Re: [expert] empty smb passwords?

2000-04-28 Thread Brian T. Schellenberger
Bill Shirley wrote: > > Yes. Yes, I have that, I've tried both hand-editing the /etc/smbpasswd file to have the strange "NO PASSWORDXXX" form, and using "smbpasswd schellenberger" (as root) and just hitting enter for the password. Either way, it fails to authenticate. But if I set the pas

[expert] dual 3c509 NICs fail on re-boot

2000-04-28 Thread Greg Gray
This has really got me stumped and frustrated.  I am running LM 7.0.2 on an Intel P133, 64 megs, 2.3 GB in HDDs, Trident 96xx video, SVGA monitor, SB16 sound card, and a pair of 3Com Etherlink III ISA NICs.  Performing a clean new install, including formatting the HDDs, I have no problems se

Re: [expert] Easy CD burning for GUI lovers

2000-04-28 Thread Brian T. Schellenberger
Ron Stodden wrote: > > "Brian T. Schellenberger" wrote: > > > > Warning: The mkisofs that came with MDK 7.0 will corrupt certain data > > streams. See my web page for a test program; it should be > > straightfoward to adapt it to see if gcombust somehow fixes the > > corruption. > > To save us

Re: [expert] Easy CD burning for GUI lovers

2000-04-28 Thread Brian T. Schellenberger
Ron Stodden wrote: > > "Brian T. Schellenberger" wrote: > > > > Warning: The mkisofs that came with MDK 7.0 will corrupt certain data > > streams. See my web page for a test program; it should be > > straightfoward to adapt it to see if gcombust somehow fixes the > > corruption. > > To save us

Re: [expert] anyone using toppage ?

2000-04-28 Thread Vic
If it don't last then crack it On Fri, 28 Apr 2000, you wrote: > On Fri, 28 Apr 2000, you wrote: > > John Murphy wrote: > > > > > The whole thing is worth the effort it's a pretty nice program. Does it all > > > from creating web pages, text art, animation, then uploads it for you to your > > >

Re: [expert] decent email client with a good address book

2000-04-28 Thread Ron Stodden
"Bruce E. Harris" wrote: > > Hi All, > > Can anyone recommend a good mail client with a good addressbook? > Or at least a addressbook that will work with Kmail that can sort incomming > addresses, and multipule addressbooks. If you use Netscape Messenger (Netscape, Communicator menu, Messenger)

Re: [expert] decent email client with a good address book

2000-04-28 Thread Gavin Clark
have you tried netscape communicator? gavin -- >From: "Bruce E. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Can anyone recommend a good mail client with a good addressbook? > Or at least a addressbook that will work with Kmail that can sort incomming > addresses, and multipule addressbooks. > I really

Re: [expert] decent email client with a good address book

2000-04-28 Thread Asheesh Laroia
I love PINE. It's text-mode, but it still rocks. It can extract addresses from messages, too. It can even use a program to generate the signature (like /usr/games/fortune!!!). I use it, and i just rocks. I currently have 2,876 messages in my mailbox and, other than taking a few seconds to sta

[expert] decent email client with a good address book

2000-04-28 Thread Bruce E. Harris
Hi All, Can anyone recommend a good mail client with a good addressbook? Or at least a addressbook that will work with Kmail that can sort incomming addresses, and multipule addressbooks. I really do like KDE and the email client is OK, but I am not at all happy with the addressbook. I have used

Re: [expert] GCC Problems.

2000-04-28 Thread Cecil Watson
Do an rpm -qa | grep c++ Should get something like libstdc++-2.95xxx libstdc++-compatxxx gcc-c++- If not you can install them off you cd.  Hope this helps. Sean Armstrong wrote: > > I'm running Mandrake 7.02 on my Dell XPS 133c. I installed the minimal > amount of packages that Mandrake wi

[expert] GCC Problems.

