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Yep. I do it on my notebook with no problems. Hints: 1. create a small (5gig) fat32 partition for sharing information between the two OS's 2. make sure you back everything of importance up on the Xp partition. If you blow something, you risk killing two OS's instead of just one. However, you have this problem whether you install on 1 hard drive or 2. 3. Use partition magic to do the initial partitioning. Unless the 36gigs is in unused space, use partition magic to free up the space instead of whatever partitioning tool comes with the installer. HTH

What have you changed on the windows machine? Good luck with Samba 3.0. Tell me how the install and config process goes. Does SWAT work with 3.0? As soon as I get back to my Linux computer, I will post my samba config [global] workgroup = GAMEFEST netbios name = RIVENDELL server string = Samba Server %v encrypt passwords = Yes map to guest = Bad User log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m max log size = 50 socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 printcap name = cups dns proxy = No printer admin = @adm printing = cups [homes] comment = Home Directories read only = No browseable = No [Rivendell] path = /share read only = No Aha - just caught something from the config file that you posted. You forgot to turn on encrypted passwords. If this is not turned on, windows computers will never be able to connect. also, check the smbpasswd and make sure that you have something there. This is where samba places the users you added through SWAT. If there is nothing there, then you have no users that can access your share. In addition, although this should not matter, try removing the '\' from the name of your share. This may be messing up the naming convention as it would produce something like the following: \\Host\\Share instead of \\Host\Share Anyway, hope the above helps.

And if they intend to release mdk 10 with the 2.6 kernel, it may depend on when that is released. Personally, if they do release 10 with the new kernel, I am not sure if I will upgrade unless they also include a 2.4.x kernel. I have heard a lot of really great things about the new kernel, but I am not sure if I am ready to trust the first release of it.

Q3 That is the easiest and most convenient way of setting things up. The server should definitely have a static IP address (At least the inside NIC card should have a static IP attached to it). The server should then be running the DHCP server and each client machine receive a dynamic IP address. However, with all that said, it really doesn't matter which way you go with the client machines, just dynamic is much easier to setup and administer on windows machines then static IPs are.

I am running 9.2 with win98, 2000, and XP. And all computers can connect with no problems to the Linux machine. Any particular reason you want to set samba up as a wins server? This is something that I have not done. I always thought wins was for domains as opposed to workgroups. That may be part of the problem. If you start over, maybe leave the wins part off and just go with workgroups and a very simple setup. If you want, later today I can post my smb.conf file for you to look at, that may help you out some.

Welcome to the board. No reason why Mandrake 9.2 won't work on that setup. Although, if you are going to be using as a desktop, then I would suggest uping the ram to a minimum of 256M. Otherwise, everything should work. (I have no experience with scsi drives though) Hardware wise, you will need to have at least two networks cards if you are connected to a DSL or cable modem and a switch (preferably) between the server and the rest of the computers. One NIC for the internet and the other NIC for the home network. Install Mandrake with all the proper networking and server packages and you should be good to go.

Anyone know of a reliable source for kde 3.1.4 rpms made for Mandrake 9.2? Texstar has gone on vacation and I am not sure where to get the update from. Or, is it advisable to download the source for the update files and build/install everything manually?

It is not that you need to add an explicit window user to samba, it is that you need to explicitly add users to samba. The disctinction is small, but very important. You are not really adding window users to samba. All you are doing is adding users to samba. Therefore, if the user is the same on both machines -- same userid and password -- then you just need to add that user once. Once the users are added, they should be able to access the share from any windows computer they log into attached to the network. Also, if you have another linux computer running samba and the same user on it, then you can use samba to access the share on the linux server. (follow that??) My suggestion - remove all mention of the share in your samba config file, remove all users you may have entered and start all over again. Create the share and then add the users.

I looked a little at the rest of the site and the other pages all have pics of MS' presentation at comdex, so I am thinking it must be real. With that said, does this mean that MS feels that Linux is this huge force that needs to be beaten? If so, I think Linux has won a major battle. We beat Microsoft, woohoo!!! Yeah, it ain't funny, in any sense of the word. A stupid reason for Bill and that other guy to play around with wires and movie affects. Personally, I think they should leave that kind of thing to the privacy of their offices. Ugh!

I don't get it??? Is this a spoof that someone has done or was this really presented at comdex this year by microsoft?

The easy way to sort a linked list is to put it into an array, sort the array and then recreate the list. However, some people may think this is cheating. The trick to sorting a linked list is the amount of pointers (or references) you place in the list. Remember, you always have to keep one reference pointing at the head of the list. This can not be moved or you are toast. Therefore, you need to create a whole bunch of other pointers that will sort the list. If you were doing a bubble sort (it easy to illustrate) you would need two references for the list in addition to the head reference. These two pointers would then repeatedly traverse the list changing the position of any nodes it finds that needs to be sorted. For more complex sorts you will need more references. Try not to think about the list as a whole, but the list as it exists at the points where your references are pointing. Therefore, if you need to see more of the list, you need to create more references. Make sense??? Addendum: You need to find yourself a good book on Algorithms and Patterns in Object Oriented Programming aimed specifically at Java. If you can find the right book, it will have the algorithms you need as they relate to a linked list.

