Re: [SLUG] Modem

2002-03-13 Thread David Kempe

 The vgetty author says, in effect,  `forget it -- the Rockwell chipset
 is appalling -- get a better modem.'

Hylafax has workarounds in the modem init codes to get the rockwell to work
nicely.
In fact I prefer them as the other modems that are recognised are too
expensive for a cheap faxing solution.

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[SLUG] ssh...among other things

2002-03-13 Thread Adam Hewitt

Hi All,

I am trying to get sshd working on my debian gateway at home. I have 
installed the ssh package and have sshd running, I have run the ssh-keygen 
program and copied the private key to my windows box to run with 
TerraTerm-SSH, and it isn't working. I turned on the verbose debugging on 
the sshd, and didn't get anything

As I stood around scratching my head, I thought I would just try to simply 
ping the debian gateway (which isn't yet running as a gateway) from my 
windows box, and got nothing. I tried it from the other windows box and 
also got nothing. However if I try and ping from the debain box I can ping 
both windows machines and I have internet access (through windows internet 
sharing).

If I run ifconfig I can definitely see the IP address and everything is 
configured.

Does anyone have any idea as to why my pings aren't getting through, and 
consequently ssh is failing??

Adam.


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Re: [SLUG] StarOffice 5.2 (slightly OT)

2002-03-13 Thread Heracles

On Wednesday 13 March 2002 10:59, Howard Lowndes wrote:
 SO 5.2 under Linux.

 I sometimes get a situation when SO starts up the splash screen fails
 to go away and in fact persists on all desktops (KDE)

 Can anyone tell me a minimal fix?  

What you will find is that the splash screen is hiding a box that requires a 
button to be clicked. This is usually caused by not closing all files before 
exiting Star Office. It can be a pain, but the box usually protrudes a little 
on the screen that SO is actually starting on. If it does not protrude then 
changeing the resolution of the screen may help. The question is asking you 
about restoring the previous files. Pressing tab then enter (if the box is in 
focus) also usually works - the box is usually in focus as long as nothing 
has been touched since asking SO to start.

HTH
Stay well and happy
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Re: [SLUG] Mandrake

2002-03-13 Thread Kevin Saenz

my path is
PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/local/bin:/usr/games:/opt/gnome/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/games:/home/kevin/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/games:/home/kevin/bin

also I tried both suggestions and still get the same error :(

[blah@blah tar]# rpm -tb smpeg-xmms-0.3.5.tar.gz
smpeg-xmms-0.3.5.tar.gz: No such file or directory


is . in your PATH?, if not you might try

PATH=$PATH:. ; rpm -tb smpeg-xmms-0.3.5.tar.gz

or

rpm -tb ./smpeg-xmms-0.3.5.tar.gz

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Re: [SLUG] Emabarrassing help needed

2002-03-13 Thread David Kempe

 get anything to connect, Konqueror etc all time out. I have set the
 proxy/cache to no proxy, put the Optusnet DNS servers in the Dialer setup
 and in the Network configuration...but nothing no web no telnet no ping to
 the big bad world.

whats in /etc/resolv.conf ?


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Re: [SLUG] network cards with changable mac addresses

2002-03-13 Thread Ken Foskey

On Wed, 2002-03-13 at 02:34, Ben Buxton wrote:
 
 Plus (for example) my cable modem requires DHCP for the head-end
 to allow you thru, and its tied to a mac address - I'd rather
 change mac address in software than deal with the horror of
 having the cable company change their end when I upgrade. :)

This is what I thought Optus meant when they installed my cable modem. 
But think about it.  The cable side has one mac address and the ethernet
side has another.  If they replace teh cable modem only then do you need
to change you setup with your provider.

I know this because I swapped the firewall NIC out for a PCI card after
some crappy boot problems.

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Re: [SLUG] FW: Did 'Klez.e' corrupt my kernel ?

2002-03-13 Thread Ken Foskey

On Tue, 2002-03-12 at 16:56, Adam Bogacki wrote:
 I was getting used to my Ximian-Gnome Potato system when I thought I'd
 check my mail last Wednesday. I had three workspaces open under Sawfish
 - one running bash, one Mozilla-Mail, the last Evolution.  I hit
 send/receive in Evolution and - after downloading 4-5 messages - it
 crashed. I tried with Mozilla - same result. Rebooting halted with a

I had problesm with the earlier version of evolution crashing with a
windows virus.  The virus is sent via corrupt message header and this
was not handled correctly by evolution.  An upgrade to evolution is your
more likely answer.  If this does not work then simply avoid selecting
that message until you can upgrade.

