[CentOS] CentOS 4.5 - mounting remote windows fileserver using smb or cifs

2008-05-01 Thread Tom Brown
Hi I need to mount a windows share on a CentOS 4.5 box running stock kernel etc - I have tried using cifs and also smbfs My fstab looks like //share/name/mount/pointsmbfs username=user,password=password,uid=useridhere 0 0 or the same using cifs When i try and mount that i get the

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 4.5 - mounting remote windows fileserver using smb or cifs

2008-05-01 Thread Ian Blackwell
This works for me... In /etc/fstab:- //share/name/mount/point cifs _netdev,credentials=/etc/samba/cred.txt 0 0 In the credentials file:- username=your-windows-user password=XXX Make sure the credentials file is owned by root and only readable by root. Regards, Ian

RE: [CentOS] DVD reader: Hardware problem or OS glitch?

2008-05-01 Thread Lanny Marcus
On 29 April 2008, "John" wrote: >Message: 42 > Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 17:43:43 -0400 > Message-ID: <006901c8aa42$1a387450$0700a8c0 at ethan27> >Also please post you fstab and mtab files. It may be helpful in pointing out > the problem. Also have you run yum update on the machine? (fstab and mt

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 4.5 - mounting remote windows fileserver using smb or cifs

2008-05-01 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 2:22 AM, Tom Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > I need to mount a windows share on a CentOS 4.5 box running stock kernel > etc - I have tried using cifs and also smbfs > > My fstab looks like > > //share/name/mount/pointsmbfs > username=user,password=passwor

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 4.5 - mounting remote windows fileserver using smb or cifs

2008-05-01 Thread Tom Brown
This works for me... In /etc/fstab:- //share/name/mount/point cifs _netdev,credentials=/etc/samba/cred.txt 0 0 In the credentials file:- username=your-windows-user password=XXX Make sure the credentials file is owned by root and only readable by root. i have man

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 4.5 - mounting remote windows fileserver using smb or cifs

2008-05-01 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 3:53 AM, Tom Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > i have managed to get this working now using smbfs - there were 2 issues it > seems > > 1 - samba-client was not installed, that was an oversight on my behalf > > 2 - on the RH7.3 box the domain is not needed for the user b

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 4.5 - mounting remote windows fileserver using smb or cifs

2008-05-01 Thread Tom Brown
I am using cifs without having the domain on a C4 box. I think something is not right with your setup. i could not agree more but i do not admin the windows side so they suggested i use the domain and that seems to work for this issue. We have many domains and i wonder if that causes c

Re: [CentOS] determining correct size for LV copy operations

2008-05-01 Thread Kai Schaetzl
John R Pierce wrote on Wed, 30 Apr 2008 13:56:32 -0700: > I'd probably use dump ... | restore ... to copy it, assuming its an > e2fs/e3fs on that logical volume. then the volume sizes are immaterial. Well, these are mostly xen volumes with xvda. It's indeed the difference in physical extent

Re: [CentOS] case insensitive file system

2008-05-01 Thread John
On Wed, 2008-04-30 at 10:12 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > Ruslan Sivak wrote: > > Jim Perrin wrote: > >> On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 10:07 AM, Ruslan Sivak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Does the entire filesystem need to be case insensitive, or is this a > >> web based product, where you can do some a

RE: [CentOS] DVD reader: Hardware problem or OS glitch?

2008-05-01 Thread Lanny Marcus
On 29 April 2008, Alan Bartlett" wrote: >Message: 38 ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > However, if you're using Gnome then please have a look at System --> > Preferences --> Removable Drives and Media >I know that there is a difference in the automount of a data CD/DVD when the >user is root (bas

Re: [CentOS] X just died then restarted

2008-05-01 Thread John
On Wed, 2008-04-30 at 18:48 -0400, fred smith wrote: > Just had a weird thing happen that I've never encountered before. > > Running Centos 5.x (updated) on 32-bit (Athlon XP). > > Was going along in Firefox when suddenly my screen went black and the hard > drive light came on mostly steady for s

Re: [CentOS] DVD reader: Hardware problem or OS glitch?

2008-05-01 Thread Alan Bartlett
On 30/04/2008, Lanny Marcus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Alan: Today, I removed the Teac DV-516D DVD/CD reader, manufactured > October 2004, in Japan, from my daughters box. I temporarily hooked it > up in my box. The exact same problem! I could not see the contents of a > DVD-R, but, I was able

Re: [CentOS] No module named snack

2008-05-01 Thread Matt Hyclak
On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 10:59:46PM -0400, Matt Morgan enlightened us: > everyone--I'm back on the list after some time not managing any Centos > machines. It's good to be back. > > I'm trying to switch a server from sendmail to postfix. It's Centos 4.6. I > installed postfix and system-switch-mail

Re: [CentOS] OFF-TOPIC: Job opportunity in Augusta Georgia

2008-05-01 Thread Lanny Marcus
On 30 April 2008, "Jim Perrin" wrote: >Message: 4 >Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >WAY Off topic here, but if anyone's in the Augusta, Georgia area and >wants to work as a web developer(css, html, flash, php, photoshop and >the other usual goodies), we've got a job opening. >If you like abuse,

Re: [CentOS] DVD reader: Hardware problem or OS glitch?

