Re: Samba, rsync, home network w/ XP, backups?

2003-03-18 Thread Barry Mathieu
On Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 01:44:46PM +, Shri Shrikumar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Tue, 2003-03-18 at 11:25, Barry Mathieu wrote: > [snip] > > Any idea how to open port 139 on XP Pro? I should post something to the > > dreaded mickysoft support site. > > Go into netw

Re: Samba, rsync, home network w/ XP, backups?

2003-03-18 Thread Barry Mathieu
On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 09:46:37PM -0500, sean finney ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 03:33:01PM -0500, Barry Mathieu wrote: > > Any idea on how to set-up XP Pro to accept smbmount? > > > > The XP Pro machine is named, 'red_hat'. > >

Re: Samba, rsync, home network w/ XP, backups?

2003-03-17 Thread Barry Mathieu
On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 02:20:46PM -0500, sean finney ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > hi barry, > > On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 01:33:43PM -0500, Barry Mathieu wrote: > > I think rsync is the correct application for such a task; is this > > correct? I don't want try to rede

Samba, rsync, home network w/ XP, backups?

2003-03-15 Thread Barry Mathieu
I'm a relatively newbie to Linux administration and I need some suggestions for data backup/disk mirroring. I have a home network with a cable router and I'm using samba to share data. Two machines are connected to the router; an XP Pro box and Debian Woody (running samba). The XP box has a singl

Re: Newbie networking problems; pppd with Woody.

2002-11-08 Thread Barry Mathieu
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Re: Newbie networking problems; pppd with Woody.

2002-11-06 Thread Barry Mathieu
On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 02:13:04AM -0500, ZZ ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 10:05:36PM -0500, Barry Mathieu wrote: > > I've been frustrated for a long time about a problem I'm having with DNS > > lookup. The first time I try to initiate intern

Newbie networking problems; pppd with Woody.

2002-11-05 Thread Barry Mathieu
.185 nameserver 207.69.188.186 How can I troubleshoot? Please help, Barry Mathieu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Newbie home network; Debian gateway, XP within.

2002-11-05 Thread Barry Mathieu
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Newbie home network; Debian gateway, XP within.

2002-11-05 Thread Barry Mathieu
roper settings on the XP machine are also week. I think getting ipmasq to work is my first priority, then Samba. Looking forward to any help. Barry Mathieu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Woody kernel 2.4.18-686; ppp & scsi won't work.

2002-08-31 Thread Barry Mathieu
ad when I boot, but after loading it with modprobe, the cd-rw is still not recognized. Please send your responses to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I used to subscribe to this list, but I couldn't keep-up with the load. I am a fairly novice Debian Linux user. Barry Mathieu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

[SOLVED] configure exim/fetchmail w/ dialup; daemon trouble.

2002-03-30 Thread Barry Mathieu
indispensable! There have has also been significant learning by taking the time to read the list posts & responses. Thanks! Barry Mathieu On Sat, Mar 30, 2002 at 02:19:10AM +0100, Steffen Evers ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Fri, Mar 29, 2002 at 09:23, Barry Mathieu wrote: > >

Install exim from potato on woody?

2002-03-29 Thread Barry Mathieu
have my pppd running, the system attempts a connection for each of these statements - that is about every 15 minutes. I did not have this problem with exim when I was a recent potato user. Can I install the exim package from potato in woody? Thanks in advance, Barry Mathieu -- To UNSUBSCR

Re: Newbie, configure exim/fetchmail w/ dialup; daemon trouble.

2002-03-29 Thread Barry Mathieu
On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 05:55:53PM +0100, Steffen Evers ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 23:33, Barry Mathieu wrote: > > I removed the /etc/fetchmailrc file, and issued > > > > /etc/init.d/fetchmail stop > > > > and then I logged in

Re: Newbie, configure exim/fetchmail w/ dialup; daemon trouble.

2002-03-28 Thread Barry Mathieu
On Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 11:51:41PM +0100, Steffen Evers ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 23:05, Barry Mathieu wrote: > > Fetchmail appears to running as a daemon and executes a query for mail > > every 300 seconds. To attempt to change this, I have a /etc/fetch

Newbie, configure exim/fetchmail w/ dialup; daemon trouble.

2002-03-26 Thread Barry Mathieu
ure fetchmail. This computer is only typically used by me, so I really don't need a systemwide configuration. There is a .fetchmailrc file in my home from the Potato configuration. Thanks in advance for your suggestions, Barry Mathieu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Problems building xv

2002-03-17 Thread Barry Mathieu
of selected images (by directory & extension, for example). I haven't handled 1000's but many 100's of images without a core dump. If you have ImageMagick loaded, you can start the program by: display {filename} Once the image appears, you can open the interactive menu with a first position mouse click (typically, left mouse key). HTH Barry Mathieu

Re: CD-RW as user; newbie question.

2002-02-23 Thread Barry Mathieu
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CD-RW as user; newbie question.

