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<FONT COLOR="navy">X and DPMS mode
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Sat, 4 Dec 1999 18:41:42 -0500 (EST)
<BR>From: Matthew Willis &lt;<A HREF="mailto:matt@optimus.cee.cornell.edu">matt@optimus.cee.cornell.edu&gt;</A>
<P> I like putting my monitor to sleep when I leave the computer. It uses
DPMS time out after 15 minutes, but sometimes doing it manually is
nice. The problem with doing it manually is that you can easily
"un-trigger" DPMS by accidentally hitting the mouse. In an xterm I
use this trick
<P> sleep 1; xset dpms force standby
<P> For a fancier setup I have an icon on my KDE desktop that runs
&lt;A HREF=misc/tips/standby.tcl.txt&gt;this tcl/tk script&lt;/A&gt; that counts down
from 5 and then enters dpms standby mode.
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<FONT COLOR="navy">Film scaanners
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Sun, 12 Dec 1999 06:07:19 -0700
<BR>From: Warren Young &lt;<A HREF="mailto:tangent@cyberport.com">tangent@cyberport.com&gt;</A>
<P> Another section in the Linux driver gap just got filled: until recently,
the only film scanners Linux supported (via SANE) were two of Nikon's
units: one is low-powered and expensive, and the other is
top-of-the-line and *extremely* expensive. :) So, I chose an
affordable Mintolta scanner, and had to run it under Windows.
<P> I was unimpressed with the scanning software that came with the unit.
As it happens, Hamrick Software (www.hamrick.com) makes a shareware
package called VueScan that does a much better job than Minolta's
software. I bought it, and then sent Ed Hamrick an email saying how
easy I thought it would be to port the package to Linux. He didn't seem
interested, but then a month later, I happened back by his site, and
there the Linux version was! I've been playing with it for the last few
months, and it works every bit as beautifully as the Windows version.
<P> VueScan is a bit like 4Front's OSS sound drivers: closed source, and
payware ($40 for all versions), but high-quality and indispensible if
you can't find equivalent free drivers. The $40 actually buys you a
different package, called VuePrint, which I guess is an image catalog
and printing program, but I've never actually used it. VueScan sort of
comes along for the price, almost like an extra, but that's the only
piece I'm interested in. VuePrint hasn't been ported to Linux anyway.
<P> The package is also noteworthy in that Ed Hamrick really cranks out the
code: new versions sometimes appear weekly!
<P> Please give this guy some publicity. He really deserves it.
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<FONT COLOR="navy">2 cent tip: Automagic updating of RPMs
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Thu, 16 Dec 1999 15:00:06 +0100 (CET)
<BR>From: Ove Gram Nipen &lt;<A HREF="mailto:oven@oven.dhs.org">oven@oven.dhs.org&gt;</A>
<P> If you have a permanent connection to the Internet, and are running a
linux system based on RPM packages, here's a tip on how to make sure these
are always updated. The following presumes that you run RedHat, but it can
be easily adapted to suit other RPM based distributions.
<P> USE AT OWN RISK! This tip will impose changes on your system, and if
anything goes wrong, don't say I didn't warn you. I will not be
responsible.
<P> The following commands are to be issued as superuser (root). Change to
superuser mode by running
<P> su -
<P> and entering the superuser password.
<P> First, you find an nfs server that exports the redhat-updates directory. I
use ftp.nvg.ntnu.no, which is stationed in Norway. Mount up this server on
your local file system, by adding this (or something similar) to
/etc/fstab:
<P> ftp.nvg.ntnu.no:/pub/ftp/pub/linux/redhat-updates /mnt/updates nfs
defaults 0 0
<P> (all in one line). Then, make sure that the directory exists by issuing
the command
<P> mkdir /mnt/updates
<P> and mount it up with
<P> mount /mnt/updates
<P> which should yield no error messages. Hopefully.
<P> Now we should be well connected. Check this by changing to the appropriate
directory for your system upgrades, e.g.:
<P> cd /mnt/updates/6.1/i386<BR>
ls
<P> You ought to see a lot of .rpm files. The rpm program has one nifty
parameter, namely --freshen. Let's try it out.
<P> rpm --freshen *.rpm
<P> After a bit of waiting, your system should now be updated to the very
latest security patches and soforth.
<P> Next, you want to schedule some sort of automagic running of the above
line. Let's try crontab. Say you want to run this update once a day,
perhaps in the middle of the night. updatedb usually runs at 4 am, so why
not run this command at 3 am? run crontab -e, and insert the following
line: (not the one starting with #, that's just a comment).
<PRE>
# Min Hr Day Month Wday Command
0 3 * * * rpm --freshen /mnt/updates/6.1/i386/*.rpm
</PRE>
<P> Save the file, and exit. Crontab will now be updated.
<P> That oughta be it. Please don't mail me with questions like
"Where is the nearest nfs server carrying redhat in &lt;insert your home
country here&gt;". I really don't know. Actually, I only know of
ftp.nvg.ntnu.no.
<P> Good luck.
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<FONT COLOR="navy">File deletion
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Thu, 16 Dec 1999 10:43:07 -0700 (MST)
<BR>From: M. Leo Cooper &lt;<A HREF="mailto:thegrendel@theriver.com">thegrendel@theriver.com&gt;</A>
<P> Dear Linux Gazette,
<P> The following (bash)
<A HREF=misc/tips/delete.sh.txt>; shell script</A>; is useful for deleting files
containing nasty characters, such as *, +, (, embedded spaces, etc. If you like
it, you may publish it in your 'tips' section or wherever else you find
appropriate.
