Linux-Misc Digest #968, Volume #18 Tue, 9 Feb 99 21:13:14 EST
Contents:
Re: glibc2.1 and egcs1.1.1 problem (Charles Mulks)
Re: SAMBA: cannot be recognized by win95 ("Francis Pierot")
web pages with ".ff" extension
Re: Linux: Fight for survival or on victory march? (Allen Versfeld)
Re: HP ScanJet 4c Driver for Linux ("puptank")
Re: VT220 application keypad in console & X Windows ("T.E.Dickey")
Re: Linux box as Windoze file/backup server? ("Francis Pierot")
Help, ISP setup! (William Gross)
Re: swapon -s returning error (Stephen Richard FREELAND)
Re: xterm or text console? how can program find out? ("T.E.Dickey")
How much space needed? (Cmdr_Joe)
Re: KDE is a Memory Hog. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Converting filenames from uppercase to lowercase (NF Stevens)
Re: help on strings libraries (NF Stevens)
Re: Please Help, ISP setup! (James Carlson)
Re: 2 newbie questions...... (Chad M. Townsend)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Charles Mulks)
Subject: Re: glibc2.1 and egcs1.1.1 problem
Date: 9 Feb 1999 13:56:04 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
says...
>
>Hello folks!
>
>I have a problem installing glibc 2.1 with egcs 1.1.1.
>I thought it would be time to get my old libc 5 based SuSE 5.0
>installation up
may I ask where did you get the glibc2.1
I've been looking for it and haven't managed to track it down.
TIA
Charlie Mulks
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From: "Francis Pierot" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SAMBA: cannot be recognized by win95
Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1999 13:31:21 +0100
(We need more infos about your smb.conf.)
I just happened to finally succeed in configuring Samba for accessing from
a Windows 98 box to a Linux server, and everything runs fine, including
ecnrypted passwords. It's really cool once correctly configured and I assure
you it IS possible.
A couple of guesses.
0) Try to use smbd and nmbd as daemons from rc.d, I find they're easier to
stop and restart this way.
1) Make sure your lock/log directories are existing.
2) Type 'hostname' on your Linux shell. Is the name what you expect ?
3) Do you have a WORKGROUP setup in smb.conf ? If not, try inserting one in
[global] section :
[global]
...
workgroup = MYGROUP
(this is a default setting). Try not using more than 8 characters and no
space/punctuation, could be problematic.
4) Then try to see this group and the host name from Win95 in Network
Neighborhood.
5) save your smb.conf and restart samba (use 'samba restart' if you have the
script, might depend on the installation.) At worse, reboot (!) but best is
to kill and restart smbd and nmbd daemons.
6) Instead of using 'net view' from a dos box on Windows 95, go to the
Network Neighborhood on the desktop.
7) Make sure your Windows IP address is not in a "hosts deny" line in
smb.conf, or that it's allowed by your "hosts allow" line if you used that.
Best is, at first, not to use these commands at all in smb.conf and add them
later when connection works.
8) Well, read docs, specially DIAGNOSIS.TXT. There are a number of steps in
this text which allow you to test Samba installation and working in a very
straightforward way and gives clues if it doesn't work.
9) Make sure your Windows IP address is not locked by the networking
security undergrounds in Linux TCP/IP services. Samba cannot give access to
a host if it is rejected by TCP/IP first. Samba is on top of Linux, so every
TCP/IP networking setup consideration take precedence over Samba
configuration settings.
10) A possible problem could also be that you did not set any service in
smb.client. Try to setup the 'tmp' example service with public access, if
your host has no shared service I think it won't be visible.
11) If you have problems with passwords, use the following in [global] :
security = share
This will make all services accessible at the share security level, which
means usernames won't be a problem as all services will be accessed via user
'guest' remapping. (In fact, the guest account is generally 'nobody' which
is a generic user in passwd).
12) Don't try to setup encrypted passwords yet. Configuring Samba can be
frustrating with that when trying to access to Samba from Windows things and
should be done by steps, but once it's okey there's simply no problem at
all! (I spent a whole week to solve this password problem.)
As I have a correctly configured Samba/Windows setup here, I can answer your
questions if I have the time. If possible, please CC your newsgroup posts to
my email [EMAIL PROTECTED] so I don't need to check the newsgroup too
often. (It's a BIG one!) I will reply the same way.
