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It sounds to me like he wants a Login popup window to come up when users on his internal network try to access the Internet. Right? There is no login for the firewall, but you can accomplish the what you are trying to do using a Proxy server like Squid. It will accomplish what you are trying to do. When users try to access the Internet, they will receive a popup window asking to log in to the "firewall" or proxy to access the Internet. If they log in incorrectly, they will be unable to access the Internet. Right? What you want to do is set up Squid as your proxy. If you read thru the config file, there is the option to allow the login screen for access thru the proxy.

Have you tried setting a new hostname and then remapping to the printer?

Tell us a little bit about your set up. I have LM9.2 installed and I am using Evolution as well and I don't have the problems you describe. I'm running Evolution in KDE on a cable modem. I have Shorewall configured with port 110 (POP3) open. I don't think there is a need to try it from the command line (sorry DragonMage). Do you have Shorewall set up? Is the port open on your firewall? Who do you use for your ISP? Are you using a external router? Cable or DSL or dial-up?

Here is my /etc/shorewall/rules file: # # Accept FTP connections from the local network to remote servers # ACCEPT loc fw tcp 21 ACCEPT fw net tcp 21 # # Accept DNS connections from the firewall to the network # ACCEPT fw net tcp 53 ACCEPT fw net udp 53 # # Accept SSH connections from the local network for administration # ACCEPT loc fw tcp 22 # # Allow Ping To And From Firewall # ACCEPT loc fw icmp 8 ACCEPT net fw icmp 8 ACCEPT fw loc icmp 8 ACCEPT fw net icmp 8 # # Redirect all locally-originating WWW connections request to port 3128 on the # firewall (Squid running on the firewall system) except when the destination # address is 192.168.0.10 # REDIRECT loc 3128 tcp www - !192.168.0.10 ACCEPT fw net tcp www ACCEPT loc fw tcp 80 #Allow from the ACCEPT loc fw tcp 443 #web local # access network # Allow NTP (Network Time Protocol) connections from the firewall to the network # and from the local network to the firewall # ACCEPT fw net udp 123 ACCEPT loc fw udp 123 # # Allow POP3 (email) connections from the firewall to the network # ACCEPT fw net tcp 110 # # Allow SMB/NMB (Samba/Windows Browsing/File Sharing) on the local network # ACCEPT fw loc udp 137:139 ACCEPT fw loc tcp 137,139,445 ACCEPT fw loc udp 1024: 137 ACCEPT loc fw udp 137:139 ACCEPT loc fw tcp 137,139,445 ACCEPT loc fw udp 1024: 137 # # Allow Bittorrent to download # ACCEPT loc fw tcp 6881 ACCEPT fw net tcp 6881 # #LAST LINE -- ADD YOUR ENTRIES BEFORE THIS ONE -- DO NOT REMOVE From this, you can see that I have Squid set up for a proxy and that all local traffic gets routed thru it to get to the Internet. I have my browsers point to my server IP and port 3128 for the proxy setting. The FTP entry allows for the download of the security updates. It will not download if this is not entered here. Restart Shorewall and see what happens. Keep us posted with what happens.

There is a lot of good information on Shorewall regarding Shorewall firewall and FTP and how to port forward, but I don't know if this will help your situation since your ISP is blocking the ports.

If you have Shorewall running, then you will need to get it set up first. Per the Shorewall website, the default config that Mandrake sets up when you use DrakFirewall (or DrakGW, I forget) does not configure it correctly. How many NICs does your "server" have? In my case, I have two NICs. Open a konsole and type: slocate interfaces You should find three configurations (one-interface, two-interface, and three-interface) located somewhere in /usr/share/shorewall/.... I don't remember the exact tree. Anyways, copy the files in that location that pertains to your set up in /etc/shorewall. Once that has been done, the only real configuration changes you need to make is to /etc/shorewall/rules. The Shorewall web site is well documented. Be sure to read the sections on Samba and FTP. As soon as I get home, I will try to post my rules file to give you an idea of what you may want or don't want set up for your set up at home. You could potentially be online tonight.

Do you have Shorewall configured? I had a problem downloading updates, then realized that I needed to allow FTP out in order to retrieve the updates. Once I made the change to shorewall and restarted it, I was able to download the updates. Check out the Shorewall and FTP site.

Actually, this issue is covered in the Mandrake 9.2 Errata.

Open RPMDrake (Mandrake Control Center > Software Management > Add) and do a search for "wiz". The application that you want to install is "drakwizards". This will install all the server wizards as well as install all the accompanying servers, if they are not installed (Apache, Bind, NTP, Samba, Postfix, ProFTPd, etc.) Once installed, you will have a new option under Software Management in the Mandrake Control Center called Server Wizards (if I recall correctly).

I was having problems after I downloaded the update for rpmdrake. What I did was follow the paths in a browser and found that the path in rpmdrake was incorrect and I manually edited the sources to the correct location of the hdlists. I also had set up shorewall and had to open port 21 for rpmdrake to connect to the FTP sites to download the updates. Not sure about the VPN. I'll look around.

I was having problems after I downloaded the update for rpmdrake. What I did was follow the paths in a browser and found that the path in rpmdrake was incorrect and I manually edited the sources to the correct location of the hdlists. I also had set up shorewall and had to open port 21 for rpmdrake to connect to the FTP sites to download the updates.

