Re: [newbie-it]masterizzare
ciao a tutta la ml! Volevo ringraziare tutti quelli che mi hanno risposto in merito ai miei problemi con la masterizzazione(in particolare Syd x i suoi script)e come al solito vi sottopongo l'ennesimo problema. Ho un file mp3 che contiene un intero disco, vorrei pero' estrarre le tracce da questo file in modo da avere tutti i brani separati. Esiste un comando che puo' fare questo? Vi ringrazio in anticipo , ciao Gianni.
Re: [newbie-it]masterizzare
* gianni piazza wrote: ciao a tutta la ml! Volevo ringraziare tutti quelli che mi hanno risposto in merito ai miei problemi con la masterizzazione(in particolare Syd x i suoi script) ;-) Ho un file mp3 che contiene un intero disco, vorrei pero' estrarre le tracce da questo file in modo da avere tutti i brani separati. Esiste un comando che puo' fare questo? Con la gentile concessione del buon Renato Ferrari [;-)))] ti consiglio di usare gramofile; e' un programmino portentoso che fa molte cose. Questo e' il link da dove l'ho scaricato io http://panic.et.tudelft.nl/~costar/gramofile/ Trasformati prima il file.mp3 in un file.wav, lancia gramofile e poi parti direttamente dalla sezione _Locate tracks_. All'inizio puo' sembrarti un po' ostico quindi leggeti i vari readme e *.txt. Poi e' un giochetto da ragazzi. -- syd - LU 285930 * LM 167646 msg10204/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie-it]masterizzare
Ho un file mp3 che contiene un intero disco, vorrei pero' estrarre le tracce da questo file in modo da avere tutti i brani separati. Esiste un comando che puo' fare questo? Vi ringrazio in anticipo , ciao Gianni. Io ho fatto una cosa analoga con cassette e dischi di vinile, usando gramofile. Ottimo! Si crea prima un mega file.wav. Io l'ho fatto registrando dalla fonte, tu puoi farlo convertendo l'mp3. Poi gramofile ti permette di spezzarlo in tanti .wav, quanti sono i brani. Infine, con un qualsiasi brucia-cd, incidi un brano per traccia Vedi anche http://www.yty.net/h/mp3cd/ non l'ho mai provato, ma sembra fatto per te. Description Simple perl-script to burn MP3's to audio-cd with Gtk-interface. Script converts MP3-files first to WAV-files with mpg123 and then it burns them to CD with cdrecord. ciao, Andrea
Re: [newbie-it] f3
Alle 12:09, martedì 17 dicembre 2002, giamgax ha scritto: buondì alla lista, esiste in Kde qualcosa di simile al f3 (cerca file) di win$? grazie, saluti Gpaolo Ciao Gpaolo, puoi usare anche da KDE l'ottimo tool di ricerca di GNOME; lo trovi in K - Applicazioni - Strumenti per file. Daniele -- «Il mondo si divide in 10 tipi di persone: quelle che conoscono la numerazione binaria, e quelle che non la conoscono.»
Re: [newbie-it]masterizzare
Alle 12:45, mercoledì 18 dicembre 2002, contorcendoti la mente su Re: [newbie-it]masterizzare, gianni piazza hai scritto: Ho un file mp3 che contiene un intero disco, vorrei pero' estrarre le tracce da questo file in modo da avere tutti i brani separati. Previa trasformazione dell'mp3 in wav, io spezzerei il file nei vari brani con snd. E' un programma di editing (registrazione, montaggio anche a piu' canali etc) dei file audio, buono (ottimo!) anche per passare in CD canzoni su cassetta e LP. -- Arwan
[newbie-it] Lucent Win Modem
Salve a tutti, ho questo problema: ho installato recentemente la Mdk 9.0, mi ha riconosciuto tutto quasi correttamente tranne il modem (un Lucent Win Modem). Ho letto da varie parti che i WinModem non sono supportati, ma ho comunque trovato il sito http://www.physcip.uni-stuttgart.de/heby/ltmodem/dists/mandrake/8.22a5/ltmodem-kv_2.4.19_16mdk-8.22a5-1.i586.rpm da cui ho scaricato il driver ltmodem-kv_2.4.19_16mdk-8.22a5-1.i586.rpm; utilizzando il Mandrake Control Center (drakconf), ho installato il pacchetto usando la Gestione Software ma il modem continua a non esistere, almeno controllando con la gestione dellhardware con il Mandrake Control Center (Hardware Lista Hardware) e non lo trovo neanche tra i device in /dev (mi aspetto ttyLT0 ma non esiste). Cosa posso fare E se proprio il Lucent è inutilizzabile, quale modem interno economico posso comprare ?? Quali caratteristiche deve possedere ? Grazie a tutti. Salvatore snac Naccari
Re: [newbie-it] scanner hp 3200c [was: GeForce 2 con Tv-Out]
Alle 04:53, mercoledì 18 dicembre 2002, Corrado ha scritto: ho provato a seguire le istruzioni e lo scanner viene effettivamente rilevato; tuttavia non vi è verso in seguito di accedervi tramite scanimage o xsane che non rilevano alcun dispositivo :-/ Aggiungendo umax_pp mi viene definito parametro invalido. Nell'ultima riga citata ti riferisci al comando umax_pp dato da terminale (come da sito, e in tal caso hai quindi ricompilato il backend per ricomprendere umax_pp)? Se e' cosi', ti conviene verificare che l'opzione che appare sul sito sia corretta per il tuo caso (non so se ci sia documentazione o un --help del comando, pero' ...). Oppure hai quella versione 1.0.9 che dovrebbe gia' comprendere il backend nuovo? Cmq in dll.conf hai decommentato umax_pp e, soprattutto, in umax_pp.conf hai verificato la corrispondenza dei valori? (eventualmente valuta la possibilita' di commentare tutte le altre righe di dll.conf che non dovessero essere necessarie). Verifica poi che il dispositivo relativo abbia i permessi necessari. -- GNU/Linux Slackware 9.0beta1 ** k 2.4.20-acpi+preempt LU #210970 LM #98222 SU #12583 Campagna autunno/inverno per l'eradicazione dello spam e dei suoi fetidi seguaci: segnala anche tu 3 o 4 trogloditi al giorno!!
Re: [newbie-it] scanner hp 3200c [was: GeForce 2 con Tv-Out]
Il mer, 2002-12-18 alle 23:57, LukenShiro ha scritto: Nell'ultima riga citata ti riferisci al comando umax_pp dato da terminale (come da sito, e in tal caso hai quindi ricompilato il backend per ricomprendere umax_pp)? Se e' cosi', ti conviene verificare che l'opzione che appare sul sito sia corretta per il tuo caso (non so se ci sia documentazione o un --help del comando, pero' ...). Mi riferivo a umax_pp aggiunto come opzione a scanimage e xsane; ma è persino possibile non abbia compreso il modo giusto per inserirla, in effetti... ./umax_pp -p -t 1 si conclude in modo corretto, invece, con il rilevamento del dispositivo. Oppure hai quella versione 1.0.9 che dovrebbe gia' comprendere il backend nuovo? Si, ho scaricato i tgz e li ho installati, dopo aver disinstallato gli rpm 1.0.8... Cmq in dll.conf hai decommentato umax_pp e, soprattutto, in umax_pp.conf hai verificato la corrispondenza dei valori? (eventualmente valuta la possibilita' di commentare tutte le altre righe di dll.conf che non dovessero essere necessarie). Tutto fatto! Verifica poi che il dispositivo relativo abbia i permessi necessari. Intendi se posso accedervi come utente? Ho provato anche come root, ma niente... Corrado
Re: [newbie-it] Lucent Win Modem
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 23:01, mercoledì 18 dicembre 2002, linux-sn ha scritto: Salve a tutti, ho questo problema: ho installato recentemente la Mdk 9.0, mi ha riconosciuto tutto quasi correttamente tranne il modem (un Lucent Win Modem). .. utilizzando il Mandrake Control Center (drakconf), ho installato il pacchetto usando la Gestione Software ma il modem continua a non esistere, cerca i sorgenti e compilali il file rpm potrebbe non essere adatto al tuo kernel, o essere fatto male i sorgenti hanno uno script che ti aiuta parecchio nella compilazione (anzi, diciamo installazione, visto che ti devi limitare solo a premere invio) fai così: identifica bene il tuo hardware con #lspci -v o $cat/dev/pci a questo punto, passa il modello esatto del tuo modem a google e cerca un sito dove siano disponibili i sorgenti (credo che comunque su linmodem.org ci siano tutti i link necessari) Grazie a tutti. Salvatore snac Naccari bye miKe - -- Slackware 8.1 GNU/Linux 2.4.20 @ hp Xe3 R.U.#219755 -- S.R.U.#705 -- R.M.#110932 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE+AQ4NF/9fksDJ4y0RAkpMAJwJ1eR5S5jpZaiJMfc3tfA2OGPirQCfSGTx lc2BDWEw2cVOm3lE1/eQTnU= =6N3J -END PGP SIGNATURE-
RE: [newbie] core files
Hi, Care to expand the 'piping as per login - string variable' phrase? I always thought that it meant that the error messages sent to stderr (2) is redirected to stdout (1) which in the previous example was redirected to /dev/null. Or was that it? Sorry, im just confused. ciao! -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Stephen Kuhn Sent: 17. joulukuuta 2002 22:05 To: Franki Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] core files On Wed, 2002-12-18 at 07:03, Franki wrote: I've always wondered... What does the 21 at the end of that string do??? rgds Franki I believe it's piping as per login - string variable... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Subdirs in IMAP folders
Try, in the folder which has to hold subdirs, to set its name with a trailing /. Something like myfolder/. This is consistently working for me. BTW, a folder contraining subfolders cannot contain other mails, at least this is my experience. /stefano Bela Markus wrote: Hi, how can I enable subdirectory creation in an IMPA folder, is there a config file or have to replace the IMAP server in the distro with somethink else? regards... Bela Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
[newbie] GIF and JPG in Konqueror for MDK9 - freeze ?
