Posts by TheOgre

Wel, if you still want a webserver along with a database, you have a few options.

1. The webserver needs to stay on port 80. Find out what port the database uses. Configure your firewall rules to allow incoming connections to the database port from either the specific IP addresses, or a range of addresses, or whatever.

2. Run the database on a seperate machine if possible. Configure your firewall to pass all http traffic to your webserver, adn the database stuff to the DB machine.

3. I think you can get the point of this. Either way, you'll have to have 2 ports open - 1 port for yoru webserver, and the other for your database, whether they be on the same box or not.

When you start changing ports around for standardized protocols, you either have to have something in the middle of your servers and your clients to do the port redirection, or nobody will be able to connect.

Oh, and besides that, changing the port on your WEB server won't allow incoming traffic to your DATABASE. I'd highly recommend getting a book on Internet firewalls from O'Reilly so you can learn why that won't work, and what you can do to configure your servers to allow incoming connections to a webserver and your database.

Wow. Old thread. Didn't even notice :P

You have to start X with "startx" regardless of which wm you use.

If you want to have KDE as your window manager, edit your ~/.xinitrc

# My .xinitrc file.
 # Uncomment the one that I want to use
 exec startkde  #KDE
 #gnome-session  #Gnome
 # another wm start command here

Notice that you can have as many as you want, but you can only have one (1) UNcommented.

This works in Linux as well as FreeBSD.

NorthAmerican BankCard. I tried (and got burned by) a few others, but this place rocks. Good rates, outstanding support, and people who actually (GASP!) talk to you like a human bean.

PM/e-mail me if you'd like a contact over there.

STAY AWAY FROM American Paywise!!!

Why are you changing the WEBSERVER port for a DATABASE? They're two completely different things.

Perhaps if you explained what you're ultimately trying to do (or what you're trying to accomplish) we could provide a better answer. (I say "we" but actually mean "somebody else who knows Windows and IIS", since I don't:)

Login to your domain's control panel and under the "Forwarding" section, enter the domain you want that domain to redirect to.

In other words, if you want www.mydomain.com to be redirected to www.mydomain.net, then enter www.mydomain.net in the "Forwards" section and wait for DNS to propogate.

I have this setup for a bunch of my domains, and it's a piece of cake.

Actually, there is an experimental NTFS module that allows writes that's been out for awhile. You have to do a recompile of the kernel, but it's been there since 2.4.something...

...or you could burn the files to a CD or copy them to a USB pendrive ...

You can also try (as root):

# chmod 755 /dev/dsp

A Google search for "linux quota commands" returned this:

http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Quota.html

(too much to explain, so why reinvent the wheel?)

Did you remember to configure Samba correctly (smb.conf) by making sure that:

WORKGROUP = yourworkgroupname # name of Windows Workgroup
Security = user # can also be share

Are your shares configured for read/write access?

Example:

[public]
           comment = Public Stuff
           path = /home/public
           public = yes
           writeable = yes
           printable = no

Also, don't forget to add a Samba user (different than a local user account!) by doing:

smbpasswd -a newusername

This would be your Windows/MAC username if all machines are in the same workgroup. This is the information to use when you are asked for a username/password when attempting to access a share on a *nix box (unless you've joined it to a domain using "smbpasswd -j domain" and you actually login to an authenticating domain controller on your network.)

Another place to check is the LOGS (yes, Linux logs stuff too :). To find out where the Samba logs are located, look in the [GLOBAL] section of your smb.conf for:

log file = /var/log/logfile_name_here

Also, the /etc/hosts file has nothing to do with the local system's hostname - it's basically an easy way to define other hosts on your local network if you aren't running a DNS server.

Example:

# Sample HOSTS File
      # Syntax is:  IP		 FQDN hostname
      
      # Local LAN Entries:
      127.0.0.1		  localhost  # THIS LINE MUST NOT BE REMOVED!
      10.0.3.10		  machine1.mydomain machine1
      10.0.3.11 		   machine2.mydomain machine2
      10.0.3.12 		   machine3.mydomain machine3
       
      # Sample Entry for WAN:
      216.239.39.99	  google.com
      
      # …

If you watch the stdout when the system boots from the CD, it should show you the hardware it autodetects - see if you can spot your drive in there. If Slack does find it, make sure you remember (write down) what device it sees it as - usually /dev/hdb for the primary slave drive. Also, don't forget to specify that device when you run cfdisk - by default, cfdisk will use your primary master drive (hda). If you have 2 drives in the system, try something like "cfdisk hdb" and see if that works (unless you have SATA, in which case the device nomenclature is different.)

