Posts by Dani

Whew, Dan, thanks for the encouragement. Now that the forum has the ability to use polls, lets start voting! ...

Also, later this weekend I'll try to figure out why oh why half of the posts aren't correctly linked to the members who posted them (but rather shows the peeps as guests).

I'm so happy I finally got it done this much though!

Toodles (for now)

Just took a looksie ... it's because it's from a weird port (port 200)

Tek ... Norton Personal Firewall pops up with a "possible hack" message each time your avatar, signature pic, or even ur website load - I have to click "accept" in order to load - might wanna take a looksie at that

From my experience, FreeBSD is really nice but hard to configure for many newbies (e.g. like Slackware or Debian)

Tek, did you ever get a distribution on that box of yours?

There are distributions specificially for old / slower pcs. Try one of the light footprint distros out there. You can fit an entire linux system in less than 50 mb.

Nice, thanks!

huh ??

OMG YES !! Samba works perfectly now and I'm a happy camper. I followed the RedHat Samba Configuration page @ redhat.com and then I made sure to enable the smb service manually. Other than that, I don't know what I did right this time that I did wrong all the other times!

Eek, sorry it took me so long to respond. Your post seemed to have gotten lost in the forums and I didn't realize you responded ;)

My XP box has Norton firewall is already set up to accept all 192.168.0.* connections - plus telnet works and my linux box is pingable. So the pcs can definitely see each other on the network.

I am thinking the problem has something to do with permissions on the linux box. (smbpasswd i guess?)

Attn: Alpha

??? HUH? ???

I looked over all the sites you sent me to and still no go. My problem is in the "hosts allow" parameter and in the hosts and lmhosts files. Every samba configuration I see shows that I need to specify in these files the IP of localhost (the 192.168.0.x one) and the IPs and NetBIOS names of all the other PCs on the network I want to be able to connect to/from. My problem is that I have a WinXP box directly connected to a cable modem whose IP is 192.168.0.1. This machine uses dhcp to randomly assign an IP to all my other boxes. Take my laptop, for example - it is constantly being moved around from my school's network to my home network - and each time it gets plugged into my hub, it comes back with a different IP!

Do I not need to do anything about these files afterall? Is all this worrying over some stupid lil thing?

If I run "smbclient localhost" from my linux box, I can access my shares! My linux box appears in network neighborhood on my windows machines, but upon clicking it, it says that the computer could not be found on the network or something.

More help please?

It's 4:40 am and I just got home !!
Whew what a day !!

I was all over today, and haven't had a chance to work on anything on my linux box.

I'll have a looksie tomorrow ... (my eyes are half shut right now).

Very cool! I will take a look at these later tonight and with hope and prayer maybe I'll finally be able to get samba working.

Until now I've been confined to the man pages and to linuxnewbie.org - time to broaden my horizons!

I'm having a huge problem trying to get samba to work. I want to be able to put my Redhat 7.3 box onto my Windows workgroup. My linux box can see my windows pcs fine, but not the other way around. My linux box appears in Network Neighborhood in windows, but everytime I click on it, I get an error saying The Network Path Was Not Found. If I run smbclient from my linux box, it CAN log in to itself fine. Any ideas where I could get really detailed samba help for a newbie? ;) Also, if anyone here was able to get it to work, can you please post your smb.conf file? Thanx!

aeinstein, did you try out that link on your pc or mac? ;) If you were on your mac, looks like you just downgraded!

weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

Very cool indeed. I get lost in history @ about the time of XEROX's days with GUI's. :P

Commodore Amigas are from the good ol' days of computers, one of the first personal computers released back in 1985. Most of the Amiga's followers were early-day computer hackers.

Hey aeinstein - thanks for the kudos!

Glad you're enjoying the site -
maybe you can be our resident mac person ;)
mac ppl seem to be a rarity these days

not understandably though ...
unix with a great gui = a linux lover's dream come true
don't see why everyone shys away from os x ;)

Yo, do you think it would work if Apple came out with an OS for the PC to compete with Windows ?

What's wrong with cable/dsl tweaks? I use TweakXP and just ran the optimization wizard? Was that a bad idea?

This is different than a wireless home network, right? This is a wireless WAN?

I recently upgraded my computer with a new motherboard and CPU, and the motherboard I have now has USB 2.0 support built-in. Therefore, I'm no longer using the BusLink usb 2 card that came with my BusLink external hdd. :)

But what do you use that needs 480 mbps transfer rate!! that's faster than firewire!!

I use an external USB 2.0 hard drive for back-up purposes.

Does anyone know if Windows XP fully supports USB 2.0 yet? What about the mobos and USB PCI cards that are out claiming to support USB 2.0?

Optimum Online and no restrictions should not be used in the same sentence.

Guess I gotta add an ftp and http server section to my Networking and Internet section, eh? ;D

Oh of course it was me!! You caught me. I'm such a horrible admin b/c I am such a warez freak ;)

Am I missing something? Where is that C++/Java question ...?

