Hi Alex,
thanks for the reply. like yourself i have all of my network hiden away behind smoothwall firewalls, which is why i was giong with just a shutdown.

the truth is when ever i use...

Hi All,
i have setup vnc on my fedora linux box, but after a bit of looking around i can see that to vnc the gnome desktop i need to switch off the gnome desktop on the host machine. problem...

thanks for that,
i'll give it a try.

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Hey,
Thanks for all the advice, but we seam to have skiped one point.

when the ups sends a shutdown command to the box, how can i then tell the box to run the remote shutdown script that...

Hi All,
anyone have a bright idea for me. i have one linux box attached to an UPS system. when the battery is low it tells the linux box to shutdown.

is there a way that i can get this...

Hey All,
This post is closed, as i have gone and got a pci adaptec scsi card. yea see my other post in this forum, i have the same problem!

thanks for looking

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nice!
have a good weekend dude

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Yea just got the drivers in source from symbios. so i'll do the linux dd at the boot.
will it work if the drivers are in source format? if not how do i compile them to work with fedora (brief...

Hey,
Yea the card does seam to get a lot of stick from the community, unfortunatly i'm stuck with it at the moment. is there any way at boot time to give the system an alturnative driver and...

Hi,
i have just tryed to install fedora core 1 on an old server box, 2x pII300 | 1Gb | symbios scsi 53c876e. problem is when the install gets to lookup the scsi device (at install) it displays...

Well What do you know,
Gave it one more shot using fsck on each partision and its all cleared up. back on line and working, well a few minor personality defects but...

cheers people,
from boot or mannualy when i run the fsck/e2fsck command i get "/: unexpected inconsystency; run fsck mannualy" then it drops me into a shell. to be honest i think...

i'm trying to but i'm not really sure how to use them properly, never had to before

any advice?

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Hi All,
my redhat 8.0 box froze up yesterday leaving me no chose but to powerdown. now it wont boot. it getts going but then starts doing file system checks and drops me in to a recovery...

cheers! as always anything is a start,

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Hi All,
i want to relay mail through my fedora box on to my exchange server. i'm useing sendmail 8.12.10, perviously there would have been a relay-domains file in /etc/maill, but it does not...

Hi All,
Can anyone help me out with my sendmail config? the problem i have is that when i telnet to port 25 the output states that it is localhost.localdomain. but the box its self is named...

Hi All,
I'm try to setup mimedefang on fedora core 1 using sendmail, the problem is that i do not have much experiance of rebuilding software, which this processs requires.

so the process...

all you have to do is drop the redhat disk into the drive, make sure the drive is bootable, and your away. then just follow the graphical install, it really quite informative. when you come the...

no the firewall is off. i think i may pass this over to the windows forums, i dont think its a samba problem but maybe something more windows defualt

cheers for your help,

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Hi,
i am using user authentication and all the computers and servers are within the same domain. its only the xp machine that cant login the win2k machines are fine. i dont think its the samba...

Hi All,
i have an AD win2k network with two redhat 8 boxes to run the intranet. all the win2k boxes can access the redhat boxes through samba, the problem i have is that a new machine running...

:: raise both hands and a foot:: its my system and I want absolute power!! even if it does corrupt absolutely.

root : like being superman in your own metropolis


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me again,
also on another box i have vnc installed but it only seems to be the client side.

the box that has the server side is one which i chose to install everything. under...

Hey All,

running vncserver on my linux box, its up and running. but when i use the win client side of vnc all i get is the gray crosshatched screen, am i expecting to much? i was hoping...

sadly stopping the ipchains and iptables did not help the firewall is still set to high, has anyone else had this problem with the firewall setup?, cuz it seems to happen to me every time i do an...

happly i'm tucked away behind an enerprise class firewall, so i'm not to fussed about the software firewalls on indiviual machines. but even so i'd be interested to see your script, you can never...

Hey dani,
Thanks for gettin back so fast, see thats the problem right there, i understand the gui thing but, i dont know the file name or location of the firewall file to edit any...

Hey,
If you have an unused system kickin around then i would recomend putin redhat on as the only system, one of the more powerfull fetures of linux is its network functions, load up the full...

Hey All,
It seems that when ever i install redhat, i get to the firewall section and tell it 'no firewall' but every time without fail i login and there it is firewall set to 'high'. can...

hey,
If your still looking at this post heres a web site that is a nice and easy look at using samba as a pdc:

http://www.linux-mag.com/cgi-bin/printer.pl?issue=2002-02&article=samba
...

Ok dont ask me how but the old swich it off and back on again seems to have done the trick. i now have a linux PDC that all my win2k users can login to

cheers

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Hey All,
so here we go, i have set up samba 2.2.5 on redhat 8.0, and from a win2k server box i can see the linux boxes and i can access them, nice.

c the problem is now that i am...