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Hi sapphiron, I had a quick look and found this command netstat -pant I haven't found a GUI for this, but I'll post back if I do, if that's really what you were asking. cheers.

alloneword said: I rekon it's coz the northern hemisphere-ians have isolated the magnetic 'Flux Unit Component Kernel Energy Diffuser' particles in gravity itself and have reversed the effects of gravity in the southern hemisphere, from a treatment plant in the Woomera region. Now everything is being sucked up there, while we languish down here with very little or nothing! this may seem a little 'sensationalist conspiracy theory' now!... but some day 'THEY' are going to make a TV series based on this theory!..........I hope :P or, Maybe this said router is just slow! When you say " when I try to copy the files back onto my computer " I'm assuming on your LAN...... to a windows box ??

Hi again Dicko! I'm not a ftp server admin or anything, I just needed something to do! I had problems with Proftp. I've given up on it for now, but will come back to it soon. My problems were not with Kerberos authentication, *** have you created the anon/ftp user on your system? *** ie. you have your root user, then you have your 'dicko' user, and now you have to create a (super-duper access limited) anonymous or ftp user I called him anonymous, and place him in the 'ftp users' group. I forget the exact steps I did, but got him access...........of sorts. My problems were, when connected as anonymous and using any GUI ftp program, I couldn't see any of the files or directories I'd created. If I used the ftp on the Command Line I had no problems seeing stuff, I just hate the CLI :o One point to watch is the pro ftp config file you are using will only give your anonymous user access to the /var/ftp dir. (ps this took me 2 days to figure out ) Do you want to only access the server as anonymous? There are ready made config files on the ProFTP website. I also played with webmin for configuration and then Gproftp a ProFTP gui configurator, Mind you I only did this for something to do.........as we do good luck and cheers.

Havin_it is correct in that you need samba installed for file access to and from windows, but I was under the impression that you're having troubles accessing the linux box from windows, and samba won't help here. You must have some access rule to prevent logging in to the mandrake computer, and with the firewall off, you got me stumped too. LinNeighborhood works well for file access if (and when) you get your Lin-Win network running. I'm a bit confused with your VNC problem. Can you access linux from windows using VNC? I got VNC working (as root ) from windows. I used RealVNC viewer from windows to control mdk10.1 with no problems. With samba installed you don't really need to mount any filesystems, just the directory you want to access. Windows will share all the directories you allow in you smb.conf file in linux. I strongly recommend you try SWAT for samba config first time around, only because the help file is better.

Hi Urza, I've been trying to learn ProFTP too, for about 4 weeks now, with limited success. I kinda understand what you're trying to do, but have you turned your ftp 'user' into a mandrake 'user' ? I think this is the trick here. I configured proftp with 3 users, ftp-anon, arthur and root. each has their own distinct permissions from mandrake. ie arthur (thats me!) can see some files in certain dirs and have normal permissions in ftp as I do in mandrake. root has unfettered access and ftp-anon is limited (but this is the account I'm having troubles with). So (I'm not sure how to set permissions) make sure you create a 'user' and give him permissions to certain files/dirs, then create the same 'user' in proftp and I rekon you will come close to your objective, I didn't really think about it when I configured proftp with webmin, it just happened this way for me.

Hi Dicko, how's the weather in Melbourne I think I kind'a remember that there were some 'issues' with samba 3.0.2(a), which is the default samba version in mdk10, that were resolved in later releases. Try updating to the current version, if you haven't already. Or otherwise post your smb.conf :D No....no...no...I mean, REALLY, give us a real look at it cheers.

You haven't enabled the service yet. For SWAT to work you need to go into MCC and then SERVICES. There should be a listing for SWAT, and it will start the service when needed.

I got to go to work now, but don't uninstall samba, just rename the smb.conf file to something else (old_smb.conf) then make sure you got SWAT installed and use this to reconfigure samba. maybe the easiest option now, and one that I've done a few times myself. But I never had this problem with nmbd!

