Linux-Misc Digest #202, Volume #20 Fri, 14 May 99 11:13:08 EDT
Contents:
Re: How to get Linux 2.0.30 to mount FAT32 (Tim Sutherland)
RE: Bash Question ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Ultra DMA/66 hard drive problems (Sandra Silcot)
Re: Samba & Win 9x clients: automatically mapping drives (Yuri Chumak)
Re: Does Linux have IRQ's (M. Buchenrieder)
All of a sudden system will not boot ("Chunky")
Re: nfs directory shows up empty (Stefano Ghirlanda)
[?]linux-mips-kernel ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: fdisk /MBR ??? (Jon Skeet)
Re: Linux on K62 ok? (The Graphical Gnome)
Re: Oracle and Perl DBI/DBD on Linux Problem ("Timur I.Danyarhojaev")
Re: Debian: still viable? (Tom Fawcett)
DOSEMU and partition access? (Mark Gebhardt)
[?] problem w/ TeX under RH 6.0 (Francisco Cribari)
Re: Did someone say sudo? (was 'Is Unix a single user operating system?') (Lack Mr G
M)
Re: Does Linux have IRQ's (Brian Wallace)
Re: Samba & Win 9x clients: automatically mapping drives (Erhard Wais)
Re: Starting X at boot-up ("CD")
Re: GNU reeks of Communism (Charlie Stross)
Re: [?] problem w/ TeX under RH 6.0 (Francisco Cribari)
Weirdnessess with windows downloading tgz files .... anyone else? ("Tim Kelley")
Re: Amaya: works only with local files ? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Samba & Win 9x clients: automatically mapping drives (Roumen Petrov)
Re: page faults (Bob Tennent)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tim Sutherland)
Subject: Re: How to get Linux 2.0.30 to mount FAT32
Date: 14 May 1999 09:27:18 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Michael Wolf wrote:
>I got a new computer and the hard drives are FAT32.
>
>How do a get Linux 2.0.30 to mount the FAT32 partition.
IIRC, FAT32 support was introduced with 2.0.34. Grab a newer kernel and make
sure you compile vfat into your kernel or as a module.
--
If Robert Di Niro assassinates Walter Slezak, will Jodie Foster marry Bonzo??
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: Bash Question
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 09:19:18 GMT
fraf> its because `bash -version` kicks off another bash! try
fraf> ^c^v (ie cntrol-c, control-v) to check the version of bash
fraf> you are currently running.
whooops!!! :-(
I meant ^x^v (DOH!!!)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sandra Silcot)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Ultra DMA/66 hard drive problems
Date: 14 May 1999 09:38:35 GMT
Andrew Comech wrote:
> I was stupid enough to get a newer Quantum CR UDMA/66 (4.3 GB) hard drive,
> instead of Quantum EX UDMA/33 (which I know is good), and now can not use
> DMA support at all.
>
> The kernel (2.2.5) has been compiled with DMA support, and when I use
> Quantum EX UDMA/33 drive, then, after boot-up, DMA is enabled,
> and hdparm -t reports buffered disk reads at about 12 MB/sec
> which is twice as much as when DMA is disabled.
>
> With Quantum CR UDMA/66 drive, DMA is disabled and can not be turned on.
> See the details below.
> hdparm -t reports buffered disk reads at about 5 MB/sec.
>
> I know that my motherboard was only mentioned to support UDMA/33, but
> why would this newer drive work slower? Is not there some backwards
> compatibility? Or should I just wait for a newer kernel?
You could try disabling the ata66 in the Quantum CR's. It should then
run as a normal ata33 drive and you might get your UDMA back.
Fireball CR ATA-66 Disable Utility
http://service.quantum.com/AppNotes/Award_ATA66.htm (info)
http://service.quantum.com/software/fbcrdma.exe (software)
UltraDMA 33/66 Change Utility for Fireball CR Drives
Version: 1.1
Size: 248,538 bytes
Description: Utility for disabling/enabling Ultra ATA/66 on Fireball CR
drives. Use this utility to resolve Windows 95/98/NT DMA compatibility
issues with Award BIOS's dated prior to 10/28/98. The utility must be
run
from either a DOS boot diskette or with the system restarted in MS-DOS
mode (Win 95/98).
Hope this helps,
Sandra Silcot [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Uni. of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia, 3052.
"To a person who only has a hammer, the whole world looks like a nail."
(Abraham Maslow)
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From: Yuri Chumak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Samba & Win 9x clients: automatically mapping drives
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 09:35:39 GMT
In article <F2E83ABCFAC8C908.A3AF097F6C2D5437.B92104FA52C3B643@library-
proxy.airnews.net>,
mike*no*spam*@yourhelpdesk.com (Michael Balderas) wrote:
> .....
