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OK, I finally got around to setup BIND on my machine and it appears to work as shown by the ethereal capture below, but the server still terminates the session immediately. Now I'm stumped. Any idea? are there any logs where I dig for error messages or indications of why the session was refused? o. Time Source sPort Destination dPort Protocol Info 1 0.000000 172.16.1.11 32896 172.16.1.11 5900 TCP 32896 > 5900 [sYN] Seq=0 Ack=0 Win=32767 Len=0 MSS=16396 TSV=2668778 TSER=0 WS=0 2 0.000031 172.16.1.11 5900 172.16.1.11 32896 TCP 5900 > 32896 [sYN, ACK] Seq=0 Ack=1 Win=32767 Len=0 MSS=16396 TSV=2668778 TSER=2668778 WS=0 3 0.000050 172.16.1.11 32896 172.16.1.11 5900 TCP 32896 > 5900 [ACK] Seq=1 Ack=1 Win=32767 Len=0 TSV=2668778 TSER=2668778 4 0.001660 172.16.1.11 32799 172.16.1.11 domain DNS Standard query PTR 11.1.16.172.in-addr.arpa 5 0.010937 172.16.1.11 domain 172.16.1.11 32799 DNS Standard query response PTR Mandrake.mycat.is-a-geek.com 6 0.029341 172.16.1.11 5900 172.16.1.11 32896 TCP 5900 > 32896 [FIN, ACK] Seq=1 Ack=1 Win=32767 Len=0 TSV=2668808 TSER=2668778 7 0.030285 172.16.1.11 32896 172.16.1.11 5900 TCP 32896 > 5900 [ACK] Seq=1 Ack=2 Win=32767 Len=0 TSV=2668809 TSER=2668808 8 2.484098 172.16.1.11 32896 172.16.1.11 5900 TCP 32896 > 5900 [FIN, ACK] Seq=1 Ack=2 Win=32767 Len=0 TSV=2671263 TSER=2668808 9 2.484142 172.16.1.11 5900 172.16.1.11 32896 TCP 5900 > 32896 [ACK] Seq=2 Ack=2 Win=32767 Len=0 TSV=2671263 TSER=2671263

Most games nowadays are designed to work through a firewall, only if you want to host a game (run a server, dedicated or not) will you generally have to mess with the firewall. So try it first, you might be happily surprised. If a game doesn't work, the first thing to do is to find the ports that need to be open for that particular game. The readme, support page or firums will generally provide that information. Port usually include a protocol (UDP or TCP) and a port number or a port range. How you actually open a port on your router depends on the router, you should at least post the brand/model number if you want any help with that, read the manual first. Note that some routers do not let you enable any port but have a list of "precanned" ports that you choose from a drop down list. If that's the case and they don;t have the ports you want, check for a firmware upgrade for the router that might offer more ports, or buy another router (that;s why its better to research those things before you buy).

VMware is great but it doesn't support DirectX, so no games. What games are you trying to run? did you look at cedega? (mixed bag there too, so check compatibility. I gave cedega a try and gave up on it.) Since you need a valid windows license in VMware you might as well do a dual boot system and install windows on the "real" computer rather than a virtual one in VMware. Or do what I do and have an entorely separate machine for gaming under windows.

Thanks, I'll give that a try. I think right clicking on the menu simply launches menudrake as a user instead of launching it as root as when you use the control center. You'd think the Mandrake would get this right, I thought it was supposed to be one of the best desktop distros?

Found this (minimal) review: http://spidertools.com/man101_review.php This is not getting on my machine for now! some of the reasons from that review (the firewire issue being a major pain): Firewire Detection Will Change Networking: If you have firewire on the computer Mandrake 10.1 will by default make this eth0. Please note if you are doing an upgrade this feature will screw up your whole network configuration! What a happy thought. It will also destroy your firewall configuration as you must choose which ethernet card is the outside source and so if you have firewire it will changes this all around. Mandrake's recommendation if you are updating from a previous version is to delete your whole network configuration and rebuild it. This is sure to make some users very unhappy. Wait! Quit releasing versions that freeze up, have bugs and things don't work. Mandrake Control Center had to be restarted several times because it just stopped working. It did work in the end but it is very frustrating The Menu Mandrake boasts having over 1800 packages for this distribution. Why when I open my menu do I only see 40. Yeah, I know you can add programs but if you add them all you do not see them on the Menu Mandrake has taken a lot of heat over releasing distributions full of bugs, just check the message boards. Unfortunately, I found a number of bugs that would be show stoppers for a business to use Mandrake 10.1, like problems with Control Center.