<P> Mendel
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ANSWER: <FONT COLOR="navy">Mailbag answer: Linux Communications
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Tue, 30 Nov 1999 15:14:27 -0600 (CST)
<BR>From: Michael P. Plezbert &lt;<A HREF="mailto:plezbert@cs.wustl.edu">plezbert@cs.wustl.edu&gt;</A>
<BLOCKQUOTE>
From: Chuck Newman &lt;cnewman@cncnet.com&gt;
Is there a Linux based communications program similar to pcAnywhere or
Carbon Copy? I need
remote PC control. Don't need to transfer files.
</BLOCKQUOTE>
<P> Check out VNC at http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/index.html. It will
allow you to control a Windows PC from an X session, or vice-versa, or
control either one from a java-capable web browser.
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ANSWER: <FONT COLOR="navy">Re: Hmmm.... don't know how to categorize this..
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Tue, 30 Nov 1999 18:04:54 -0500 (EST)
<BR>From: John Beimler &lt;<A HREF="mailto:john@radiomind.com">john@radiomind.com&gt;</A>
<P> You asked in Linux Gazette on how to run stuff after you log out
<P> Take a look at screen:
http://www.gnu.org/software/screen/
<P> It is a great package that does exactly what you are looking for (and more)
<P> regards
<P> john
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ANSWER: <FONT COLOR="navy">Re: leaving processes running [was: Hmmm.... don't know how to
categorize this..]
</FONT> </H3>
Tue, 30 Nov 1999 22:25:34 -0500
<BR>From: Steven G. Johnson &lt;<A HREF="mailto:stevenj@alum.mit.edu">stevenj@alum.mit.edu&gt;</A>
<P> &gt;I usually log into my machine with SSH from home (no concole access)
&gt;and I was wondering if there is a way to have processes still running
&gt;after I log out. For instance an ftp-session loading an ISO, etc..
<P> You'll probably get a bucketful of responses, but the general way to do
this (from the shell) is:
<P> nohup command &gt;&amp; command.out &amp;
<P> ("nohup" means "no hang-up" and is what allows the process to keep running
after you log out, and the "&amp;" puts it in the background.) Here,
"command" should be whatever command you want to leave running. I've
redirected all of its output to the file "command.out"; you can omit this
and any output will be redirected by default to "nohup.out", or use
"/dev/null" to discard the output.
<P> You can't (directly) use this for something like ftp that requires
interaction. One option would be to write an "expect" script (man expect)
to script an ftp session. A better way, however, would be to download
something like the GNU wget program (http://sunsite.auc.dk/wget/) which
lets you fetch a URL directly from the command-line without any extra
interaction, and is useful both for scripting and for use with nohup. (I
hope that wget will become a standard part of Linux distros.)
<P> Cordially,
Steven G. Johnson
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ANSWER: <FONT COLOR="navy">Re: Looking for the Korn shell
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Tue, 30 Nov 1999 22:32:15 -0500
<BR>From: Steven G. Johnson &lt;<A HREF="mailto:stevenj@alum.mit.edu">stevenj@alum.mit.edu&gt;</A>
<P> &gt; Hi, I recently obtained Redhat V6.0 and I found out to my dismay, that it
&gt;does not have the Korn shell with it. Does anybody know where I can find a
&gt;copy of it? Thanks.
<P> You want "pdksh," the Public Domain Korn Shell. (Note that the GNU bash
shell has many of the Korn shell's features, too.) See:
<P> http://www.cs.mun.ca/~michael/pdksh/
<P> Cordially,
Steven G. Johnson
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ANSWER: <FONT COLOR="navy">Re: Telnet 110 fails
</FONT> </H3>
Wed, 1 Dec 1999 10:22:34 -0500
<BR>From: Gerard Beekmans &lt;<A HREF="mailto:glb@dds.nl">glb@dds.nl&gt;</A>
<BLOCKQUOTE>
I have 6-7 pcs in the office on LAN. I am on RH6.0 and the rest on W98.
I am trying to configure my pc as the email server
for this small LAN.
I have managed to correctly setup DNS. A remote PC can resolve the DNS
server correctly. Then I went into Linuxconf and
setup the Email server portion. My Linux PC by the way is named svr and
the domain is cma.com
We are using Netscape as the email client. I entered svr.cma.com as the
Incoming and Outgoing mail servers. Netscape
client can sent email but were unable to receive (email) with the
message: "Netscape's network connection was refused by
the server svr.cma.com The server may not be accepting connections or
may be busy. Try connecting again later."
I did a telnet svr.cma.com 110 with a "Unable to connect to remote host"
message. But a telnet svr.cma.com 25 is
ok. That explaint why sending is OK but not receiving rite?
How do I fix this?
</BLOCKQUOTE>
<P> The problem you're having is a system lacking a POP3 server. You can
easily fix this by downloading a POP3 server and install it.
<P> You can find some at http://idirect.linuxberg.com/conhtml/ser_mail.html
<P>
Gerard Beekmans
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ANSWER: <FONT COLOR="navy">Re: HELP with LT Win Modem and SB 16 Sound Blaster wanted!
</FONT> </H3>
Wed, 1 Dec 1999 10:25:18 -0500
<BR>From: Gerard Beekmans &lt;<A HREF="mailto:glb@dds.nl">glb@dds.nl&gt;</A>
<BLOCKQUOTE>
I am a new Linux Red Hat 6.0 user.
I cannot connect to the Internet (still using Winows 98). My LT Win
Modem connected to com3 is not working under Linux.
(Someone wrote that trying to config Win modems for Linux is waste of
time, is it true?)
Connection: 8, parity - none, stopbit - 1. I told the 'modemtool' to use
to use the serial port to which my modem is
connected. I removed the word 'lock' in /etc/ppp/options file.
I get 'modem is busy' in kppp configuration program or 'mode is locked'
errors in other programs.
I also have a problem with SB 16 sound blaster. 'sndconfig' program
doesn't help!
I am looking for anybody who can help me to make my modem and sound
blaster working with Linux.
Please help!!!
</BLOCKQUOTE>
<P> It's true; Winmodems don't work under Linux. Winmodems are specially
designed to work with Microsoft Windows and are not supported in Linux.
