fuzzylizard

For windows, all you have to do is to turn on Internet Sharing and it will take care of the rest. It creates a DHCP server so that other machines can connect and receive IP addresses. The only piece of hardware that you will need is an extra NIC card in the XP machine. One NIC card for the modem and one NIC card to connect to your network. All you need to do is to turn Internet Sharing on in XP Right Click on Network Connections -> Right Click on the Internet Network Connection -> select Internet Sharing. This will configure the Network card attached to your network. This will also start up a little wizard that will guide you through the process. When it asks you to create a floppy disk to configure the rest of your machines, skip it. Now for Linux. Simply setup Linux to use DHCP and that will configure your network card. As for what exactly XP uses, who cares - it works. It ain't the best solution, but, hey, it works. If you want NAT (nice for security) than you will have to go out and buy a router/firewall. However, if you just want it up and working, then the above will do that.

If you go to http://www.devshed.com there is an excellent beginner tutorial on setting up ProFTP.

If you get yourself a router/firewall, or if you use internet sharing from winXP, you will be using dhcp to manage IP addresses. This means that on the Linux side, all you need to do is set linux for DHCP and it will take care of the IP addresses for you. Generally, what will happen is that the internal NIC will get the IP address of 192.168.0.1 or 192.168.1.1 (depending on the router). Then, any other computers attached to the router will get IP addresses like 192.168.0.10, 192.168.0.11, etc.

Welcome to the board. Of course we can help you. :D Just to clarify, you have an ISDN internet connection attached to a windows XP machine. The winXP machine is able to access the internet without a problem? Is there any firewall, router, etc between the ISDN connection and the windows machine or is the ISDN card actually part of the windows machine? In addition, you have a Mandrake Linux machine that you would like to be able to access the internet. Both machines have NIC cards and are networked together. How are the machines networked; is there a switch and/or hub in the middle or is it one very long cable that attaches to each machine? If it is the later, you are using a cross-over cable correct? On the windows machine, have you started internet sharing? On the linux machine, how do you have the networking setup? If you are sitting at the linux machine, can you ping the windows machine and vice versa? Just a few questions to get you started. Answer each of these and you will be a lot further along in solving this problem. Also, what is your experience working with linux and networking?

My first guess would be to look for something that would match libc6.2-2 The best place to find this would be rpmfind and/or the website for the software that you are trying to install. OR, you could add a few sources to urpmi and let it handle everything for you. Then you could just type in # urpmi vnc and let mandrake figure out, download, and install all the dependencies. Have a look around the forum for adding sources, but the easiest way is to do a google search 'easy urpmi' and follow the instructions on the page.

You set the permissions on a folder, however, this does not mean that any of the files in that folder will have the same permissions. You actually need to do chmod and chgrp recursively in order to ensure that everything below the folder has the same permissions. chmod -R 775 music/* This should ensure that everything is writable for the group cdwriter. There is also a way of setting a bit or umask for a folder that will ensure that any files added/created in that folder will inherit the same permissions as the folder. However, I am not sure of how to do it and I have never really had much luck with it. Also, if you just joined a group, I have no idea if you need to log back in to ensure that you are registered for that group (I doubt it, but you never know).

using Free Space can mean two very different things. The first meaning is to simply use whatever space does not contain windows files at the end of a Windows partition. The second meaning (and the meaning that I think the Mandrake installer uses) is to use the free non-partitioned space on the drive. My guess is the you are using the first meaning. This is why mandrake is asking you to defrag the drive. You will need to do this in order to safetly repartition the drive without doing damage to any files. Your best bet is to resixe your current partition using Partionmagic and create some non-partitioned space at the end of the drive. Mandrake will then use this free space and you can skip the defrag process. HTH

Ah, that is a little shell script that someone posted on this forum. Try doing a search for info.sh and see if it turns up.

Packages change, some apps come and some apps go. Yeah, there are definitely some different packages between 8.0 and 9.2. However, you will find that the new programs are most likely better than what they replaced. For instance, for CD burning try K3B - an amazing app that actually makes cd burning easy for linux. As for websites/forums/etc... You found it. This is the only website/forum/etc that you will ever need for Mandrake. If you can not find the answer here, it probably does not exist. :D

The little thing in the lower right hand corner? That would be a program called gkrellm. It is available on the Mandrake install CD's. Just use the package installer to install it. You may need to find and download any themes you would like to use. Do a search on google for gkrellm and you will find lots of information and a site that has all the available themes for it.

I am just wandering what people think is the best and/or easiest VNC server to install and run on Linux? I want to install the server onto my Linux box so that I can access it using the client software (tightVNC?) on my windows machine. I would also like to be able to access the Linux machine using a java applet from a remote location as well (although this is a distant secondary purpose to the first as ssh works quite well for this right now). Any ideas, opinions?

