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  3. Video Format changer [solved]

    in Software

    Posted

    Do i hv to install URPMI program???

    B'coz wen i m typing urpmi konverter in the terminal its saying

    "bash: urpmi : command not found

    You need to log in as root (su and password) in terminal before running urpmi. urpmi command tells the packet manager of Mandriva to install package that matches what you tell. E.g. 'urpmi konverter' should install package called konverter. Simple, eh?

    To remove the said package, you write (as root) 'urpme konverter'. And it uninstalles the said package. Equally simple. :)

     

    and yes i am using KDE desktop.

     

    Can you please also tell me which destop environment is better KDE or GNOME??

    Well, I think you should stay with KDE - at least as long as you have familiarized yourself with Linux & Mandriva distro.

     

    No one can say, which is better; KDE or Gnome. Or, of course they CAN, but the shouldn't. It's a matter of opinion. The reason I'm suggesting you stick with KDE for awhile is because, IMHO, it's easier to use KDE than Gnome when moving from Windows to Linux.

  4. sound driver problem [solved]

    in Hardware

    Posted

    What about pulseaudio setup problems? I for one had a lot of problems with pulseaudio. I'm afraid I'm not with my Mandriva system currently, but it could be that. I had no sound with amarok, but could hear the system sounds (the beeps and sort).

  6. Sound problem

    in Hardware

    Posted

    2008.1 uses pulseaudio. I experienced (and still am to some extent) problems with my fresh installation as well. I got sound from system sounds (e.g. start-up sound), but no sound with some games (it worked for maniadrive, but not for Quake4) and no sound with amarok.

     

    I installed pulseaudio controls (or whatever that name was - I'm currently at the office; not home) from MCC. My problem seems to be that I have a USB phone connected and PulseAudio thinks that's No. 1 playback device.

     

    Even after the installation of the pulseaudio controls I had to open it and let the sound play. Then go into the pulseaudio controls, choose playback and with a right click make my desktop loudspeakers the default playback device for that particular source... I have to do this to any and all new sources...

  11. Webcam driver needed

    in Hardware

    Posted

    Nope, sorry. I haven't bothered with this lately. The only time I have made use of skype video call was with my wife whenever I'm on the road. And if it doesn't work with a push of a button in Mandriva, I tell my wife to turn on WinXP and get skype from windows.

     

    But hopefully some day I can get the video functionality in skype operating with Mandriva as well.

  12. Recommendations for a network drive for home use

    in Networking

    Posted

    I made it with the help of a user in a Finnish forum! But I thought I'd report back here also. I got the user rights OK by doing the following.

    1. I unmounted the samba-shares
    2. Re-wrote the mounting with this addition of my linux user uid and gid
      //nas/data /home/dude67/nas/data smbfs credentials=/etc/samba/auth.nas.user1,uid=500,gid=500 0  0


    3. Re-mounted the samba-shares

    I don't really know what I did wrong the previous times, but now I got it working.

     

    Cheers to everyone who helped me here also!

     

    This is my /etc/fstab if that's of any interest to anyone.

    	 /dev/sda6 / ext3 noatime 1 1
 /dev/sda8 /home ext3 noatime 1 2
 //nas/DATA /home/dude67/nas/data smbfs credentials=/etc/samba/auth.nas.user1,uid=500,gid=500 0 0
 /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom auto umask=0,user,iocharset=utf8,noauto 0 0
 /dev/sdc1 /media/hd vfat umask=0,users,iocharset=utf8,sync,noauto,exec 0 0
 /dev/sda1 /mnt/win_c ntfs-3g defaults,locale=en_US.UTF-8 0 0
 /dev/sda5 /mnt/win_d ntfs-3g defaults,locale=en_US.UTF-8 0 0
 none /proc proc defaults 0 0
 none /tmp tmpfs defaults 0 0
 /dev/sda9 /usr ext3 noatime 1 2
 /dev/sda7 swap swap defaults 0 0

  13. Recommendations for a network drive for home use

    in Networking

    Posted

    Here's mount

    [dude67@localhost ~]$ mount
   /dev/sda6 on / type ext3 (rw,noatime)
   none on /proc type proc (rw)
   /dev/sda8 on /home type ext3 (rw,noatime)
   /dev/sda1 on /mnt/win_c type fuseblk (rw,nosuid,nodev,allow_other,blksize=4096)
   /dev/sda5 on /mnt/win_d type fuseblk (rw,nosuid,nodev,allow_other,blksize=4096)
   none on /tmp type tmpfs (rw)
   /dev/sda9 on /usr type ext3 (rw,noatime)
   none on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw)
   /dev/sde1 on /media/hd2 type vfat (rw,nosuid,nodev,sync,users,umask=0,iocharset=utf8)
   sunrpc on /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs type rpc_pipefs (rw)
   nfsd on /proc/fs/nfsd type nfsd (rw)
   //nas/BU on /home/dude67/nas/BU type smbfs (0)
   //nas/DATA on /home/dude67/nas/data type smbfs (0)
   //nas/PUBLIC on /home/dude67/nas/public type smbfs (0)
   [dude67@localhost ~]$

    and here's ls -l

    [dude67@localhost ~]$ ls -l /home/dude67/nas
   total 16
   drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4096 2008-03-30 16:22 BU/
   drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4096 2008-03-30 16:23 data/
   drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4096 2008-03-30 16:23 public/
   [dude67@localhost ~]$

    To me this says that root owns these folders. But whenever I try to change (as root) the ownership, I get this:

    Could not modify the ownership of
 file /home/dude67/nas/data. You have insufficient access
 to the file to perform the change.

