aioshin

:D I almost

have you tried your other email, like your yahoo mail... also try to ping that mx1.hotmail.com or try to send an email from your mta thru telnet session just to see if your mta can send using other option

try to install the RPM package of apache that came from you 10.1 cd. it supports both ssl and the normal port 80

use mail only, ifconfig ppp0 | mail -s ipadd test@test.com

u mean, there's no apachectl command, try "#/etc/init.d/httpd start " if u hav'nt tried that yet

well, try to reinstall it, I mean, uninstall it first, then reinstall it, if u have'nt done it b4

try to update your source... ex: #urmpi.update source1

All right.  This probably isn't the absolute correct forum to post this in, but I thought the problem I'm having extended past just security related issues.

 

I've recently installed Mandrake 10.1, and I'm pleased with it except for one thing: I can't get the file permissions to actually work as they should.  A little example.

 

I have a user: devikta

 

I have a group: sysdev

 

I have devikta's groups setup as: devikta, sysdev

 

So ole' devikta is a member of the sysdev group.  On my second partition I created a directory called "store."  So, for store, I do:

 

chown devikta:sysdev store

 

The ls -al reads as such for this directory:

 

drwxrwxr-X     3 devikta sysdev 4096 Mar 19 16:00 store/

   

 

All is wonderful with the world.  Devikta controls the file without a problem.  However, I created a new user 'oinstall' (for an oracle installation) and added him to the sysdev group.  I would think that this would give 'oinstall' rwx permissions on/in the directory. Alas, no.  When I su as 'oinstall' and try to create a directory, I get a nice, fat "Access Denied" error message.

 

Am I just daft? Am I missing something completely?

 

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try to check if oinstall's primary group is sysdev, also try to #chmod g+s -R /in the directory

Gday all,

 

I am using Mandrake 10.1, I am wondering if it is possible to copy the installation CD's to the hard disk after the installation has been completed.

 

Has anyone achieved this? Any tips would be most appreciated.

 

Cheers!

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yes, am doin what you'd like to do, coz I dont have a cdrom in my pc, and it takes a bandwidth to install from ftp or http source, so what i did was, I copied the rpms of those disk1-3, I created a folder name mdkRPMS then created 3 folders named disk1, disk2, disk3, well you can decide what ever name you like, then put in there the corresponding rpm including their hdlist file and add it using drakrpm-edit-media.. anyway, heres my urmpi.cfg when done adding those

# generated Mon Mar 28 11:19:48 2005

{

}

cd3 file://mnt/other02/mandrake10-1rpms/disk3/main3 {

hdlist: hdlist.cd3.cz

synthesis

update

with_hdlist: media_info/synthesis.hdlist.cz

}

cd2 file://mnt/other02/mandrake10-1rpms/disk2 {

hdlist: hdlist.cd2.cz

synthesis

update

with_hdlist: media_info/synthesis.hdlist.cz

}

cd1 file://mnt/other02/mandrake10-1rpms/disk1/main {

hdlist: hdlist.cd1.cz

synthesis

update

with_hdlist: media_info/synthesis.hdlist.cz

}

I included the folder media_info inside the folder that contains the rpms

well, i've been using this since I used 10.1 and it seems fine to me

are you using KDE? if yes, when successfully login, or boot even at the shell, try to rename the .kde folder under you home folder "/home/you/.kde" then reboot, i've tried it in my pc when something strange happened upon loading the desktop, though it solves it, but your desktop will be back to default settings

welcome!

since other than Xmms, your sounds works fine, try to navigate the options - preferences of XMMS, you will find there I/O settings and plug-ins, try to play around on it, change those defaults... hope u'll make it work

well, if you've finished googling and dont find anything that can solve your probs with it, try your printer vendor, you may email them if they can provide or answer your problem about it....

i had problems also with the canon printer we have here at work, I tried googling on it but it says its a kind of win-printer, so the solution I found is the one that i posted previously

But then why is it called Samba server? I thought anyone from any corner of the world can access my computer if I make this as a server. My intention is although primarily to share the files from home to school and vice versa, but also partially out of my curiousity and simple goal of making it as a server and be able to connect to it from any computer.

 

So I guess I had to use the ssh or wsftp which I am using already.

 

Thanks for your elaborate reply,

GoSooner.

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It is a samba server coz it can act like a server, I mean, you are right that you should be able to connect to it from any pc that belong to that network where your samba server belongs..while you dont need to have samba server installed if your goal is to access file to your MS BOX from you linux box, you can just use the konqueror and type smb://ip-of-the-host-pc , if its win98, the shared folder will appear automatically with-out prmpting any username and password, while in windows 2000 or XP, it will prompt a username and password, username that has the rights to access those share folder..

--its a server since windows pc acts as a client, so you can allow multiple simultaneous access into your pc (samba server) from different MSwindows host.. you can specify different folder with different users right in your samba, for security reason, so the same with win2k that you can allow a particular user to acces that certain folder, while other dont have access on it..