I am experimenting a really annoying issue. Whenever in Konqueror I click on a jpg or gif file, it tries to load it but it takes ages and freezes the desktop. I am on MDK 9, default installation Best regards /stefano smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
Re: [newbie] Need help for Sound in Mandrake 9.0 using VT8233 (AC97sound chip)
Ralph De Witt wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 17 December 2002 02:18 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Ralph De Witt wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi: I am using a MSI KT3 ULTRA2 mobo. That has a VT 8233 AC97 sound chip using the snd-via8233 sound driver. My problem is that sound in my games is choppy, almost a stutter. This is true for the Mandrake games that installed from the DVD as well as for Prboom that I download from Mandrake Club and Loki's Heavy Gear II. I have a recommended install with all of the KDE Mulitimedia stuff installed. I was hopeing that someone could help me sort this out. There are no errors when a game is run from commandline, and I am out of options to try. Thanks for your Help. - -- Yours, Ralph. It said Use Windows XP or better, so I installed Mandrake-Linux 9.0 Register Linux User 168814 ICQ #49993234 AIM ralphdewitt jabber.org ralphdewitt GPG Public Key available at http://www.keyserver.net Key Fingerprint = B290 C655 3CBF 3744 D896 C647 538B 4558 A3A9 65FF Kernel version 2.4.19-16mdk Current Linux uptime: 1 days 14 hours 27 minutes. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9/4utU4tFWKOpZf8RAkLaAJ9iHcGHLc0lNr/XG8xly7bQwDwvagCcDNMY 4WKqfbZwoyCyTNMdfW+To4s= =rb8j -END PGP SIGNATURE- We share the same sound chip and same make of mobo, mine is setup with alsa with aRts enabled, I too have a slight problem with sound, but only with cetain mp3 players, it too is rather garbled , wobbly , and I didn't have this problem whatsoever with M8.2, but I have it this time with M9.0 Everything else seems fine. The commandline mp3 is worst, kde mp3 player next worst. None of the wav file players or music cd players seem to have any problems at all. John John: It is the same here. I just wish it could be fixed. I went into MCC and had a look in the hardware module, sound configuration in my set up this is all blank. Perhaps the problem lies there. My problem is that I have no knowledge of what should be there to make it work. - -- Yes, your right , but I suspect it has a lot to do with transition from the old linux sound drivers to alsa, some apps are working on one, other apps on the other The task of switching from one to the other is impossible to accomplish with the resources, human and mechanical, in one OS release. As far as I can remember there is a file in your home directory that has a direct control of the sound system, trouble is I cannot remember which one. If you figure it our let me know, because I had to tweek it to get xcdroasts wav file player to work, and I should of kept a note of what I did , but unusually for me, I didn't. Xmms plays my mp3's perfectly, even if the others don't play so well, so this tends to suggest it's sound driver / application configuration related to me, as against mp3 or wav or music cd / driver configuration related, if you see what I mean. Hard to explain that. Basically I don't think there is so much we mere mortals can do, we are in the hands of those exalted gods who controll all this, but putting the problems before them at least helps them identify the nature of the task. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] trashed my system - lots of rant
I am amazed. I bought a new Athlon in spring. Mandrake 8.2 installed faultlessly and the only piece of hardware ever needing my attention was Lite-on CDRW that needed some configuration to start roasting CDs. Ah yes, in order to get 3d acceleration for my Geforce2 DDR I downloaded Nvidia proprietary drivers that installed in minutes. Install of 9.0 changed my life. It has caused more trouble than RH6.1, my first ever Linux install, and I am not through it yet. 1) It would not recognise my PS2 Safeway wheelmouse. Worse, it would not work with any generic drivers at all. I found my mouse usable with some Genius drivers except it would sometimes disappear and reappear mysteriously. 2) VIA8233 soundcard would work only partially, leaving most of the games without sound or with very choppy sound. Proposed cure of installing newest alsa drivers was a waste of bandwidth and time. Cause of this problem has been explained to me in and out of this list. I could somehow live with it. 3) Installation of Nvidia drivers fails invariably, so I had no 3d acceleration despite experimenting with different versions of X. Finally I succeeded trashing X completely doing it. 4) It would miss my fav WM - Fluxbox and compilation of a package from FB homepage fails for reasons I have had no time to find out. As you noticed I have been rather busy lately. The good news is, it recognized and set up my CDRW OK ;-) After trashing X with nvidia I turned back to clean-install my old 8.2 and lo! it would know nothing anymore of my soundcard and nvidia drivers would not install anymore. Fortunately I am not without a system entirely. I have Knoppix 3.1 CD that, when inserted, recognizes and configures every piece of hardware (except CDRW which it occupies anyway) without a single mouseclick or use of keyboard. Comparing those two distros I can only ask - what the f...k those guys in the Mandrake are doing? As I said, I am completely amazed. Wahur, with Mandrake since 8.0 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] alternatives
Hi all, I've been beating my head against my keyboard for about 4 days straight. The more I work with Mandrake and all the current apps out there, the more impressed I am with all of it. But I can't make the full switch to Mandrake until I can resolve the last two issues; Visio and Counter-Strike. As I see it, my choices are wine(x), vmware, and dual booting. Most of the past 4 days has been spent searching, reading, and trying different things to get Half-Life (Counter-Strike) running with winex. It still doesn't work and I'm not prepared to spend that much time trying to get Visio running, so I've built another partition and put Win2k on it. I'll dual boot for now. But that's not gonna cut it for long. I want Linux as my base OS, and I have to be able to run Visio until there's a nix equivalent that will handle Visio files flawlessly. (Exporting/Importing via HTML or whatnot is neat but not good enough.) I'm considering the purchase of VMware Workstation, but it's a $300 decision. So I thought I check here first. This has to be a common issue. Are there any other options - recommendations? Thanks in advance, -- ~Brandon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] alternatives
On Wed, 18 Dec 2002 08:12 pm, Brandon Vanderberg wrote: I've been beating my head against my keyboard for about 4 days straight. The more I work with Mandrake and all the current apps out there, the more impressed I am with all of it. But I can't make the full switch to Mandrake until I can resolve the last two issues; Visio and Counter-Strike. As I see it, my choices are wine(x), vmware, and dual booting. Most of the past 4 days has been spent searching, reading, and trying different things to get Half-Life (Counter-Strike) running with winex. It still doesn't work and I'm not prepared to spend that much time trying to get Visio running, so I've built another partition and put Win2k on it. I'll dual boot for now. Hello, Kivio is *the* solution if you need a Visio-style program. Or so the KOffice people want to convince us. I haven't actually used MS Visio before, so I can't tell you if it's like Kivio (only that it exists :-)). There still aren't many good FPS games in linux. Loki I think had Quake III, but you won't see many other games. Dual-booting and Winex, as you said, are probably the only ways to get your daily CS quota. Regards, _nasturtium Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Crystal Sound not working in 9.0 ?
BTW, in the System Configurator Tool, in the Hardware List, the Sound card is not listed at all. /stefano Stefano Pogliani wrote: I have migrated from 8.2 to 9.0. It seems that my Crystal Sound card is no more recognized. I was used, to make it working, to add the following line to /etc/modules.conf: alias sound-slot-1 cs4232 I added it, with no luck. Using sndConfig from a CTRL-ALT-F1 term, takes a long time to detect the card but, after, is unable to play any sound. Using KDE, I continue to have warnings saying that the sound is suspended. I also had messages telling me that /dev/dsp was busy and that it was going to use /dev/null. Anyone experienced the same problem? Thanks a lot indeed. Best regards /stefano smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
Re: [newbie] Digital cameras
On Tuesday 17 Dec 2002 9:11 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: I'll let you know what happens. I spoke to Fuji Tech Support this morning. They say that their cameras are all standards compliant, and should be readable to *nixs. They are, however, high voltage devices, which may need drivers (?) The card readers they supply are low voltage, and should be readable by all systems without special drivers (?). Not sure I understand. However, they said to talk to my camera supplier about the possibility of a money back guarantee. Don't know how that will be received, but I'm going to try it. Let you know what happens. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] scanner problems
On Tuesday 17 Dec 2002 H:38 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Tue, 2002-12-17 at 06:38, Andy wrote: On Monday 16 December 2002 07:23 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Tue, 2002-12-17 at 05:28, Andy wrote: Well, I reinstalled linux again without much problems at all. Soo I've got everything down. All I really need to worry about is my digital camera and scanner (or my usb in general. But i'm not worrying about that). Soo what the problem is, I suppose linux knows that I have a scanner (since theres a file on my desktop linking to it) but it cant seem to load it at all. If you wanted to know, I have a HP ScanJet 3300C, and im running Mandrake 9.0 with KDE 3. The file on my desktop is called 'XSane /dev/usb/scanner0', and when i try to click on it, it opens and says that theres no devices available. Since im a big newbie at linux, I have no clue whatsoever how to fix this. When I try to open my scanner configuration in the control center, it says its downloading something, and freezes up. Can someone please help me with this? What happens if you just open up XSANE without a configuration attached to it - does it detect the scanner, or still freeze up? (BTW, what kinda digi-cam ya gots?) I have a Intel Pocket PC Camera. The little digits on the camera show up soo obviously it can detect that also. And with XSANE, no matter what i do, it wont open. I call it in a terminal, and it brings up a user agreement, and I agree to it. Then a error window pops up saying it cant detect any devices whatsoever. ...ok...hmmm...you should be able to mount the camera as an actual file system...there was talk of this a week back - so you might want to dig through the messages and find the one pertaining to the USB camera... ...now with SANE/XSANE - this is strange. It appears to have already detected the scanner, but ain't doin' a thing now...what about when you reboot - are the modules loading - or does the scanner re-appear ? Quoting Colin Rose's post here --- The problem is that somehow a typo is introduced in the file /etc/sane.d/dll.conf. If you get the error 'no devices found' then edit the above file and change the word 'SnapScan' to 'snapscan' and it should work. end quote I may be way off here but I seem to recall reading somewhere that this can affect scanners other than snapscans. -- http://www.poogle.co.uk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] StarOffice install sequence (next to Open Office)
On Tuesday 17 December 2002 22:13, Myers, Dennis R NWO wrote: Thanks for the info, but can I also UNINSTALL StarOffice if I don't like it with an urpmi command? Anyaway, is urpmi.removemedia safe in case I want to get rid of it? It will not remove dependencies used by my OpenOffice? urpmi.removemedia will remove download sources, not packages To remove packages, just use rpm -e packagename do this as root and use only the base name of the package, not the 0.0_mdk_1586 junk at the back, ie rpm -e staroffice You can specify multiple packages to erase too see man rpm for more detail -- Michel Clasquin [EMAIL PROTECTED] When all is One, all violence is masochism. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printing envelopes
On Wednesday 18 Dec 2002 4:22 am, Linus Drouhard wrote: Anne, I don't print many envelopes and I don't make them part of the main document. The OO letter function does not work quite as well as MS Office. It just formats a page that happens to be envelope size. If there's a way for it to automatically recognize the address from a letter, for instance, I don't know how to accomplish that. If you highlight an address it does paste it into the envelope. However, if the envelope function is dodgy it's better avoided for the present, although it looks as though it is getting close. For the moment, I'll do it your way. I just start a new document, set the page format to envelope, type that addresses and print. That suits me for the very few envelopes I do print. I have not had any trouble with OO restarting itself. I had this problem under 8.2, first install, but when I re-installed 8.2 OO behaved perfectly. I've had a few other difficulties with MDK 9.0, browsers that suddenly quit communication to printer, Galeon freezing all the time, Software Updater has never worked, and a few other annoyances. I fixed the browsers be removing and reinstalling. I've not figured out Software Updater, it connects but won't download a thing from any connected server. I've none of those problems. I think the frustrating thing is that we don't understand what's going on. The fact that one person has a persistant problem while another with a very similar setup has none makes it very confusing. Oh, well, now I'm wandering far off topic. I don't have any other ideas for you on OO except to try the old Microsoft solution of remove and reinstall. I personally hate that approach as I want to know what's wrong and fix it directly. Me too. Ah well - learning experiences ;-) Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Digital cameras
On Tuesday 17 Dec 2002 11:09 pm, Francisco Alcaraz Ariza wrote: Finally I got my Fuji FinePix S602 Zoom, and it is runing fine with Mandrake 9.0 ^_^ I used the usb-storage / ide-scsi modules, and mount it in a /mnt/camera dir previously created. At the moment I just have mounted it by hand (mount -t auto /dev/sda1 /mnt/camera) and with konqueror I can watch all the pictures; just a little problem, I need to be root to erase some of the picture. What kind of memory storage is it, Francisco? Mine is the new dX, which may be the problem. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] trouble with samba?
On Wednesday 18 Dec 2002 12:01 am, Azrael wrote: trying to use swat to share a directory form linux onto a windows machine. Setup is: 1 linux (mandrake 9) machine, plugged into adsl router, port: 10.0.0.9 1 windows (XP) machine, plugged into router, port: 10.0.0.6 smb.conf is attached, but I think it is ok. The windows machine can /see/ the samba workgroup, but can't connect to it. Just to clarify - you are saying that you have problems logging in to the linux box, aren't you? This is nearly always a password problem. If your windows machine can see the workgroup, I would think that your hosts file is ok - but do check capitalisation, just in case. Windows does not make it easy in that it displays its own version of capitalisation no matter what you entered, so you need to check that username, password and hostname are all matched for capitalisation. Encrypted passwords is right. I don't know what that security line does - mine is set to security = user. The following lines from mine, make the lan available to all on the subnet: hosts allow = 192.168.0. 127. interfaces = eth0 Apart from that, the only difference that springs to mind is that in the [homes] section I have it set to writable = yes browseable = no I don't use the firewall - the router takes care of that - but I would suggest leaving it disabled until you get this right. HTH Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Samba
On Wednesday 18 Dec 2002 3:57 am, David Williams wrote: On Saturday 14 December 2002 04:30 am, magnet wrote: On Saturday 14 Dec 2002 1:59 am, David Williams wrote: OK, I give up. I have a four computer network at home. I am running Linux on mine and Win98 on the other three. I have been using Samba so I can copy files and etc and to share a printer on my computer with the others. Everything has been working fine and now my computer and printer can't be seen on the net. (I have very recently changed the monitor settings from 800X600 to 1024X768 and got my background sound to work.) That is the only thing that I have done. Under SWAT smb is running and nmb is not if I try to start nmb I get the errors below logged to the log.nmbd file. I have no idea what is failing or how to fix it or where to look to find out how to fix it. David snip Hi David. Have a look at your linux settings using webmin first to see if drakconfig decided to switch your linux box's IP addy/change your LAN IP range. This will throw samba off a bit sometimes. [it did when I was installing the nvidia drivers]. Webmin makes a very good base setting 99% of the time. It also gives you the option to restart the samba server from within it's pages. Also worth looking at is your /etc/hosts file to see if you have added your windows boxs and their local.domain.names plus alias's. Let us know how you get on. regards magnet I got everything working with the biggest problem being shorewall. I have it removed for the moment. I can read, write, and print files to my Linux system from the Windows. However, I can only see the disk drives on the windows system from the Linux system. I have the disks shared under windows. I can not for the life of me find anything that would prevent me from reading the shared files on Windows from the Linux PC. This usually means that I have overlooked the obvious. Any help is greatly appreciated. David On the windows boxes, how are the share connections set? Mine are all set as share level, not password controlled. I don't know whether that would cause any problem. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] substitute MDK 8.2 for MDK 9.0
On Wednesday 18 Dec 2002 7:16 am, ivette brusselmans wrote: Hello, I want to install MDK 9.0 over MDK 8.2 without loosing all my settings (samba, komba2, VNC, documents,passwords,) Is this possible? Do I have to re-format root partition and leave the rest as it is? The general consensus is that upgrading is not wise. The best way is to copy /home, /etc/samba and so on onto a spare partition if you have room, or cds if you don't, then so a clean install. You can then copy the config files back. If space is not a problem, you could do as I did, and, during the 9.0 setup you could mount your old home partition as /oldhome, which will make sure that you lose nothing from there, but don't forget the appropriate directories for samba and the other things you mention. Good luck Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Bounced mail -- where do I find it??