I have to admit ... I was just about to edit out the URL - when inscissor got me all riled up and told me to respond to his comment.

ALL DAN'S FAULT I TELL YA!
Blame Dan !! ;D

haha thanx 4 sticking up 4 me inscissor ;)

un, we really don't appreciate any links to warez-type sites around here. This is a computer tech related bulletin board system - not a spam center for illegal crap.

The only reason I am taking the time to write you this warning is because this is the *second* time you have posted this same freakin' link on this site.

It's really great and nice if you wish to talk to the people on this board or post legit questions or comments. But the underground is a scene we really don't want discussed here.

Consider this a comment, a warning, or whatever you want. But just understand that I am serious.

I think the ones that are based on solid languages will prosper ... C++ isn't going anywhere anytime soon - and you can write scripts in C++ ...

asp, php, and coldfusion all seem to be hot right now
alpha's right though, perl is going down the drain

kudos for the post dan

Hmm ... thanx for the info ...

When it comes to programming (for me, anywayz), I think one of the most important things is just to grasp all the concepts. Then you can apply them all w/ different syntax, etc. Of course, this doesn't really apply too much to the different technologies out there, but rather to a handful of similar languages. (e.g. C++, Java both require an understanding of OOP)

I'm also trying to get myself familiar with PHP. I've done a WHOLE LOTTA playing around with the back-end of this forum, for example. inscissor is right, the syntax is very similar to C++! I'm glad I wound up spending my time with php instead of asp (VB annoys me).

Hmm .... is it better to learn half of a lot of languages, or all there is to know about a few?

I'm a VB, C++, and Java programmer ... and if someone were to ask me to write an application, I'd do it in C++ right off the bat just because I know that language the best.

It's nice to know a few and to know the strengths and weaknesses of 'em all, but then choose your favorite one and continue with it.

So ya wanna create an AIM Bot?

http://www.webcomics.com/bot/

Try there! If you want a more detailed explanation of the site: http://www.imaddict.com/bots.php (that's how I found out about it!)

My C++ tutorials are finally up in the new Tutorials section!

Very cool. I love C++ - it's my favorite language, mostly b/c I'm most comfortable in it.

Still plan on writing that tutorial?

C++, specificially, aside ... how about a tutorial for CSC users aimed at the theory stuff? (Ya know, the crappy stuff). Logic stuff. Ways of coming up with algorithms. How to use pseudocode to come up with ideas for code.

Just an idea!

Help would be appreciated to write the 2nd half of my C++ tutorial ;D Mine ends with classes. I don't even hint about pointers or linked lists! :o

Pointers I think need the most amount of time to cover. No one ever seems to get them. I've spoken to ppl who had Liang for 016 and ppl who had Kamberova for 016 and many ppl in both had a hard time.

I originally learned C++ in a high school class in 11th grade. It was very very intro (we covered functions, that's just about it). I started to get into it on my own, but really came back to it in college when I started my CSC major. (Took me a lil over a semester to get everything I know now down pat.)

Anyone have any comments on Apache for Windows? Is it really as unstable as everyone says it is?

It seems it's just a port of the infamous UNIX Apache ... with "usr" and "bin" and other UNIX folders ... hmm

Yeah, deerfield makes some good stuff
I used to use WinGate (proxy server software) with Win2k ... then when I upgraded to WinXP I just started using Internet Connection Sharing.

knalb's right, it does suck, but oh well! It's the only thing I have at the moment that is free, already set up for me, doesn't require any extra code on any of my pages, and most importantly doesn't require any sort of ad on any of my pages.

The linux server hosting this site uses wusage ... but I guess that doesn't exactly help you now does it ;)

btw ... kiddo ... 700gb, niiiiice ...

my network ...

main XP machine = two 120 gigs = 240 gigs
main Linux box = two 60 gigs = 120 gigs
iMac = 80 gigs
laptop = 12 gigs

452 gigs :)

SmartFTP for Windows, Fetch for Mac
I looooooove SmartFTP !!

To download files from an ftp site, you need an ftp client such as CuteFTP, WS_FTP, or SmartFTP (my favorite).

If you go to download.com, there will be a listing of at least 30 to choose from ;)

Once your there, specify the IP or name of the PC you wish to connect to. Also, specify the port (usually port 21). If anonymous users are allowed, you can enter "anonymous" as the user, with your email as the password. If anonymous connections are not allowed for the particular ftp server you're trying to connect to, you will have to already have a username on the server.

Once in there, you should be able to drag and drop files to/from your PC.

Also... if you have Internet Explorer, the cheesy/quick way to visit an ftp site is to browse to ftp://username:password@serverIP:serverPort

Sorry, I don't know what grokster is
is it a file sharing program such as the gnutella network ?? (the old napster, kazaa, morpheus, etc?)