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hello everybody, I m a newbie working in linux platform.My GUI version is Redhat 8.0 Now, we have got a LAN in our office consisting of some 7 computers. Mine is linux platform rest 6 are working in windows 98 , now i have configured samba server on my linux …

While working, My monitor suddenly showed strieking lines and further no response to keyboard. On cold booting, there was a long beep and erratic switching between CD drives with no booting. checked all drives, RAM and processor independently and found no problem in any. Is it a problem with my …

I tried using my usb pendrive, but it won't mount. I been doing a little bit of research on it, the problem might be that I either don't have scis emulation, and I need to rebuild my kernel again, or something else is missing. I rebuilt from the 2.4.26 to …

How do I mount a external USB HD in YellowDog Linux 4.0? Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Installed a USR5610B that is supposed to linux complient. According tothe documentation any kernel from 2.2x and up should recoginze the modem. However when I install the moden (even when reinstalling Suse) Yast does not recognize the modem I have also downloaded the linux drivers. and installed then as an …

Hi all, I am having a problem with Sendmail on HP-UX. I am using it to relay e-mails from an application to external mail servers. The problem exists when the remote mail server is slow in its responses. Here is a sample of the SMTP conversation between my application and …

I have intall a REdhat 9.0 as a server and Ive configure to act as a DHCP server however Im having technical problems b/c the file /etc/dhcpd.conf does not exists. I went to the text edit and I created /etc/dhcpd.conf : subnet 192.192.168.100.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 { range 192.168.100.10 192.168.100.150; default-lease-time …

hi everyone im new to this site really newbie to computers well not windows but linux and was wondering if anyone could help me? i have a dell dimension 2400 120g 512ram 2.8ghz runnin xp home and a laptop (rock) with xp pro on 10g 512ram 990mhz and want to …

I really need help with this. After spending days trying to solve this problem, your help is very appreciated! I have Redhat 9 and can ping my server. I can also ssh to my server. However, I get not http or ftp response from my server from other machines on …

my system fails to boot through to graphical interface. near the end, it reverts to text, making me log in as single user. what do i type in at the prompt to remedy the problem. i am using 10.1 community.

i have a problem with dual booting. i wanted to dual boot xp pro and fedora. i installed xp then i installed fedora and now when i try to load up xp i get an error that says something like chainloader +1 and it stays there. if anyone knows how …

Good Afternoon: I am looking to use Apache's mod_rewrite module to rearrange some URLs, but my knoweldge of regular expressions is SORELY lacking. I would like to take a url such as: [url]http://www.somesite.com/folder/somepage.html[/url] and translate it to: [url]http://www.somesite.com/index.php?dept=folder&page=somepage.html[/url] and, just as likely: [url]http://www.somesite.com/folder/another_folder/somepage.html[/url] to: [url]http://www.somesite.com/index.php?dept=folder&page=anotherfolder/somepage.html[/url] Would someone please assist me …

When I'm in linux(mandrake 9) I cannot use the touchpad on my laptop but I can use the mouse. Anyone know how to make it to were I can configure it for my touchpad?

Hi I got a new pc recently, and i have turned my old one into an experiment, trying to mod it the best i can ect. I want to try out linux on it but have a few questions first, [list=1] [*]Can i change back to windows xp easily without …

does anyone know a site where i can learn linux suse 9.1 professionall commands

My company just opened a satalite office in another state. I am trying to make it as easy as possible to keep everything between the two offices a close as possible. Anyone do this across OS's? The main file server here is Linux Enterprise and the server offsite is Windows …

as i tyoe this im jus watchin the percentsage go up im installing linux got past my problem with hardrive and wiped it clean as i never wanted anythink on it n now its beautiful jus waitin hehehehehehehehe hope everyone else has fun

I have created a small application in PHP and MySQL. Could someone tell me what I need to do to add the appln. on an Apache Web server? Is there anything I need to take care of in the application to be a web app?

Hey im thinking of starting my own webserver and i need to know if either Linux Red Hat or Linux Red Hat Fedora 2 will support my Nividia G-Force FX 5200 128mb if any one could tell me pretty soon if they do. :!: And can any one tell me …

i have a workstation with broken cd drive and i was intrested in installing linux. what alternative methods can i use to do it, and with which distros? tnx

I have met a strange problem. When I installed Redhat 9.0 on VMWARE 4.0, all went fine until it told me that some packages on the second CD could not be read, and probably the CD was corrupted. However, it is a good CD, 'coz I installed these packages in …

Ok, I have a iBook G3 800MHz with just Mandrake on it, it has a ATI Radeon Mobility 7500 video card in it and I've been tweaking the XF86Config-4 file for days now and it kde continues to refuse to work :(, I've currently got it to start up but …

I finally managed to get RH9 up and running on my WinXP host, however another problem surfaced: I can't connect to my home network. It says that it can't detect any connection, here's the message: "Determining IP information for eth0...failed; no link present. Check cable?". I followed pretty much everything …

hi, i've looked through just about every webpage out their on this topic and i just cant get it to work. have any of you got apache and tomcat working together through mod_jk? i'm trying to get this working on windows 2000 (desktop), using apache2 and tomcat 5.5. its loading …

I have been reading on making a recycle bin for SMB shares. Anyone utilize this? It would save me the scramble for a tape if the users delete somthing they decide they need. :cheesy: :cheesy:

I am having issues with my SMB server. This is strange and I can find little to no info on this issue. The shares have full rights but when a user accesses a file the user has full rights and everyone else only has read rights. Any ideas???? Thanks

Hey everyone, I am new to this forum and to Linux. I have been with windows most my life and am sick of it. I have been trying to find out all I can about Linux to see if I really should make the move. I have a few questions …

i'd like to know how well is apache and php in handling wireless application? any comments ?