The only way to get a modem to work is to buy a non-winmodem.
<P> Could you specify your sound blaster problem?
<P>
Gerard Beekmans
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ANSWER: <FONT COLOR="navy">Telnet not working on recent RedHat/Mandrake
</FONT> </H3>
Wed, 01 Dec 1999 10:39:07 -0500
<BR>From: R. Smith &lt;<A HREF="mailto:rsmith13@tampabay.rr.com">rsmith13@tampabay.rr.com&gt;</A>
<P> Sir,
<P> I've seen a spurt of letters in "The Answer Guy" and elsewhere about
telnet not working with recent versions of RedHat and Mandrake. I would
like to point out that the rpm packages have been split into two, one
for the telnet client and one for the server. When I installed Mandrake
6.1 the client package was installed but the server package wasn't. I
guess this was done to improve security. When someone has problems with
telneting into a 6.x RH/Mandrake linux box, they should make sure the
server package is installed! I also would like to point out that you
cannot telnet into a stock RedHat/Mandrake box as root.
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ANSWER: <FONT COLOR="navy">Re: slowwwww ftp and partition problem
</FONT> </H3>
Wed, 1 Dec 1999 10:42:34 -0500
<BR>From: Gerard Beekmans &lt;<A HREF="mailto:glb@dds.nl">glb@dds.nl&gt;</A>
<BLOCKQUOTE>
I have encountered two problems with linux (Mandrake 6.1) that I haven't
figured out how to overcome.
The first problem is the logon speed for ftp. I have 3 desktops and a
laptop that I have networked with 100 Mbps ethernet. 2
of the 3 desktops are dual booted with OS/2 and linux, the remaining
desktop and the laptop are linux only. If I try to connect
to ftpd on linux with an ftp client on either OS/2 or linux, there is an
approximately 3-5 minute wait before a logon prompt is
returned. This is clearly not running properly! I can use a linux client
to an OS/2 ftpd, and promptly get the logon prompt. I've
tried "renice" at both -20 and +20 using KDE's task manager. What do I
need to do to speed this up?
The second problem is: I have one machine with an 8 Gb drive partitioned
into a 2Gb,6Gb, and 128k swap. Mandrake 6.1 is
installed on the 2Gb partition, hda1. The 6Gb partition, hda3, is an
ext2 partition. After linux boots, the 6Gb partition is
mounted to /mnt/hda3. The problem that I've encountered is that when
copying files to /mnt/hda3, it is the first partition that
fills up, not the second. What's happening here? I was using kdisk to
monitor the disk size when mirroring another site to
/mnt/hda3, and it wasn't the correct partition that enlarged. After this
occurred, totally filling the smaller partition, I could no
longer umount the partition, either, getting a message "device is busy."
Any help to solve either of these problems??
</BLOCKQUOTE>
<P> Your first problem; do you get the long waits on a particulair linux box
or on all?
<P> For the second; are you sure that the 6GB partition is mounted to
/mnt/hda3 ? if not and you copy files to /mnt/hda3, it just copies
files to the 2GB partition since /mnt/hda3 is just a directory on the
2GB disk.
<P> if you run 'mount' you get a list with currently mounted file systems
(that is; if the mandrake bootscripts are proper so that mtab gets
updated as soon as the root partition is mounted in read-write mode.
Every time something gets mounted, /etc/mtab is updated, but that wont'
happen on a read-only system. So /etc/mtab could contain old
information).
<P> To make sure that the partition is actually mounted, try this command:
mount -o remount,rw /dev/hda3 /mnt/hda3
<P> Try to copy the files again and see if things go ok this time. If so,
then something goes wrong when your system tries to mount the partition
to /mnt/hda3. If so, contact me again and we'll walk through your
bootscripts to find the problem.
<P> Gerard Beekmans
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ANSWER: <FONT COLOR="navy">Linux Communications
</FONT> </H3>
Wed, 1 Dec 1999 10:44:51 -0500
<BR>From: Gerard Beekmans &lt;<A HREF="mailto:glb@dds.nl">glb@dds.nl&gt;</A>
<BLOCKQUOTE>
Is there a Linux based communications program similar to pcAnywhere or
Carbon Copy? I need remote PC control. Don't
need to transfer files.
</BLOCKQUOTE>
<P> I don't know any names of such software, but I think I've seen it around
somewhere. But I'm not 100% sure.
<P> But why don't you telnet to that linux machine? Then you have all the
control you need; it'll be like you're at the keyboard at that machine.
That's what you want right?
<P> You can configure the linux machine to accept dial-up so you can
dialinto that machine and start a PPP session and then telnet into it.
<P> Gerard Beekmans
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ANSWER: <FONT COLOR="navy">help please
</FONT> </H3>
Wed, 1 Dec 1999 10:50:57 -0500
<BR>From: Gerard Beekmans &lt;<A HREF="mailto:glb@dds.nl">glb@dds.nl&gt;</A>
<BLOCKQUOTE>
please can you help me im new to remote booting i have got the hardware
one network card with a boot rom and one with
out so im fine on the hardware side but how do i configure linux for
remote booting i am new to linux so i really have not got
the foggiest.
</BLOCKQUOTE>
<P> I figure the mini HOWTO Remote-Boot might be a good place to start.
<P> If you have HOWTO's installed on your system, try looking in there (the
mini HOWTO's are often placed in /usr/doc/HOWTO/mini).
<P> If not, then you can always find them at http://www.linuxdoc.org/ (the
Linux Documentation Project's site - the 'guys' who maintain all the
HOWTOs).
