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One vacation later and a couple hours tinkering and the problem is solved. I'm not sure if it was the mobo, RAM, or CPU, but I replace those three at once (that CPU socket is out of production for all I can find) and now it works. As you said scarecrow, it was a hardware problem. Thanks.

[i though about that too but BIOS showed normal range of temps (~46 C). Also, I'm pretty sure the mobo would sound one of those alarms if the CPU was overheating, at least that's what my main desktop mobo does. Thanks for the suggestion though. Ordered a new mobo and CPU this afternoon, hopefully this solves the problem.

Ok...it has gotten worse. I took the heatsink off, cleaned it and the CPU, and reapplied Arctic Silver 5 and now it shuts off after about 3 seconds. Definitely hardware related. At this point I'm thinking CPU but I would appreciate the thoughts of those more experienced than I. And, crap, they don't make CPUs for socket 754 anymore. Hmmm....

Ok, so it's not technically a server in the traditional enterprise sense. It runs KDE and could double as a desktop in a pinch but it hosts all my files and is on 24/7. Close enough :)

I have a Kubuntu 8.04 server that keeps randomly shutting down on me. As far as I can tell it doesn't happen during any specific event (meaning it will shut off when the OS is still loading and other times when it's been up for a few hours). I just installed a new 500W Rosewill power supply that is more than adequate for the hardware in it so I'm fairly certain that isn't the reason. The hardware: AMD Sempron 3000+ (stock HS) 512 MB RAM (1) 40GB IDE drive (OS drive) (2) 320GB SATA drives \ (2) 500GB SATA drives | (storage drives) (2) 1TB SATA drives / (2) case fans, 80mm I think SATA controller The next thing I will check is overheating and OS hard drive integrity but right now I'm a little too frustrated to do anything else. It's frustrating to not have the majority of my media files and documents unavailable, let me tell you. Thanks for the help.

I found a different method. The page you posted helped a little in giving me the idea: I made a new folder called "private" and put hardlinks to the folders I wanted within the private folder and set that to restricted access. Not exactly what I was looking for but itll work fine for my purposes. #cd /media/storage1 #mkdir private #cd private #ln -s /media/storage1/Music Music

Hello all, Ive got my Samba server set up with multiple users and of course multiple permissions. My question now is how do I make it so that certain users cant see folders they cant access. For example: I have a folder named "320" that I want only myself to be able to see when the server is accessed. As it is other users can see the folder even if they cant access it. How would I make it so that the folder is not visible to the others but still visible when I log on?

Hey....solved my own problem :-) I just had to run this code: scythe@gfunk:/media$ sudo chown -hR scythe storage1 scythe@gfunk:/media$ sudo chown -hR scythe storage1b Oddly enough I found this out while trying to find out why I couldn't get write access through Samba...but whatever it works now.

I have a Kubuntu server that for some reason I can't write to my storage drives while logged in. Here's my fstab: # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass> proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 # /dev/hda1 UUID=825f5093-d527-4dc7-8da2-0f4e60212898 / ext3 nouser,defaults,errors=remount-ro,atime,auto,rw,dev,exec,suid 0 1 # /dev/hda5 UUID=a84677a7-55d8-4373-8590-a8f40cde18f0 none swap sw 0 0 /dev/hdc /media/cdrom0 auto user,atime,noauto,rw,dev,exec,suid 0 0 /dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto user,atime,noauto,rw,dev,exec,suid 0 0 /dev/sda1 /media/storage1 auto user,exec,rw 0 0 /dev/sdb1 /media/storage1b auto user,exec,rw 0 0 # /dev/hdc /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,atime,noauto,rw,dev,exec,suid 0 0 Everything I've found on Google has told me that I have the entries for /dev/sda1 and /dev/sdb1 all set correctly, but for some reason I still can't write to them. I'm kinda wishing I had stuck with Fedora 7, but if this can also work I'll stay with Kubuntu. Permissions with Fedora were much easier.

You might try keytouch. I don't remember if it gives you an option to change how much it changes your volume by, but you'll definitely be able to set up your other shortcut keys.

I'm actually doing this is Fedora 7, which has its own Samba configuring GUI (I forget what it's called). I'll try uninstalling it and see what happens. *edit* The Fedora tool is system-config-samba

I did that when I set the permissions in the first place :-/

I've got my server running Samba to share files with my other computers. The only problem is that Samba takes it unto itself to rewrite samba.conf and put some semi-colons where they don't belong. For example: [Music] path = /media/storage1/Music ; writeable = no ; browseable = yes valid users = owner, Music write list = owner In front of the writeable and browseable tags. This means that I have to continually keep going back in to edit that back to the way I had it. Quite annoying. Does anyone know a way to keep this from happening? I tried to make the file read-only, but that didn't work (probably because root is the owner). [moved from Software by spinynorman]

I thought I tried that and it didn't work...obviously not. I just tried it and it worked great. The option is under "Advanced Options." Thanks everyone for the help. Case closed.

So if I do a "Link to Application...", set the work path to where I saved the script, and set the command as "sh script.sh" it should run the script? Will it open up a terminal to do this? I like the verbose mode when backing my stuff up. It's nice to know what's going on ;-)

I found that mirdir works like a charm for what I need. Is there any way to get it to something like a program shortcut so that I don't have to type it in the command line each time? All I need it to do is run the command: mirdir -e none /media/storage1 /media/storage1b And the way I have my hardware set up I can't run it as a cron job.

Yeah, I was trying to read the rsync man page and just got more confused. I'm trying to install grsync, but compiling it from the tarball says I need GTK+-2.0, which I could swear is already installed. And I can't find a Fedora RPM for it just yet, but I'm still looking. I was reading this earlier but I can't decipher the scripting. Scripting isn't my forte, that's for sure.