Francis Pierot
Senior Programmer - Tech Direction
Cryo Interactive Entertainment
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
- Computers are to programmers
What brushes are to painters -
Danke Hirasawa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I just installed/configured samba-1.9.18p7 came with Slackware 3.5. I
> am running SMB through inetd.
>
> After I configured smb.cong file, I tested it by testparm. It seemed
> OK. I also did smbclient -L (samba-server) and smbclient -L
> (win95-host) on the samba-server. Both were working.
>
> Now I am trying to see if I can see the Samba-server from the Win95-host
>
> via NetBios, "net view \\(samba-server)" command on the Win95 host. It
> is NOT working. Win95 complaining "can not locate the host
> (samba-server)." I have set Lmhosts file in c:\windows directory of
> Win95 machine and confirmed that TCP/IP connection between two hosts is
> working. I tried to run SMB through standalone Daemons, but it did not
> work either. I checked upper/lower cases of host name, did not matter.
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.html,alt.html.writers,alt.linux,alt.netscape,alt.os.linux,alt.www.webmaster,comp.mail.sendmail,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.security.firewalls,it.comp.www.h
Subject: web pages with ".ff" extension
Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1999 16:40:51 -0800
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Hey,
Does anyone know what program generates a ".ff" extension on web
pages? All I could figure out is that the web server is Netscape
Enterprise 3.5.1G
Any Help would be great.
Max
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From: Allen Versfeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Linux: Fight for survival or on victory march?
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 1999 16:05:44 +0200
Jerry Lynn Kreps wrote:
>
> Graham Murray wrote:
> >
> > In alt.os.linux, Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > > What Netscape is this. Mine seems to look and act indentical to windows.
> > > There is 1 difference, no 2. It runs faster and doesn't crash.
> >
> > 3. Netscape 4.5 on windows "auto-completes" entries typed into the
> > URL. On linux it does not and you have to type in the complete URL.
>
> An insignificant difference compared to the speed and stability issue.
> You don't use bookmarks? Why not, if you are going to a site more than
> once?
Because it is quicker to type 'www.y' (if I want to go to yahoo) than
it is to look for the mouse, haul it all the way across the screen,
click the button, peer at the list, find it (entry number 345), etc.
Sure, I exaggerate a little... Besides, why create a bookmark for a
site that you are visiting 3 times, then never again (for example).
But, you are right - It is a minor issue.
Stability, though, isn't. Commicator is definitely the least stable
software on my computer, by a very long margin.
--
Allen Versfeld
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Wandata
"I hate quotations" - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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From: "puptank" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.periphs.scanners
Subject: Re: HP ScanJet 4c Driver for Linux
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 02:55:16 +1300
Have a look for a package called SANE (Scanner Access Now Easy) which, I
think, will work with a ScanJet 4c. I have a 3c and, according to the
SANE docs, that ought to work too - but I haven't gotten around to
trying it out yet. From what I gather, the interface is similar to that
of HP's DeskScan.
Hope that name was a useful lead...
--
p u p t a n k @ i n a m e . c o m
______________________________________________________________________
Television is what will happen to you if you don't have a computer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
<79nt0e$s4p$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Hi all,
>
>I have used HP ScanJet 4c on Win95 platform using its Deskscan driver
>software. I would like to know if it would be possible to use this
scanner on
>Linux. Is GIMP the app for this or something else? Where can I find the
>driver for this scanner and is there any HOWTO? Thanks much.
>
>BOB
>
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From: "T.E.Dickey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: VT220 application keypad in console & X Windows
Date: 9 Feb 1999 14:00:09 GMT
In comp.os.linux.development.apps Michael Fraley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
XFree86 xterm already does this (I don't use translations). The xkb tables
have things awry so that it's necessary to set NumLock to make it work
just-like-vt220, but that's usually not a problem.
> I'm trying to map my keyboard to the VT220 auxiliary keypad keys.
...
> I was hoping to do something similar in X Windows. Everything works, except
> for one key. I seem to need to press Num_Lock first before the numeric
> keypad sends the keycodes I need. For instance, the "0 & Insert key" (bottom
...
--
Thomas E. Dickey
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.clark.net/pub/dickey
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From: "Francis Pierot" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux box as Windoze file/backup server?
Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1999 13:38:46 +0100
It will work fine. Here's my own setup here :
- I have Apache servicing a local intranet server for corporate libraries
and docs for our programmers from their Windows / Macintosh Internet
browsers
- I have Samba setup to give regular Windows networking access to these
programme(so they send or get files, libraries, docs easily). Appropriate
directories on the Linux server are set up as public / read-only services in
Samba config.
