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Here is the thing. I could care less about network security on my system. I'm on dial-up so my IP is different everyday and I'm only connected when I'm in fromt of the box, it's a home machine, not worried aabout the other comps in the house, I want to make samba as incesure as possible. How do you make it so that anybody with any login can connect from a windows machine for basic stuff like printing??

I have a Lynksys EtherPCI LAN Card II you can have for a "thank, I realy appriate the help" that may work for you. Not sure if it's good or not. If you want it, you need to let me know REALLY quick as i leave for vacation on Friday.

I have tried 4

knoppix 3.1

Lycoris Desktop/LX amethist

mandrake 9.0

mandrake 9.1

Lycoris was basicaly just caldera with a few extras. REALY nothing special.

knoppix was great. It's meant to be run live from CD, and you can do a hd install if you want and it installs as a custom debian system. You can get a debian sys setup in less than 15 minutes. Very cool. Also, reguardless of your primary desktop, I think EVERY COMPUTER OWNER WITHOUT EXCEPTION should get a coppy of the live knoppix CD and keep it handy AND learn to navigate an already configured liunx system if they don't know yet. I can't tell you how many times I've done something stupid or tried to help someone else who had done something stupid, and used the knoppix CD to back up files before a format or manualy delete bad files and make other repairs. It is a God-send.

mandrake is my favorite. Of course, I like 9.1 better than 9.0 Best hardware detection of the what I've tried. MCC is great for the linux learner who doesn't have time to go LFS and it's very stable on my system.

I would love to give gentoo a try this summer, but I'm on a 56k dial-up and it sounds like that would be prohibitive.

I think I know why your sondcard doesn't work. I have the same card and mine wouldn't have worked if I hadn't known better. For whater retarded reason, mandrake installed the Audigy10k() driver for the soundblaster Live!

Of course, it's not an audigy or even an audigy compatible chipset, you need to open up mcc and change the driver from audigy to emu10k() works like a champ. volume is a litle low by de3fault, but kmix or the gnome equivilant if you go gnome will fix that.

My 9.0 boxed set was flawless. The mandrakestore customer service was another story, so when iwent 9.1, i went with the CheapBytes CD's. I think it was 11.99 for CDR's (My CD burner is busted and i was in too much of a hury to dl on 56k)

Yes, I am currently planning on getting one of these this fall, and it would be nice to see somebody else get it running and find out how.

DAMN!! I just rebooted and tried to print, and the stupid thing is going 2 mnutes a page again.

I know what you mean. LOL

Unfortunatly, as you probably figured outwith the DVD, when you are on your 400th try, it's REALY hard to keep track :roll:

And congrats on dumping windows. i only recently left windows totaly myself. In fact, mylast fat32 partion was rieser'd yesterday.

Life is good. It's working now. don't know exactly how, don't exactly care. I just uninstalled and reinstalled and reconfigured it all untill it worked.

Well, first go to mcc and run scannerdrake in the hardware page to make sure your scanner is setup correctly. Once that is done, you have three choices. SANE (Scan Aquisition Now Easy) or some such thing that you scan run from the terminal pormpt, NOT reccomended.

Xsane, the xwindow frontend of SANE, HIGHLY reccomended. once you run scannerdrake it should automaticaly recognize your scanner.

kooka scan and OCR manager, this is great for scaning docs as it has a built in OCR. also good for images, but I prefer Xsane.

Also, you should be able to install an Xsane plugin for the GIMP, allowing you to scan from gimp

Ijust finished settingup my multi funciton printer/scanner/coppier, so ifyou need help with your scanner, don't hesitate to ask.

Well, I don't know how, but I fixed it. It now runs a usable speed. basicaly I uninstalled and reinstalled the required packeges in every concievable order and finaly it worked. May have had something to do with the failed attempt at using mcc to set up the printing part and the package or two it installed, though it didn't tell me what they were.

Of course, Open Office, should have been installed when you installed mandrake.

appearantly, hpijs is the ONLY driver that will even function for this printer. You can'teven set it up through mcc, you have to set it up through the command prompt or cups www admin tool.

I have tried the default cups drivers and the mandrake update cups files. The one thing i still plan on trying in removing lbusb libusb-devel and everything printing related and installing all the 9.0 versions of that stuff. Worst case senario, I fry my install and have to format, not that big of a deal. Alsom it looks like I've got a couple days left on my 14 day guarantee, so if worst comes to worst, I can get a different printer, though, I can't imagine I can find a combo unit with a 600dpi scanner and 1200 dpi printer with 1 touch copy funcitons for $99 anywhere else.

most of this is a litle over my head, but here goes what I've got. If I'm being an idiot, feal free to just ignore me.

