fred_the_fish

Evening all... know that Mr Maxtor has kindly sent me a replacement HD (with an extra 20gb on it... isn't he nice.. oooooo :D) I've put mdk10rc1 on my system... everything is going fine... EXCEPT FOR DAMN XMMS!! Xmms works fine for mp3's, mpeg, cd audio etc. But it just WILL not connect to a cddb source - keep getting an "unable to connect to cddb -server" error. The strange thing is, KsCD does cddb fine?! - using uk.freedb.org as its server. I tried this with xmms, but with no luck. Any idea's anyone? I should point out here, that I'm sat behind a firewall, but this doesn't appear to hamper KsCD... its doing my nut ... much as KsCD is "nice"... I use xmms cause a/ oi loiks me skin b/it acutally sounds better.. #lost in cddb hell, Aberystwythl#

so.... Mount the ISO's - like make mandrake treat them as a virtual drive? - its just I haven't done this before... So if its held on a windows machine, I'd mount the samba folder, then mount the ISO's seperatly, and THEN run makeCD?

The other week I ran into a little post by someone on how to chnage the cd iso's into DVD iso's. As my hd blew up, and my new one arrived this morning, I have dl'd 10-rc1, and cause I only have 1 cd left, want to put them onto dvd. I can use WinISO to extract them, but what do I do to rebuild the hz lists etc? Any ideas please?

LOL. Fair play. :D As I said, its working again at the moment, but no mission critical work is being held on it... and hopefully Maxtor are in the process of sending a new one out... odd that it works every now and then tho!

Its not strictly a Mandrake issue this, but does anyone have any experience of Diamond Max +8 drives? Mine this morning decided to stop working (BIG problem as it contains the linux boot etc...) I downloaded maxtors powerMax, and it reported that the SMART failed, but couldn't get any further through tests than that - when it tried to fix the error, it reported passed, but then rescaning it picked the error up again. I was in the process of filling out a ROM (or whatever its called :P), when I found I needed something from the drive, so I turned off the machine, and rebooted, and strangley, after refusing to be deteted by any other pc (read 5 others..) it now works again??!! I am currently in a hasty back-up process - thank the lawrd I have a DVD burner :D... but if anyone has any ideas as to what is wrong so I can possibly fix it, rather than send it back to maxtor - cause I will loose my linux and have to rely on windows until they send a replacement... :*( Steps I've taken : - tried different UDMA cables... - tried different power cables... - tried different jumper positions... - tried the drive in different pc's... - run Maxtor's PowerMax... - tells me that the file read has failed, and that SMART is broken... - offers to fix SMART, but repair fails I plug it in again this evening and it works again? - obviously, I'm not guaranteeing to myself that it will continue to work, so a hasty databack-up is being done....

What is it with arts? All my sound apps run really happy from root - xmms, americas army, mplayer etc WHEN USING the Alsa drivers... I try to run them with arts, and things always fall over - xmms gets a segmentation fault, the others just die. This is also the case as a normal user - though americas army refuses to play sound full stop - reports that . Now, I've tried chmod 622 /dev/dsp as suggested in all the help I can find, but to no avail. - Am I being thick here or, is there something darker going on? For refernence, machine is using the 1.0.2 alsa drivers, with intel8x0. I'm running 2.6.1 kernel Suggestions anyone? = cause I'm at stage

nope that wasn't my problem - I could build all of 3.2 with Konstructor, but the permisisions for Alsa just refused to work, and no matter what I did, I just couldn't get it to do what I wanted. Hence giving up, ripping it out, and useing cooker rpms for the mdk version.

Cheers :D I was actually refering to NTFS and CIFS, yes... but hey.. if he wants to connect to a windows network, then...well... urrrr... he can still think about how to make it more secure :P - I have no option but to connect to some NTFS drives... but thats a legacy issue with my machine (as in XP is still sat there somewhere, and until I can get around to fighting Winex... when I want a meaningless thrash of some game.. it'll stay there... - realistically, that means "until a stable Raiser4 is realeased..."

