Re: [expert] odd permisions on mounted fat32 drive

2002-10-18 Thread James Sparenberg
This is normal... You can't set permissions on a fat32 disk... file system won't do that. So whomever or whatever mounts the partition, gets reported by Linux as the owner since it has to report something when you do an ls-l As far as Linux is concerned all files are readable and executable on a

[expert] network messaging program

2002-10-18 Thread Rulon Holm
I am looking for a program that will allow me to send messages on a mixed network(windows and mandrake)? Is there such a program? I need suggestions for both the windows side and the linux side. -Thnx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] network messaging program

2002-10-18 Thread James Sparenberg
WinPopup (already on windows) + LinPopUp worked here (when I had windows) Kinda like an instant messenger. James On Fri, 2002-10-18 at 01:02, Rulon Holm wrote: I am looking for a program that will allow me to send messages on a mixed network(windows and mandrake)? Is there such a program?

RE: [expert] iptables in mdk 8.2

2002-10-18 Thread Franki
go and get gShield... it does all that and a ton more and you can add remove rules just by editing the english (not iptables rules) conf file.. it asks you if there are any ports you want open, any you want forwarded etc.. and it does it.. very nifty. rgds frank -Original Message-

Re: [expert] odd permisions on mounted fat32 drive

2002-10-18 Thread J. Grant
Really its because your fat32 files have some combo of readonly/hiden/system. You can change them in windows or linux using chmod. JG James Sparenberg wrote: This is normal... You can't set permissions on a fat32 disk... file system won't do that. So whomever or whatever mounts the partition,

Re: [expert] network messaging program

2002-10-18 Thread J. Grant
If your windows users are already using ICQ you can get a great GPL client from micq.org. Its got all the features you will need. JG Rulon Holm wrote: I am looking for a program that will allow me to send messages on a mixed network(windows and mandrake)? Is there such a program? I need

Re: [expert] iptables in mdk 8.2

2002-10-18 Thread hans privat
hi Ron, first - thanks for your answer. but have a lot of open questions anyway. the script you mentioned, I have downloaded. but for example, I don't have a setted up DNS yet. Reading the docs about DHCP shows a big disadvantage, if using a DHCP-server : the connected clients does NOT have some

Re: [expert] iptables in mdk 8.2

2002-10-18 Thread Scott
On 18 Oct 2002, hans privat wrote: Reading the docs about DHCP shows a big disadvantage, if using a DHCP-server : the connected clients does NOT have some knowledge of the neighbourhouds of clients. to circumvent this problem, the docs talks about setting up a real DNS within the local

Re: [expert] Best way to backup.

2002-10-18 Thread Lars Nordin
On Thursday 17 October 2002 10:55 pm, Steve Browne wrote: ... dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb This works for me on an ext2 system. Not sure about ext3 and the others. Warning: depending on your CPUs and drive sizes, the transfer can take a LONG time. Like, five hours. Have you tried increasing

[expert] Adding fonts in V9.0 lockup MCC

2002-10-18 Thread Mike Morrell
Hi list, I tried adding fonts from my Win2K partition and it locks up every time. It is a ntfs filesystem so that may be part of the problem but I don't see why it should matter. I tried editing fstab to make it mount read-only with user option, but I still get the same problem. I am able to view

Re: [expert] Best way to backup.

2002-10-18 Thread Steve Browne
On Fri, 18 Oct 2002 08:45:42 -0400, you wrote: On Thursday 17 October 2002 10:55 pm, Steve Browne wrote: ... dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb This works for me on an ext2 system. Not sure about ext3 and the others. Warning: depending on your CPUs and drive sizes, the transfer can take a LONG time.

RE: [expert] Best way to backup.

2002-10-18 Thread Tony S. Sykes
Apologies for this stupid question, but will this work for /dev/hda3 /dev/hdb2 ?? Thanks, Tony. -Original Message- From: Steve Browne [mailto:sbrowne;ix.netcom.com] Sent: Friday, October 18, 2002 2:05 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Best way to backup. On Fri, 18 Oct

[expert] auto-login doesn't automatically log me in

2002-10-18 Thread Nÿco
In Mandrake Control Center Startup Startup Configuration, I select : - launch graphical interface at boot - automatic connection (right user, right Desktop Environment But at each boot, I have the *DM inviting me to type my login name ans password... Any idea ? What files are modified ?

