Re: Postings

2003-01-11 Thread Bill Evans
Another cause that presents itself in my case: - An idiot using Outlook Express and getting confused when his message rules don't direct mail to the CLUG folder as he expected they would. My rule did not cover for when people cc to CLUG while sending the original to an individual. Cursory

Re: Postings

2003-01-10 Thread Bill Evans
No, I get this too and it does not just apply to responses to my own postings. - Original Message - From: Yuri de Groot [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CLUG [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 5:39 PM Subject: Re: Postings I'm guessing this only happens to replies to your own

Re: Telnet connection refused

2002-10-16 Thread Bill Evans
Not a silly question, though you might think these are. What is a telnet port? What is a port scanner? Bill The silly question (obviously) would be to ask if you have a telnet port open. What does your favourite port scanner tell you? Greg --- - Bill Evans is on permanent record

Re: Telnet connection refused

2002-10-16 Thread Bill Evans
It can be enabled through /etc/inetd.conf (although this may vary across distros) If you need more specific instructions, you'll have to let me know what distro you're using. (Quickly, before I leave work, cause I still haven't gotten a connection at home yet...) Thanks Greg By distro

Re: Telnet connection refused

2002-10-16 Thread Bill Evans
with something like: /sbin/service xinetd restart Then Bob should be your uncle :-) On Thu, 2002-10-17 at 16:54, Bill Evans wrote: Not a silly question, though you might think these are. What is a telnet port? What is a port scanner? Bill The silly question (obviously) would

Re: Best distro for 133mhz pc

2002-09-29 Thread Bill Evans
I have a Pentium 133 with 32MB RAM running Redhat 7.0. It copes ok with Gnome, but I have not actually used it for much as yet. I installed Redhat 7.3 on it, but it froze up when I tried to use Gnome. Bill Hi, I set Peanut up on a P200. I had the devil's own job installing it, but I

Re: Need help with fstab

2002-09-29 Thread Bill Evans
I have no experience with Mandrake, and no knowledge of supermount - and for that matter very little knowledge of Linux at all - but since no one else has come up with any suggestions could I hesitantly suggest that perhaps part of the problem might be that there is no leading / in

Re: Gui problem in Redhat 7.3 - fixed !

2002-09-27 Thread Bill Evans
mouse to work I am going to have another go at trying to get the PS/2 mouse to work because it too behaved ok during installation. (I borrowed the serial mouse from the second computer and I don't really want to buy another one.) Thanks for all your help you guys. Bill Evans On Fri, 27 Sep 2002

Re: Reminder/peeve - change the list back!!

2002-09-23 Thread Bill Evans
My vote : Reply to list. Could someone explain exactly what munging is? Thanks Bill Evans

Re: Gui problem in Redhat 7.3

2002-09-19 Thread Bill Evans
Thanks Zane Nick Rout suggested that too. Where can I do that in Linux? There was no conflict in Windows. Would one appear in Linux? Any way, searching for the IRQ information I found the file which seems to be at the centre of the problem. /etc/sysconfig/networking/devices/ifcfg-eth0 #

Gui problem in Redhat 7.3

2002-09-18 Thread Bill Evans
I configure the network XF86Config-4 is not changed at all. Are there other GUI related files I should be looking at to see if they change when I configure the network? Thanks Bill Evans

Networking setup problem.

2002-09-03 Thread Bill Evans
I am aiming to set up a SAMBA network between two computers. They are a Duron 800 with 128 MB RAM running Windows98 (1st edition) and a Pentium 133 with 32MB RAM running Redhat 7.0. As a first step I am trying to establish an ethernet connection between the two. Previously when the Pentium was

Re: Networking setup problem --solved

2002-09-03 Thread Bill Evans
Richard, Andy, Keith Thanks for your suggestions. I implemented them and aquired more knowledge in the process. The cause of the problem became apparent when after trying your suggestions without effect I decided to clean all unnecessary clutter from my Windows network configurations. Network

Re: SAMBA installation query

2002-09-01 Thread Bill Evans
Thanks Richard I am struggling with setting up the network at the moment. What I've got to do over the next few days is spend some time reading up on networking, then hopefully I will be able to come back to you guys with some intelligent queries if I still cannot get it set up. Bill As

Re: SAMBA installation query

2002-08-31 Thread Bill Evans
Thanks Richard putting the path in to /etc/rc.d/init.d/smb startgot things going Now I have to work out what I want to put in my smb.conf . That should keep me quiet for a while :) Bill Starting Samba for Redhat 7.x is normally done from a script /etc/rc.d/init.d/smb start BUT

