That's cool,

I think the main problem that you're having is that the ports required to connect to samba are filtered. Whether it's at your ISP, your router, or the machine itself. Perhaps you've...

Hi Darkflib!

I can't speak for the OP, but one of the advantages of running Linux from a usb stick (pen drive, thumb drive, I never know what to call those things...) is that you can configure it...

Hi!

It's most likely filtered by your ISP. They generally do this to help prevent old, unpatched Windows machines that are directly connected to the internet from being cracked. In general, this...

Hi!

I hope you've already found an answer to this, but if not, this thread might help:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-networking-3/dns-rndc-service-errror-229950/

Check out tinycore! (http://www.tinycorelinux.com/)
Or P.U.D. Linux! It's based on Ubuntu.
SLAX also runs great from a pen drive!

For the record, I've run the standard xubuntu on a 2GB stick...

One thing to remember about 'sudo su' is that it's not a 'login shell' by default. If you use 'sudo su -l' ('sudo su -' for short) then you'll inherit all of the root user's environment variables,...

Here's a silly question... Have you tried forcing your NIC on the Windows box to run in 'full duplex' mode?

The speed problem is only when going up from the Windows box to the Linux box right? ...

Hi Shwick!

I'm not exactly sure what you're trying to do with the usermod command there. If it's giving you the usage, then you've likely got a syntax error somewhere. What's the end result...

Hi k2k,

There are a few options. Usually, if you're the root user, these things are in your "PATH". Are you by any chance logging in as another user, and using the "su" command to get to root? ...

Yeah, haven't worked with Xen much myself. That could be it! Let us know what you find :)

-G

Are you sure you don't just have to run the .bin file? I've seem some software packaged as .bin or .run. These are usually install scripts that extract their own rpms (or binaries, or source, or...

Hi Mike,

That's certainly an odd problem... Let's compare the output of these commands:

$ date "+%a %d %b %Y %X %Z"; hwclock; ntpdate pool.ntp.org

That'll tell us if there are any...

Here's another problem:

"however, the dyndns.com auto detector detects another ip, i have to manually change it to 192.168.1.5 so i can do ssh at home"

dyndns is detecting your "public" ip...