>If anyone does have a scripting tool
> that will eliminate this issue I'd be interested in knowing as well.
>
> Mike
>
>
I read about login script for connecting a Win95 to Samba-server in
DOMAIN.txt (Network Logons and Roving Profiles). But nothing understand
about attaching workstation to server. Shall be thank, if anyone will
help to understand in this problem.
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (M. Buchenrieder)
Subject: Re: Does Linux have IRQ's
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 07:06:32 GMT
Al <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>Does Linux have IRQ's?
An OS doesn't have IRQs . A hardware platform , however, does.
So, for any OS on a x86 machine, IRQs must be triggered for certain
kind of HW interaction. See "cat /proc/interrupts" .
Michael
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From: "Chunky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: All of a sudden system will not boot
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 18:06:28 +0800
All of a sudden my 2.2.7 linux system will only boot up to the point :-
VFS: Mounted Root (ext2 filesystem) read only
Free unused kernel memory 48K freed
I can mount the root FS from a rescue disk but beyond this point I have no
idea what to do to repair the system.
Up until now my system was very reliable however just prior to this event
starting I had quit KDE and the system started to play up with segmentation
faults, core dump etc.
Any ideas?
Regards,
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stefano Ghirlanda)
Subject: Re: nfs directory shows up empty
Date: 14 May 1999 10:11:50 GMT
On Fri, 14 May 1999 00:43:08 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> I'm trying to put up some nfs. I don't get any error messages but the
>> exported directory looks empty on the client. Some more details:
>I'm very new at this, but I get empty directorys if i access an nfs
>mount as root, but not when i access it as a user....
I figured that out. The root_squash option is on by default, which is good
but prevents root on the client from accessing nfs exports. But then I
need to use "user" as an /etc/fstab option to the nfs share, right?
I also have a problem of uid/gid mapping among machines. I am trying to
figure out if I should run a uid deamon, but I read somewhere that it's
not used by linux nfs servers, is that correct?
Alternatively, using map_static seems a better option to me.
Any thoughts?
--
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Office: D554, Arrheniusv. 14, S-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [?]linux-mips-kernel
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 10:17:37 GMT
for some reason i have to try to build linux-kernel for mips on x86
but it need some extra files, e.g. "stddef.h"
where could i found those files("stddef.h",etc.)
please also reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
thx in advanced!:)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jon Skeet)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,alt.linux,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: fdisk /MBR ???
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 11:58:56 +0100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I don't know why anyone would want to boot off of the disk drive anyway
> they sould all boot off of the network.
Never seen a machine that's not on a network?
--
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http://www.pobox.com/~skeet/
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From: The Graphical Gnome <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux on K62 ok?
Date: 14 May 1999 11:16:18 GMT
fred smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>i've had serious trouble with Windoze95 on it, though, (the system
>dul-boots) apparently because windoze hates to have the world changed
>out from under it without its permission.
No, Windows can't handle a K6/II running more than 300.
Just like Bill said, 300 should be enough for a user ;)
But running Linux on a K6/II has no problems for me. I only know of problems
with a Diamond Viper 550 and Asus motherboard, but that's all.
--
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UDDF -> http://www.gnomehome.demon.nl/uddf/index.htm
"I die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life, like I want to"
J. Hendrix
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From: "Timur I.Danyarhojaev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.databases.oracle.server,comp.databases.oracle.misc
Subject: Re: Oracle and Perl DBI/DBD on Linux Problem
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 15:03:11 +0400
Simon Griffiths wrote:
> Hi all !
>
> I've got the pre-production release of Oracle 8.0.5 for Linux, and I'm
> trying to compile Perl DBI/DBD-Oracle, However it appears I'm missing
> the oci80 directory and subdirectories - I don't think they were
> included in this build.
For build DBD-Oracle,
before run
perl Makefile.PL
you mast define the ORACLE enviroment variables ORACLE_HOME and ORACLE_BASE
(in bash)
ORACLE_HOME="/..." ; export ORACLE_HOME
ORACLE_BASE="/..." ; export ORACLE_BASE
then run
perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install
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From: Tom Fawcett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Debian: still viable?
Date: 14 May 1999 07:29:44 -0400
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Seelig) writes:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (William Wueppelmann) writes:
> > I haven't had any problem installing outside software (and the dpkg system
> > can install rpms if need be).
> >
> No, it can't. But you can use 'alien' to convert packages into .deb's
> which can then be installed via dpkg as usual.