<P> Gerard Beekmans
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ANSWER: <FONT COLOR="navy">X-windows application for communicating over /dev/ttyS1 (COM2)
</FONT> </H3>
Wed, 1 Dec 1999 10:53:42 -0500
<BR>From: Gerard Beekmans &lt;<A HREF="mailto:glb@dds.nl">glb@dds.nl&gt;</A>
<BLOCKQUOTE>
Does anyone know where I can find a utility (with source code) that uses
an xterm window for communicating with a remote
asynchronous device over /dev/ttyS1?
Thanks!!
</BLOCKQUOTE>
<P> What you do in an Xterm is the same as you do on a console when you
don't have the X Window System ; run console programs.
<P> So whatever you run in an xterm you can run without X too. So the bottom
line is; what kind of device is it? And how do you want to reach it?
Dial into it? If you have to dial into it, you can use the minicom
program.
<P> If not, then i need to know more about the hardware before i can give
suggestions.
<P> Gerard Beekmans
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ANSWER: <FONT COLOR="navy">Re: Linux memory woes
</FONT> </H3>
Wed, 1 Dec 1999 10:59:13 -0500
<BR>From: Gerard Beekmans &lt;<A HREF="mailto:glb@dds.nl">glb@dds.nl&gt;</A>
<BLOCKQUOTE>
Hi, I've just installed Red Hat 6.0 and it's not detecting all of my
memory. I tried typing linux memdM at the LILO prompt as
recommended but then the boot-up fails. As it is it only detects 14M or
so of my 64M.
I had a look in my bios, and I noticed a line saying that there is a
memory hole at 15M. I'm guessing that this is causing Linux
to not see memory above this, but I don't know why this "hole" is there.
I had a look in my motherboard manual (PC Chips
M577) but it didn't mention anything useful. This hole doesn't seem to
upset Windows; is there anything I can do to get Linux
to work too?
I also tried swapping my DIMMs around, thinking that if the hole was due
to a bad DIMM it might move up to 47M (?) but it
doesn't.
I've been searching about the web for some insight but I've had no luck
so far.
Can you help?
</BLOCKQUOTE>
<P> Did you disable the memory hole in your BIOS? This memory hole option is
*only* meant for PC's with 16 MB of *less* memory. If you have more than
16MB, you should disable this option. If you use the memory hole option,
the BIOS gives 15MB to your system available and reserves the memory
between 15 and 16MB for other purposes (I forgot what it was for since
it's a long time ago I've used it). Also Windows will only see 15 MB (or
14MB after you substracted the 640MB conventional memory and a little
bit that's reserved for other purposes).
<P> So do disable it and try Linux again. Trust me, you don't need the
memory option at all in your system.
<P> Gerard Beekmans
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ANSWER: <FONT COLOR="navy">Re: Looking for the Korn shell
</FONT> </H3>
Wed, 1 Dec 1999 11:11:06 -0500
<BR>From: Gerard Beekmans &lt;<A HREF="mailto:glb@dds.nl">glb@dds.nl&gt;</A>
<BLOCKQUOTE>
Hi, I recently obtained Redhat V6.0 and I found out to my dismay, that
it does not have the Korn shell with it. Does anybody
know where I can find a copy of it? Thanks.
</BLOCKQUOTE>
<P> You can find it at http://www.kornshell.com/
<P> Gerard Beekmans
<P><STRONG> &lt;<A HREF="mailto:Jimmy">Jimmy&gt;</A> writes:</STRONG>
<P> Yes it does - pdksh. It also has the zsh, which is an expanded version of
the Korn shell. They are also available at http://rpmfind.net
<P> <hr> <P>
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ANSWER: <FONT COLOR="navy">Re: Question
</FONT> </H3>
Wed, 1 Dec 1999 11:16:06 -0500
<BR>From: Gerard Beekmans &lt;<A HREF="mailto:glb@dds.nl">glb@dds.nl&gt;</A>
<BLOCKQUOTE>
I hope this is the right address to right to with a Linux question.
I have a lot of Joliet format CD's made with DirectCD in Windows. Linux
can read the CD's, but on files with long names
(Over 20 characters or so) the filesize is dramatically misreported. 6-7
meg files are listed as 2-3 meg files. Linux can't see it
all, and this of course means the file is pretty much corrupt and of no
use in Linux. The CD's are readable fine in Windows,
but not Linux. I've searched high and low and can find no answer to this
problem. I hope you can help.
</BLOCKQUOTE>
<P> Perhaps upgrading your kernel might work. The kernel contains drivers
for reading file systems like the Joliet format. You can find new kernel
sources at ftp://ftp.kernel.org/
<P> Since that above site is very busy most of the times, try
ftp://ftp.&lt;country&gt;.kernel.org/ (like ftp.ca.kernel.org in my case for
Canada).
<P> Gerard Beekmans
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ANSWER: <FONT COLOR="navy">Re: Linux command questions
</FONT> </H3>
Wed, 1 Dec 1999 10:29:45 -0500
<BR>From: Gerard Beekmans &lt;<A HREF="mailto:glb@dds.nl">glb@dds.nl&gt;</A>
<BLOCKQUOTE>
fsck /usr: What does this command do? What is its NT equivalent.
What is this command: cat /etc/passwd; and what is it's NT equivalent?
</BLOCKQUOTE>
<P> fsck /usr checks the file system that is mounted under the /usr
directory. The MS DOS/Windows equivalent to fsck is scandisk
<P> cat /etc/passwd writes the contents of the /etc/passwd file to standard
output. You don't *have* to specify /etc/passwd, you can use any text
file you wish (you can 'cat' binary files too but that doesn't has much
use).
<P> The MS DOS equivalent to cat is uhm there is no standard program
that does this. The closest thing in DOS is 'edit' which is a text
editor, so that is more a very very light equivalent to programs like
Vim, Emacs, Pico, Ed, etc.
<BLOCKQUOTE><EM>
[The DOS counterpart to cat is "type". -Ed.]
