6.1 ncpmount ?

1999-12-12 Thread Claudiu Balciza
my RH6.0 used to backup some novell disks. I upgraded to rh6.1 and I cannot ncpmount the Novell server any more. it says: ncpmount: Server not found when trying to find ALTEX1 I'm clueless. please help Claudiu -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

Returned mail: Host unknown (Name server: 157.147.56.139: host not found)

1999-12-12 Thread brian davison
This was returned to me... as if I sent it... which I didn't. It looks like it may have gone through the redhat list server, so I'm putting it up here for diagnosis. Can anyone help me determine where it came from? I'm hoping it really didn't originate on my computer, (virus / hacked?) and I d

Re: lotus notes client

1999-12-12 Thread Chuck Mead
On Sun, 12 Dec 1999, fred smith said: fs>On Sun, Dec 12, 1999 at 10:49:42AM +, Harry Park wrote: fs>> My organization is moving to lotus notes for its email. Can anyone share fs>> their experiences using linux in this environment. It appears that there fs>> are no notes clients for linux. fs>

RE: Gnome / RPM strageness

1999-12-12 Thread cajun
Heh I thought mine worked too. Check some of the installed rpms against what is in the directory you installed october gnome from (if you still have it). -Original Message- From: Allen Bolderoff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, December 13, 1999 6:57 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Gnome / RPM strageness

1999-12-12 Thread Allen Bolderoff
On Sun, Dec 12, 1999 at 09:23:53PM -0800, cajun wrote: > > Perhaps I didn't explain it very well. I know what -qa does. > > My point is, the files that are shown by -qa are NOT the versions in the > directory that I did the 'rpm -Uvh *.rpm' in. > Ohh... I just read the order of what you did

RE: Gnome / RPM strageness

1999-12-12 Thread cajun
Perhaps I didn't explain it very well. I know what -qa does. My point is, the files that are shown by -qa are NOT the versions in the directory that I did the 'rpm -Uvh *.rpm' in. -Original Message- From: Allen Bolderoff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, December 13, 1999 6:34 A

Re: POP3 = insecure?

1999-12-12 Thread Michael H. Warfield
On Mon, Dec 13, 1999 at 01:37:23PM +1100, Hossein S. Zadeh wrote: > On Fri, 10 Dec 1999, Jeff Smelser wrote: > > Imap is plain text unless you go through ssh. Netscape and a few others > > support secure imap. > IMAP through ssh? That's news to me, could you elaborate. Mixing apples and

Re: Gnome / RPM strageness

1999-12-12 Thread Allen Bolderoff
On Sun, Dec 12, 1999 at 08:48:43PM -0800, cajun wrote: > > Today, I was looking for something and did a 'rpm -qa | grep gnome-core' and > got this: > gnome-core-devel-1.0.39-10 > gnome-core-1.0.39-10 > rpm -q = Query rpm -qa = querie the installed rpms rpm -qa | grep gnome-core =

RE: NE2000 setup

1999-12-12 Thread David H.
Well, incase anyone's wondering, after many many replies and many many hours of trying to figure this out, I just said screw it and did a clean install using bootnet.img instead. Now all is well. Lucky for me, there weren't any further customizations after the previous install that I would have ha

Gnome / RPM strageness

1999-12-12 Thread cajun
I built a new machine a couple of days ago and started upgrading various things. One of those items was October Gnome. I downloaded all of the files into a single directory, then as root, did a 'rpm -Uvh *.rpm'. I saw quite a few files that were upgraded and thought all was ok. Today, I was l

Re: E-commerce for Linux

1999-12-12 Thread Robert Burton
>Hi All, > >Can anyone point me in the right direction? I'm looking for >e-commerce solutions that work with Linux. This would include >Store Fronts like Miva and transaction software like CyberCash. > >Can anyone help? > >Thanks! > >Paul > >--

RE: Why so many identd instances...?

