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In case this is helpful the file added_by_menudrake was very corrupt and after I cleaned it by hand things started to go right again. Now I have to see whats missing from the menus Andrew

It appears to be an error in the added-by-mandrake file. The error is: Reading menu-entry files in /home/andrew/.menu/. In file "/home/andrew/.menu/added_by_menudrake", at (or in the definition that ends at) line 171: [...]ection.png" needs="x11" title="System\" section="/" charset="utf8" [...] ^ (cedilla under the "/") Expected: "=" Skipping file because of errors... Lines 171 and 172 read: ?package(menu): icon="applications_section.png" needs="x11" title="System\" section="/" charset="utf8" ?package(menu): icon="applications_section.png" needs="x11" title="System" section="System\/" charset="utf8" the section="/" appears in several lines before and after this one, so I wonder just what is the error? Andrew

Anyone solve this problem? I have updated all my 10.1 kmenu and mandrake-desk packages and stiil have the same error from menudrake viz. attribute |/" charset| in "?package(menu)" is invalid attribute |System\/System/" charset| in "?package(menu)" is invalid attribute |System\/System/Configuration\/" charset| in "?package(menu)" is invalid Segmentation fault Thanks Andrew

Oh dear, I tried to upgrade my Evolution 1.2 to 1.4 and after a urpmi download of around 80mb, some of the RPM's installed OK, but 23 packages did not. They all abort with a message saying Conflicts were detected: perl© is needed by rpmdrake-2.1-35mdk perl(gurpm) is needed by rpmdrake-2.1-35mdk perl(log) is needed by rpmdrake-2.1-35mdk perl(packdrake) is needed by rpmdrake-2.1-35mdk perl(standalone) is needed by rpmdrake-2.1-35mdk now of course Evolution and Mozilla no longer run. What is the next thing to do? I can't find references to the above on the web at all! Thanks for any help Andrew

Is /dev/modem the device used by kppp? You may have to create the link to the actual device for it to work correctly. Also better check that nothing else has locked the modem.

Could I have a copy of your smb.conf file to look at?

I have it all working now. The answer was to reinstall the networking on the Windows machines. I have no idea why this should have been necessary since there was no apparent problem with widos to windows, only linux to windows. I remeber that I had to do this once before some time ago. I wish I understood why these things happen! Andrew

Thanks for the reply, but the link to the GS file on his page is broken. I cannot find any others at the moment which I can understand. Any other ideas? Andrew

I have the above on my Mandrake 9.1, but it only prints Black & White. How can I get it to print colour. There is no 5700 Linux driver on the Lexmark site as far as I can see. Andrew

OK - nmblookup -A Win98IP from linux works fine smbclient -L Win98Name -I Win98IP reports Called name not present? Why is that? Andrew

At present I suggest you follow afunke's method to solve your problem. As far as I can see these problems are fixed in 9.1 but I have had some SAMBA problems so perhaps you should upgrade after you are certain that SAMBA works OK in that release. Andrew

I won't be back in France until the weekend and will try it then - thanks Andrew

Set up samba by viing smb.conf. Set up two public shares on the linux box. Ran testparm and came up with a list of ssl* errors. Commented out those lines, (also left them in to see if they made any difference) assume that ssl is not compiled into the kernel. Pinged in both dircetions - OK. smbclient -L server gives list of shares. nmblookup -b serevr __SAMBA__ gives ip address of server. nmblookup -B pcclient give ip address of client. nmblookup -d 2 "*" lists all addresses. smbclient //serevr/public logs on to the public directory. On the PCs network neighbourhood lists all machines including the linux server and all shares on all machines. Can read and write to all shares specified in smb.conf. On Server Komba2, Linneigborhood, Gnomba list all machines on the network and show all the shares on the server, but do not show any shares on the windows machines. Thanks in advance Andrew

This is a routing problem. Mandrake 9.0 defaults to a network internet connection. I think the answer is to remove the default route entry. Check man route for details. Andrew

I read somewhere that there may be a bug in the Samba/Mandrake 9.1 distribution. Do I need an update? I have set up Samba and for some reason cannot connect or even see the shares on the windows machines on our network. I can see all the machines, and the windows pcs can see and connect to all my linux shares. I have run all the normal checks (I think), but with no luck. Network machines are running 98SE. Anyone any ideas? Andrew