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  1. Are all the system application log files located in the /var/log directory, or are they scattered through out the system? Just wondering. :) My final tip off was when I tried pinging the other computer and it returned all the packets... I was pretty sure that if shorewall was blocking access, I wouldn't have received ping backs, since I had them disabled in the basic setup. Was I right in this assumption? For some reason, I have never figured out how to do this in ZoneAlarm... it's a weird firewall to me, and seems to try so hard to babysit the end user that it lacks a lot of what you would normally expect out of a firewall. I did have it configured to place my computer's IP in the trusted network zone, but evidently this wasn't enough. :S I don't really think it's a good firewall any more, either... I and almost everyone I know that's used it has had to deal with it randomly blocking various trusted program's internet access. I've never tried out Jetico... don't think I've ever heard of it either, for that matter, lol. I installed Outpost, since it's one of the firewalls I trusted under Windows and gives me complete information about blocked attempts + good control over its rules *I'm crazy about that, and really glad I know how to create custom rules in shorewall now :)*.
  2. Wow! Thank you so much! I didn't even know the firewall in Mandriva had a name, lol. You explained things perfectly. :D This has turned out to be a two part issue. After setting up the rules to allow the other computer's IP, it worked. :D Then after a couple of hours it didn't work. :S Samba was still showing the other computer in the network list, but no IP again. Looking at the network tab, I noticed that it was looking like something deeper than the firewall... for IP, etc. it said unknown, which just seemed rather off... I mean, why would it detect the other computer and not the IP as well? After knowing it COULD work, I started to check out the other computer's network settings again. Everything looked fine, and my fiance *the owner of the other computer* wasn't even running his software firewall. Then I remembered what his firewall was *ZoneAlarm*, and since I've had problems with it blocking network connections despite them being in the trusted zone in the past, I decided to try uninstalling it - and it worked! I then installed a different firewall, and everything has been working fine since then. :)
  3. It's been almost two weeks since I started this thread and no one could even seem to suggest a different firewall. :( I have been up and down Google since then trying my best to find a solution to this. I found out all the ports Windows uses and tried enabling them with no luck. If there was some way I could add the other computer's IP to the whitelist it might solve this issue, but all the explanations I've found on editing Linux's native whitelist give very little information as to how to actually do it... they give example scripts and that's it. No idea as to how to configure them for your own use. I decided to try out another firewall, first kmyfirewall, which crashed on the splash screen, then firestarter, which gave me a script on creating a network bridge with no idea as to how to turn it from a txt file into an application... much less what system folder to put it in... I did get somewhere with Mandriva's firewall. Now Samba shows the computers on my network, but doesn't show the other computer's IP and still won't let me access its shares. In Gnome, it shows the Windows Network folder but the contents are empty. And right now I'm stuck between a rock and a hard place because I found out the hard way that I couldn't rely on my hardware firewall to keep my computer protected from "guests"... but with a software firewall enabled I can't access the other computer's shares... which just so happen to be all the files on my backup hdd that I couldn't access in Mandriva because it locked the hdd every time I tried to mount it in this system. *sigh* The funniest thing of all is the Windows machine can access any files I share on the network perfectly well. Sorry to go off on a rant like this, but I am very, very frustrated.
  4. Ok, maybe I didn't explain this earlier, I'm not sure... I'm not sharing anything on the network. I'm just trying to access the files *no printers* on another computer on the network. I can access them fine with the firewall turned off, but with the firewall turned on, the workgroup doesn't even show up in Samba. Nothing. Blank, white page. The shares still show up as being mounted but I can't access them, I get some error message referring to Samba not being able to find the requested share on the network. I've tried checking off everything in the firewall options + opening all the ports that netstat shows as being the ports used between my computer and the other computer, but it doesn't work. :S If no one can help me with this, does anyone know of another software firewall that I can download?
  5. Ok... I'm getting a little confused now, so I'm going to try going into more depth about what I'm doing and the situation at hand, lol. In netstat it shows the other computer as having one port open for filesharing with mine. One this computer it shows it having 3 ports open for filesharing with the other computer. I thought that I would only need to open the 3 ports this computer is using, but when that didn't work, I set it up to open the port the other computer was using as well. This was done with everything checked off *except the "everything no firewall" option, lol*. When this is done, and I refresh the view in Samba, it doesn't show the workgroup or any of the computers on the network, including mine. So I have two questions, now: 1. Do I even need to open the ports on this computer that the Windows machine uses? And if so, what is the second port Windows *XP* uses by default? The only port showing up as it using is 139/tcp. 2. Do I need to open the ports that are showing up as connected to localhost *127.0.0.1* or something? I.E., is there some port I need to open that's not-so-obvious? Right now, I'm only opening the ports that are showing connections between my IP and the other computer's IP.
