axel_2078

I just installed the firefox browser and the thundermail client (or at least thought I did) but I can't find the links to open them anywhere. THey aren't listed in any of my menus. I went to the download site, clicked on the link, did "open file" and then when all of the files came up, I clicked on the first file in the list, which appeard to be the installer file. It took me through the graphical install of both programs and opened them up when finished. However, after closing them out, I can not figure out how to reopen them. What am I doing wrong?

I was looking at the Thunderbird email client and it looks pretty cool. I might try that one out.

What do the 0-6 numbers represent?

Does Mandrake's built-in firewall notify you of intrusion attempts? If not, how would you know if someone was scanning your box or trying to get in? What are you guys using?

Ok, now...which email client do you guys use and why?

The clock in the system tray on my Mandrake box at home reflects the right time, but the emails sent from the box don't. My wife just sent me a couple emails from home and the sent time was one hour ago. I was talking to her on the phone when she sent them, so I know they didn't arrive an hour late. What's the deal?

OK so the way I get this is your computer has 2 Nics. One for your internet connection and one for your local Lan. Correct?

 

And you have no firewall running??

 

As for finding the linux box. via windows explorer try this:

 

Open Explorer

click on "My Network Places"

click on "Entire Network"

RIGHT CLICK on "Microsoft Windows Network"

select  "explore"

new window should open with listed workgroups.

 

If you are shareing a connection via one box I highly advise you get a firewall up. I almost sounds like you are shareing your folders with the world....

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If you're behind a router or switch, why would you need to turn on internet connection sharing? I have 3 computers networked together and never did any special configurations to them. They all had access from the time I plugged them into my router.

In one of the FAQs, it tells you how to configure SAMBA networking with Windows and how to give your Linux machine a workgroup, to help network it with windows.

I want to install Mandrake 10.0 on my laptop and my graphics card is ATI Mobility Radeon 9000. I was just wondering what the chances were of Mandrake recognizing the card and installing the driver. I guess my question is, does Mandrake have good support for ATI cards?

Configure the firewall in mcc and shorewall will be installed and configured. Very easy, and all that is needed for basic setups.

I remember during the configuration of the firewall that you couldn't turn it on unless some things like ftp, http, dns, etc servers were checked. What I'm not sure about is, is it asking if you will be connecting to those types of servers, or acting as one of those types of servers? I didn't check any of them and thus my firewall is not activated because I didn't understand it.

Also, is the firewall easy to configure? I have two other computers on my network and I need to share files between them.

Oh, ok. I understand now. I've used Knoppix before. It came with a Linux book of mine. It's pretty cool. I'm going to download Mandrake Move when I get home so I can try it out and see how it compares.

Ok, then what is the difference between this LiveCD and Mandrake Move?

Ok, how secure is Mandrake 10.0 straight out of the box? I am behind a home router, but don't have any kind of software firewall. Do I need one? Is it a good idea, or completely unnecessary?

Question, how would you reinstall your video driver if you didn't know where to find it? For example, when I installed Mandrake, it found a driver for my NVidia graphics card. If I installed some updates that wrote over the graphics driver, requiring it to be reinstalled, how would I do that? I don't know where to get the linux driver for my NVidia card.

Doesn't anyone use it? How do you guys update your security stuff?

Does firefox come with Mandrake 10.0? I didn't see it in the browsers menu. If not, where can I get it?

Which browser and email client do you guys use and why?

Good question. What is this LiveCD that I hear people asking about? What is it and what does it do?

How do you change your homepage? I am currently using Konqueror and I would like to know how I can change the homepage to something I want, instead of seeing the "Welcome to Mandrake Linux" page each time I open the browser.

Ok, my next question would be...why install Mandrake Linux on your hard drive at all if you can just use Mandrake Move?

Does anyone here ever use Mandrake Move? What are the benefits to it?

I'm currently using Konqueror as my browser. Is it possible to get a search bar for that one? I think Mozilla comes with 10.0, but I've never heard of FireFox or Opera. Which one works the best?

Does anyone here use Mandrake online for updates, patches, etc? If so, is it worth the price?

Why is there a Linux Google web site? How is it any different from the regular Google website? Also, is it possible to put a search engine in my web browser because I'm tired of going to google.com to search for something.

I'll try it as soon as I get home. Thanks!