connection denied back from their web server, or it just sits there and goes

Re: [expert] Mandrake web site

2003-09-02 Thread Steffen Barszus
Am Dienstag, 2. September 2003 16:54 schrieb Mark: Hi all, is it me or has anyone else noticed that its next to impossible to navigate the Mandrake website. I've been trying unsuccessfully to get to the mailing list archives now for about an hour and either get a connection denied back from

Re: [expert] spoofed?

2003-09-02 Thread David E. Fox
Get a router/NAT/firewall that enables spoof protection. Well, yep. I was hoping for something I could do in software to detect and or stop this gremlin. HaywireMac David E. Fox Thanks for

Re: [expert] (slight OT) Upgrade cycles discussion

2003-09-02 Thread Jack Coates
On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 22:19, Eric Huff wrote: A lot of people have complained of problems while upgrading. Is this not an issue anymore? I haven't had problems with 8.2 to 9.0 or 9.0 to 9.1 Interesting. You said you upgraded with urpmi. Does that mean you didn't do an install and

Re: [expert] Mandrake web site

2003-09-02 Thread Mark
On Tue, 2 Sep 2003, Steffen Barszus wrote: Am Dienstag, 2. September 2003 16:54 schrieb Mark: Hi all, is it me or has anyone else noticed that its next to impossible to navigate the Mandrake website. I've been trying unsuccessfully to get to the mailing list archives now for about an

Re: [expert] Poll: Successful Boot Disk Creation

2003-09-02 Thread David E. Fox
Define successful? Doing it without running out of disk space would be successful. Of course, if it actually boots the right partition it would be even better. I've been able to do this in 9.0. LX and I hashed over this; it seems that the kernels are SoBig :) now that there's not enough room

Re: [expert] Mandrake web site

2003-09-02 Thread Felix Miata
Mark wrote: is it me or has anyone else noticed that its next to impossible to navigate the Mandrake website. I've been trying unsuccessfully to get to the mailing list archives now for about an hour and either get a connection denied back from their web server, or it just sits there and

Re: [expert] OT: Hardware guru please - advice needed

2003-09-02 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 02 Sep 2003 12:14 am, Tom Brinkman wrote: Yes, sorry. I'm so use to always havin it installed I didn't think, lm_sensors-2.8.0-4mdk. Just 'urpmi lm_sensors' I believe it's been included for some time, so an older lm_sensors package will probly work too. It's on your CD's OK

Re: [expert] Mandrake web site

2003-09-02 Thread Steffen Barszus
Am Dienstag, 2. September 2003 17:29 schrieb Mark: On Tue, 2 Sep 2003, Steffen Barszus wrote: Am Dienstag, 2. September 2003 16:54 schrieb Mark: Hi all, is it me or has anyone else noticed that its next to impossible to navigate the Mandrake website. I've been trying unsuccessfully

[expert] Changing Mouse

2003-09-02 Thread James Conner
I'm using a MS Intellimouse(with ball) on MDK 9.0. It's currently identified as the following in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4: Section InputDevice Identifier Mouse1 Driver mouse Option Protocol IMPS/2 Option Device /dev/psaux Option ZAxisMapping 4 5 EndSection And works just fine.

Re: [expert] Changing Mouse

2003-09-02 Thread mike
I made a similar change and it was just power down change and powerup no big deal. if you need to make any changes though it should prompt you during boot up or you can after through the control tool mcc . ( Mandrake Control Center ) James Conner wrote: I'm using a MS Intellimouse(with

Re: [expert] Slow SMB file transfers to XP`

2003-09-02 Thread lorne
On Monday 01 September 2003 08:10 pm, Michael Viron wrote: Seems like this is related to the stuff discussed in http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;321169 and possibly in http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;321098 . You may also want to try running

Re: [expert] Changing Mouse

2003-09-02 Thread lorne
On Tuesday 02 September 2003 03:40 am, James Conner wrote: I'm using a MS Intellimouse(with ball) on MDK 9.0. It's currently identified as the following in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4: Section InputDevice Identifier Mouse1 Driver mouse Option Protocol IMPS/2 Option Device

Re: [expert] Poll: Successful Boot Disk Creation

2003-09-02 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Tue, 2003-09-02 at 10:51, Mark wrote: On Mon, 1 Sep 2003, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: How many people here can successfully create a boot disk under 9.1 or 9.2 using mkbootdisk and a 1.4 meg floppy? LX Well...when I first loaded 9.1 thats how I had to do it to get a boot