KenF

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Re: [SLUG] ownership of samba shares

2002-03-13 Thread Ken Foskey

On Mon, 2002-03-11 at 22:19, Jeff Waugh wrote:
 quote who=Jessica Mayo
 
  not knowing what kernel version == a 'Legacy' redhat system. :)
  When was this functionality finally properly integrated into mount?
 
 *whirr*... Haven't the foggiest. Google will know.
 
 [ I love being inundated with so many improvements you can't quite place
 when they happened. Fuddy-duddies can eat my shorts for that one. ]

When you run smbmount it will actually tell you how to do it as a
warning.  I am sure it was in RH 6.2

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Re: [SLUG] Open Office build On Debian Woody.

2002-03-13 Thread Ken Foskey

On Wed, 2002-03-13 at 16:31, Jeff Waugh wrote:
 quote who=Richard Hayes
 
  Is anyone building Debian .debs for OpenOffice?
  
  I can not find it on any distros.
 
 Yeah, but it's a hge job doing them the Debian Way. They won't be in
 woody, but should turn up in sid some time. I think there's a mailing list
 for the DD's working on it, which you might want to check out.

There are some fundamental snafus with the way OO is set up.  This means
that a real debian package is quite a way away.

There is a guy called Jan working on stripping out the major crap and
using proper dependencies to get a tight OO package.  This should run
heaps faster because it will not load its own copies of certain
libraries if they are in use on your system which I think is highly
likely.

To get OO to install without running setup for each user is a bigger
problem as well.   This will take time.  I expect release one will
require a setup script for every user in the near future.

Apparently there is a package which contains the complete OO setup. 
This will probably never make release though.   Suggestion grab the
binary download and install it.   DON'T USE 642 it is not a well release
:-).

KenF

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Re: [SLUG] pinging a port number.

2002-03-13 Thread Ken Foskey

On Wed, 2002-03-13 at 13:15, The Pimply Faced Youth wrote:
 
 Is it possible to either ping or traceroute over a specific port number?
 
 If so, how can I determine the break in connection?

I commonly try telnet IP port to check whether things work.  It
sometimes gives me the info I need,  rejected immediately means a
firewall or no port acceptance.

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Re: [SLUG] network cards with changable mac addresses

2002-03-13 Thread Ben Buxton

Ken Foskey [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered the following thing:
 On Wed, 2002-03-13 at 02:34, Ben Buxton wrote:
  
  Plus (for example) my cable modem requires DHCP for the head-end
  to allow you thru, and its tied to a mac address - I'd rather
  change mac address in software than deal with the horror of
  having the cable company change their end when I upgrade. :)
 
 This is what I thought Optus meant when they installed my cable modem. 
 But think about it.  The cable side has one mac address and the ethernet
 side has another.  If they replace teh cable modem only then do you need
 to change you setup with your provider.
 
 I know this because I swapped the firewall NIC out for a PCI card after
 some crappy boot problems.

Depends on what optus do - I'm using a provider in .nl, and despite
not being .au, it's still shows it being useful *somewhere*. :)

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Re: [SLUG] pinging a port number.

2002-03-13 Thread Ben Buxton

The Pimply Faced Youth [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered the following thing:
 
 Is it possible to either ping or traceroute over a specific port number?
 
 If so, how can I determine the break in connection?

Ping a port number: telnet to it, see if you get a connection.

Traceroute to a port: http://michael.toren.net/code/tcptraceroute/

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[SLUG] Nomination

2002-03-13 Thread Tony Green

All,

I would like to withdrawl acceptance of my nomination for the SLUG
Committee.

I do not think I will have the time available to me that I feel a
position like this would require.  I wish all of the other nominees well
and I hope they get the positions they want.

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Re: [SLUG] ssh...among other things

2002-03-13 Thread Tony Green

On Wed, 2002-03-13 at 20:58, Adam Hewitt wrote:
 Hi All,
 
 I am trying to get sshd working on my debian gateway at home. I have 
 installed the ssh package and have sshd running, I have run the ssh-keygen 
 program and copied the private key to my windows box to run with 
 TerraTerm-SSH, and it isn't working. I turned on the verbose debugging on 
 the sshd, and didn't get anything
 
 As I stood around scratching my head, I thought I would just try to simply 
 ping the debian gateway (which isn't yet running as a gateway) from my 
 windows box, and got nothing. I tried it from the other windows box and 
 also got nothing. However if I try and ping from the debain box I can ping 
 both windows machines and I have internet access (through windows internet 
 sharing).
 
