flightcrank

so waht am i doing wrong, its in the home directory ?? and it wont install. heaps of people have this theme so y wont it install

yeah i see your problem, every time u reboot you have to re-mount. i have the same problem,

there must be another way. if i find out ill post here. if any one else knows please post here also :)

hay i have trouble installing borealis i get this message

[root@MyLinuxBox Borealis]# sh install.sh

The Borealis superkaramba theme v.2.0 by Ivica Ico Bukvic
ico@fuse.net
http://meowing.ccm.uc.edu/~ico/

This script needs to be run from the install folder. Exiting...
[root@MyLinuxBox Borealis]#

but there is no install folder just the install.sh file. is this a mandeake 10 problem.

borealis look cool so if any know how to fix this problem that would be good thanks

im not behind a router !!! my linux box is my router hence why i need to turn on internet connection sharing, do you uderstand now

you can map from consloe however i dont know how, and its a pain unless u know what your doing,

but smb4k mounts the drives so you dont need to do it from colsole, it saves them in your home directory under "username"/smb4k/"computername"/"share"

username is your login name

computer name is the networked computer

share is the folder/ drive that is shared, and it saves them there so if u reboot it shouldl still be there, u just have to mount it in smb4k

thanks kmc7 that worked ;)

but how can u have all ports blocked ? how are u supposed to acess the world wide web, or set up a ftp server ect

seems like a simple problem to fix, because i had the same problem with my eth1 (LAN) network card after i stuffed up the settings :P

basicly what happend was, it was working fine untill i messed with my settings and it came up with that failed message, but it previously worked so i knew i could get it working again,

basicly all i did was go into the mandrake controll center go to "network and internet settings" click on "new conection" click on "LAN connetion" (in your case ADSL or CABLE connection) and make sure its eth0 and basicly follow the prompts.

after that i rebooted, and while mandrake was booting i pressed "ESC" for verbose mode and my lan card showed up as [ OK ] insted of failed.

to make sure all was good i typed in the console as root

 network service restart

and it basicle dose what it says and restarts your network and shows all your netowrk card and will either show them as [ OK ] or [FAILED] and mine were after all that ok. and my network was all good again. (it was my own fault for stuffing it up :P)

note im also new to linux so there could be 1000 other problems as to why yout getting a failed message (drivers ect)

also make sure all you actual hardware its actuall all pluged in correctly, in wondows if one cable works its self loose the network icon on the taskbar next to the clock will have a red X telling you its not conected. linux dosnt have that. so the [FAILED] message could represent the same thing, so double check all your conections fiirst before u do anything.

hope this helps,

unfortunately i my self have only been using mandrake for the past 2 weeks and it is my first experience using a operating system other than Windows.

so i can offer little help other than posting what has worked for me. these formus are unfortunately a little slow so hopefully this will bump your thread up and a linux guru may offer better help. I'm confident it cane be done !! so, hang in there.

you seem to have a innovative setup so once your get it working which I'm sure u will be sure to post how it was done so others can benefit. (because i want to try it ! )

good luck !

ok now got got me all worried ;(

to all the linux guru's what ports should and shouldnt we have open,closed,or blocked ?

what do u mean, whats the diffrence between closed and blocked

oh u do have 2 network cards, im a idiot :P

yeah do what i did a few threds down down, im a linux noob and it worked for me and it seems we have a similer setup. just remember u need 2 network cards one for internet(eth0) and one to share it with the rest of your lan (eth1)

ok cool, so in terms of the actual operating system there the same.

i downloaded it but ,id be willing to buy mandrake i didnt think i would use it as much as windows...but now i cant go back to winXP. i like linux better :D

hi,

reading through this forum i notice that some people say that they bought or payed for there version of mandrake.

i downloaded mine for free from my internet service provider.

the question is, what is the diffrent between the downloaded version and the payed for version.

thank you so much, it worked :D

when ever i click on the konquror web browser icon it always starts up on this page

file:/usr/share/doc/HTML/index.html

i set the home page to www.google.com under settings/configure konquror so when i click home it goes to google, how ever it dose go there by default when i click on the short cut on my task bar.

so the question is how do i alwas make it defaut to google ?

