Almost there: CUPS, Samba 3.0 !

2004-05-10 Thread Mark M
Hello all, I can't connect to my shared printers. There. Thats the problem ;-) Details: I get a "Unable to connect, Access is denied" when I double click on the shared "Xerox" printer from Network Neighboorhood. The Printer will print from the CUPS administration reached via: http://debian:631

Re: Debian on Dell

2004-02-26 Thread Mark M
Faheem Mitha schreef: I'd greatly appreciate hearing about people's experiences of success with Debian on Dell, and related advice, suggestions, and working configurations. Thanks in advance. I installed debian on a Optiplex GX240. No problems whatsoever. Never tried X though. Happily running a e

Re: [OT] Don't buy a Bestdata modem!

2004-02-18 Thread Mark M
Hear Hear! I must say this one good way to get the word out to the world and warn people about these fools. Thanks! I'll never buy a BestData modem here in Amsterdam. Later, Mark -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a sub

Exim4 not scanning for viruses when sending email to the world.

2004-02-16 Thread Mark M
Hi all, I've gotten stuck on the following Exim4 problem Sending email from outside and LAN to local users = email gets scanned on viruses via the amavis router. Sending email from outside and LAN to outside users = email does not get scanned for viruses via the amavis router. I would like my

compiling a driver

2004-02-06 Thread Mark M
do to compile this driver correctly? Mark M P.s. Two months ago, i did not even know what a top-level directory was, so be gentle? -- MICROSOFT: Most Intelligent Customers Realize Our Software is Only for Fools and Teenagers. [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Virus bot bounces (Was: ALCATEL POLICY : your message has been refused)

2004-01-30 Thread Mark M
s. keeling schreef: Incoming from [EMAIL PROTECTED]: e-mail Manager Notification ** As a security precaution this mail was blocked and discarded since it Grrr. Can we pass a law that says all these virus checker programs have to insert an X-Virus-Bot:

Re: NFS performace on 2.6.1 -> 2.6.1

2004-01-30 Thread Mark M
Roberto Sanchez schreef: This is a known issue and has been discussed a great deal on LKML in the last couple of weeks. Try upgrading to the latest -bk snapshot or reverting to an earlier version. -Roberto Roberto: Could you please explain a little further? Primarily: what do you mean with "lat

Re: tetex on unstable: dvips (5.92b) -Ppdf problem

2003-10-15 Thread Mark M
>I think that he is using -Ppdf to make sure that the pdf > text is readable on the screen. I believe that this > option has some bearing on the way the fonts are > handled. And then he makes the program vomit the > output into the file with -o. Yes, -Ppdf is supposed to get dvips to use fonts s

tetex on unstable: dvips (5.92b) -Ppdf problem

2003-10-12 Thread Mark M
Hi, I am using unstable with dvips 5.92b. When I try: dvips -Ppdf process.dvi -o process.ps I get the error message shown below for a number of fonts. ps2pdf then gives bad screen output. Does anyone know what the problem is? Regards, Mark. (cc's welcome) kpathsea: Running mktexpk --mfmode ljf

Installing a set of woody libs, independently from rest of system

2003-06-09 Thread Mark M
Hi All, (please cc me if possible) What would be the best way to install woody libs on an unstable system to keep some legacy software (no source) going. I plan to unar / untar the debs and stick them in /opt/usr/lib, and point LD_LIBRARY_PATH in the right direction. Since this is kdelibs3, t

Slow Masquerade in 2.4.16

2002-02-25 Thread Mark M
Hi, I have a Debian unstable box connected via 33k modem to an ISP, and recieve at approx 3.4kB/s from a local mirror. Through a 10MBaud coax lan I can transfer at almost 1MB/s. However when masquerading for win98 OR linux boxes on the lan, the throughput drops to around 1kB/sec, and seems to

dpkg-scanpackages uses older debs?

2000-03-21 Thread Mark M
Hi, Doe anyone else have this problem with dpkg-scanpackages? If you have different versions of the same package, sometimes it uses the latest version, but usually it uses the earlier version [think incremental potato upgrades]. I used to have a sed regex so that I could move the earlier pacakag

Re: hard disk error

2000-01-31 Thread Mark M
>> hdb:hdb: set_multmode: status=0x51 {DriveReady SeekComplete Error } >> hdb: set_multmode: error=0x04 {DriveStatusError } >> hdb1 hdb2 >> VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. >It looks like your hard disk doesn't support multimode - reading/writing >multiple disk blocks at once. What ke

Re: Is potatoe's exim 3.12-1 OK?

2000-01-20 Thread Mark M
s, Mark. -- On Tue, 18 Jan 2000 05:33:59 Gregory T. Norris wrote: >Working fine here... > >On Mon, Jan 17, 2000 at 07:29:52PM -0800, Mark M wrote: >> Hi, >> The problem may be with my ISP, but I keep >> getting: >> >> SMTP timeout while connected to >

Is potatoe's exim 3.12-1 OK?

