[expert] Wine troubleshooting: the apps is running, but without any window

2001-02-15 Thread vmalep
Hello, I've installed codeweavers-wine-20010112-1.i386.rpm to use Lotus Notes Client with Linux. Yesterday, it worked very well and today, when I run the notes.exe file, the application is running (with wine), but without any window. I've uninstalled and reinstalled wine (windows user reflex),

RE: [expert] /etc/services xinetd

2001-02-15 Thread richard . bown
Hi All .I must begetting stupid in my old age, yes I've read both man pages, and still at a loss ! The xinetd.conf is as distro, do I need then to duplicate the file entries in /etc/xinetd.d/ in /etc/xinetd.conf. But on the other machine which acts as the firewall, I did'nt need to do this.

[expert] Help: Voodo 4

2001-02-15 Thread Claudio
Hi all! I should install a "3DFX Voodo 4" on Mandrake 7.2 Is there someone who has been able to do that? Any help will be usefull! :o) Claudio

Re: [expert] Bloody 3com network cards

2001-02-15 Thread D. Stark - eSN
Franki: Did you have the isa-pnp kernel module installed? That's what that error is nagging about. I've used the etherlink III's in the past without too much fuss (I think I had to pass an IRQ in my modules.conf, but if the actual card driver is in the kernel, it should figure that out). Derek

[expert] RPM problem in 7.1

2001-02-15 Thread Steven Taetzsch
I haven't been able to upgrade this machine to 7.2 yet due to DiskDrake problems, so I am still running 7.1. Not sure I want to upgrade given the problems that I am having at home with 7.2. CUPS is awful!! Somehow my rpm has been corrupted. Every time I install a package I get this message:

Re: [expert] RPM problem in 7.1

2001-02-15 Thread A V Flinsch
Somehow my rpm has been corrupted. Every time I install a package I get this message: error getting record libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.0) from //var/lib/rpm/requiredby.rpm I get the same message on a Mandrake 7.2 box. The rpm seems to install correctly however . Well not entirely correctly, when

[expert] SAMBA Help Please...

2001-02-15 Thread Sean Armstrong
I looked at the /var/log/samba/log.smb and log.nmb, both fail to recognize the host. See below: [2001/02/11 09:34:45, 1] smbd/server.c:main(641) smbd version 2.0.7 started. Copyright Andrew Tridgell 1992-1998 [2001/02/11 09:34:45, 1] smbd/files.c:file_init(216) file_init: Information only:

Re: [expert] upgrade kernel

2001-02-15 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday 15 February 2000 11:21 am, faisal wrote: I want to upgrade my kernel to 2.4 which files do i need where can i find them ? running 7.2 can i use rpm format ? I use the rpms from any cooker mirror to install source/headers/etc, currently kernel-utils-2.4.1-4mdk

Re: [expert] Hard disk busy

2001-02-15 Thread Biagio LUCINI
On Wed, 14 Feb 2001, D. Stark - eSN wrote: Biagio LUCINI wrote: On Wed, 14 Feb 2001, D. Stark - eSN wrote: Did you install Mandrake 7.2 with the 'hard drive optimizations' flagged? It may be having issues with the power management or something. Regards, Derek

Re: [expert] SAMBA Help Please...

2001-02-15 Thread Dave Sherman
If I remember correctly, I had the same problem you are experiencing. All I had to do to fix it was to add my IP address and fully-qualified domain name to /etc/hosts. Like this: 192.168.2.12myhost.mydomain.com Dave At 08:28 AM 02/15/2001 -0600, you wrote: I looked at the

Re: [expert] Bloody 3com network cards

2001-02-15 Thread Sean Armstrong
Compile it in the kernel. That is what I did. I have a 3c905-TX card. I use the 3c90x.o module. I could never get 7.2 to load the correct module even though it was there, so I just went and compiled it into the kernel instead of a module in my 2.4 kernel. Hope this helps. SA From: "Franki"

Re: [expert] SCSI TBU

2001-02-15 Thread mike ryder
Hello, The tape device is probably something like /dev/st0 (usually the first scsi tape device) and you should be able to talk to it using the 'mt' set of commands (as in : 'mt -f /dev/st0 status' ) - Original Message - From: "Ybnorml" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Expert" [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [expert] SAMBA Help Please...

2001-02-15 Thread Sean Armstrong
Except I'm using DHCP and don't have a static IP address. I don't want to use samba for a samba server, I just want to connect to my NT share on an NT network. Thanks in advance, SA From: "Dave Sherman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert]

Re: [expert] SAMBA Help Please...