Rpms and dpkgs have different information and I doubt they can be
seamlessly translated (if they could, claims of dpkg's technical
superiority would be baseless).
Redhat systems can install dpkgs too, but I doubt foreign packages are a
good idea with either distribution. If you start intermixing rpms and
dpkgs, especially between libraries and binaries, I suspect you'd introduce
confusion and conflicts.
Would anyone who knows the internals of both like to comment?
-Tom
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From: Mark Gebhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: DOSEMU and partition access?
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 11:42:36 +0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi
I am running RedHat 5.2 (Linux2.0.36) and DOSEMU
0.98.1 with DOS-C 0.92 (FreeDos).
I boot of the virtual dos partition and would then
like to be able to see a 'real' msdos disk as D:.
I understand that FreeDos doesn't support lredir
and am trying to use partition access. Here's what
I've done:
1) edited the hdimage variable in /etc/dosemu.conf
to read:
$_hdimage = "hdimage.freedos /dev/hda1:ro"
2) unmount /dev/hda1
3) as su, start dos
4) D:
- nothing happens!!!!
any ideas as to why I cannot see this dos drive?
Thanks
Mark
--
Mark Gebhardt
Radar Remote Sensing Group
University of Cape Town
South Africa
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From: Francisco Cribari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.text.tex
Subject: [?] problem w/ TeX under RH 6.0
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 07:00:42 -0500
I have just upgraded from Red Hat 5.2 to version 6.0 (intel). I am
having a few problems. One of them is that I can no longer compile
a number of TeX files. Here is what happens (e.g.):
[cribari@edgeworth texfiles]$ pwd
/home/cribari/projects/white/texfiles
[cribari@edgeworth texfiles]$ tex white
This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.3)
(white.tex (/usr/share/texmf/tex/plain/misc/psfig.tex
psfig/tex 1.9
) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/plain/misc/17point.tex
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/plain/misc/10point.tex)kpathsea: Running mktextfm cmr17
mktextfm: Running mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input cmr17
This is METAFONT, Version 2.7182 (Web2C 7.3)
(/usr/share/texmf/fonts/source/jknappen/sauter/cmr17.mf
(/usr/share/texmf/fonts/source/jknappen/sauter/b-cmr.mfkpathsea: Running mktexmf
cmbase
! I can't find file `cmbase'.
l.2 if unknown cmbase: input cmbase
fi
Please type another input file name
! Emergency stop.
l.2 if unknown cmbase: input cmbase
fi
Transcript written on cmr17.log.
mktextfm: `mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input cmr17' failed.
kpathsea: Appending font creation commands to missfont.log.
! Font \seventeenrm=cmr17 not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not found.
<to be read again>
\font
l.16 \font
\seventeeni=cmmi12 scaled \magstep2
?
I was able to compile TeX files (including this one) without
problems before the upgrade. (Note: I am using some font macros
like 17point.tex, etc.). Is this a Metafont problem? How can I fix
it?
Thanks in advance!!!!
PS: Since my connection to usenet news groups is rather unstable,
replies by e-mail (in addition to posting) are especially appreciated.
________________________________________________________________________
Francisco Cribari-Neto voice: +55-81-2718420
Departamento de Estatistica fax: +55-81-2718422
Universidade Federal de Pernambuco e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Recife/PE, 50740-540, Brazil web: www.de.ufpe.br/~cribari/
Hardware, n: The parts of a computer that can be kicked.
________________________________________________________________________
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lack Mr G M)
Subject: Re: Did someone say sudo? (was 'Is Unix a single user operating system?')
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 12:28:53 BST
In article <7he8sk$v9r$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
|>
|> Can someone please expand on 'sudo'
There is also "super".
>> ftp.ucolick.org:/pub/users/will/super.tar.gz
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From: Brian Wallace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Does Linux have IRQ's
Date: 14 May 1999 12:20:09 GMT
In comp.os.linux.setup Al <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Does Linux have IRQ's?
> Thanks
> Al
The hardware has IRQ's, all software has to use them or
run in a much slower polling way. It's not Operating System
dependent. In Slackware most IRQ's are setup in /etc/rc.d/rc.*
files (as everything is).
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From: Erhard Wais <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Samba & Win 9x clients: automatically mapping drives
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 14:51:06 +0200
Michael Balderas wrote:
> On Thu, 13 May 1999 21:55:53 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lee
> Allen) wrote:
>
> >Under Samba, I (think) I have to "map a network drive" on the Win 9x
> >client via point & click. If the client ever boots when the server is
> >down (or not available), then the client will display a prompt, "Do
> >you want to reconnect the next time you log in?" If the user says
> >"No", the mapping is gone, and must be recreated manually.