  14. Recommendations for a network drive for home use

    in Networking

    Posted

    Here's an update to the situation.

     

    I now can see the drive and have been able to mount the NAS drive folders under my home folder like this:

    /home/dude67/nas/folder1

    /home/dude67/nas/folder2

    /home/dude67/nas/folder3

     

    I have a user set up in the NAS with the config tool provided, but due to some restrictions, I have been unable to use the same username I use in my Linux systems. Now, according to a suggestion I got, I've set this user ID and pw in KDE control center: Internet & network | Local network browsing | Windows share.

     

    In MCC | network sharing | Share data with Windows system I have found this nas drive and set it up so that each of the folders I've created in the nas-drive (with it's own config tool) are mounted under my home folder (mount point) with the user ID and pw (Mount options) as I set up in nas (not the user ID and pw of my Linux user). As can be seen in the list above.

    Now, this is my current problem:

    I can see these folders fine with my current user ID (read rights), but I cannot get write rights to it! It only gives write access to my root account.

     

    I've managed to copy files and subfolders to these nas-directories from my regular home folders by opening the nas folder with root rights in Konqueror. But that's kind of an awkward way of working with a network drive. I also tried to change the rights to the nas-folders (and it's new sub-folders) when the nas folder was opened with root rights, but I can only change the first tier folder's (the /nas folder) rights. For all of the sub-folders and files I get "no rights to this folder/files" answer.

     

    Any ideas as how to get my regular user the read-write access to these nas folders?

     

    Oh, I've also installed Webmin. I just thought there might be a tool within Webmin that could help me accomplish this. I must admit though, that I'm not so "fluent" with webmin, but I've used it briefly in the past.

  15. Email 'read' notification in Thunderbird

    in Software

    Posted

    IIRC MS Outlook gives (or at least gave in some old version) the option to get a receipt from the server that the message has been delivered to the recipient's server. This the user had no say, but I guess the server can be configured not to send such replies.

     

    This in addition to the return receipt from the recipient. And I don't know if this is a feature in TB.

  16. Recommendations for a network drive for home use

    in Networking

    Posted

    Just one thing: Stay away from Western Digital drives. You have been warned...

    Seven out of seven drives that failed me in the last 14 months are WD... two of them being the much advertized WD5000AAKS internal HD's, one of them 1TB MyBook- Essential Edition, and another one 160 GB WD Passport.

    To be fair, WD replaced all seven drives (they all were within garrantee), but I kept none- sold them all and now working solely with Samsung and Hitachi/IBM drives (although I still have a couple of Seagates and one Maxtor drive busy).

    Thanks scarecrow, I have been warned. :) I just cannot say (at least at this point) that the drive is not working properly as they officially don't support linux. Only windows and I believe lately also OS X.

    A NAS is a (small) PC, so let's boot it up after connecting it to your router and the router is configured to hand-out IP adresses via DHCP (99% chance yours is). Next step is to find out what IP address it lives on. Usually your router (try 192.168.0.1) can tell you what is connected to it. One of them is the PC you connect from, the other is the NAS. Open browser, type in 192.168.0.3 (or whatever the router tells you) and your router will welcome you (probably after a prompt for a password -- manual shoudl tell you what the default is).

     

    Can you get to this stage? This should not require making modifications on client PC.

    I don't know if I've said it clearly that I have been able to access the drive from Mandriva through http:// (w/ Konquerer and Firefox). I've set the IP manually to better suit the rest of my networks IP numbers. All the IPs in my LAN are manually set.

     

    With the configuration tool in the drive (http://192.168.254.50), I can see that it's file system is CIFS. With the conf tool I can e.g. (i) create users (ii) add folders (iii) define rights to the folders for different users (iv) set the IP address automatically (DHCP) or manually amongst other things.

     

    I cannot see another way of interacting with the drive though. If I try ftp'ing it 'ftp 192.168.254.50', it just says that I don't have access rights there. And I don't know how to (or even if I should) mount a network drive. In windows I should install the MioNet and get access to the drive with that tool.

  18. Recommendations for a network drive for home use

    in Networking

    Posted

    OK, I'm getting a little bit frustrated with my own total ignorance of the whole network-issue... :huh:

     

    I don't know if I should format the whole drive, but how would that work from there on...? It seems obvious that the software WD has provided does not work in linux so I might as well get rid of the stuff pre-installed. But what then? How can I connect to the drive so that I could format it? And if I format it, will I be able to install anything in it (over ethernet cable)?