I have a netgear router and have had no problems with DNS, using mdk10.1. my entries are: search <ISP Name> nameserver <isp dns server1> nameserver <isp dns server2> #ppp temp entry Could this be a D-Link issue (DHCP?), not a Mandrake problem ? I think its 'unrelated' I live in AUS too and this page loaded in about .001 seconds. avg ping time 100ms. Its probably a DNS problem as arctic described. sorry I can't be more helpful. ( maybe I can be more helpful. Buy a netgear router )

If you don't use DHCP how did you lose your 192.168.100.1 IP? I'd go over to that guy who stole it off you and boof him on the nose for causing you all this problem Seriously, I don't think DHCP is an issue here. Like I said samba automatically chose a machine on my network to master browser. What process was involved here I would have assumed the box running smbd/nmbd, but it chose a WinXP box (?) As long as you set your IP's, (how did you?) on all the machines manually, and give all the machines and lmhosts file, I think it may work. How to unset 192.168.100.1 as the nmbd server, manually, I couldn't tell. But try to reconfigure samba with SWAT. lots of info in the help files. good luck.

I was reading the info from SWAT, :o edit: In my above post I mentioned that one of my winXP computers was set as the master browser by samba. That machine didn't have a lmhost file, I recently installed SP2 (?), and so I copied one from the other machine, placed in the appropriate dir, and presto LinNeighborhood is faster and the computer is no longer "commented" as 'master without browse list'.

Hi Alex this problem is driving me nuts! I can imagine how you're feeling U used KDE networks or something I'm not familiar with for the SMB.config ? Have you tried to reconfig smb.conf with SWAT or WEBMIN ? I remember that there is an option to set the 'master browser'. Did you set this to 192.168.100.1 IP manually? Maybe set this to AUTO and let samba do its 'thing'. I say 'thing' because, I assumed that when I set up samba with webmin or swat and set this to Auto, that this would default to my mandrake10.1 machine, where smbd and nmbd are running, BUT..........when I browse my network (2 WinXP-pro and 1 Mdk10.1) I see that one of my windows machines is set as "master without browse list" I assume that this is where the list of machines/IP resolution is/should be, but I never set this up! It just worked that way, and with no problems. Have you set up your network's lmhosts files? In winXP its under x:\windows\system32\drivers\etc There will be a .sam (sample file) in there. The basics are all you may need. I have 3 lines in my lmhosts. IP address (one space) computername 123.456.789 XP3200 This resolves the computers to an IP. Done on all computers. (copy and pasted :D ) /etc/samba/lmhosts for Linux. ps: I don't think there is a separate nmb config file, it works off smb.conf (not 100% sure)

Hi Alex. I was just looking into my /proc and reading your dilemma here. I have nmbd with a PID 3871. So I'm looking into /proc and I open /3871, there is a link to the exe, in here. Maybe your nmbd got corrupted somehow ??? Maybe you could kill it there. I kinda remember you were using Gnome (?) I use KDE and found the PID, using KDE system guard. I don't know what monitoring software Gnome uses. I suppose you could delete the PID directory for nmdb, if you find it, and try restarting it. Do a; #ps -A and hope that nmbd is listed. Or, try; # killall nmbd or #killall -HUP nmbd I'm not proficient at this, but I like a good read :D cheers.

Hi papaschtroumpf. I have a Gigabyte mainboard, so I don't have any tips for your Shuttle, but........... On my board If I view the BIOS in the default menu, I don't see too many options and no advanced options. But If I press CTRL-F1 in the BIOS main page, this then sets the BIOS menu in an advanced stage with all sorts of normally hidden menus. On of the options is "Thermal Throttling" and as it sounds, this slows the CPU speed according to temp. This may be better than shutting down sometimes. I'm not saying Shuttle have this system, but I would never have found this without the help from amdmb forums (.....trying to setup a link.....) AMDMB Forums? Go to the Shuttle forum and find out more about your board, or even find a modded BIOS to enable advanced menus. etc, etc........ have fun.

.bash_history! Of course, in my home dir. But I have to enable view hidden files first. Saved. cheers.

I just realised something weird. I have a WinXP system running on a SATA RAID config, and Mdk10.1(on a Pentium3-550) can read from this drive perfectly, from another box via Samba. I have this WinXp (3200XP)computer dual booting with 10.0, which cannot see the windows partition as one drive, but as hda5 and 6. (Mdk 10.0 is on a separate PATA drive). This is just weird or 10.1 has better SATA (RAID) support or Samba is up to date ?? cheers.