</EM></BLOCKQUOTE>
<BR><STRONG> &lt;<A HREF="mailto:Jimmy">Jimmy&gt;</A> writes:</STRONG>
<P> <CODE>fsck /usr</CODE> checks the partition mounted at /usr for errors and
attempts to corect them. Similar to scandisk in Windows.
<P> &gt; What is this command: cat /etc/passwd; and what is
&gt; it's NT equivalent?
<P> <CODE>cat /etc/passwd</CODE> displays the contents of the file /etc/passwd (the
password database file) on the screen. The NT equivalent of 'cat' is
'type' but it's not as straightforward to view the contents of the
password database (the SAM). A tool that will let you do this is
l0phtcrack - http://www.l0pht.com
<P> <hr> <P>
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ANSWER: <FONT COLOR="navy">
</FONT> </H3>
3 Dec 99 06:58:59 PST
<BR>From: Darrell Scott &lt;<A HREF="mailto:scottie99@netscape.net">scottie99@netscape.net&gt;</A>
<P> Anatoli,
<P> Winmodems are not supported by the Linux kernel. Think of them as dumb modems
- Windows does all of the processing for them, unlike a normal modem which
understands Haynes commands.
<P> Fortunately, all is not lost! Check out:
<P> http://www.linuxvoodoo.org/drivers/cards/modems/
<P> They are working on a "Linmodem" driver that may eventually help solve your
problem! By far the best solution however is to buy a proper modem!
<P> As for your sound card... a SB16 should work under Linux fine. Have you
checked out the Sound-HOWTO (I think you'll find in in /usr/doc/HOWTO on your
RedHat box, if you installed the documentation).
<P> Daz
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3 Dec 99 07:05:44 PST
<BR>From: Darrell Scott &lt;<A HREF="mailto:scottie99@netscape.net">scottie99@netscape.net&gt;</A>
<P> Chuck,
<P> Try VNC (http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/).
<P> VNC runs on a variety of platforms - I use it regularly to access my Windows
PC at work from my Linux box at home! Works well!
<P> Daz
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ANSWER: <FONT COLOR="navy">Re: Neighbour table overflow (fwd)
</FONT> </H3>
Thu, 9 Dec 1999 10:44:21 -0700 (MST)
<BR>From: Dale M. Snider &lt;<A HREF="mailto:dsnider@nmia.com">dsnider@nmia.com&gt;</A>
<P> Hi Marcus,
<P> That did the trick. THANKS!!
<P> I did not have file "/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-lo"
but had file "/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-lo"
<P> It was corrupt and had only
<PRE>
BOOTPROTO=none
</PRE>
Put in
<PRE>
DEVICE=lo
IPADDR7.0.0.1
NETMASK%5.0.0.0
NETWORK7.0.0.0
BROADCAST7.255.255.255
ONBOOT=yes
BOOTPROTO=none
</PRE>
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ANSWER: <FONT COLOR="navy">Re: Linux memory woes
</FONT> </H3>
Sat, 11 Dec 1999 10:03:37 +0100
<BR>From: Joachim Noffke &lt;<A HREF="mailto:Joachim.Noffke@t-online.de">Joachim.Noffke@t-online.de&gt;</A>
<P> The "memory hole" does not mean there is anything wrong with your
physical memory. It is a BIOS setting that reserves the memory between
15 and 16 MB for use by some (especially ISA) expansion cards. Since
this is a relic from the 80286 era, you probably don't need it if your
hardware is not too old. Try disabling it in the BIOS.
<P> Booting with the "mem=..." parameter is necessary only if you have
*more* than 64 MB. The first 64 MB should always be found automatically.
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ANSWER: <FONT COLOR="navy">Re: Configure X to work with Intel 810 chipset
</FONT> </H3>
Sat, 11 Dec 1999 13:05:50 -0600
<BR>From: Winston Chang &lt;<A HREF="mailto:wchang3@students.wisc.edu">wchang3@students.wisc.edu&gt;</A>
<P> Precision Insight has written an X server available at
ftp://ftp.precisioninsight.com/pub/precisio/XFCom/
<P> Their code will be included in the next version of XFree86, 3.3.6.
<P> --Winston
<BR><STRONG> Gihan Dias &lt;<A HREF="mailto:gihan@cse.mrt.ac.lk">gihan@cse.mrt.ac.lk&gt;</A> writes:</STRONG>
<P> I had the same problem. Intel provides X support for this "card". Get the
drivers from:
<P> http://support.intel.com/support/graphics/intel810/linuxsoftware.htm
<P> This definitely works since I'm sending this message using it! (on a
Compaq Desqpro EP)
<P> Now if someone can tall me how to get the sound working with this
chipset....
<P> Gihan
<BR><STRONG>Harshawardhan S. Gadgil &lt;<A HREF="mailto:hsgadgil@hotmail.com">hsgadgil@hotmail.com&gt;</A> writes:</STRONG>
<P> hi there
just see this adjoining
<A HREF=misc/mail/XF86Config.txt>XF86Config File</A> which i changed for my
sis card.
This is for redhat 6.1.
for 6.1 version the display maliciously flickers and shows only black boxes in place of text.
Any help is most welcome. as a result only 8bit color can be used which gives looks very poor in
comparision to the quality of 16-bit crisp display.
<P> For redhat 6.0 version even 16 bit and 24 bit color works perfectly.
<P> HSG.
<P> <STRONG>RYAN &lt;<A HREF="mailto:kib93890@tcts.seed.net.tw">kib93890@tcts.seed.net.tw&gt;</A> writes:</STRONG>
<P> i am try to install Redhat 6.1 and i setup X-windows only 16colcos
but i see intel website has release about 810 linux driver i am try to do it
but it always 16 colors so who can help me
<P> SCANIA LU
<P> <STRONG>Joel Hewitt &lt;<A HREF="mailto:jhewitt@uascwa.com">jhewitt@uascwa.com&gt;</A> writes:</STRONG>
<BLOCKQUOTE>
<A HREF=mailto:ruangvith@linuxfan.com>Ruangvith Tantibhaedhyangkul</A> writes:
<P> I just bought a new computer. It has an "on-board" video card, Intel 810
chipset, or somewhat like that. I couldn't configure X to work with this
type of card. First, I let Linux probed, it failed. Then I looked at the
list, of course, it wasn't there. Then I tried an unlisted card and
configured it as a general svga, it still failed. What to do now?