1999-12-12 Thread Juha Saarinen
> I believe this is an open bug report on bugzilla still. Ah yes, thanks, so it is. -- Juha -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

Control Panel dissapeared

1999-12-12 Thread Luis Pablo Gasparotto
Hi all! I have recently installed GTK 1.2.6, Glib 1.2.6 and the latest Glade and since then I can“t use Control Panel and Disk Management Tool in the X Windows Manager (both After Step and FVWM 95). What could be the cause? Thank you very much in advance. Luis Pablo Gasparotto _

Re: PPP setup trouble

1999-12-12 Thread Frank Rocco
The logon screen where you enter your user ID and password. When I first setup earthlink, I forgot to put the ELN/ in front of my user id. The DNS name not being found is caused by not setting up the Client/Name in linuxconf. I don't have Linux running at the monent, so I cannot give you the ex

Re: PPP setup trouble

1999-12-12 Thread Doug Brunner
What do you mean by ELN/profile? --Doug Brunner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Frank Rocco wrote: > The DNS entries I used are 207.217.126.81 and 207.217.77.82 > I also needed to add ELN/profile in my login. > > I then had to run linuxconf and click on the Client name p

Re: Why so many identd instances...?

1999-12-12 Thread Ron Golan
On Mon, 13 Dec 1999, Juha Saarinen wrote: > 140 0 429 1 0 0 1204 68 do_sel S? 0:00 inetd > 10099 3846 429 0 0 1472 688 wait_f S? 0:00 \_ > in.identd -e -o > 140 0 3847 3846 0 0 1472 688 do_pol S? 0:00 \_ [snip

Re: PPP setup trouble

1999-12-12 Thread Frank Rocco
The DNS entries I used are 207.217.126.81 and 207.217.77.82 I also needed to add ELN/profile in my login. I then had to run linuxconf and click on the Client name prompt. I entered earthlink.net followed by the two DNS entries above and in the search for name, I entered earthlink.net. Sorry fo

PPP setup trouble

1999-12-12 Thread Doug Brunner
I'm trying to set up a PPP connection to my ISP, Earthlink, under Linux. I've gotten it to connect, and I can send and receive packets, but no names will resolve. I entered the two DNS IP's I got from EarthLink, and still nothing worked. However, if I run dnsquery and specify the server, I can get

Re: AMD Athlon processor

1999-12-12 Thread Eric Wood
I have a 7IX board from Giga-byte running an K7-600Mhz. No problem at all running RH 6.1. However, there was some rumor of Giga-byte doing a recall of their boards due to heat problems. I haven't experienced any but then I'm not running the 700 or 750Mhz processors either. -Eric Wood -Ori

Re: POP3 = insecure?

1999-12-12 Thread Hossein S. Zadeh
On Fri, 10 Dec 1999, Jeff Smelser wrote: > Imap is plain text unless you go through ssh. Netscape and a few others > support secure imap. IMAP through ssh? That's news to me, could you elaborate. cheers, Hossein -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

Why so many identd instances...?

1999-12-12 Thread Juha Saarinen
140 0 429 1 0 0 1204 68 do_sel S? 0:00 inetd 10099 3846 429 0 0 1472 688 wait_f S? 0:00 \_ in.identd -e -o 140 0 3847 3846 0 0 1472 688 do_pol S? 0:00 \_ in.identd -e -o 040 0 3848 3847 0 0 1472 688

RE: PPP failure: "Incorrect service type"

1999-12-12 Thread Juha Saarinen
> Checking authorization, Please wait... > Username: > --> Looks like a login prompt. > --> Sending: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Password: > --> Looks like a password prompt. > --> Sending: (password) > Incorrect service type > Username/Password Incorrect Are you sure that your user n

Thanks to all for their help on PPP problems

1999-12-12 Thread gnielson
Thank you all so much for bearing with me this weekend as I tried to get my new ppp account working. I also posted a note on the linux networking newsgroup, and some kind soul sent a critique of my scripts that fixed the problem. I want to share it with you now, just in case you've been wrestling

Re: XBRU KILLS SAMBA CONNECTION!!!