- I have ftp access the same way for users.
- I have a Samba service setup so I can upload updates to the Appache site
on the Linux via standard Windows neighborhood. Only my IP has write access
to this service, and only with encrypted password authentification.
It works really fine. You may use a similar scheme to upload backups on a
Linux box via Samba, yes. The good part is that you can protect Samba
services so they're only useable by one or more specific IP addresses, group
or users.
Francis Pierot
Senior Programmer - Tech Direction
Cryo Interactive Entertainment
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
- Computers are to programmers
What brushes are to painters -
Mike Sheehan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Is there any reason why I couldn't use my Linux box for a multipurpose
server?
>
> 1) I am currently using Apache to serve a couple of small intranet WWW
adresses.
>
> 2) I would like to add using Samba for the local Windows NT users as a
> FILE server for them.
>
> 3) In conjunction with a WWW and file server I would also like to provide
> FTP backup capability to the same Windows network.
>
> Does anyone know of reason why I would not be able to do this?
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From: William Gross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.protocols.ppp,comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: Help, ISP setup!
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 22:50:32 -0600
Hello,
Correction to my post listed below, i.e. my last post. I am using
the ppp protocol. Sorry.
Leroy
_______________________________________________________________
Hello,
I need some help, please. I am running RedHat 5.2 on a a clone pc,
and I am trying to connect to my ISP which is called Integrity Online.
The problem is that they have a firewall, and I have never set Linux up
to deal with a firewall before. I can successfully connect to my ISP,
it assigns me a dynamic ip address, as usual. The problem is I cannot
get out to the internet. Netscape tells me something like it cannot
find the proxy server that I have set up in it even though I know that
the proxy name is correct, it is the same info I use in NT 4.0 and Win95
and they connect and cruise fine. I have pinged the firewall from my NT
and Win95 connections and have put the corresponding ip number in my
hosts file in order for their to be a dns resolution on my end. If I
did not, Netscape complains that "proxy.iolusa.com is unknown" and will
not let me continue to configure it. If I try to ping the firewall or
any valid internet address from my Linux connection, I get the error
from ping that the network is unreachable. The protocol that I am using
is tcp-ip, of course. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I have
banged my head against this for awhile and have not gotten anywhere.
Thanks in advance.
Leroy
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From: Stephen Richard FREELAND <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: swapon -s returning error
Date: 9 Feb 1999 14:07:06 GMT
In comp.os.linux.misc Jayasuthan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
:> In comp.os.linux.networking [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
:>
:> | When I run swapon -s I get this:
:> | swapon: /proc/swaps: No such file or directory
:>
:> does your kernel have support for the /proc filesystem? if not, this would
:> explain it
:>
The "swaps" entry in the proc filesystem was only added in version
2.1.25, if I remember correctly (from the man page, I don't know the
complete history of the kernel. In case you're wondering)
Ciao... . SNF .
--
Steve 'Nephtes' Freeland | Okay, so maybe I'm a tiny itty little
[EMAIL PROTECTED] | bit of a minimalist.
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From: "T.E.Dickey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: xterm or text console? how can program find out?
Date: 9 Feb 1999 14:03:58 GMT
Allen Ashley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> "Norm Dresner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>Why should you want to know? What difference would it make?
>> Norm
> Well, for one thing, the key bindings are different.
that's a different issue (your terminal description tracks that).
--
Thomas E. Dickey
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.clark.net/pub/dickey
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cmdr_Joe)
Subject: How much space needed?
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 04:54:36 GMT
As you may have noticed, I am going to install RedHat Linux soon, more
specifically, the Mandrake distro. Now what sized partition should I
make for this distro? I know I should make it as big as possible, but
I only have 350 megs left on my hard drive. Will this be enough for me
to play with it, or will the initial installation leave me no space
left over?
Thanks!
--
Visit me on the web:
http://ijump.cjb.net
================================================
"Live every day as if it were your last, because
some day you'll be right"
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: KDE is a Memory Hog.
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 1999 14:01:14 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Frank Hale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> but for me I will keep using WindowMaker as it is
> > MUCH faster.
> >
>
> Couldn't agree more. Window Maker kicks the crap out of KDE in terms of
> speed.
>
> KDE has become just as bloated as any MS product out there. I mean take
> a look at the ftp site. You have to download over 10 megs of junk to get
> any use out of it. I will stick with WindowMaker, much smaller and about
> 10x as fast.
