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Had MDK10.2 working fine until problem with PDF files. Uninstalled ghostscript after trying lots of other stuff (upgrading, reinstall CUPS, printer, etc.). I was able to reinstall gs but I think it removed some OO dependencies. Now OO writer and Kghostview do not work and MCC search software mgr. gives error message "sorry, can't select OpenOffice". How can I reinstall OO and Kghostview. Any help appreciated Thanks

PC1 (MDK 10.2 official installed from same disc set as PC2) -> Canon BJ100 prints all pdf files fine. When opening pdf file, association is already set use Kghostview PC2 (Wxp + MDK 10.2 official dual boot) -> Samsung laser. PDF files print fine on Wxp. All other formats but PDF print fine under MDK 10.2. I have done updates to ghostscript and CUPS thru both Mandrake AND easyurpmi. Opening pdf file starts Konqueror. If I want Kghostview or xpdf, I have to specifically select it. Have tried to set file association by default to Kghostview but no dice. I have a file that was created in Open Office writer and saved as PDF. IT prints fine on PC2 !!, but none of the other pdf files I have print properly. Also, the pdf files take a long time to open or, show up in the thumbnails but only flash once in the main viewscreen, then disappear. None of the three apps (Konq, Kghostview,xpdf) print PDF files or if they do, large font sizes are OK, smaller fonts appear as though printer has dirty head. (incomplete characters). Have reinstalled CUPS and printer twice. Almost positive this PC was printing pdf when first setup about 2 months ago. I know it's not the printer, cause Wxp pdf is fine and don't think it's MDK 10.2 cause PC1 is OK. Any ideas appreciated. Officially confused Thanks

So far the removal of the MCC custom permissions entry seems to have quieted things down, although haven't figured out the reason for the change in the first place. Thanks to all

Hmmm.... Must be missing something simple. MDK 10.2 printing to a laser printer using CUPS. Print test sheet - OK. Print OOwriter doc -OK. Print from pdf file - blank page w/error notice " session timed out" Never printed from pdf file before - do I need to select different drivers? Any help appreciated Thanks

Seems while trying to change permissions to solve this problem I added a custom permission in MCC for /mnt/win_d, and when I removed it, all is back to normal , but I did not add this permission until after the problem arose in the first place. The fstab for the FAT partition appeared like this during problem : /dev/hda2 /mnt/win_d vfat umask=2022,user,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,noexec 0 0 so I changed it to : /dev/hda2 /mnt/win_d vfat umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0 where it remains, but this did not work until I removed the aforementioned permission in MCC permissions. fstab entry for the FAT partition at this point is exactly as you suggest, minus the rw, which I will try this weekend. Would you say that things get squirrely in permissions and networking when using a combination of GUI and CL? Thanks

Dual boot MDV 10.2 and Wxp hda1 - NTFS with Wxp hda2 - FAT32 hdb1 -/ MDV 10.2 hdb6 -/home Created new device on MDV desktop using GUI. /dev/hda2 mounted at /mnt/win_d on desktop, named it FATshare so I can work on files from Wxp and MDV. Moved some files from hdb6/home to hda2 because hdb is a small disk. Fairly certain I was able to read and write to this device. Now however, I am able to copy FROM but not MOVE FROM or WRITE TO the hda2 dev. "Access denied". I have tried security in MCC at standard AND high. Have tried setting permissions in MCC for /dev and for /mnt but no dice. Have tried to set permissions for /mnt/win_d using chmod in console. Also, files in this device are readonly. If I drag them back out of this device onto desktop then the permissions change, allowing me to work on them. Read in another post that umask in fstab should be set to 0. Did that and worked temporarily but now back to no access even tho umask=0. Here's fstab: This file is edited by fstab-sync - see 'man fstab-sync' for details /dev/hdb1 / ext3 defaults 1 1 /dev/hdb6 /home ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto umask=0022,user,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850,noauto,ro,exec,users 0 0 none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=ext2:vfat,--,umask=0022,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850 0 0 /dev/hda1 /mnt/win_c ntfs umask=0022,nls=iso8859-1,ro 0 0 /dev/hda2 /mnt/win_d vfat umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hdb5 swap swap defaults 0 0 Now error is "could not enter win_d" This has to be a permissions setting that I am missing somewhere. Any help appreciated Thanks [moved from Software by spinynorman]

