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Wonder if you have selected it as a network printer, if so you shouldn't see the dialog about ports.

What urpmi repositiories are you using? Have you tried daniewicz' recommendation? Remove all media repositories and use easyurpmi to set up new ones. Then urpmi --auto-select.

There have been many posts and threads on this issue here, I'd recommend that you check them. It's a pretty complicated and idiosyncratic process on deciding on partitions. As a rule make sure you have a separate /home. If you are going to try different distributions you may want a separate partition for your data files. As I do that I keep a minimal /home partition and have separate ones for other stuff. But do check the other threads for opinions. You will also get into issues of what file system to use, most folks do either ext3 or Reiser. It probably only makes a difference in special situations. You may not need that extra NTFS partition, but it all dpends on what you will be doing with each distro. Good luck.

I wouldn't use etch right now. As a rule the Debian testing (etch) can be unstable at first. I'll check etch out in a couple of months, perhaps replacing Sarge some time after that.

One good reason to get to know vi is that it is the editor you can use with the rescue boot on cd1.

You ought to use MCC and the Networking routine there. For some reason when installing Mandriva it does not ask for a host name. You can set it up through MCC though. Also during the install in the last section (summary or whatever it's called) you can configure the network and get your host name in. Mandriva ought to ask for a host name, but doesn't.

Two things: one 10.1 is out of date, use 2005, two Mandriva is a commercial enterprise that needs income in order to continue putting out distros.

The remote tests for junk is not the problem. I too have noticed how much slower Evolution 2 is than 1.4. I have simply gotten used to it, but don't like it. IIRC many people have complained abut this since 2 came out.

What program are you downloading from? I once had a similar problem a few years ago and my problem was hard drive space. It was putting things first in /tmp, but those were large files (iso's). But more details on how you are downloading would help.

In the Samba config choose the Shares tab. This will get you to configuring your shares. Choose the share you want to use and click the advanced view. You will see a field for read list and write list. You can list the users you want to have each permission (comma delimted). If you haven't set up your shares you can do it with the Create Share button. Every share has its path and permissions. In setting things up you may have a share called Public which is to your home directory (Mandriva may have set this up when you set things up). You can change that if you want to /home/kim/Share and set the user permissions. It's really pretty straightforward. You can play around and add a remove shares as you wish and give some users more permissions than others (I have some shares I let some people read and write and others only read). Good luck.

In order to use swat: two things 1) as I mentioned earlier make sure swat is running (use MCC,System,Services and check swat when requested) 2) enter localhost:901 in a browser url (konq or Firefox or whatever you like). You are now in the Samba config tool. Adolfix mentioned Webmin, I think it's a matter of taste and I prefer swat others Webmin. Good luck.

swat is a samba configuration tool. you can get it going the way i mentioned earlier. in your smb.conf file you need to specify who can read and write to files. get swat going and do the localhost:901 thing. it's my preferred way of setting up samba. right now as guest they can access their own home folder, you have to let them access yours by setting up the permissions for the share (use the share tab in swat).

First: what was the fatal error? Sounds like you did not set up your system (graphics card?) correctly upon install. Second: did you add a regular user to the system on installation? More details on how you installed, what your system is, and the errors you have will be helpful. Finally, welcome to the board. Good luck.

The user lists for samba are not the same as your Linux users. You have to add them separately via the smbpasswd command. The form is, as root: #smbpasswd -a <user>, you will then be asked for a password for your user, and then asked to repeat it. It will then tell you "<user>" has been added" (or whatever the message says). Note <user> is just the user name, i.e. smbpasswd -a joe to add joe. Samba uses its own smbpasswd file to authenticate access. The easiest way to set Samba up is with swat. You may need to install it and in MCC -> System -> Services you will need to check the start on demand (or whatever the box says) for swat. It's pretty clear when you are there. With swat running go to a browser (Konq will do ) enter localhost:901 as your url and you will be taken to the Samba configuration utility. You will be asked for a user, type root and enter root's password. You should then be in business. There is lots of good documentation on Samba. For your purposes you will probably have little to do. Make sure you have the right workgroup entered ( a all too common goof). Hope this helps.

What about using MCC and in the partitioning section of Mount Points unmount and remove the partition, then create a new ext2 an mount it and shred?

First off: have you set up samba users (via smbpasswd -a <user>? What does your smb.conf file look like for the shared section? You will want a read list= and write list = and read only = no, with read list = and write list = with the names of the authorized users.

I see that you mentiond that a number of packages failed to install. That sounds like a bad burn and you may be missing some key packages. Use easy urpmi to set up main and contrib media (you can then remove your dvd from the media) and then in MCC -> Software -> Install (whatever it's called) look to see what Cups packages are available, one of them may be missing. If you have a bad burn and certain packages don't install it's a good idea to note what they are and later install them from the net. You may be missing any number of key packages.

I know that all in one printers, scanners are the rage, but I am very skeptical of them. The real cost in printers is not the printer, but the cartridges. You may not save much in the end getting an all in one and you can probably get better quality going separately. Check various posts here and elsewhere on them also as a numbe of folks have had trouble getting them set up.

Rather than add your 10.0 cd's to your urpmi media list I would recommend that you use easy urpmi to add main and contrib (and obviously your updates), unless you have a very slow connection. A number of packages can't fit on the cd's, but are on main and contrib (at least with 2005). Also have you checked to see if your scanner is supported?

Try Dragonmage's suggestion. If you can't get into the Cups configuration you may have other problems. The user name it wants is root and then root's password. The software you got from Lexmark were those Mandriva rpms for 2005 and the cups 700, what is that? I looked at the Lexmark site, but could not find the 700 rpm and 700 cups files, so I'm not sure what they are or where you got them. More specifics on these would be of help.

Not sure what you mean print "properly." When you set up the printer did you get a good test page printed? The only time I have had Firefox printing problems was with another distro and that had to do with the print command (Firefox uses lpr which the distro didn't recognize). If Firefox prints something, but badly it may be a driver issue. Which Mandriva are you using?

How have you set up the printer on Linux?

sorry scarecrow, you are right. i looked at the wrong model number.

coverup, what you say does make sense about the two versions, but Firefox in each is done with different libraries. Firefox file associations are controlled by gnome, you may want to check in the gnome-control-center.

All seems odd. Your scanner is supported as I checked the Sane site. As scanimage -L comes up with nothing I will assume also that the command sane-find-scanner also comes up with nothing (try as user or root). I wonder if your scanner is functioning properly. If you are dual booting does it come up ok with Windows? I wonder if there is some usb thing going on here. Check all your connections. Also just to be sure make sure you have made all the updates to your system (security, bugfixes, etc), lots of times the drak tools have been buggy on rlease and I just can't remember what 10.0 was like. Also 10.0 is pretty old and you may need a newer Sane package of backends if your scanner is a new model. Oops, as MCC shows your scanner the backend must be there.