[SLUG] Samba...

2001-09-10 Thread Phillipus Gunawan
I'm really sorry because was late to read these email(s) Without harming everyone else, yes,most of the time,for us -newbies- is a bit difficult to find a good doc, even sometime can't think the proper question to post it here (I did it a few times...) I was trying to set up samba with

RE: [SLUG] [OT] nmap states

2001-09-10 Thread Chris Barnes
I thought port 31337 was commonly used as the default port for the Back Orrifice trojan which is why i thought a lot of isps filter the port. but i may be wrong. Chris Barnes System Operations RAMS Home Loans Pty Ltd -Original Message- From: SMB [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday,

[SLUG] VERY worrying

2001-09-10 Thread Gnuthad
Most have probably seen this but. http://slashdot.org/articles/01/09/08/0238200.shtml VERY worrying, even for us here in Australia. Gnuthad PGP Key Block available at: http://aussie.mine.nu/aussie/pgp_key.txt -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More

Re: [SLUG] modem escape sequence

2001-09-10 Thread Rick Moen
begin Mike Holland quotation: Seriously? Why, sure. The +++ sequence is quite fatal. That's why it's perilous to read http://www.faqs.org/faqs/modems/ZyXEL/FAQ/part3/section-12.html , and you are a wicked person for posting that URL: It includes +++, you see, and we know that documents on

Re: [SLUG] modem escape sequence

2001-09-10 Thread Rick Moen
begin Morrissey quotation: Interesting Google search: Rick Moen ath Returns over 60 hits. It appears some lists have rejected mail with this header, perhaps they also ban the domain. Yep, really sinister. Like hit #4: Internet Mail Delivery [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri, 11 Aug 2000 10:29:57

[SLUG] Got a dedicated server, books?

2001-09-10 Thread James Buchanan
Hi, I just got myself a dedicated server sitting on a T1 in the USA. Now I have the headache of learning DNS and Bind, Apache vhosts, sendmail, administration tasks, firewalls, security, etc. Can anyone recommend books for me? Anthony Rumble, are you listening?! Hehehe. Help! If someone can

Re: [SLUG] Got a dedicated server, books?

2001-09-10 Thread James Polley
What, so hosting of commercial/non-public-domain software mirrors is permissible? On Tue, 11 Sep 2001, James Buchanan wrote: connection to the backbone. (The provider won't allow adult content or public domain software downloading sites/mirrors. Anything that clogs the T1 Thanks heaps.

RE: [SLUG] VERY worrying

2001-09-10 Thread Silcock, Stephen
Wouldn't this apply in the US only? I know the Americans *think* they rule the world, and many countries will probably follow along like well behaved little puppies; but surely there'd be countries that would continue to produce plain vanilla hardware (with a corresponding increase in commerce

RE: [SLUG] VERY worrying

2001-09-10 Thread Howard Lowndes
I think market forces is more likely. If your main market is the US then you are just likely to adjust your manufacturing to suit that market, and if the smaller markets don't like it - tough. It's no skin off the manufacturer's nose. Quoting Silcock, Stephen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Wouldn't

RE: [SLUG] hot swap IDE HDD

2001-09-10 Thread Jill Rowling
All the references I have read on the (relatively) cheap removable drive bays for IDE drives say to power down first. It's mainly designed for shops' cash registers and places that have the transactions stored on a secondary disk drive, rather than for any hot swapping reason. Another example I

[SLUG] Can't print post/ghostscript...

2001-09-10 Thread Martin Hunt
My Canon BJ-200 will print text files fine, but when I try and print postscript I get nothing. I've tried:- [me@myComputer ass02]$ gs -sDEVICE=bj200 ass02.ps GNU Ghostscript 5.50 (2000-2-13) Copyright (C) 1998 Aladdin Enterprises, Menlo Park, CA. All rights reserved. This software comes with

RE: [SLUG] Samba...

2001-09-10 Thread Booth, Christopher (Aus) - ATP
From one flamed to another :) look at smbadduser and smbpasswd There is also an option in smb.conf to sync with Unix passwords and you shouldn't use plain text passwords Security can be set to security=domain But you need to create a computer account name manually on the NT/2000 server. Chris

Re: [SLUG] Samba...

2001-09-10 Thread Andy Eager
Phillipus Gunawan wrote: I'm really sorry because was late to read these email(s) Without harming everyone else, yes, most of the time, for us -newbies- is a bit difficult to find a good doc, even sometime can't think the proper question to post it here (I did it a few times...)