</BLOCKQUOTE>
<P> I am in the same boat as you, I found this on Intel's web site about some
drivers they have for X and 810. I haven't tried them yet (as I am still at
work), but if you get it going let me know, or I will let you know it
Intel's software makes it work.
http://support.intel.com/support/graphics/intel810/linuxsoftware.htm
I have gotten my computer to work in 640x480 in 16 colors. And as you can
imagine it lookes terrible.
<P> Joel
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ANSWER: <FONT COLOR="navy">nohup
</FONT> </H3>
Sun, 12 Dec 1999 19:44:23 -0500 (EST)
<BR>From: Jimmy O Regan &lt;<A HREF="mailto:sickboy@m-net.arbornet.org">sickboy@m-net.arbornet.org&gt;</A>
<BLOCKQUOTE>
I usually log into my machine with SSH from home (no
concole access) and I was wondering if there is a way
to have processes still running after I log out. For
instance an ftp-session loading an ISO, etc..
</BLOCKQUOTE>
<P> nohup command-string &amp;
<P> 'nohup' tells the program to ignore the hangup signal which is sent when
you disconnect.
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ANSWER: <FONT COLOR="navy">POP3
</FONT> </H3>
Sun, 12 Dec 1999 19:45:23 -0500 (EST)
<BR>From: Jimmy O Regan &lt;<A HREF="mailto:sickboy@m-net.arbornet.org">sickboy@m-net.arbornet.org&gt;</A>
<BLOCKQUOTE>
We are using Netscape as the email client. I entered
svr.cma.com as the Incoming and Outgoing mail servers.
Netscape client can sent email but were unable to
receive (email) with the message: "Netscape's network
connection was refused by the server svr.cma.com The
server may not be accepting connections or may be
busy. Try connecting again later."
<P> I did a telnet svr.cma.com 110 with a "Unable to
connect to remote host" message. But a telnet
svr.cma.com 25 is ok. That explaint why sending is OK
but not receiving rite?
<P> How do I fix this?
</BLOCKQUOTE>
<P> Open /etc/inetd.conf, find the line that has pop-3, and uncomment it
(remove the #). Then use /etc/rc.d/init.d/inet restart
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ANSWER: <FONT COLOR="navy">Linux Remote Control
</FONT> </H3>
Sun, 12 Dec 1999 19:51:14 -0500 (EST)
<BR>From: Jimmy O Regan &lt;<A HREF="mailto:sickboy@m-net.arbornet.org">sickboy@m-net.arbornet.org&gt;</A>
<BLOCKQUOTE>
Is there a Linux based communications program similar
to pcAnywhere or Carbon Copy? I need remote PC
control. Don't need to transfer files
</BLOCKQUOTE>
<P> Are you trying to control a remote linux box? Console or gui? For console,
just telnet, or better from a security POV, use ssh
(http://www.openssh.org) If you want to remotely run graphical apps, X has
this capability built in. Just telnet to the remote machine, and use
<PRE>
export DISPLAY=local_IP:0.0
</PRE>
in bash, or
<PRE>
setenv DISPLAY local_IP:0.0
</PRE>
for csh/tcsh and on the local machine, use
<PRE>
xhost remote_IP
</PRE>
<P> If you want to control a remote windows or linux box, use VNC
(http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/)
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ANSWER: <FONT COLOR="navy">Authenticating Linux in an NT Domain
</FONT> </H3>
Sun, 12 Dec 1999 19:53:39 -0500 (EST)
<BR>From: Jimmy O Regan &lt;<A HREF="mailto:sickboy@m-net.arbornet.org">sickboy@m-net.arbornet.org&gt;</A>
<BLOCKQUOTE>
I want to get linux to authenticate to my NT network.
</BLOCKQUOTE>
<P> Use PAM_SMB - http://www.csn.ul.ie/~airlied/ If you use a RedHat system,
you can find an RPM at http://rpmfind.net
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ANSWER: <FONT COLOR="navy">DOS/Linux connection
</FONT> </H3>
Sun, 12 Dec 1999 20:11:10 -0500 (EST)
<BR>From: Jimmy O Regan &lt;<A HREF="mailto:sickboy@m-net.arbornet.org">sickboy@m-net.arbornet.org&gt;</A>
<BLOCKQUOTE>
I bought an ethernet card for my 386, and connected the in-board
ethernet card on the SPARC with the ethernetcard on the 386. The
cable is twisted-pair, since only two computers are to be connected.
</BLOCKQUOTE>
<P> I'm assuming the cable is terminated. If not, get yourself two 50 ohm
terminators (as well as t-pieces). This could be why they aren't seeing
each other.
<BLOCKQUOTE>
If I turn on both computers, I can start a testing program for the
ethernet card on the 386. It will wait for any external signal. When
booting the SPARC (the 386 sensing for any action), the SPARC checks
for 'eth0' but finds no other computer on the other side.
</BLOCKQUOTE>
<P> It won't just automatically check - try pinging the IP of the DOS machine.
<BLOCKQUOTE>
Questions: (1) how can I let my 386 tell to the SPARC he is there?
(2) How can I make the 386 accessible (that is: the parallel printer
port) from the SPARC?
</BLOCKQUOTE>
<P> (1) ping.
(2) Use the 'net share' command to share the printer, and use Samba on the
Linux box. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/samba/chapter/book/ch07_02.html
contains information on using windows printers from Linux via samba, it
shouldn't be too difficult to adapt this for dos.