2000-01-18 Thread Mark M
Hi, The problem may be with my ISP, but I keep getting: SMTP timeout while connected to smtp.student.unsw.edu.au [xx] after end of data (3531 bytes written) Is any one else having a similar problem? I have frozen messages and an unusual number of exim processes sticking around (4). Exim seem

Re: Potato locked up on shutdown - processes still running

1999-12-05 Thread Mark M
On Fri, Dec 03, 1999 at 10:48:15AM -0800, aphro wrote: > It may not help but i remapped ctrl-0alt-del to go to runlevel 1, instead > of reboot usually allows for a clean shutdown when something goes > wrong(like X breaking, or some startup script hanging the system) Hi Nate, Thanks for the idea.

Potato locked up on shutdown - processes still running

1999-12-03 Thread Mark M
Hi, For a few months now, I have had the error message - `/dev/hda4 busy - mounted ro' (hda4 is my /var) after all partitions are unmounted on shutdown. I haven't worried about it too much up until now. After running for about 20 days and then shutting down, init froze with `processes still ru

Getting Netscape to work on potato

1999-10-25 Thread Mark M
Hi, Despite Potato being based on a 2.2 kernel, downloading the unsupported/linux22netscape doesn't work to well. However, the supported/linux20libc5 version seems to be very stable even on my 2.2 kernel Potato system. Perhaps this is the reason for the conflicting reports?? YMMV Mark.

Re: hda: irq timeout

1999-10-19 Thread Mark M
Hi, You may want to try the patch Alec suggested. HTH Mark On Wed, Sep 29, 1999 at 03:25:55AM -0400, Alec Smith wrote: > ftp://ftp.x.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/hedrick/ (where x is your > favorite mirror) > > There's some updated IDE patches there from Andre Hedrick, the guy who > main

Getting shaper0 to work

1999-09-29 Thread Mark M
Hi all, I was wondering why I cannot get the kernel's network traffic shaper to work. It is compiled as a module in the kernel and seems to be initalising correctly. I have installed the shapecfg deb, (I assume this is for the 2.2 kernel's, not AC's backport to 2.0.*) I have tried many permutati

Peripherals work fine on old M/B, misbehave on new M/B

1999-09-29 Thread Mark M
Hi, I was hoping that someone would be able to suggest a solution for some hardware problems I'm having. i) I have two eisa network cards: 3c507, and ni65 (ancient lance chip:) These both work fine (500kB/s) when used on a 486DX100 M/B (with VLB) However, I also have access to two more recent M/

Re: DriveReady SeekComplete Error and DriveStatusError

1999-09-29 Thread Mark M
Hi Bart, > running into some error messages: > hdb: write_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } > hdb: write_intr: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError } Not sure if anyone else has mentioned these yet, here are a few things you could check: i) Is there a power down of the drive through b

Re: multihost exim setup (general MTA question I guess)

1999-09-20 Thread Mark M
On Sat, Sep 18, 1999 at 12:44:15AM -0400, Jonathan Lupa wrote: > Both are running slink, server does a DNS for JJLNet, any my ISP gives me 1 ^ OK, I'm currently running the next release of Exim and the conf file was changed slightly but that didn't seem to cause you a probl

Re: multihost exim setup (general MTA question I guess)

1999-09-18 Thread Mark M
Whoops, should have said local_domains = localhost:*.mynetwork in server's exim.conf Cheers, Mark.

Opening dynamic text file

1999-09-18 Thread Mark M
Hi, Apols for the non debian specific Q, but I was hoping someone would know how I could read in and process a file (a log file in this case), and then when further lines are written read these without reloading the whole file (performance considerations). I thought that (using perl) continually

Re: multihost exim setup (general MTA question I guess)

1999-09-18 Thread Mark M
Hi, On Wed, Sep 15, 1999 at 10:53:54PM -0400, Jonathan Lupa wrote: > OK, this is pretty complicated to me, so the chance of me misspeaking is > large. I'm no expert, so the same goes for me. > What I want is the server to do the fetchmail durring ip-up and ip-down. > That mail getting delivere

3.3.4-1 -> Netscape 4.51 Crashes

1999-09-01 Thread Mark M
Hi, Apols for flogging an already dead horse, but I believe that upgrading to xfree86 3.3.4-1 may cause the revered netscape 4.51 solution to fail For me, ns4.51 caused X3.3.4-1 to crash completely on minimising windows. ns4.6glibc2 continued to give bus errors on exiting windows but X stayed u

Re: 1.3 to 2.0 upgrade problems

1999-07-13 Thread Mark M
Hi Darryl, I actually had this problem as well, and judging from your .au address, I may have got my Hamm CD from the same vendor. I think that the packages that are giving you trouble are the ones that are symbolic links such as: binary-i386/admin/dotfile*->binary-all/admin/dotfile* When bootin

help

1999-06-23 Thread Mark M
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Re: Transfering mail from netscape

1999-02-23 Thread Mark M
This may not be the ultimate in mail tranferral ideas, but here is an idea...if you don't mind the messages having a forward header on them. 1. Set up smail to accept smtp mail (if not already done so) 2. In netscape, set up the smtp server as 127.0.0.1 3. Forward all your messages to [EMAIL PR