You are going to have to download and install the kernel course for whatever kernel you are using in order to get it to work. If you are using a standard install, you should be able to do something like: urpmi kernel-source and it will install the correct one for you.

Having a firewall on a Windows machine will interfere with filesharing, so you are going to have to find a way around that. I know that with my setup, if I leave zonealarm running on my notebook (winXP) I can not connect to any of my computers. The firewall simply does not allow it. So far, I have not found a way around it. You say that you have a static IP address. How are you sharing your internet connection? Through a router or through a computer? If it is through a computer, which one and what is it running? I would strongly suggest setting up a proper firewall/router using either an old computer or one of those little boxes that Linksys or DLink sell. This will make life a lot easier and remove the need to be running firewalls on the machine inside the firewall/router. (This may be the only way to get things to work) As for why the other services work, well, All firewalls are setup to allow port 80 (http) traffic through and apparently your linux firewall is setup to allow for samba filesharing (although, from other posts, this seems to be a bit odd). Allowing this kind of traffic through is normal. Allowing people access to your computer in order to share files, this is not allow on most firewalls. And generally is not something you ever want to allow because it introduces a huge hole in your security. Once you allow one computer through for filesharing, you allow all computers through.

First, a few simple questions to clarify things: 1. You are running two separate computers; 1 computer running Mandrake and the 2nd computer running Windows 2000 Pro? 2. Do any of these computers have a firewall running? Generally, the two biggest things that are going to stop SAMBA from working are firewalls running on any of the computers -- so turn them off -- and not having encrypted passwords checked as yes in the samba config file. Provide a few more details of your setup and what you have and have not done and you will get a much better answer. Note: If you are trying to create a samba share on a linux box that will be accessible to windows computers, there is no need to make it fat32, or any other supposedly windows friendly filesystem, as this has absolutely no bearring on whether the windows computers will be able to access the share.

Debian, Gentoo, FreeBSD, any of those should work :P Actually, I would suggest SUSE, Mandrake, or even Lycoris or Lindows. The later two are aimed squarely at people with no Linux background and people who do not want to learn linux either.

Has anyone tried this process to install Oracle 9i onto Mandrake 9.2 yet?

What version of Thunderbird are you using, are your accounts pop3 or imap, what EXACTLY are you doing just before it crashes, are you able to reproduce the crash, what version of linux are you using, and a dozen other questions? Just saying something crashes without listing at least a few details will not get you any answers.

There are Linux Games???? :lol: :P Oh, and Congrats on the install.

This may be a problem. Windows XP Home is really funny about the way that it handles things like Samba Shares. As far as I know, it expects to access the shares as the user that loged in. I know on my notebook that as long as the user name/password that I use on my winXP notebook is the same as what I have in Samba, I can access any shares on Samba. I have not tried to see what happens when the two are different. Try making the XP user details and the Samba details the same and see if this corrects the problem. WinXP Home does not allow for Domains or complicated networking. This has proven to be a huge problem for other people.

Yes, there are ways of getting the two computers to talk to one another without having a DHCP server attached to the network somewhere. However, does your solution allow for the sharing of the internet across the network? Plus, if it is likely to break easily than how good a solution is it in the first place? The easiest and more reliable way is to do it correctly right from the beginning and either buy a router or a second nic card. BTW, do you have a link on virtual interfaces?

Are the laptop users using the same username and password to log into their laptops as they are using to try and login to Samba? Or are they different? Just from the sounds of things, you have Samba setup correctly. This means that the problem must lie with the laptops.

Apparently you have lost your sanity so much that you are posting in the wrong forums. Tips and Tricks is to be used if you are offering a tip or trick, not if you are looking for one. Some help: List the output of the df command, unless all you have is one big partition in which case it will be useless. A few things to try first. Check what you have in your home directory. You never know, there may be a few expanded files that you could delete and only keep the compressed versions. Check out /var to see what kind of log files you have floating around in your system. Check out your tmp directory to see what might be lurking in there. Defrag your hard drive :P (just kidding) Check to see how many kernel sources you have lying around. Do a google search to see what else you might be able to find out. Post in the right forum so you get a better answer.

Hmm, odd. How do you have the XP machines setup. The problem may be on their end. Are they XP home or pro? Are the laptops set up to access the workgroup? Also, are the laptops expecting to log into a windows domain or are they expecting the person to simply log into the laptop? I have had this problem before with win2k and XP and the problem has always been the fact that the users were not entered correctly as Samba and/or Linux users. Remember, you need to enter all users as both Samba and Linux users. (really is a pain) In addition, are the XP laptops running a firewall of any kind? This can cause some huge problems in that a firewall can often get in the way of connecting to samba or windows shares. Somethings to think about. Another approach you can take is to use a tool like SWAT or webmin to work with the samba config file. The help available through SWAT may be able to offer a few clues as to what is going on.

Maybe I missed something, but isn't that article about Opera going public? I missed the part about the European commission.

No problem. Good luck and any more questions, just shout.