Re: can't connect to server from outside LAN

2024-06-13 Thread Monte Milanuk
On 6/13/2024 10:26, Darac Marjal wrote: On 12/06/2024 23:54, Greg Marks wrote: The problem began a couple weeks ago; previously (and for many years) I had been able to ssh to my server without issue.  The first time it failed, I was using free wireless at an airport; I was able to ssh to my s

Re: Question About Free File Transfering Apps

2024-05-29 Thread Monte Milanuk
On 5/29/24 07:58, Curt wrote: I travel to https://pairdrop.net/ on both devices on the LAN for the occasional file transfer. There is an Android app, although you don't need one (merely a browser). Thanks for that... I may have to set that up with my wife's iPhone.  Getting her to use SyncT

Re: Question About Free File Transfering Apps

2024-05-29 Thread Monte Milanuk
SyncThing On 5/29/24 07:07, Carter Zhang wrote: Are there any free apps for GNU/Linux and Android to share files over LAN? There have already been LocalSend, LanXchange, LANDrop, NitroShare, Sharik, Warpinator, TrebleShot, but they have respective problems.

Re: "Repeaters", etc.

2024-05-28 Thread Monte Milanuk
On 5/28/24 11:03, rtnetz...@windstream.net wrote: - Original Message - From: "Paul M Foster" I've never see a 3 phase in a house. Quite some years ago my father inquired about getting 3 phase power to his house to power a rather husky lathe. The answers were distributed between "imp

Re: "Repeaters", etc.

2024-05-28 Thread Monte Milanuk
On 5/28/24 10:11, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: Brad Rogers wrote: On Tue, 28 May 2024 11:31:29 +0100 "mick.crane" wrote: Hello mick.crane, Is there not some system that runs ethernet over the mains wiring or did I misunderstand it. Yes, there is. I believe you're thinking of powerli

Re: Yast for debian

2012-12-17 Thread Monte Milanuk
On 12/17/2012 08:03 AM, Kelly Clowers wrote: I am not sure of the full extent of YAST, but besides installation/removal of software, it does at least account management, service management/configuration (DNS, mail, etc) and firewall configuration. It a bit like Webmin or AIX's SMIT (YAST has a T

Re: external drive enclosures / esata / port multipliers?

2011-01-20 Thread Monte Milanuk
On 1/19/11 10:23 AM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: You're talking about 8TB of raw data. How much is all that data worth to you? Depends. 8TB of disks, but using raid 5 I figured it was more like 6 TB of data. Some of that is movies, music, tv episodes etc. (back up of iTunes librari

Re: external drive enclosures / esata / port multipliers?

2011-01-18 Thread Monte Milanuk
Okay... since this is not something I can go to the local office supply store (around here its either that or mail order) and pick up and look at it and see that tab A goes in slot B (i.e. how things physically fit/work together)... how exactly would I set this up, and what would I need? Lets

Re: external drive enclosures / esata / port multipliers?

2011-01-18 Thread Monte Milanuk
On 1/17/11 5:57 PM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Mon, 17 Jan 2011, Monte Milanuk wrote: My big question is... most of these external drive boxes seem to claim support for JBOD, RAID 0, 1, 10, 5, etc. - should I presume that is simply fake RAID like many commodity mobos have, and not

external drive enclosures / esata / port multipliers?

2011-01-17 Thread Monte Milanuk
Hello all, I have two older PCs on my LAN posing as 'servers'... one running FreeNAS off a USB stick using three 500GB hdds in a ZFS RAID-Z pool serving as storage for the LAN and one running Debian Lenny with an 80GB drive used as a general purpose 'tinker' box that I can ssh into, etc. Prob

Re: Bad Debian (L.A.H.)

2003-03-09 Thread Monte Milanuk
It appears to me that throughout the book, the authors call a spade a spade as they see it. Debian got called on this one; trust me, RedHat gets larted far more specifically and often, and SuSE gets thwocked a time or two as well. Just because a given distribution is your favorite doesn't mean

Re: [OT] Complaint

2003-02-26 Thread Monte Milanuk
Joseph A Nagy Jr wrote: Okay. I take that back. It appears that I can customize my filters. Just noticed that. Still, there is no reason to BCC the list. Not everyone has the ability to customize what their filters filter on (I'm sure there are more then a few Evolution and OE users on the lis

Re: Newbie administrator

2003-02-26 Thread Monte Milanuk
Phil wrote: Is there a good book for beginner adimin's like me? Try the Linux Administration Handbook by Nemeth, Snyder, and Hein. Same authors of the famous Unix Administration Handbook, same style, but more specific to Linux. Deals w/ RedHat 7.2, SuSE 7.3, and Debian 3.0 specifically, but

Re: funky hardware problem

2001-05-12 Thread Monte Milanuk
- Original Message - From: Stefan Srdic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Monte Milanuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Saturday, May 12, 2001 3:30 PM Subject: Re: funky hardware problem > Well, your running an Pentium class system so that rules out improper jumper > settings

funky hardware problem

2001-05-12 Thread Monte Milanuk
A while back I 'rescued' an old P5-133 w/ 16MB of RAM to be a firewall machine. The original CDROM didn't work, so I replaced it w/ another, and replaced the HD w/ a WD 3.2GB HD. Everything seemed to work ok for a while, but then the CD started acting up, i.e. whenever I inserted a disk, it would

Re: Aaaarrrgggghhh!!!!