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ANSWER: <FONT COLOR="navy">Re: Setup network printer
</FONT> </H3>
Sun, 12 Dec 1999 20:13:19 -0500 (EST)
<BR>From: Jimmy O Regan &lt;<A HREF="mailto:sickboy@m-net.arbornet.org">sickboy@m-net.arbornet.org&gt;</A>
<BLOCKQUOTE>
I have RedHat 6.1 installed, but need to figure out how to use the
network printer. The network printer is shared on a NT domain which is
available to use if I login in NT. Any tip is welcome.
</BLOCKQUOTE>
<P> Check out http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/samba/chapter/book/ch07_02.html
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ANSWER: <FONT COLOR="navy">Re: Linux Gazette MailBag LG #47
</FONT> </H3>
Tue, 14 Dec 1999 20:53:02 +0100
<BR>From: Ingo Saitz &lt;<A HREF="mailto:Ingo.Saitz@stud.uni-hannover.de">Ingo.Saitz@stud.uni-hannover.de&gt;</A>
<P> I hope you were not flooded with mails about this subject. But,
if it is not too late, I would play my 1/50 Euro in your mailbox.
<BLOCKQUOTE> <PRE>
&lt;!DOCTYPE MSML PROPRIETARY "-//MS//HTML 5.0//US" "C:\DOS\COMMAND.COM"&gt;
Please, readers, e-mail your questions and comments in
&lt;BLINK&gt;TEXT&lt;/BLINK&gt;
format, not HTML.
</PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE>
<P> Just kidding ;) But your document does not parse correctly because
&lt;BLINK&gt; is not allowed by the HTML 3.2 DTD. *duck*
<BLOCKQUOTE>
And if your mailer splits long lines by putting an "=" at the end of the line
and moving the last character or two to the next line, please try to turn that
feature off. Also some mailers turn punctuation and foreign characters into
"?" and "&eaacute;" and the like. I can't reformat those,
since I don't know what the original character was! -Ed
</BLOCKQUOTE>
<P> You can pipe the mail through:
<PRE>
perl -pe 's/=\n//;1 while s/=([\dA-F]{2})/chr hex $1/e'
</PRE>
<P> See latin1(7). These magic numbers are the ascii value of the
letter they represent. This form of encoding is called
quoted-printable and it is used to transfer 8bit emails over (old)
7bit smtp mailers. The mail must contain a header saying
"Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable" (see RFC 1521).
This seems to go missing which is not neccessarily your fault.
<P> Ingo
<BLOCKQUOTE><EM>
[Thanks. the script works like a charm. -Ed.]
</EM></BLOCKQUOTE>
<P> P.S.: The signature is for your practice ;)
<PRE>
--
=22=49=27=6D=20=6E=6F=74=20=61=20=67=6F=64=2C=20=49=20=77=61=73=20=6D=69=
=73=71=75=6F=74=65=64=2E=22=0A=
=09=2D=2D=20=4C=69=73=74=65=72=2C=20=52=65=64=20=44=77=61=72=66
</PRE>
<A HREF=misc/tips/quoted-printable-translated.txt>See the result</A><BR>
<A HREF=misc/tips/quoted-printable.txt>See the raw signature file</A><BR>
<A HREF=misc/tips/qp.pl.txt>See the script</A><BR>
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ANSWER: <FONT COLOR="navy">Re:Hmmm.... don't know how to categorize this..
</FONT> </H3>
Sun, 19 Dec 1999 01:23:08 -0500
<BR>From: Srinivasa A. Shikaripura &lt;<A HREF="mailto:sas@lucent.com">sas@lucent.com&gt;</A>
<BLOCKQUOTE>
From: Mika Numminen &lt;mika@Oink.Midgard.HIG.SE&gt;
I usually log into my machine with SSH from home (no concole access)
and I was wondering if there is a way to have processes still running
after I log out. For instance an ftp-session loading an ISO, etc..
</BLOCKQUOTE>
<P> hi,
<P> You could use a program called 'screen'. All your processes
keep running. You can detach from screen, go to home, and re-attach
to it, Voila! all your process are there running!
<P> cheers
-Sas
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ANSWER: <FONT COLOR="navy">Re: Telnet 110 fails
</FONT> </H3>
Sun, 19 Dec 1999 01:27:50 -0500
<BR>From: Srinivasa A. Shikaripura &lt;<A HREF="mailto:sas@lucent.com">sas@lucent.com&gt;</A>
<P> You need to run pop or imap servers on the RH6.0 machine. Then only
it can act as a mail server. Search for pop/imap servers at
http://www.freshmeat.net/
<P> happy setting up...<BR>
-Sas
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ANSWER: <FONT COLOR="navy">No Ethernet connection
</FONT> </H3>
Sun, 19 Dec 1999 01:27:50 -0500
<BR>From: "Long, Douglas" &lt;<A HREF="mailto:DLong@bridge.com">DLong@bridge.com&gt;</A>
<P> The first thing you need to do is check for a link light, if it is on, you
have connectivity. If it is not on, you may be running a straight through
twisted pair Ethernet cable. If you are connecting two Ethernet cards
together with out a hub what you need is a crossover Ethernet cable. Here is
a simple diagram [of how the wires on one end of the cable should be connected
to the other end to form a crossover cable].
<BLOCKQUOTE><PRE>
RJ45 RJ45
1----------3
2----------6
3----------1
4----------4
5----------5
6----------2
7----------7
8----------8
</PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE>
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ANSWER: <FONT COLOR="navy">connecting SPARC and 386 for printing purposes
</FONT> </H3>
Tue, 28 Dec 1999 23:41:29 +0100 (CET)
<BR>From: Roland Smith &lt;<A HREF="mailto:rsmith@xs4all.nl">rsmith@xs4all.nl&gt;</A>
<P> Douwe,
<P> Concerning your question on how to use a 386 as a printer server for a
SPARCstation 10/20 in Issue 48 of the Linux Gazette:
<P> AFAIK, DOS doesn't come with lots of networking stuff. Why don't you
install Linux on the 386? Then you can use ifconfig to configure the
network interface, and lpd (Line Printer Daemon) for printing.