2001-02-15 Thread Stephen Carville
gethostbyname requires a valid forward lookup. The quickest solution to his is to add your machine to /etc/hosts. 192.169.12.234 tesla tesla.domain.net loghost You also might want to double check that your DNS is set up correctly. On Thu, 15 Feb 2001, Sean Armstrong wrote: - I looked at the

[expert] Compilers

2001-02-15 Thread Stefaans Mostert
Hi all I read somewhere that you can find compilers for different cpu's i.e optomised for that specific cpu. Can annyone help me with a url??? Cheers Stefaans

RE: [expert] Bloody 3com network cards thanks,, another question..

2001-02-15 Thread Franki
Hi all, I fixed the network cart problem by ditching the 3com and installing a realtec 10/100 pci and it worked straight away... I can ping my notebook (running win2000) but my notebook can't ping the server back... I don't have dialup configured yet,, but need to get the latest RPMS, from the

Re: [expert] SAMBA Help Please...

2001-02-15 Thread Dave Sherman
Please do not use html in your messages. I use a mail client that only displays plain text, so all your html formatting just looks like gobbledygook to me, and makes it very difficult to read. That said... I also use dhcp on my laptop. In this case, all you need to do is add the line:

Re[2]: [expert] SCSI TBU

2001-02-15 Thread Rusty Carruth
"mike ryder" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, The tape device is probably something like /dev/st0 (usually the first scsi tape device) and you should be able to talk to it using the 'mt' set of commands (as in : 'mt -f /dev/st0 status' ) - Original Message - From: "Ybnorml"

RE: [expert] SAMBA Help Please...

2001-02-15 Thread Milnes Terry SSgt 52LSS/LGLOE
Just use the SAMBA client and a samba browser. -Original Message- From: Sean Armstrong [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2001 4:16 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] SAMBA Help Please... Except I'm using DHCP and don't have a static IP

Re: [expert] SAMBA Help Please...

2001-02-15 Thread Craig Sprout
Sean Armstrong wrote: Except I'm using DHCP and don't have a static IP address. I don't want to use samba for a samba server, I just want to connect to my NT share on an NT network. In that case, you don't really need to use your SMB/NMB servers. You need to use smbmount (mount -t smbfs)

Re: [expert] network probs Solved, seems to be a bug

2001-02-15 Thread Andreas Müller
Check /etc/rc.d/rcN.d/, where N is the run level number you are in (3 is most common for CLI and 5 for x/k/gdmj). Check to make sure that there is a symlink that looks something like S10network - ../init.d/network in that directory. If that symlink is there, check

[expert] securing FTP

2001-02-15 Thread Franki
Hi all, I was wondering if there is a good way to secure FTP to encrypt passwords and logins so they are not sent as straight txt,,, apart from using SSH... I have an app that uses standard ftp and I don't have its source... can anyone suggest anything? I neeed something that is transparent

Re: [expert] SAMBA Help Please...

2001-02-15 Thread Albert E. Whale
Looks like a DNS issue. What happens when you type nslookup Tesla? What are your settings for name resolution? My name resolve is set as: host lmhost wins bcast Your's may vary depending on the environment and the stability of DNS. HTH Have a Great Day! Sean Armstrong wrote: I looked at

RE: [expert] IP alias trouble --- CROSSPOST

2001-02-15 Thread Steve.Wambolt
Have you figured out this problem; I was using ifconfig alias on a UNIXWARE machine it it works well, the end result is the server can be connect to via either IP address. I am trying to do the same thing with LINUX - but I dont see "alias" as an option within the man page on ifconfig. Steve

[expert] Font sync between X and Ghostscript

2001-02-15 Thread Romuald Texier
I'm using Mandrake 7.2 In Killustrator, postscript fonts like Zapf Chancery are well displayed on the screen, but cannot be printed. In XFig, it is the contrary : certain fonts like Zapf Chancery or Avangarde are not displayed on the screen, but they are well printed. In Sketch we have both

Re: [expert] securing FTP

2001-02-15 Thread John Wolford
Hi Frank, Why not ssh? If you use sftp then the ssh is transparent Strictly speaking, the solution to your problem already exists, and it's sftp ( ssh). But if you can't install it on your system for some reason, then maybe a wrapper for ftp that you could write yourself? You could use it

[expert] Dumb question...

2001-02-15 Thread george . jones
How do you change the login screen from the goofy penguins to a "normal" login box (you know... type your username instead of clicking on a penguin icon...)