  6. *sigh* I understand all of this... I just made one scew up, and I said already that I'm sorry for making it. And I'm trying to understand how the system works, if I wasn't I wouldn't have a wall of quick reference papers behind my desk atm full of unix commands and mapping Mandriva's filesystem + my own personal notes. And this has taught me something about the nuts+bolts of my Linux. I now know where the urpmi folder is located, how to remove a lock from it that won't budge, and how to properly abandon a process. I tried starting out with Linux as "install once" as a rule, with Ubuntu. I followed everything that the forums suggested, without anything being explained to me so I had no idea what I was doing. I ended up with what I guess was the Linux equivalent to the Windows BSD at startup, and had no idea how it got there because I didn't understand anything about the command lines being thrown at me. So when I installed Mandriva, I swore that I wouldn't enter any commands in the terminal without understanding what they were doing, otherwise they would be pretty worthless to me because I wouldn't be learning anything, I would just be acting the monkey copying and pasting, and if something went wrong I wouldn't even begin to know how it could be undone. So yes - if I don't understand what is being thrown at me, I'm going to reinstall, until I can understand it. Windows doesn't have to be reinstalled half of the time, either, but people that don't know how to fix what's wrong do it, up until they learn how to fix it *if they care to research and learn how to fix it*. Now, in this particular case, I was seriously not expecting a second reply, much less one that I could understand. And I did hurry - I made a mistake, and I'm sorry I made it. But don't assume that I'm not trying to learn how the system works, or that I walked away from this learning nothing, etc. In all seriousness I learned more from it now than I would've at the time, because now I actually understand what the commands given to me would do - when the urpmi gets locked it's locked by a hidden file that needs to be deleted to remove the lock. I can't really learn from fixing stuff unless I understand what I'm doing to fix it.
  7. Look, I know that, and I'm sorry. I've only been using this for 3 or 4 days when I posted that question though, and it's unfair to expect me to just instantly snap out of that mentality when I've been using Windows for almost 10 years. I felt dumb enough when I realized there was a fix for it besides restarting. Do you really think it's neccessary to make me feel unwelcome here as well?
  8. Ok, I found the ports that samba was using, both on my end and on the other computers end, and set them up in the firewall to be allowed. However, whenever I go into Samba with the firewall enabled, it still tells me: "An error occurred while trying to get the list of shares.... Unable to find a suitable server"
  9. Thanks. :) Unfortunately, I already reinstalled... I figured it wasn't a big deal to do since it takes me all of 7-10 minutes, and I really wasn't expecting a second reply. O_O I will keep this in mind though *the location of the urpmi folder and the ctrl + c shortcut* for if this or anything similar ever happens again. Good stuff to know. :) Darn, I just keep on forgetting this OS is, erm, more open than Windows. :P
  10. Thank you. :) Just one last question... how do I find out what port Samba is using for incoming connections? Would that be "remote smb port" under settings>configure>samba>general tab?
  11. I tried rebooting and it didn't work. :( Ah well, I guess I'll just go ahead and reinstall.
  12. I tried doing the urpmi changes in the how tos somewhere in these forum stickies *http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/*, and one of the servers hung, so I closed out of terminal. When I opened terminal back up and tried to do it again I kept getting URPMI locked messages. So then I tried urpmi.removemedia -a but that didn't work, either. Instead I get this: [root@localhost vixenk]# urpmi.removemedia -a unable to access hdlist file of "Installation Free CD1 (cdrom1)", medium ignored unable to access hdlist file of "Installation Free CD2 (cdrom2)", medium ignored unable to access hdlist file of "Installation Free CD3 (cdrom3)", medium ignored unable to access hdlist file of "update_source", medium ignored unable to access hdlist file of "plf-free", medium ignored unable to access hdlist file of "plf-nonfree", medium ignored unable to access hdlist file of "jpackage", medium ignored removing medium "Installation Free CD1 (cdrom1)" removing medium "Installation Free CD2 (cdrom2)" removing medium "Installation Free CD3 (cdrom3)" removing medium "update_source" removing medium "plf-free" removing medium "plf-nonfree" removing medium "main" removing medium "updates" removing medium "contrib" removing medium "jpackage" urpmi database locked Now when I try to search for software to install, the results are always none, and it doesn't even show results from the cds. HELP!!!! Oh, I just wanted to add, this is what I get when I try to update the URPMI: [root@localhost vixenk]# urpmi.addmedia plf-free ftp://distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr/pub/...iva/free/2006.0 with hdlist.cz unable to access hdlist file of "Installation Free CD1 (cdrom1)", medium ignored unable to access hdlist file of "Installation Free CD2 (cdrom2)", medium ignored unable to access hdlist file of "Installation Free CD3 (cdrom3)", medium ignored unable to access hdlist file of "update_source", medium ignored unable to access hdlist file of "plf-free", medium ignored unable to access hdlist file of "plf-nonfree", medium ignored unable to access hdlist file of "jpackage", medium ignored medium "plf-free" already exists The list of installable software in the Control Center is blank, I can't download updates, and I can't change where updates are downloaded from. I just tried restoring from my system backup as well, and that didn't work, either. [moved from Installing Mandriva by spinynorman]
  13. I'm a bit new to Mandriva, so take it easy on me. ;) First of all, I would like to set up the firewall in Mandriva, but whenever I try to do it it blocks filesharing on my LAN, even if I allow all the connections in the first screen. Could someone help me configure the firewall and/or network settings so that it blocks outside attempts but allows file and printer sharing within the LAN? Second, what security setting should Mandriva be set up for? While going through setup "high" was the default but I was worried that would be too strong for the LAN so I selected standard. If this isn't a recommended setting and it should be on high *and high won't screw with my LAN*, is there any way to change it without reinstalling?
  14. I'm running Mandriva 2006 with KDE 3.4.2 and I have two questions regarding how to make changes in the KDE desktop environment: 1. How do you resize the taskbar? It's just a bit to bulky for me, and in Mandrake 10 you could resize it, but I can't seem to find that option any where in this version. 2. How do you get rid of those big, annoying balloons that pop up to tell you what a button is on the taskbar every time your mouse hovers over them? *example: hovering over K Menu gives you a balloon saying, "K Menu Click here to browse and start applications"* I apologize ahead of time if these are covered in the forum FAQs... I read them over but couldn't seem to find the answers to these questions. ***EDIT*** I found the answer to #1 :) , but I still can't figure out how to get rid of the balloons. :( [moved from Software by spinynorman]
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