1999-12-12 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sun, 12 Dec 1999, Paul M. Foster wrote: > Well, don't get mad, but why are you mounting Linux partitions with Samba? > Samba's really for Linux/Windows connectivity, not Linux/Linux > connectivity. I understand the need for Samba to connect to your Win* > machines, but I wouldn't use it to mou

Re: NE2000 setup

1999-12-12 Thread Edward Dekkers
> I know for a fact that you don't need to specify the irq, but I did anyway > and still got no results. I checked /lib/modules/net for the module, and > ne.o is in there. I know it's not the card, because I have had it working > before when I DID set it up during the installation. (this time I di

Re: XBRU KILLS SAMBA CONNECTION!!!

1999-12-12 Thread Paul M. Foster
On Sun, 12 Dec 1999, Jon Knews wrote: > > Well, I'm resorting to writing this a 2nd time, and sending it > to specific persons who may have an idea. > > I starting running XBRU2000 on RHL5.2 (the XBRU2000 came > from the Apps or Powertools cdrom). I run Samba 1.9.18p10-3 > on the 5.2 bo

Re: "Lock screen" doesn't work

1999-12-12 Thread lewst
Miroslav Silovic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What program does "Lock screen" call when clicked? > > I suppose there is the possibility I don't have > > that rpm installed. Barring that, does anyone > > else have this problem? Thanks. > > It calls xscreensaver-command -lock > > This means

OT - Change files permissions script help pls

1999-12-12 Thread Dan Horth
ok - here's the scenario... I stupidly managed to change all the files in my /etc/ directory to 755 permissions (directories too) and now things are complaining and I also think that this is not a very secure way for my /etc/ directory to be... I have a backup of this directory with all the c

Re: PPP failure: "Incorrect service type"

1999-12-12 Thread Charles Galpin
gary. Can a win98 user just use the simple dialup networking wizard to connect to your isp? If so, then they are using PAP, and please take my advise about settign it up using linuxconf/netconfig. It takes about one minute, and will work out of the box. In addition, it should be documented in the

RE: PPP failure: "Incorrect service type"

1999-12-12 Thread Uncle Meat
On 12-Dec-99 gnielson opined: > Here is wvdial's log report: > > --> WvDial: Internet dialer version 1.10 > --> Initializing modem. > --> Sending: ATZ > ATZ > OK > --> Sending: ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2 S11=55 +FCLASS=0 > ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2 S11=55 +FCLASS=0 > OK > --> Modem initialized. > --

PPP disconnects

1999-12-12 Thread Ben Wern
Hello. I'm attempting to move my on-demand dialer from an ancient version of Slackware over to a new RH 6.0 installation, and I'm having some trouble. I'm using the following command to start pppd: /usr/sbin/pppd -detach /dev/ttyS0 10.10.10.1:10.10.10.2 ipcp-accept-local ipcp-accept-remote de

Not KDE, but please help anyhow...

1999-12-12 Thread Danny
>Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Date: Sun, 12 Dec 1999 23:22:11 - >From: "Sam BC" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: KDE general mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >X-Mailing-List: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >X-Loop: [EMAIL

Re: PPP failure: "Incorrect service type"

1999-12-12 Thread Scott Kindley
gnielson wrote: > > Mmm, well, I have been spending many hours this weekend trying to get ppp > to work with my ISP's new setup, with no success. I solved some problems, > but still, no connection. I then downloaded WVDIAL, which at least gives > me more information as to the failure. What does "

PPP failure: "Incorrect service type"

1999-12-12 Thread gnielson
Mmm, well, I have been spending many hours this weekend trying to get ppp to work with my ISP's new setup, with no success. I solved some problems, but still, no connection. I then downloaded WVDIAL, which at least gives me more information as to the failure. What does "Incorrect service type" mea

Re: WinLinux 2000,no joke!

