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looks like this has something to do with the firewall, but i cannot find what other ports i am supposed to let pass through, 631Tcp&udp for LPD 500 something TCP&UDP for IPP then i think 9100TCP i have a linksys wireless g usb 2 print server, i looked in the manual and there is no mention of needing to let any ports pass though a firewall...

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yes, i did try that and it did not work.... i then tried downloading a GUI front end for switchdesk called: switchdesk, and according to it i had my default set as kde, but whenever i started up, i still had to select KDE, but now it works fine since i made that switch

ah, well then, i understand, all the more reason though the root should be able to do whatever they want....

I understand the obvious security issues with running as root, rm -rf / , namely.... but you can still damage your system seriously as a regular user su to root.... i dont see how it is any diff. if you su, then you are root.... i remember my only major flaw that i made as an su user.... i was trying to remove a file from my home dir, so i did rm -rf /home but then neglected to finish it and accedently hit enter.... oh the deep sinking feeling that occured after i lost all of my data, but none the less i was just an su 'ed user....

im planing on doing this to but i will be using a linksys wireless VPN router... hope it works too. ( its just another option)

I am able to ping the ip addresses of the two devices and it returns 0% packet loss, so it is on the network, i am just not able to go to the page..... i want to be able to use this linksys print server, i have this set up in mandrake and everything works fine....

cybr... how did you get the terminal green on black and transparent black? EDIT NM i got it

Finally fixed it!!!!! :D i hacked my gdm.conf file to say DefaultSession=kde.desktop then i made a sym link from /usr/share/xsessions/kde.desktop to /usr/share/gdm/BuiltInSessions/ finally it worked!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have a linksys wireless print server, its local ip address is 192.168.1.111, i am connected to my network wirelessly from fc3 and i am able to get to the router's web based utility (192.168.1.1). but i am not able to connect to the web based utility of the wireless print server through my FC3 box... i can do it from a windows laptop that i have but not through the FC3 box any ideas? [moved from Networking by spinynorman]

now when i test the default log in, it tells me that GNOME is not installed and that it is switching to a fail safe terminal.... Why did they not just leave the little "set this as default session type" check box? The Default is now KDE and when i select default from the sessions menue, KDE comes up, but now the problem is that the system is not automatically loading the default session.... ERRRRRRR

DefaultSession=default.desktop this is what i found in the /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf file so i went looking for that file and it is in file:/usr/share/gdm/BuiltInSessions/ now the thing is, is that it is some type a script file... [Desktop Entry] Encoding=UTF-8 # The names/descriptions should really be better Name=Default System Session Name[af]=Verstekstelselsessie Name[ar]=جلسة النظام الافتراضية Name[az]=Ön Qurğulu Sistem İclası Name[be]=Дапомная сыстэмная сэсыя Name[bg]=Системна сесия по подразбиране .... Comment[vi]=Đây là phiên làm việc hệ thống mặc định Comment[wa]=Çouci est li prémetowe session do sistinme, po s' elodjî tot-z eployant li lingaedje defini dins les prémetowès valixhances do sistinme Comment[zh_CN]=系统默认的会话 Comment[zh_TW]=使用系統預設的作業階段 Exec=default # The "default" Exec is a very special one and is handled specially in # the Xsession script, you could also have "custom" which would just run # "~/.xsession" directly Icon= Type=Application that is what it looks like mostly i cut alot of it out... but i dont see that it has anything to do with what WM is default... for right now i am going to switch the value to kde and see how it goes...

it init 5 by default and goes to gdm ( i think that is what it is called) i have seen some things suggested about switching this thing to kdm....

I want to switch my defaut window manager to kde however i have not been able to. On the suggestion of cybrjackle i have tried to run the command switchdesk kde, as both my user and root, neither switched the default manager to kde. secondly i edited the file /etc/sysconfig/desktop to say DESKTOP="KDE" instead of DESKTOP="GNOME", yet i still have the problem.... right now the default windows manager is a WM called "Default windows manager" or so i think... please help!

xine is amazing

i think that i am just going to download the isos, hopefully i will not have the same problem with corrupted mirrors as i did with Fedora Core 3

I need a good media (video) player. im looking for one that can handle Windows media files, real media files, quicktime, etc... any suggestions? Im using FC3

do i have to comment out crap?

ok i copied that but now how do i make sure that i dont mix fedora and livinia?

well repos also i just need something besides default i dont know how to use yum btw (not very well atleast)

please post your yum.conf file for fc3

can i update my mandy 10 oe through urpmi by just switching my soureces and then doing a urpmi --auto --auto-select, or should i just download the latest isos and then do the update from there>?

worked great, everything is fine now.... i just had a copy of mandy move lying around.... vola!!! Marked the thread Solved - Artificial Intelligence

should i get a cd version of linux and go into the mandy / partition and edit the fstab file to disclude hda1 and hda2 ?

no this is bad, the darnd thing doesnt even get to the point where i can do an interactive setup this happens when it is checking the filesystems