[expert] Konqueror File Manager : startup

2002-10-18 Thread Nÿco
When I launch the Konqueror as File Manager in my home folder, 1 ) it is located at the top left corner, and is very small. I'd like it te retain the size and location on the screen it had just before the last time I closed it. 2 ) it doesn't show the files in detailed list view as I configured

Re: [expert] Writing blank CDs...

2002-10-18 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Fri, 18 Oct 2002 05:18:47 +1000 Ron Stodden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ron, Thanks! One question since I don't have time to experiment (doing so would delay my burns another week+)... ./MakeCD (no arguments) shows these options: --disc_building_tries maximum number of iteration to build

Re: [expert] auto-login doesn't automatically log me in

2002-10-18 Thread Nicolas VERITE
Le ven 18/10/2002 à 15:25, Nÿco a écrit : In Mandrake Control Center Startup Startup Configuration, I select : - launch graphical interface at boot - automatic connection (right user, right Desktop Environment But at each boot, I have the *DM inviting me to type my login name ans

Re: [expert] auto-login doesn't automatically log me in

2002-10-18 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Nÿco wrote: In Mandrake Control Center Startup Startup Configuration, I select : - launch graphical interface at boot - automatic connection (right user, right Desktop Environment But at each boot, I have the *DM inviting me to type my login name ans password... Any idea ? What files are

Re: [expert] iptables in mdk 8.2

2002-10-18 Thread Ron Stodden
hans privat wrote: hi Ron, first - thanks for your answer. but have a lot of open questions anyway. the script you mentioned, I have downloaded. but for example, I don't have a setted up DNS yet. Now - I have 3 workstations and 1 (designated) firewall. and maybe, the workstations would be grow

[expert] Mandrake 9 + mirror (raid 1)

2002-10-18 Thread Belkie, Dan
Has anyone out there been able to mirror there mandrake disk. boot and all? If so could you share your /etc/raidtab file? Thanks Dan Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] /mnt/removable

2002-10-18 Thread Jack Coates
On Thu, 2002-10-17 at 18:55, bascule wrote: hi jack, ok, this is what i get: [rootmycroft downloads]# rgrep mnt /usr/share/msec/ /usr/share/msec/perm.0:/mnt/ root.root 755 /usr/share/msec/perm.1:/mnt/

[expert] inittab

2002-10-18 Thread KevinO
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Could someone please post a copy of /etc/inittab for a standard Mandrake 7.0 box? Thanks, - -- KevinO Matz's Law: A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux)

[expert] Starting X With a Higher Priority

2002-10-18 Thread Rick Friedman
Currently, I have my system setup to start at runlevel 5. X starts with a 'nice' value of 0. I can renice it later but I would like it to *start* with a higher priority, say -10. My question is, what do I have to change so that X will automatically start with a 'nice' value of -10? Rick

Re: [expert] Best way to backup.

2002-10-18 Thread Richard Laframboise
Thanks all for your suggestions. I should have added this details to my initial request : File system is ext3 Disks are not the same size My goal is : 1- Backup hda1 and store the backup somewhere 2- Install the very minimum of the MDKx on a computer and then restore my backup over it. Reboot and

Re: [expert] odd permisions on mounted fat32 drive

2002-10-18 Thread W. Kasberg
On Friday 18 October 2002 09:51, James Sparenberg wrote: This is normal... You can't set permissions on a fat32 disk... file system won't do that. So whomever or whatever mounts the partition, gets reported by Linux as the owner since it has to report something when you do an ls-l As far as

Re: [expert] Best way to backup.

2002-10-18 Thread Richard Laframboise
Thanks Rick, I will try it today. At 23:45 2002-10-17 -0400, you wrote: One of the best solutions I've found for backing up my system is called, Mondoarchive. Check out the website at http://www.microwerks.net/~hugo/ Rick On Thu, 2002-10-17 at 20:47, Richard Laframboise wrote: Hi list, I have

Re: [expert] Adding fonts in V9.0 lockup MCC

2002-10-18 Thread Peter Watson
On Friday 18 Oct 2002 2:03 pm, Mike Morrell wrote: Hi list, I tried adding fonts from my Win2K partition and it locks up every time. It is a ntfs filesystem so that may be part of the problem but I don't see why it should matter. I tried editing fstab to make it mount read-only with user

[expert] What is wrong with knotes?