For a pretty good explanation (list) of Linux devices, look here:
http://www.lanana.org/docs/device-list/devices.txt

I've never had Slackware not detect a drive unless it was bad, going back to version 1.2 (I think) on 4 floppies :)

That is great info...

...and free, too :)

Two situations here in front of me...

Dell XP CD Part #R2490 I can put it in a Dell laptop with no OS on the hard drive and it boots and installs XP...

If you boot the system with a Windows 98 boot disk, you'll see a very small (less than 20 MB) FAT16 partition if you run "fdisk /status"

WinXP needs either a small (10MB or so) partition already on the drive if you don't want to predefine/format the entire disk before you install the O/S if you're booting the system from the XP CD.

Normally I either create a small partition (4GB or less) on the drive and format it using FAT32, then boot using the XP CD (and use partitioning software later to expand the existing partition), or I format the entire drive with FAT32, boot from the XP CD to install the O/S, and convert the existing partition to NTFS (quick format.)

(Yes, this is a hassle, but it's been the only way I've found of getting XP on a system directly from a non-OEM CD. If I spent more time trying to come up with a better solution, I'd probably find one, but my time is better spent on more productive issues.)

I put it into a non dell and it does not boot...
I boot to a floppy call up a dir and execute the setup.exe and it says it …

When you buy a machine like a Dell or HP and it has XP installed you get a version of XP that is machine specific.

No, you don't. You get customized driver CDs and utility CDs, but BY LAW you have to receive a FULL VERSION of the operating system. Sometimes instead you get a restore CD that's actually an IMAGE of your drive, but that's not to be confused with an alterated copy of an operating system. (I've been a reseller for Dell for the past few years, and that's how I found all this out.)

I use the XP Home CD I received with my Dell laptop on other systems (to reinstall XP Home) and change the product code to whatever their product code is on the sisde of their system, and haven't once had any problems doing that.

As far as XP detecting changes in hardware and forcing you to call Microsoft for another key, it's only a few devices (now) that trigger that - CPUs and NICs being on the list (it used to be almost ANY change in hardware, but they've since mellowed out.)

And yes, all the more reason to learn ANY operating system other than Micro$oft :)

You just got rid of your authentication server...

Try sharing a directory on the Win2k box and give everyone full access to it.

(**NOTE: I'm no Windows expert, so I'm not sure if this'll work for you, as I can't test it here.)

98 INstalled on the first partition, XP on the second..

I created a Linux swap partition and an EXT3 partition and installed Mepis

Did you have free space along with the other 2 partitions, or did you wipe something first?

So how do I get to Mepis...
Do I make up a boot floppy?

You should be able to boot the system with the Mepis CD and access the filesystem from the boot prompt.

Uncheck the "Use default gateway on this connection" in your settings for the VPN. I'd give you a better "mini-howto" but I'm on FreeBSD right now and don't use it often enough to have it memorized. Basically, you're telling your system not to use the default gateway setup on the destination network, but to keep yours instead. I'm not 100% sure if that'll fix your problem, but it's worth a shot.

By the way, if you want to see what that does, find a website that displays your IP address, then connect to the VPN using both their gateway and yours and see the IP address change. Nifty, eh?

If you download the RescueCD, there's a Linux partition utility called QtParted that looks almost identical to Partition Magic, and works very well. There's also a bunch of other tools on the CD that are Linux ports of popular software that you can play with once you get the drive partitioned.

You may want to check out partimage (a disk imaging utility) after you get your system up and running. It works via the commandline (you'll need an FTP server on your LAN - there's tons of free ones available), but it's extremely easy to figure out if you can read :)

Looks like the webserver is turned off, or the box is down/bluescreened/whatever - got a timeout trying to access the site, so I checked to see if it was valid (snipped out the boring stuff):

kevin@perseus [~]$ dig myftp.org

myftp.org. 1D IN A 63.215.241.203

kevin@perseus [~]$ dig tutorials.myftp.org

tutorials.myftp.org. 1M IN A 203.94.202.123

The first one (63.215.241.203) brings you to no-ip.com, and the second one (203.94.202.123) times out.

