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  3. Share files over network

    in Networking

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    i am still receiving this error, but i think that it is something from the samba server end, do i have to setup individual samba users on the samba server in order for the win computers to access the shared files? I mean to i have to set the samba server to allow the computers on my network to access my linux files?

  4. Lilo Issue... cannot start comp

    in Hardware

    Posted · Edited by Sherpa

    I have had this error several times before, i remember that it always happened after i shut down the computer. when i went to boot up the computer all i got was a message that said

    L 99 99 99 99 99 99 99....

     

    i guess i am just wondering what causes this error, each time i powered off the computer it was done correctly , there was no power serge, and the computer powered down itself. I also have a American Power Conversion Back-up battery (un interruptable power supply) and serge protector to further protection.

     

    the first time this happened to me was when i was running my Winblows hard drives, and it crashed, and had to be shut off by holding the power button down for 5+ seconds. At that time i was a noobie, and when i switched the boot order in my bios to boot from my linux drive i received this error.

    [At this point i think i should explain a little bit about my hardware configuration on my computer. I have 2 80Gb hard drives that have winblows on them ( they are in raid 0 configuration an my onboard raid card) i have an additional two hard drives on my computer they are both regular ide hard drive configurations. i have a 250 GB hard drive that has a 32 GB partition ( that is of FAT32 format) so i can share files between my linux drive and my Win Hard drive. Then for the other IDE hard drive it is an 80 GB drive that has a 32 GB (FAT32 partition) for the same purpose as the other FAT32 partition (linux storage and sharing to windows), and on the rest of that hard drive i have linux installed. I did this in order to prevent cross contamination between my linux drives and my Winblows (i have to reformat WInblows on a regular basis). So anyway the way i choose between windows and linux is to change the boot order of my devices in the bios settings. If i want to boot to windows, i choose to boot from the Promise raid device, and if i want to boot to linux, i will choose to boot from the 80 GB IDE hard drive. ]

    Now back to the first time i received the lilo error. So i was in windows and it crashed as it usually does and i had to do a hard power off. So i was tired with fooling with windows and i wanted to boot my Mandrake 10 CE hard drive, so i switched to boot order, i saved the bios settings and it restarted, then i noticed that i got this error. Being a noobie i thought that i had fatally destroyed the OS, and i concluded that the only way to fix it was to reformat and reinstall, so that is what i did. To make an even longer story short i reinstalled mandy 10 CE, the OE came out and i reformatted and reinstalled Mandy 10 OE and everything was working fine... Until there was a storm one night. I shut down by computer from mandy ( it shutdown with no problems) then i powered off everything, switched the powersupply switch on the back of the computer off, unplugged it, and shut the backup battery off. ( i am very protective of my computer equipment) The next morning i went to boot up everything when i noticed that Mandy 10 OE had now given me the same error. i tried using the rescue disk to reinstall the bootloader. (i was told to restore the MBR off of this discussion board, but i never figured out how to do that) but then i did some googleing and found that someone had fixed it by resetting their bios settings to default. i did this and sure enough mandy 10 booted up with no problems.

     

    i am just wondering what could have caused this failed boot up on these two occasions??

     

    [moved from Software by spinynorman]

  12. Share files over network

    in Networking

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    i can now got to view all computers in workgroup on the win computer and i can see the samba server, but when i click on it to access the files, windows tells me that i do not have sufficient permissions :wall: stupid windows...... could it be that i have to make the samba server only accessible by password?

  20. Share files over network

    in Networking

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    ok i have 7 other computers in my house and they all use winblows, i want to share files between them and my linuxbox, i think the program i am supposed to use is samba? right? all of my XP computers have NTFS drive partitions, will samba still work?

    objectives:

    1. i want to see files that are being shared on the network by the winblows machines, and be able to copy files from them to my linuxbox

    2. i want to have a folder on my linux box that is shared on the network, and that all of the winblows can see and copy things from

     

    is this even possible and if so (and if samba is the right program), were can i find a good tutorial with step by step instructions?

  23. nForce2 RPM Rebuild Errors

    in Software

    Posted

    well if you are running 2.6.3-7 make sure you have kernel-source 2.6.3-7

    [david@localhost david]$ rpm -qa | grep kernel
kernel-source-2.6.3-13mdk
kernel-i686-up-4GB-2.6.3.7mdk-1-1mdk
kernel-2.6.3.7mdk-1-1mdk
[david@localhost david]$ uname -r
2.6.3-7mdk-i686-up-4GB
[david@localhost david]$

     

    i just check min and noticed that i do not have the proper kernel-source i am using kernel 2.6.3-7mdk-i686-up-4GB but i have kernel-source kernel-source-2.6.3-13mdk so when i go to urpmi and issue the the command "urpmi kernel-source" it is going to tell me everything already installed like so:

    [root@localhost david]# urpmi kernel-source
Everything already installed
[root@localhost david]#

    you have to specify the correct kernel-source

    [root@localhost david]# urpmi kernel-source-2.6.3-7
The following packages have to be removed for others to be upgraded:
kernel-source-2.6.3-13mdk.i586 (in order to install kernel-source-2.6.3-7mdk.i586) (y/N) y

   ftp://mirror.aca.oakland.edu/linux/mandrakelinux/official/10.0/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/kernel-source-2.6.3-7mdk.i586.rpm

     

    then it will finish downloading and installing

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