2000-04-28 Thread Sean Armstrong
I'm running Mandrake 7.02 on my Dell XPS 133c. I installed the minimal amount of packages that Mandrake will let you then I installed more packages individually as I needed them I though that I installed all of the necessary gcc packages to do some compiling of software. I've compiled the progr

Re: [expert] Windows 2000 bootloader and Mandrake

2000-04-28 Thread Matt Stegman
The HOWTO you're reffering to is a mini-HOWTO; did you look through that section? Since Charles mentioned that NT5 bootloader is just like NT4, you can see the HOWTO here: http://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/mini/Linux+NT-Loader -Matt Stegman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Thu, 27 Apr 2000, Ha

Re: connection speeds--was: Re: [expert] X or console wont start

2000-04-28 Thread ptah
Bill Shirley wrote: > > I'm no expert, but shouldn't the measurement be kbs, or kilo-bits per > I have a 128K ISDN line and the maximum through-put I have seen on it is > about 15K per second. Few servers will actually dish out a download that > fast! What are you smoking? few servers with di

Re: [expert] BAR archives

2000-04-28 Thread John Aldrich
On Fri, 28 Apr 2000, you wrote: > I realize this isn't a Mandrake-specific question, but I'm > asking here anyway. :-) > I've got some floppies that were created with a Solaris > backup program called "bar." Anyone know of a LINUX program > (sparc or intel) which will allow you to read those disks

Re: [expert] cdrecord CD-RW problems

2000-04-28 Thread Larry Sword
"S. Newhouse" wrote: > Civileme writes: > > Ummm--don't you have to blank CDRWs before writing to them? > > > > Civileme > > > OK, > > Here is the output of trying to blank the CDRW: > -- > cdrecord: Cannot blank disk, aborting. > > What now? > > -Thanks, > > -

Re: [expert] Anyone Trying ViaVoice?

2000-04-28 Thread Vic
What is ViaVoice? Where is it? On Thu, 27 Apr 2000, you wrote: > A friend who is not on this list downloaded IBM's ViaVoice for Linux, > and is getting seg faults. He's looking for some help. Is there anyone > on here who's working with this package? If so, I'll tell him to join > the list and p

Re: connection speeds--was: Re: [expert] X or console wont start

2000-04-28 Thread Charles Curley
On Fri, Apr 28, 2000 at 12:06:46PM -0400, Bill Shirley wrote: -> I'm no expert, but shouldn't the measurement be kbs, or kilo-bits per -> second. Divide kbs by 10 ( 8 bits = 1 byte, plus one start and one stop -> bit) to get KBs (kilo-bytes per second). As pointed out by another post, A nit pic

[expert] BAR archives

2000-04-28 Thread John Aldrich
I realize this isn't a Mandrake-specific question, but I'm asking here anyway. :-) I've got some floppies that were created with a Solaris backup program called "bar." Anyone know of a LINUX program (sparc or intel) which will allow you to read those disks? Thanks... John

Re: [expert] Re: FTP privileges

2000-04-28 Thread Brian T. Schellenberger
Frankly I wouldn't worry too much about the security risk as long as you flip it on, make your backup, and flip it off. Heck, you can just disconnect from the external network while you do the backup if you're really worried. James wrote: > > Charles Curley wrote: > :That would involve giving

Re: [expert] anyone using toppage ?

2000-04-28 Thread John Murphy
On Thu, 27 Apr 2000, you wrote: > On Thu, Apr 27, 2000 at 10:32:02PM +0200, Hans Schneidhofer wrote: > -> hi, > -> > -> have downloaded toppage, but how can I give it a chance to try out ? > -> calling toppage_wine /usr/local/toppage/bin/toppage -e results in > -> > -> wine : can't exec '/usr/lo

Re: [expert] Setting up a locked down firewall intranet server

2000-04-28 Thread Brian T. Schellenberger
If you select & de-select X, it will still install linuxconf, but that's not just a GUI tool; it's the curses version that will be installed, and it's a handy tool. Monte Milanuk wrote: > > Tried that... It insists on installing drakconf or some such gui tool, > and I presume the requisite X en

Re: [expert] X or console wont start

2000-04-28 Thread Brian T. Schellenberger
When this happens, boot with "linux single" and then edit /etc/inittab and change the runlevel to 3. Then use startx to diagnose the trouble . . . Gavin Clark wrote: > > > ... in the > > process of changing IPs I somehow managed to screw up Linux. > > > > It will boot, go thru is startup scri

Re: [expert] X or console wont start

2000-04-28 Thread Brian T. Schellenberger
Were you downloading that from the ISP's own servers or from some external site? The connectivity *within* the internet isn't infinitely fast, there could be a bottleneck upstream. If not, then you are being ripped. You should be able to get better than 3M/minute for 400K; so a 300K file shoul

Re: [expert] Virtual Mail Hosting

2000-04-28 Thread Jan Dittberner
Alberto Passariello wrote: > On Thu, 27 Apr 2000 11:54:33 +0200, Jan Dittberner wrote: > > >I have problems with some Outlook clients which want > >to connect to the vpop3 daemon on my Mandrake box. > > > >They get: > > > >"-ERR cannot open mailbox /var/spool/vmail/hostname//username" > >from the

Re: [expert] anyone using toppage ?

