NIS & Samba

2006-01-06 Thread Daniel L. Miller
I've noticed a problem where workstations configured with NIS have a problem mounting Samba shares. Apparently the passwd/group table is not loaded prior to the share being mounted via fstab, so the share is mounted with unknown user/group. Executing a "mount -o remount sharename" fixes it after

NIS & Samba

2006-01-05 Thread Daniel L. Miller
I've noticed a problem where workstations configured with NIS have a problem mounting Samba shares. Apparently the passwd/group table is not loaded prior to the share being mounted via fstab, so the share is mounted with unknown user/group. Executing a "mount -o remount sharename" fixes it af

Possible hack attempt?

2005-12-04 Thread Daniel L. Miller
I just happened, for GP, to check my auth.log file on my firewall. I found a lengthy listing that appears to be a dictionary attack against me. Can someone tell me what I'm dealing with here? My firewall is Debian GNU/Linux 2.6 SID, with a firehol generated iptables fireall, OpenVPN, and ssh

Re: HP Web Jetadmin

2005-10-31 Thread Daniel L. Miller
Marc Wilson wrote: On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 12:38:02PM -0700, Daniel L. Miller wrote: Has anyone successfully installed the current version of HP Web Jetadmin on Debian Yes, it's not like it was a big deal. - and set up a printer under Cups? Unfortunately. But I

HP Web Jetadmin

2005-10-27 Thread Daniel L. Miller
Has anyone successfully installed the current version of HP Web Jetadmin on Debian - and set up a printer under Cups? I got it to install by creating a /etc/redhat-release file, and I can now connect to the service under port 8000. But I can't create a print queue - it's looking for some othe

Re: postfix + sasl + mysql

2005-09-16 Thread Daniel L. Miller
Juan Manuel Tato wrote: hello, here again. i´m having a problem, in the authentication using courier-authdaemon for smtp, for imap and pop3 works fine. when i tried to send an email i have this error in the syslog Aug 30 16:54:19 ns1 postfix/smtpd[2767]: warning: unknown[192.168.100.11]: SAS

IP vs IFCONFIG (was Re: Network card recommendation)

2005-09-05 Thread Daniel L. Miller
On Wed, 24 Aug 2005, Daniel L. Miller wrote: My firewall is continuing to run reliably - of course. I have noticed that on of the 3com NICs, I have a single RX overrun reported. Just one - no errors, and no increases in the overrun number. :00:0e.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com

Re: Network card recommendation

2005-08-25 Thread Daniel L. Miller
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Wed, 24 Aug 2005, Daniel L. Miller wrote: My firewall is continuing to run reliably - of course. I have noticed that on of the 3com NICs, I have a single RX overrun reported. Just one - no errors, and no increases in the overrun number. Which

Re: Network card recommendation

2005-08-24 Thread Daniel L. Miller
Status report: My firewall is continuing to run reliably - of course. I have noticed that on of the 3com NICs, I have a single RX overrun reported. Just one - no errors, and no increases in the overrun number. I used to also have one RX overrun on the other NIC - but not anymore. Hmm

Re: Network card recommendation

2005-08-22 Thread Daniel L. Miller
Yuri Gorshkov wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Daniel L. Miller wrote: Great! So now some people say Realtek sucks, others say it's better. What's a poor admin to do? Don't flame, just stick with the 3COM and their 3C905... Works well and it

Re: Network card recommendation

2005-08-16 Thread Daniel L. Miller
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 11:48:30AM -0700, Daniel L. Miller wrote: Great! So now some people say Realtek sucks, others say it's better. What's a poor admin to do? Don't use realtek :-) Well documented and well supported != good performin

Re: Network card recommendation

2005-08-16 Thread Daniel L. Miller
Gnu-Raiz wrote: On 01:27, Tue 16 Aug 05, Anders Breindahl wrote: On Monday 15 August 2005 23:48, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 10:54:40PM +0200, Jan Schledermann wrote: A safe bet is a card with a realtek chip. It works well and is not expensive. Y

Re: Network card recommendation

2005-08-16 Thread Daniel L. Miller
Rogério Brito wrote: On Aug 16 2005, Hans du Plooy wrote: I'll add my voice for this, the Realtek chips (at least the 100mbit ones) are rubbish. They don't perform well, they're incredibly sensitive to interference, and they have a habit of not lasting long. In the mean time, Jeff G

Re: Network card recommendation

2005-08-16 Thread Daniel L. Miller
Hans du Plooy wrote: Gnu-Raiz wrote: Cpu nic usage is a little moot, with dual core chips, Well, I have seen the following. Pentium-III 1ghz with 3com nic, maxing the CPU under heavy network (100mbit) load such as copying stuff over samba/nfs. AthlonXP 2ghz (2400+) with marvel gigabit cont