Thought I'd comment on how right you are ( in part one MDV 2006) about software installs on linux. RPM installs are pretty much a breeze but getting there was very hard at first. Documentation was EXTREMELY non-intuitive. In the beginning, I destroyed one or two nicely running installs by downloading packages meant for OTHER MDV releases and not once did I stumble across that fact thru weeks of googling. Also, when a package file is listed on a site, there may be several almost identical sounding files with no way for the newb to figure out which one to use. Also MCC software mgr has too many options that are NOT explained for the newb to know how to add repository locations to where they are getting their packages from. Anyway, the reviews seem to be very thorough and helpful and will be sticking with MDV 10.2 for now. Thanks

Absolute newb to WINE. Trying to run Paperport 6.5 (document scanning, handling and OCR software) Running MDV 2005LE and have installed wine which is running according to MCC services. CD'd to the setup.exe of my paperport file then from consloe did ' wine setup.exe " and I get this. "Could not load 'KERNEL.DLL' required by 'ISSET_SE', error=2" Is this a Windows system file and if so, once I find it, where do I place it? Any help appreciated Thanks

New to networks, but had 2 PC network w/ both PCs running MDV 2005Le working fine with ssh thru Konqueror and 'net sharing. Power outage seems to have changed things. Both ethernet during PC1 boot show up as OK. I have tried: 1. ifconfig eth0 up in console, but NetApplet shows it as disconnected, 2. bring up eth0 in MCC monitor conections, connects briefly then shows as disconnected 3. reconfigured eth0 as static and as dynamic 4. switched eth0 and eth1 on PC1. Whichever NIC is on the DSL -> internet side works fine PC2 (192.168.10.2) -> eth0 (static) -> hub <- eth0 (static) <- PC1 (192.168.10.1) -> eth1 (dynamic) -> DSL modem -> internet this was all setup using MCC and was working fine. Had ssh enabled in services and firewalls off. All NIC cards are working as I am able to connect to 'net thru DSL separately with all 3 NICs, but ssh and 'net sharing to PC2 is no longer there. Have tried to remove and/or reconfigure eth0 on PC1 but no luck. I have internet on PC1 thru eth0. PC2 is able to ping itself but PC1 is 'unreachable' HERE are some stats for PC1 here is cat ifcfg -eth1on PC1 DEVICE=eth1 BOOTPROTO=dhcp ONBOOT=yes METRIC=10 MII_NOT_SUPPORTED=yes DHCP_CLIENT=dhclient NEEDHOSTNAME=yes PEERDNS=yes PEERYP=no PEERNTPD=no cat ifcfg -eth0 DEVICE=eth0 BOOTPROTO=static IPADDR=192.168.10.1 NETMASK=255.255.255.0 NETWORK=192.168.10.0 BROADCAST=192.168.10.255 ONBOOT=yes METRIC=10 MII_NOT_SUPPORTED=no USERCTL=no HERE are pings for PC1 ping 192.168.10.1 PING 192.168.10.1 (192.168.10.1) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 192.168.10.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.176 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.10.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.159 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.10.1: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=0.165 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.10.1: icmp_seq=4 ttl=64 time=0.159 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.10.1: icmp_seq=5 ttl=64 time=0.163 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.10.1: icmp_seq=6 ttl=64 time=0.159 ms --- 192.168.10.1 ping statistics --- 6 packets transmitted, 6 received, 0% packet loss, time 4999ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.159/0.163/0.176/0.014 ms ping 192.168.10.2 PING 192.168.10.2 (192.168.10.2) 56(84) bytes of data. From 192.168.10.1 icmp_seq=2 Destination Host Unreachable From 192.168.10.1 icmp_seq=3 Destination Host Unreachable From 192.168.10.1 icmp_seq=4 Destination Host Unreachable From 192.168.10.1 icmp_seq=6 Destination Host Unreachable From 192.168.10.1 icmp_seq=7 Destination Host Unreachable From 192.168.10.1 icmp_seq=8 Destination Host Unreachable --- 192.168.10.2 ping statistics --- 9 packets transmitted, 0 received, +6 errors, 100% packet loss, time 8000ms , pipe 3 ifconfig eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:01:02:45:80:D2 inet addr:192.168.10.1 Bcast:192.168.10.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::201:2ff:fe45:80d2/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:58 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:382 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:5466 (5.3 Kb) TX bytes:36409 (35.5 Kb) Interrupt:9 Base address:0x4000 eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:02:E3:0A:24:61 inet addr:192.168.1.69 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::202:e3ff:fe0a:2461/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:6617 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:3138 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:2739280 (2.6 Mb) TX bytes:332265 (324.4 Kb) Interrupt:10 Base address:0xe000 lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:150 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:150 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:14599 (14.2 Kb) TX bytes:14599 (14.2 Kb) sit0 Link encap:IPv6-in-IPv4 inet6 addr: ::192.168.10.1/96 Scope:Compat inet6 addr: ::127.0.0.1/96 Scope:Unknown inet6 addr: ::192.168.1.69/96 Scope:Compat UP RUNNING NOARP MTU:1480 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B) route -n Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface 192.168.1.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 10 0 0 eth1 192.168.10.0 192.168.10.1 255.255.255.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0 192.168.10.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 10 0 0 eth0 127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo 0.0.0.0 192.168.1.254 0.0.0.0 UG 10 0 0 eth1 Any help appreciated Thanks

