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This kind of usage of CDRWs is unfortunately very experimental in Linux, so it is most probably disabled in Mandrake. Of course, you can compile your own kernel, but is it worth it? Yves.

Good news :!: Gnucash now includes the only thing that it was missing IMO: - scheduled operations See the news: http://www.gnucash.org/ Yves.

samba is only a files/printers sharing protocol. You can only access things. Execution is your machine's job, and your machine doesn't have Windows (depending on the app, Wine may be OK). If it is remote execution that you want, I think VNC is the only solution, unless your Windows machine is a NT terminal Server or XP (in this case you can use the more efficient rdesktop). Yves.

Windows OSes won't ever know anything about filesystems other than their own. Never let Windows do anything to non-Windows partitions. Never :!:

Here are some links, in no particular order: http://www.mioga.org/ http://www.phpgroupware.org/ (the best known) http://apps.phpgroupware.org/ http://cwriter.org/index.php?l=en (collaborative writing) http://grouptime.sourceforge.net/ http://outreach.sourceforge.net/ http://www.realizationsystems.com/ http://www.sherpath.org/ http://twiggi.sourceforge.net/ Want more? Try Google... Yves.

I think this is related to the behaviour of the browser, rather than that of the server. Look at Mime-types handling in your browser. Yves.

See also: http://www.mandrakeusers.org/viewtopic.php?t=1050 Yves.

The best way to connect to a Linux machine with text-interface is ssh. The best way to connect to a Linux machine with GUI-interface is X-tunneling through ssh. Yves.

I don't know the -indirect switch. But did you try with the -query switch? It works like that: /path/to/X -query 10.0.0.10 where you replace 10.0.0.10 with the chooser's machine IP. Yves.

I can't be sure because I don't use Mdk9.0. But you should be able to: - either delete the dm link from /etc/rc.d/rc5.d, and add the start of X in /etc/inittab, as it used to be (preferably at the end of the file); - or modify the dm script (create a backup) in /etc/rc.d/init.d Yves.

The lines l0 to l6 run in runlevel 0 to 6 (see between the : ). Lines 1 to 6 all run in runlevers 2, 3, 4, and 5 (0 -halt- and 6 -reboot- are special: in those modes, no login screen is opened, obviously).On my PC, there's an additionnal line that looks like: x:5:respawn:/usr/X11R6/bin/prefdm or something like that. As you don't have this line, I conclude that your display manager is run from this line: l5:5:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 5 which means that /etc/rc.d/rc is run with parametter 5. In short, this should mean that rc will run every script in /etc/rc.d/rc5.d, the name of which begins with the letter S. One of those should somehow run your prefered display manager (this preference can be changed in /etc/sysinit/desktop on the DISPLAYMANAGER= line). I don't have the details of your runlevel5 scripts, so I'll propose an alternative to using them. See the above code? it says ":wait:", which means that the following of the file won't be read until this script has finished running. So after this line, we're sure (for runlevel 5) that your display manager has started on CtrlAltF7. I propose to add this at the end of /etc/inittab: x8:5:wait:/usr/X11R6/bin/X -query 127.0.0.1 :1 x9:5:wait:/usr/X11R6/bin/X -query 127.0.0.1 :2 xA:5:wait:/usr/X11R6/bin/X -query 127.0.0.1 :3 This should work, but you may have to first configure KDM to allow XDMCP connexions. Yves.

Script 2: it is not a script, actually. You only have to add a line to the /etc/inittab file. Can you tell me what does your file look like (it depends on the version you use; I use Mdk8.1)? On the other hand, if you replace KDM with GDM as the login chooser (no risk, and no need to switch to Gnome if you don't want to), then there's an option in Mandrake's main menu to open a new login screen on AltF8 with a single click, and you can add more: AltF9, AltF10... That's what I do at home. Script 1: Do you want to run this script manually (but only once) when you create a new user, or do you want this script to be run automatically by (or after) whichever tool (which one?) you use to create users? Please answer, but whatever the answer, the solution looks like a script, that contain first a bunch of commands to run on the new home-directory to add links and things like that. Then (in the same script), a command like this one: cat >>~newuser/.bashrc <<-THEEND ...put your environment variables here... THEEND 'later. Yves.

I suggest you look into the "links" section. I added the LWN Linux Distributions directory, just for you :-) In this list, you might find the distribution that will fullfill your needs. Keep us informed ;-) Yves.

/proc/kcore is a kernel working file. Don't touch it. Don't worry about it. It is not actually the size it seems to be. Aside from that, I don't know anything else. It is not (cannot be?) corrupted, else your system would probably not run anymore. Yves.

You can run all the services you want, but still reduce boot time. Look here: http://www.mandrakeusers.org/viewtopic.php?p=5202#5202 Yves.

apache, openldap, fetchmail, procmail, postfix gnome, icewm, nautilus bash, aterm nedit, vi grep, sed, awk, cat, diff, man tar, gzip, bzip2 gftp, ftpfs openoffice 1.0 mozilla 1.0 (browser+mail), rolodap xmahjongg, sol, armagetron Yves.

