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  1. Hmm, I think that I located the problem: the computer was overheating causing general instability. I have two new case fans on order...
  2. Thank you both for your replies :-) Loopback is not disabled, and changing the network card did not help. I shall have a look at the browse master thing now - what should it be set to?
  3. I'm having some bizarre and random problems that all seem to be associated with networking. I'll outline them briefly here. Often, when I start the computer or log in anew, the network (it's on a small home LAN) won't work at all: eth0 is up, and pinging my own address works, but pinging the address of another computer on the network doesn't. Sometimes, it'll suddenly stop working in the middle of a session for no apparent reason, although not when there's constant network activity, like Gaim or constant pinging of another machine on the network. It seems to take an arbitrary period of time to start working, but pinging another machine on hte network whilst being pinged by that machine seems to get it working faster. Also, I've had problems with hard-locks and program freezes with programes associated with networking: Mozilla is unstable (often freezes and needs to be killed), and a program called reoback that I was using to backup accross the network predictably caused system hard-locks that required pressing "reset" to undo. I have also had a hard-lock of that sort for no reason whilst typing a message in a form (message board) in Mozilla. Does this sound like a hardware or software problem? (I have a spare NIC that I could try, but opening this el-cheapo case is never fun). If software, any ideas on how to get it to work properly? It was working fine under Win2k, but I know that that doesn't necessarily rule out a hardware fault. Thank you in advance for any help :-)
  4. As to the Finnish mini-howto, I downloaded dvbtune, according to the instructions, but attempting to "make" it produced a large string of errors.
  5. I have spent hours on Linuxtv.org and still not found the answer to my specific question. As to HardDrake, there is no TV card configuration utility there: the only one is in Mandrake Control Center, and that's the one that doesn't even recognise that I have a TV card in my system.
  6. I am trying to get a Hauppauge WinTV Nova-T PCI (TT-PCI-Budget) to work under Mandrake 10. The in-built TV card configuration tool does not detect the card. It is detected in HardDrake as an "other multimedia device". When I run Xine, and go to "DVB", I get the following error: "There is no plugin available to handle 'dvb://'". On clicking "more", I am shown the following two further errors: (1) "cannot find input plugin for MRL [dvb://]" and (2) "input plugin cannot open MRL [dvb://]". All of the other messages report success (such as, "found input plugin : DVB (Digital TV) input plugin"). I have modprobed dvb-core and dvb-ttpci, and both return no more than a carriage return (i.e., no "not found" error). Am I missing a module? What do I do, exactly, to get it working? I have been searching all day for a solution to this, and still have not found anything on Google or in discussion groups or chatrooms. I should be immensly grateful for any help at all.
  7. Thank you very much for your help - finally I have the thing working, and Samba 2.2.6 running on my backup server! :D Note to self: read the docs in future...
  8. This doesn't help, I'm afraid. I already ran urpmi.update immediately before the install. Also, the Samba website notes that 2.2.6 is a development version, and that 2.2.5 is still the latest stable version. Thank you for trying, though :-)
  9. I tried to update Samba yesterday. This happened: [root@localhost rpmdownload]# urpmi samba --auto-select unable to take medium "Updates for Mandrake Linux 8.2 (ftp1u)" into account as no list file [/var/lib/urpmi/list.Updates for Mandrake Linux 8.2 (ftp1u)] exists To satisfy dependencies, the following packages are going to be installed (34 MB): samba-server-ldap-2.2.5-2mdk.i586 samba-swat-2.2.5-2mdk.i586 samba-doc-2.2.5-2mdk.i586 samba-client-2.2.5-2mdk.i586 samba-server-2.2.5-2mdk.i586 samba-common-2.2.5-2mdk.i586 samba-winbind-2.2.5-2mdk.i586 samba-common-ldap-2.2.5-2mdk.i586 Is it OK? (Y/n) Y % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Curr. Dload Upload Total Current Left Speed 100 1596k 100 1596k 0 0 25680 0 0:01:03 0:01:03 0:00:00 36704 100 1597k 100 1597k 0 0 28139 0 0:00:58 0:00:58 0:00:00 26139 100 2747k 100 2747k 0 0 27485 0 0:01:42 0:01:42 0:00:00 29379 100 629k 100 629k 0 0 20606 0 0:00:31 0:00:31 0:00:00 29771 100 2749k 100 2749k 0 0 24998 0 0:01:52 0:01:52 0:00:00 6464 100 739k 100 739k 0 0 22086 0 0:00:34 0:00:34 0:00:00 24731 100 1303k 100 1303k 0 0 27064 0 0:00:49 0:00:49 0:00:00 36046 100 1389k 100 1389k 0 0 28158 0 0:00:50 0:00:50 0:00:00 32252 installing /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/samba-server-2.2.5-2mdk.i586.rpm /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/samba-server-ldap-2.2.5-2mdk.i586.rpm /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/samba-common-2.2.5-2mdk.i586.rpm /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/samba-winbind-2.2.5-2mdk.i586.rpm /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/samba-common-ldap-2.2.5-2mdk.i586.rpm /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/samba-swat-2.2.5-2mdk.i586.rpm /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/samba-doc-2.2.5-2mdk.i586.rpm /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/samba-client-2.2.5-2mdk.i586.rpm error: failed dependencies: samba-server-ldap conflicts with samba-server-2.2.5-2mdk samba-server conflicts with samba-server-ldap-2.2.5-2mdk samba-common-ldap conflicts with samba-common-2.2.5-2mdk samba-common conflicts with samba-common-ldap-2.2.5-2mdk Installation failed Try installation without checking dependencies? (y/N) What do I do about it? And just what *is* LDAP? Thank you in advance for any help :-) James E. Petts
  10. Thank you very much :-) This has solved the problem.
  11. I did. It said, "Operation not permitted" even when I was root.
  12. I tried that, unmounting then using chown, but they reverted to root ownership as soon as I remounted them (mount -a).
  13. I am having problems with giving a non-root user permission to write files in remote Samba shares. I have a directory called /mnt/Documents (which connects to a drive on a Windows 2000 system), and whilst the root user can read and write to it, the permissions are not set for the standard user (james) to do the same. So, I try chmod a+w /mnt/Documents and it made no difference. I tried chmod o+w /mnt/Documents, and still no effect. I tried chown james /mnt/Documents, but it said, "Operation not permitted". I tried to do it from the Konquorer GUI client, but it froze and had to be killed. Am I missing something here? All that I want to be able to do is use /mnt/Documents (and all subfolders) as the place where I store all my user files on both the Windows 2000 and Linux machine. What do I have to do to accomplish that? (I am using Mandrake 8.2). Thank you in advance. James E. Petts
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