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I guess I am not understanding what you are saying. Really all I want to do is limit the access to the system a user has, for example just their home directory. I would just chmod all the files so he couldn't do anything with them, but then my other computers couldn't use them....unless I guess is there a way to have Samba assign my computers in my home network a group name..so for example if I give my windows machine a static ip of 192.168.1.100, could I make Samba reconize that IP address and then assign that machine to a certain group? So that way I could just chmod everything so a the telnet users can't access them.

I'm not sure if this has already been address but I wasn't able to find it, anyway... I have a couple of people who want to use my server via SSH. However I have some directories on my comptuer that I do not want them having access too, in fact I would like it if they didn't even know they were there. My question is how would I go about doing that? If that isn't clear enough say when I look at the root directory I see the following: /home /fileserver I would like these users only to see /home Thank you in advanced for your replies.

your are right, it does make some sense. But since i did figure out that whomever wants to use it with their account needs to be logged in on the computer as well as ssh i wrote my family down how to use the 'who' command so they can see who is on. I also created a generic account that when I am done I log back into the machine so that they have just one account to deal with. I guess I took the easy way out, and if I ever need to reinstall the program I will try putting in the /root directory.

Okay, so far i have figured out that a user needs to be logged in on the computer for it to work. I noticed that when I said that it worked for me, it was when i was also logged in the computer and also on SSH. Now, I am thinking that the sound device will only work for whomever is logged in. Is there a way that I can make the sound driver universal for all users regaurdless of who is logged in or is there no way to do it.

I recently installed mp3blaster on the machine and i am having trouble with other users using ssh. I would like to be able to control the player from any computer in my house. I have three different accounts on the machine, all of them are in the same group, and have the same level of access. Now, on the box, mp3blaster works fine for every account. However, on if I try over ssh on a windows machine using Putty, the player works for root, and myself, the other accounts it "fails to load audio device". Has anyone had this issue before? If so how do I fix it? Now in the directory where i installed it /usr/mp3blaster, the files are under my accounts name for the owner and the group, however, i gave all the files exec and write privialges and that didn't work. I also then, place the other accounts in my group and that didn't work either. Should i download and install the program completly under root? Would that take away that problem? Also is the /usr directory a good one to install in, or is there a better option. Thanks

got it, I never installed the php.ini file...which i do'nt get, but i installed the rpm for it, and I was able to get it to read the directory in question, the script still has errors, but that is coding issues. Thanks

[root@localhost kevin]# rpm -qa | grep php php-mysql-4.3.0-2mdk php-readline-4.3.0-1mdk libphp_common430-430-11mdk apache2-mod_php-2.0.44_4.3.1-2mdk php-imap-4.3.0-3mdk php-pgsql-4.3.0-4mdk php-gd-4.3.0-2mdk php-ldap-4.3.0-3mdk [root@localhost kevin]# That is what i have installed. My question now is, if I build a script to look in that in a different directory will that work? So say my script is here /var/www/html and i want it to look in say /jukebox will that work as long s the file permissions allow it? That is my main concern that when someone calls the page up, it will access that directory ( the jukebox directory) if it will then that will be great, then my problem is solved. If not, do I have to make that directory like a virtual server or something else? actually, know my friend and i discovered something. We got the script to work but, it yet it dosen't. PHP is in safe mode, and i can't find the ini file to turn it off. Anyone know where the file I need is? Thanks

Well i hope i can describe what i would like to do is good, but let me know if something is unclear. I am going to set up a parition for an mp3 jukebox of my family's fav CD's that they can pull up on their computers. Now my family have no clue how get on linux, and i don't want to have them navagating through tons of different folders to find it. Now I would like to code something for them to have like a intranet webpage they could go to, and load their list from there. And even search for songs. Now my friend and I can code the webpage with PHP to do that kind of stuff, my question is how woudl I get apache to use the scritps with the files. I know that for anything for PHP to work i need to have it in /var/www/html/ , which i am guessing is my apache directory for the pages. What do i need to setup/do to get the intranet page working? I don't need the page to be internal, since the server isn't public anyway. I hope what I want to do is clear, like I said let me know if i can clear it up any better.