1999-12-12 Thread Jon Knews
On Sun, 12 Dec 1999, Gustav Schaffter wrote: > Jon, > > I guess you couldn't host Win-NT as a guest OS? > > Gustav > > Yes, with VMWare for Linux (Linux as the host o/s) it can run WIndoze 95/98/NT/2000 as the guest o/s. -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the S

Comatose system

1999-12-12 Thread Rich Shepard
There are a few of us in the local linux users group afflicted with this problem, but my situation's the worst. And it's mine so I want to fix it ASAP! I have two workstations and a firewall/router on a 100 Mbps ethernet; there are two portables which are sporatically connected. Everything is

Re: E-commerce for Linux

1999-12-12 Thread Scott Kindley
Paul Brown wrote: > > Hi All, > > Can anyone point me in the right direction? I'm looking for > e-commerce solutions that work with Linux. This would include > Store Fronts like Miva and transaction software like CyberCash. > > Can anyone help? > > Thanks! > > Paul > > Paul, Miva does wo

Re: Red Hat 6.1: Misc. device support issues

1999-12-12 Thread Terry Eck
Hi I've an internal modem much like the one mentioned below. I had to jumper it for COM2 (defaulted to COM3). I also had to disable serial port COM2 in the BIOS. You might try the above. Terry On Sun, 12 Dec 1999, Steve Frampton wrote: > 3) I can't get a response out of the 3COM US-Robotics 56K

Re: NE2000 setup

1999-12-12 Thread Yoshiko Miwa
Hello! I'm Yoshiko Miwa in Japan. I'd been Linux user for 6 years, and now I'm writers on several magazines about Computers(Japanese only). Please excuse my no-good English and my newbieness here. >Please excuse my newbieness here, but I need help setting up my NE2000 >network card > >Basically,

E-commerce for Linux

1999-12-12 Thread Paul Brown
Hi All, Can anyone point me in the right direction? I'm looking for e-commerce solutions that work with Linux. This would include Store Fronts like Miva and transaction software like CyberCash. Can anyone help? Thanks! Paul ---

Re: Nt/Linux questions

1999-12-12 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Sun, 12 Dec 1999, Larry Mintz wrote: > Anybody have a dual boot system using lilo and NT Server 4 on NTFS ? > I want to know if it is possible to have lilo run NT's bootloader while using > NTFS. Currently I use FAT. I have not actually tried it (I'll kill anyone trying to get a Microsoft pro

Nt/Linux questions

1999-12-12 Thread Larry Mintz
-- E-Mail: Larry Mintz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 12-Dec-99 Time: 16:34:16 Anybody have a dual boot system using lilo and NT Server 4 on NTFS ? I want to know if it is possible to have lilo run NT's bootloader while using NTFS. Currently I use FAT. Also does RH 6.1

Re: Peer System

1999-12-12 Thread M. Neidorff
Well, I'm assuming that the same machine is working under some other os. Check on how ttyS0 is set up in your system. Sounds like it is configured as the loopback device in error. At 10:21 PM 12/12/1999 +1000, you wrote: >Hi , > can anybody help me , When I connect to the internet t

Re: lotus notes client

1999-12-12 Thread fred smith
On Sun, Dec 12, 1999 at 10:49:42AM +, Harry Park wrote: > My organization is moving to lotus notes for its email. Can anyone share > their experiences using linux in this environment. It appears that there > are no notes clients for linux. Correct, there is no such critter. And apparently, to

Re: lotus notes client

1999-12-12 Thread Stephen Hargrove
You wrote: > >My organization is moving to lotus notes for its email. Can anyone share >their experiences using linux in this environment. It appears that there >are no notes clients for linux. Some have gotten Notes to run under Wine. See http://www.winehq.org for more information and search

Re: X Won't Stay Dead

1999-12-12 Thread Yoink!
On Sun, 12 Dec 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm running RH 6.0 with Gnome, on a Thinkpad 365XD. I've had plenty of > display problems. One of the most irritating is that, when I use > Ctrl+Alt+Backspace to kill X, it immediately reloads. I get a brief (less > than a second) view of the termi