Any idea? anyone? editing the "system menu" in menudrake (as root) or editing the menu by right clicking on the star to open the menu editor (as a user) doesnt' work: the menu entries I deleted in the menu editor are still in the menus, even after I click "Save" and exit the editor. There are also entries that I see in the menu editor butnot in the menu, like under "remote access" I have "Remote DEsktop Connection" and "TighVNC" but in the menu editor I also see a "desktop sharing" entry. What is going on? Is there a way to "rebuild" the menus?

what he said, rename it to start with and see if "starting over" helps

I tried the suggested line for KT266 "setpci -H1 -s 0:0.0 92=EB >/dev/null 2>&1" on my KT266A based board and didn't see any difference (XP2100+ Throughbred OC'd to 2700+ idles around 45C either way) Do I need to do this as root? (can't remember if I was root or not but didn't get an error message). Where do the original lines come from so that I can see if it should be different on a KT266A (which runs at 333MHz) Even though I don't have a cooling problem, I'd rather have the machien idle lower since it's on 24/7 but idle a lot of the time and under light load most of the rest of the time. Thanks EDIT: I downloaded the latest athcools (0.3.8) and after installing pciutils-dev I was able to build it. It must be doing more than the single line above because it has some effect and the temperature dropped by about 10C when idle, nice!. Too early to tell stability-wise, but sound seems OK, at leat in UT2004. I copied the script posted above to /etc/rc.d/init.d then did a chkconfig --add athcool to create the simlinks automatically...

I also find out that if you right click on the mandrake "star" it gives you an option to edit this menu, but it doesn't require you to log in as root like accessing menudrake does, does that mean that there is a 3rd level of menu? EDIT: no that it solves my probelm, I edited the menu, saved it (it told me it was updating), but the unwanted entries are still there!

Since when do things under Linux work "no questions asked"? If they work today, they'll probably be broken with the next upgrade or the next kernel version! Sorry, bad mood, mdk is pissing me off today and I've gotta vent.

OK, this is what really annoys me about the different ways of installing software in Mandrake: I installed gtk-gnutella 0.93 but can't remember how, probably an rpm but maybe some other way. Today I install version 0.94 with from mandrakeclub.nl --> I now have 2 entries in my menu, one for gtk-gnutella, one for Gtk-gnutella I installed bittorrent doing urpmi bittorrent, but then I couldn't download some files because the version urpmi had installed wa outdated, so I installed another more up to date version from somewhere (I think it was rpm but not certain) --> I now have an entry in my menu called "File transfer" with an icon and a number of apps under it. I also have a menu entry called "File Transfer" with an icon that looks like a folder had has bittorent entries in it. Fine, I guess there is no consistency in spelling between people building the rpms, so I figured I'd change the menus myself. First of all it looks like you can't just drag and drop menu items arounf the menu, that would be too convenient! So I fire up the MDC, select menus, and I'm asked which menu system or root I want to edit. What the heck is the difference? I can't seem to see any difference. Oh, did I mention that Gtk-gnutella entry doesn't seem to be in either? So I move the bittorrent entries to the File transfer entry (at least drag and drop appears to be working form inside the menu editor), save, exit.... .... and the menu hasn't changed. So I need to log out of KDE to make the changes happen? I don't want to, I'm downloading something at the moment. Is this a root vs system menu issue? Can someone point me to a good tutorial of menus under msk 10 / KDE? (it seems that it's not the same as saying "menus under KDE" because somewhere it warned me htat maybe I wouldn't be able to find all my apps in the menu if I changed it to KDE style). Linux has a way to go still if it want to make it as a user friendly desktop environment.

if those pictures are mostly scans of typed text documents, you might want to look for OCR (Optical Character Recognition) software to turn them into text (generally designed to work with a scanner but it might still work with existing pictures) and compare that. Again this probably wouldn't work if you have say thousands of customer agreements where only the customer name and date changes, because the documents would still be 98% identical. Sounds like a fun challenge, let us know if you find a solution, even a partial one.

After playing DOOM3 I'd like to replay the old DOOM (1 & 2) and I was hoping to do so on linux, but there seems to be a number of ports. Which one is "best" Any mdk prms out there? (is the doomsday rpm on mandrakeclub.nl a doom port?) Thanks

I like what I see. Make sure to keep to stable/reliable versions though so that users know that there is a good chance that things will work properly on their machine,

try "uname -r" to check out if you really are running kernel 2.6.3-7mdk, sounds like your sources don't match your kernel? try recompiling and press ENTER at every prompt to accept the default. Worked fine for me with kernel 2.6.3-16mdk

Fire up knoppix and see what it's using? (not certain how you do it, dmesg or lsmod I guess). Could be some configuration issue too.

that'w one way to do it, ther are probably 3646753223457598 other ways to do it. Welcome to Perl :P

LOL, what a concept, get them off the manufacturer's web site! It's sad that this is too often not the case.

start by doing /sbin/ifconfig and post the results here. maybe also do dmesg | grep eth and post the results.