As for the clock getting set WAY wrong, whenyou install, by default it assumes that your harware clock is set to GMT (Greenwich Mean Time) NOt sure how to fix it post-install, but pre-install, when the screen opens with all the sysconfig stuff, make sure your timezone is set correct and either dissable that setting, or set your bios clock to GMT. This was the porblem and solution for me.

As for the AMI bios board related issues, sook for my thread in the install forum titled, "won't boot after install" the board i was using then was amibios and I had a lto of trouble but they all got fixed and the solution (whitch my short memory has robbed form me is there)

As helpfull as I can be.

Wow, I realy need to learn to read. didn't see that "two harddrives": thing. should still be the same though. elt me read the other posts and se what nuggets of knowledge I can slip out.

I'm starting to regret my upgrade just a litle. i love the new themes, and i love the new mcc and kde3.1 is a HUGE upgrade over 3.0, but my printer isn't working right anymore. After DAYS af headaches and research, I finaly got the stupid thing running under 9.0 perfectly, and then I upgraded to 9.1 and the damn thing literaly takes 2-3 minues per page to print. I've tried 3 different forums and directly emailing one of the linux hpijs engineers at HP and nbody has a clue why it won't work. Plus, since it was working under 9.0 I didn't take it back before the und of my 14 dy satisfactios guarantee so now I'm stuck with it and can't afford another one. As it was I had to sell my Dell Axim PocketPC to buy this one.

Also, personaly, Iwould share a /home that way your files are all "right there" reguardless of what you boot and its one less thing to monkey with when you go down to one OS.

Also, as for lilo, basicaly, you want a stanza for 8.2 and one for 9.1 and you want lilo installed to the mbr. If you have trouble figureing out what to put in each stanza, just copy the installed lilo.conf stanza fromt he first os into the one installed by the second of and run /sbin/lilo and you should have both.

I may be way off here, but my understnding is that all you need to do is this:

load put the installer for whithcever os youwant first, go through custom disk partitioning, and set up you partitions the way you want them for that OS. My understanding is that your mount points are handled by the fstab of each distro, so you can have the same partion mounted in different places on different distros.

then once that's all up and running, put in the disk for the next OS, do the hokey pokey and select custom disk partitioning again. Now build your partitions in the unpartitioned half of your hard drivew and selectyour mount points. If you want to share /home (not a bad idea) you would just select the same partiotn that is your home for the first one and mount it as /home

So, your hard drive (if you don't share /home) might look something like hda1, hda2,hda3,hda4,hda5,hda6,hda7

you can do it in any order you want, but the "ideal" order IMHO would be to have the first OS use

hda1 as /

hda2 as /mnt/whatever

hda3 as /usr

hda4 as /mnt/whatever2

hda5 as swap

hda6 as /mnt/whatever3

hda7 as /home

then the second distro would mount the following

hda1 as /mnt/whatever

hda2 as /

hda3 as /whatever2

hda4 as /usr

hda5 swap

hda6 /home

hda7 /mnt/whatever3

There is no reason why the have to mount the same partitions the same way, and if you don't want them to mount eachother's partition under mount, then don't.

The two advanteges to this are your partitions are even and odd, with root at the beginning followed by /usr then /home whitch is how the installer does it by default if you iclude a /usr AND if you do it this way, when you are ready to go to one OS or the other, you can resiz your partitions without losing proportion or order.

Okay, i am having a enw printer problem now that I'm running 9.1 I hope somebody can help.

I'm using an HP PSC1210, not natively supported by mandrake. Itrequires CUPS, foomatic, libusb, libusb-devel, the CVS versio of HPOJ and hpijs 1.4.1 whitch was just released a few days ago.

under 9.0 I installed all these things and it worked great. I just upgraded to 9.1, installed every printer related update and installed all the stuff I listed above. configured it all just the same, but now it takes LITERALY 2-3 minutes per page to print.

What in 9.1 could cause this? different libusb maybe? or something else? Some other package perhaps.

for other knoppix stuff, I found http:///www.knoppix.net/forum to be REALY helpfull. I did a hard drive install of knoppix (whitch turns it into debian) before coming to mandrake.

I think a big part of the problem is that most people's expectaitons with linux are to high. With windows, there are ALWAYS many bug that go right through beta, and there's always 200 or 300 MB of patches todownload within a month or two. So for me, coming from windows, this is no big deal, but apearantly, that's not acceptable in Linux.

Yup. It's stable for me even before updateing. i couldn't be appier, plus I've got gcc 3 and kde 3.1 now as well as a newer kernel.

clean install tooka whopping 30 minutes, no errors, stable system.