Re: Network card recommendation

2005-08-15 Thread Daniel L. Miller
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 01:27:21AM +0200, Anders Breindahl wrote: On Monday 15 August 2005 23:48, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 10:54:40PM +0200, Jan Schledermann wrote: A safe bet is a card with a realtek chip. It works well and is

Network card recommendation

2005-08-15 Thread Daniel L. Miller
Not to start a war, but . . . What's the definitive, must-have, kick-ass, bestest, baddest network card - that has Linux kernel driver support of course. I'd like an answer for both the 100BaseT and 1000BaseT competitions. I've tried various Google, searches, and haven't gotten a real comfo

Re: ssh recovery

2004-10-11 Thread Daniel L. Miller
Jacob S wrote: On Sun, 10 Oct 2004 18:15:37 -0700 "Daniel L. Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: My cable provider likes to disconnect me during especially long sessions. Usually when I've been making extension changes to some configuration file and haven't had a

ssh recovery

2004-10-10 Thread Daniel L. Miller
My cable provider likes to disconnect me during especially long sessions. Usually when I've been making extension changes to some configuration file and haven't had a chance to save. Sometimes when I reconnect - I can see the old ssh, bash, and editor processes still running. Is there a way t

Re: Sharing modem/serial port with Windoze

2004-10-07 Thread Daniel L. Miller
Daniel L. Miller wrote: Is there a way to have a modem connected to a Debian server, and have that modem accessible by a Windows client? My fault for not being clear. I have a Linux server with happily running Hylafax with two USR Sportster modems. I want to be able to use those modems, from

Sharing modem/serial port with Windoze

2004-10-07 Thread Daniel L. Miller
Is there a way to have a modem connected to a Debian server, and have that modem accessible by a Windows client? Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Why Grub? Must I Switch?

2004-10-05 Thread Daniel L. Miller
cr wrote: On Mon, 04 Oct 2004 18:03, Daniel L. Miller wrote: Paul Johnson wrote: <#secure method=pgp mode=sign> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 "Daniel L. Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I don't understand that - unless your different ke

Re: Why Grub? Must I Switch?

2004-10-03 Thread Daniel L. Miller
Paul Johnson wrote: <#secure method=pgp mode=sign> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 "Daniel L. Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I don't understand that - unless your different kernel versions are all using the same filename. You have a basic sh

Re: Why Grub? Must I Switch?

2004-10-03 Thread Daniel L. Miller
Paul Johnson wrote: <#secure method=pgp mode=sign> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Marc Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: On Sun, Oct 03, 2004 at 08:22:28AM -0700, Jonathan Byrne wrote: - With grub, the boot process will never freeze at LI Sure, instead it'll freeze a

Re: Apt-proxy v2 hang-ups

2004-09-27 Thread Daniel L. Miller
ep 2004 02:58, Daniel L. Miller escribió: I recently upgraded to apt-proxy v2 on our gateway - and now all of my apt clients (including the server, since the sources file references the proxy) are exhibiting some extreme lockups. Basically, a given apt session can retrieve a single remote file w

NFS delays

2004-09-27 Thread Daniel L. Miller
For a while, NFS seemed to working terriffic - but now I have extreme delays in server startup and client mounting. I'm using the latest versions of the kernel server on unstable. I'm not seeing any helpful log entries. Where should I start looking for misconfiguration? Daniel -- To UNSUBSCR

Re: libnss-ldap configuration file

2004-09-27 Thread Daniel L. Miller
Daniel L. Miller wrote: What's the difference between /etc/libnss-ldap.conf and /usr/share/libnss-ldap/ldap.conf? Thanx to those who answered me. For the benefit of future list archive searches: /etc/libnss-ldap.conf is the control file used by the libnss-ldap library. /usr/share/libnss

Re: DHCP Server choices

2004-07-12 Thread Daniel L. Miller
Not really.. But ISC does evreythng you could possibly want. Why do you want an alternative? Because I don't care for ISC. Daniel !DSPAM:40f315256061401763848! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

DHCP Server choices

2004-07-12 Thread Daniel L. Miller
Are there any other alternatives for a DHCP server besides ISC and dnsmasq? Daniel !DSPAM:40f2eed0273908772226390! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Firebird/Interbase DBD for Debian

2004-06-22 Thread Daniel L. Miller
Hi all! I'm looking for a Firebird/Interbase DBD under Debian Unstable - I'm not finding a package. Is there one? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

DSpam

2004-05-19 Thread Daniel L. Miller
Are there any plans to make a Debian package for dspam? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Too Slow - what'd I break?