 If I run ifconfig I can definitely see the IP address and everything is 
 configured.
 

Just a thought, if you can ping debian-windows but not windows-debian
and your windows machine was two networks attached, have you checked
your routing?  (Don't ask me how on a windows machine!)

Greneo


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[SLUG] Ibanking

2002-03-13 Thread Ivor Oorloff

Further Information about ibanking problems.  I was able get to the St
George login screen, but still unable to login using Netscape 4.78
(standard with Redhat 7.2).  I contacted their ibank support and was
finally able to extract from them that because Linux users are relegated
to the old version of the application, and because my login is linked
to my credit card number and not one of my other card numbers,  I am
simply unable to login because the old application does not support
login if you are linked to your credit card number.  The error I was
getting however, just said invalid details supplied.

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Re: [SLUG] I want to remove gnome but debian wants to add stuff.

2002-03-13 Thread Mike Lake

Just a followup and a thanks. I got rid of gnome and netscape. Thanks 
for the help there. I just had to go back to stable to remove them
rather than being in testing and trying to remove them. Once my
system was in a nice state where an apt-get upgrade showed nothing 
to upgrade in stable I moved sources.lis to testing. Several iterations 
of 'apt-get --fix-missing upgrade' and --ignore-missing was needed. 
I am now in the process of dist-upgrade. The entire process
clobbered /etc/X11/X symlink for some reason which is now fixed.
I will see how it all goes.

Thanks for the help to all.
Mike
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Re: [SLUG] Ibanking

2002-03-13 Thread David Fitch

On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 09:22:40AM +1000, Ivor Oorloff wrote:
 Further Information about ibanking problems.  I was able get to the St
 George login screen, but still unable to login using Netscape 4.78
 (standard with Redhat 7.2).  I contacted their ibank support and was
 finally able to extract from them that because Linux users are relegated
 to the old version of the application, and because my login is linked
 to my credit card number and not one of my other card numbers,  I am
 simply unable to login because the old application does not support
 login if you are linked to your credit card number.  The error I was
 getting however, just said invalid details supplied.

what if you use a browser that allows you to pretend to be using say M$ IE,
eg. opera allows you to set this, also some proxies like junkbuster and
perhaps squid I think.  This way you can fool the (what sounds like a)
brain dead St George website into giving you the newer version.

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[SLUG] nic suppliers

2002-03-13 Thread Karl Clements

Does anyone know of a online place in AU that sells 10/100 NIC's wih boot
ROM's?


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Re: [SLUG] Emabarrassing help needed

2002-03-13 Thread David Fitch

On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 10:14:21PM +1100, David Kempe wrote:
  get anything to connect, Konqueror etc all time out. I have set the
  proxy/cache to no proxy, put the Optusnet DNS servers in the Dialer setup
  and in the Network configuration...but nothing no web no telnet no ping to
  the big bad world.
 
 whats in /etc/resolv.conf ?

and the routing (especially default route), eg. output from 'netstat -rn'.

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Re: [SLUG] Ibanking

2002-03-13 Thread grant


I spoke to them last year and their response was that the app had been
written so that it wouldn't run properly if there was a forward slash in
the directory path on the local disk ??

Gotta love those banks

Grant



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On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 09:22:40AM +1000, Ivor Oorloff wrote:
 Further Information about ibanking problems.  I was able get to the St
 George login screen, but still unable to login using Netscape 4.78
 (standard with Redhat 7.2).  I contacted their ibank support and was
 finally able to extract from them that because Linux users are relegated
 to the old version of the application, and because my login is linked
 to my credit card number and not one of my other card numbers,  I am
 simply unable to login because the old application does not support
 login if you are linked to your credit card number.  The error I was
 getting however, just said invalid details supplied.

what if you use a browser that allows you to pretend to be using say M$ IE,
eg. opera allows you to set this, also some proxies like junkbuster and
perhaps squid I think.  This way you can fool the (what sounds like a)
brain dead St George website into giving you the newer version.

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Re: [SLUG] cyclic depends on RH

2002-03-13 Thread Mick Howe

On Wed, 13 Mar 2002 15:45, you wrote:
 I've got into one of those cyclic dependency treadmills on RH7.1

 As I install each one, another previously undisclosed dependency appears.
 I've searched the slug archive.. but it seems there is no hope but to
 change to Debian.