Re: [expert] Slow SMB file transfers to XP`

2003-09-02 Thread Brant Fitzsimmons
lorne wrote: On Monday 01 September 2003 08:10 pm, Michael Viron wrote: Seems like this is related to the stuff discussed in http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;321169 and possibly in http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;321098 . You may also want to try

Re: [expert] Slow SMB file transfers to XP`

2003-09-02 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Tuesday 02 September 2003 01:44 pm, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: The same thing can be said for transfers between Linux and Linux. It experiences the same crippled transfer speed. The common thread being the transfer is initiated on a Linux box. Missed the first part of this thread, but the

Re: [expert] Slow SMB file transfers to XP`

2003-09-02 Thread lorne
On Tuesday 02 September 2003 10:44 am, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: This illustrates my point perfectly. When you initiated the transfer on the Linux box it took around two minutes to do the transfer, and you called it fast (blast). I repeated that behavior in my own setup. I got the same

Re: [expert] Slow SMB file transfers to XP`

2003-09-02 Thread chort
On Tue, 2003-09-02 at 10:44, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: lorne wrote: On Monday 01 September 2003 08:10 pm, Michael Viron wrote: Seems like this is related to the stuff discussed in http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;321169 and possibly in

Re: [expert] Slow SMB file transfers to XP`

2003-09-02 Thread David Rankin
Mates: Here is another clue that may help get to the bottom of this. Back in the 7.2 days when Samba 2.0X, 2.1X was comming out, the slow transfer issue appeared with Win98 transfers. The 2 gig limit was also there. The slow transfer from win to mdk was discussed as a packet fragmentation or

Re: [expert] Slow SMB file transfers to XP`

2003-09-02 Thread David Rankin
Brian wrote: Remember though, this particular network is on a HUB, i.e. half-duplex. If there is any other sort of traffic what-so-ever it's going to be noticeably slower (DNS lookups, Net-BT broadcasts, etc). Brings up a good point. Specifically, how many hubs are we talking about? Are

Re: [expert] Slow SMB file transfers to XP`

2003-09-02 Thread David Rankin
For what it's worth, here is more info than needed on smb and CIFS. http://ubiqx.org/cifs/index.html#Contents -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. RANKIN * BERTIN, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 (936) 715-9333 (936) 715-9339 fax -- - Original Message - From: David Rankin

Re: [expert] Slow SMB file transfers to XP`

2003-09-02 Thread Thomas Backlund
From: David Rankin [EMAIL PROTECTED] For what it's worth, here is more info than needed on smb and CIFS. http://ubiqx.org/cifs/index.html#Contents Just an update for you all... upcoming MDK 9.2 has cifs support in both kernel and Samba 2.2.x / 3.x ... Thomas Want to buy your Pack

Re: [expert] Slow SMB file transfers to XP`

2003-09-02 Thread Brant Fitzsimmons
chort wrote: On Tue, 2003-09-02 at 10:44, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: lorne wrote: On Monday 01 September 2003 08:10 pm, Michael Viron wrote: Seems like this is related to the stuff discussed in http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;321169 and possibly in

Re: [expert] Slow SMB file transfers to XP`

2003-09-02 Thread Brant Fitzsimmons
Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Tuesday 02 September 2003 01:44 pm, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: The same thing can be said for transfers between Linux and Linux. It experiences the same crippled transfer speed. The common thread being the transfer is initiated on a Linux box. Missed the first

Re: [expert] Slow SMB file transfers to XP`

2003-09-02 Thread Brant Fitzsimmons
lorne wrote: On Tuesday 02 September 2003 10:44 am, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: This illustrates my point perfectly. When you initiated the transfer on the Linux box it took around two minutes to do the transfer, and you called it fast (blast). I repeated that behavior in my own setup. I got

[expert] dm in 9.2RC1 dying...

2003-09-02 Thread Mark
Hi all, Is anyone else seeing this happen? What I mean is the system boots just fine to the GUI login screen, but after I've logged out of my Xwindows session it doesn't remain in init 5, but drops to init 3, and the console login appears. In order to get the GUI login screen back I've got to

Re: [expert] Slow SMB file transfers to XP`

2003-09-02 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Tuesday 02 September 2003 02:22 pm, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: When I initiate a transfer on a Linux (Samba) box to or from another Linux(Samba) box, or to or from a Windows box, I get 3-4 meg/s tranfers. This is the one I'm trying to fix. Yep, that definitely seems slow to me. Isn't there

Re: [expert] Slow SMB file transfers to XP`

2003-09-02 Thread lorne
On Tuesday 02 September 2003 11:14 am, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: lorne wrote: On Tuesday 02 September 2003 10:44 am, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: This illustrates my point perfectly. When you initiated the transfer on the Linux box it took around two minutes to do the transfer, and you called it