Let us know when it's back up so I can nmap it :)

Find a copy of Bart's PE disc with the registry editor and boot using that. It will allow you to view the registry and modify any keys you need to (in the event anything was changed.)

Check HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\ and make sure Userinit is set to C:\Windows\System32\userinit.exe

I've seen when Spyware changes that, and sometimes a backup of the original (if it's been changed) is made to {same path}\BackupUserinit.

If all else fails, and the other suggestions above fail, they're not going to have too much choice about doing a fresh install. Maybe they should learn not to mess with stuff they aren't familiar with...

You can do this technique by simply linking to the particular Powerpoint file and if iam right 90% of the users are following Windows OS mode, which gives you a PPT.

Umm... isn't that what I just said?

If a person visiting your site does have PowerPoint installed, when they follow the link to it from the page, it should automagically load in their browser.

It looks like i am screwed, having TWO non-ATAPI compatible devices in my machine.

Are these drives SCSI?

Yes, just delete the unknown partition and create a new partition for Windows. You can do a quick format of the new partition from within Windows using NTFS.

Don't assume that everyone who visits your site will have PowerPoint (or the viewer) installed on their system. You might want to convert it to a Flash video, or take screenshots of each slide and do it that way. Of course, you can post the entire presentation to your site and include a link labeled something like, "to download the PowerPoint presentation, click here."

If a person visiting your site does have PowerPoint installed, when they follow the link to it from the page, it should automagically load in their browser.

Are you sure the problem is with the cable service and not your PC?

Why not just image the drive onto your 500GB drive, and after the install, if everything goes well, you can delete the image (not like it would significantly reduce the amount of free space on your drive :)

... Interestingly, when I booted the computer with the CPU removed it did the same blinking.

If it's doing the same exact thing with the CPU removed from the motherboard, that might be an indication as to where the problem lies. CPUs are delicate, and it's entirely possible that it got cracked when the system fell/landed. If you remove it from the system and look at the underside (the side with all the copper leads) and notice any cracks, the CPU is shot. If you can't find any noticeable damage, that won't always means it's not damaged - you just can't see it.

As far as the techs go, if you tell them up front that you WILL NOT spend more than $xx on the repair, any reputable shop will still swap out the components until it works, and tell you how much it would cost to keep those parts in the system. If you tell them "no way", they should replace the existing components and only charge you for an hour (or so) of labor.

Aside from that, check the motherboard itself to see if you notice any cracks, blown capacitors, or any other damage to the board. It's very difficult to explain to you what to look for, since I usually don't have to think about it when I do it (yes, I've been doing this for a very long time :)

well when i bought all 3 of the modems ive ever had, they all came with a MAC #, i had to put in while setting it up.

Not to start a war here, but I'd like to see a screenshot of that. I've been working with modems for longer than you've been alive and have yet to come across a modem that required anything other than drivers to function. Not to mention the fact that modems aren't used to connect to a LAN.

MAC address as defined by Cisco:
Standardized data link layer address that is required for each port or device that connects to a LAN. Other devices in the network use these addresses to locate specific ports in the network, and to create and update routing tables and data structures. MAC addresses are 6 bytes long and are controlled by the IEEE. Also known as a hardware address, MAC-layer address, or physical address.

Source: http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/aggr/10000/sysdes/gloss.htm#xtocid416113

Could be a number of issues: loose CPU, cable(s) loose, RAM not seated properly, and any number of things that can happen when a system gets dropped.

My suggestion would be to either have a local tech look at it, or if all else fails you can contact someone who can walk you through the troubleshooting steps over the phone (which may or may not be free.) Since I don't know your technical abilities, I'd recommend having someone take a look at it for you.

Sorry I couldn't be of more help :/

I was going to comment, but thought about it and decided not to waste my breath :)

note* i didnt say it had anything to do with any operating system.

After 2000 billi gates made it so the computer will bood from the harddrive first.

'nuff said.

You can install Debian, Slackware, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD across the Net using 2 floppies. Don't know about any other distros - I've only done it using those I mentioned, and it keeps the CD stack from getting too large when you do a lot of installs on a variety of platforms.