> >
>
> This is the short coming of Windows 9X in any peer-peer network
> enviroment using Microsoft's file and print sharing to map shared
> resources on remote clients, this is not just related to Samba.
>
> >How can we avoid this problem? Is there some script capability in Win
> >9x that remap the drives for us?
> >
>
> Short of telling the users to hit yes, I am not aware of any way
> around this issue. I get calls from clients all the time who hit "no"
> on the "connect next time" prompt instead of yes. To this day the only
> resolution I have found is to walk them thru connecting to the share
> or fixing it next I was on site. If anyone does have a scripting tool
> that will eliminate this issue I'd be interested in knowing as well.
>
I think you should read the manuals of samba again. Windows has of course a
script capabilty otherwhise
it would not work with Netware or NT Server anyway. And Samba supports this
script capability, too.
There is a very detailed description in the samba documentation, how to map
networkdrives or excute scripts
during logon. If you need some help feel free to contact me.
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From: "CD" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Starting X at boot-up
Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 23:47:48 -0500
WOW, this was a really COOL and GREAT Tip! I am new to Linux, and am only
now starting to delve into its guts and explore. Thanks.
btw, anyone using Slackware, the value to change to was 4, not 5.
> 1. How do I boot Linux directly into X. I cant' find the command to use
> anywhere.
> 2. Do I insert the command into .bashrc or Xinitrc.
> 3. Are there any potential security compromises associated with booting
> directly into X.
edit inittab to start in run level 4 (as defined by X, but some distros
may use 5 or 3)
> 2. Do I insert the command into .bashrc or Xinitrc.
I did it in .profile once, starts X when you log in....but I ran into
problems when I wanted to log in remotely.
> 3. Are there any potential security compromises associated with booting
> directly into X.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Charlie Stross)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: GNU reeks of Communism
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 13:21:22 GMT
Reply-To: charlie @ nospam . antipope . org
Stoned koala bears drooled eucalyptus spittle in awe
as <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> declared:
>Libertarianism is founded on the recognition that strength wins fights
>(not exactly might makes right) and that, human nature being what it
>is, the strong will tend to dominate the weak, or at least try to.
>Libertarians ABHOR this. They aknowledge the reality, and HATE it.
If this is the case, why do so many libertarians seem so keen on
abolishing social constraints on the exercise of raw power? Because
that's what "abolish as much of the government as possible" sounds like.
In modern democratic societies, government exists to serve the needs of
the citizens, not vice versa.
Limiting state power -- which permits unpleasant individuals in high
office to do nasty things -- is a good idea, but it seems to me that
a constant thread in libertarian rhetoric is the desirability of
abolishing _all_ state power, with a subtext of opportunistic greed.
-- Charlie
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From: Francisco Cribari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: [?] problem w/ TeX under RH 6.0
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 09:42:59 -0500
I think it must be a configuration problem on my machine. I do have
a cmbase.mf file:
[cribari@edgeworth cribari]$ locate cmbase.mf
/usr/share/texmf/mft/cmbase.mft
[cribari@edgeworth cribari]$
However, it is not being found. My guess is that I have to change
some configuration parameter/directory using texconfig but I am
not sure exactly what to alter.
Pointers are extremely welcome!
Best, Francisco.
On 14 May 1999, Robin Fairbairns wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Sebastian Rahtz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Francisco Cribari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >> (/usr/share/texmf/tex/plain/misc/10point.tex)kpathsea: Running mktextfm cmr17
> >> mktextfm: Running mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input cmr17
> >> This is METAFONT, Version 2.7182 (Web2C 7.3)
> >>
> >> (/usr/share/texmf/fonts/source/jknappen/sauter/cmr17.mf
> >> (/usr/share/texmf/fonts/source/jknappen/sauter/b-cmr.mfkpathsea: Running mktexmf
>cmbase
> >>
> >> ! I can't find file `cmbase'.
> >> l.2 if unknown cmbase: input cmbase
> >> fi
> >complain, _bitterly_, to whoever made the RedHat TeX setup, if "cmr7.tfm"
> >and "cmbase.mf" are really not in the kit. You are in deep trouble!
>
> um, the rh6 test machine we have here doesn't seem to have this
> problem. of course, it may be that the tex system on it was installed
> in a non-standard way (i've had nothing to do with it).