This could take me some time to write... - it took me about 3 days to get KDE3.2 to work. First I tried using Konstructor, but alsa was just permenantly broke... So this is how I did it.. First, if you don't already, install gnome / ice /another window manaker... (so you can save things if they go down the toilet..) Second, grab and install the new qt from somewhere - I let Konstructor do that for me :P Third... find a local cooker mirror (thats where you can find the rpms... - I'm in the UK, on the JANET line, so the closest for me was ftp.mirror.ac.uk, but I can't promise that it will work for non-acedimia users.. - go to Mandrake 10... look for your country (at the bottom), and then browse the ftp site for something resembling SunSITE's cooker... Point the software media manager to all three RPM folders (They all have things you could need), and find the hdlist.cz files too, and tell SMM where to find em... Fourth... delete the old KDE - for some reason, for me kde 3.1 and 3.2 on the same system led to LOTS of issues... conflicts etc, even though its MEANT to work.... but hey-ho.. my pc is Special... Fifth... fire up rpmdrake after telling it to look at the mirrors you previously found, and then grab from the Desktops section, all the RPMs for KDE that you think you will need, and install them. RPMDRAKE does a reasonable job with dependencies, but for some (such as the KDM, IGNORE it and use mdk-DM (or whatever its called) instead - the KDE one seems to lead to all sorts of problems (well... it did for me anyway..) I might have missed something here - I'm writing this from memory..., but thats the general gist of how I did it. Good luck if you do decide to go-ahead. Personally, I now believe that it may well have been easier to wait until Mandy10 passed from RC1 to a full distro release, and just grab the iso's... but I was impaitant...

Thankyou Sir!! I did google for it... why didn't I find that :D Cheers anyway :D B)

However, that leads to security issues, and if you have servers etc, you don't want that in :D saying that, I guess its a security issue if users have to drop to root in-order to mount isn't it :lol Personally, I'd say its safer my way, and I'd then waste my time mounting drives for others all the time - hence the automount I added at the end there.... (though more long-winded....)

Does anybody know / can they give a useful break-down on how to install and run a CVS repository? - bearing in mind, that it would have to either be command-line or via Webmin. I have a server... well, it runs apache (advx) with ssl, and it has a samba share (hey... I don't want to keep all my music on my main machine :P), and I need to get a CVS system up for my coding. I've looked at guides, but must be being a bit dunce tonight - must be the snow! and can't work it out). I can't do it through gui because I don't have X installed on the server, and as its a K6-200 with 50mb ram, its got no chance of running X - trust me, I tried it for a laugh... reminded me of the old windows joke of "turn it on, go make yourself a cuppa, and then come back just intime for it to be loaded....)

The answer... should be relatively simple... I've just had to get around the same problem myself - I have a server box that has no x session (as its a server :P)... so I've had to learn command line. Anyway, as you stated, only root can mount things, therefore, it stands to reason that the mount will be WITH root rights. Reading the man pages, there is a nice little variable called uid :D... set this to the user(or gid (group id)... whichever is better for u) that you want to use the mounted filesystem with.. and hey presto, bobs your mothers brother... etc etc... - For my system i'd su -, and then do: [root@trefpc0110 /]# mount -t smbfs -o username=jez -o uid=jez //JEZ/sarah /home/jez/documents/mnt/pctrefjrg9/ just make sure that the directory your mounting too exists (but then, as you allready know how to mount, you'll know that :P) Anyway, I think thats what you wanted to sort isn't it - atleast, thats how I worked out how to do proper read/write samba access. As an asside, its also possible to auto-mount samba drives on boot - In order to mount a samba share from your fstab, put the following in /etc/fstab //smb4/cswr /mnt/drive smbfs defaults,user,credentials=/root/cred 0 0 You don't need to call the file /root/cred. Choose whatever fits your file structure. in /root/cred, you will need: Now make sure that /root/cred is only readable by root. The premissions on /root/cred should be: Use chmod and chown to ensure this is so. Make sure that /mnt/drive (or wharever mountpoint you choose) exists, and issue: mount /mnt/mdrive