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I thought I will also join this discussion. I am also stuck up setting up my samba. My IP address: 129.15.209.213, and the samba port 901. I am using mandrake 10.0, with 2.6 kernel, and have installed samba server just now.

 

1) when I type http://localhost:901, I could see, samba home page, with missing images.

says can't open include/header.html, as well as in the bottom, can't open include/welcome.html.

 

2) When I typed http://129.15.209.213:901, it says "The document contains no Data".

 

3) My objective is to set this home computer on Linux (mandrake), and then access my files from my school where I can operate on Windows only. Also I am not sure whether I can add this home computer to the groups I see on the Network.

 

4) Also the firewall is off, and I chose to allow all users in the samba configure tool.

 

5) And Will I be able to transfer files from my school to this computer at home if I fix this problem, because the whole network (school) is behind the firewall.

 

Thanks for all who take time to read this.

 

GoSooner.

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1. port 901 is used by swat, a samba configuration tool, ports 137, 138, 139, 445 are the ports used by samba so the other pc (supposed to be MS box or it may be linux also) can access to samba shared files

2. You can open port 901 if you have SWAT installed, that's maybe why it just return an error

3. how do you connect your home BOX from your school? if using dial-up from your school pc going to your home pc, your IP add should be in the same network.. if thru internet, please use ssh, or ftp, but do some security measures, remember that samba is supposed to share files with MSbox in your LAN

4. well, its ok to have no firewall as long as you are not exposed to the outside world, I mean, the WWW... if those ports are wide open , it can be exploited

5. if your school's firewall did not intend to block those ports that you will be using for outgoing connection, ftp, ssh.. samba wont work if you connect via internet going to your home, assuming it has an internet connection already.. so you may try to have an ssh server in your home or ftp, but i preferred ssh than ftp... just find an sftp client for windows that support GUI, ftp client, there are lots of it that you can find... again samba wont work if your connection is via internet. unless if your homeś PC is directly connected to your schoolś netwrk.

how would you set it up anyway?, is it that you want to run your printer locally or via network thru an MSbox host? If via network hosted on a box running MS, try this link, it may help .... http://mywebpages.comcast.net/heretrythis/hp3100/psemu.html

hehehe, just got the kde3.4 installed, thanks thac, so far, am not encountered any problem yet...

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now I found one, this is regarding switching DM, when using mdkKDM and XDM, fine, but using KDM. upon loading the splash screen, it will crashed, it says.. ( kdmgreet ) crashed.

anyway, it wont be a problem since i preferred using XDM, but there should be a fix on this one

What if one of the computers is on DHCP? And how can I configure the DNS servers?

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If you mean that the dhcp request will be coming from your pc going to your isp, they should automatically assign your IP with their DNS. but if your the one that assign ip add into your box from your own DHCP server, you should indicate the DNS in your DHCP config file, i think its something like

"option domain-name-servers 123.123.1.1;123.123.1.2" --> sample only

DNS is the DNS of your ISP

hehehe, just got the kde3.4 installed, thanks thac, so far, am not encountered any problem yet...

try to check if when setting your LAN, make sure you've selected the ethernet, manual options, put static ip add, and make sure those ipś are private, ex. pc1 = 192.168.0.1, subnet-mask = 255.255.255.0, pc2 = 192.168.0.2, subnet = same, activate on boot, then, try to ping after assigning those ip. If uĺ be able to ping both pc, assuming that you've check ur firewall not blocking the packets... now you can either activate samba or nfs or ftp for file sharing, or you can use ssh, using kbear sftp capability...

dial-up, use kppp

please tell me where to for example look for help for mandrake 10.1

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you can ask here at MUB, also try to use the search button of the MUB then type keywords you'd like to search, that maybe the problem you encountered with your mdk had been already discussed here... or you can use google, search for mandrake help.. then google will lead you to this MUB again.. :P ... and to other sites that generally discuss any distro., as long as you have a connection to the world, the world will help you.. I mean internet

well, assuming that you fix the kdm or mdkkdb prob.. while xp has a Switch User option. kde now has a New Session option also, just like XP, just press that new session option, and others can login without quiting your active session... and if your a cli user, you can just Ctrl+Alt+F1 orF2 or F3 to login thru cli as a user or root, then Alt F7 to go back to that active GUI session or desktop

are you saying that you've got your sound working before but now, not anymore?, or you have a new mandrake install and since booting on it, though you 've installed flash but having it no sound, have you tried playing music if you can hear some sounds from it?...

configuring your soundcard, if not yet.. try

#alsaconf --------------------done inside your terminal window, as root

try to create a new share name of that drive in your windoze that does not contain those "( "

you mean fc2 is already installed on that disk, so it assumes that the kernel read that disk as hda, and now, what would you like to do? set that disk as the primary disk or make it as the secondary? of that disk that also contain XP and mandrake? well, when i've tried to dualboot an existing disk with other linux OS with Mandrake, though it initiated the boot process, meaning, the HD was detected, but since the orig install set the disk as hda, but when installed as dualboot, it became an hdb since I made it as secondary master, so it just coz a kernel panic. i think there,s a way how to do it properly, but i have not tried it.. just fyi