I was having problems after I downloaded the update for rpmdrake. What I did was follow the paths in a browser and found that the path in rpmdrake was incorrect and I manually edited the sources to the correct location of the hdlists. I also had set up shorewall and had to open port 21 for rpmdrake to connect to the FTP sites to download the updates.

Have you tried using this: DriverLoader from Linuxant From the announcement "DriverLoader technology is the ideal Linux solution to support devices for which no adequate native open-source drivers are available. It also allows vendors to drastically reduce time to market or eliminate the need to support multiple drivers for Windows and Linux. By using the same driver on both platforms, significant resources can be saved." Also "DriverLoader packages can be downloaded from Linuxant's web site at no cost. The software is easy to install on any supported Linux distribution (RedHat, SuSE, Mandrake, Debian) with any recent 2.4 or 2.6 kernel, and includes a user-friendly Web-based configuration system."

Scrubbing, or cleaning, the data in a manner that all data within certain fields match or case-sensitivity, etc. Basically, I have CSV files that contain member information. Membership is from all around the world. I need to set phone numbers in the same format (i.e. - 1-123-555-1212 and +52 999 99 99 99 will read in XXX XXX XXX XXXX format) Also there must be character limits per field. Once the data has been cleaned, it will be imported into a SQL database. I'd like to do this as easily as possible and in a most efficient manner.

I was wondering what would be the easiest way of scrubbing/cleaning up data in CSV files for importing into a database? Are there any scripts or macros? Can this be done using a perl or php or awk? It's basically a weekly dump of users and organizations. They include the user's name, ID, phone number, email address and company name. Unfortunately I have well over 10,000 records to scrub and I have a week to work on it. Can anyone help?

I just added the line: hostname -F /etc/hostname to the end of my /etc/rc.local file. Of course, this also assumes that you have already created the hostname file in /etc. Just do a: touch /etc/hostname vi /etc/hostname Enter only the host name; nothing else. You can also run the first command for it to take effect right away.

I was just curious if there are many people out there who use the TrinityOS security "updates" with their Linux Mandrake distribution. I have taken an interest to them and was thinking of applying their recommendations to Mandrake. They sound liek they know what their talking about, but I never hear much about them. Their site is updated as of 2 days ago: http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/~dranch/LINUX/ Can someone with more security experience check them out and tell me what you think. Thanks.

Well, I had a similar experience installing LM9.1 as I did in LM9.0. It would freeze during package installation. So, I did as I did in LM9.0: Whent he CD boots, press F1 and at the prompt, type: linux noapic nousb Install completed like a charm and everything still works. I believe its still an APIC issue, so you could try it with just "noapic" and see if it works.

I have never had a problem with any of Sun's Java for any of the past 5 versions of Mandrake - 7.2, 8.1, 8.2, 9.0, 9.1RC1 and 9.1RC2. I just install it, copy the plugin to the mozilla plugins folder and it works.

Actually, Mandrake 9.1RC2 has it included on the CDs. I have it installed and use it daily; mostly for regular checkbook stuff and bank reconciliation, but it works for me. I like it.

Well, if it's of any worth, I am using mplayer that came on the RC1 or 2 CD (don't know if it is on RC2, I installed it from RC1 and then upgraded to RC2) and I have this same problem. I am using a Riva TNT2 card in mine and it has always been so. I do find the fullscreen annoying at times, but I've lived with it. At least it works. I've tried editing the config files, but it just reverts back. I don't know if it has to do with mplayer or the distro or X. Who knows? But along with that, I also get a "Can't open /dev/dsp: Device or Resource is busy" error message, but then my sound works just fine. I can't figure this out. Any searches result in issues where the sound does not work, but mine does even though I get this error.

From the Shorewall web site, under the Download link, I quote "WARNING - YOU CAN NOT SIMPLY INSTALL THE RPM AND ISSUE A "shorewall start" COMMAND. SOME CONFIGURATION IS REQUIRED BEFORE THE FIREWALL WILL START." I also found this statement to be true. You will need to configure Shorewall before running it. In either case, I do suggest taking a look at http://www.shorewall.net. Lots of excellent information and believe me, you will learn a lot from it. It may be a good basis to start. Then later if you want to manually configure netfilter, go ahead. But if you are just learning it. Learn the basics first - how it works and the configuration.

I just noticed that your location states Sapporo, Japan. So that rules out that theory.

Well, I did a search on the http://www.apnic.net site and the IP is registered in Korea. The port 22237 is for wnn6 (Japanese Input). What all this means - I don't know. But if you are not Japanese or Korean, I would consider yourself hacked.

I had the exact same problem, only my machine was locking up on a daily basis. I resolved it by separating each item out in the crontab file. Let me explain: The basic crontab file runs cron.hourly, cron.daily, cron.weekly, and cron.monthly. Inside those directories, which are located in /etc, are separate cron jobs. I listed each cron job from each respective cron.<folder> line by line in crontab. Never had a problem again. Remember that there are other individual cron jobs running that are not listed in crontab. I believe postfix has a cron job. You may need to check your logs to see what is running at that particular time of day.