feralertx

Here's the report as requested.

 

/home/username/share *(ro,all_squash,sync)

"/home/username/shared stuff 192.168.0.1" (rw)

 

Cheers. Much appreciated.

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Ok.

Why two different folders (/home/username/share & /home/username/shared)?? Do they really exist on the server?? Please post the output of this command: 'ls /home/username'.

Please post the exact command youre giving on the client computer to mount the shared folder (i.e. mount 192.168.x.x:/home/username ....etc).

Can you post /etc/exports please? I think thereis something wrong there.

# mkdir /imported

# mount 192.168.0.4:/sharedfiles /imported

mount: 192.168.0.4:/sharedfiles failed, reason given by server: Permission denied

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- Its the portmap service running on that pc (client pc) as well as on the server?

- Maybe you made some changes to nfs configuration and you need to restart de service (Im just guessing here)?, do 'service nfs restart' as root on server to make sure it takes the latest changes.

Oh, i just seen this:

Services: on server, portmap,nfs and nfslock are shown as running in MCC on server and client.

Services needed (this is as it is on my network, which uses nfs and works):

* On server: 'nfs', 'portmap'

* On client: 'portmap'

Services like 'nfslock' or 'netfs' are NOT essential, same as 'nfs' for the clients that is NOT needed to have running, I would advice you to shut them down.

NFS is not hard to setup, but what's wrong with Samba? It's also pretty easy to setup, and with Webmin it's even easier to setup and manage.

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Yeah I agree with you, nothing wrong with samba at all :P , but even using webmin, whats easier to setup than the couple of files needed for nfs? And for two systems running linux/unix, would you use samba?

Dont take me wrong, I think both are great, but for different purposes.

ChrisM:

I forgot to mention that for nfs to work you need to have both 'nfs' and 'rpc' services running on the server and at least 'rpc' on the clients.

I've a feeling the considerations I need are related to nfs - which looks awfully complicated

Yes I think you need NFS, but no man, its not that complicated, for me its far easier than samba.

A quick example:

First, in the computer where the shared folder is located, edit the file /etc/exports and include it there, i.e.:

/shared_folder 192.168.0.0/30(rw)

Change 192.168.0.0/30 for your actual network, 'rw' is to give read/write permission, for read only use 'ro' instead. There are many more options, just google a bit or look in the man pages.

In the clients computers do:

mount 192.168.0.1:/shared_folder /mnt/shared

Thatl mount the folder /shared_folder located in pc 192.168.0.1, to folder /mnt/shared in the local system.

If you want to mount the folder automatically at boot, then you have to mess with /etc/fstab, but again, its not that difficult!! man fstab or google, im not at my computer so i cannot give you examples but its quite simple.

Thats was all, really quick and simple!

Great news! will try it soon.

BTW, the -minimum- hardware requirements for linux systems are lower than for window$ machines (which is great cause i dont meet the window$ reqs.):

GNU/Linux system:

* Pentium III, 1Ghz

* 256Mb RAM

Window$ (as stated in this page):

* Pentium®IV 1.5 GHz or Athlon® XP 1500+ processoror higher

* 384MB RAM

You couldnt have installed mandrake over a fat or ntfs partition. What probably happened is the mandrake installer used the unused space on your windows partition to make a new linux partition from it, and installed mandrake there. But that shouldnt get you no errors in windows, maybe something was wrong and the new partition wasnt created rightly or the partition layout got corrupted somehow, are u able to boot into mandrake?

What you can do is download knoppix (a live-cd distro) and boot from it. Then you can use qtparted (which is very similar to partition magic) to delete, resize or do whatever you like with your hds partitions.

Issue #1 - I have a couple of NTFS formatted drives in my Linux box, they are mounted and readable. I am trying to access them through my network from a XP based machine. For the life of me I cannot get access to them. The closest that I have come is to be able, via network neighbourhood, to see the shered drive and have it prompt me for my username and password  - after inputting the info. access is not granted and it asks for the user and pass indefinately. I had this problem in the past but cannot remember what the cause is.