Yeah its out of date there is no "drack Connect" in the mandrake control center under network and internet in version 10 of mandrake

now what i would like to know is why typeing in that code works so well while the wizard dose not ????

i mean mandrake is at verson 10 now, you would think they would have got it right by now.

so why doses this code work so well ?. if any one here is good at linux and has a bit of spare time can u tell me line by line what each peice of code dose exatly? or point me to a reasource which may help

i want to learn,

thanks

hello all, no need to respond i have it working now

here is EXACLTLY what i did to get it working for anyone who cares, u all know my coputer congiuration so if any one with the same harware setup is having troubles this may help

Edit the file /etc/sysctl.conf and on the line net.ipv4.ip_forward = 0, change 0 to 1.

# Controls IP packet forwarding
net.ipv4.ip_forward = 1

In order for the changes to take effect,

at the command line, type: service network restart

Now you need to setup IP forwarding and Masquerading.

First, you need to flush the old rules.

So open a console window and at the command line, type:

service iptables stop
service iptables save

The following commands will create new rules for your system.

iptables -P INPUT ACCEPT
iptables -P OUTPUT ACCEPT
iptables -P FORWARD DROP

iptables -A FORWARD -i eth0 -o eth1 -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT
iptables -A FORWARD -i eth1 -o eth0 -j ACCEPT

iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth0 -j MASQUERADE

NOTE: In this case, eth0 connects to the internet and eth1 connects to the local network.

You may need to switch eth0 and eth1.

The ifconfig command will give you more information.

To save iptables modifications, at the command line, type: service iptables save.

IPtable rules are located in the /etc/sysconfig/iptables file.

Don't forget to start iptables: service iptables start

here is some additional info

when i type "route -n" in the console in linux this is what i get

ok i want to know how to use mandrake to share my internet connection. sounds simple..........ITS NOT

well not for a windows user anyway. but i want to learn

heres my set up

my linix box is connected to the internet on eth0, which is my CABLE internet connection and has a DYNAMIC IP(one which changes all the time)

i have a second network card which is eth1, it has the ip 192.168.0.1

my second computer in rinning windows XP with the ip adress 192.168.0.2

so computer 2 is set up pefectly with the gateway set to 192.168.0.1 which has been tested and works (using winXP as the ICS host on my server computer which now obivously has mandrake linux on it)

with wndows XP all u do is share your internet connection on your first network card, and set your second network card with a static ip of 192.168.0.1 and.........THATS IT it works fine, mandrake is supposed to be userfriendly..(not when it comes to networking i guess)

i also want to disable all the stuff that mandrake runs lke squid and just run the internct connection sharing.

also please dont tell me to go to here http://web.onetel.net.uk/~showerail/ics_setup.html

and try that because i have and it dosnt work.

also the person who wrote it dosent even know if it works as he hasent even tested it yet

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.

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that only works for ADSL, not for for cable (with my isp anyway)

thats besides the point, i want to setup my linux box as my router

update,

ok u know how my linix server didnt show up in "my network places" in windows XP. and had to manualy type in the IP adress (192.168.0.1) in my windows box to get it working,

well now for some reason it dose show up, eventhough i havent changed anything. its shows up as,

"samba sever 3.0.2a) then under that in brackets it says (cpe-144.133.XXX.XXX) which is my ip adress for my net connection.

my question is, shouldnt it say 192.168.0.1 because that is my LAN ip.

no, i have no fire wall on windows box, i have tested it with winxp as the server and everything works, shareing works ICS works, its all good, but mandrake is wayyyyyy harder to set up.

however i want to learn which is why im trying it. any idea's on whats wrong