biikman

Installed Swat, asks for a user name and password. Would this be from the XP system? tried my linux user/pass to no avail. remember I am extreme newbie, so there is no "simple" lol. went through the samba setup, but really unsure of what info to input. In print manager, selected add printer/class, then smb shared printer then normal account. Asks for user /pass, but again, not sure what it is looking for, XP user pass? I dont have one i use to loginto XP...If Igo past that, it does show "mshome" under printer, then local host, but under that pdf generator.

I'ver seartched the forum, and read a few threads very similar, and tried the advice given in them, but still cannot seem to get it going. I've ichecked to be sure cupsis installed: [dave@ dave]$ rpm -qa | grep cups cups-1.1.21-0.rc1.7mdk libcups2-1.1.21-0.rc1.7mdk cups-common-1.1.21-0.rc1.7mdk cups-drivers-10.1-0.2mdk But samba confuses me, it is installed, but a very big newbie. when I go to system.config/kde/peripherals/printers, it gives the "connection to cups failed, check that it is running and installed. From the above it is installed, but running? not sure. I did turn off the firewall on the XP system, wasn';t able to ping it before, now I can. Where do Istart? thanks biikman PS, I am also thinking about turning the XP system into a mandrake system. Is it easier to network and file share linux-linux than linux-xp? Because I also have had zero luck getting the 2 networked also.

IIRC = If I Recall Correctly :)

thank you :)

Solved. I installed a package that was missed when I originally installed mandrake. This seems to have done the trick. Now if I can just get my printer working on PC#2 under XP I'd be thrilled, but thats another thread. One last question though. I downloaded both Firefox andf thunderbird, and extracted them ok and they run fine from the folder on my desktop. I'm assuming that they should be put in a different directory. Which one would this be? thanks all for the replies and help, I'm gonna stick with this and while I may not completely remove XP, I will be keeping it as boot #2 :) and learning as I go :)

Same thing. Seems I missed a module during install, as I haven't (knowingly) deleted anything. Since Ihave no clue which module to install to get this, is my only option a reinstall? which is fine, just not sure what to select to make sure Iget this. thanks

Tried that also, but get the following: su -c "lsmod" Password:(I did type it in) bash: line 1: lsmod: command not found [biikman@localhost biikman]$

Please direct me on how to do an "lsmod" I did try typing that into a terminal window and got: bash: lsmod: command not found as a reply. thanks for the reply :)

New to Linux, but so far really enjoying the experience. I've installed Mandrake 10.1, and so far have been able to figure out most of the issues I've had. One has me stumped though. I have a cable connection to the net, using a static ip: Vendor: ‎Realtek Description: ‎RTL-8139 NIC static ip: 192.168.1.101 netmask 255.255.255.0 gateway: 192.168.1.1 each time I reboot I need to remove and create a new network connection in order to get back online. When booting it doesn't show any errors when detecting the NIC card and starting the connection. But once booted up the network icon is "x"ed out. If I right click the network icon and select reconnect nothing happens. Once I create a new network connection all comes back and is ok till the next reboot. I've tried everything my little knowledge can think of and nothing works. I also lost the network icon in the icon panel, although once i create a new connection I do get back online without it. I would like to have it back also if possible. I'm sure I should give more tech info here but not sdure what else is needed. thanks for any help you may offer this green newbie