New to networking. Running MDV 2005LE with KDE 3.3.2 on each of 2 PCs connected thru ethernet hub, with PC1 as the gateway thru another nic to DSL. Have setup internet sharing in MCC and file sharing using sftp thru Konqueror. Anyway, when I install themes or software on PC2, I find that it appears on PC1 as well, even though I am certain that the PCs are NOT logged onto each other thru ssh. Any ideas what I am missing. I do have internet sharing enabled on PC1 which is the gateway. Could this be how the themes or software is "transferred" to the PC1 when it is not intended? Any help appreciated. Thanks

MDV 2005LE with KDE 3.3.2. KDE printer configurator GUI opens hung and stays hung, but can print from MCC. Removed and reinstalled printer. This happens for all users. Opened kcmshell- print module from console but GUI is still hung. Other kde GUIs seem to be OK. Any ideas? Thanks

Running MDV 2005LE. Not sure about where to post but this seems to initiate when I print. I have never had this problem with this PC or printer before. 2 PCs (MDV 2005LE to MDV 2005LE) thru hub. Samsung laser printer thru USB on PC2. When I print KDE testpage or doc from Kword, all is ok. If I print from an XSane scanned .tiff document, my cpu usage goes to 75% and my hub starts to indicate data transfer, although neither PC is logged on to net or each other. The printjob ends up held in que and the printer icon indicates disconected or removed (x or-). The printer is a local USB printer on PC2. Fairly sure PC1 is not involved in this. Only way to stop CP usage or LEDs on hub is to disconnect eth0. Any ideas what's going on? I have tried stopping some services in MCC (like NFS, SMB, etc. but it happens either way). The command 'top' indicates about 70% cpu usage associated with my home folder. Is there some printer configuration in XSane that I missed? Thanks

