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I've successfully installed open SSH server on a MDK 10.1. It starts fine and I have no problems connecting to it from another client on my local home network. When I try connecting from work my session appears to hang just after I've entered my password with my connection eventually timing out. Looking at the system log I find the following entries: Apr 12 22:29:39 checker sshd[27542]: Accepted password for kevin from ::ffff:111.111.111.111 port 35356 ssh2 Apr 12 22:29:39 checker sshd[27542]: Address 111.111.111.111 maps to 111.co.uk, but this does not map back to the address - POSSIBLE BREAKIN ATTEMPT! *IP address and URL changed. From this I understand that the reverse and corresponding forward lookups that SSH performs are not matching so it's seen as a breach attempt. I've checked the DSN and performed independent reverse and forward lookups using tools on the web and the log entries are correct. Is there any way that I can work around this so I can connect to my home machine from work? Many thanks. [moved from Software by spinynorman]

Hi, I've installed Apache 2.0.52 from source on MDK 10.1 . I would like to get it to start automatically on boot, does anyone know of an easy way to do this by the konsole or other means? Thanks

Is it possible to reinstall an rpm using urpmi without having to uninstall it first using urpme, if so how do you do it? Thanks

Both keyboard and mouse are PS2.

I'm using MDK 9.2 and am trying to change the kernel using the 2.6.2 souce. I've done abit of reading on the net and managed to compile and install the kernel and configure lilo to give me a choice of using the new kernel using the info. I'm finding that when I boot using the new kernel that my keyboard and mouse doesn't work. Does anyone know why this would be happening and how I can go about fixing it please. Thanks

I'm using Mozilla 1.4 under MDK 9.2, is there a way of spoofing the browser identification to fool some sites into thinking that you're using another browser like I.E 6. I know this is easy to do in Konqueror but I've not seen it here. Can anyone help? Thanks.

Is it possible to configure kmail to send and receive mail from hotmail? If so then how do you do it? If it can't be done then can anyone suggest an alternative. Any help, references would be apreciated. Regards

/var/log/XFree86.0.log reports (WW) RADEON: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:1:0:1) found (EE) No devices detected I take it this mean that the driver that I used from the ATI site was the wrong one? Looking on the ATI site, they have drivers for XFree86 versions 4.1.0, 4.2.0 and 4.3.0, does the version of XFree appear during boot or is there a command that I can use to find this information? Also, once I've installed the rpm using rpm -ivh *.rpm, do I use XFdrake again to reconfigure? Sorry for the questions but I am new to Linux. Thanks for your patience.

I've recently upgraded my graphics card from a voodoo 4500 to an ATI Radeon 9600. Since then Mandrake boots into a console mode and does not go into the KDE or Gnome environments as it did before. I've tried playing around with xf85config while logged in as root but with no success. I can not believe that I have to reinstall the OS everytime you upgrade a peice of hardware. Does anyone have any info/tips that I can use to get things working again? Thanks

Thanks for the suggestion. I'm running the mplayer on Mandrake 9.1 . If I was to follow your advice, how would I go about uninstalling mplayer, and where would I get this plf? Thanks once again.

Thanks for your help. As you pointed out, by changing the selected 'Available Drivers' under the video tab of the preferences did the trick. One thing that I have noticed though is that if I try to play a movi in full screen or double the size, I get a window of the movie (which remains its original size) surrounded by black space. Is there another setting that I've missed to fix this? Thanks once again.

I've just installed mplayer on Mandrake 9.1 which after much poking around I managed to get working along with a nice skin. My problem is that when I now try to play any movies I get a popup saying: Error opening/initializing the selected video_out (-vo) device. Does anyone know what I should do to get gmplayer to work? Thanks

I am running a duel Windows 98 and Mandrake 9.1 setup on a Gigabyte K7 Triton 400 (GA-7VA) mother board equiped with an onboard sound card and a PCI Creative labs Soundblaster 1024. Unfortunately, I'm not getting any sound through the SB Live 2024 under Mandrake 9.1 . I know the card is not at fault as it works fine under the Windows 98 OS. Looking in HardDrake I noticed two entries: SB Live! (Audio) VT 8233 [AC 97 Audio Controller] So I assume that the installation has found both the onboard and PCI sound cards. Looking through some newsgroups I stumbled across the following command (and output from my machine) showing what the kernal has seen. --- lspci -vv 00:0b.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 (rev 06) Subsystem: Creative Labs CT4832 SBLive! Value Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Latency: 32 (500ns min, 5000ns max) Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 19 Region 0: I/O ports at d400 [size=32] Capabilities: <available only to root> 00:0b.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Live! MIDI/Game Port (rev 06) Subsystem: Creative Labs Gameport Joystick Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Latency: 32 Region 0: I/O ports at d800 [size=8] Capabilities: <available only to root> --- My modules.conf file below: etc/modules.conf probeall scsi_hostadapter ide-scsi alias sound-slot-1 snd-via82xx above snd-via82xx snd-pcm-oss alias eth0 epic100 above snd-emu10k1 snd-pcm-oss alias sound-slot-0 snd-emu10k1 probeall usb-interface usb-uhci ehci-hcd alias /dev/ttySHCF[0-9]* hcfpciserial alias char-major-240 hcfpciserial alias /dev/cuaHCF[0-9]* hcfpciserial alias char-major-241 hcfpciserial alias /dev/modem hcfpciserial options hcfpciserial serialmajor=240 calloutmajor=241 pcivendorid=0x127A pcideviceid=0x1005 I've also played around with AUMix and KMix without success. Does anyone have any ideas of how I can enable the sound on the PCI SB card? Thanks for your help