I have just examined the mail logs on my intranet server to find that over a weeks worth of email has been bounced, (not actually that many, the server only sends mail from the web-server) because of one of our network guys adding new servers that took over the mail domain. The exact error is: Dec 18 04:12:31 trek postfix/local[25424]: to=[EMAIL PROTECTED], relay=benenden.org.uk[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx], delay=1, status=bounced (host benenden.org.uk[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] said: 550 5.7.1 Unable to relay for [EMAIL PROTECTED]) What I would like to know is, will POSTFIX automatically retry the sending of these ?? If not is there any way I can retrieve these emails manually and resend them ?? Thanks, Jamie Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Shipping Delays...
I ordered V9 back around the end of November. I inquired early this morning (EST) as to the status of my order and expected a reply in a day or two. I received the following in a few minutes... Dear Customer, Due to technical problem in logistic system some order were delayed. We apologize for the delay in your order. We are trying our level best to ship the orders ASAP. DUE TO THIS DELAY IN THE SHIPMENT OF FEW ORDERS WE ARE GIVING FREE 6 MONTHS MEMBERSHIP TO CUTOMERS TO WWW.MANDRAKECLUB.COM . THE SUBSCRIPTION WILL BE SEND TO YOU BY EMAIL WITH YOUR ORDER. Inconvenience Regretted, Thanks Regards, Lila Customer Care MandrakeStore. got to admit, stand-up company if they follow through... Hopefully, the software should be arriving soon. Anyone else ordering around that time receive anything yet? Regards, Marlo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] menus menu menyou menme help
I am having menu problems. I have lots of rpms that don't appear in the menu of mandrake and I want to know how to scan the rpm database and have them added to the menus. I also have applications which I added from sources or shell script installations which I also would like to scan somehow and add them to the menu. I would think a way exists for rpms already. (as I remember in the old kde there was) But for tars etc., there would have to be a custom script or something?? I realize that for command line apps this doesn't seem so important. I could if want later go into the gui and have it run from a shell. Thanks Aaron AM in the AM (PM) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Win98 and MDK9.0
On Wed, 2002-12-18 at 14:45, Greg wrote: Hi Every one My son is interested in LinuxHe bought his own computer and I loaded win 98 for so he can play his games He started playing games on my MDK 9.0 box and now he wants 9.0 also I can not find any good info on how to load 9.0 on to he box with win 98 Can any one give me any help I have been with MDK since 7.0 but never a dual boot machine HELPThanks Greg You got Partition Magic? -- Wed Dec 18 22:30:01 EST 2002 10:30pm up 5:22, 3 users, load average: 0.05, 0.15, 0.27 .o0 linux user:267497 0o. |____ | kühn media australia | / \ /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | .\__/ || | | | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kühn | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |/ ._/ || | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |'. `\ | | |icq: 5483808 | ;/ / | | | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| | mobile: 0410-728-389 | ' `-`' | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU Coralament*Best Grötens*Liebe Grüße*Best Regards*Elkorajn Salutojn Maybe we can get together and show off to each other sometimes. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] services not starting
On Wed, 2002-12-18 at 15:56, Colin Jenkins wrote: Hi all, wondering if this is a known problem. installed mdk9 with named and mysql to start on boot. they dont. If I check in mcc under system/services, it shows them as set to start on boot. If I do service ... start, they work fine until next re-boot. The same happened when I installed firestarter. I have had exactly the same problem on 3 installs (different boxes) Any fixes? -- regards, Colin What about editing your /etc/rc.d/rc.local script to have the services restart after reboot? -- Wed Dec 18 22:35:00 EST 2002 10:35pm up 5:27, 3 users, load average: 0.04, 0.12, 0.23 .o0 linux user:267497 0o. |____ | kühn media australia | / \ /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | .\__/ || | | | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kühn | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |/ ._/ || | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |'. `\ | | |icq: 5483808 | ;/ / | | | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| | mobile: 0410-728-389 | ' `-`' | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU Coralament*Best Grötens*Liebe Grüße*Best Regards*Elkorajn Salutojn But suppose we sent a crew to plant an explosive precisely on the fault line between this mass of coffee grounds and this deposit of America Online floppy disks. -Professor In theory, it could work. -General In theory, perhaps, but you'll never find a crew willing to take on a mission so suicidally dangerous. -Wernstrom Aw, jeez. -Bender Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Digital cameras
Yes - xD - my typo ;( OK - if it isn't the memory format, then that just leaves the possibility of it being two usb storage devices. I have tried taking it off the hub and putting it straight into the back of the computer, but it didn't seem to make a difference. There are four ports on the backplate, though, and I think two are considered a hub - problem is which ones - so I'll try it in various places. Anyone with any other ideas? Anne On Wednesday 18 Dec 2002 12:40 pm, Steve Jeppesen wrote: Anne, That is the memory my camera is using xD memory (or is your dX not a typo?) and no problems here. On Wed, 18 Dec 2002 10:27:04 + Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 17 Dec 2002 11:09 pm, Francisco Alcaraz Ariza wrote: Finally I got my Fuji FinePix S602 Zoom, and it is runing fine with Mandrake 9.0 ^_^ I used the usb-storage / ide-scsi modules, and mount it in a /mnt/camera dir previously created. At the moment I just have mounted it by hand (mount -t auto /dev/sda1/mnt/camera) and with konqueror I can watch all the pictures; just a little problem, I need to be root to erase some of the picture. What kind of memory storage is it, Francisco? Mine is the new dX, which may be the problem. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] is it rebooting or what?
On Wednesday 18 Dec 2002 12:05 pm, Thought Progress wrote: How do I disable or control this feature. Someone mentioned. Anuerin Diaz mentioned leaving an application running (gaim seems to work), but there has to be a better way to keep the machine from logging you off (I would think) when you lock the terminal and leave for lunch. I'm no expert on this, but here are my thoughts. I don't have the problem under 9.0, but I did under 8.2. Under 8.2 I used MCC to disable the power control settings, and the whole problem instantly disappeared. As I said, I don't have the problem in 9.0, but we have seen so many things here that happen one way for some of us and the opposite for others, so I wouldn't discount it. Try it and see - you've nothing to lose. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] is it rebooting or what?
Hi, just a stab in the dark, somewhere in your /etc lives the script that sets this variable on. If there is no tool used for configuring this variable then just delve in there and set it to 0 (or a ridiculously large value, say equal to 48 hours if its possible). Im guessing that setting it to 0 disables that feature. ciao! -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Thought Progress Sent: 18. joulukuuta 2002 14:05 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] is it rebooting or what? How do I disable or control this feature. Someone mentioned. Anuerin Diaz mentioned leaving an application running (gaim seems to work), but there has to be a better way to keep the machine from logging you off (I would think) when you lock the terminal and leave for lunch. -TP snip Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Subdirs in IMAP folders
Bela, seems Evolution is more clever than Mozilla/Netscape. According to a quick test I did, you create a normal folder, let's say aa. Immediately, you create a new folder bb as a child of aa. It seems that aa is converted to a Directory and bb is included in that directory. In Mozilla, you have to instruct to create a directory immediately. I guess that, if you create aa and, before creating bb you store some mails into aa, this may not work. /Stefano P.S.This is some reason to migrate to Evolution for me. Looks great Markus Bela wrote: Stefano, your solution doesn't work with EVOLUTION, directory name with trailing / is rejected. Regards... Bela Stefano Pogliani [EMAIL PROTECTED] írta: Try, in the folder which has to hold subdirs, to set its name with a trailing /. Something like myfolder/. This is consistently working for me. BTW, a folder contraining subfolders cannot contain other mails, at least this is my experience. /stefano Bela Markus wrote: Hi, how can I enable subdirectory creation in an IMPA folder, is there a config file or have to replace the IMAP server in the distro with somethink else? regards... Bela Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
Re: [newbie] Startup smb problem
Stephens, I supouse that samba can automout my windows network. Right? It seems that is something wrong with samba. When i pass the startup (hiting Enter twice when it hangs on that smb line) i can't see the files of /mnt/diskc /mnt/diskd these disks are from a win2000 machine which is connected to my network. I need to these disks to be automounted. In the MCC Samba mounting points when i click on mount the systems just freezes. Letting me with no choice that is to kill the window. :( The only way that i found to mount correctly the disk is to login with my root account. But this login and logout process is quite boring.. How can i automount the disks? Yes, the shutdown problem (not always happens) is when unmounting the network ntfs partition. Thanks stephens for your help, Filipe p.s. i'll try this afternoon to solve my other problem (VMWARE) like you suggested. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] alternatives
--On Wednesday, December 18, 2002 10:49:30 PM +1100 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2002-12-18 at 20:12, Brandon Vanderberg wrote: Hi all, I've been beating my head against my keyboard for about 4 days straight. The more I work with Mandrake and all the current apps out there, the more impressed I am with all of it. But I can't make the full switch to Mandrake until I can resolve the last two issues; Visio and Counter-Strike. As I see it, my choices are wine(x), vmware, and dual booting. I think win4lin. I don't own it but plan to it will solve the problem of dual booting in the mean time. counter-strike like most of its time are system draining, which I think kills vmware and wine before you start. write to the win4lin people and see if they have or will test it for you Aaron Most of the past 4 days has been spent searching, reading, and trying different things to get Half-Life (Counter-Strike) running with winex. It still doesn't work and I'm not prepared to spend that much time trying to get Visio running, so I've built another partition and put Win2k on it. I'll dual boot for now. But that's not gonna cut it for long. I want Linux as my base OS, and I have to be able to run Visio until there's a nix equivalent that will handle Visio files flawlessly. (Exporting/Importing via HTML or whatnot is neat but not good enough.) I'm considering the purchase of VMware Workstation, but it's a $300 decision. So I thought I check here first. This has to be a common issue. Are there any other options - recommendations? Thanks in advance, -- ~Brandon [EMAIL PROTECTED] I wanted to say something about this before, but constantly forget to do so - so I'll do it now. WINE wants to be an abstraction layer - a clone, per se, so that Windows apps can run - right? SO, if you look in the /usr/share/wine-c/ directory, you see a rather bleak and bland SKELETON of Windows directories and the likes. Well, that didn't sit right with me - and wanting to run MYOB whilst in fave linux, I decided to hack WINE. First, I copied just about everything from my /mnt/hda1/windows directories right into the /usr/share/wine-c/ directory. Fonts, DLL's - you name it - I copied it there. I wanted to give Windows programs everything they asked for. I also dittoed the same with the Program Files subdirs, too. I dug through all the ini files and the WINE registry files to straighten out things that had been changed as well as point some virtual dll's to the real McCoy's...took a while, and took a fair bit of experimenting, but overall, now I can run native Windows applications in my linux world. Now my way was hacked/slashed - but from what I unnerstan...WineX is by far the better way to go...they've spent a good deal of time getting WINE Game Playable - which basically tells me that if you can run a game like UT2002 or HL under linux, running sniveling little MS wanna-be programs like Viso (only joking there) would be a snap. And mate, if I can live completely in a Window-less world (socially even) then so can you! -- Wed Dec 18 22:40:01 EST 2002 10:40pm up 5:32, 3 users, load average: 0.06, 0.14, 0.20 .o0 linux user:267497 0o. |____ | kühn media australia | / \ /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | .\__/ || | | | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kühn | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / ._/ || | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | '. `\ | | |icq: 5483808 | ;/ / | | | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| | mobile: 0410-728-389 | ' `-`' | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU Coralament*Best Grötens*Liebe Grüße*Best Regards*Elkorajn Salutojn I love dogs, but I hate Chihuahuas. A Chihuahua isn't a dog. It's a rat with a thyroid problem. AM in the AM (PM) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] menus menu menyou menme help
Thanks Aaron I am really looking for a way to create some post install routines for turnkey that will scan a file which has a list of installed programs with a menu item in it and add these automatically to the mandrake menus. I would need to be pointed where to look for what format such a file should be in and how to link it up. (like it was an rpm data base that mandrake/kdes/gnomes menus would think they were the same and update their menus from it) Aaron --On Wednesday, December 18, 2002 12:22:55 PM + Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 18 Dec 2002 1:35 pm, Aaron Mehl wrote: I am having menu problems. I have lots of rpms that don't appear in the menu of mandrake and I want to know how to scan the rpm database and have them added to the menus. I also have applications which I added from sources or shell script installations which I also would like to scan somehow and add them to the menu. I would think a way exists for rpms already. (as I remember in the old kde there was) But for tars etc., there would have to be a custom script or something?? I realize that for command line apps this doesn't seem so important. I could if want later go into the gui and have it run from a shell. Thanks Aaron AM in the AM (PM) You will only get an automatic menu entry if the spec of the RPM defines one. If you think some menus entries are missing, then the command 'update-menus' as root will update the menus of every user. Of course if you have been installing non-mandrake RPMs then the menu entries are not compatible and will not appear. (Note: It is possible for a 'bad' menu entry to prevent other menu items being displayed. I remember Civileme wrote a script to check for malformed menu entries. A search of the archives will find it for you) HTH derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net AM in the AM (PM) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] core files
On Tuesday December 17 2002 01:39 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Wed, 2002-12-18 at 06:36, villoing wrote: I still have problem with core files. I don't know why but since this morning a lot of files like core.3412 are created into my home directory. How are they created and are they usefull ? Should I keep them or should I remove them ? thx Obviously, there is a program (or two or three) that is bombing out - you can safely remove the core. files without worry - but you might want to modify your .bashrc file to have: # No core files by default ulimit -S -c 0 /dev/null 21 ...in it...then you won't get those nasty little buggers... Actually that shouldn't be needed. Mandrake puts these lines in /etc/profile during installation, and they should eliminate core files system wide # Users generally won't see annoyng core files [ $UID = 0 ] ulimit -S -c 100 /dev/null 21 Software can cause segfaults (core dumps), but often it's hardware problems http://www.bitwizard.nl/sig11/ -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Wireless
Hey all, I have a MicronPC TransPort GX3 Laptop with a built in wireless network card and a regular network card. The wireless is setup as eth0 and the other is eth1. I work in many different buildings and so far I have been unable to gain internet access with the wireless card. It appears the only thing it is able to do is grab an IP address. Is there more I need to configure with it, because I didn't see anything else about it. Could the fact it shows up in the Unknown hardware list be the problem. I don't recall the make of it offhand, but on the website it said it was linux compatable. It looks like harddrake is detecting it as a Lucent Technologies WaveLan/IEEE Adaptor runing the wvlan_cd module. Any help would be appreciated. Matt Harrison MMNet Technology Support Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Even Santa Claus knows...!