Re: [expert] Slow SMB file transfers to XP`

2003-09-02 Thread Brant Fitzsimmons
Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Tuesday 02 September 2003 02:22 pm, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: When I initiate a transfer on a Linux (Samba) box to or from another Linux(Samba) box, or to or from a Windows box, I get 3-4 meg/s tranfers. This is the one I'm trying to fix. Yep, that definitely

Re: [expert] Slow SMB file transfers to XP`

2003-09-02 Thread lorne
On Tuesday 02 September 2003 11:09 am, chort wrote: Remember though, this particular network is on a HUB, i.e. half-duplex. If there is any other sort of traffic what-so-ever it's going to be noticeably slower (DNS lookups, Net-BT broadcasts, etc). Agreed. First thing I looked for in the

Re: [expert] Slow SMB file transfers to XP`

2003-09-02 Thread lorne
On Tuesday 02 September 2003 12:41 pm, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: Remember though, this particular network is on a HUB, i.e. half-duplex. If there is any other sort of traffic what-so-ever it's going to be noticeably slower (DNS lookups, Net-BT broadcasts, etc). Who's network? Just a simple

Re: [expert] Slow SMB file transfers to XP`

2003-09-02 Thread Brant Fitzsimmons
lorne wrote: On Tuesday 02 September 2003 11:14 am, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: lorne wrote: On Tuesday 02 September 2003 10:44 am, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: This illustrates my point perfectly. When you initiated the transfer on the Linux box it took around two minutes to do the

Re: [expert] Slow SMB file transfers to XP`

2003-09-02 Thread lorne
On Tuesday 02 September 2003 11:27 am, David Rankin wrote: Mates: Here is another clue that may help get to the bottom of this. Back in the 7.2 days when Samba 2.0X, 2.1X was comming out, the slow transfer issue appeared with Win98 transfers. The 2 gig limit was also there. The slow

Re: [expert] Slow SMB file transfers to XP`

2003-09-02 Thread lorne
On Tuesday 02 September 2003 11:36 am, David Rankin wrote: Brian wrote: Remember though, this particular network is on a HUB, i.e. half-duplex. If there is any other sort of traffic what-so-ever it's going to be noticeably slower (DNS lookups, Net-BT broadcasts, etc). Brings up a good

Re: [expert] Slow SMB file transfers to XP`

2003-09-02 Thread lorne
On Tuesday 02 September 2003 12:13 pm, Thomas Backlund wrote: From: David Rankin [EMAIL PROTECTED] For what it's worth, here is more info than needed on smb and CIFS. http://ubiqx.org/cifs/index.html#Contents Just an update for you all... upcoming MDK 9.2 has cifs support in both

Re: [expert] dm in 9.2RC1 dying...

2003-09-02 Thread Joeb
Mark wrote: Hi all, Is anyone else seeing this happen? What I mean is the system boots just fine to the GUI login screen, but after I've logged out of my Xwindows session it doesn't remain in init 5, but drops to init 3, and the console login appears. In order to get the GUI login screen back

Re: [expert] Slow SMB file transfers to XP`

2003-09-02 Thread lorne
On Tuesday 02 September 2003 01:46 pm, lorne wrote: Okay, Maybe a small breakthrough. I transfered the same file both ways. I've not even analyzed it yet, but there is 25% more frames total (without subtracting arps or anything) in the slow than the fast! Not sure yet what else I'll dig

Re: [expert] Slow SMB file transfers to XP`

2003-09-02 Thread lorne
On Tuesday 02 September 2003 02:04 pm, lorne wrote: On Tuesday 02 September 2003 01:46 pm, lorne wrote: Okay, Maybe a small breakthrough. I transfered the same file both ways. I've not even analyzed it yet, but there is 25% more frames total (without subtracting arps or anything) in the

Re: [expert] Slow SMB file transfers to XP`

2003-09-02 Thread David Rankin
See http://www.speedguide.net/read_articles.php?id=157 -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. RANKIN * BERTIN, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 (936) 715-9333 (936) 715-9339 fax -- - Original Message - From: lorne [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September

Re: [expert] Slow SMB file transfers to XP`

2003-09-02 Thread lorne
On Tuesday 02 September 2003 02:40 pm, David Rankin wrote: See http://www.speedguide.net/read_articles.php?id=157 What is odd about this web site is that even though it says 2000/XP... virtually all the settings are specific to XP. XP doesn't have those key settings. ?? I doubt I want to add