How to add users to samba Start SWAT and log in as root Click on the Password tab at the far right Under 'Server Password Management' add the details for your first user Click on 'Add New User' Repeat for all users That is all there is to it. As for you config file, make sure that you set Read Only = No Otherwise, you will not be able to write to the share. After you have done all this, remember to reload/restart samba.

Actually I should add that I originially tried the files as downloaded directly from Macromedia, but it didn't work. Someone told me that there was a dependency problem with those files and that I should use the ones available from mandrakeusers.com. These are the rpm's that I installed that hosed my Mozilla install. I don't think I will be trying anything other than official macromedia flash files every again.

Yep, that is exactly what I did. And what others have done as well. It completely toasted Mozilla on me. Everything worked fine until I followed the steps you just outlined. After following them, the standard 9.2 install of Mozilla never worked again.

I think it is the Flash player that is the problem here. I had the same problem. Mozilla was working fine until I installed Flash and that just killed it. I would try to launch it from the command line and wouldn't get any errors. Mozilla would just not work. I was able to install Mozilla 1.5 (downloaded from the mozilla.org website) and get it to work. However, I had uninstalled mozilla, deleted my .mozilla folder, and removed Flash and any corresponding dependancies. If you do a search, you should find several other threads all dealing with the same problem (including mine). However, I am not sure what to tell you to help solve the problem. Here is what I did: deleted everything to do with Mozilla off my computer uninstalled Flash rebooted my computer and waited several days before doing anything else (this step may not be necessary) installed Mozilla 1.5 (downloaded from the mozilla.org website and not the rpm install either) and installed that to its default directory created a link on the desktop to launch it with The above worked and I have been using Mozilla now for about 3 weeks like this. Good Luck

Yea, flash killed my Mozilla install as well. I was able to ressurect it temporarily by deleting the .mozilla folder in my home directory. I then tried to reinstall Flash and eventually just permanetly killed it. I now have to use an install of Mozilla 1.5, which isn't too bad, but it is not as integrated into the desktop as the default mozilla install is. Warning: be carefull installing Flash in Mandrake 9.2, it may toast your Mozilla install.

Hmmm... First a few definitions: smbclient is the program that allows your linux machine to communicate with your windows machine. samba is the program that allows your windows machines to communicate with Linux. With that out of the way. Have you gone into SWAT and manually added the windows user accounts to Samba? (You did not say explicitly whether you had done this that is why I am asking.) If not, I would do this first. Second, are the user accounts on windows the same as on Linux - same userid and same password? Third, can you post your smb.conf and samba password file so that I, and others, can have a look at them. (change the passwords if it poses a security threat). If you can ping the machine, then you can connect to the machine, it is just a matter of getting all the settings correct.

So don't close the lid :P My first guess would be that there is a problem with how mandrake 9.2 (?) is handling acpi. This might explain why things go screwing when you close the lid. Just not sure how to fix the problem, but it might give you a starting point for diagnosing the problem.

That would depend on if there is anything else connected either of those computers. If one is connected to the internet and there is no firewall in place between your internet connection and your little network, then it could pose a problem. However, if the two computers are only connected to each other and nothing else, then no security threat should exist.

I had the exact same problem when I first installed 9.2. I tried everything to I could think of to try and get it so that my windows computers could access my linux server. What eventually worked for me was manually adding the required users to Samba. I used swat for this, but I am sure that you can do the same thing in webmin. The strange thing is that I am certain that I did not have to do this with 9.1. I thought that if you did not specify users for Samba, it would default to the Linux users file. However, this does not seem to be true with 9.2 (or it may just be Samba 2.2.8a). Anyway, try adding your users (userid, password) manually and see if that helps.

Screensaver package, where, where

Are you sure it isn't already installed and just not showing up in the menus?

Generally pick the one with the shortest name and the least amount of words in it. Basically, that means that you need to pick the package that looks similiar to xmms-1.2.7-25mdk.i586.rpm (actually, there is a good chance that that is the exact package that you are looking for) Notice the lack of other words in the title. Also, if you are using urpmi and you do pick a wrong package, it should tell you that you have to insall xmms first and then proceed to install the xmms package in order to satisfy dependencies.

For msn at least, you will need to update to gaim 0.71 ro 0.72. Do a search on the forums for gaim 0.71 and you will find links to rpms. Microsoft changed their protocol to prevent third party clients from using msn, this is why you need to upgrade. I have no idea about yahoo though.

What exactly makes it better?