Hehehe, check it out! :-) http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2002-12-17-019-26-NW-BZ-DP -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Mozilla failed
Since I was instructed by my isp, freeserve-anytime, better known as fixedpricelousytime to check out their web site to find out about a new telephone number I should be using, for even more frequent cutoffs, they pride themselves on the lack of sustainability of internet connections, not only that but they also failed to supply that new telephone number because they have never heard of mozilla , and didn't know how to connect with it , well anyway Mozilla messenger has become rather erratic at displaying. I never know when it will or not when selected. The browser seems ok, so is composer, but the messenger sometimes does sometimes doesn't come up when called. I even tried that windblows cure all , reboot. Anyone got any suggestions. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] alternatives
Thanks, I'll try that. I blew away Mandrake and reinstalled 2k, so the immediate problem is gone. But now I have my kid's computer spread out all over the garage swapping hardware so I can put linux on it. Then I can Bash C headers and make depend ./hooya/blitz.kablooey-26.3.4 all day long without missing my apps. I guess it's sorta like working on a car, make sure you got a second one that runs before you tear the first apart. Hmmm... now I'm gonna have a whole new batch of hardware issues to sort out. Brandon -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Stephen Kuhn Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 3:50 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] alternatives On Wed, 2002-12-18 at 20:12, Brandon Vanderberg wrote: Hi all, I've been beating my head against my keyboard for about 4 days straight. The more I work with Mandrake and all the current apps out there, the more impressed I am with all of it. But I can't make the full switch to Mandrake until I can resolve the last two issues; Visio and Counter-Strike. As I see it, my choices are wine(x), vmware, and dual booting. Most of the past 4 days has been spent searching, reading, and trying different things to get Half-Life (Counter-Strike) running with winex. It still doesn't work and I'm not prepared to spend that much time trying to get Visio running, so I've built another partition and put Win2k on it. I'll dual boot for now. But that's not gonna cut it for long. I want Linux as my base OS, and I have to be able to run Visio until there's a nix equivalent that will handle Visio files flawlessly. (Exporting/Importing via HTML or whatnot is neat but not good enough.) I'm considering the purchase of VMware Workstation, but it's a $300 decision. So I thought I check here first. This has to be a common issue. Are there any other options - recommendations? Thanks in advance, -- ~Brandon [EMAIL PROTECTED] I wanted to say something about this before, but constantly forget to do so - so I'll do it now. WINE wants to be an abstraction layer - a clone, per se, so that Windows apps can run - right? SO, if you look in the /usr/share/wine-c/ directory, you see a rather bleak and bland SKELETON of Windows directories and the likes. Well, that didn't sit right with me - and wanting to run MYOB whilst in fave linux, I decided to hack WINE. First, I copied just about everything from my /mnt/hda1/windows directories right into the /usr/share/wine-c/ directory. Fonts, DLL's - you name it - I copied it there. I wanted to give Windows programs everything they asked for. I also dittoed the same with the Program Files subdirs, too. I dug through all the ini files and the WINE registry files to straighten out things that had been changed as well as point some virtual dll's to the real McCoy's...took a while, and took a fair bit of experimenting, but overall, now I can run native Windows applications in my linux world. Now my way was hacked/slashed - but from what I unnerstan...WineX is by far the better way to go...they've spent a good deal of time getting WINE Game Playable - which basically tells me that if you can run a game like UT2002 or HL under linux, running sniveling little MS wanna-be programs like Viso (only joking there) would be a snap. And mate, if I can live completely in a Window-less world (socially even) then so can you! -- Wed Dec 18 22:40:01 EST 2002 10:40pm up 5:32, 3 users, load average: 0.06, 0.14, 0.20 .o0 linux user:267497 0o. |____ | kühn media australia | / \ /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | .\__/ || | | | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kühn | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |/ ._/ || | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |'. `\ | | |icq: 5483808 | ;/ / | | | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| | mobile: 0410-728-389 | ' `-`' | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU Coralament*Best Grötens*Liebe Grüße*Best Regards*Elkorajn Salutojn I love dogs, but I hate Chihuahuas. A Chihuahua isn't a dog. It's a rat with a thyroid problem. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Non-root access to mtink
Does anyone know how to configure Mtink to run as a non-root user? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] apache on 2nd machine?
OK, I'm hoping this is possible Main computer: windows 98se with ICS 2nd computer: Mandrake 9.0 Connection: Main: 2 NIC's. one to the cable modem (no router) and one to connect via crossover cable to the 2nd box 2nd: 1 NIC connected via crossover cable to the main computer. Objective: to run apache from the 2nd computer not just on the local network but also on the internet. Other info: using a dynamic DNS service from no-ip.com, using their update program for linux machines on the 2nd computer it resolves (i think it's resolving it... it doesn't give much output) to the main computer's IP (that of the cable modem) can this be done? If not, are my only options to either run the webserver from the main computer (keeping existing network hardware), buy a router and connect both computers to IT then to the cable modem, or pay the cable co. the extra 6 bucks a month and get a 2nd IP for the 2nd computer. Some possible problems: 2nd computer has no room for another ISA ethernet card (don't even know if i could still get one) and I cannot for the life of me get any of the PCI slots to work with the 2nd (pci) NIC out of the other computer (which dual boots to mandrake and works FABULOUSLY) to work with the 2nd computer and mandrake. In fact, i can't even get the soundcard (opl3-sa1) card in the other isa slot to work (still trying to figure that one out). If i could, I'd just switch the computers places in the network. Main computer is the one my other half uses and refuses to use linux because WinMX won't run on it. In fact if I don't reboot it into Windows when I'm done with it she just hits the reset button on it (grr) and boots windows. Thanks in advance for any help :) You guys are the greatest. Jerry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Crystal Sound not working in 9.0 ?
That's because Mandrake 9.0 doesn't use native tools for ISA soundcards AFAIK. On Wed, 18 Dec 2002 10:29:44 +0100 Stefano Pogliani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BTW, in the System Configurator Tool, in the Hardware List, the Sound card is not listed at all. /stefano Stefano Pogliani wrote: I have migrated from 8.2 to 9.0. It seems that my Crystal Sound card is no more recognized. I was used, to make it working, to add the following line to /etc/modules.conf: alias sound-slot-1 cs4232 I added it, with no luck. Using sndConfig from a CTRL-ALT-F1 term, takes a long time to detect the card but, after, is unable to play any sound. Using KDE, I continue to have warnings saying that the sound is suspended. I also had messages telling me that /dev/dsp was busy and that it was going to use /dev/null. Anyone experienced the same problem? Thanks a lot indeed. Best regards /stefano HTH, -Frans Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mozilla failed
John Richard Smith wrote: Since I was instructed by my isp, freeserve-anytime, better known as fixedpricelousytime I do not believe that your ISP is involved in your Mozilla problems. Perhaps you should try to make your emails easier to decipher when asking for advice :-) I am not sure what problems exactly are you experiencing. the messenger sometimes does sometimes doesn't come up when called. I even tried that windblows cure all , reboot. You will achieve nothing by rebooting Linux. Unless your Linux locked-up hard, do not reboot. -- Milos Prudek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] alternatives
On Wednesday 18 Dec 2002 4:21 pm, Aaron Mehl wrote: --On Wednesday, December 18, 2002 10:49:30 PM +1100 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2002-12-18 at 20:12, Brandon Vanderberg wrote: Hi all, I've been beating my head against my keyboard for about 4 days straight. The more I work with Mandrake and all the current apps out there, the more impressed I am with all of it. But I can't make the full switch to Mandrake until I can resolve the last two issues; Visio and Counter-Strike. As I see it, my choices are wine(x), vmware, and dual booting. I think win4lin. I don't own it but plan to it will solve the problem of dual booting in the mean time. counter-strike like most of its time are system draining, which I think kills vmware and wine before you start. write to the win4lin people and see if they have or will test it for you Aaron Two things I can add: 1 - if you are a club member you can download a 15-day trial to see if it will cut the mustard. 2 - NeTraverse support seems excellent. As long as you are registered they respond quickly and helpfully - and the 15-day trial entitles you to support during that time. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Startup smb problem
On Thu, 2002-12-19 at 00:59, Aurélio Diniz wrote: Stephens, I supouse that samba can automout my windows network. Right? It seems that is something wrong with samba. When i pass the startup (hiting Enter twice when it hangs on that smb line) i can't see the files of /mnt/diskc /mnt/diskd these disks are from a win2000 machine which is connected to my network. I need to these disks to be automounted. In the MCC Samba mounting points when i click on mount the systems just freezes. Letting me with no choice that is to kill the window. :( The only way that i found to mount correctly the disk is to login with my root account. But this login and logout process is quite boring.. How can i automount the disks? Yes, the shutdown problem (not always happens) is when unmounting the network ntfs partition. Thanks stephens for your help, Filipe p.s. i'll try this afternoon to solve my other problem (VMWARE) like you suggested. As was stated before, you should probably run smbpasswd for your root account and double check all your Samba settings. If you're haning on the smb service starting, there is either an issue with a password or an issue with the networking engine. Maybe you can post your /etc/samba/smb.conf for us to see? Maybe the problem lies therein? For your shutdown, you can setup a script to unmount partitions/network drives, etc - do you think that might help in your issues with your shutdown? -- Thu Dec 19 07:25:00 EST 2002 7:25am up 52 min, 3 users, load average: 0.43, 0.46, 0.41 .o0 linux user:267497 0o. |____ | kühn media australia | / \ /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | .\__/ || | | | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kühn | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |/ ._/ || | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |'. `\ | | |icq: 5483808 | ;/ / | | | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| | mobile: 0410-728-389 | ' `-`' | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU Coralament*Best Grötens*Liebe Grüße*Best Regards*Elkorajn Salutojn Lighten up, while you still can, Don't even try to understand, Just find a place to make your stand, And take it easy. -- The Eagles, Take It Easy Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Wireless
On Thu, 2002-12-19 at 03:04, Matt Harrison wrote: Hey all, I have a MicronPC TransPort GX3 Laptop with a built in wireless network card and a regular network card. The wireless is setup as eth0 and the other is eth1. I work in many different buildings and so far I have been unable to gain internet access with the wireless card. It appears the only thing it is able to do is grab an IP address. Is there more I need to configure with it, because I didn't see anything else about it. Could the fact it shows up in the Unknown hardware list be the problem. I don't recall the make of it offhand, but on the website it said it was linux compatable. It looks like harddrake is detecting it as a Lucent Technologies WaveLan/IEEE Adaptor runing the wvlan_cd module. Any help would be appreciated. Matt Harrison MMNet Technology Support For it to be showing up in the unknown list, something obviously ain't quite right...but if when you're booting up (or restarting networking) it ain't hanging up, well, it might actually be working... Have you tried manually restarting the service? (i.e., service network --full-restart) -- Thu Dec 19 07:30:00 EST 2002 7:30am up 57 min, 3 users, load average: 0.57, 0.32, 0.34 .o0 linux user:267497 0o. |____ | kühn media australia | / \ /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | .\__/ || | | | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kühn | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |/ ._/ || | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |'. `\ | | |icq: 5483808 | ;/ / | | | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| | mobile: 0410-728-389 | ' `-`' | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU Coralament*Best Grötens*Liebe Grüße*Best Regards*Elkorajn Salutojn We are MicroSoft. You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile. (Attributed to B.G., Gill Bates) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] apache on 2nd machine?
