[Scottish] Hopeless newbie question

2005-09-05 Thread Steve Logan
After lurking for some years now it's time to come out of the closet... I've just set up my first serious Linux machine, a PIII 500 running SuSe Professional 9.1. Installation went OK and it's now up and running ready for me to play around with Apache/Tomcat (which is why I want it). Here's

Re: [Scottish] Hopeless newbie question

2005-09-05 Thread William Hamilton
Steve Logan wrote: After lurking for some years now it's time to come out of the closet... I've just set up my first serious Linux machine, a PIII 500 running SuSe Professional 9.1. Installation went OK and it's now up and running ready for me to play around with Apache/Tomcat (which is why

Re: [Scottish] Hopeless newbie question

2005-09-05 Thread Adam
William Hamilton wrote: Steve Logan wrote: After lurking for some years now it's time to come out of the closet... I've just set up my first serious Linux machine, a PIII 500 running SuSe Professional 9.1. Installation went OK and it's now up and running ready for me to play around with

Re: [Scottish] Hopeless newbie question

2005-09-05 Thread Kyle Gordon
Unless you're doing cross-domain authentification magick, you don't need to use the machine name on your login, in either the [EMAIL PROTECTED], or domain\user format. As long as you have an account that Samba recognises, then you should be able to log in with just your username. Now, having

[Scottish] opportunities for Scotlug members

2005-09-05 Thread hannah clinch
Thought this (below) might be of interest to Scotlug members interested communication technology. Also - If anyone wants to come and have a look at the Radius Media lab, all open source and open to members of the Pollokshields community for workshops, just get in touch. cheers hannah

RE: [Scottish] Hopeless newbie question

2005-09-05 Thread Paxton, Darren
Other way to do it is to enable Swat (samba web administration tool) by going into /etc/xinetd.d/swat and changing disable to enable if required, and also allowing access to another network (or run mozilla locally). This gives you a nice interface (and help) for making configuration changes and

Re: [Scottish] Hopeless newbie question

2005-09-05 Thread Martin Habets
I usually install 'putty' on windows machines. The pscp lets you copy stuff to Linux without using samba. http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html -- Martin ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk

[Scottish] Hopeless newbie charges on

2005-09-05 Thread Steve Logan
Flushed with my success earlier today (thank-you folks) I think I'll try a bit harder to get into this Linux malarkey. So - do you have any recommendations for a good not-quite-eedjit book for introducing a moderately expert Windows user to SuSE? My background is engineering and programming

Re: [Scottish] Hopeless newbie charges on

2005-09-05 Thread Billy
On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 04:50:37PM +0100, Steve Logan wrote: Flushed with my success earlier today (thank-you folks) I think I'll try a bit harder to get into this Linux malarkey. So - do you have any recommendations for a good not-quite-eedjit book for introducing a moderately expert

Re: [Scottish] Hopeless newbie charges on

2005-09-05 Thread Andrew Calverley
Print off the Documentation from the Open Suse site - http://www.opensuse.org/index.php/Documentation On 05/09/05, Billy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 04:50:37PM +0100, Steve Logan wrote: Flushed with my success earlier today (thank-you folks) I think I'll try a bit

Re: [Scottish] Hopeless newbie question

2005-09-05 Thread Kyle Gordon
s/are fast/have spent too much time unbreaking samba/ Kyle On Monday 05 Sep 2005 14:02, Steve Logan wrote: You chaps are fast! Thanks Kyle, I tried the smbpasswd -a steve and it all works fine now. I've got a user 'steve' with the same password on both Win and SuSe and, having done the

Re: [Scottish] Hopeless newbie charges on

2005-09-05 Thread Kyle Gordon
On Monday 05 Sep 2005 16:50, Steve Logan wrote: Flushed with my success earlier today (thank-you folks) I think I'll try a bit harder to get into this Linux malarkey. So - do you have any recommendations for a good not-quite-eedjit book for introducing a moderately expert Windows user to

[Scottish] GPG Signing

2005-09-05 Thread Kyle Gordon
Is it just me, or are all mails to the list that are GPG signed getting silently dropped? Kyle -- Kyle Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lodge.glasgownet.com ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk

Re: [Scottish] GPG Signing

2005-09-05 Thread Sandy Dunlop
I don't know - I use GMail :-( On 9/5/05, Kyle Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it just me, or are all mails to the list that are GPG signed getting silently dropped? Kyle -- Kyle Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lodge.glasgownet.com ___

Re: [Scottish] GPG Signing

2005-09-05 Thread Billy
On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 11:22:11PM +0100, William Hamilton wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Let's find out - this mail is signed :) Looks like it just hates Kyle ;-) Billy. ___ Scottish mailing list

Re: [Scottish] Hopeless newbie charges on

2005-09-05 Thread ray
On Monday 05 Sep 2005 16:50, Steve Logan wrote: So - do you have any recommendations for a good not-quite-eedjit book for introducing a moderately expert Windows user to SuSE? It seems to me that there's a different mindset that Windows folks needs to be learn to get around a Linux box?

Re: [Scottish] GPG Signing

2005-09-05 Thread ray
On Tuesday 06 September 2005 05:23, ray wrote: ra I have just sent two signed messages. This is from KMail 1.8.2 (KDE 3.4.2) signed with Inline OpenPGP (deprecated) and This is from KMail 1.8.2 (KDE 3.4.2) signed with OpenPGP/MIME both disappeared. mailman.lug.org.uk seems to be