2002-10-18 Thread Aleksey Naumov
Hi all, I am having trouble with KDE's knotes application (yellow sticky notes). I used it alot for keeping miscellaneous information, but now I keep loosing data with it! Ok, I start from scratch: quit knotes, remove old files from ~/.kde/share/apps/knotes/notes, start knotes (knotes in

Re: [expert] What is wrong with knotes?

2002-10-18 Thread Igor Izyumin
On Friday 18 October 2002 02:13 pm, Aleksey Naumov wrote: Hi all, I am having trouble with KDE's knotes application (yellow sticky notes). I used it alot for keeping miscellaneous information, but now I keep loosing data with it! Ok, I start from scratch: quit knotes, remove old files from

[expert] New Motherboad, New CPU

2002-10-18 Thread Serge
Hi Everybody. I installed Mandrake 9.0 on an asus motherboard with an AMD TB cpu. I upgraded my system due to some problems and have now an Intel Motherboard and a Pentium IV cpu. Without reinstalling mandrake it works pretty well. Questions: do I need to reinstall Mandrake, knowing that at

[expert] Laptop sleep...system clock crazy

2002-10-18 Thread Sandeep Khanna
Hi, My laptop Compaq 12XL125 AMD K6-II 533 Mhz 192Mb RAM has Mandrake 9.0 (Dolphin) installed on it. Whenever I put it in sleep, after waking up the system clock is all messed up. Anyone, any suggestions, any help? Regards, Sandeep -- Sandeep Khanna Graduate Student in Computer Science,

[expert] Mandrake 9, mouse drag select problem

2002-10-18 Thread Sandeep Khanna
Hi All, My laptop has Mandrake 9 installed. After a few hours, I cannot drag and select anything anywhere...Nautilus, desktop, files, scroller, etc. Altough, I can click and double-click but, cannot drag and select !! The problem is solved when I restart the X-Server. Do I have to logout and

[expert] Mandrake 9....No Shares in Gnomba

2002-10-18 Thread Sandeep Khanna
Hi All, My laptop has Mandrake 9 installed. I thought I would give Gnomba a chance instead of LinNeighbourhood this time. But, Gnomba after asking me for Username and password for any machine and successfully authenticating, does not show the shares for that machine in the tree !!! Also, If I

[expert] Mandrake 9....OpenOffice keeps on closing !!!

2002-10-18 Thread Sandeep Khanna
Hi All, My laptop has Mandrake 9 installed. Whenever I start OpenOffice, the first time it inevitably closes down after a short glimpse of it. But, after persistently trying it 3-4 times it finally shows up !! Also, If I completely delete the ~/.openoffice directory then it starts just fine

[expert] Is acpi support in mandrake's kernel-source?

2002-10-18 Thread Joan Tur
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hallo! I've applied acpi-20020918 patch to MDK9 kernel and now it doesn't compile, so I was wondering what's the acpi support included in Mandrake's kernel source. Thanks in advance. - -- Joan Tur. Eivissa-Spain AOL quini2k, ICQ 11407395

Re: [expert] Writing blank CDs...

2002-10-18 Thread Randy Kramer
Thanks to everybody who responded (Ron, Pierre, Kevin, Tom, ...). I should have mentioned that I do check the md5sum of the downloaded ISO and I make sure it is correct before burning -- it is just that I never get it to match after burning. Guess I'll try the DAO option in Windows, and

Re: [expert] Writing blank CDs...

2002-10-18 Thread Randy Kramer
Pierre, Thanks for the response! On Thursday 17 October 2002 10:04 am, Pierre Fortin wrote: On Thu, 17 Oct 2002 07:22:09 -0400 Randy Kramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I bought an Acer 6206 CD burner several years ago (the manufactured date As to any s/w that runs on M$, my web pages

Re: [expert] Localization problems

2002-10-18 Thread Denis Kukharev
I've got Mandrake 8.2 and need russian localization. When I select russian language and country Russia in KDE, it's OK (windows, menus, etc. all in Russian) except icons on the Desktop! Icons named in English appear correctly, but russian names of icons (which correspond to Trash, Home and

Re: [expert] How to identify tape drive in ML 9.0?

2002-10-18 Thread John Haywood
On Sunday 13 October 2002 19:24, you wrote: I hope someone can help me with this... :-) I've got a Travan TR-4 (IDE) tape drive in my system. It's in the slave spot on the IDE cable in IDE controller 1, with the CD-ROM in the master position. When I fire up Mandrake Control Center and click