Re: OT(?): TF

1999-12-12 Thread Yoink!
On Sat, 11 Dec 1999, Lee Davidson wrote: > I'm trying to install TinyFugue... have downloaded and unpacked it > successfully, but can't figure out how to make it run... > The only reason I feel okay posting this here is that I'm wondering if > there is another step generally taken when install

Re: can't run netscape and a couple other apps

1999-12-12 Thread Yoink!
What does the "free" command show you? Is swap space still enabled? How much memory do you have? can you telnet to or ping localhost? On Fri, 10 Dec 1999, patrick wrote: > I have had nothing but problems with my system since > installing RH 6.0 and upgrading to, essentially, > 6.1. Little and b

Re: tty1 lock

1999-12-12 Thread yinyang
On 13 Dec, pp_mm wrote: > How could I make the tty1 alive? Maybe try: stty sane < /dev/tty1 MSG -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

RE: Red Hat vs Mandrake

1999-12-12 Thread Stephen Berg
On Sun, 12 Dec 1999 11:05:32 -0700, patrick wrote: >Mandrake may, in itself, be good - essentially as good >as Redhat but with different optimizations, but something >is different enough between them to make them incompatible, >which I dislike. I'm having some problems with mandrake 6.5 myself.

Dialpad using only ipchains?

1999-12-12 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
Has anyone successfully set up dialpad to work through an ipchains firewall using only ipchains? There's a FAQ on the dialpad site which indicates that one may need the ipmasqadm package, but I'd like to be able to do this strictly with ipchains, if possible. Anecdotes? Interesting stories? Links

Re: TOTALLY OT: what SCSI card is this?

1999-12-12 Thread Doug Brunner
That's not off topic--it's about getting something running w/ Linux. Anyway...That's a cousin of the NCR 53c710 in my ProSignia system. Could it say 53C974? There's a driver for that in the list-it's the first one in the list on the boot floppy. Try that, and also the tekram driver. Good luck...

RE: NE2000 setup

1999-12-12 Thread David H.
My conf.modules file reads: Alias eth0 ne Options ne io=0x300 I know for a fact that you don't need to specify the irq, but I did anyway and still got no results. I checked /lib/modules/net for the module, and ne.o is in there. I know it's not the card, because I have had it working before when

TOTALLY OT: what SCSI card is this?

1999-12-12 Thread Edward Schernau
I've got a "Mountain Computer" SCSI card, made in 1990. It's 16-bit, got internal and external connectors, and a square processor on it that says: NCR 53C94 Any idea how to get this running with Linux? I have no docs, and have no idea what IRQ, etc its using. Ed -- Edward Schernau

"Lock screen" doesn't work

1999-12-12 Thread lewst
I'm running RedHat 6.0 with gnome. I need the ability to lock my screen when I leave for the day. When I bring up the main menu, and click on "Lock screen" (about 4 choices up), nothing happens. It seems as if nothing is even being executed. What program does "Lock screen" call when clicked?

Problems with performance

1999-12-12 Thread patrick
I posted previously that since reinstalling RH [6.1] that my system is not as responsive as it was before the reinstall. The only differences between then and now is that I added an 8.4GB hdd as hda, reduced the number of partitions to 3 (excluding swap, of course), and added 64 megs more ram for

RE: Red Hat vs Mandrake

1999-12-12 Thread patrick
Mandrake may, in itself, be good - essentially as good as Redhat but with different optimizations, but something is different enough between them to make them incompatible, which I dislike. I do not recall the rpm other than that it was one of the ubiquitous software sets like XFree or glibc, but

Need help with configuring my new Cordless MouseMan Wheel.