2008-05-01 Thread Lanny Marcus
On 01 May 2008, Alan Bartlett ajb.stxsl at googlemail.com wrote: > Thu May 1 12:45:38 UTC 2008 > > (a) The Teac DV-516D DVD/CD reader is not supported in this kernel or > > somewhere else in CentOS 5.or > > > > (b) The DVD/CD reader is somewhat faulty. > > > > (c) However, Windows XP shows it

Re: [CentOS] DVD reader: Hardware problem or OS glitch?

2008-05-01 Thread John
On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 08:50 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: > On 01 May 2008, Alan Bartlett ajb.stxsl at googlemail.com wrote: > > Thu May 1 12:45:38 UTC 2008 > > > > (a) The Teac DV-516D DVD/CD reader is not supported in this kernel or > > > somewhere else in CentOS 5.or > > > > > > (b) The DVD/C

Re: [CentOS] DVD reader: Hardware problem or OS glitch?

2008-05-01 Thread Alan Bartlett
On 01/05/2008, John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Something I don't think no one has thought of: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# rpm -qa | grep auto > automake15-1.5-16 > autoconf-2.59-12 > automake17-1.7.9-7 > automake-1.9.6-2.1 > automake16-1.6.3-8 > automake14-1.4p6-13 > autofs-5.0.1-0.rc2.55.el5.3 >

Re: [CentOS] DVD reader: Hardware problem or OS glitch?

2008-05-01 Thread John
On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 15:43 +0100, Alan Bartlett wrote: > On 01/05/2008, John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Something I don't think no one has thought of: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# rpm -qa | grep auto > automake15-1.5-16 > autoconf-2.59-12 > automake1

[CentOS] Package change logs

2008-05-01 Thread Matty
Howdy, Does anyone happen to know where I can locate the changes that were integrated into a specific RPM update? I checked the wiki, the rpm query output and bugs.centos.org, but wasn't able to locate a changelog for the latest kernel update. Thanks, - Ryan __

RE: [CentOS] DVD reader: Hardware problem or OS glitch?

2008-05-01 Thread William L. Maltby
On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 05:49 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: > On 29 April 2008, "John" wrote: > > I ran "yum update". The box is now 100% up to date. The problem did not go > away. > On CentOS 5, the Teac DV-516D DVD/CD reader can mount a CD, without > any problem. However, it sees a DVD as blank.

Re: [CentOS] Package change logs

2008-05-01 Thread William L. Maltby
On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 13:45 -0400, Matty wrote: > Howdy, > > Does anyone happen to know where I can locate the changes that were > integrated into a specific RPM update? I checked the wiki, the rpm > query output and bugs.centos.org, but wasn't able to locate a > changelog for the latest kernel up

Re: [CentOS] Package change logs

2008-05-01 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 10:58 AM, William L. Maltby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 13:45 -0400, Matty wrote: > > Howdy, > > > > Does anyone happen to know where I can locate the changes that were > > integrated into a specific RPM update? I checked the wiki, the rpm > > quer

Re: [CentOS] DVD reader: Hardware problem or OS glitch?

2008-05-01 Thread Lanny Marcus
On 01 May 2008, John jses27 at gmail.com wrote: > Alan: Thank you for all of the ideas you've had in this thread! I strongly > suspect that your > idea of replacing the Teac CD/DVD-ROM with something else, is the only way to > end this problem. My belief > now is that there is no support to auto

Re:[CentOS] problem installation of mplayer

2008-05-01 Thread Lanny Marcus
On 30 April 2008, "Mamun" wrote: >Message: 55 >Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:57:47 +0600 >Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >I already installed CentOs,but can anyone give a sample of repo files >and priorities.conf file. >As for this 2 files i am unable to install mplayer. You might find this articl

Re: [CentOS] DVD reader: Hardware problem or OS glitch?

2008-05-01 Thread John
On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 15:03 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: > On 01 May 2008, John jses27 at gmail.com wrote: > > Alan: Thank you for all of the ideas you've had in this thread! I strongly > > suspect that your > > idea of replacing the Teac CD/DVD-ROM with something else, is the only way > > to end t

[CentOS] Re: case insensitive file system

2008-05-01 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
Kevin Krieser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I can't think of anything I did special other than using force because > I hadn't done a Safely Remove device on Windows last time. The 'force' mount option can indeed cause corruption. From the ntfs-3g manual: force Force the mounting even if t

Re: [CentOS] No module named snack

2008-05-01 Thread Matt Morgan
On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 9:01 AM, Matt Hyclak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 10:59:46PM -0400, Matt Morgan enlightened us: > > everyone--I'm back on the list after some time not managing any Centos > > machines. It's good to be back. > > > > I'm trying to switch a server from s

RE: [CentOS] Re: case insensitive file system

2008-05-01 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>In fact, one can even lose data due to Windows bugs if things are >done correctly, Actually, it is "incorrect" to "eject" the usb drive through Explorer in Vista if it has the NTFS filesystem:) If you perform the steps required pre-hotfix, your good to go jlc ___

[CentOS] strip down install

2008-05-01 Thread Jason Pyeron
What tactics would be recommended to start removing unneeded packages? I have tried to graph dependences before and using hunches, is there a better way? -jason -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- - - -

[CentOS] read only root file system

2008-05-01 Thread Jason Pyeron
I am looking at having a read only box, it will not use a swap partition. Any recommendations? -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- - - - Jason Pyeron PD Inc. http://www.pdinc.us - - Pri