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Have you checked with your ISP to ensure that they allow you to run a web server? Some ISP's are in the habit of blocking it.

Whats your current network setup (ie. how do you connect to the internet)?

I think you'd need to recompile mplayer from source to do this. IIRC configuring the source and building it takes a while, but it can be worthwhile.

I've done this with apple airports in the past and it works fine (if my memory is correct :P ). What routers are you using?

Glad you've fixed it. I'll mark the post solved, but feel free to add any follow up information.

I've split this from the other topic as the problems may not be related - and more people will see your post this way. Welcome to the board!! Can you post the output of /sbin/ifconfig as a start to diagnosing the problem? Can you also tell us a little more of your networking setup to get online (just a modem, a router, full blown network?)?

Your could try reading this article, otherwise googling for network profiles linux seems to produce loads of results.

If you're obtaining the IP addresses via dhcp it's probably best just to reduce the dhcp timeout limit for these interfaces. If you background the network-up scripts it could cause problems with other services. The file you need to edit is probably in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ but as I'm not at a mandriva box at the moment I can't check.

Could it be that your wireless networking is started later than the wired one? Thus when the automatic mounting of the shares is attempted the network isn't availale and it fails - meaning they need to be manually mounted. I guess the answer is to move the starting of wireless networking earlier in the init process - I'm not really sure how to do this but it gives you something to google for (unless someone else knows how).

I'm not at a mandriva box now to check the syntax, but you're missing at least the workgroup name. You may also need a username and password, even if the username is just guest (in which case the password is left blank).

Can you try going into MCC and turning off the Lisa service to see if that solves the problem?

Whats the output of /sbin/ifconfig ??

Is this a wired or wireless adaptor? If the latter, check out the articles on ndiswrapper in tips and tricks.

No problem, glad you got it sorted!!

Have you read through this FAQ??

Click Manage Printers -> Add Printer You can add what you want for the first three fields. The connection type is windows printer via samba. You then need to add the path to the printer which is in the format: smb://WORKGROUP/username:password@HOST/Printer Where all of these paramteres refer to the windows machine. If you have the guest account active on the windows machine, you only need: smb://WORKGROUP/guest@HOST/Printer Good luck!

I suppose so, and then set a root password Seriously, it's a very very good idea!!

su is a utility that is used to switch users (in a console), by default it switches you to root and many people new to unix like OS's think this is the "root command". When you installed, you should have been asked to set up an administrator password (the root account), and then a personal account with a username and password. Is this what happened? To configure cups you need to use the username root and the admin password. Sorry if this is what you're already doing!

Ensure the cups service is running (you can do this in mcc). I don't know how to state this without being patronising, but you do know the username for root is root, not su? Otherwise, I have no idea whats going wrong!

pointing your browser at localhost:631 should return a CUPS configuration page (not samba). The authetication required is for the root user.

Have you tested to see if you get the same problems with another machine or OS?

Thats a little harsh, ndiswrapper is very good at what it does - it wouldn't be possible to use a great many wireless cards in linux without it. I'd rather have real drivers, but ndiswrapper is a good alternative.

The mount points are probably listed in fstab (perhaps commenting them out with a # is a good move). If you haven't already then you can stop the NFS service running with mcc.

I grabbed a code at their recent give-away, certainly an interesting browser.

I found adding (or editing) a line similar to: 127.0.0.1 localhost newhostname in the /etc/hosts file works fine for me. However, this is on gentoo and not Mandriva but hopefully that shouldn't matter.