1999-12-12 Thread Steven W. Orr
I just plugged it in and it seems to work fine. My problem is that the left mouse button and the right work fine. The button on the side seems dead and double clicking with B1 and B1 together seems to not simulate a middle mouse button. I remember that there was a web site somewhere that had a r

Re: Multi-user e-mail

1999-12-12 Thread Gustav Schaffter
Chuck, I've tried your simple .fetchmailrc, running as root. To my surprice, all e-mail received as 'is gus here', 'is someone else here' etc., will get delivered to root. (?) Any hints to what I'm doing wrong? Regards Gustav Chuck Mead wrote: > > On Sat, 4 Dec 1999, Gustav Schaffter said:

Pump only for Redhat 6

1999-12-12 Thread gnielson
I am looking to install a cable modem and need Pump v. 0.7.0. The errata says the relevant releases are Rehat 6.0/all architectures. I am running RedHat 5.0. Will pump work with 5? -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

Re: WinLinux 2000,no joke!

1999-12-12 Thread Gustav Schaffter
Jon, I guess you couldn't host Win-NT as a guest OS? Gustav Jon Knews wrote: > > On Sun, 12 Dec 1999, Zach Bresee wrote: > > I downloaded and installed it.. it's an actual windows installer that puts > > linux in a folder (it doesn't partition the hard drive) on the windows > > drive. It use

Re: front page

1999-12-12 Thread Jon Knews
On Fri, 10 Dec 1999, Kevin Hemenway wrote: > > I must be missing something. One of my customers is trying to update > > their web site using Front Page I thought Apache support this. They are > > telling me it does not work. What is the first thing that I should check? > > If you don't want to

Re: WinLinux 2000,no joke!

1999-12-12 Thread Gustav Schaffter
Zach, there's a back side of the coin as well. If people ('newbies') installs this 'stuff' and believes that *this* is Linux, then Linux might get a lot of bad publicity. "No security", etc. Agreed, it may be used to *show* people how Linux could look if it was really installed. It could also be

Re: [Fwd: kppp requires root pw]

1999-12-12 Thread Gustav Schaffter
Franc, Thanks. You put me on the track. It seems that kppp V1.6.22 always uses the /root/.kde/share/config/kppprc file for it's setup, no matter who is currently executing kppp. (This was *not* the case with earlier versions of kppp.) So, I made sure that the group on the kppprc file was the gr

Re: NE2000 setup

1999-12-12 Thread Clint Tinsley
Basically, make sure the card is configured as "jumperless" so it is not PlugNPray and put it at one of the standard addresses such as IRQ=3 I/0=300 but it also works in nonstandard address such as IRQ=10 I/O=340 Also, please send your email as plain text. A lot of Linux users would just the del

RE: WinLinux 2000,no joke!

1999-12-12 Thread Online Design
This seems to get better pressbetter support docs too. Haven't used it...just what I heard. http://www.phatlinux.com/ At 09:16 AM 12/12/99 -0600, Zach Bresee wrote : >I downloaded and installed it.. it's an actual windows installer that puts >linux in a folder (it doesn't partition the h

tty1 lock

1999-12-12 Thread pp_mm
I am using RH6.1 on a HP E45. when I using ncftp to fetch somefiles, maybe be the network was lag. tty1 was lock, ^c and NO RESPONSE In tty2 #ps -ef |grep tty root 18382 1 0 Dec11 tty3 00:00:00 [mingetty] root 18383 1 0 Dec11 tty4 00:00:00 [mingetty] root 19601

XBRU KILLS SAMBA CONNECTION!!!

1999-12-12 Thread Jon Knews
Well, I'm resorting to writing this a 2nd time, and sending it to specific persons who may have an idea. I starting running XBRU2000 on RHL5.2 (the XBRU2000 came from the Apps or Powertools cdrom). I run Samba 1.9.18p10-3 on the 5.2 box, and this connects to RHL6.0 box with Samba 2.0.3-8,

Re: USR 56K external

1999-12-12 Thread Jon Knews
> When I connect with the 28.8 modem, I get a string 115200 after > CONNECT, and everything is fine. With the 56K modem I get a string > > 26400/ARQ/V34/LAPM/V42BIS > > (the first number varies, may be 24000, for example). I guess this > contains useful information, but do not know how to dec

RE: WinLinux 2000,no joke!