>
> personally, i'ld suspect a user error of some sort here. it's
> startling that the sauter cmr17.mf is found in place of the cmr one --
> perhaps none of the cm fonts have been installed. is this a redhat
> option? don would be distinctly dischuffed if this was so, and the
> sauter metrics differed in any way whatsoever from the cm fonts of the
> same names... (i think they're supposed not to, but...)
> --
> Robin Fairbairns, Cambridge
>
>
________________________________________________________________________
Francisco Cribari-Neto voice: +55-81-2718420
Departamento de Estatistica fax: +55-81-2718422
Universidade Federal de Pernambuco e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Recife/PE, 50740-540, Brazil web: www.de.ufpe.br/~cribari/
IBM: It is slow, but at least it's expensive.
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From: "Tim Kelley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Weirdnessess with windows downloading tgz files .... anyone else?
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 08:00:14 -0500
I've been putting up with some strange weirdnesses for a long time now with
NT ... whenever I try to download a tar file with Netscape (4.51), first
windoze feels it need to replace all the periods in the filename with
underscores. Second, Netscape sometimes does not download the file at all,
but only downloads 1 or 2 kilobytes of it -- this happens a lot when a link
points to a cgi instead of an actual file.
The behavior with IE is even worse. It can't understand the download cgi's
at themes.org at all.
Does anyone know of any tweaks to fix any of this totally braindead
behaviour?
(yes, I am forced to use MS at work)
Tim Kelley
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Amaya: works only with local files ?
Date: 14 May 1999 13:50:21 GMT
Mihaly Gyulai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Amaya says : 'Cannot load http://freshmeat.net/'
> Strange... (Anyway, I can use the Net with Netscape or with Lynx...)
At the moment I don't know a solution for your problem.
I use Version 1.4a without any problems. I simply loaded it down (I
think it was the binary package) and installed it. From that moment
it worked as it should. Since you can use the net with other
browsers, I think it may be a bug?
So my next advice is to check your version number and find someone
who has the same version of Amaya installed and find out whether he
can browse the net or not.
> --
It's -- (dash dash space)
^
Bye,
Carsten
--
Carsten Luckmann
Department of Theoretical Physics
University of Hannover, Germany
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From: Roumen Petrov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Samba & Win 9x clients: automatically mapping drives
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 13:52:14 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> We are preparing to replace our Netware file server with a Linux
> system running Samba. We considered an NT server, but Linux is what
> we know and love.
>
> I see one shortcoming under Samba, and I know there has to be a way
> around it.
>
> Under Netware, when the Win 9x client would login to the Netware
> server, it would execute a login script, which would map the drives.
>
> Similar capabilities exist under NT.
>
> Under Samba, I (think) I have to "map a network drive" on the Win 9x
> client via point & click. If the client ever boots when the server is
> down (or not available), then the client will display a prompt, "Do
> you want to reconnect the next time you log in?" If the user says
> "No", the mapping is gone, and must be recreated manually.
>
> How can we avoid this problem? Is there some script capability in Win
> 9x that remap the drives for us?
>
> Thanks.
>
> -Lee Allen
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
This is some of global options from my smb.conf:
logon script = %U.bat
path = /usr/local/samba/var/netlogon
logon path =
logon drive = V:
logon home = \\%N\%U
domain logons = Yes
Go in /usr/local/samba/var/netlogon and make BATCH files for users:
my rumen.bat:
@echo OFF
if ~%USERNAME% ne ~ goto winNT
:win9x
echo Hello Windows-9x user !
rem Manual map user home for W-9x:
net use V: /DELETE /YES > nul
net use V: \\<MY_SAMBA_SERVER>\rumen /YES > nul
goto end
:winNT
rem W-NT map by default user homes:
rem Options from smb.conf:
rem logon drive = V:
rem logon home = \\%N\%U
echo Hello %USERNAME% on Windows-NT !
goto end
:end
In this time i have problem with roaming profiles under NT.
( options logon path = \\%N\%U\profile ). This work perfect some time,
but after some preinstallation of NT, NT try to make every time a new
local copy of roaming profile to local disk. I become over 10 local
profiles for 1 user (a NT bug).
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Tennent)
Subject: Re: page faults
Date: 14 May 1999 13:10:23 GMT
Reply-To: rdt(a)cs.queensu.ca
On Thu, 13 May 1999 13:08:40 -0400, jason wrote:
>
>Bad memory is a very likely possibility. I bought new RAM last year that was
>bad upon arrival. I used this excellent program to test it and verify it
>was bad:
>
>http://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/hardware/memtest86-1.4a.tar.gz
>
OK, I've tested my RAM using memtest and it detected no errors.
So what *else* might be causing apparently random page faults?
Bob T.
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