Im trying to set up a simple rsync script to copy from one hard drive to another local backup hard drive. The drives are as follows: \media\storage1 \media\storage1b where storage1 is the main HD and storage1b is the backup. I want this to do the backup whenever I tell it to and I want it set so that what ends up being on storage1b is the exact same as storage1. I dont want the backup drive to keep files that Ive deleted on the primary drive. At the moment Ive just run rsync -av \media\storage1\ \media\storage1b\ and its building the file list, so I dont know what itll do at the end. By the way, anyone know why everytime I press the apostrophy and the backslash key while using the writer on this board that the QuickFind keeps popping up? My arrow keys and Home\End keys dont work either. [moved from Software by spinynorman]

Holy - wow, I did something right. Played around with using /mnt and got the drives recognized. Now I just need to format one of them. After that I'll still need to do the fstab and make myself an rsync script to sync the files from the first drive to the second though.

Ive got a new Fedora 7 box up and running with the intention to use it as a fileserver. Small problem so far. I bought this Rosewill SATA card to hook up my two Seagate 7200.10s. The reviews I've read said it works fine plug and play with Fedora, but the drives aren't showing up in system:/media. The card is recognized by Fedora as far as I can tell in the hardware config module. I'm probably missing something stupid, but I don't remember having to manually find my connected drives in Mandriva. This probably has a simple solution but I can't find it. I know once I find the drives I'll have to edit my fstab to get them to automatically mount each time I boot, but I think I can find how to do that.

I have been doing just that, experimenting with a copy xorg.conf and restoring the backup when things go awry. As far as I know, the NVIDIA panel changed it just as a manual editing did. I never actually looked at it after changing it with the NVIDIA control panel, but I get the same error after manually changing my xorg.conf. It's just weird. I'm using the same video card as before when I got it working and I tried the same thing I did for my previous install, but it's not working. I'm gonna keep trying things to see what works (if anything indeed does work). Once I get this working I'll be using Mandriva instead of Windows for everyday stuff.

Anyone?

My working xorg.conf is here: # nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig # nvidia-xconfig: version 1.0 (buildmeister@builder3) Mon Feb 26 23:38:46 PST 2007 # File generated by XFdrake (rev 142098) # ********************************************************************** # Refer to the xorg.conf man page for details about the format of # this file. # ********************************************************************** Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "layout1" Screen "screen1" 0 0 InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard" InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer" EndSection Section "Files" # font server independent of the X server to render fonts. # minimal fonts to allow X to run without xfs FontPath "unix/:-1" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc:unscaled" EndSection Section "Module" Load "dbe" # Double-Buffering Extension Load "v4l" # Video for Linux Load "extmod" Load "type1" Load "freetype" Load "glx" # 3D layer EndSection Section "ServerFlags" #DontZap # disable <Crtl><Alt><BS> (server abort) #DontZoom # disable <Crtl><Alt><KP_+>/<KP_-> (resolution switching) # allows the server to start up even if the mouse does not work Option "allowmouseopenfail" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Keyboard1" Driver "kbd" Option "XkbModel" "pc105" Option "XkbLayout" "us" Option "XkbOptions" "compose:rwin" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse1" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2" Option "Device" "/dev/mouse" EndSection Section "Monitor" # TV fullscreen mode or DVD fullscreen output. # 768x576 @ 79 Hz, 50 kHz hsync Identifier "monitor1" VendorName "Plug'n Play" ModelName "LCD-MONITOR" HorizSync 29.0 - 81.0 VertRefresh 54.0 - 76.0 ModeLine "768x576" 50.0 768 832 846 1000 576 590 595 630 ModeLine "768x576" 63.1 768 800 960 1024 576 578 590 616 EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "device1" Driver "nvidia" VendorName "nVidia Corporation" BoardName "NVIDIA GeForce FX - GeForce 7950" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "screen1" Device "device1" Monitor "monitor1" DefaultDepth 24 Option "DPMS" SubSection "Display" Depth 8 Modes "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" "640x480" "480x360" "320x240" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 15 Modes "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" "640x480" "480x360" "320x240" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 16 Modes "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" "640x480" "480x360" "320x240" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 24 Modes "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" "640x480" "480x360" "320x240" EndSubSection EndSection Section "Extensions" Option "Composite" EndSection

I got my dual monitors to work fine with the first 2007 version. I actually pasted my xorg.conf file on an eariler thread here to reference to later if I needed it. (Note: this xorg.conf was for 2007.0) In 2007.1 I installed the latest NVIDIA drivers (not the beta), it all went smoothly. I tried to enable Twinview in the NVIDIA control panel that the NVIDIA driver installs, hit apply, and the dual monitor works for until I restart X. I get this error when I restart X: startx xauth: creating new authority file /root/ .serverauth.4640 X Window System Version 7.2.0 Release Date: 22 January 2007 X Protocol Version 11, REvision 0, Release 7.2 Build Operating System: UNKNOWN Current Operating System: Linux localhost 2.6.17-13mdv #1 SMP Fri Mar 23 19:03:31 UTC 2007 i686 Build Date: 26 March 2007 Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org to make sure that you have the latest version Module Loader present Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational, (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. (==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Thu May 3 22:35:35 2007 (==) Using config file: "etc/X11/xorg.conf" Using vt 7 xinit: connection to X server lost Phew - typed all that from my laptop. This is annoying like crazy, since you'd think that with the NVIDIA program, it would write the correct settings to xorg.conf, but apparently not.

Do you have a link? I'm having problems finding one for KDE (I can find the one for Windows, but not Linux).