This is more of a question than a tip, but do you have tty1-tty6 and vc1-vc6 available. I don't know if they use up resources but on a single user system, well 2 user system if you count root as one more user, you probably don't need 6 virtual consoles or tty's do you? So I deleted tty3-6 and vc3-6 from /etc/securetty. Does this help in any way? (I know that this 'secures linux from hacking' because you can't login (as root) to a console that is not available) I have realised in 2 years that I've been exploring linux (mostly Mandrake, I think) I've never needed a virtual console. ps: I read this security tip in a "Hacking Linux" series book.

This is less 'tip' and more 'question', but I like the way the CLI (bash) remembers what you have previously typed in a file somewhere, so if you repetitvely break something like I do, you just scroll untill you find the command you need. But I'd like to save a copy of the remebered commands to paste it into my re-installation, and hopefully the CLI will have all my saved commands. But where is this file stored? handy, if you can't type.....like me! ps. I suppose this is not conducive to learning linux CLI, because you tend to 'type' less and 'scroll' more!

I'll give them a go :unsure: I'm guessing the server is something like mail.yahoo.com.au ? edit: I just did a ping on mail.yahoo.com.au and it returned a slow time but also gave an IP at 202.3.14.163 :D thanks.

Some rubbish service from Izymail or some crap company that will sell your email address to the lowest bidders :deal: so you can download more spam, so you'll be obliged to "buy" their anti spam service ............. No thanks MrPostman works perfectly for me using all email clients etc, (shameless plug ) when Microsoft doesn't change some protocol, to annihalate any anticompetitive practice by any free-ware software upstart, that tries to threaten its world dominance............. Ok, I'll shut it ! I don't need to give out my details and address books to something/someone, when I can do it privately/free, on my own terms.

Hi arctic. I'm no networking genius, but I run Mdk10.1 (and 10.0 occasionally, dual booted), I've never had trouble with DNS on any machine. I'm curious why you use 192.168.0.1 as the primary DNS server? I'm guessing you are running a DNS server or something. Also the secondary DNS server (194.25.2.129) looks like it is external to your LAN?? I don't have a Dlink DSL-564T, and I suspect most people outside Germany won't, but I have a Netgear FR114P and my DNS IP's are pointed to my ISP's servers. So with dhcp on my machines and the router set up as dhcp server, I never get any issues. I do get a 'browsing slowdown' if I browse with 2 computers and most definately when I use all 3, but my assumption is that a 75Mhz processor on the router while doing SPI is at fault. side note: Also I use NOD32 antivirus and on a recent upgrade I accidentally set it to " Enable HTTP checking"! This really slowed down the Net connection on the WinXP machine affected. Disabled it, and speed went up. Oh! I forgot............. I'm on Cable in Australia. cheers.

Can you ping any other computer on the net. eg. your ISP or yahoo.com or something. ie. do ping yahoo.com in a console. what browser(s) are you using? etc.

Hope this helps a bit VNC port forwarding howto Oh and by the way! Thanks for the question I would never have thought to ask it, and therefore google it, and hence, get this page as one of the hits to add to my collections of howtos :P

Hi again. First up I have to say that, I'm not a networking guru, but my understanding is that if you specifically set the IP's manually, it sets other IP's to no access, or a login prompt. What type of router do you have? Does it have firewall capabilities. If so you should be safe behind it. Make sure it doesn't use the default admin password though. As long as your not serving files to the internet and therefore not port forwarding on your router, I'd say you're very unlikely to be hacked. Here's my current smb.conf # Samba config file created using SWAT # from 127.0.0.1 (127.0.0.1) # Date: 2004/09/25 11:10:37 # Global parameters [global] log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m smb passwd file = /etc/samba/smbpasswd socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 guest ok = Yes create mask = 0777 username map = /etc/samba/user.map hide dot files = No map to guest = Bad User encrypt passwords = yes case sensitive = Yes dns proxy = No server string = Samba Server %v writable = yes workgroup = HOME directory mask = 0777 printcap name = cups max log size = 50 [downloads] comment = File shares path = /downloads [Root] comment = root path = / hosts allow = 192.168.0.2, 192.168.0.4 Of course you need to edit it :D But if you give me your IP address I could configure...........

Can you type in a konsole uname -r and of course post the results. (this will be easy to write down :D )