2002-02-23 Thread Barry Mathieu
those dev files a member of 'cdrw', eg. crw---1 root cdrw 21, 0 Feb 2 23:16 /dev/sg0 I don't believe I need to change the group of the binaries cdparanoia and cdrdao. Unfortunately when I issue either cdrdao or cdparanoia commands, I don't have access to the SCSI device. I'm using Debian Potato. Looking forward to suggestions, Barry Mathieu

Re: OT: Plucker with Potato

2001-06-11 Thread Barry Mathieu
> On Sat, 9 Jun 2001, Barry Mathieu wrote: > > >I probably committed a major Debian Faux-Pax by editing my source file > >to temporarily point at the testing release to allow me to install > >plucker. That is, with testing (rather than stable) in my source file > >I

OT: Plucker with Potato

2001-06-08 Thread Barry Mathieu
I probably committed a major Debian Faux-Pax by editing my source file to temporarily point at the testing release to allow me to install plucker. That is, with testing (rather than stable) in my source file I, apt-get update apt-get install plucker To my surprise, no conflicts were indicated an

Re: LILO and multiple disks

2001-05-16 Thread Barry Mathieu
I have not been successful in modifying my Debian lilo.conf file to chose to boot from a re-mapped hdc1. Again, I am very much non-computer literate, and I couldn't explain the detail of why this worked. Barry Mathieu

Re: no mutt-ssl but we can have apacvhe-ssl? what's the deal?

2001-05-16 Thread Barry Mathieu
authentication. The Kerberos code is untested. Needed packages: libssl09 (for SSL support) heimdal-lib (for Kerberos support) Please try to break it and report any problem or success story to [EMAIL PROTECTED] **** I don't know if this helps, but it appeared relavant to your informati

Re: Unable to gain access to secure sites

2001-05-16 Thread Barry Mathieu
y downloading some software. If you are watching this mailing list, you may be interested in another thread that has something like, "browser review" in the subject. Good Luck! Barry Mathieu

Re: swapping hard disks

2001-04-25 Thread Barry Mathieu
I am definitely a casual GNU/Linux user and a newbie, so please don't take take this suggestion as absolutely correct. When I first used Linux it was RHat, and I definitely wanted to keep Windows working without incident. My approach was to load Linux on a second hard drive & physically switch the

Re: runaway modprobe loop ...[SOLVED]

2001-04-21 Thread Barry Mathieu
YES! On the second reboot there were no such, "...modprobe...error...", messages. Is this normal to require a second boot following a kernel install? Thanks, and thanks to this list for helping in my endeavor to learn. Barry Mathieu On Sat, Apr 21, 2001 at 08:36:18PM +0200, F

Testing - ignore

2001-04-20 Thread Barry Mathieu
Ignore - testing displayed mail info. Thanks.

runaway modprobe loop ...

2001-04-20 Thread Barry Mathieu
x27;t see these "...error(?)..." messages, but I do see: kmod: runaway modprobe loop assumed and stopped Any ideas on what this issue may be or something more that I can do to investigate? Yes, I am a newbie. Thanks in advance, Barry Mathieu

/var/lib/dpkg/lock ?

2001-04-19 Thread Barry Mathieu
I am a Debian newbie attempting to use cron for apt. In the cron response mail message, I noticed the following lines, in response to, "apt-get --download-only dist-upgrade": E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (11 Resource temporarily unavailable) E: Unable to lock the administratio

Re: "activating" changes to /etc/group

2001-03-30 Thread Barry Mathieu
Ethan, I'm a bit of a newbie, so thanks for pointing this information out to me. I am a bit confused though, it seems 'newgrp' is to used to, "change the group ID during a login session." The ID is the number associated with the group. For example, in my /etc/group file, the following line, cdro

Re: "activating" changes to /etc/group

2001-03-29 Thread Barry Mathieu
Try issuing the command, 'update-passwd' as root. Seems to work for me for updating group status without logging-in & out. Barry On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 11:59:20PM -0600, DvB ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I decided to take the more elegant approach to getting sound working > than making /dev/dsp

Mozilla M18-3 & HTTPS.

2001-03-28 Thread Barry Mathieu
Hello, Am I correct in concluding it is not possible to use the mozilla package that is currently in stable (M18-3) for conducting secure web transactions? Each time I attempt to go to a secure server (https) I receive a message something like "connection refused". Being a newbie, I would like

Re: Wvdial - How do you surf without being root?

2001-03-23 Thread Barry Mathieu
Hmmm... I'm a Debian newbie using wvdial as an ordinary user, so I wonder about the legitimacy of my method. I've added my username to the 'dialout' group in '/etc/group'. After you edit that file, exacute, 'update-passwd'. Then try wvdial as an ordinary user. I do get some warning at connectio

Re: Locked up X-windows

2001-03-16 Thread Barry Mathieu
I had a similar problem when I recently installed Debian for my first time. The source of the problem in my case was the XF86Config file pointing to /dev/mouse and there being no such file. During the install I believe there is a section where you can chose the mouse protocol as PS/2. The device s

Re: Reboot only w/ mouse - SOLVED

2001-03-15 Thread Barry Mathieu
YES! Using this mouse copy & paste technique allowed me to successfully reboot, without the keyboard. This keyboard has given me trouble in the past (Dell Quietkey). I am a former casual RedHat user, and in the past I would have simply hit the power key. This keyboard trouble happens infrequentl