On Thu, 2002-12-19 at 14:50, Jerry wrote: OK, I'm hoping this is possible Main computer: windows 98se with ICS 2nd computer: Mandrake 9.0 Connection: Main: 2 NIC's. one to the cable modem (no router) and one to connect via crossover cable to the 2nd box 2nd: 1 NIC connected via crossover cable to the main computer. Objective: to run apache from the 2nd computer not just on the local network but also on the internet. Other info: using a dynamic DNS service from no-ip.com, using their update program for linux machines on the 2nd computer it resolves (i think it's resolving it... it doesn't give much output) to the main computer's IP (that of the cable modem) can this be done? If not, are my only options to either run the webserver from the main computer (keeping existing network hardware), buy a router and connect both computers to IT then to the cable modem, or pay the cable co. the extra 6 bucks a month and get a 2nd IP for the 2nd computer. Some possible problems: 2nd computer has no room for another ISA ethernet card (don't even know if i could still get one) and I cannot for the life of me get any of the PCI slots to work with the 2nd (pci) NIC out of the other computer (which dual boots to mandrake and works FABULOUSLY) to work with the 2nd computer and mandrake. In fact, i can't even get the soundcard (opl3-sa1) card in the other isa slot to work (still trying to figure that one out). If i could, I'd just switch the computers places in the network. Main computer is the one my other half uses and refuses to use linux because WinMX won't run on it. In fact if I don't reboot it into Windows when I'm done with it she just hits the reset button on it (grr) and boots windows. Thanks in advance for any help :) You guys are the greatest. Jerry Why not put the linux box in front of the Windows box instead? Easier and faster...and, you can use the built-in firewalling - as well as setting it up as your own internal email server, ftp server, web server, gopher server, IRC server, nntp server, jabber server, vpn server, database server...etc etc etc... When I had cable (back in Garland, Tx), I put my lowly little Slackware 3.6 box in front of the rest of the network and used ipchains to allow access to the rest...that was in '98...worked like a charm. Was able to access my home network from where ever I was, as well as have access for my buddies and workmates... -- Thu Dec 19 07:40:00 EST 2002 7:40am up 1:07, 3 users, load average: 0.69, 0.42, 0.36 .o0 linux user:267497 0o. |____ | kühn media australia | / \ /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | .\__/ || | | | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kühn | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |/ ._/ || | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |'. `\ | | |icq: 5483808 | ;/ / | | | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| | mobile: 0410-728-389 | ' `-`' | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU Coralament*Best Grötens*Liebe Grüße*Best Regards*Elkorajn Salutojn The lawgiver, of all beings, most owes the law allegiance. He of all men should behave as though the law compelled him. But it is the universal weakness of mankind that what we are given to administer we presently imagine we own. -- H.G. Wells Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] How to stop these polling messages...
Hi all, My cable-ISP keeps sending polling messages to my computer. Looks like: Dec 18 22:08:38 tbird kernel: Packet log: input DENY eth1 PROTO=17 217.120.75.23 2:1228 217.120.75.255:39213 L=296 S=0x00 I=15906 F=0x T=128 (#33) Dec 18 22:08:38 tbird kernel: Packet log: input DENY eth1 PROTO=17 217.120.75.23 2:1229 217.120.75.255:39213 L=852 S=0x00 I=15907 F=0x T=128 (#33) Dec 18 22:08:38 tbird kernel: Packet log: input DENY eth1 PROTO=17 217.120.75.23 2:1230 217.120.75.255:39213 L=140 S=0x00 I=15908 F=0x T=128 (#33) Dec 18 22:08:40 tbird kernel: Packet log: input DENY eth1 PROTO=17 217.120.75.23 2:1231 217.120.75.255:39213 L=296 S=0x00 I=15909 F=0x T=128 (#33) Dec 18 22:08:41 tbird kernel: Packet log: input DENY eth1 PROTO=17 217.120.75.23 2:1232 217.120.75.255:39213 L=140 S=0x00 I=15910 F=0x T=128 (#33) In itself no problem. But these things also show up in /var/log/messages, and pop through on the console outside of X. Is there a way that you know to suppress this stuff? Or, on second thought, is this coming from somewhere else, e.g. a firewall? Paul -- Even for our enemies in misery--there should be tears in our eyes. -Charan Singh, mystic http://nlpagan.net - OS:Linux Mandrake 8.2 - E-mail:Sylpheed 0.8.6 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] (long)New machine, new home net, new headache...
Howdy list mates; I'm positive this has been covered in agonizing detail multiple times but there are a few issues that I need refreshed so I'll post the questions again. I hope nobody minds. My downstairs neighbor bought a new tower (replaced a Celeron 366) based on: ECS K7SEM (yeah I know but he doesn't listen and has a WAY limited budget.) Duron 850, running standard clock on o/c bus, running at 896 MHz no trouble, no overheating. http://www.ecsusa.com/products/k7sem_v3.html (for board specs) 30 GB Maxtor I don't have the partition table in front of me, sorry, but; XP Pro (NTFS first 6 GB), Mandrake 9.0 (/boot ext2, and / as ext3, usual suspects on XFS, 12.+ GB), FAT 32 shared as /winshare (11.+ GB). Both OSes seem content with that. 384 MB PC 133 SDRAM connection: ADSL (using DHCP) access He's a Windows kinda guy unfortunately; but when I helped him set up his new machine I helped him decide to give Mandrake 9.0 a try as a dual boot with his Windows 98 SE. That was fun. :-( First partitioned the drive for the different OSes (used disk drake from 'Drake 9.0 installer and made partitions for Windows/sharing FAT32, installed 9.0) since he actually got an early present of XP Pro and decided to triple boot. He's been running 98 SE (comfort zone) and wanted to use that, 'learn' XP, plus learn Mandrake 9.0. 98 SE is now dead, doesn't exist, it's _gone._ I got sick of arguing with it. Dual boot is enough. He'll deal. Or not. (sort of a workaround for WinXP arrogance/stupidity here) Everything was fine to the 'install XP' stage. At the first XP reboot after identifying which partition to install on the installer kept starting over. Lilo was also missing in action but I expected that and knew how to recover it. But XP complained about another Windows installation seems to be present... blah blah blah so I was forced to rescue lilo, change the /win mount points (nuked 98 SE, edited FSTAB and LILO to reflect that and ident the NT boot) rebooted, installed (first stage) XP, rebooted. Rescued lilo *again*, just to get Windows to finish the install and *shut up.* That worked. Finally. :-) All this after I remembered what order I had used when I made the users originally. Ooops. ;-) Enough complaining. His son has access to an old Compaq Presario 7360 w/AMD K62 500 MHz, 192 (added 128) MB SDRAM, 8.4 GB hdd, on-board everything. Blech! Now for the fun part; They want to network the two and share the DSL connection without spending a ton (both on a very limited budget, son is unemployed/a student) on routers, switches, hubs, etc.. I have available; a crossover cable, RJ45 shielded (+ shielded ends) long enough to connect, enough NICs for a quorum, and (maybe) enough time. Unfortunately the XP machine has to be the 'router/gateway' for the network they want. Hardware (MAC) addresses etc. One phone call to his ISP a day is enough thanks. Help-desk personnel aren't overly helpful. In case anyone is wondering; I'll deal with the ISP for activation of another IP address if/when it's needed so don't worry. I ain't doing this in pirate mode since I'm the guy that refuses to even share music files with anyone but my kids. They swipe my CDs in other words. g My neighbors just can't afford a hell of a lot of additional hardware or software. Questions; The XP machine will have two network interfaces, eth0 (the on-board) for internet access, eth1 (D-Link are what I have available here) for network connection using the crossover cable run to the other machine's eth0. That I understand. What if any 'additional' (other than Samba) software will be required to interface (file share, share printer, scanner, drive[s]) XP with Mandrake 9.0? Also what will I need to configure to keep from locking either machine up if the other reboots to run a different OS or when 'updating' XP or 98 SE? The Compaq has Windows 98 SE and will (soon) be booting Mandrake (8.2?, 9.0? suggestions?) as well. The young feller wants to learn to use GNU/Linux; and will probably spend the majority of his time in Mandrake. This would mean even one lock-up when the father does something silly is unacceptable. Or vice versa. Is this possible? Or do I have to convince him to invest in a hub/switch or router? I'd really like not to have to try to convince them of that. Hardware ain't cheap in Canada. Thanks for reading and sorry for the length. Any help or hints will be more than welcome. Regards; -- Charlie Edmonton,AB,Canada Registered user 244963 at http://counter.li.org The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just terrible. -- Jean Kerr Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Wireless
On Wednesday 18 Dec 2002 4:04 pm, Matt Harrison wrote: Hey all, I have a MicronPC TransPort GX3 Laptop with a built in wireless network card and a regular network card. The wireless is setup as eth0 and the other is eth1. I work in many different buildings and so far I have been unable to gain internet access with the wireless card. It appears the only thing it is able to do is grab an IP address. Is there more I need to configure with it, because I didn't see anything else about it. Could the fact it shows up in the Unknown hardware list be the problem. I don't recall the make of it offhand, but on the website it said it was linux compatable. It looks like harddrake is detecting it as a Lucent Technologies WaveLan/IEEE Adaptor runing the wvlan_cd module. Any help would be appreciated. Matt Harrison MMNet Technology Support The networking GUI in Mandrake Control Centre will detect and install the drivers for most types of wireless cards, but it cannot know the wireless parameters unless you tell it. Just go through the Wizard in the networking GUI and you will be prompted. The essential things it needs to know are mode -Managed or Ad-Hoc essid - 'Any' or to match your wireless network rate - usually 11M and most importantly key - 5 or 10 Hexadecimal numbers to match the encryption key of your network. (or an ascii string preceeded by 's:' (without the quotes)) Needless to say, until you give a correct encryption key it aint gonna work:) Alternatively. If it is getting an IP address via DHCP, then it is possible the card is already working perfectly, but your computer is set up to use eth1 as its default path. You can test this out by typing in a root terminal. route del default (to delete your current default route) route add default eth0 (to make the wireless card the default route) The command route without any parameters will list the paths the computer currently uses to reach any destination. Do not worry about screwing your computer up with these route commands. The computer will revert to normal configuration on the next boot. HTH derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] apache on 2nd machine?
Stephen: Thx for the feedback. I'd love to do that but. I can't get a pci ethernet card to work on the 2nd puter and the ISA slots are full. Windows has to be on the main machine since my girlfried has put in half the money for it (including the new 17 monitor) and she won't hear of it if i were to try and get her to use the little puter with only a 3gig hard drive and old hardware plus a sound card that doesn't want to work. If she wasn't so smart i'd just delete the windows partition on the main box and say OOPS honey, there's something wrong with the main computer! windows won't boot! But as she is she'd know exactly what I did LOL. (no i wouldn't really do that... hehehe) So.. is it possible to set this up or do you think i'm going to have to get this machine it's own IP with att? Thanks :-) Jerry. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How to stop these polling messages...