I always do it via webmin, which i find it makes samba setup vey simple, urpmi webmin, start the webmin service and then point your browser to https://127.0.0.1:10000 (accessing from the same pc) or https://ip.lan.address:10000 (from any other pc on the lan)

Issue #2 - In my /mnt directory I have a number of old share directories that were created in the past for numerous reasons. With no reference to these in the smb.conf or anywhere else - they keep reappearing after they are deleted. That is if I can delete them in the first place. What causes this? What am I failing to delete/correct?

Issue #3 - What is the most straightforward example of how to  share a directory between a Linux box and a windows machine. For example: I want to share /home/bob/stuff with windows machines connected to the network. What are the needed steps to achieve this.

no, that's not what auto does. auto is for unattended updates; it automatically goes through steps urpmi usually queries you on (confirm the list of packages to be updated - pick a package to be installed where more than one can satisfy a dependency - remove obsoleted / conflicting packages). it always picks the safest option. If you're doing automated updates via cron or something, urpmi --auto-select --keep --auto is the best command line to use, completely non-interactive and as safe as it can get.

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Ooops, thanks for the explanation, i should have ' man urpmi ' to check if that was correct, sorry for the disinformation.

Im gonna give some correct info for a change :P this i have tested myself (hard :D )

with this command:

yes | urpmi --auto-select

you will reply to any question urpmi asks with a 'yes' answer (including bad signatures, remove of packages etc...)

I still can't get sound, but that's another story...

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Do you mean sound from the TV card or sound in general ??

that's what I've been doing, except I do;

urpmi --auto --auto-select

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For what i have heard the --auto part is not needed anymore.

It was used to force urpmi to check wether there was any update for itself, and if so, install it and restart itself, but now urpmi does that automatically. Dont remember where i read it so i cant post a link (or maybe -probably- it was in cooker mailing-list) but it surely works for me without it.

Edited to correct some misspelling (and probably make some others ) BTW is the 'spell check' board function not working anymore ??

Anyway, I heard that the Definitive Guide to using Linux Mandrake is a good book to teach about Mandrake Linux in particular, but that book is too expensive for my taste, so I haven't read it.

I agree, i think this book is far better than the manual (I havent got any of them though).

If you are a mandrakeclub member you can save 50 % ordering it via mandrakestore.com:

Mandrakelinux

The definitive Guide - 10.0

Mandrakeclub members save 50%!

[MP1-10] USD-44.90

Mandrakelinux 10.0 - The Definitive Guide

This complete guide will introduce you to, or improve your expertise in Mandrakelinux 10.0. It will guide you through your entire Linux experience and will help you make the best use of your favorite distribution.

From the initial simple installation to the most sophisticated fine tuning, everything is in this reference guide, which covers, among others, the following topics:

- Installation of a Mandrakelinux 10.0

- Discover the graphic interface

- Use of the Internet

- Office under Linux

- Multimedia applications

- Configuration tools - Advanced administration - Compiling new kernels

- ...

You could manually remove them from the fstab (etc/fstab) but i am unsure as to how to get the mounts up-to-date with the new configuration.

If i remember correctly thats what i did last time i had that 'mounted multiple times' problem.

I've been condering joining Mandrake Club but there is one thing from keeping me from doing it. I've heard that there are alot of commercial programs which you can download if you are a club member. I'm interested in joining only if these commercial programs will be useful to me, but I can't find anyplace inwhich I can see what programs there are, what they do, etc. If someone could provide me a link to where I can look at (not download) the programs I would be most appreciative.

That sounds a bit selfish to me. When you join Mandrakeclub you are contributing to the open source software development, helping Mandrakesoft to survive and continue with Mandrakelinux development and so on.

How was it? : Dont ask what the open source software can do for you, but what can you do for it.

You can join the club for 60 euros/dollars a year, that is 5 $/€ a month !!! Is it really that much ??... Or you can pay 120 $/€ and be able to download all de Powerpacks Mandrake releases within that year, 10€/$ a month doesnt seem that expensive to me...

Im not saying that you should join, but i just dont like the way you put it, i dont think its fear, where is the sense of community if you are only looking for your own personal benefit (ie.: I'm interested in joining only if these commercial programs will be useful to me)?

http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/twiki/bin/view/...dule_estimation

 

Should be the 15th.