[expert] digital camera

2001-02-15 Thread Klar Brian D Contr MSG SICN
Would anyone know if there is a way to use a digital camera as a web cam via usb?? Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB (937) 656-2861 (937) 973-3125 (pager)

Re: [expert] Hard disk busy

2001-02-15 Thread John Wolford
Mount the drive with another system and do an integrity (hardware) check of the drive. Maybe you have another linux box handy? I don't know if Windows will do a hardware check of a non-windows drive. Good luck, j PS. As for convincing the seller, you probably will need to convince him with an

Re: [expert] securing FTP

2001-02-15 Thread Thomas Sourmail
I was wondering if there is a good way to secure FTP to encrypt passwords and logins so they are not sent as straight txt,,, apart from using SSH... But that's a nice way to do it, isn't it ? You can use graphical ftp clients such as gftp over a secure channel etc.. Anyway, a solution

Re: [expert] securing FTP

2001-02-15 Thread Daniel Woods
I was wondering if there is a good way to secure FTP to encrypt passwords and logins so they are not sent as straight txt,,, apart from using SSH... This would be the best way... using secure port forwarding. Also look into the stunnel program. I have an app that uses standard ftp and I

Re: [expert] Hard disk busy

2001-02-15 Thread Biagio LUCINI
On Thu, 15 Feb 2001, John Wolford wrote: Mount the drive with another system and do an integrity (hardware) check of the drive. Maybe you have another linux box handy? I don't know if Windows will do a hardware check of a non-windows drive. Hi - I'd love to, but my pc actually is a

Re: [expert] Dumb question...

2001-02-15 Thread D. Stark - eSN
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do you change the login screen from the goofy penguins to a "normal" login box (you know... type your username instead of clicking on a penguin icon...) You mean get rid of the GUI in favor of a good ol text login? To do that, edit the /etc/inittab file. Change

Re: [expert] Hard disk busy

2001-02-15 Thread H . J . Bathoorn
On Friday 16 February 2001 01:48, you wrote: On Thu, 15 Feb 2001, John Wolford wrote: Mount the drive with another system and do an integrity (hardware) check of the drive. Maybe you have another linux box handy? I don't know if Windows will do a hardware check of a non-windows drive.

Re: [expert] upgrade kernel

2001-02-15 Thread Daniel B. Haun
On Thursday 15 February 2001 09:30, you wrote: On Tuesday 15 February 2000 11:21 am, faisal wrote: I want to upgrade my kernel to 2.4 which files do i need where can i find them ? running 7.2 can i use rpm format ? I use the rpms from any cooker mirror to install

Re: [expert] Dumb question...

2001-02-15 Thread george . jones
naw Not a text login. well... sort of. LM7.0/7.1 had a graphical login box simlar to the WinNT4 login box. No icons (it does have a logo to the side of the box) representing users. That's what I want. I guess the question should have been reworded to "How do you get rid of the goofy

Re: [expert] digital camera

2001-02-15 Thread Rusty Carruth
Klar Brian D Contr MSG SICN [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Would anyone know if there is a way to use a digital camera as a web cam via usb?? gphoto2 (gphoto is the gui version and is only really useful if you have a person standing there. gphoto2 is available from anon cvs - I think its

Re: [expert] Umax 1220u scanner

2001-02-15 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Thursday 15 February 2001 03:31, you wrote: On Tuesday 13 February 2001 15:18, you wrote: Does anyone here have any real experiences with the umax 1220u usb scanners? I downloaded at: www.hettich.demon.co.uk/umax/ but the readme's and (not) delivered docs leave me in a sort of

Re: [expert] IP alias trouble --- CROSSPOST

2001-02-15 Thread Matthew Micene
On Thursday 15 February 2001 02:56 pm, you wrote: Have you figured out this problem; I was using ifconfig alias on a UNIXWARE machine it it works well, the end result is the server can be connect to via either IP address. I am trying to do the same thing with LINUX - but I dont see "alias"

Re: [expert] Dumb question...

2001-02-15 Thread Matthew Micene
On Thursday 15 February 2001 03:11 pm, you wrote: naw Not a text login. well... sort of. LM7.0/7.1 had a graphical login box simlar to the WinNT4 login box. No icons (it does have a logo to the side of the box) representing users. That's what I want. I guess the question should have

[expert] Tx Ring full?

2001-02-15 Thread John Oliver
John Oliver wrote: After leaving my laptop (Compaq Armada M300) running Mandrake 7.2 on for a few days, and then performing a large file transfer, my Ethernet card (a 3C575 PCMCIA) stops working and /var/log/messages starts getting these every 5 seconds: Feb 11 20:59:35 icarus kernel:

[expert] some simple questions..