Of course you may not want to use VNC at all, just do stuff through the command line over SSH (on windows use the PuTTY client) and already built in web interfaces like webmin (port 10000), etc... Those should let you take care of 100% of the server without ever starting X Your server will then have more resources to do the server thing rahter than waste them on a GUI environment that isn't going to be used.

in your KDE config panel (the KDE one, not the mdk one) select the networking section, there should be a "desktop sharing" (or "remote desktop", or some name like that, not at my machine at the moment). If there isn't, do urpmi kdenetwork, and this should install the required componets (you may have to restart KDE?) in the desktop sharing page you set it up for "don't confirm invitation locally", set your password, "allow controlling this machine", etc... (again this is done from memory so it may not be 100% exact) EDIT: more detail in the KDE manual here: http://docs.kde.org/en/3.2/kdenetwork/krfb/using-krfb.html now you should be able to connect to it using any VNCclient. If you're doing it over an untrusted netowrk, use SSH to tunnel and encrypt the data. FYI, this doesn't always seem to work, so you may have to go to plan B: Plan B: urpmi x0rfbserver now whenever you need to connect to your machine, SSH into it and type "DISPLAY=0: x0rfbserver" then you should be able to use the VNC client. (or just add x0rfbserver to your .kde/Autostart file, the equivalent of the "Startup" folder in windows" x0rfbserver is an older version of the server and is slower but over a LAN it's not bad . Plan C: the vncserver in linux doesn't behave like under windows, you see a brand new KDE/Gnome/whatever session and don't see anything already started on your desktop. If that's what you want just put vncserver in your .kde/Autostart file with the proper command line options to accept connection automatically, etc... (man vncserver).

You should look at more lightweight solutions (fluxbox?) that computer will be slugish both with KDE and Gnome (KDE has been very slighty faster for me but some will claim the contrary).

yeah, by default firefox installs in a subdirectory of where you unzipped the installer. You can move that directory somewhere else, but still in your user directory, like /home/<username>/firefox. All you settings are saved in a hidden folder (I think it's ~/.mozilla/.firefox but not sure) If you have mutliple users using it the machine and you'd rather have a single installation of mozilla, install it as root wherever you want, and users will be able to use it but may not be able to install plugins and whatnots because they won;t have all the access rights needed. As far as creating an icon for it, you can do that by right clicking on your desktop and select new link to an application. If you want an icon in the menu use the menu applet in the mandrake control panel. Ther eis an rpm for firefox 0.9.3 I think (search these forums, I think it was orginally posted by mousemat but not sure), I don;t know if it does more than the manual install. search on this forum some more for "firefox install", the question has been asked a few times already.

That's weird: I made the change above and manually commented out the check for /proc/sys/dev/sensors in my /etc/rc.d/init.d/lm_sensors file, so now if I run it manually: /etc/rc.d/init.d/lm_sensors start it works just fine but it doesn't get executed automatically at reboot. Do I need to do something to cause /etc/rc.d/init.d/lm_sensors to be executed at boot? I though the kernel automagically cycled through all the scripts in that directory, but obviously I'm missing something. EDIT: OK, after doing a little bit of research about the startup process in Mandrake, I thought I needed to go to /etc/rc.d/rc3.d/ and add: ln -s ../init.d/lm_sensors S99lm_sensors which if I'm not mistaken will cause the /etc/rc.d/init.d/lm_sensors script with a start argument at the end of the initialization of run level 3, but it doesn't seem to be working? EDIT AGAIN: I removed the link above since it didn't seem to be working, then went to /etc/rc.d/init.d and typed "chkconfig --add lm_sensors". which added symlinks similar to what I tried to do manually above, execpt that it seems to work properly at boot?!?!?!?! I guess this problem is solved but still not sure why creating the link in rc3.d menaully didn;t work.

This is in follow up to this thread: http://mandrakeusers.org/index.php?showtopic=17185 I finally figured out a sensor module that will work for my motherboard and give me my temperatues, but I can't seem to make it it "stick" accross reboots. If I do (as root) sensors-detect, followed by a manually: modprobe i2c-viapro modprobe i2c-isa modprobe w83781d sensors -s sensors I can see the proper temperature after a reboot, it if I type "sensors" I get the following message: Can't access procfs/sysfs file Unable to find i2c bus information; For 2.6 kernels, make sure you have mounted sysfs and done 'modprobe i2c_sensor'! For older kernels, make sure you have done 'modprobe i2c-proc'! if I type "modprobe i2c_sensor" followed by all the modprobes shown above, I again get the proper temperature, so it means that I need to do modprobe i2c_sensors at startup. So I looked at /etc/rc.d/init.d/lm_sensors and the first useful line of the script is: [ -e /proc/sys/dev/sensors ] || /sbin/modprobe i2c-proc &>/dev/null this looks to me that it's a kernel 2.4 line and that for 2.6 I need to replace it with [ -e /proc/sys/dev/sensors ] || /sbin/modprobe i2c_sensor &>/dev/null The next line in the script is: [ -e /proc/sys/dev/sensors ] || exit 0 and I checked manually after doing "modprobe i2c_sensor" and there is no /proc/sys/dev/sensors directory. Is this normal? do 2.6 kernels work differently? even the directory isn't there I can still get temperature readins when I modprobe modules manually. Should I simply comment outthis line from the script? Am I going off totally on the wormg track? Thanks