1999-12-12 Thread Jon Knews
On Sun, 12 Dec 1999, Zach Bresee wrote: > I downloaded and installed it.. it's an actual windows installer that puts > linux in a folder (it doesn't partition the hard drive) on the windows > drive. It uses the windows fat32 as the filesystem. It also has a windows > based configuration utility

Re: Red Hat vs Mandrake

1999-12-12 Thread Jon Knews
On Fri, 10 Dec 1999, Michael J. McGillick wrote: > Evening Everyone: > > Not looking to start a flame war here. I've heard of Mandrake, and that > it uses i586 or i686 rpms. Anyone out there tried it or compared it to > Red Hat? If you read deeper, you would have found that Mandrake *IS* Re

Re: X Won't Stay Dead

1999-12-12 Thread Jon Knews
> > I'm running RH 6.0 with Gnome, on a Thinkpad 365XD. I've had plenty of > display problems. One of the most irritating is that, when I use > Ctrl+Alt+Backspace to kill X, it immediately reloads. This is just a wild guess, but if you originally installed X so that Gnome comes up automati

Re: NE2000 setup

1999-12-12 Thread Vidiot
>On 12 Dec, Vidiot wrote: > >>>With NE2000-type ethernet cards, I *always* start by configuring the >>>card using the DOS setup/diagnostic tools that come with it. If I >>>forget, I can never get Linux to see the card. If you don't have the >>>driver disk, you should find the drivers on the Net

Re: XBru Kills Samba Connection...

1999-12-12 Thread Jon Knews
> > OK, I've had both options on 5.2 and 6.0, and I've found either works with > either. There's no reason not to use security=share on the 5.2 box, but > let's not go into that now. > > Have the 'encrypted password' options changed defaults from 5.2 and 6.0? I > remember a while back this caus

SQL Server and DOS Client

1999-12-12 Thread Azhar H. Chowdhury
Dear All, I need a solution for following problem: 1. I need a connect to any SQL Server running on LINUX from my DOS based program (developed by MS C 6/7). Can you please write me back is there any SQL server which has SDK (MS C)? Another question about TCP/IP software (free) for DOS. Is there

Re: NE2000 setup

1999-12-12 Thread Bruce Richardson
On 12 Dec, Vidiot wrote: >>With NE2000-type ethernet cards, I *always* start by configuring the >>card using the DOS setup/diagnostic tools that come with it. If I >>forget, I can never get Linux to see the card. If you don't have the >>driver disk, you should find the drivers on the Net no pro

RE: WinLinux 2000,no joke!

1999-12-12 Thread Zach Bresee
I downloaded and installed it.. it's an actual windows installer that puts linux in a folder (it doesn't partition the hard drive) on the windows drive. It uses the windows fat32 as the filesystem. It also has a windows based configuration utility to configure x-windows, and system devices. To

RE: Red Hat 6.1: Misc. device support issues

1999-12-12 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
> -Original Message- > From: Steve Frampton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Sunday, December 12, 1999 3:06 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Red Hat 6.1: Misc. device support issues > > > > 1) Downloaded drivers from 3dfxgamers.com for the Voodoo 3000 (16 > Mb) video card. X come

Re: [Fwd: kppp requires root pw]

1999-12-12 Thread Frank Rocco
I'm new to linux, but ny chance did you setup kppp logged on as root admin? I deleted and recreated by setup logged on as a user and it stopped asking me for the password. HTH Frank Rocco At 03:25 PM 12/12/99 +0100, you wrote: >Hi, > >I didn't have any answer to my first post, so I'll give it

RE: Peer System

1999-12-12 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
Either your modem is operating in HALF duplex mode, or it is echoing back all characters sent to it... (Local Echo). You'll need to change it's configuration via switches, or ATxx commands. If you use the latter, remembet to make the changes "permanant" by writing them out to NVRAM... using the