2001-02-15 Thread Franki
Hi all, Just got my new server working, and I notice some stuff... Firstly, is it safe to use Webmin over the internet? or should it always be run as localhost? If its safe to trust the webmin cert,, how can enable internet access? it allows me to log in, but access denied on any features.

[expert] Netatalk and cups.

2001-02-15 Thread James Little
We are using a PC as a print/file server. We do this, so we can print from Linux, Unix, Windows, Novell, and MacOS and have them all use the same spool, and also have them all be able to use the same shared directory. I've had this machine set-up before with Mandrake 7.1, and all these things

Re: [expert] Dumb question...

2001-02-15 Thread Ron Heron
The LM login box is really KDM, the window manager from KDE. To change the goofy penguins, you access the "login Manager" configuration utility. I think it is under Configuration - KDE - System - Login Manager You can select the pixmaps from there. If all you have are goofy penguins, you may

Re: [expert] From pdf to ps and viceversa.

2001-02-15 Thread Leopold Palomo
Hi, the only thing that I can recomend is to install the acrobat reader and then print to a file the pdf file that you want to convert. It's a good option. And what do you want to do that "doesn't work well"? Leo Pea Arellano Fabian Erasmo wrote: Hello, It seems that the

Re: [expert] CUPS problem

2001-02-15 Thread Pierre Fortin
Vincent Danen wrote: On Mon Feb 12, 2001 at 11:07:37AM -0500, Pierre Fortin wrote: I get the same: cups-common =S 1.1.6-3.1mdk is needed by cups-1.1.6-3.1mdk libcupsimage.so.2 is needed by cups-1.1.6-3.1mdk libcups.so.2 is needed by cups-1.1.6-3.1mdk libcupsimage.so.2 is needed by

Re: [expert] /etc/services xinetd

2001-02-15 Thread Larry Sword
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All .I must begetting stupid in my old age, yes I've read both man pages, and still at a loss ! The xinetd.conf is as distro, do I need then to duplicate the file entries in /etc/xinetd.d/ in /etc/xinetd.conf. But on the other machine which acts as the firewall,

Re: [expert] Epson Stylus 800+ ESC2 as default printer?

2001-02-15 Thread Steve Browne
On Wed, 14 Feb 2001 19:18:28 +1000, you wrote: On Tuesday 13 February 2001 11:02, you wrote: I still use for my text printing an Epson Stylus 800+ ESC2 black and white inkjet printer. I don't see it listed in the CUPS roster. How can I set it up? Try one of the other Epson printers, the LQ

[expert] Old question - repeat problem

2001-02-15 Thread Praedor Tempus
OK, a while back there was some questions concerning KDM showing all the system services as users in the KDM window for login. I just had to rebuild my system after a disaster and now have installed KDE 2.1-0.20010122.2mdk rpms. After doing this, I now have all the services in KDM again

Re: [expert] CUPS problem

2001-02-15 Thread William Bouterse
On Thursday 15 February 2001 12:57, Pierre wrote: (much more and then near the end) rpm -qa | grep cups qtcups-1.0-14mdk cups-common-1.1.6-3.1mdk cups-drivers-0.3.6-30mdk cups-1.1.6-3.1mdk Just out of curiosity and, before I do the cups-common-1.1.6-3.1mdk upgrade route, my 'rpm -qa |

RE: [expert] IP alias trouble --- CROSSPOST

2001-02-15 Thread Albert E. Whale
Have you tried using either Webmin or Linuxconf? They will create another file for the definition of the alias which gets read at boot time. On Thu, 15 Feb 2001, Steve.Wambolt wrote: Have you figured out this problem; I was using ifconfig alias on a UNIXWARE machine it it works well, the

[expert] 3Com cards and network problems

2001-02-15 Thread Praedor Tempus
I have been having this problem for a long time but it seems worse now that I have recently built a new 2.4.1 kernel and started using it. I have a 3Com 900B netcard. With earlier Mandrake releases, my system insisted on using 3c59x and this seemed to work. I am now using 3c90x because

Re: [expert] upgrade kernel

2001-02-15 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Thursday 15 February 2001 01:49 pm, Daniel B. Haun wrote: Ok... these RPM"s are in the "developer" option in "Mandrake Update"... is it possible to just run that and have it upgrade the kernel? Thanks! Maybe you need to start here ? http://mandrakeuser.org/install/kupgrade.html

Re: [expert] C-Media CMI8338 sound card....

