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Absolute first thing that you need to check is that you have encrypted passwords set to yes. Without this, no windows 2000 or XP machines will ever be able to login. Second, what kind of security are you using? Also, have you added all the users to samba? Are you using workgroups for the network or are you running samba as the primary domain controller? If the first suggestion does not help, add more details and be specific about your setup and it will be easier to offer up a solution.

The most important thing to check is who owns the files. Go into the command line and do an ls -l to see who the owner of the eclipse directory is. The name should correspond to your login id/user id. If it says root or another name, then that is the reason that you are getting the permission denied error. In order to change the owner, you will need to issue the following command as root: chown userid filename where the userid is whichever user you want to make the owner of that directory. You will also need to issue the following command to change the owner of all the files inside the eclipse directory chown -R user eclipse/* IN terms of changing permissions, you use the chmod command. Do a search, there are a tonne of great tutorials on the net about using the command line and setting permissions, users, and groups.

Actually, that is perfect. It also shows what the error is. Basically, this will never work. I am going to assume that, since it is not working, you only receive one IP address from your ISP. This is already locked into the windows computer. You need to buy yourself some kind of router before this will ever work. Anytime you have a network, you need someway for the computers on that network to get IP addresses. This is done through two methods: 1. Giving each computer a static network address. However, this only works if you have a block of IP address to assign from. 2. Each computer is given a dynamic IP address. Once again, this will only work if you have a DHCP server and a block of IP addresses with which to assign addresses from. Right now, your system does not meet any of those conditions. Currently, the way that your network is setup, you are expecting all IP addreses to come from the ISP. If you are only getting one IP from your ISP, this means that only one computer can be on the internet and only one computer can be on your network. The solution: a DHCP server. These can be found in many router/firewall products such as the kind that Linksys or DLink sell. These provide a single access point to the internet and also supply a block of IP addresses from which to create a network. Without the DHCP server, or the block of IP addresses, you are never going to get your network to work. There is another solution though. Either the windows or the linux computer can act as a dhcp server. This is called internet sharing in the windows computer. For this to work you need two network cards in one of the computers. The first NIC is hooked up to the cable modem and the second is hooked up to the switch. Then, that computer acts as a DHCP server and assigns each computer on the network an IP address. Hope this helps

What exactly is the make up of the network? You have stated that the Linux machine is connected to an 8-port switch. Also connected to this switch is a cable modem. However, you have not stated if there is a router connected to this network anywhere. So, is there any form of router and/or DHCP server connected between the cable modem and the switch? If not, there is your problem. Also, exactly what is not working? You have simply stated that you can not get it working, however, you have not stated exactly what it is you are trying to configure. Shall I assume that you trying to enable the network card to work using DHCP and it is not getting an IP address? Or are you trying something different? In addition, how do you know that it is not working? What error messages are you receiving, can you ping other machines, what does ifconfig show? In order to get some form of intelligent answer you need to be as precise and exact as you can when laying out the exact nature of the problem. You also need to state exactly what you are trying to do, what you have tried, and how you know it is not working.

I'd listen to your brother more smp - symmetrical multiple processors. i.e., more than one enterprise - for computers with more than one meg of ram athlon - this should be self explanatory i386 - just about any x86 computer i686 - this one I am not totally sure about, but I believe it is for a PIII or certain classes of celerons.

Were did you put the ecplise directory? Also, did you change users when you unzipped it? There have also been reports that if you use the graphical archive tools in kde you will corrupt the files somehow. Therefore, the best way of "installing" ecplise is to go to the command line and run unzip eclipse...zip (whatever the actual name of the file is). Also I have always had to call the eclipse command from outside the eclipse directory in order to get it to start. First though, I would check the permissions on the the folder and files

Excellent link, thanks Kmack

Yep, you are all correct. Port 22 - SSH - is definitely not blocked. It was a problem with the computer that I was trying to test from. For some reason it was not playing nice. Anyway, I can connect to my computer through ssh so all is well. However, just for curiosity sake, the question still stands. How do you tell ssh to listen on a different port?

Well, the subject line basically says it all. I have set up Dynamic DNS for my home Linux box and have pocked a whole through my firewall for ssh, but I still can not connect from the outside. I can connect to my linux box through ssh from inside my network, so I know the protocol is running on the machine. I have tried to connect using both my IP address and the dynamic dns domain name, neither works. This leads me to only one conclusion, that my ISP is actively blocking port 22. Therefore, the only recourse that I have is to set SSH to listen on a non standard port. However, I have no idea as to how to do this. Any suggestions?

We had a few thoughts on this in #musb tonight. The ones we came up with were: FireAnt FireMonkey - thanks to illogic-al FireTruck - my personal favorite FireWater I liked someone else's suggestion -- FireFly But, I think Fireant would work as well.

I wonder what the name of this product will be when it finally hits the 1.0 release?

So how does this qualify as a Tip or a Trick? Try doing some searching and you will find several different threads on this topic and keep your eyes open about where you put your posts.

Any chance you could let us know what the file is? Your post is very vague in that it does not give any real details about what you are trying to do. What is the name of the file? What happens if you give the file executable rights and try to run the file? Is there no README or INSTALL file in the directory? Does the file have an .exe extension?