[Fwd: kppp requires root pw]

1999-12-12 Thread Gustav Schaffter
Hi, I didn't have any answer to my first post, so I'll give it a second (and last) chanse. Best regards Gustav Gustav Schaffter wrote: > > Hi, > > Could someone enlighten me to what I may have changed to suddenly find > that I have to give root's password when I connect to my ISP with kppp? >

Re: NE2000 setup

1999-12-12 Thread Vidiot
>On 11 Dec, David H. wrote: >> Please excuse my newbieness here, but I need help setting up my NE2000 >> network card >> >> Basically, where do I begin? > >With NE2000-type ethernet cards, I *always* start by configuring the >card using the DOS setup/diagnostic tools that come with it. If I >fo

Re: NE2000 setup

1999-12-12 Thread Bruce Richardson
On 11 Dec, David H. wrote: > Please excuse my newbieness here, but I need help setting up my NE2000 > network card > > Basically, where do I begin? With NE2000-type ethernet cards, I *always* start by configuring the card using the DOS setup/diagnostic tools that come with it. If I forget, I c

RE: WinLinux 2000,no joke!

1999-12-12 Thread Rev. David P. Giffen
Now that's an accident waiting to happen > > Linux Box -->> Emulating WinBloze -->> Emulating Linux -->> ?? > -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

RE: Windows NT+ Exchange with Linux proxy/firewall server

1999-12-12 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
> -Original Message- > From: Niels Wagenaar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, December 10, 1999 4:43 AM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: Windows NT+ Exchange with Linux proxy/firewall server > > > Hello all, > > After a couple of questions from my boss, he finally decided to

Peer System

1999-12-12 Thread Paul Smith
Hi , can anybody help me , When I connect to the internet the connection is cut immediately the log says pppd 2.3.7 started by root , uid 0 using interface ppp0 connected : ppp0<-> /dev/ttyS0 serial line is looped back connection terminated connect time 0.5 The hint at the bottom of the lo

RE: Red Hat vs Mandrake

1999-12-12 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
Assuming you do NOT have a P(IBM?)166mhz (or a a busted Cyrix) ;-) it runs pretty well. (busted you ask? Yes. Cyrix P133+'s rated at 166 caused erroneous signal 11's. There was a software update to the compiler which fixed this, but support for this patch has been subsequently dropped... we've v

Re: security

1999-12-12 Thread Arni Raghu
Look at "maximum linux security" a book...most of the stuff can be found at many urls but this is one collections of all teh urls presented in one place.. also look at www.zedz.com/redhat hth, A > > I will shortly have an adsl connection, and I > may decide to run the machine 24/7. Is there

Re: NE2000 setup

1999-12-12 Thread Boris Lutz
On Sat, Dec 11, 1999 at 11:49:09PM -0800, David H. wrote: > Please excuse my newbieness here, but I need help setting up my NE2000 > network card > > Basically, where do I begin? > > Ive tried going into linuxconf, and under networking->client tasks->basic > host info, I set enabled to true, c

lotus notes client

1999-12-12 Thread Harry Park
My organization is moving to lotus notes for its email. Can anyone share their experiences using linux in this environment. It appears that there are no notes clients for linux. Harry -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

Re: need help to choose a IRC/chat on REDHAT

1999-12-12 Thread David Krings
Hi ! Sorry if I seem to be hard in understanding, but I don't know exactly what you want. In this place you may ask for two things, either using a server or running a server. But I try to answer both. Using a server to chat with other ppl is not that hard, there are zillions out t

Re: IRC networks & Linux

1999-12-12 Thread David Krings
Hi ! There were some halfway decent channels on DALnet, just that they were not very talkative/supportive for my questions, maybe because I am from europe, hehe. To get you back on EFnet you should contact your ISP, most of the time the irc networks kline a complete ISP because the ISP di