2003-10-30 Thread Daniel L. Miller
Roberto Sanchez wrote: Daniel L. Miller wrote: Howdy all. I've converted a Pentium II-350mhz w/ 128M RAM workstation from Windoze to Debian. Unfortunately, it seems that many operations are far slower - especially disk access. I've pasted the output of below. I do see some erro

Too Slow - what'd I break?

2003-10-29 Thread Daniel L. Miller
Howdy all. I've converted a Pentium II-350mhz w/ 128M RAM workstation from Windoze to Debian. Unfortunately, it seems that many operations are far slower - especially disk access. I've pasted the output of below. I do see some error messages regarding VFS mounts. I also see errors regardi

Re: Debian Font Guide for Newbies and the Confused

2003-10-29 Thread Daniel L. Miller
csj wrote: At Sat, 18 Oct 2003 05:46:15 +1000, Rob Weir wrote: On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 07:59:16AM +0800, csj said On Thu, 16 Oct 2003 03:27:14 +1000, Rob Weir wrote: Yes, defoma aka "Debian Font Manager". When you install a new font, it handles setting up symlinks and such so that you can just p

Re: PHP4 in Unstable

2003-10-07 Thread Daniel L. Miller
Jamin W. Collins wrote: On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 03:09:51PM -0700, Daniel L. Miller wrote: I can install the base PHP4 package, as well as the php4-phsql package. But php4-imap, php4-ldap, php4-cgi, php4-mysql all fail with dpkg fatal errors during installation. Don't see any bugs filed ag

Re: PHP4 in Unstable

2003-10-03 Thread Daniel L. Miller
Jamin W. Collins wrote: On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 04:41:00PM -0700, Daniel L. Miller wrote: Is it safe to upgrade to PHP4 4.3.2+rc3-6 from unstable yet (running latest unstable Apache 1.3)? Or should I stay with 4.1.2-6woody3? Last time I tried - I had MAJOR problems. Gee, with a description

PHP4 in Unstable

2003-10-02 Thread Daniel L. Miller
Is it safe to upgrade to PHP4 4.3.2+rc3-6 from unstable yet (running latest unstable Apache 1.3)? Or should I stay with 4.1.2-6woody3? Last time I tried - I had MAJOR problems. Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTE

LDAP & Databases

2003-09-25 Thread Daniel L. Miller
Is there a product that puts an LDAP server "front-end" on a SQL database - specifically the phpGroupWare addressbook? Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Large File Copy

2003-09-24 Thread Daniel L. Miller
Greg Folkert wrote: On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 18:03, Daniel L. Miller wrote: Mark Ferlatte wrote: Daniel L. Miller said on Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 09:27:20PM -0700: I have a large hard drive with a single NTFS partion. I have installed this drive in a Woody box and mounted the partition. From

Proper SMTP server setup - was Anti-Spam ideas for usenet/list harvested email addresses

2003-09-24 Thread Daniel L. Miller
Jacob Anawalt wrote: > Doesn't some spam come directly from an individual running SMTP from > their box to yours? I'm pretty sure this is the case for the > W32/[EMAIL PROTECTED]'s email spreading methods. I have exactly this configuration. Our e-mail is hosted off-site on another server, but I h

Re: Apache dies silently?

2003-09-24 Thread Daniel L. Miller
j2 wrote: There's some kind of conflict with PHP4 and apache in Unstable. The following worked for me: Well, removing imap from extensions got it running for me.. But guess what i kinda need IMAP :( Anyway, thanks for the hints everyone, ill tinker around, at least i now know the nature of th

Re: Large File Copy

2003-09-24 Thread Daniel L. Miller
Vineet Kumar wrote: * Daniel L. Miller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030923 21:27]: As usual, I found something to frustrate me again in my constant pursuit of Linux paradise. I have a large hard drive with a single NTFS partion. I have installed this drive in a Woody box and mounted the partition

Re: Large File Copy

2003-09-24 Thread Daniel L. Miller
Mark Ferlatte wrote: Daniel L. Miller said on Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 09:27:20PM -0700: I have a large hard drive with a single NTFS partion. I have installed this drive in a Woody box and mounted the partition. From this sentence, I believe that you are mounting an NTFS partition on your Linux

Large File Copy

2003-09-23 Thread Daniel L. Miller
As usual, I found something to frustrate me again in my constant pursuit of Linux paradise. I have a large hard drive with a single NTFS partion. I have installed this drive in a Woody box and mounted the partition. No prob. Next, I shared the mounted partition via Samba 3. No prob. From my