Be carefull. Autofs and fstab should not point to the same places. Also, if /mnt is to be the place to be controlled by autofs, you should now that you won't be able to access anything under /mnt, except via autofs. So if you have /mnt/windows for example, either reconfigure it to be accessed via autofs, or use a different mount point. Yves.

Basically, I think you've got it. But be carefull because in Linux, case matters in file names. So it should be public_html, not Public_html. Anyway, you can change this name in one of Apache's configuration files. All those files are in /etc/httpd/ I think. find the one which says "public_html" (tip: execute in the good directory: grep -i -r "public_html" * ) and change to the value you want (eg: my_webfiles or Public.html or...) Yves.

The devfs=nomount part should be in the append="..." line.

That's the whole problem with *emacs.

Or cygwin. There are two options to graphically login on a Linux computer with a Windows computer: - XDMCP using the Cygwin package - VNC (cross-platform remote display) The easiest one to use is the first one, IMO, but in truth, I never tried VNC on Linux. For XDMCP, you'll have to parameter your Linux box' display manager to allow remote connections (look here: http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/xwin/xnet.html, see also my note at the end of this post) Next, you should download Cygwin (here: http://www.cygwin.com/, follow the Install now! link) and install it with at least the XFree server, when choosing the packages to be installed (if you're a newbie, I suggest you keep all defaults, except for making sure that XFree-related packages are selected). Finally, you have to execute this newly-installed XFree server, and tell it to connect to your machine. For that I would not recommand using the -broadcast option, as MUO documentation says. Instead, I would recommand that you creates a linux.bat file containing this: @echo off SET CYGWIN_ROOT=c:cygwin SET PATH=.;%CYGWIN_ROOT%bin;%CYGWIN_ROOT%usrX11R6bin;%PATH% start Xwin -query 10.0.0.10 -once Only, you'll have to replace 10.0.0.10 with the IP address your Linux machine is known as to the Windows machine. That's all. If you execute linux.bat, a fullscreen window will open and display your login manager (by default: KDM). Then you'll just have to login, and do as you want. NOTES: * GDM, as well as KDM or XDM, does offer the choice of window manager: KDE, Gnome, fluxbox, IceWM... So it is safe to use GDM instead of KDM. I prefer GDM because the only thing to do is to allow remote connections in the nice GUI configuration tool. Besides, all its configuration is done with this easy to use GUI, and there's a menu option in Mandrake's menu to easily open a new independant display for another user on the same computer, without you having to logout first; that's cool :). * As you understand by my above note, Linux is able to control multiple displays. So does Cygwin, I guess (another display for Cygwin is simply another window. If you need this feature, you should create a seconddisplay.bat file, with this content: @echo off SET CYGWIN_ROOT=c:cygwin SET PATH=.;%CYGWIN_ROOT%bin;%CYGWIN_ROOT%usrX11R6bin;%PATH% start Xwin -query 10.0.0.10 -once :1 (a :1 appended) It may work, or not... Yves.

If nothing else works, you can try to disable devfs, by appending " devfs=nomount" in the kernel parameters in grub's or lilo's config file (for lilo, you have to execute /sbin/lilo after changing the config file). Then your /dev/lp* files should exist. Yves.

Or place it between [url] and [/url] .

I think I have good news for you :-) - By all accounts (for users with compatible hardware), Mandrake 9.0 is said to be faster than Mandrake 8.2 (which I suppose is about the same as 8.1: the one I'm using). - I installed Mandrake 8.1 on a P150/32M.RAM/2G.drive laptop, and it runs really fine in graphical mode (I use IceWM instead of Gnome, which I prefer). So I assume that Mandrake9.0 would be still faster... - All Mandrake tools are created to work both in graphical and console mode, so you have the choice. See here:http://www.mandrakeforum.com/article.php?s...id=2487&lang=en Actually, I don't care much for my laptop's OS because it is mainly used as a X terminal (dumb graphical thin client) to connect to my Linux PC. As for my PC, I would switch to Mdk9.0, but there's a bug in DRI (3D accel) for rage128 cards in Mdk9.0, and I have a Rage128... That's why I'm still with Mdk8.1. Yves.

I've read this solution once on MandrakeForum. I did not try, so make sure you know what you're doing: 1- Take the hard drive from your laptop, 2- Remove the hard drives from your PC, and put the laptop's hard drive instead. 3- Install Linux on the PC with the laptop in mind: select the packages to make sure that all packages needed by your laptop's hardware is installed (eg: PCMCIA); also: choose a console boot, not a graphical boot (technically speaking, boot in runlevel 3). 4- Put back the hard drives in their proper places. 5- Boot the laptop, login as root, and reconfigure your X server. 6- Start X (startx) and use Mandrake Control Center to make sure all other hardware is well configured. 7- If all is well up to this point, you can put your laptop in graphical boot mode (technically speaking: runlevel 5 at boot). Good luck. If you don't feel this is the solution for you, go and check what is available here: http://old.lwn.net/Distributions/ Yves.