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hi did you really intended to comment this one line below coz in order for your not to include a trailing / that should be uncommented :D

erk.. default install has these open ports.. wow, when opening the services settings... so many services are running.. I really have to read more about its docu... . . ok, not only am lost because its gnome... but because its not linux.. its solaris :huh:

hmmn.. Im using it now.. but a little lost.. coz its gnome by default... :D

maybe it been set-up to use DHCP but since there is no DHCP server available, so it failed.. try to open a konsole.. login as root by su then root password then type MCC (mandy control center) then from there you can configure network interface... (im on suse right now so I can't walk you thru) might be that its not been set to start at boot.. same process above... . im not sure about the modem, what kind of modem is that anyway.. dsl? try at MCC then hardware...

jlc, are the commands and directory structure of nexenta and the pure Solaris OS the same or there is a slight difference.. or this nexenta is just like linux, but just uses different kernel.. ? Im asking coz, I might encounter a pure solaris system which I have'nt yet as presently...

you mean you open menudrake - menu style - then select all applications menu - then save.. wait a minute then after it finished the work... check your kmenu... nothing happened?

try to install cups-drivers package if not yet...

have you installed php packages.. ?

Newly installed Mepis 6... but duunno how long I'll be going to use it :D......link

try to open KMIX, (Multimedia-sounds-kmix) then try to do some changes on settings there...

the resetting of that permission was due to MSEC, msec runs a cron job that change thus world writable files back to its default, so to ovecome that, you may try to change some settings there.. you can lunch as root in your console draksec and change something there..

you can also create a file under /etc/cron.d/ .. say /etc/cron.d/rsync_main then with the entries like below 01 20 * * * ian /usr/bin/rsync -rv rsync://anorien.csc.warwick.ac.uk/Mandriva/official/2006.0/i586/media/main/* /home/ftp/pub/mirrors/ mandriva/official/2006.0/i586/media/main/ so that would run 8:01 pm daily as been set and executed by user ian.. and that is only a plain file, you dont need to make that executable, but should be created by root.

ps ax | grep application_name

another suggestion: you can also avail some free dns service like no-ip or dyndns and only allow the free domain name you've choosed to connect to your remote server, especially when you are connecting from a dsl with a dynamic IP address. That is if you trust thus free dns provider. Because its hard to specify the IP allowed on webmin accessList if, as been said, have a dynamic ip add.

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are you sure their not hidden files? those files that contains with . <dot> as the first filename character

there is another list from redhat http://www.in.redhat.com/AppComparisonList.php3 but a little bit outdated I think

if you're looking for stability, then maybe just dont upgrade. but if you want to try the latest. then do it.. . the only difference I feel between 342 and 353 is that on 353 (or beginning 352) you have the option to lock the icons on your desktop and on your task bar so it will not move when accidentally drag it.. which is not on 342. . I have 352 on my OpenSuse box and so far no annoying problem encountered yet.. but that's OPenSuse, not Mandriva.. . personally, I dont have plans to upgrade to 353 on my Mandy 2006 which is currently used by several people here at work...

known host as far as I encountered will be created only on linux where you access from.. so if you ssh from that LE 2005, it will create ~/.ssh/known_hosts... listing the ip of the machine you are accesing into.. if you want to generate RSA keys.. for the user.. try the command "ssh-keygen"

is'nt it that mandriva or other linuxes uses the swap only if there is not enough available RAM to use...? then why should swap need to turn off when you only have a 196 MB of RAM... maybe if you have a 512 or 1Gig of RAM, then you dont really need swap in your Desktop ( but not on all situation IMO)

actually, you dont need to rebuild that firefox or thunderbird you've downloaded. the file firefox-1.5.0.4-2.tar.gz is a compiled version, you just have to uncompressed it and put it on a folder that allows it to run. If you want all users to be able to run it, uncompressed it and put it inside /usr/local and if you want it to be accesible only by you.. you can uncompressed it under your users home folder... tar xzvf firefox-1.5.0.4-2.tar.gz the above will uncompressed the said file on a folder named firefox. On my box, I moved the folder firefox inside /usr/local/, so it will become /usr/local/firefox . inside the firefox folder, there is a file named firefox, the script that will let you run the browser, if your inside the firefox folder, you just do sh firefox and it will run firefox 1.5.04 browser.... if you already have a previous mozilla-firefox profile inside your home directory, it will read the users profile from it. . fo you not to always go inside that directory and run sh firefox... you can create a symlink of that file under /usr/local/bin/ , by doin these, all users can just type firefox on their konsole or run the command firefox and it will lunch firefox browser cd /usr/local/bin/ ln -s /usr/local/firefox/firefox or you can click start menu - run command - then type firefox and enter.. it will lunch firefox browser... . as with thunderbird, do the same procedure... btw, if you cant run firefox after doin the above procedure.. try to install compat-libstdc++ via urpmi then try to run again firefox . and if still you need more info about installing firefox or thunderbird.. you can use the search tool of this board and search with the keyword firefox... there are already lots of thread created about the subject

Aoishin, I am having trouble getting Autofs to mount a windows share. I'm contemplating make-ing the source and trying again. Do you know how the mandrake auto.smb script works? Have you made and windows file system shares (smbfs) with automount? yes, I managed to mount windows shares via autofs... on demand . I'm not using the default script, so I create my own auto.smb file.. say, I named it /etc/auto.smb2 and below are the entry: #/etc/auto.smb2 windows_share -fstype=smbfs,username=userxp,password=mypassword,uid=500,gid=500,dmask=775,fmask =664 ://192.168.1.1/shared_drive and heres the entry on my /etc/auto.master file #/etc/auto.master /mnt/smb /etc/auto.smb2 -t=10 details on /etc/auto.smb2: - 192.168.1.1 - ip of windows pc that has a shared folder named shared_drive - username=userxp / password=mypassword - the user with its password on xp box that has access on the shared folder named shared_drive - uid and gid belongs to my user on my linux box - dmask and fmask means that I have full access on that drive, as long as that userxp also has full access on it windows_share - the name of the folder were the shared_drive will be mounted on my linux box under the details of auto.master file .. details of auto.master file: /mnt/smb - so I created manually a folder under /mnt named smb (#mkdir /mnt/smb) -t = 10 - 10 secods later, it will auto unmount itself when not being accessed. . . ok, after setting those above, you have to make sure that automount has been running... or make sure it run as a service.. "#chkconfig autofs on" will make it run as the ssytem boot, "/etc/init.d/autofs reload" will re-read the autofs config changes. . so after starting and reloading autofs, I am now able or should be able to access that defined windows shared folder. . as a user who owned the mentioned uid above, if I do 'ls /mnt/smb/windows_share' on my konsole, it should automatically list all the files and sub folders of that shared drive, under the specified path... . so just try the way how I'm doin it... and welcome @ MUB! :D

to really check if firewall causes that problem.. try to clear your iptables just for checking, as root.. . #iptables -F . it will leave iptables empty and accepts everything, then ping loopback again..

yes, you are correct, you can use crossover cable for that.. you just have to assign then an ip address on both box for them to see... . then try to disable firewall on both so nothing will be block . then about tranfering of files, you need to enable file sharing on any of the machine..

try rsync -auv --delete source destination archive update verbose delete that works on mine