On Mon, 28 Sep 1998, Preston Landers wrote:
> a/ Users can't start X Windows through the 'startx' interface. It says
> 'you are not authorized to start the X server.' How do I make this
> authorization? I don't remember *ever* doing this on my own Debian 2.0
> system ... it just worked, as best as I can remember.
I've never seen this on any Debian. Anyways, two obvious points:
the /usr/X11R6/bin/X is setuid root, and the file /etc/X11/Xserver
contains the information that "X" (presumebly) uses: the actual server is
on the first line, and the second line should say "Console", allowing any
user on a "real" tty to run X.
> b/ How can I make it so that regular users can mount/unmount ZIP drive
> disks? Please forgive me for not reading the dox closely... but do I
> put something in /etc/fstab? I use both ext2fs and FAT formatted ZIP
> disks ... I wonder if there is a way to deal with that so that both are
> automounted.
The simple solution is in /etc/fstab:
/dev/sdb4 /zip vfat rw,user,noauto,unhide 0 0
Which has the disadvantage that it won't mount ext2fs. If you
replace "vfat" with "auto", it'll do msdos and ext2fs autodetecting, but
isn't smart enough to pick vfat when possible! Anybody else know how to
rearrange the preferences so it tries vfat and only falls back to msdos?
> address. Perhaps he needs the NetBEUI protocol in Win95? Currently he
> has only TCP/IP.
I've not done much with Samba, but note that Samba is only
encapsulating the SMB protocol over TCP/IP, not NetBeui. (Microsoft likes
netbuei ("its faster"), and will run SMB over TCP/IP, Netbuei, or even (I
think) IPX.) So no, adding Netbeui support will not help, and in fact
sometimes causes other Samba problems.
> if you feel it is neccesary. Anyone know how to bind an IP address to a
> name in Windows 95? Rather than typing 'ping 192.168.10.1' I'd like him
Windows's /etc/hosts equivilent (\windows\hosts ??) is only read
at boottime, not at each lookup, which eliminates some nifty scripting
tricks. ;(
-Alex
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