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According to that planning, arent they supposed to release a RC2 before Community ?

If another app was trying to "monitor" the CD (such as some autorefresh feature in Konqueror, I don't remember if WMware was runnning, etc...), how do I find out who my but monitoring/using the drive?

To find out do:

lsof /dev/cdrom

(change /dev/hdc to the actual drive)

Why dont you do the easiest?

Resize /home to 20 GB and then resize / to take up all that extra space.

I think you need to umount the partitions before you can make any changes in them, so id recommend you to use a LiveCD with QTParted (=Partition Magic alike) included, i.e. knoppix.

No extra program needed to do that !

All you need to do is mount your iso image in a directory of your choice, yeah, its that simple !

For example, we are mounting the file Mandrake_DVD.iso into the MDKDVD directory on my home partition, so we do (as root):

mount -o loop -t iso9660 Mandrake_DVD.iso /home/feralertx/MDKDVD

And thats about it, you can use the MDKDVD directory as you like.

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Hi, the title says it all, i m testing 10.1 RC1 and would like to report as many bugs as posible. A couple of times, just after login in into kde the whole computer has crashed (ctrl-alt-Fx no working) and had to reboot it manually, the problem is i dont know where to look for to find out why, any suggestions ??

Thanks.

Hmm.. this is the line that confuses me.

BROADCAST=192.168.1.255

 

If your IP is 192.168.0.155, why does it broadcast to 192.168.1.x ?

Sounds wrong because its wrong, the broadcast address for network 192.168.0.0 with netmask 255.255.255.0 is 192.168.0.255

Have you got a ssh server running? If not, you wont be able to connect via ssh even if you disable your firewall.

Install the ssh server if is not already there and then turn it on in the MCC / System / Services.

Hello !

I have mdk 10.1 RC 1 (I have updated from 10.1 Beta 2). But I cannot burn CDs with k3b 

 

It's k3b 0.11.14 and kernel 2.6.8.1-5mdk....

 

Please 

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Try burning the cd as root.

I'm currently running kernel-2.6.3.7mdk, while looking aroudn the howto section of this site, I ran into a section that tells you how to check if a newer kernel is available.

kernel-2.6.3.16mdk is available, should I upgrade to it? how do I find out the differences between the two.

Yes, you should. To find out why and what has been patch/fixed, mandrake releases 'Mandrakesoft Security Advisories' that you can find at here. This is the specific one for that kernel:

Package name  kernel

Date  August 26th, 2004

Advisory ID  MDKSA-2004:087

Affected versions  9.1, 9.2, 10.0, MNF8.2, CS2.1

Synopsis  Updated kernel packages fix multiple vulnerabilities

 

Problem Description

 

A race condition was discovered in the 64bit file offset handling by Paul Starzetz from iSEC. The file offset pointer (f_pos) is changed during reading, writing, and seeking through a file in order to point to the current position of a file. The value conversion between both the 32bit and 64bit API in the kernel, as well as access to the f_pos pointer, is defective. As a result, a local attacker can abuse this vulnerability to gain access to uninitialized kernel memory, mostly via entries in the /proc filesystem. This kernel memory can possibly contain information like the root password, and other sensitive data.

The updated kernel packages provided are patched to protect against this vulnerability, and all users are encouraged to upgrade immediately.

I'm using the NVIDIA driver so I assume I will need to re-install them in the new kernel?

Yes, you need to do the procedure again, remember than you need to install the kernel and the kernel-sources fot that kernel.

aMule was working properly untill now. It is unusable. When I try to connect to a server, aMule manages to do that but suddenly disconnects after ("connection lost"). It just keeps doing it and it gets nowhere (connecting, connected, connection lost).

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I dont want to seem as being rude but ... why dont you post this problem into amules forums??

Whenever i do have a problem with their program i post it over there and the devs have always been responsive and helpful, who better than them can help you out??

What mandrake are u using? Have you got installed the updates installed?

Please post the output of the command 'ifconfig' and tell us what ip address this machine is supposed to have (and the netmask if you know it).