On Thu, 2002-12-19 at 08:11, Paul wrote: Hi all, My cable-ISP keeps sending polling messages to my computer. Looks like: Dec 18 22:08:38 tbird kernel: Packet log: input DENY eth1 PROTO=17 217.120.75.23 2:1228 217.120.75.255:39213 L=296 S=0x00 I=15906 F=0x T=128 (#33) Dec 18 22:08:38 tbird kernel: Packet log: input DENY eth1 PROTO=17 217.120.75.23 2:1229 217.120.75.255:39213 L=852 S=0x00 I=15907 F=0x T=128 (#33) Dec 18 22:08:38 tbird kernel: Packet log: input DENY eth1 PROTO=17 217.120.75.23 2:1230 217.120.75.255:39213 L=140 S=0x00 I=15908 F=0x T=128 (#33) Dec 18 22:08:40 tbird kernel: Packet log: input DENY eth1 PROTO=17 217.120.75.23 2:1231 217.120.75.255:39213 L=296 S=0x00 I=15909 F=0x T=128 (#33) Dec 18 22:08:41 tbird kernel: Packet log: input DENY eth1 PROTO=17 217.120.75.23 2:1232 217.120.75.255:39213 L=140 S=0x00 I=15910 F=0x T=128 (#33) In itself no problem. But these things also show up in /var/log/messages, and pop through on the console outside of X. Is there a way that you know to suppress this stuff? Or, on second thought, is this coming from somewhere else, e.g. a firewall? Paul That IP address resolves to: Non-authoritative answer: 94.67.120.212.in-addr.arpa name = r1-pos2-0.mill1.nb.home.nl. Authoritative answers can be found from: 67.120.212.in-addr.arpa nameserver = ns1.home.nl. 67.120.212.in-addr.arpa nameserver = ns2.home.nl. What about blocking the port? -- Thu Dec 19 08:30:00 EST 2002 8:30am up 1:57, 4 users, load average: 0.58, 0.22, 0.15 .o0 linux user:267497 0o. |____ | kühn media australia | / \ /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | .\__/ || | | | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kühn | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |/ ._/ || | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |'. `\ | | |icq: 5483808 | ;/ / | | | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| | mobile: 0410-728-389 | ' `-`' | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU Coralament*Best Grötens*Liebe Grüße*Best Regards*Elkorajn Salutojn Digital circuits are made from analog parts. -- Don Vonada Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] (long)New machine, new home net, new headache...
Hope I can help out with this a little. I don't have XP but i do run win98 on my main machine dual boot with mandrake 8.2 and mandrake 9.0 on my little puter What I had to do to get the networking done was to: Boot main machine to mandrake, added a simple rc.firewall script for IP masquerading that i found on the net, rebooted. Installed mandrake 9.0 on the little puter while main machine was running mandrake. Network configuration during install on the little puter set everything up just right the first try, didn't have to change anything to get network access. next, booted to windows and enabled Internet Connection Sharing. rebooted. The whole time, the little puter was running in the background in the other room. Now, even if I reboot the main machine I don't have to do anything to the little puter to get network connections back... as soon as the OS on the main machine loads, the network runs on both, and nothing on the little puter locks up durring the main machine's reboot. Like I said, I don't have XP (and wouldn't) so I don't know how it works, but I do know that it works fine with win98 with little problem. Jerry On Wed, 2002-12-18 at 16:32, Charlie wrote: Howdy list mates; I'm positive this has been covered in agonizing detail multiple times but there are a few issues that I need refreshed so I'll post the questions again. I hope nobody minds. My downstairs neighbor bought a new tower (replaced a Celeron 366) based on: ECS K7SEM (yeah I know but he doesn't listen and has a WAY limited budget.) Duron 850, running standard clock on o/c bus, running at 896 MHz no trouble, no overheating. http://www.ecsusa.com/products/k7sem_v3.html (for board specs) 30 GB Maxtor I don't have the partition table in front of me, sorry, but; XP Pro (NTFS first 6 GB), Mandrake 9.0 (/boot ext2, and / as ext3, usual suspects on XFS, 12.+ GB), FAT 32 shared as /winshare (11.+ GB). Both OSes seem content with that. 384 MB PC 133 SDRAM connection: ADSL (using DHCP) access He's a Windows kinda guy unfortunately; but when I helped him set up his new machine I helped him decide to give Mandrake 9.0 a try as a dual boot with his Windows 98 SE. That was fun. :-( First partitioned the drive for the different OSes (used disk drake from 'Drake 9.0 installer and made partitions for Windows/sharing FAT32, installed 9.0) since he actually got an early present of XP Pro and decided to triple boot. He's been running 98 SE (comfort zone) and wanted to use that, 'learn' XP, plus learn Mandrake 9.0. 98 SE is now dead, doesn't exist, it's _gone._ I got sick of arguing with it. Dual boot is enough. He'll deal. Or not. (sort of a workaround for WinXP arrogance/stupidity here) Everything was fine to the 'install XP' stage. At the first XP reboot after identifying which partition to install on the installer kept starting over. Lilo was also missing in action but I expected that and knew how to recover it. But XP complained about another Windows installation seems to be present... blah blah blah so I was forced to rescue lilo, change the /win mount points (nuked 98 SE, edited FSTAB and LILO to reflect that and ident the NT boot) rebooted, installed (first stage) XP, rebooted. Rescued lilo *again*, just to get Windows to finish the install and *shut up.* That worked. Finally. :-) All this after I remembered what order I had used when I made the users originally. Ooops. ;-) Enough complaining. His son has access to an old Compaq Presario 7360 w/AMD K62 500 MHz, 192 (added 128) MB SDRAM, 8.4 GB hdd, on-board everything. Blech! Now for the fun part; They want to network the two and share the DSL connection without spending a ton (both on a very limited budget, son is unemployed/a student) on routers, switches, hubs, etc.. I have available; a crossover cable, RJ45 shielded (+ shielded ends) long enough to connect, enough NICs for a quorum, and (maybe) enough time. Unfortunately the XP machine has to be the 'router/gateway' for the network they want. Hardware (MAC) addresses etc. One phone call to his ISP a day is enough thanks. Help-desk personnel aren't overly helpful. In case anyone is wondering; I'll deal with the ISP for activation of another IP address if/when it's needed so don't worry. I ain't doing this in pirate mode since I'm the guy that refuses to even share music files with anyone but my kids. They swipe my CDs in other words. g My neighbors just can't afford a hell of a lot of additional hardware or software. Questions; The XP machine will have two network interfaces, eth0 (the on-board) for internet access, eth1 (D-Link are what I have available here) for network connection using the crossover cable run to the other machine's eth0. That I understand. What if any 'additional' (other than Samba) software will be required to interface (file share, share printer, scanner, drive[s]) XP with
[newbie] Win4Lin
someone was suggesting win4lin to try to run a couple of programs.. counter strike and something else... (sorry lost the original mail) I own win4lin and I can tell you one thing... if it required direct x it won't run on win4lin some network programs won't run on it (ones that i've tried: KaZaa, WinMX, Cheetachat are a few that don't work) and anything that uses msvbvm dll's won't run. (not sure if the msvbvm problem is just on my machine, but i've never gotten anything that uses msvb to work) For normal every day apps it works great though. I can run MS office, Realplayer, Quicktime, Photoshop, thing like that on it with no problem. Jerry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] (long)New machine, new home net, new headache...
On Thu, 2002-12-19 at 08:32, Charlie wrote: Howdy list mates; Thanks for reading and sorry for the length. Any help or hints will be more than welcome. Regards; -- Charlie Edmonton,AB,Canada With the one machine being the gateway and not having a hub, lockups are inevitable. Sorry mate. Either which, you can setup Samba to emulate the exact same workgroup setup as you'd have with XP - just make sure you mirror server name, server IP, share names, etc etc etc...that'll be close enough to nice to keep things from falling apart. When (and if) I reboot my machine here (the linux box/server), the SMB setup is exactly the same so that nothing and no one on the network suffer...that is, IF I reboot - which is seldom unless I make serious modifications to the network or the server. -- Thu Dec 19 08:45:00 EST 2002 8:45am up 2:12, 4 users, load average: 0.44, 0.14, 0.10 .o0 linux user:267497 0o. |____ | kühn media australia | / \ /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | .\__/ || | | | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kühn | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |/ ._/ || | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |'. `\ | | |icq: 5483808 | ;/ / | | | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| | mobile: 0410-728-389 | ' `-`' | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU Coralament*Best Grötens*Liebe Grüße*Best Regards*Elkorajn Salutojn But you who live on dreams, you are better pleased with the sophistical reasoning and frauds of talkers about great and uncertain matters than those who speak of certain and natural matters, not of such lofty nature. -- Leonardo Da Vinci, The Codex on the Flight of Birds Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] apache on 2nd machine?
On Thu, 2002-12-19 at 18:32, Jerry wrote: Stephen: Thx for the feedback. I'd love to do that but. I can't get a pci ethernet card to work on the 2nd puter and the ISA slots are full. Windows has to be on the main machine since my girlfried has put in half the money for it (including the new 17 monitor) and she won't hear of it if i were to try and get her to use the little puter with only a 3gig hard drive and old hardware plus a sound card that doesn't want to work. If she wasn't so smart i'd just delete the windows partition on the main box and say OOPS honey, there's something wrong with the main computer! windows won't boot! But as she is she'd know exactly what I did LOL. (no i wouldn't really do that... hehehe) So.. is it possible to set this up or do you think i'm going to have to get this machine it's own IP with att? Thanks :-) Jerry. It would probably be better and overall more efficient (and less hassle) to get an IP for the linux box...sorry to say...and I used to hate giving ATT anymore money than they deserved... ...can't ya just slap her around a bit and make her see the light as it were? (g) -- Thu Dec 19 08:55:00 EST 2002 8:55am up 2:22, 4 users, load average: 0.46, 0.25, 0.15 .o0 linux user:267497 0o. |____ | kühn media australia | / \ /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | .\__/ || | | | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kühn | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |/ ._/ || | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |'. `\ | | |icq: 5483808 | ;/ / | | | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| | mobile: 0410-728-389 | ' `-`' | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU Coralament*Best Grötens*Liebe Grüße*Best Regards*Elkorajn Salutojn To understand this important story, you have to understand how the telephone company works. Your telephone is connected to a local computer, which is in turn connected to a regional computer, which is in turn connected to a loudspeaker the size of a garbage truck on the lawn of Edna A. Bargewater of Lawrence, Kan. Whenever you talk on the phone, your local computer listens in. If it suspects you're going to discuss an intimate topic, it notifies the computer above it, which listens in and decides whether to alert the one above it, until finally, if you really humiliate yourself, maybe break down in tears and tell your closest friend about a sordid incident from your past involving a seedy motel, a neighbor's spouse, an entire religious order, a garden hose and six quarts of tapioca pudding, the top computer feeds your conversation into Edna's loudspeaker, and she and her friends come out on the porch to listen and drink gin and laugh themselves silly. -- Dave Barry, Won't It Be Just Great Owning Our Own Phones? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printing envelopes
At 10:22 PM 12/17/2002 -0600, you wrote: Anne, I don't print many envelopes and I don't make them part of the main document. The OO letter function does not work quite as well as MS Office. It just formats a page that happens to be envelope size. If there's a way for it to automatically recognize the address from a letter, for instance, I don't know how to accomplish that. I'm a simpleton, I guess. I just start a new document, set the page format to envelope, type that addresses and print. That suits me for the very few envelopes I do print. I have not had any trouble with OO restarting itself. I've had a few other difficulties with MDK 9.0, browsers that suddenly quit communication to printer, Galeon freezing all the time, Software Updater has never worked, and a few other annoyances. I fixed the browsers be removing and reinstalling. I've not figured out Software Updater, it connects but won't download a thing from any connected server. Oh, well, now I'm wandering far off topic. I don't have any other ideas for you on OO except to try the old Microsoft solution of remove and reinstall. I personally hate that approach as I want to know what's wrong and fix it directly. Good luck. Linus On Monday 16 December 2002 04:47 am, Anne Wilson wrote: OK, Linus. Now I need some pointers. I'm used to Lotus WordPro, which recognises an envelope as a separate section, changing the orientation for that section only. In OOo I found that creating an envelope put the envelope as page 1 of the document. Can that page be re-oriented without affecting the body of the letter? My problem is that everything is, quite reasonably, I suppose, done to make change from MSOffice easy, but if you didn't use that anyway it can be a struggle to find how to achieve things. Any help you can give would be greatly appreciated. I do find that if I do something that upsets OOo it goes into this spontaneous re-boot, often corrupting the file as well. I had to re-type a long one yesterday because of that. Anne On Monday 16 Dec 2002 3:11 am, Linus Drouhard wrote: I print envelopes on occasion with OO. No problems or special setup. I just set the envelope into landscape mode and it works fine. Linus On Sunday 15 December 2002 01:45 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: Has anyone cracked printing envelopes? In OOo and SO6 I get a spontaneous reboot as soon as I try to do it. John, do you print envelopes in KWrite? There has to be a way - it's degrading to have to use windows to print the envelope. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com you may want to resend that to whoever you meant to send it to :P - FemmeFatale Good Decisions You boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
SV: [newbie] substitute MDK 8.2 for MDK 9.0
Hello Ivette, I want to install MDK 9.0 over MDK 8.2 without loosing all my settings (samba, komba2, VNC, documents,passwords,) Is this possible? Yes, there is an upgrade function on the MDK 9.0 ISO's or CD's. Do I have to re-format root partition and leave the rest as it is? Nope, you don't have to, however as you have seen on this list, many people have had problems with MDK 9.0, personally I have not encountered any of these problems and the upgrade went really smoothly, but of course there is an old saying that says If it ain't broken, don't fix it. I am running 8.2 at work on a box and I am very happy with it, I have managed to compile new versions of most programs that I use like Sylpheed for example. Cheers Anders Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] alternatives
-Original Message- From: Aaron Mehl [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] I have a dual boot mandrak 9.0 and w2k. Even with all the complexity of linux I much prefer it over w2k. Did you look a win4lin?? This is not a toy like wine is. The problem with vmware is the price and I tried the demo and was not so impressed with performance, although those who know how to tweak it say they can get it to rock. My understanding is that win4lin doesn't work with any Direct X apps. The second PC is only a Pentium 200 w/ 64MB. So I may go with bsd or a very light mdk install in the next go'round. Not sure yet. I am trying to blow away w2k as soon as I can. This is getting me crazy rebooting. and I am wasting disk space as well. my advice is don't jump for mandrake 9.0 so fast. I have used many distributions. Redhat, Suse, debian, and mandrak. I've only used BSD, RH5, RH8, mdk7, 8, 8.1, 8.2, and now 9. Of those, I'm most impressed with 9 as a user desktop. To me, it had the best chance of getting an old window user to make a full switch. The only one that has been problem free has been Redhat. Debian is cool but not for the faint hearted. Suse is way to big. I use Mandrake cause someone hacked it for audio applications. otherwise I would be using Redhat. For networking applications, (nessus, bb, mrtg, fwlogwatch, and the like), I'd also pick 9.0, though I've run other versions in production with no problems major issues. I think that's something I failed to mention in my first post... I'm totally happy with the choice of mdk as a dedicated work box, so long as I can rdp to a MSTS that has Visio on it. (Also gets me Exchange calendar and resource scheduling.) (this is all just my opinion) Since I missed your thread on the Mandrake newbies, what do you use visio for, and what alternivies did you try on linux?? I've used dia, kivio (what's with the $10 stencils???), and another I can't remember. Don't get me wrong, I can draw a decent network diagram in any of these. I just can't pass these documents back and forth to customers, management, and co-workers with ease. lol Aaron ~Brandon Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Win4Lin
On Thursday 19 Dec 2002 7:51 am, Jerry wrote: someone was suggesting win4lin to try to run a couple of programs.. counter strike and something else... (sorry lost the original mail) I own win4lin and I can tell you one thing... if it required direct x it won't run on win4lin some network programs won't run on it (ones that i've tried: KaZaa, WinMX, Cheetachat are a few that don't work) and anything that uses msvbvm dll's won't run. (not sure if the msvbvm problem is just on my machine, but i've never gotten anything that uses msvb to work) For normal every day apps it works great though. I can run MS office, Realplayer, Quicktime, Photoshop, thing like that on it with no problem. Jerry Just to add to the list - I run Lotus SmartSuite and PagePlus 8 Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printing envelopes
At 03:02 PM 12/18/2002 -0700, you wrote: At 10:22 PM 12/17/2002 -0600, you wrote: you may want to resend that to whoever you meant to send it to :P - FemmeFatale Sorry that was a misfire :P Heh hit reply by accident on something in the trash - FemmeFatale Good Decisions You boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] (long)New machine, new home net, new headache...