RE: [SLUG] Answer + Disappointment

2001-09-10 Thread Booth, Christopher (Aus) - ATP
A month to do it is childish but for 2 years now http://bad.debian.net/list/1999-October/000583.html BTW I'm not on a modem so I can't test mm Chris -Original Message- From: DaZZa [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 9:06 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re:

Re: [SLUG] Answer + Disappointment

2001-09-10 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Booth, Christopher (Aus) - ATP wrote: A month to do it is childish but for 2 years now I missed all of this lovely thread, but my 2c: ATS2=255 For those who don't know the Hayes command set, this changes the escape character from '+' to ASCII 255, which has a

Re: [SLUG] Answer + Disappointment

2001-09-10 Thread Rick Moen
begin Booth, Christopher (Aus) - ATP quotation: A month to do it is childish but for 2 years now http://bad.debian.net/list/1999-October/000583.html BTW I'm not on a modem so I can't test My goodness: People have been throwing that ancient gag around for a _lot_ longer than two years. It's

Re: [SLUG] Answer + Disappointment

2001-09-10 Thread Rick Moen
begin DaZZa quotation: Only those who have cheap junk modems, or who don't know how to set them up properly. Well, look, folks, I hate to have to spell it out for you guys, but... Have you ever looked, raw, at a binary file, e.g. cat'ed it to screen by accident? That sort of stuff is, of

Re: [SLUG] Can't print post/ghostscript...

2001-09-10 Thread Mike Holland
On Tue, 11 Sep 2001, Martin Hunt wrote: My Canon BJ-200 will print text files fine, but when I try and print postscript I get nothing. [me@myComputer ass02]$ gs -sDEVICE=bj200 ass02.ps Martin, how do you normally try to print? You dont need to run 'gs' manually. If you lpr ass02.ps it

Re: [SLUG] Answer + Disappointment

2001-09-10 Thread Stephen Robert Norris
On Tue, Sep 11, 2001 at 11:53:04AM +1000, DaZZa wrote: On Mon, 10 Sep 2001, Rick Moen wrote: Only those who have cheap junk modems, or who don't know how to set them up properly. Well, look, folks, I hate to have to spell it out for you guys, but... Please, spell. I'm anxious to

Re: [SLUG] Answer + Disappointment

2001-09-10 Thread Tony Green
* This one time, at band camp, Stephen Robert Norris said: Yes, 1 in 72057594037927936. Please, take it to slug-chat if you must keep it up. Thanks -- Greeno [EMAIL PROTECTED] GnuPG Key : 1024D/B5657C8B Key fingerprint = 9ED8 59CC C161 B857 462E 51E6 7DFB 465B B565 7C8B Imagine working in

Re: [SLUG] Answer + Disappointment

2001-09-10 Thread Ben Leslie
On Tue, 11 Sep 2001, Stephen Robert Norris wrote: On Tue, Sep 11, 2001 at 11:53:04AM +1000, DaZZa wrote: On Mon, 10 Sep 2001, Rick Moen wrote: Only those who have cheap junk modems, or who don't know how to set them up properly. Well, look, folks, I hate to have to spell it

Re: [SLUG] Answer + Disappointment

2001-09-10 Thread Rick Moen
begin DaZZa quotation: 1) The chance of a combination of binary code coming out in the exact format of +++ath0 is literally staggering. Winning lotto, by comparison, would be an every day event. Um, no, it's not. Or, at least, it would seem that you don't transfer very much data, if that is

Re: [SLUG] Answer + Disappointment

2001-09-10 Thread Grant Byers
On Tue, 11 Sep 2001 12:06, Stephen Robert Norris wrote: 1) The chance of a combination of binary code coming out in the exact format of +++ath0 is literally staggering. Winning lotto, by comparison, would be an every day event. Yes, 1 in 72057594037927936. Out of interest, how many

[SLUG] Re: modem escape sequence - it got me.

2001-09-10 Thread Mike Holland
On Mon, 10 Sep 2001, I wrote: It would be a major bug in a modem to ignore that requirement. So what evil kludge of a modem actually hung up on the '+++' ? Well strip me naked and paint me purple MY MODEM has the bug. Oh the ignominy! My beloved Diamond SupraExpress 56e PRO failed the

Re: [SLUG] Re: modem escape sequence - it got me.