<P> As an alternative, there are printers with a serial interface, or even
models with their own ethernet interface.
<P> HTH, Roland
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ANSWER: <FONT COLOR="navy">Running MS applications on Linux?
</FONT> </H3>
Tue, 28 Dec 1999 23:41:29 +0100 (CET)
<BR>From: Roland Smith &lt;<A HREF="mailto:rsmith@xs4all.nl">rsmith@xs4all.nl&gt;</A>
<P> Richard,
<P> Concerning your question to run MS software on Linux, there are several
alternatives:
<P> There is a pretty good DOS emulator available, dosemu (www.dosemu.org)
<P> For windows software, there is also a windows emulation
library/environment called WINE (www.winehq.com). On the website you'll
find a list of programs that will or will not work with it.
<P> Both of the above programs are free (GPL).
<P> An alternative would be to install windows in a virtual environment
using the commercial vmware emulator (www.vmware.com).
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ANSWER: <FONT COLOR="navy">help with LT Win Modem and SB 16 Sound Blaster wanted
</FONT> </H3>
Tue, 28 Dec 1999 23:41:29 +0100 (CET)
<BR>From: Roland Smith &lt;<A HREF="mailto:rsmith@xs4all.nl">rsmith@xs4all.nl&gt;</A>
You wrote:
<BLOCKQUOTE>
I cannot connect to the Internet (still using Winows 98). My LT Win Modem
connected to com3 is not working under Linux. (Someone wrote that trying
to config Win modems for Linux is waste of time, is it true?)
</BLOCKQUOTE>
<P> Essentially, yes. Winmodems are not really modems. There are missing
some signal processing hardware, the functionality of which has been
replaced by the necessary software driver. Of course, these drivers
only exist for .... You've guessed it :)
<P> There are some efforts to make Linux drivers (search the 'net for
"linmodems", I don't have an URL handy), but only for winmodems with a
particular chipset.
<P> My advice would be to buy a real modem. If you want to be sure that it
works with linux, get an external modem.
<BLOCKQUOTE>
I also have a problem with SB 16 sound blaster.
'sndconfig' program doesn't help!
</BLOCKQUOTE>
<P> Recent soundblaster 16's can be configured with DIP-switches or PnP.
You use a switch to choose between manual setting or PnP-mode.
Read the documentation on the CD that comes with the card (It's a PDF
file). Check if the card is set to manual configuration an then try
sndconfig again.
<P> I'm not familiar with sndconfig, but you can always recompile the
kernel so that the sound driver has the right address, IRQ and DMA
channels, or use the appropriate values as arguments to the insmod(1)
command.
<P> <hr> <P>
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ANSWER: <FONT COLOR="navy">Installing RH6.0
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Tue, 28 Dec 1999 23:41:29 +0100 (CET)
<BR>From: Roland Smith &lt;<A HREF="mailto:rsmith@xs4all.nl">rsmith@xs4all.nl&gt;</A>
You wrote:
<BLOCKQUOTE>
I am trying to install RH 6.0 on a Thinkpad 760ED, unfortunately the cdrom
(Teac 44E) does not appear on the supported cdrom drives, does anyone have
any ideas other than buying an external (supported) cdrom drive.
</BLOCKQUOTE>
<P> Is the CD-ROM not on a "supported" list, or have you tried to install
and it doesn't work?
<P> In the first case, don't worry. Most CD-ROM's are ATAPI devices these
days, and should work without a problem.
<P> In the second case, does the laptop have a network card? in that case
you can try installing over a network.
<P> More information about Linux on laptops can be found at he web-page:
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/
<P> There are even pages specifically for the Thinkpad 760:
http://www.muc.de/~hm/linux/thinkpad.html
<P> Or for Thinkpad's in general:
http://peipa.essex.ac.uk/tp-linux/tp-linux.html
<P> There are also several mailing-lists:
<P> &lt;linux-thinkpad&gt;: see (mailing list home on instructions on how to subscribe
and for an archive.
<P> &lt;linux-laptop@vger.rutgers.edu&gt;: send mail to &lt;Majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu&gt;
with the following command in the body of your email message:
subscribe linux-laptop YOUR-EMAIL ADDRESS (unfortunatly no html-archive known.
<P> &lt;thinkpad@cs.utk.edu&gt;: To subscribe or unsubscribe, send mail to
&lt;thinkpad-request@cs.utk.edu&gt;. In the body, simply type
subscribe your_email_address@your_isp.com. (unfortunatly no html-archive known)
<P> Obviously also all standard linux news groups such as
comp.os.linux.advocacy, comp.os.linux.announce, comp.os.linux.answers,
comp.os.linux.development.apps, comp.os.linux.development.system
comp.os.linux.hardware, comp.os.linux.misc, comp.os.linux.setup and
comp.os.linux.x are good information sources.
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ANSWER: <FONT COLOR="navy">Setup network printer
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Tue, 28 Dec 1999 23:41:29 +0100 (CET)
<BR>From: Roland Smith &lt;<A HREF="mailto:rsmith@xs4all.nl">rsmith@xs4all.nl&gt;</A>
You wrote:
<BLOCKQUOTE>
I have RedHat 6.1 installed, but need to figure out how to use the network
printer. The network printer is shared on a NT domain which is
available to use if I login in NT. Any tip is welcome.
</BLOCKQUOTE>
Basically, you need the smbclient program, and the smbprint
shell-script. This is all covered in the SMB-HOWTO.
(/usr/doc/HOWTO/SMB-HOWTO.gz, if you've installed the HOWTO's)
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