Easiest way that may work is to try rebooting the computer -- VERY NON LINUX METHOD Next method Open up Konsole, or a shell. Then type in the following commands: $ su password: # killall MandrakeUpdate I give no guarantees that either method will work. I just know that from past experiences, when I have had this problem it is because something has gone wrong during an update and it was not shut down properly. There are probably better solutions to this.

Are these Texstar rpms or someone elses?

Can you explain what you mean by direct connect? Do you mean connecting one gaim program to another gaim program without the need for a server or protocol in the middle? If so, I don't think so. However, more details would help.

Do you have file sharing turned on on the Mac? OS X uses Samba to share files between a Mac and PCs. So, my guess is that in order to get file sharing working between the Mac and a Linux machine, the best way to do it would be by using samba. Set everything up like you would to share files with a PC and you should be able to see and connect to the Mac and vice versa.

I have a friend that was playing around with Fedora and Kernel 2.6.0. He could get it compiled and installed, but he was having trouble getting to work correctly with his motherboard -- nForce. I was just wondering if anyone else had tried this combination and had everything work? By everything I mean acpi, sound, etc.

Emacs, nano, pico, gedit, kate, jEdit, etc That enough for you? Personally, if you have java installed correctly, I would suggest going with jEdit. http://www.jedit.org But any of the above editors will work. jEdit is nice in that it supports regular expression searches. Emacs and vim also support these, but are not as easy to use.

In addition, as for boxed versions of distros, Red Hat is out of the desktop boxed distro game and I have never seen an up-to-date version of Mandrake ever in a store. That only really leaves SUSE. Personally, I think the fact that they carry SUSE 9.0 at all a miracle. BTW, is this in the States or in Canada that you talking? Also, Best Buy does not sell their brand of computer, at least not here in Canada. Therefore, the real people to pressure are Compaq, HP, Toshiba. These are the companies that need to be targetted to supply notebooks and computers that are preinstalled with Linux. Not necessarily the retail middle man.

Okay The fact that your friend was unable to connect means one of two things: either you router is not setup properly or your ISP is blocking port 80. We will assume that it is the former since checking the later can be difficult. Here are the general steps needed to setup the port forwarding 1. give the server a static IP. If you are using Mandrake the easiest way of doing this is through MCC and the network wizard. It is fairly straight forward so I will leave the details up to you. I am going to assume that you gave the server 192.168.0.10 2. Next, you need to setup the port forwarding from within your router. All you need to do is to forward TCP here. HTTP only uses the TCP protocol, so UDP is not needed. The less protocols and ports forwarded the safer your computer 3. You will need to tell apache to accept requests on the new static internal IP address. That should be it. Once those three steps are done, anyone from the outside should be able to access apache. If a friend still can not connect, then something is not configured correctly, or your ISP is blocking that port on you (which is a real possibility)

Okay, that helps. You really need to find someone who can connect to your IP from outside your network. Most likely, your router is getting in the way and not showing you a true picture. In order to test this properly, you are going to have to test it from outside. If you have associated the IP with a domain name, feel free to post here so that I, or others, can test it and send you some feed back. What brand/make is your router (manufacturer, model, model number)? Provide this and we can give you the exact details of how to setup the port forwarding. Time for more details, what exactly have you done on the side of your computer and in your router? Also, there is no reason to forward ports 79-81, HTTP only connects across port 80. Has anyone been able to connect, using telnet, to your computer from outside your firewall/router?

Jsut for clarification, what exactly are you trying to do and what hardware are you trying to do it with? How many computers are involved with this, how many routers and how many firewalls and what kind of internet connection do you have. Also, some ISP's block port 80 and other well known ports to prevent people from setting up servers on their home connections. Can any of your friends connect to port 80 using telnet? Anyway, more details are needed as this thread is getting a little confusing.

From what you describe, you have several things going on here. You are going to have two different IP addresses to work with - the external one and the internal one. The external IP address is the one that is given to you by you ISP. This is the one that everyone outside needs to type in to reach your website. The internal IP address is the IP address that your router gives to your webserver. This may be done through DHCP or setup statically. When you try to access the website from your home network, you are using the internal IP and directly accessing the computer. However, this won't work for computers on the internet (i.e., computers outside your home network). What you need to do to fix this is something called port forwarding. When people try to access you web server they are probably using port 80. You need to go into your router and tell it to send all requests for services on port 80 to your webserver. How you do this should be included in the documentation for your particular router. This will send all outside requests to the correct computer. Port forwarding only works with static internal IP addresses so you are going to have to manually setup the networking on your web server instead of using DHCP. Once you have all this done, your friends will be able to access the apache and see your web pages. As for DMZ, this is a way to section off a web server and still protect the computers on your home network. This creates a little network sandbox in which your web server can play without placing your home network computers in jeopardy. Remember, any computer that is exposed to the outside world can potentially be used to hack into other computers. The point of a DMZ is to prevents this. The point to all this is that if you have an internal network you should place the web server in the DMZ. How you do this will once again depend on your router/firewall. You will still be able to access apache, but the computer will/should not appear on the rest of the network. It will only be accessable through ssh or apache or ftp or whatever remote access service you install on it. I suggest ssh. Hope that helps. If I missed anything, just shout

First, what kind of notebook is it? Second, check out this website for reviews of installing Linux onto Notebooks: http://www.linux-laptop.net/ Just look up the manufacturer and the model and there should be several different reviews there. This is the first place that I go when trying to install Linux onto a laptop.