I f you are looking for an All-in-one printer scanner copier, look into linuxprinting.org. If you don't mind slightly older technology, the Microtek Slimscan C6 USB is supported although out of production. But I see them for sale all the time in Ebay or thrift shops for $5 or less. Good luck

pb, Your frustration is real, but it may not be entirely due to GNU/linux. Being creatures of habit, our PERCEPTION is that things should work just like we're used to , eg. Windows. That doesn't mean that everything the Windows GUI does is the best way. It just means it was the ONLY way for a long time and so we got used to it. Are there some issues with linux? Of course. But so are there with MS products. Have you ever tried to make FAT and NTFS play nice? Did you ever try to get MS Backup to work properly between W98 or ME and W2000? What was the deal with putting in msconfig, then taking it out then back in again. Why is just about every version of MS Works incompatible with every other one. If you're trying to run a business with Works, you're screwed. Did you know that MS Outlook .pst files between Office 2000 and Office 2003 are not readily compatible, and there is no good technical reason why they shouldn't be? AS FOR HARDWARE WORKING OUT OF THE BOX, Over the past 3 mos. I have built 6 PCs with varying parts and Mandrake/Mandriva had drivers for ALL OF THE FOLLOWING HDWR, except a Canon printer and a winmodem. Wme, W2000 and Wxp did NOT HAVE DRIVERS for the following: Matrox G400 video SiS 625 integrated video HSP56 modem Canon C555 printer Epson C82 printer Cmedia audio amigo IA56 hdwr modem SiS onboard ethernet Samsung 2151 laser printer SiS integrated audio First, linux has the same problem that most things do... the documentation could be better, but that's true in the Windows world as well. I usually type in a request on friday, enjoy my weekend, and have an answer by Sunday. For me that's WAAYY better than sitting on the phone for tech support for 45 minutes or longer. (Just a suggestion, maybe set up a cheap PC with linux that you can "trash" for experience. I bought a 500 mhz Plll for about $75). Second, I thought back on my "learning Windows" days and realize that it took me hours to get some things done in Windows as well. It's just that now that I know how to "BE PRODUCTIVE" in Windows, my perception is that I should get things done as fast in a new OS (that I have little knowledge of) as I do in an OS that I have had years of practice with...........Makes no sense! Little by little, linux will take the best out of other OSs and incorporate them, just as MS "borrowed/stole" lots of stuff from other platforms (including linux/unix) to include in their OS. Mandrake 10.0 was solid for me. 10.1 was a little flaky, and now MDV 10.2 (2005LE) seems back up to snuff. Glad you got your mouse buttons sorted out. If you are willing to put in the "sweat equity" of learning and using linux now, then others will have an alternative to MS down the road. good luck

Sadly, my experience with vendor tech support and PC documentation in general has led me to the conclusion that 95% of it is WORTHLESS. This is regardless of OS, software vendor, or hdwr vendor. same goes for my phone co., ISP provider, utility co.,etc........ Yes, you are right, MDV should deliver the goods, but from a practical standpoint, I don't see how they can provide top flight tech support from the position they are in. Linux has what, 2 or 3% of the desktop market AND out of that Mandriva has 15 or 20% share, and out of that, maybe 20 to 30% of Mandriva users actually PAY for the product. I'm absolutely not defending them, but you have to look at club membership more as a donation to the GNU/linux community, then you won't feel so bad about poor service. I have always felt that if we are willing to put up with the 'sweat equity' of a fledgling industry NOW, then maybe down the road, others will have an alternative to .....you know who. If you wan't linux distributors to provide top flight customer service, then they are going to have to charge WAAAAAYYY more for their service, until the economies of scale kick in and the price comes down. Be careful what you wish for.....

Have heard USB devices are handled differently from 10.0 to 10.2 but in MDK 10.0 my Lexar removeable drive is recognized first time everytime. Also, icon does not have the option to unmount, so I don't when removing. MDV 10.2 is official version. I must plug and unplug this Lexar drive up to three times to get an icon on desktop. This happens whether or not hrdrake or hotplug is running. Although the drive works fine, it is very annoying to do this. I guess I could start trouble shooting by finding out whether the device is recognized, but no icon is created, or if the device is not recognized at all. But not sure how to go about doing this. Any ideas? Thanks