 Someone tell me this isn't true :(

1   Make yourself a pot of coffee, put on a good movie
2   download the full rh7.1 updates dir 
(planetmirror - 
ftp://karl.planetmirror.com/pub/redhat/updates/7.1/en/os/i386 
seems to be a reasonable place to get it from).
3   sit back and enjoy the movie
4   make yourself a pot of coffee, put on a good movie
5   open kpackage select it all packages *
6   install marked
7   sit back and enjoy the movie

* I find kpackage easy to usefor this kind of job, YMMV

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[SLUG] Mozilla to Netscape cookie converter

2002-03-13 Thread Antony Stace


Anyone know of a program that can convert a Mozilla format cookie file to a Netscape 
format cookie file?

Thanks

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Re: [SLUG] Open Office build On Debian Woody.

2002-03-13 Thread Jamie Wilkinson

This one time, at band camp, Richard Hayes wrote:
Is anyone building Debian .debs for OpenOffice?

It is currently being worked on, however I have no ETA for when it will be
available in Debian.

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[SLUG] GARNOME Preview Four (Easy way to try the GNOME 2.0 Desktop)

2002-03-13 Thread Jeff Waugh

Hey all,

Lots of people have been asking me if they should try out GNOME 2.0... I'm
finding it very hard to say no to that. ;-) It's worth trying out, and
definitely worth testing and sending bug reports.

Acknowledging that GNOME is a total bastard to build from source manually, a
bunch of GNOMEy people have created build scripts to help out. Two of them
build directly from CVS: jhbuild (by .au hacker and raving Python loonie,
James Henstridge) and the vicious-build-scripts (by goat-worshipping,
ass-signing George Lebl).

GARNOME, on the other hand, builds from the released beta and snapshot
tarballs, and is more of a distribution than a build script. I test it
pretty thoroughly, so it should build and work pretty well. GARNOME is based
on the GAR ports system by Nick Moffitt (which is quite like the BSD ports
system, only it's based on GNU tools, and is quite a bit smaller).

You can download it, and read the very useful documentation on the website:

  http://www.gnome.org/~jdub/garnome/

I'm very interested to hear of builds on non-Linux, non-Intel machines. We
have users running it on AIX, FreeBSD, Solaris, and it was compiled on an 8
way Intel box a couple of weeks ago. ;-)

Please tell me what you think of the GNOME 2.0 Desktop, too!

- Jeff

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[SLUG] Creative NOMAD

2002-03-13 Thread Daniel Harper

My boss just gave me a Creative Nomad, really stoked, (64mb MP3 Player)

Problem is he has lost the CD with all the software (Win anyway), and
Creative only have updates on their web site.

Now I have RH 7.2 at home. I have done a bit of surfing but haven't found
much, has anyone used a Nomad with Linux? its connected to my PC via the
parallel port.

Any help would be appreciated.

Regards,

Daniel Harper

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Re: [SLUG] Creative NOMAD

2002-03-13 Thread jon

Quoting Daniel Harper [EMAIL PROTECTED]:

 My boss just gave me a Creative Nomad, really stoked, (64mb MP3 Player)
 
 Problem is he has lost the CD with all the software (Win anyway), and
 Creative only have updates on their web site.
 
 Now I have RH 7.2 at home. I have done a bit of surfing but haven't found
 much, has anyone used a Nomad with Linux? its connected to my PC via the
 parallel port.
 
 Any help would be appreciated.

Speak to Creative and explain it to them - they'll probably send you a CD.

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Re: [SLUG] Emabarrassing help needed

2002-03-13 Thread DaZZa

On Wed, 13 Mar 2002, Simon Bryan wrote:

 I have set up the HP box with RH7.2, to try to make life easy I also
 installed KDE (very pretty). I can make the box dial out and seem to connect
 to Optusnet, using CHAP or Script (copied from Windows), but then I can't
 get anything to connect, Konqueror etc all time out. I have set the
 proxy/cache to no proxy, put the Optusnet DNS servers in the Dialer setup
 and in the Network configuration...but nothing no web no telnet no ping to
 the big bad world.

 I need some help as to what to look at, or perhaps I am not getting the
 right connection to Optusnet, anyone else on their dialup can share the
 connection setup?

Is your dialup script adding ppp0 as a default route for outbound packets?

netstat -r is your friend.

DaZZa

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[SLUG] IDE CD burner timeouts

2002-03-13 Thread Terry Collins

I have an ide CD burner that works, - sort of. I actually have a
lot/enormous percentage of timeout problems with it. Is this normal?