2000-04-28 Thread John Murphy
On Fri, 28 Apr 2000, you wrote: > John Murphy wrote: > > > The whole thing is worth the effort it's a pretty nice program. Does it all > > from creating web pages, text art, animation, then uploads it for you to your > > web site. > > Ron Stodden wrote: > > But only till 2000 12 31. What use is

RE: connection speeds--was: Re: [expert] X or console wont start

2000-04-28 Thread RNDr. Peter FREIMANN
"kbs" usually means bits/sec - not bytes/sec p.f. > Am I missing something? Even with 432kps should a 300k file take > less then one > second to load instead of the 30 secs it took? > - RNDr. Peter FREIMANN, ICQ# 1181033 tel: 0602-464-800, 0331-362375 E

RE: connection speeds--was: Re: [expert] X or console wont start

2000-04-28 Thread Bill Shirley
I'm no expert, but shouldn't the measurement be kbs, or kilo-bits per second. Divide kbs by 10 ( 8 bits = 1 byte, plus one start and one stop bit) to get KBs (kilo-bytes per second). As pointed out by another post, some of those bytes are IP overhead. If you have 432 kbs then your maximum thro

Re: [expert] X or console wont start

2000-04-28 Thread Bug Hunter
Because TCP/IP is an ack/nak protocol. The server sends you a packet, you ack(nowlege) that you got it, it sends you another packet. If when your packet gets back to the server, it is doing disk i/o or servicing another request from another source, your response will wait until the server can

Re: [expert] FTP privileges

2000-04-28 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu, 27 Apr 2000, you wrote: > I am impressed by the security settings for Mandrake which seem to hide > and disallow certain read functions.. but I wish to make backups of my > server and I am not allowed direct copy of certain directories to my > remote computer. > > How do I give myself r

Re: [expert] Setting up a locked down firewall intranet server

2000-04-28 Thread Monte Milanuk
I did a text-based network install, entering 'expert' at the boot: prompt, and deselected everything I didn't want/need, then went into 'Select individual packages', and further cleaned house. Towards the end, I found that the boxes for 'X11/X Windows', 'X11/KDE', and 'X11/Gnome' could not be uns

Re: [expert] How do I get removed from this list.?

2000-04-28 Thread Nick Kay
At 08:58 28/04/00 -0400, you wrote: You did keep a copy of you welcome message when you signed up didn't you? You didn't? Oh well:--- >Welcome to the expert mailing list! > >Please save this message for future reference. Thank you. ^^ > >If you ever want to r

Re: [expert] Re: FTP privileges

2000-04-28 Thread Charles Curley
On Fri, Apr 28, 2000 at 01:26:58AM -0700, James wrote: -> Charles Curley wrote: -> :That would involve giving FTP access to root areas of the system, which -> :is potentially insecure. I advise against it. -> -> What if I were to give ownership, or add a name to the group of the files -> and dire

Re: [expert] X or console wont start

2000-04-28 Thread Charles Curley
On Thu, Apr 27, 2000 at 08:20:31PM -0400, Bruce E. Harris wrote: -> I ran linux 3 at the boot prompt, then logged in as root, and discovered by -> local ip was pounded out (#). I fixed it the started kdm. All seemed ok, then -> rebooted and now all works. Kinda strange. Not at all strange. X uses

[expert] How do I get removed from this list.?

2000-04-28 Thread R.A.
Steve Philp wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > Steve Philp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > Hello all! > > > > > > I've just installed Mandrake 7. Chose "high security" during > > > installation and maybe that was a bad choice. > > > > > > Attempting to print as a normal user via e

Re: [expert] Windows 2000 bootloader and Mandrake

2000-04-28 Thread Charles Curley
On Thu, Apr 27, 2000 at 07:58:33PM -0400, Hawk82 wrote: -> Is there a way to use the Windozes 2000 bootloader to boot into Linux -> instead of using LILO? -> -> I heard there is a HOW-TO on it, but I can't seem to find it. -> I have a feeling to accomplish this task I would have to edit the boot.