..just my $0.02 ..

Also consider the fact the distro could be currupt to a malfunction in the burning process of the iso image to a cd. If you have it set higher then 24X I cant promise the quality of the disk try to keep it around 18X-24X. It starts off so fast it will miss files or write them to fast and ruin them.

?!

I burn between 10 and 40 CDs per week on either a 48x or a 52x drive (including Linux & UNIX ISOs) and have never heard of "anything faster than 24x will cause problems." Most of the burning software today caches files before it writes them to the disc, so the possibility of "starting off too fast it misses files" is about the same as getting run over by an elephant while washing windows on the Empire State building.

If you want to make sure the .ISO you download is intact, check the MD5 checksum after the download is complete. If they match, you're good to go. If it isn't, delete the download and try it again from another location.

You can download KeyFinder from Magic Jellybean which will tell you what your product keys are for Windows and Microsoft Office

http://www.magicaljellybean.com/keyfinder.shtml

Can you provide more details? What operating system are these computers running? Are there multiple domains? Are you logged into the domain or the local machine?

Also check to make sure Windows isn't powering down your NIC (which is the default) to save power.

On Windows 2000/XP, right-click "My Computer" > "Manage" > "Device Manager"

Double-click on "Network Adapters" and right-click on your NIC. Choose "Properties" and click on the "Power Management" tab. Uncheck the box labeled "Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power." Click OK, close the MMC, and reboot.

Normally, if there's no activity over the network on that device (from your machine) for a certain period of time, Windows will "shut off" the device.

What exactly is the problem you're experiencing? You mentioned having issues, but didn't mention what they were...

Also, try FreeDOS: http://www.freedos.org

Where is the Linux box on your network?
Are all machines on the same workgroup?
Is your Windows firewall blocking anything/everything?

Can you provide details (step-by-step if possible) describing exactly what you're doing compared to what you want to do?

Yeah - move your Windows printer to your Linux box and use Samba to share the printer to your other systems :)

You can also get a cheap (less than $40) network print server that you just plug into the back of your printer and connect to your LAN with a CAT5 cable. That way you don't have to ask us how to do print serving under Samba :P

(and Yes, I'm BACK! :)

The worst thing that will happen is you'll be prompted for an activation key, in which case you have to contact M$ and explain what you've done and they *should* give you another activation code - you shouldn't have to purchase another copy of XP because you swapped a hard drive into another system. Well, at least I've never had to yet, and I do this for a living...

The MAC address is embedded in every NIC (Network Interface Card) and is different on every card, and has nothing to do with modems. You can find out what your MAC address is by opening a DOS box and entering "ipconfig /all". Look for "Physical Address" and the number/letter combination to the right will be your card's MAC address (example: Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-03-47-AF-A8-F9)

I believe the question you meant to ask is whether or not you can obtain an IP address when setting your system to use DHCP on a network, and the answer is "Yes." It doesn't matter what the operating system you're using, since any NOS will have support for it. Unless you specifically assign the system an IP address, the default is to use DHCP (well, in Windows, anyway..)

If you're wanting to capture MAC addresses on a network (which was your original question), I'd suggest running Ethereal, Snort, or another IDS, but you probably don't know what I'm talking about so I'll stop there:)

From what you stated, you did everything properly, but it's weird that you had that issue with both drives. I've seen times where you have to boot from the master (CD/DVD) drive when there are 2 installed, but never had both fail to spin up before. Luckily you solved your problem :)

[FYI: The operating system has absolutely NOTHING to do with which drive your system boots from. Pressing "F8" on a Windows-based O/S enters a boot menu for choosing Safe Mode and other options, not for entering the BIOS setup.]

To answer your question with a question...
Why didn't they even offer a Linux installation...

They don't offer Linux as an operating system on their desktops or laptops anymore because there wasn't much of a demand when they did offer it. Now they offer machines with no operating system installed (they include a copy of FreeDOS on a CD but NOT installed on the drive) as well as Linux on a few of their servers.

..and I've been running numerous distros of Linux on Dell laptops for years (including Xandros for the past few months) as well as FreeBSD and Solaris 9 (UNIX), and the only problem I've ever had was getting the sound working (until I found a very helpful link off Google.)

Then again, there's always fips for the more tech-savvy.