Hey all, i've just installed Yellow Dog 3.0 and i have a few basic questions about it. First of all, how do you extract tar.gz files? i've ransacked google and all it's been of no use. Is there a terminal command i need to input or is there an app …

I get an error as below when I try to boot my Linux server:- /data contains a file system with errors, check forced. Error reading block 7700497(Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short read) while doing inode scan. /data:UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck manually. (i.e., without -a or -p …

When I load Suse Linux 9.1 Pro edition, it freezes when the blue bar is at about 50%. When I look at details, it sometimes says: 1.) some error about usb01 OR 2.) some error about the hdd Any help would be appreciated. thanks

Hey, I've setup Apache 2 on my sys w/ windows xp pro. I also installed php. I start apache, i can see the little green arrow which shows its suppose to be working.. but when send my server ip to someone so they can try and go onto it, it …

well i have installed suse 9.0 and windows xp ,but after formatting windows xp due to some reason , ihave formatted the only c drive which had windows system files but after unastaling windows xp it was unable to show suse 9.0 at the beginning . after that i tried …

I'm looking for a free Linux system for my Mac. I'm wondering which is the best one for me. I'm fairly expirienced with Unix and X11 and computers in general, but I don't want something to tough to use. I've heard Yellow Dog (Red Hat Port) is one of the …

Good Morning, Wondering if anyone has had any preferences with DVD burners under Linux. Either SCSI or IDE is fine with me. I would like to take advantage of the various sales out there for a decent DVD burner, but all of the boxes say Windoze.... Am wondering if anyone …

Okay, so I feel dumb.. I'm trying to ./configure something, but it comes up with an error saying that I don't have an acceptable C Compiler... Fair 'nuff... The question is, where do I get one, how do I install it. I've been scouring the web now for two and …

Ok i want to install fedora core 1 on my computer along side winxp so how can i partition the drive using the built in partitioner so that i dont destroy my windows xp because then my family would kill me. Should i just setup the partion with something like …

i wanna know if this is all legal, is telnet freeshell.org free and legal? it asked me to set up for a netbsd account and stuff

I installed fedora core 1 but at first i had problems (I hadnt installed the bootloader thinking that i had a third party one on my system which i forgot that i had uninstalled) so i ran the xp cd and tried to get windows working but it still couldnt …

Hello . i'm posting on behalf of my friend who can't access the net . He's installed linux redhat 9.0 in graphical mode and choosed minimum installation . He's formatted the drives and his hd is 30gb . He was asked to choose a password while installing . After the …

Hello, I tried to find something for me before starting a new thread but every situation is different. Mine is that I am installing Red Hat 9 onto a partition that I already created using Partition Commander. What I have in physical order: 25G NTFS for my W2K 509M who …

Mono, a three year effort, is an open source project that ports the underlying core .NET technology to Linux. The c #programming language pre written code libraries and Microsoft's common language runtime are being written into the project. Mono, which is not a development tool like visual studio .NET, will …

cscgal, Can you help me out with my installation of Redhat9 and vmware tools install? I am new to all of the linux world in general. Any help would be greatly appreciated. PTALLY

hi guys i need some serious help...............i have dual os in my machine (win xp & fedora core 1).................recently xp got crashed 4 some reason................so i reintall it................but now i have lost grub boot loader................i have some criticle data in my linux partition.........................plzzz help me.............i want 2 reinstall linux without …

I need help on setting up a shell on my domain (zerounix.com) any help would be great. =)

i was curious are there any benefits to linux that i dont know off over windows? i know the obvious ones like open source and stuff. i have downloaded and installed redhat8 as a dual boot with xp. windows sorta didnt like it but i manage to get them both …

Salutations all! Well, I am a windows user who has seen and heard too many good things done with linux -- therefore I am planning to set up a windows/linux dual boot system on my machine. I really don't need help with installation, as I have done that before, But …

Hello All, I am strictly a Windows Sys Admin. However, I would like to learn Unix to possibly find a new job in the future. Does anyone have any suggestion for me on how to get started. Any feedback is very much welcomed. Thanks

I'm dualbooting Windows and Suse Linux Professional, I've followed all the steps to install Wine (I think) but when I try to open a windows program through wine in the root console I get the following error: linux:/home/lxuser # /usr/bin/wine /windows/C/Office10/setup.exe Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server Xlib: No …

I have a VisionTek xtasy 9200se video card which comes with two ports for two monitors, in windows I am able to put different windows on each monitor, but in Red Hat it just shows the same display on both monitors and doesn't let me have different windows on each …