Setting up mail server behind iptables firewall

2003-08-14 Thread Daniel L. Miller
I'm sure this is covered SOMEWHERE - but I haven't found anything obvious in the archives / howto's. I currently have the following configuration: (please comment if you find this arrangement objectionable in itself!) Internal LAN - 192.168.0.30 through 192.168.0.50 Dual-Homed Gateway (is that

RE: Setting up mail server behind iptables firewall

2003-08-14 Thread Daniel L. Miller
> > This is really getting frustrating - mainly because I don't really > > understand what I'm doing. Using a port scanner from an external > > webserver, it shows that ports 25, 80, and 10025 are all closed. > > > > What am I missing? > > > > Here's the iptables dump from both my firewall and

RE: Setting up mail server behind iptables firewall

2003-08-14 Thread Daniel L. Miller
This is really getting frustrating - mainly because I don't really understand what I'm doing. Using a port scanner from an external webserver, it shows that ports 25, 80, and 10025 are all closed. What am I missing? Here's the iptables dump from both my firewall and my internal server. *** FIRE

[users@httpd] Apache & Frontpage

2003-07-14 Thread Daniel L. Miller
Is anyone running Debian (at least Woody revision) with Apache and the Frontpage server extensions? I'm not able to get it working. Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Using Debian as a Broadband Router

2003-06-12 Thread Daniel L. Miller
As the subject implies - I just got introduced to the world of high-speed internet. It's amazing what a T-1 can do. Being at least somewhat concerned about security, I felt we needed to implement a firewall between our pristine LAN and the horrible nasty germ-ridden world. Being short of funds -

Anacron vs cron

2003-02-25 Thread Daniel L. Miller
It looks like Anacron is much better choice vs. cron for system that isn't a dedicated server - either a laptop or a dual-boot system. If this is the case, is there a particular method I should follow to utilize Anacron instead of Cron? Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wi

ATI Rage 128

2003-02-25 Thread Daniel L. Miller
I'm encountering a few problems with this product - on two different machines (with the same kind of video card) In MODCONF, there's an option for framebuffers. If I choose to install the Rage 128 - my screen goes "nuts". If I memorized the keystrokes, I can remove the framebuffer module and get

HP n5425 Laptop

2003-02-20 Thread Daniel L. Miller
Has anybody had success configuring the HP n5425 laptop with X-Windows?  I know it uses the Trident CyberbladeXP w/ 8M – but I can’t find any monitor specs.

ATI Rage

2003-01-31 Thread Daniel L. Miller
Can someone please tell me what the options for Direct Rendering Manger and Video under modconf are for?   Specifically, when utilizing an ATI card.  If I enable the ATI under Direct Rendering Manager, it doesn’t seem to make much difference.  But if I enable the ATI under the Video drive

Books

2003-01-30 Thread Daniel L. Miller
Anybody got some recommendations for Debian books – books that have good coverage of Debian-specific topics like APT and MODCONF?   Daniel

File rights

2003-01-15 Thread Daniel L. Miller
Can some kind soul please point me to the documention area(s) that will let me understand file/directory rights per user? I've trying to use WINE, and install some Windoze programs - and I can't get user access to create the directories/files needed (of course, I can do it as root - but I'm not su

RE: Startup Messages

2003-01-09 Thread Daniel L. Miller
Thank you all for the dmesg tip. Following is a copy of my startup. Can anyone give me a tip on any potential problems or inefficiencies noted here - in particular the messages regarding my USB setup. Linux version 2.4.18-bf2.4 (root@zombie) (gcc version 2.95.4 20011002 (Debian prerelease)) #1 S

USB Mouse

2003-01-09 Thread Daniel L. Miller
Is there a known problem with using a USB mouse? My particular configuration is a FIC motherboard for an AMD 750 Athlon (older VIA chipset), connected to a ViewSonic monitor's (P815) USB hub, with a Microsoft Optical Trackball. After a variable period of time, the mouse will cease functioning and

Startup Messages

2003-01-09 Thread Daniel L. Miller
How can I log all the messages generated during boot? The stuff that talks about the peripherals detected, driver loading, etc. Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

TCP/IP config

2003-01-08 Thread Daniel L. Miller
Title: TCP/IP config After browsing through dselect, I discovered PUMP.  This leads me to two new questions: Running PUMP from a terminal window appears to configure my network adapter correctly via DHCP.  How can I make PUMP ( or anything else, for that matter) run at system startup? Is

RE: Debie Newbie

2003-01-08 Thread Daniel L. Miller
can run the compiler? Thank you. Daniel -Original Message- From: Stephen Gran [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, January 06, 2003 9:42 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Debie Newbie This one time, at band camp, Gary Turner said: > Daniel L. Miller wrote: > > A word to t

Debie Newbie

2003-01-06 Thread Daniel L. Miller
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