     

    If I don't format this drive just yet. How would I gain access to the actual files in the drive? Should I mount it somehow?

     

    Quoting FX here: "I'd be ripping my hair out if I had any"

  19. Recommendations for a network drive for home use

    in Networking

    Posted

    The WD-drive is a NAS (network attached storage) meaning it is a stripped down PC that will define how it provides storage space. This means it will offer you one or more file-systems (FAT32, NTFS, if you are lucky ext3 or something Linux-friendly) and how to make that data accessible (FTP, RSYNC, NFS or Samba). Only the WD documentation can tell you how to set up the NAS in one or more storage areas. Typically you will need the NAS to have a fixed IP adress (so that other PC's know where to find it).

     

    Linux clients can interact with FTP via an ftp client (lftp from commandlien, GFTP in Gnome and no doubt lots of other possibilities). Rsync can be interacted with via rsync or some of front-ends like dirvish and rsnapshot which are good to automatically make regularly (hourly, daily, weekly snapshots). NFS and Samba file-systems have to be mounted by the Linux client either via /etc/exports (nfs, but also install nfs client) or mount -t cifs //server/share /mnt/mywdbackup (samba).

    The WD manual states:

    My Book World Edition is preformatted as a Linux file system.

    Whatever that is: ext3 or something else.

  20. Recommendations for a network drive for home use

    in Networking

    Posted

    Were I you (but again, I'm not), I'd actually compare the prices between a "stand-alone NAS" and a fan-less mini-ITX setup with an equivalent hard drive inside. Now it's up to you :)

     

    Yves.

    You are of course right there, but the thing is: I already got the NAS drive. And the other thing is the size and looks; I don't want another PC (even a small one) in my living room where this drive is going.

     

    I meant no disrespect; my point in all of this has been this: I'm a total noob when it comes to this type of hardware and configuring them. I still know virtually nothing; but hopefully will manage to build this up.

     

    I have managed to set it up so that I can access the drive over the (w)lan, but I can only access the bl..dy configuration software! I cannot access the files or the filesystem. WD has provided a software (mionet) that does not operate in Linux. I could try that with wine, but that's kind of beside the point: I have a network drive I would like to access with my Linux PCs...

  22. Recommendations for a network drive for home use

    in Networking

    Posted

    OK, as I said I'm a total n00b when it comes to network drives...

     

    A little more help would be appreciated... :unsure:

     

    I bought the WD's My Book World Edition (1TB) and have plugged it in. I've plugged it in my ADSL router (which in turn is connected to my Wireless AP) and powered it up. This NAS is a single drive version (the MyBook World Edition II has two drives).

     

    From windows side I managed to set it up eventually, but had some problems with the network once that was done. I couldn't connect to Internet after that (from WinXP home). So I booted to Mandriva 2008.0 (Free). I saw from WinXP that the drive was issued an IP number within my network and then I browsed to that IP with Firefox (192.168.254.6 I believe was the automatically given IP - I changed it to something higher; I believe it was .30 so that it wouldn't mess with my systems PCs and routers). I couldn't see this drive (IP number) from Linux when I first plugged it in, so I booted to WinXP then. So now I booted back to Mandriva again. B)

     

    WD has made a WD Anyware Access -programme that works with both Windoze and Mac, but not with Linux. :angry: It's called MioNet. But the admin tool can be accessed with any common browser, so I configured it a bit. I managed to change the IP address and found a way to make some groups and users, but that's as far as I got yesterday.

     

    This is what I'd like to do with it:

    1. I would like to have this drive act as my network back-up for all my most important files. This, I guess, I can manage with drakbackup by simply stating where to create the backups (in the new network drive IP addrs and folder).
    2. But then I would like this drive to act as an FTP server. Would that be possible? So that the system would be accessible by those I grant access to and into those folders I grant them access to.

    So simply put:

    1 TB would be diveded into two parts: one part for my backups (let's say 500 - 600 GBs) and another part for FTP uses (the rest 400 - 500 GBs).

     

    Would that be possible, and if so, how? :unsure:

     

    Then referring to the links Yves posted; would this be the way to go? Would I then install this Openfiler or FreeNAS directly into the NAS drive?

  24. Webcam driver needed

    in Hardware

    Posted

    I have exactly the same webcam (Creative Live! Vista IM, USB id: 041e:4052) and have managed to make it work partially with the rastageegs.org driver:

    http://www.rastageeks.org/ov51x-jpeg/index...IM_Live_Support

     

    I got it to work with mplayer with this command

     Mplayer: mplayer tv:// -tv driver=v4l:width=640:height=480:device=/dev/video0

    But no luck with skype. Skype recognizes this cam (it can be selected from the pull-down list), but shows only a black test image.

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