On Wed, 18 Dec 2002 14:32:31 -0700 Charlie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Howdy list mates; I'm positive this has been covered in agonizing detail multiple times but there are a few issues that I need refreshed so I'll post the questions again. I hope nobody minds. My downstairs neighbor bought a new tower (replaced a Celeron 366) based on: ECS K7SEM (yeah I know but he doesn't listen and has a WAY limited budget.) Duron 850, running standard clock on o/c bus, running at 896 MHz no trouble, no overheating. http://www.ecsusa.com/products/k7sem_v3.html (for board specs) 30 GB Maxtor I don't have the partition table in front of me, sorry, but; XP Pro (NTFS first 6 GB), Mandrake 9.0 (/boot ext2, and / as ext3, usual suspects on XFS, 12.+ GB), FAT 32 shared as /winshare (11.+ GB). Both OSes seem content with that. 384 MB PC 133 SDRAM connection: ADSL (using DHCP) access He's a Windows kinda guy unfortunately; but when I helped him set up his new machine I helped him decide to give Mandrake 9.0 a try as a dual boot with his Windows 98 SE. That was fun. :-( First partitioned the drive for the different OSes (used disk drake from 'Drake 9.0 installer and made partitions for Windows/sharing FAT32, installed 9.0) since he actually got an early present of XP Pro and decided to triple boot. He's been running 98 SE (comfort zone) and wanted to use that, 'learn' XP, plus learn Mandrake 9.0. 98 SE is now dead, doesn't exist, it's _gone._ I got sick of arguing with it. Dual boot is enough. He'll deal. Or not. (sort of a workaround for WinXP arrogance/stupidity here) Everything was fine to the 'install XP' stage. At the first XP reboot after identifying which partition to install on the installer kept starting over. Lilo was also missing in action but I expected that and knew how to recover it. But XP complained about another Windows installation seems to be present... blah blah blah so I was forced to rescue lilo, change the /win mount points (nuked 98 SE, edited FSTAB and LILO to reflect that and ident the NT boot) rebooted, installed (first stage) XP, rebooted. Rescued lilo *again*, just to get Windows to finish the install and *shut up.* That worked. Finally. :-) All this after I remembered what order I had used when I made the users originally. Ooops. ;-) Enough complaining. His son has access to an old Compaq Presario 7360 w/AMD K62 500 MHz, 192 (added 128) MB SDRAM, 8.4 GB hdd, on-board everything. Blech! Now for the fun part; They want to network the two and share the DSL connection without spending a ton (both on a very limited budget, son is unemployed/a student) on routers, switches, hubs, etc.. I have available; a crossover cable, RJ45 shielded (+ shielded ends) long enough to connect, enough NICs for a quorum, and (maybe) enough time. Unfortunately the XP machine has to be the 'router/gateway' for the network they want. Hardware (MAC) addresses etc. One phone call to his ISP a day is enough thanks. Help-desk personnel aren't overly helpful. In case anyone is wondering; I'll deal with the ISP for activation of another IP address if/when it's needed so don't worry. I ain't doing this in pirate mode since I'm the guy that refuses to even share music files with anyone but my kids. They swipe my CDs in other words. g My neighbors just can't afford a hell of a lot of additional hardware or software. Questions; The XP machine will have two network interfaces, eth0 (the on-board) for internet access, eth1 (D-Link are what I have available here) for network connection using the crossover cable run to the other machine's eth0. That I understand. What if any 'additional' (other than Samba) software will be required to interface (file share, share printer, scanner, drive[s]) XP with Mandrake 9.0? Also what will I need to configure to keep from locking either machine up if the other reboots to run a different OS or when 'updating' XP or 98 SE? The Compaq has Windows 98 SE and will (soon) be booting Mandrake (8.2?, 9.0? suggestions?) as well. The young feller wants to learn to use GNU/Linux; and will probably spend the majority of his time in Mandrake. This would mean even one lock-up when the father does something silly is unacceptable. Or vice versa. Is this possible? Or do I have to convince him to invest in a hub/switch or router? I'd really like not to have to try to convince them of that. Hardware ain't cheap in Canada. Thanks for reading and sorry for the length. Any help or hints will be more than welcome. Regards; -- Charlie, I would strongly advise using a hub with that mess. The fact that the ISP is using DHCP is going to cause a major headache if they are dual booting more than one 'puter. Something is going to need being in one OS or you're going to have IP difficulties on the internal network. Spence Want to buy your Pack or Services from
[newbie] Scanjet 3200c almost working...
I'm trying to make my HP3200c working; in /usr/src/sane-backends-1.0.9/tools, I type ./umax_pp -p -t 1 and the device is detected, all seems OK; but if I try xsane or scanimahe, the response is no sane device found; if I add umax_pp option, I get invalid argument... I changed umax_pp.conf (port 0x378) and dll.conf (umax_pp): there something other I have to do...? Thanks all. Smiley Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Win4Lin
On Wed, 18 Dec 2002 22:46:01 + Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For normal every day apps it works great though. I can run MS office, Realplayer, Quicktime, Photoshop, thing like that on it with no problem. Jerry Just to add to the list - I run Lotus SmartSuite and PagePlus 8 Does it works for Yahoo Messenger's voice chat? Smiley Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Re: [Cooker] rosegarden-4-0.82mdk.rpm midi notation package
I also wanted this package and I've succesfully installed it by compiling the source code from the rosegarden website. You'll need JACK to allow rosegarden to connect to the MIDI ports on your soundcard, rpms available from ftp.rpmfind.net/linux/Mandrake/9.0/contrib/RPMS/ Not well documented but good to know: if you use alsa and jack configure as follows (aRts support is compiled in by default): $ ./configure --with-alsa --with-jack (otherwise rosegarden's jack client is not compiled in), then just $ make $ make install When you get build errors, fix them by installing the relevant -devel rpms from the mdk cds. I'm sorry, I've never build rpms but good luck, Huub = Subject: [Cooker] rosegarden-4-0.82mdk.rpm midi notation package Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 00:22:43 -0800 From: Brent Hasty [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: List Cookers [EMAIL PROTECTED], List MDK Expert [EMAIL PROTECTED], List MDK Newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am attempting to install rosegarden-4 midi notation package and am running into a dependancy problem, I have checked rpm-find and others for mandrake versions of these without luick, maby someone out there can help, maby even proviede a more mdk 9.0 friendly version of this package. The failed dependancys are: alsa-driver = 0.9.0 beta12 jack-audio-connection-kit libasound.so.1 -- 12:18am up 4 days, 48 min, 7 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 --- -- 9:06am up 4 days, 9:36, 7 users, load average: 0.52, 0.51, 0.46 -- http://www.sold.com.au - SOLD.com.au - Find yourself a bargain! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Scanjet 3200c almost working...
El Mié 18 Dic 2002 20:05, Smiley escribió: I'm trying to make my HP3200c working; in /usr/src/sane-backends-1.0.9/tools, I type ./umax_pp -p -t 1 and the device is detected, all seems OK; but if I try xsane or scanimahe, the response is no sane device found; if I add umax_pp option, I get invalid argument... I changed umax_pp.conf (port 0x378) and dll.conf (umax_pp): there something other I have to do...? Thanks all. Smiley Smiley: Try this: xsane umax_pp:0x378 (I never get it to work as user; only root.) Suerte. -- Pilagá GNU/Linux Mandrake 9.0 9:48pm up 29 min, 3 users, load average: 0.04, 0.03, 0.00 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Scanjet 3200c almost working...
On Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:54:00 -0300 Pilagá [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Smiley: Try this: xsane umax_pp:0x378 (I never get it to work as user; only root.) I did it: impossible to open umax_pp:0x378 device: invalid argument... é_è Corrado Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Win4Lin
On Wednesday 18 Dec 2002 10:46 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 19 Dec 2002 7:51 am, Jerry wrote: someone was suggesting win4lin to try to run a couple of programs.. counter strike and something else... (sorry lost the original mail) I own win4lin and I can tell you one thing... if it required direct x it won't run on win4lin some network programs won't run on it (ones that i've tried: KaZaa, WinMX, Cheetachat are a few that don't work) and anything that uses msvbvm dll's won't run. (not sure if the msvbvm problem is just on my machine, but i've never gotten anything that uses msvb to work) For normal every day apps it works great though. I can run MS office, Realplayer, Quicktime, Photoshop, thing like that on it with no problem. Jerry Just to add to the list - I run Lotus SmartSuite and PagePlus 8 Anne Anyone know how Reference Manager or Endnote go with win4lin or wine? Otherwise can anyone recommend an established linux citation manager? Thanks in advance Richard Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] apache on 2nd machine?
On Thu, 2002-12-19 at 14:50, Jerry wrote: OK, I'm hoping this is possible Main computer: windows 98se with ICS 2nd computer: Mandrake 9.0 Connection: Main: 2 NIC's. one to the cable modem (no router) and one to connect via crossover cable to the 2nd box 2nd: 1 NIC connected via crossover cable to the main computer. Objective: to run apache from the 2nd computer not just on the local network but also on the internet. Other info: using a dynamic DNS service from no-ip.com, using their update program for linux machines on the 2nd computer it resolves (i think it's resolving it... it doesn't give much output) to the main computer's IP (that of the cable modem) can this be done? You will need to set up port forwarding on your Windows computer. If you port forward port 80 on the main computer to port 80 on the 2nd computer, all http requests will be transparently forwarded to the 2nd computer. A bit of Googling found a free app to help configure port forwarding with ICS on Win98: http://www.practicallynetworked.com/sharing/ics/icsconfiguration.htm Let us know how you go. Regards, John... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Scanjet 3200c almost working...