2001-02-15 Thread Ken Thompson
Hi Ken, Does your joystick work, you get any Midi sounds and 4 speaker support, stuff like that? daniel... curious in NJ... :) I dunno, I only use standard PC speakers and don't use a joystick.. I've seen several questions related to joystick's on the list so you may want to search the

[expert] MS Exchange behind LM7.2 Firewall

2001-02-15 Thread Doug Gough
Maybe not a good question for this forum. I need to set up my ipchains firewall to allow my msexchange server to handle all the email from outside. In fact I think I can handle setting up the firewall, but I don't know what else I need to do from the Linux side of things. Do I need to run

RE: [expert] MS Exchange behind LM7.2 Firewall

2001-02-15 Thread Debie Scholz
I have done something similar but without exchange. See if this works. My situation is that I have a Mandrake box acting as a firewall to the internet. Thier email accounts are at an ISP so what I do is I set up Postfix or Sendmail and just run it. When I set up the clients I have thier

[expert] RealPlayer plug-in

2001-02-15 Thread lorne schachter
Is there a Netscape RealPlayer plugin for Mandrake 7.2? Lorne -- Lorne Schachter (732) 819-0460, (732)819-0460 (FAX) http://www.intac.com/~lorne begin:vcard n:Schachter;Lorne x-mozilla-html:TRUE adr:;; version:2.1 email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] x-mozilla-cpt:;-13760 fn:Lorne

Re: [expert] RealPlayer plug-in

2001-02-15 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Thursday 15 February 2001 07:03 pm, lorne schachter wrote: Is there a Netscape RealPlayer plugin for Mandrake 7.2? do an ftp search (http://ftpsearch.lycos.com/?form=medium) for rp8_linux20_libc6_i386_cs1.bin (5.6mb) That'll return at least 15 links worldwide and you can

Re: [expert] Netatalk and cups.

2001-02-15 Thread A V Flinsch
On Thursday 15 February 2001 01:20, you wrote: We are using a PC as a print/file server. We do this, so we can print from Linux, Unix, Windows, Novell, and MacOS and have them all use the same spool, and also have them all be able to use the same shared directory. I've had this machine

[expert] Offtopic (a bit): Me thinks I am a sucker - net 2 phone redux

2001-02-15 Thread Praedor Tempus
Well, I think I was suckered. After starting the conversation on the list about internet telephony, hoping to find some software that would allow linux users to make PC to phone calls like windoze users with dialpad or net2phone, I heard about Quicknet and their telephony cards. Their

[expert] Gnome/Evolution Part2

2001-02-15 Thread Jerry Sternesky
I finally got evolution installed. I had to uninstall perl-gtkhtml, go out to rpmfind.net and download bonobo 3.0, oaf 0.6.1 and gtkhtml 0.8. After I installed them I was able to use helix-update connect to an evolution mirror and let it install. Evolution starts up, I was even able to send

[expert] SCSI TBU

2001-02-15 Thread Ybnorml
Thanks for the replies and advice, guys. I'm just not able to get anywhere. I don't appear to have a "mt" command installed. This is the server side of LM7.2. I did the dmesg command and was able to see the Python drive showing up in there. Assuming it's st0, how would I be able to mount and

[expert] KDE 2.1-0.20010210

2001-02-15 Thread Ron Heron
Hi everyone, I just noticed that there is another beta kde2 on cookerwith the following packages (not all are as new as the last Chris's packages): ncftp ...l/cooker/Mandrake/RPMS ls kde* kde1-compat-1.1.2-8mdk.i586.rpm

RE: [expert] 3Com cards and network problems

2001-02-15 Thread Franki
I had alot of the same problems,, so I went and spent 20 bucks and bought a realtec chipset 10/100 NIC and it worked straight off the bat... I didn't think it was worth my time dikking around to get a 3com card working when a new one costs so little. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

RE: [expert] 3Com cards and network problems

2001-02-15 Thread Franki
Having said that,, I noticed a huge section on 3com cards in the howto's of the LDP in the ethernet hardware section,, ,it goes into the specifices of each model and how to get them working. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Praedor Tempus

Re: [expert] MS Exchange behind LM7.2 Firewall

2001-02-15 Thread Cecil Watson
This can be done! You'll need portfw or rinetd to route smtp from your Linux box to the internal Exchange box. I'd even suggest you take a look at Astaro Security Linux (www.astaro.com), which can can incoming and outgoing email! I have it setup at a client and it works great. Doug Gough