Re: [expert] anyone using toppage ?

2000-04-28 Thread Gary Bunker
Do you mean that you are completely unwilling to pay for any of the software you use? On 28 Apr, Ron Stodden wrote: > John Murphy wrote: > >> The whole thing is worth the effort it's a pretty nice program. Does it all >> from creating web pages, text art, animation, then uploads it for you to yo

[expert] Hylafax problems with Mandrake

2000-04-28 Thread Andreas Spengler
Hi there, I am trying to use Hylafax. But the packages coming with Mandrake don't understand the keywords USER and PASS (among others), so that I can't get the whole thing to work... Any help ??? Andreas Spengler E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WEB: www.spengler-netz.de

[expert] remove

2000-04-28 Thread R.A.

Re: [expert] Easy CD burning for GUI lovers

2000-04-28 Thread Lane Lester
Brian T. Schellenberger said: > > Warning: The mkisofs that came with MDK 7.0 will corrupt certain > data > streams. See my web page for a test program; it should be > straightfoward to adapt it to see if gcombust somehow fixes the > corruption. I saw this warning somewhere else (maybe f

Re: [expert] Cannot open printer description file

2000-04-28 Thread Steve Philp
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Steve Philp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hello all! > > > > I've just installed Mandrake 7. Chose "high security" during > > installation and maybe that was a bad choice. > > > > Attempting to print as a normal user via either command line or the > > Print butt

connection speeds--was: Re: [expert] X or console wont start

2000-04-28 Thread Bruce E. Harris
I am suppose to have an ADSL link with 768kps download and 386kps upload speeds. I ran a test on my ISPs homepage to see what my d/l speeds are for graphics and text. The test showed speeds of around 30kps. I contacted my ISP yesterday and was told even though I ordered 768kps, as a home user my

[expert] USB Devices

2000-04-28 Thread Jason Mitchelsson
I have got a USB mouse and a USB Zip drive, I have sorted out loading usb-uhci as a module and have scsi loaded as well, however no matter what I try do to Mandrake 7.0 refuses to see either USB device. I have tried all modules to do with usb (ohci etc.) I appreciate that USB in 2.2.14 is poor

Re: [expert] anyone using toppage ?

2000-04-28 Thread Ron Stodden
John Murphy wrote: > The whole thing is worth the effort it's a pretty nice program. Does it all > from creating web pages, text art, animation, then uploads it for you to your > web site. But only till 2000 12 31. What use is that? Answer: None, to me. -- Regards, Ron. [AU] - sent by Linu

Re: [expert] Easy CD burning for GUI lovers

2000-04-28 Thread Ron Stodden
"Brian T. Schellenberger" wrote: > > Warning: The mkisofs that came with MDK 7.0 will corrupt certain data > streams. See my web page for a test program; it should be > straightfoward to adapt it to see if gcombust somehow fixes the > corruption. To save us all having to run your test program,

[expert] Re: FTP privileges

2000-04-28 Thread James
Charles Curley wrote: :That would involve giving FTP access to root areas of the system, which :is potentially insecure. I advise against it. What if I were to give ownership, or add a name to the group of the files and directories I want to access (for example, /httpd/html) from another computer

Re: [expert] Setting up a locked down firewall intranet server

2000-04-28 Thread Gavin Clark
you can always use rpm to uninstall things you don't want. Gavin > Tried that... It insists on installing drakconf or some such gui tool, > and I presume the requisite X environment. > > Monte > "Joseph S. Gardner" wrote: >> >> Monte Milanuk wrote: >> > Now on to the main topic of this post: Ho

Re: [expert] KDE desktop and menu

2000-04-28 Thread Gavin Clark
run the control center. the desktop, language and theme settings are there. Gavin -- > Hi everyone: > > I have customized the KDE desktop, and I would like that every new user has > this customized desktop. How do I do that? The same goes for the menu and other > KDE settings (such as fo

[expert] KDE crash on startup - was: X or console wont start

2000-04-28 Thread Gavin Clark
Now that's interesting. kde flaked out on me after I made some network changes tring to get apache set up. it must try to set up some network thing on startup. is this something that should be reported as a bug? gavin > I ran linux 3 at the boot prompt, then logged in as root, and discovered b