SAMBA installation query

2002-08-30 Thread Bill Evans
I have Redhat 7.0 on a CD In RedHat/RPMS it contains samba-2.0.7-21ssl.i386.rpm samba-client-2.0.7-21ssl.i386.rpm samba-common-2.0.7-21ssl.i386.rpm I have issued the commands rpm -ivh /mnt/cdrom/RedHat/RPMS/samba-client*.rpm rpm -ivh /mnt/cdrom/RedHat/RPMS/samba-common*.rpm rpm -q samba-client

Re: SAMBA installation query

2002-08-30 Thread Bill Evans
Thanks Matthew Sorry to be so dense but I don't understand what you mean by Neither samba-client*.rpm nor samba-common*.rpm match -- so you haven't installed the samba daemon. I have now issued the command rpm -ivh /mnt/cdrom/RedHat/RPMS/samba-2*.rpm Did that install the samba daemon ? setup

Re: SAMBA installation query

2002-08-30 Thread Bill Evans
Thanks Gareth rpm -ivh /mnt/cdrom/RedHat/RPMS/samba* results in an already installed message for the 3 previously mentioned files :) you might try: rpm -ivh /mnt/cdrom/RedHat/RPMS/samba* ? just a thought.. Gareth

Re: newbie installation problem

2002-08-28 Thread Bill Evans
Thanks Steve Looks like I will have to get myself a CD burner. Hmm this open source software is getting expensive. What with the books I've bought, and the set of Debian disks yet to be tackled I could have bought myself WinXP by now :) But then again where would be the fun in that ... Bill

Re: webcam tomorrow..

2002-08-28 Thread Bill Evans
Wow - that's what I call a real floor show !! - Original Message - From: Chris Hellyar [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CLUG [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2002 11:28 PM Subject: webcam tomorrow.. Hi-ho, For the foks who can't make it tomorrow.. I'll have my webcam at the

Re: newbie installation problem

2002-08-28 Thread Bill Evans
You can install quite a few of of the Linux distributions either directly from a hard-drive, or over a local network. Mandrake for example. Some can be installed directly off the Internet. Debian comes to mind here. Actually a while back I managed a minimal install of Debian off the web by

Re: newbie installation problem

2002-08-28 Thread Bill Evans
modprobe 8390 lsmod 8390 6072 0 (unused) lockd 31176 1 (autoclean) sunrpc 52964 1 (autoclean) [lockd] ifdown eth0 ifup eth0 Delaying eth0 initialization (This is the message I get at bootup) in /var/log/messages after reboot wb network: Bringing up

Re: newbie installation problem

2002-08-28 Thread Bill Evans
commented out options ne2k-pci irq=10 modprobe ne2k-pci Note: /etc/modules.conf is more recent than /lib/modules/2.2.16-22/modules.dep ne2k-pci.c: PCI NE2000 clone 'RealTek RTl-8029' at I/O 0xe400, IRQ 10. eth0: RealRek RTL-8029 found at 0xe400, IRQ 10, 00:00:B4:5D:C2:28 Rebooted and

newbie installation problem

2002-08-27 Thread Bill Evans
I'm a newbie trying to get Redhat 7.3 up and running. The computer is a 15 month old TasTech Duron 800 with a Genius Netscroll mouse. MS Windows recognises it as PS/2 compatible and names the port as mouse port. The monitor is a Viewsonic E651 The graphics card a 32MB GeForce2 MX AGP I

Re: newbie installation problem

2002-08-27 Thread Bill Evans
Thanks Stephen XF86Config-4 Section InputDevice Identifier Mouse0 # Modified by mouseconfig Driver mouse Option Device /dev/psaux Option Protocol IMPS/2 Option Emulate3Buttons yes Option ZAxisMapping 4 5 EndSection ls -l /dev/psaux crw---1 root root 10, 1 Aug

Re: newbie installation problem

2002-08-27 Thread Bill Evans
Thanks Lee, but I'm running as root. Knoppix disc I'm a newbie remember :) - Original Message - From: Stephen Nicholas [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Bill Evans [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2002 5:43 PM Subject: Re: newbie installation problem

new subscriber query

2002-08-25 Thread Bill Evans
I have just subscribed to this group today. Is this the place to ask for help on individual installation problems? I have one or two :( Bill

Re: new subscriber query

2002-08-25 Thread Bill Evans
Great - I will get my facts sorted and post the message tomorrow. Bill - Original Message - From: Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 26, 2002 5:40 PM Subject: Re: new subscriber query I have just subscribed to this group today. Is this the