You are comparing apples and planes.
In those 10 Mb you get a file manager, a web browser, a terminal emulator
(actually 2), find tool, panel/app/launcher/taskbar, pager, window manager,
and half a dozen other programs, as well as general use widget libraries,
session management tools, configuration management, and several other
things I can't recall right now.
When you download windowmaker you get a window manager, no wonder the package
is smaller!
Then, maybe windowmaker is faster than kwm (just a tiny piece of KDE).
But latest windowmaker works as a drop-in kwm replacement, so, how
is KDE slower, if you can use windowmaker as part of it?
Your comparison doesn't make a lot of sense.
--
Roberto Alsina (KDE developer, MFCH)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (NF Stevens)
Subject: Re: Converting filenames from uppercase to lowercase
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 1999 22:51:12 GMT
Marc Debacker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hello there,
>
>I've got a problem i'm working on but i can't manage on my own. So i
>thought there are probably people out there who might have the solution.
>
>Here it is. I've got a whole bunch of files having names which most are
>in upper case. So i would like them to be changed using a shell
>script. Something which looks similar like this:
>
>for i in *; do
>
> mv $i `basename $i .`
>done
>
>Is there maybe a command which can do the translation from upper to
>lower in one go?
for file in *
do
mv $file `echo $file | tr "[A-Z]" "[a-z]"`
done
NB This will fail if your filenames contain spaces or non printing characters.
Norman
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (NF Stevens)
Subject: Re: help on strings libraries
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 1999 22:51:11 GMT
"schatzi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hello ...
>
>Sorry for such a basic question but I really want to know !
>
>With c++, under RedHat 5.1, I wish to use strings libraries and can't
>find them.
>
>I have try several includes (<strings.h>, <memory>, <cctype>, <cstring>)
>and several class names (basic_string, string, cstring, ...)
>without success.
>
>As you see I miss documentation. Do such libraries exist and how do we use
>them? Are they standard? Is it possible to find documentation on the c++
>libraries (templates, lists, ...) ?
>
>Thank you very much for your help.
>
The url that I have for the c++ FAQ is
http://www.informatik.uni-konstanz.de/~kuehl/cpp/cppfaq.htm
HTH
Norman
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From: James Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.protocols.ppp,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.protocols.tcp-ip,comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: Re: Please Help, ISP setup!
Date: 09 Feb 1999 09:32:38 -0500
Prasanth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Now i wan't to go to internet.I ping proxy.pacific.net.sg in win95
> and got the ip address. Then i went to linux and configured netscape
> proxy with this ip address and tried to connect. But it cannot.
You don't want hard-coded addresses here. You do want to use names.
> In linux
> i cannot ping using name(eg proxy.pacific.net.sg)or configure netscape
> with proxy name. I also found that in win95 enviornment, for each
> session i have different ip address for proxy.pacific.net.sg. Also
> please tell me what should i put in /etc/hosts and /etc/resolv.conf and
> the /etc/HOSTNAME file, in this situation
Find out the IP address of the ISP's name servers. The only thing you
need to set up for name resolution is /etc/resolv.conf. It should
look something like this:
domain pacific.net.sg
nameserver 192.169.33.3 203.120.90.40
(According to their external DNS servers, those are the correct name
server IP addresses. Your mileage may vary.)
--
James Carlson, Consulting S/W Engineer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
IronBridge Networks / 55 Hayden Avenue 71.246W Vox: +1 781 372 8132
Lexington MA 02421-7996 / USA 42.423N Fax: +1 781 372 8090
"PPP Design and Debugging" --- http://people.ne.mediaone.net/carlson/ppp
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From: Chad M. Townsend <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 2 newbie questions......
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 1999 14:36:42 GMT
> ok I have 2 questions:
>
> A) I am running Redhat linux on my system and I need to update X but im not
> sure what port of it I need to download.
What's wrong with the X that shipped with Redhat? Try Xconfigurator.
> 2)I currently have no modem support under linux so that means anything that I
> do download off the internet for linux is going to have to be under windows
98,
> So the stuff that I download how do I get it from the FAT 32 part of my HD and
> over to whare Linux is?
Well, Do you have a ethernet net card? You could connect them that way using
a small hub, make the linux box 192.168.1.1 and Win95 192.168.1.2 and use
192.168.1.1 as the router for the Win95 machine.
Or use a floppy.
-chad
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Chief Technical Officer Your Local Community Online!
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