You can use a Win98 boot floppy to wipe a linux-formatted drive to put Windows on - it'll say it doesn't have a recognizable filesystem (obviously) but you can take it from there...

I think hes leading to creating an .ISO file were it creates an image of your harddrive from the CAB files. CAB being the os disk saved to the hd on install.

No such animal there, Bub - can't create an .ISO of the hard drive from CAB files (.CAB files being "Windows Cabinet Files" - hence the ".cab" file extension - from which Windows 98 is installed from.)

Just burn the .CAB files to a CD-RW, then create a directory on the (formatted) hard drive and copy all the cabs to that directory. After that's done, simply cd into the directory you copied the cabs to and run "setup".

If you have Nero and a Windows98 boot disk, you can make the CD bootable, in cases where you have a laptop without a floppy drive.

If you still have your product code, then all you need is the .CAB files from the Win98SE CD-ROM. Ask around to see if anyone you know has Win98SE, and check c:\windows\options\cabs\ to see if they're there. If they are, grab them (FTP, CD-RW, etc.) and use your product code from M$ and you're in business. I typically have 1 CD with the CAB files for Win95B, Win98, and Win98SE just in case I come across a situation like that (not that they've seen any use in a few years, but they're nice to have just in case:)

If you can't find any, e-mail me and we'll figure something out for you.

My issue is email. I am using mailenable standard. I can recieve mail fine. I can not send mail. Is anyone running an email server through optonline??

I've been running mail(imap & pop3)/web/ftp/icecast/gnump3d servers for awhile now (some over 3 years) and haven't had a problem yet. I've never messed with mailenable, since I'm partial to Linux/UNIX apps so i wouldn't know where to begin trying tohelp you with that one. You can try asking someone to portscan your box , but the way OptOnline filters work, it's not very reliable. On another note, what firewall/NAT rules do you have setup/configured for the mail server? You DO have a firewall running, I hope..

If you want to learn UNIX, why not learn it on UNIX, such as FreeBSD? (There's also a free Solaris download for x86 available from Sun.) MOST of the commands in Linux are the same in UNIX, but there *are* differences, such as the ps command. (In Linux, you could do ps -aux but that won't work on Solaris.) FreeBSD is a free download from one of the many mirror sites available. If you want to learn UNIX, I agree that Linux is very close in most aspects, but not all. Not only that, but the different Linux distros all do things differently, ranging from configuring your network to installing software (rpm, deb, and tgz packages.)

If you *really* want to be high-speed, low-drag, then do a dual boot Linux/FreeBSD install, where you can compare the differences in each, such as where the configuratoin files are located, the difference in the kernels, boot process, etc.

I use both equally, but my I learned Linux first. If I could do it over, I'd skip Linux and pickup UNIX first, then go back and play with Linux.

... just my .02 ...

No, what I want to do is hide the actual page link, so the URL reads:

http://www.mysite.com/index.php?id=2

instead of:

http://www.mysite.com/iwanttohidethispage.html

No redirection to another domain, just hiding the actual pages from showing up in the location bar of the browser. For an example, please see http://www.cacert.org

xlulux: Do your homework, Bub. There *are* some flavors of UNIX that are free (see my last post in this thread) and widely used.

As far as hardware support, NetBSD runs on pretty much anything, and I've got FreeBSD to work on hardware that Linux didn't have support for.

Linux is NOT a freeware branch of UNIX. It's a completely seperate operating system that was derived from MINIX.

Before making another arbitrary derogatory comment about a particular operating system, I highly suggest doing some research on the subject first to learn at least *some* facts about it so you at least sound like you have a clue about what you're talking about.

OpenBSD, NetBSD, and FreeBSD are all UNIX, Open-Source, and FREE. (The Open Group actually owns the "UNIX" trademark, but HP-UX, Solaris, et al are all unices for the sake of argument...)

http://www.openbsd.org
http://www.netbsd.org
http://www.freebsd.org

Can anyone tell me how I would code links to other pages on my site (using php) whereby the full URL in the address bar looks like this:

http://www.mysite.com/index.php?id=3 (which points to blah.php)

I've done the usual searches on google and such with no luck on how to do it.

Mind you, I'm *not* a coder/webmaster so if you start talking about arrays and such, I'll have no idea what you're talking about :)