As a newb just learning networking, you guys are way over my head, but was working on internet sharing and found the discussion interesting enough to comment. I have found some of the MCC documentation regarding networking and firewalls to be somewhat indecipherable, not applicable, missing or counterintuitive. Anyway, hopefully this ties into this topic by saying that the original poster has indicated they are not interested in iptable configuration and since there was mention of MS I had to add that you can be sure that MS and the MAC people are begging, borrowing, or stealing the best possible features from anywhere they can to incorporate into their OSs. Do they always succeed? Of course not. MS's proprietary formats, incompatible formats, upgrades, etc have driven me to linux ( I think it is mainly a marketing ploy). In spite of this I will say one good thing about MS is the philosophy of making the configuration of the OS as transparent to the end user as possible even if some of their other philosophies are worthless. Many people feel this is sacreligious but it doesn't have to be. You can still have configurability of linux offered to the more advanced user on a deeper level. There are a couple of great articles written by Eric Raymond and Joel Spolsky about what a good productive interface should be and why distros have been and will continue to be released with UIs that have GUI scripts used to automate more and more OS functions. Yes, some times the GUI scripts are wrong or not flexible enough, or misleading but that is the fault of the documentation or script writer, not because GUIs as a philosophy are inherently less effective. If the linux community's stock answer about security can come to include some acceptance of agreements and/or standards about security by better documentation and by better automation of networking tools, firewalls, port configuration, etc., it would sure help things out. I too have heard for a long time about how there is no need to be concerned about security in linux. Anyway... just finished setting up ssh and internet sharing on a 2 MDV PC network and downloaded a theme to use on PC2, but it wound up on PC1 as well and I did not purposely install it there so it got me to wondering about security, therefore this post. Well...back to networking...

Thanks for the help. At this point my internet sharing is now working, but am confused as to why. Played around with iptables, routing , etc for a while, but I got the urge to look into firewall. MCC has a question under firewall: Which services would you like the internet to connect to? And a checkbox for "everything" (no firewall). You would think that this setting would allow for open and free networking and sharing, but apparently not. As soon as I unchecked this, and checked DNS, webserver and echo request, I had internet sharing with my PC2. Can someone please explain how this firewall checkbox list works? MCC documentation doesn't cut it. Also, under MCC security, I could swear there were permissions , user, and firewall settings. Now I only have firewall. Is this MDV 2005LE defaults, and am I thinking of MDK 10.0? Thanks

You nailed it. ssh was not running on PC1 Next project is internet sharing. I have run internet sharing in MCC and applied it to eth1 on PC1, but still do not have access to 'net on PC2. PC1 is MDV 2005LE eth0 is NIC to DSL modem, which I think is a bridge /router that assigns me a dynamic address( DHCP during setup) eth1 is NIC --> hub --> PC2 (setup as static 192.168.10.1 during MCC setup) PC2 is MDK 10.0 eth0 is NIC --> hub --> PC1 (setup as static 192.168.10.2 during MCC setup) Is this doable with the NIC --> DSL modem as DHCP and the 2 PC network as static? Have heard that in Mandrake networking it is best to continue either with GUI or CL but not both. I have run across info about networks with routers and dialup, but that is not my situation. Any good tutorials out there? curious, why does the manage connections in MCC show eth connections as disconnected? If I hit connect, it does, then disconnects, but am still on the net. Thanks

