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Okay, a little egg on my face -- I didn't have everything updated. Now, though, I'm sure I do. And after updating, I'm getting a different error when trying to run mcc (from root): INTERNAL ERROR: can't find splash_screen MDK::Common::Various::internal_error() called from /usr/lib/libDrakX/ugtk2.pm:603 ugtk2::gtkcreate_img() called from /usr/sbin/drakconf.real:90 I can't decide if this a step forwards or backwards...maybe sideways?

Hey, I'm having some of the same issues (can't run configuration). There's a few suggestions in this other thread: http://www.mandrakeusers.org/index.php?showtopic=15183. Didn't solve my issues, but maybe you'll have better luck..

Not _real_ settled in, but hoping to avoid a reinstall...not the quickest machine, and it takes awhile.. bvc: It looks like those things check out. I think I have everything updated as well... On the plus side, I've managed to get the network working, and my keyboard seems to have stopped messing up... Still would be nice to have the graphical config options, since I'm still somewhat of a newbie, but (assuming I can get the network sharing working now) I guess I can deal... Thanks all for your suggestions, and I'm open for any other ideas.. -dan

No luck, unfortunately :( It says it's loading, but then it gives me the following error: Failed to open file '': No suych file or directory at /usr/lib/libDrakX/ugtk2.pm line 603 Any thoughts? thanks, dan

Ahh.... mcc.... Thanks! I'll try that when I get home... I couldn't remember what the right command was... Thanks!

Hi, not sure what category I should put this in, it seems to fit a few of them....Here's the problem: I installed 10.0 Official last night (previously had 9.2 installed, but did a clean install). Whatever I did, I'm having trouble getting networking functioning correctly (have a wireless connection to the outside, and a wired connection to a local lan). But that's not why I'm posting. I logged into KDE, and clicked on "Configuration Tools" in the welcome window, hoping I could figure things out myself. It came back with an error, "Unable to run the command specified. The file or folder file:/usr/share/applnk-mdk/System/Configuration/Configure your computer.desktop does not exist". And that's reason 1 why I came to the "installation problems" forum. Reason 2, is the fact that my keyboard doesn't quite act right; somewhat frequently, it appears to freak out, and acts as if I was holding a key down. Any ideas? Thanks much....

Is it possible that your ISP is blocking incoming port 80 requests? Some ISPs do that... Maybe try opening another port (8080) and see what happens. (To access a web site on another port, the url should be of the form http://ip.address.here:8080, I believe.) Let us know how it works out...

Alright, sorry for the slow response but it's been a busy few days... I've been using the Shorewall documentation to try to get things working, but haven't quite had success yet. I found http://shorewall.net/samba.htm (and the other tutorials on the shorewall site) pretty helpful. Question: "To make network browsing (“Network Neighborhood”) work properly between Z1 and Z2 requires a Windows Domain Controller and/or a WINS server." So I should install a WINS server on the linux machine? Hopefully I have to try to work through this tonight..

I should be able to change to those IP ranges for the wireless and the wired. I believe I have shorewall installed (I think with 9.2 it gets installed automatically when you do internet connection sharing? Could be wrong..) So, now it's time to get started with iptables, eh? I just read (well, to the extent that I could understand) the man page....should be interesting. Later tonight I'm going to try to find some stuff more my speed about iptables, to try to understand it better... Thanks!

Hmm...well, the picture _did_ get attached after all...cool... -dan

Yeah, trying to diagram this stuff without an actual picture is a pain... So, I tried to draw a picture (hopefully it comes through alright; and please ignore the fact I spelled "wireless" wrong, I was in a rush :) UPDATE: I don't seem to be able to attach the picture; I can't access my webspace from work, so I'll upload it when I get home. So, to describe the picture, in case it doesn't work: 3rd floor (roommate's room): DSL modem, connects to wireless router, which is 192.168.0.1. 1st floor (my room): linux machine, with a usb wireless card connected to the router (192.168.0.169, static), and a wired card (eth0, 192.168.1.1) connected to a linksys switch. Connected to the switch is a windows2000 machine (192.168.0.253, via dhcp from the linux machine). I could always go out and get another wireless card for the windows box, but I'm just trying to avoid buying more stuff, if I can avoid it. Forcing eth0 to a 192.168.0.x address, and having it send a 192.168.0.x address to the windows machine, would that work? Or would it just screw things up? Hopefully this makes more sense...thanks a lot for your time.. -dan

I have my linux machine on a wireless network (wlan0), which connects to the internet. I have eth0 going to a switch, which connects to a windows box. I have internet sharing done and working (thanks in part to the people here :), and I have samba working. My question is this: the wireless network is 192.168.0.*; the local (eth0) network is 192.168.1.*; is there any way to get the windows machine visible to all the other machines on the wireless network over samba? Currently the windows machine can just see the linux machine, and the linux machine is the only thing that can see that windows machine. Does this involve simply routing packets differently? Something with iptables? Or do I have to get bridging working? Thanks for your time, and please let me know if that didn't make sense... -dan

Thanks a ton! Worked! (At least for the moment, based on your comments...we'll see...) I'm just enjoying bouncing between different window managers 'till I find something to stick with... Thanks again!

Well, that was a step forward: I now have a terminal option in my menus... thanks! Unfortunately, somewhere along the way I seem to have taken a step backwards as well: a ton of the other menu options just disappeared. Actually, it seems like it reversed between what it used to show, and what it now shows. (ie. I didn't used to have a "news" option under networking, but I did have about 6 or 7 other options, such as "web"; now, I just have "news"...) Any idea why that might've happened? I may have changed something in menudrake, but I don't know what...and it didn't show up until I did that last install... Thanks!

Sorry, should've been more specific... I can get to the applications menu, but there's no option to open a term window, and I can't figure out how to add that option to the list. I spent some time looking through MenuDrake, and read the help file, but wanted to ask here before I screwed things up... Thanks...