It is the master on the secondary ide bus. There is no slave.

If anyone has any experience with fixing this sort of problem, I would
appreciate some tips. I have no other problems with the motherboard,
etc.

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[SLUG] paralled port CD Writer

2002-03-13 Thread Richard Hayes


Dear list,

I would like purchase an parallel port CD Writer. 

Would anyone offer any recommendations / suggestions on where to purchase it?
How much etc?

It's main roll will be to install software in computers without network cards 
but it would be useful to be able to write CD as well ;)

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[SLUG] ask crontab (utility under /usr/bin)

2002-03-13 Thread henry



Dear List:

I cantuse crontab-command by typing "crontab cronset" 
,even I use crontab -l to verify it .
my cronset is as follows:
09 
* * * updatedb
min hr

But I canuse at-command :
at -fmyschedule 09:00(my 
schedule is like this : updatedb)

Could you shed some light on it ?

BestRegards'
Henry


Re: [SLUG] ask crontab (utility under /usr/bin)

2002-03-13 Thread Tony Green

On Thu, 2002-03-14 at 17:15, henry wrote:
 Dear List:
 
 I cant use crontab-command by typing crontab cronset ,even I use crontab -l to 
verify it .
 my cronset is as follows:
09*   *   *updatedb
 min  hr
 
 But I can use at-command :
 at -f myschedule 09:00 (my schedule is like this : updatedb)
 
 Could you shed some light on it ?

crontab -e

also see

man crontab
http://www.google.com/search?hl=enie=ISO-8859-1oe=ISO-8859-1q=crontab

Have a good read.

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Re: [SLUG] IDE CD burner timeouts

2002-03-13 Thread Andre Pang

On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 01:30:22PM +1100, Terry Collins wrote:

 I have an ide CD burner that works, - sort of. I actually have a
 lot/enormous percentage of timeout problems with it. Is this normal?

Check your DMA settings for the burner:

Before loading the ide-scsi module (to get the burner to work),
load the ide-cd module (do _not_ ignore hdc).  After loading the
ide-cd module, do

hdparm -u1 -d1 /dev/hdc

That will turn on interrupt unmasking and DMA transfers for the
drive, which should significantly lower the CPU load.

Not all drives support this, but almost all modern ones do.

After that, unload the ide-cd module and load the ide-scsi
module.  It's a bit of a pain, but that's the only way I know of
to get it to work.


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[SLUG] size mismatch when apt-getting

2002-03-13 Thread Mike Lake

I am still getting 
Failed to fetch 
http://http.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/p/plotutils/libplot_2.4.1-7_i386.deb  Size 
mismatch
Failed to fetch 
http://http.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/libu/libungif/libungif3g_3.0-7_i386.deb  
Size mismatch

when doing an 'apt-get --fix-missing dist-upgrade'

Google shows that this error occurs when some servers report a different size than 
what the package is supposed to be. There are some bug reports about this but that 
does not help me here. The previous errors ALL occured when  trying the us debian 
mirror so I removed that from sources.list and just used the aarnet ones. Now the 
errors occur with the aarnet site.

Failed to fetch 
http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/debian/pool/main/l/logcheck/logtail_1.1.1-13.1_all.deb  
Size mismatch
Unable to correct missing packages.
E: Aborting Install.

I have also tried --ignore-missing but still get failed to fetch and it wont start the 
install. Surely this should have at least started to install and configure the 
packages that did download.

Unable to correct missing packages.
E: Aborting Install.

How does one get around this?

Mike
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Re: [SLUG] ssh...among other things

2002-03-13 Thread Adam Hewitt

Well I atually have two windows machines on my network and neither can ping 
the linux box...but I can ping each windows box from the other one...

At 08:35 AM 14/03/2002 +1100, you wrote:
On Wed, 2002-03-13 at 20:58, Adam Hewitt wrote:
  Hi All,
 
  I am trying to get sshd working on my debian gateway at home. I have
  installed the ssh package and have sshd running, I have run the ssh-keygen
  program and copied the private key to my windows box to run with
  TerraTerm-SSH, and it isn't working. I turned on the verbose debugging on
  the sshd, and didn't get anything
 
  As I stood around scratching my head, I thought I would just try to simply
  ping the debian gateway (which isn't yet running as a gateway) from my
  windows box, and got nothing. I tried it from the other windows box and
  also got nothing. However if I try and ping from the debain box I can ping
  both windows machines and I have internet access (through windows internet
  sharing).
 