here is the output of ifconfig for : output of ifconfig on PC 2 eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0D:87:76:F4:60 inet addr:192.168.10.2 Bcast:192.168.10.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::20d:87ff:fe76:f460/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:591 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:12346 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:96 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:57660 (56.3 Kb) TX bytes:917627 (896.1 Kb) Interrupt:10 Base address:0xcc00 lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:4396 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:4396 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:283797 (277.1 Kb) TX bytes:283797 (277.1 Kb) output of ifconfig of PC1 eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:01:02:45:80:D2 inet addr:192.168.1.66 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::201:2ff:fe45:80d2/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:19135 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:7338 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:5530231 (5.2 Mb) TX bytes:990385 (967.1 Kb) Interrupt:9 Base address:0x4000 eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:02:E3:0A:24:61 inet addr:192.168.10.1 Bcast:192.168.10.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::202:e3ff:fe0a:2461/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:9857 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:470 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:951041 (928.7 Kb) TX bytes:44629 (43.5 Kb) Interrupt:10 Base address:0xe000 lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:38 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:38 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:3450 (3.3 Kb) TX bytes:3450 (3.3 Kb) sit0 Link encap:IPv6-in-IPv4 inet6 addr: ::192.168.10.1/96 Scope:Compat inet6 addr: ::192.168.1.66/96 Scope:Compat inet6 addr: ::127.0.0.1/96 Scope:Unknown UP RUNNING NOARP MTU:1480 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B) here is resolv.conf of PC2 search mylan # search gateway.2wire.net nameserver 192.168.10.2 # nameserver 192.168.1.254 # ppp temp entry here is resolv.conf of PC1 search gateway.2wire.net nameserver 192.168.1.254 Firewall is disabled on PC1 (everything -no firewall is checked) Trying to connect to the eth1 card on PC1 How do I enable sshd on PC1 Why is PC1 able to access files on PC2 thru sftp in Konqueror? I set up both PCs the same way thru MCC eth0 on PC1 was setup in MCC with LAN thru DSL modem for internet connection. eth0 on PC2 and eth1 on PC1 were setup thru GUI in MCC and meant to see each other. I am posting the outputs of PC2 thru ssh in Konqueror on PC1, so I know PC1 is 'seeing' PC2. It is PC2 that cannot access PC1. Hope this helps Thanks

very new to networking PC 1 Mandriva 2005LE eth0 is 3com NIC setup thru Mandrake CC to connect to DSL modem - all OK (auto DHCP) eth1 is netgear NIC setup thru Mandrake CC to home net thru lynksis hub to PC 2 setup static hostname name1.mylan address 192.168.10.1 PC 2 Mandrake 10.0 eth0 is SiS NIC setup thru MCC to home net thru the linksys hub setup static hostname name2.mylan address 192.168.10.2 each PC is able to ping itself and each other I see hub lights indicating activity PC1 is able to 'see' PC2 via ssh via Konqueror PC2 cannot 'see' PC 1 error mssg an error occurred while loading 192.168.10.1 could not connect to host 192.168.10.1 Unless it is related to the problem, I am not concerned about internet sharing right now. I think if I get these 2 PCs to see each other first, then the internet sharing will fall into place. I can post some outputs any help appreciated Thanks

1. Konq in MDK 10.0 pretty much configured itself and I had some right click options available to extract archive files. Konq in MDV 2005LE does not have these options. I tried to add these to the service menu but destroyed 1 install, so am leery of doing it again. 2. Many times if I open a file with double click or right click then open, the file opens into a window, but is not 'workable' . I sometimes have to change permissions. If I right click and go down to 'open with'..... it works. Any ideas what's up? Thanks

Using MDV 2005LE Lexar USB pendrive is inconsistent whether icon is placed on desktop when auto mounting. I think it always mounts 'cause when there's no icon, I create new dev and it's there and I can 'make' an icon, but..... would be nice to have consistency. Also notice that some times if Konqueror is already open, the device icon will not be placed. Sometimes have to insert and reinstert to get it to 'see' the device. Any help? Thanks

Trying Speedstream 5360 ADSL modem with Mandriva 2005LE/ LAN connection. SBC tech says it is a supported modem. Also shows up in linux HCL. I have power, DSL signal, Ethernet up, but this unit will not resolve any hosts. SBC tech said something about a special RJ11 phone cord. Whaaaa........? If I use my 2Wire SBC supplied modem - everything is fine. Aren't these units essentially the same? Must be missing something simple. Thanks for any help.

Is your BIOS set to plug 'n play? Are your USB modules installed? Are they loading up on boot? good luck