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Do you not have a system logger running? If so, try taking a look at its output file.

Nothing relevant in /var/log/messages either? Checking for PAM errors might be an idea.

Does /var/log/secure tell you anything, on either end?

But the user mysti does exist on his box? Are they forwarding port 22 on their setup too?

Silly suggestion, the user you're trying to connect as does exist on the server?

urpmi mozilla-thunderbird might be what you're looking for????

Are you wanting to share your internet conection from your windows machine to the linux one, or the other way round? Same question for the printer? Don't worry about your level of English, it's better than some native speakers that I know :D

The lack of lines like ndiswrapper: driver ''driver1'' added suggests that the windows drivers haven't been loaded correctly. Additionally, IIRC there may have been a problem with ndiswrapper in that version of mandrake - it may be wise to remove it completely (search this networking forum if you're unsure) and install the latest version from the ndiswrapper site.

After modprobe ndiswrapper, do dmesg - this may give you some clues to any possible errors.

Test if you can ping the windows machine (ping I.P. address from a terminal emulator). If so, point a web browser in linux to localhost:631 - which should be a printer configuration page (the printer service is called cups BTW - if you don't see the right page make sure cups is installed).

USB modems are generally a problem as they're winmodems (so they don't have all the hardware a modem should have). It is possible to get some of them working, but I personally have no experience - try googling for linmodem is about the best I can suggest (or wait for someone who knows to post). Sorry I can't be more help!

I found that playing around smbclient was vital to me configuring samba (for a printer), a quick read of man smbclient and smbclient --help should get you in the right direction - you want to list the available shares on xphost (so you know what you're looking for). I'm being purposefully vague here so you can hopefully learn it for yourself (that really is the best way), but if you get really stuck please post back!

An OS is only as secure as you make it - and Linux can be made to be very secure. In terms of ADSL modems, it's best to get one that connects via ethernet - that usually means they don't require drivers and you should have no problems.

hostname is the name you want the computer to be called on your network, you can set this to anything you'd like (within reason). X is the graphical server on *nix machines, you can restart it by logging out and then hitting Ctrl-Alt-BackSp

Might it be possible to get ClamAV to scan some of the traffic coming through the proxy? Just an idea, I've no idea how feasible.

It should simply be a matter of selecting a new network connection, then internet connection sharing (if thats what you want to do) - then follow the instructions on screen. If you get stuck, please post back.

It's seems like a bug in the package, I guess there's three options: 1) Don't run apache for now 2) Downgrade to the older package, and hope there's a fix soon 3) Install the latest version from source I guess you'll know which option is best for you - post back if you need help with any of them.

Do you actually need mod_rewrite? If not, perhaps you could try turning it off in the httpd2.conf

Yup, the drivers have been loaded and it's ready to go. You'll probably need to configure the connection in MCC before you can talk to the other machine however.

Thats how it should be, a directory always takes up 4k - thats how much space it takes on disk (without its contents). If you want to know how big the contents are, you should; du -sh /path/to/dir

Sorry, I was in a bit of a hurry when I worte those replies, if you open a terminal then type "su" without the quotes (it will ask you for the root password) then type "lsmod" you will be presented with a list of the current modules (drivers) that are being used. I've a feeling it will be ndiswrapper thats driving your wi-fi, but feel free to post the list here if you can't identify it.

public_html will by default be in your home - you need to enable it in the httpd2.conf Make sure you're loading the mod_userdir module and you should be good to go.

rpm -ql xorg-x11-devel will tell you the contents of the rpm and where the files are located.

Have you tried bringing the card backup with something like service network restart or /etc/init.d/network restart Can you do an lsmod to find the name of the driver the kernel is using for your card?

What have you done to attempt to reconnect the card? Are you using ndiswrapper for drivers (you may be able to find this out by running lsmod or dmesg from the command line)?