  If I run ifconfig I can definitely see the IP address and everything is
  configured.
 

Just a thought, if you can ping debian-windows but not windows-debian
and your windows machine was two networks attached, have you checked
your routing?  (Don't ask me how on a windows machine!)

Greneo


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RE: [SLUG] ssh...among other things

2002-03-13 Thread Adam Hewitt

Well this is my 'route PRINT' output

===
Interface List
0x1 ... MS TCP Loopback interface
0x3 ...00 d0 b7 c0 55 b5 .. Intel(R) PRO/100 VE Network Connection - Packet
Scheduler Miniport
0x2e0005 ...00 53 45 00 00 00 .. WAN (PPP/SLIP) Interface
0x2e0006 ...00 d0 b7 28 4e ee .. Intel(R) PRO/100+ Management Adapter - 
Pack
et Scheduler Miniport
===
===
Active Routes:
Network DestinationNetmask  Gateway   Interface  Metric
   0.0.0.0  0.0.0.0 203.26.27.97203.26.27.97   1
 127.0.0.0255.0.0.0127.0.0.1   127.0.0.1   1
   169.254.0.0  255.255.0.0169.254.96.22   169.254.96.22   30
 169.254.96.22  255.255.255.255127.0.0.1   127.0.0.1   30
   169.254.255.255  255.255.255.255169.254.96.22   169.254.96.22   30
  202.7.209.14  255.255.255.255 203.26.27.97203.26.27.97   1
  203.26.27.97  255.255.255.255127.0.0.1   127.0.0.1   50
 203.26.27.255  255.255.255.255 203.26.27.97203.26.27.97   50
 224.0.0.0240.0.0.0169.254.96.22   169.254.96.22   30
 224.0.0.0240.0.0.0 203.26.27.97203.26.27.97   1
   255.255.255.255  255.255.255.255169.254.96.22   169.254.96.22   1
   255.255.255.255  255.255.255.255 203.26.27.97   3   1
Default Gateway:  203.26.27.97
===
Persistent Routes:
   None

Tell me if you think I should have something else heremy network is on 
192.168.0.1/24 and although I can't see that here, Im not sure if it is 
supposed to be.


Another thing I thought of is that the windows machines are XP Pro, and the 
gateway (XP) is running a DHCP server, however I have setup a static IP on 
the linux boxwould this have something to do with it?? if so how do I 
disable DHCP in Winblows??

At 08:40 AM 14/03/2002 +1100, you wrote:
For routing in Windoze I think its route PRINT

But if in doubt try route /?

Thats to my extent of knowledge with Windoze routing.

Chris



-Original Message-
From: Tony Green [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, 14 March 2002 8:35 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [SLUG] ssh...among other things


On Wed, 2002-03-13 at 20:58, Adam Hewitt wrote:
  Hi All,
 
  I am trying to get sshd working on my debian gateway at home. I have
  installed the ssh package and have sshd running, I have run the ssh-keygen

  program and copied the private key to my windows box to run with
  TerraTerm-SSH, and it isn't working. I turned on the verbose debugging on
  the sshd, and didn't get anything
 
  As I stood around scratching my head, I thought I would just try to simply

  ping the debian gateway (which isn't yet running as a gateway) from my
  windows box, and got nothing. I tried it from the other windows box and
  also got nothing. However if I try and ping from the debain box I can ping

  both windows machines and I have internet access (through windows internet

  sharing).
 
  If I run ifconfig I can definitely see the IP address and everything is
  configured.
 

Just a thought, if you can ping debian-windows but not windows-debian
and your windows machine was two networks attached, have you checked
your routing?  (Don't ask me how on a windows machine!)

Greneo


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[SLUG] Dlink 100D ADSL PCI Modem

2002-03-13 Thread John Ferlito

If anyone has ever gotten a Dlink 100D ADSL PCI Modem to work with linux
while connecting to Telstra bigpond Direct can they please contact me
off list.

I;ve gotten the cards working in a variety ofconfgiurations with Pacific
Internet but BPD seem to be doing something different.


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Re: [SLUG] ssh...among other things

2002-03-13 Thread Martin

$author = Adam Hewitt ;
 
 Another thing I thought of is that the windows machines are XP Pro, and the 
 gateway (XP) is running a DHCP server, however I have setup a static IP on 
 the linux boxwould this have something to do with it?? if so how do I 
 disable DHCP in Winblows??

ask a windows forum.

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