Problem is fixed. For starters every was fine with the jumpers, so that wasn't the problem. Also aussie, i didn't expect anything actually, it is just how i installed them. Cuz when i added the new hard disk I also moved the componets to a dfferent case, so when i connected them i just grouped them together. Also that hard drive was already set to slave, so yeah. You are right though, i didn't gain anything, but i wasn't trying to either. As for the fix, i did just do a dummy install, just told it not to format my key paritions and everything was cool after that. Thanks again to all who helped. This site rocks for help, if you know anything now on apache settings, I am going to have a question there too. I am just full of them :D Thanks again to all

ixthusdan, you are right, and there are many more weaknesses of capitalism too that are getting exploited every single day. I recently read the Communist Maefesto, and boy, did it wake me up. I was like, omg, Marx is right on a lot of the things he says about capitalism. However, it would be interesting to see America under a communist ecomony, not government mind you, just ecomnomy. In fact, probably in the next century you will see US heading towards it, as the gap between the lower and upper class continues to widen, and the dwendling middle class slowly sinks to the lower class, it will be interesting times. But most likely something will happen to balance them out. My point is that yes i agree with you guys that Linux is going to take a big chuck of the market soon, and it is best to get on the band wagon now and not miss it.

yup did that, see before i added the second hard drive my it was like this hda - Hard disk hdb - CD rom which i had the HD as the master and then the Cd, as slave When I added the second HD, i moved the CD to the second IDE channel as the master and the second HD as slave on the first, linux seemed at first to pick it up like this hda - HD - master hdb - HD2 - slave hdc - CD - Master (2nd channel) I doulbed checked in the BIOS too, and all there seems to be fine. Which is why i remembered that i manually put the CD-rom as hdb, so i went and changed that to hdc to match with what linux said it was. But like i said that get that read error. The only other possiblity is that the CD rom is in CS. Since the CD-rom has no label for it i knew i had it in slave before and i just moved it to the left since that is how my other CD roms where. Could CS mode do that? I just don't wanna screw it up any worse then it is, so if it could then i will try to the other jumper setting.

Personally, i thought it was funny how they think Windows is God compared to Linux, i have only been using linux for a couple of months (i have had it installed for a few years, but i never really messed around with it like i am now) and i am loving it. Being able to control everything and learning something that is quite hard to grasp at first is fun. I remember working in tech support during my last year in highschool/ first year in college this guy was talking to me, and he was like "F*** microsoft nad blah blah" he was so much fun to talk to. I talked to him on the phone for like hours about stuff, it was fun. http://****microsoft.com/ great site too.

Okay, I messed somthing up now......here is what happened I decided to add another 40gigs of Hd space to the computer, I talked with a friend and he was like, oh yeah linux will detect it and all with be fine. Well he was right about that, but i ran into a problem now with the CD rom.....again. i think that is is mounting in some weird spot, or something is not configured right. /dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /dev/hda9 /fileserver ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/hda8 /home ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/hdb1 /jukebox ext3 defaults 1 2 <-New HD none /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/hdc,fs=auto,ro,--,user,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0 0 0 none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=auto,ro,--,user,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda10 /tmp ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/hda6 /usr ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/hda7 /var ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0 *and the '<---new HD' thing is not really in my fstab, just pointed it out to ya As you can see, i manually went in and changed the supermount to match with what Linux had said the cd rom was...which was /dev/hdc. Now, when i am in the computer, and i try to read from the CD-rom i get this error.... -bash: cd: /mnt/cdrom: Input/output error now when i try to 'cd' or 'ls' the rom does speed, with lights like it was reading, but no info. Any ideas on what could be causing this problem? Again thanks for your help

kind of off subject for the help, but what mod, if any do you play? i play ren, and sometimes classic. I can't wait for T:V to come out, it is going to kick some major butt.

sweet, thanks