2001-09-10 Thread Rick Moen
begin Mike Holland quotation: Well strip me naked and paint me purple MY MODEM has the bug. Heh. Do you mean it can be configured to drop carrier upon receipt of +++? And defaults to that? Very strange. But we seem to be in need of some remedial maths, around here: The One in 2 ^ 56

maths, was Re: [SLUG] Answer + Disappointment

2001-09-10 Thread Mike Holland
On Tue, 11 Sep 2001, Ben Leslie wrote: 1) The chance of a combination of binary code coming out in the exact format of +++ath0 is literally staggering. Winning lotto, by comparison, would be an every day event. Yes, 1 in 72057594037927936. or more nicely 2 ^ 56. Which means in

RE: [SLUG] VERY worrying

2001-09-10 Thread Greg Hosler
On 10-Sep-2001 Silcock, Stephen wrote: Wouldn't this apply in the US only? maybe, maybe not. depends upon the implementation. Of the law is passed, all PC's, handhelds, etc manufactured in, or for the US market will be subject to having the encryption hardware. If the implementation

[SLUG] Stop This Off Topic Rambling

2001-09-10 Thread Craige McWhirter
Thus spake Rick Moen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): But I'm disappointed. You folks haven't gotten around to foaming at the mouth about any of my other headers. Surely, someone can carve a little righteous indignation out of those? You underestimate the power of a low care factor. ie: No one gives

Re: [SLUG] Re: modem escape sequence - it got me.

2001-09-10 Thread Gnuthad
On 10 Sep 2001, at 20:01, Rick Moen wrote: But I'm disappointed. You folks haven't gotten around to foaming at the mouth about any of my other headers. Surely, someone can carve a little righteous indignation out of those? Actually, I pointed out your WebTV specific headers in a private

Re: [SLUG] Re: modem escape sequence - it got me.

2001-09-10 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
[Sent to the list because I don't know which of your addresses are actually valid.] This one time, at band camp, Gnuthad wrote: I guess putting rubbish like that in your headers makes you feel all warm and fuzzy inside? While we're on the subject, your reply-to: is set to [EMAIL PROTECTED],

[SLUG] Evolution bug 9119 - couldn't open composer window

2001-09-10 Thread Simon Wong
Forwarded message: On Mon, 2001-09-10 at 16:44, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I'd like to know wether you were able to solve the problem described in http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=9119 that you reported (Could not open composer window). I took the *VERY* drastic

[SLUG] Evolution bug 9119 - Could not open composer window

2001-09-10 Thread Simon Wong
FYI. On Mon, 2001-09-10 at 16:44, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I'd like to know wether you were able to solve the problem described in http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=9119 that you reported (Could not open composer window). I took the *VERY* drastic measure of

winbind was: [SLUG] Answer + Disappointment

2001-09-10 Thread Anand Kumria
On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 07:28:27PM +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=Andre Pang Somebody have a good docs/HOWTO about mapping users in NT to the Linux? in another note, please learn how to find out the information yourself via google/HOWTOs/etc. just as an exercise, i typed in map

Re: [SLUG] Answer + Disappointment

2001-09-10 Thread Rob B
- Original Message - From: DaZZa [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Alister Waller [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 9:15 AM On Mon, 10 Sep 2001, Alister Waller wrote: # start curiosity Did this affect both Linux and Windows users? # end curiosity

Re: [SLUG] Answer + Disappointment

2001-09-10 Thread DaZZa
On Mon, 10 Sep 2001, Charles U Farley wrote: I'm happy to paint you as a villain Rick, as I'm sure many of this lists modem users are. Yes you've annoyed me personally, does + + + ath ring any bells in your juvenile head. For those of you lucky enough to be unaware, Rick decided to include

Re: [SLUG] Answer + Disappointment

2001-09-10 Thread DaZZa
On Mon, 10 Sep 2001, Alister Waller wrote: # start curiosity Did this affect both Linux and Windows users? # end curiosity It's OS independant. However, it *is* modem dependant. I posted a reference page - a little google searching for ping+ath0 will find more. DaZZa -- SLUG - Sydney

Re: [SLUG] Answer + Disappointment

2001-09-10 Thread DaZZa
On Mon, 10 Sep 2001, Rick Moen wrote: Only those who have cheap junk modems, or who don't know how to set them up properly. Well, look, folks, I hate to have to spell it out for you guys, but... Please, spell. I'm anxious to see how good your english is. Have you ever looked, raw, at a