Re: [expert] Slow SMB file transfers to XP`

2003-09-02 Thread lorne
On Tuesday 02 September 2003 03:26 pm, lorne wrote: On Tuesday 02 September 2003 02:40 pm, David Rankin wrote: See http://www.speedguide.net/read_articles.php?id=157 What is odd about this web site is that even though it says 2000/XP... virtually all the settings are specific to XP. XP

Re: [expert] Slow SMB file transfers to XP`

2003-09-02 Thread lorne
On Tuesday 02 September 2003 03:29 pm, lorne wrote: On Tuesday 02 September 2003 03:26 pm, lorne wrote: On Tuesday 02 September 2003 02:40 pm, David Rankin wrote: See http://www.speedguide.net/read_articles.php?id=157 I DID go to a web site to download tweaks. There was a little executable

Re: [expert] Mandrake web site

2003-09-02 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Tuesday 02 September 2003 10:54 am, Mark wrote: Hi all, is it me or has anyone else noticed that its next to impossible to navigate the Mandrake website. I've been trying unsuccessfully to get to the mailing list archives now for about an hour and either get a connection denied back from

Re: [expert] Slow SMB file transfers to XP`

2003-09-02 Thread David Rankin
Lorne You got me?? Beyond some tangential knowledge of the past packet fragmentation issue and the CIFS protocol, I don't have any rabbits to pull out of my hat. As far as smb is concerned it seems M$'s implementation of smb(CIFS) is new and unique to XP/2000. I suspect in implementing CIFS for

Re: [expert] dm in 9.2RC1 dying...

2003-09-02 Thread Greg Meyer
On Tuesday 02 September 2003 04:44 pm, Mark wrote: Hi all, Is anyone else seeing this happen? What I mean is the system boots just fine to the GUI login screen, but after I've logged out of my Xwindows session it doesn't remain in init 5, but drops to init 3, and the console login

Re: [expert] forgotten knowledge...

2003-09-02 Thread Michael Noble
To combine multiple files into one just do the following: cat file1 file2 file3 newfile Mile Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 01 Sep 2003 6:18 pm, Mark wrote: Hi List, I've forgotten how to do something that I used to know how to do. That is, using cat to combine a list of files into one

Re: [expert] dm in 9.2RC1 dying...

2003-09-02 Thread Mark
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 2 Sep 2003, Joeb wrote: Mark wrote: Hi all, Is anyone else seeing this happen? What I mean is the system boots just fine to the GUI login screen, but after I've logged out of my Xwindows session it doesn't remain in init 5, but

[expert] connect with ssh to my box

2003-09-02 Thread elPunishar
hello everybody, i have my mdk9.1 box security level set on standard. now, i want to be able to connect with ssh or telnet to this box from another one in my lan. the connections are refused... where do i have to make the changes to allow this ? tnx greetings, stu Want to buy your Pack or

Re: [expert] connect with ssh to my box

2003-09-02 Thread Avi Schwartz
elPunishar wrote: hello everybody, i have my mdk9.1 box security level set on standard. now, i want to be able to connect with ssh or telnet to this box from another one in my lan. the connections are refused... where do i have to make the changes to allow this ? Assuming that sshd is

Re: [expert] Slow SMB file transfers to XP`

2003-09-02 Thread lorne
On Tuesday 02 September 2003 06:23 pm, David Rankin wrote: Lorne You got me?? Beyond some tangential knowledge of the past packet fragmentation issue and the CIFS protocol, I don't have any rabbits to pull out of my hat. As far as smb is concerned it seems M$'s implementation of smb(CIFS) is

Re: [expert] connect with ssh to my box

2003-09-02 Thread HaywireMac
On Wed, 3 Sep 2003 04:14:18 +0200 elPunishar [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: i have my mdk9.1 box security level set on standard. now, i want to be able to connect with ssh or telnet to this box from another one in my lan. the connections are refused... where do i have to make the changes to

Re: [expert] connect with ssh to my box

2003-09-02 Thread John Drouhard
On Wed, 3 Sep 2003 04:14:18 +0200 elPunishar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello everybody, i have my mdk9.1 box security level set on standard. now, i want to be able to connect with ssh or telnet to this box from another one in my lan. the connections are refused... where do i have to make

Re: [expert] forgotten knowledge...

2003-09-02 Thread Mark
Anne Wilson wrote: Hi, Mark. I've been following this, and it doesn't look promising, so I wonder if it's time for a dirty solution. Could you not pdf2ps all the files, open them in SOWriter, then cut and paste into one file, save that as a new pdf? I know it's not elegant, but it

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