I hooked up a older scanjet and used Kooka to run it as a user. It didn't find it the first time I ran it but worked on the second try. Roly On Wed, 2002-12-18 at 20:13, Smiley wrote: On Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:54:00 -0300 Pilagá [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Smiley: Try this: xsane umax_pp:0x378 (I never get it to work as user; only root.) I did it: impossible to open umax_pp:0x378 device: invalid argument... é_è Corrado Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- The box said to install windows 2000 or better! So I installed Linux!! Linux Counter #241069 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] alternatives
I also have dual boot with mdk9 and win2k. Does win4lin work with win2k? I thought that it doesn't! I want to run my two best win programs in linux: Photoshop 7 and Freehand10. I'm trying to put my vmware running to do what i want but win4lin does seems to a nice alternative. cheers, filipe - Original Message - From: Brandon Vanderberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 10:09 PM Subject: RE: [newbie] alternatives -Original Message- From: Aaron Mehl [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] I have a dual boot mandrak 9.0 and w2k. Even with all the complexity of linux I much prefer it over w2k. Did you look a win4lin?? This is not a toy like wine is. The problem with vmware is the price and I tried the demo and was not so impressed with performance, although those who know how to tweak it say they can get it to rock. My understanding is that win4lin doesn't work with any Direct X apps. The second PC is only a Pentium 200 w/ 64MB. So I may go with bsd or a very light mdk install in the next go'round. Not sure yet. I am trying to blow away w2k as soon as I can. This is getting me crazy rebooting. and I am wasting disk space as well. my advice is don't jump for mandrake 9.0 so fast. I have used many distributions. Redhat, Suse, debian, and mandrak. I've only used BSD, RH5, RH8, mdk7, 8, 8.1, 8.2, and now 9. Of those, I'm most impressed with 9 as a user desktop. To me, it had the best chance of getting an old window user to make a full switch. The only one that has been problem free has been Redhat. Debian is cool but not for the faint hearted. Suse is way to big. I use Mandrake cause someone hacked it for audio applications. otherwise I would be using Redhat. For networking applications, (nessus, bb, mrtg, fwlogwatch, and the like), I'd also pick 9.0, though I've run other versions in production with no problems major issues. I think that's something I failed to mention in my first post... I'm totally happy with the choice of mdk as a dedicated work box, so long as I can rdp to a MSTS that has Visio on it. (Also gets me Exchange calendar and resource scheduling.) (this is all just my opinion) Since I missed your thread on the Mandrake newbies, what do you use visio for, and what alternivies did you try on linux?? I've used dia, kivio (what's with the $10 stencils???), and another I can't remember. Don't get me wrong, I can draw a decent network diagram in any of these. I just can't pass these documents back and forth to customers, management, and co-workers with ease. lol Aaron ~Brandon Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Samba
On Wednesday 18 December 2002 05:56 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 18 Dec 2002 3:57 am, David Williams wrote: On Saturday 14 December 2002 04:30 am, magnet wrote: On Saturday 14 Dec 2002 1:59 am, David Williams wrote: OK, I give up. I have a four computer network at home. I am running Linux on mine and Win98 on the other three. I have been using Samba so I can copy files and etc and to share a printer on my computer with the others. Everything has been working fine and now my computer and printer can't be seen on the net. (I have very recently changed the monitor settings from 800X600 to 1024X768 and got my background sound to work.) That is the only thing that I have done. Under SWAT smb is running and nmb is not if I try to start nmb I get the errors below logged to the log.nmbd file. I have no idea what is failing or how to fix it or where to look to find out how to fix it. David snip Hi David. Have a look at your linux settings using webmin first to see if drakconfig decided to switch your linux box's IP addy/change your LAN IP range. This will throw samba off a bit sometimes. [it did when I was installing the nvidia drivers]. Webmin makes a very good base setting 99% of the time. It also gives you the option to restart the samba server from within it's pages. Also worth looking at is your /etc/hosts file to see if you have added your windows boxs and their local.domain.names plus alias's. Let us know how you get on. regards magnet I got everything working with the biggest problem being shorewall. I have it removed for the moment. I can read, write, and print files to my Linux system from the Windows. However, I can only see the disk drives on the windows system from the Linux system. I have the disks shared under windows. I can not for the life of me find anything that would prevent me from reading the shared files on Windows from the Linux PC. This usually means that I have overlooked the obvious. Any help is greatly appreciated. David On the windows boxes, how are the share connections set? Mine are all set as share level, not password controlled. I don't know whether that would cause any problem. Anne I have the drives set up as share level. I turned off all of the password stuff until I got the basics working. David Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] getpix script with Fuji digital camera
I have searched the archives and cannot locate who sent this script. I have a question about the part of the script which mounts the camera... CAM=/mnt/camera # Mountpoint for your camera (this used to read CAM=/mnt/fuji I think) and later in the script it mounts the camera (i think) with mount $CAM Is this correct? Seems like it is missing this; -t vfat /dev/sda1 Forgive me if I have over looked something. I am off to find out what JHEAD and ImageMagick do. TIA Steve -- Linux user #280097 Machine #162480 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] apache on 2nd machine?
Now wait a minute. She won't have to use the 'little puter.' As a matter of fact, if your going to have the little puter be the server, she should stay off of it! ;-) The ISA slot shortage can be solved by removing the sound card. The server won't need it and you'll have a slot for the new nic (if you can find a 'new' ISA nic!). I haven't finished configuring my old pos as a server yet but certainly isn't the hottest machine I have around. All I need it to do is host a small web site, serve network files and share it's cd burner. Anyone who wants to do real work can just hop on the Pentium II (can you tell I need some new systems?) and use their favorite (linux) apps with access to the internet as well. Summary then -- old puter has cdrom, cd burner, network nic, internet nic and needs a bigger hard drive. I'm thinking about putting the color printer up there but can't decide if it will be more convenient or not at this point. Bottom line -- 'Gosh honey, I love you so much I want you to use your Windows machine -- someplace where guests won't see it. :-)) R - Richard L. Babcock, Owner Tower Training At Tower Training, We Bring the Classroom to You! www.towertraining.net -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jerry Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2002 1:33 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] apache on 2nd machine? Stephen: Thx for the feedback. I'd love to do that but. I can't get a pci ethernet card to work on the 2nd puter and the ISA slots are full. Windows has to be on the main machine since my girlfried has put in half the money for it (including the new 17 monitor) and she won't hear of it if i were to try and get her to use the little puter with only a 3gig hard drive and old hardware plus a sound card that doesn't want to work. If she wasn't so smart i'd just delete the windows partition on the main box and say OOPS honey, there's something wrong with the main computer! windows won't boot! But as she is she'd know exactly what I did LOL. (no i wouldn't really do that... hehehe) So.. is it possible to set this up or do you think i'm going to have to get this machine it's own IP with att? Thanks :-) Jerry. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] M$Access substitute
Greetings, I am virtually M$ free but for an email database (the Linux Patch prescribed by my doctor to control the M$ cravings has helped a great deal ;-) The database allows me to import mail from M$Outlook. I do this because I don't trust Outlook's database repair tools (such as they are) and prefer to keep my emails in a real database. I was able to learn M$Access fairly quickly because of the wizards. I don't mind learning a database that takes longer but I don't want to waste my time on something cheesy. I currently only have about 25 thousand records but I expect that to grow over the years (at a hundred a day from this list alone it doesn't take long!). So...what to Linux folks use? tia R - Richard L. Babcock, Owner Tower Training At Tower Training, We Bring the Classroom to You! www.towertraining.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] getpix script with Fuji digital camera
On Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:03:11 -0600 Steve Jeppesen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have searched the archives and cannot locate who sent this script. I have a question about the part of the script which mounts the camera... CAM=/mnt/camera # Mountpoint for your camera (this used to read CAM=/mnt/fuji I think) and later in the script it mounts the camera (i think) with mount $CAM Is this correct? Seems like it is missing this; -t vfat /dev/sda1 Yes, it works for me; in /etc/fstab I have: /dev/sda1 /mnt/fuji vfat user,defaults 0 0 so I can mount the camera with mount /mnt/fuji (I really like the way that sounds, too). Forgive me if I have over looked something. I am off to find out what JHEAD and ImageMagick do. JHEAD can extract the EXIF data, which I always like to use for renaming pictures. I like to rename by date, but I'm working out an option for people who might like to rename by event, like NewYear01.jpg, NewYear02.jpg . . . or something. ImageMagick resizes the images (if you use getpix with the -r option), and creates the index image (if you use the -c option). HTH, Todd TIA Steve Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] .....S.....l.....o.....w..... Printing in The GIMP
Help! I am trying to print a picture in The GIMP but there are two problems. First is that the printing is unberably slow. It takes something like 3 hours (no exageration!) to print out the 2x3 picture I'm working on. Second, when the printout is finally complete it is so washed out that it is almost invisible! I am using Mandrake 9.0 (GIMP 1.2.3 included on the Mandrake CD) printing to an Epson Stylus Photo 820 via USB. Printing in other applications (including the printer test page) is fine. When I print to my other printer (a Brother HL-1850 laser printer) it prints out fine (albeit not in color...) Does anyone know what might be the problem? Thanks in advance. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] getpix script with Fuji digital camera
On Wednesday 18 December 2002 22:03, Steve Jeppesen wrote: CAM=/mnt/camera # Mountpoint for your camera (this used to read CAM=/mnt/fuji I think) and later in the script it mounts the camera (i think) with mount $CAM Is this correct? Seems like it is missing this; -t vfat /dev/sda1 In my opinion, you are correct. /mnt/camera is the mount point mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 is the mount command If you were using a terminal to mount this, you would type mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/camera *** Powered by SuSE Linux 8.0 Professional KDE 3.0.0 KMail 1.4 This is a Microsoft-free computer Bryan S. Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Region killer for DVD drive
Dear Friends, Anyone knows where can I get/download the region killer for my Pioneer DVD drive ? Thank you in advance, Ongkie _ Tired of spam? Get advanced junk mail protection with MSN 8. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] M$Access substitute
I use PHP and MySQL, it will handle well over the number of records you require. You will need to learn some simple SQL (depends on how complicated your database is). Also I use phpMyAdmin to help create and administor DBs. Greetings, I am virtually M$ free but for an email database (the Linux Patch prescribed by my doctor to control the M$ cravings has helped a great deal ;-) The database allows me to import mail from M$Outlook. I do this because I don't trust Outlook's database repair tools (such as they are) and prefer to keep my emails in a real database. I was able to learn M$Access fairly quickly because of the wizards. I don't mind learning a database that takes longer but I don't want to waste my time on something cheesy. I currently only have about 25 thousand records but I expect that to grow over the years (at a hundred a day from this list alone it doesn't take long!). So...what to Linux folks use? tia R - Richard L. Babcock, Owner Tower Training At Tower Training, We Bring the Classroom to You! www.towertraining.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Region killer for DVD drive
On Thu, 2002-12-19 at 15:59, Sasongko Pribadi Djoko wrote: Dear Friends, Anyone knows where can I get/download the region killer for my Pioneer DVD drive ? http://www.linuxtv.org/download/dvd/dvd_disc_2215_css.tar.gz You will need to 'make all' once you untar the archive. Then run regionset. Your dvd drive will have to be /dev/dvd, otherwise, specify the dvd drive at the commandline (eg. ./regionset /dev/hdb) Regards, John... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Region killer for DVD drive
--- Sasongko Pribadi Djoko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Friends, Anyone knows where can I get/download the region killer for my Pioneer DVD drive ? Yes Thank you in advance, Ongkie --LX __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] hdparam
Hello! Can't find this tool in Mandrake 9 Help! -- Best regards, Stepan Work phone: (+38) 0322 789165 ICQ # 91087749, Fido 2:462/90.102 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] alternatives
On Thursday 19 Dec 2002 1:42 am, Aurélio Diniz wrote: I also have dual boot with mdk9 and win2k. Does win4lin work with win2k? I thought that it doesn't! I want to run my two best win programs in linux: Photoshop 7 and Freehand10. I'm trying to put my vmware running to do what i want but win4lin does seems to a nice alternative. I think not - no nt or w2k. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] file types/associations
Angus Auld wrote: What I would like to know is what the duplication of types is about? Why are there two? Some program created the x-midimime type. Do I have to edit both? I would. Is the x for X-windows? No. There are standard mime types registered with IANA of which midi is one. Additionaly, anyone may create more mime types for their own use but they must begin with x-. These links might help: http://developer.kde.org/documentation/library/kdeqt/kde3arch/mime.html http://www.iana.org/ http://www.nacs.uci.edu/indiv/ehood/MIME/MIME.html http://hunnysoft.com/mime/ http://www.faqs.org/faqs/mail/mime-faq/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