2001-01-17 Thread Monte Milanuk
Phillip Deackes wrote: > > I bought a motherboard with the KT133 chipset and AC97 on-board sound. Since > I only had an old SoundBlaster ISA card, and I needed to use the one ISA slot > on the new board for a SCSI scanner card, I decided to give the AC97 chip a > chance. > > Basically I read w

Re: Aaaarrrgggghhh!!!!

2001-01-17 Thread Monte Milanuk
ure it can't be any worse than what I've gone thru already. Monte = "Here, catch! Don't worry, it won't bite...BBPPP!!!...much " What an unsuspecting mechanic hears as he learns to never, ever, play 'Catch' with a bored electrician ;) Mo

Re: Aaaarrrgggghhh!!!!

2001-01-17 Thread Monte Milanuk
--- Peter Hugosson-Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you still have them, why don't you try to see if those > OSS/commercial drivers > work together with Debian? > > I for one would be _very_ interested to know if that > works - it would probably be > cheaper to buy commercial drivers for th

Re: Aaaarrrgggghhh!!!!

2001-01-17 Thread Monte Milanuk
"Eric G . Miller" wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 10:37:17PM -0700, Monte Milanuk wrote: > > "Eric G . Miller" wrote: > > > > # Card 1: (serial identifier b6 ff ff ff ff 35 68 63 0e) > > > > # Vendor Id CSC6835, No Serial Number (-1),

Aaaarrrgggghhh!!!!

2001-01-16 Thread Monte Milanuk
"Eric G . Miller" wrote: > > # Card 1: (serial identifier b6 ff ff ff ff 35 68 63 0e) > > # Vendor Id CSC6835, No Serial Number (-1), checksum 0xB6. > > # Version 1.0, Vendor version 0.1 > > # ANSI string -->CS4236B<-- > >This would indicate the accel

Re: Help! Wrecking my system trying to get sound

2001-01-15 Thread Monte Milanuk
"Eric G . Miller" wrote: > > I don't know. Maybe it'll show up as an ISAPNP device (mine shows up > under both, though only the controller shows up as a PCI device). These > on board things are a little weird. Try pnpdump. Here is the output of pnpdump. It is kinda long, but no mention of a CS

Re: Help! Wrecking my system trying to get sound

2001-01-15 Thread Monte Milanuk
"Eric G . Miller" wrote: > > Yea I'd grab a copy of 2.2.18 from ftp.kernel.org (or suitable mirror) > and try the cs4226 module (I recall it showed up in 2.2.17 and is for > these newer mobo/soundcard jobs). You still probably want to try lspci > to get I/O, IRQ and DMA parameters. It's easier t

Re: Help! Wrecking my system trying to get sound

2001-01-15 Thread Monte Milanuk
--- "Eric G . Miller" wrote: > Yea I'd grab a copy of 2.2.18 from ftp.kernel.org (or > suitable mirror) > and try the cs4226 module (I recall it showed up in > 2.2.17 and is for > these newer mobo/soundcard jobs). You still probably > want to try lspci > to get I/O, IRQ and DMA parameters. It's

Re: Help! Wrecking my system trying to get sound

2001-01-15 Thread Monte Milanuk
--- "Eric G . Miller" wrote: > > You might try the new cs4236 driver in 2.2.17/2.2.18 > kernels. I can't > say if it's built by default in the Debian kernel images. > You can > probably find out most of the info you need for the > driver by using > lspci (probably need to know I/O port, IRQ, a

Help! Wrecking my system trying to get sound

2001-01-15 Thread Monte Milanuk
Help! That said, here's the scenario: I've been back and forth btwn distros a bit in the last few months. I've finally settled on Debian for now, and I really need to get sound up and working. I have previously used sndconfig in RedHat, so I pointed my sources.list to unstable and installed snd

Re: why use Debian?

2001-01-13 Thread Monte Milanuk
"Martin J . Hillyer" wrote: > > Well, these geezer reminscences have probably put everyone to sleep; now > back to your usual programming... > Hey, it's nice to know that at least some of the people I talk to aren't half my age (and able to run circles around me on Linux :( ). Some of these s

Re: Why choose Debian?

2001-01-12 Thread Monte Milanuk
"Steve R. Hastings" wrote: > > I am interested in why people prefer Debian to other Linux > distributions. Please explain the top few reasons why you chose Debian > rather than something else. > It's almost embarrasing. I've been putzing around w/ Linux since around '95 or so, and I still have

Re: Problems w/ adduser... says user 'root' doesn't exist!

2001-01-11 Thread Monte Milanuk
Ethan Benson wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 06:38:21PM -0700, Monte Milanuk wrote: > > I'm a bit confused here... I used dselect to install CUPS and it's > > dependent packages, but no config program, which seemed odd. I used > > links to browse the d

Problems w/ adduser... says user 'root' doesn't exist!

2001-01-11 Thread Monte Milanuk
I'm a bit confused here... I used dselect to install CUPS and it's dependent packages, but no config program, which seemed odd. I used links to browse the documentation in /usr/share/doc/cupsys/README.Debian. It said that cups was almost setup, but due to a bug in adduser, it hadn't added root t

Re: Stupid question

2000-12-20 Thread Monte Milanuk
On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 09:21:02PM +0100, Gary Jones wrote: > Okay, stupid question time. > > What is the best way of connecting to the 'net? I don't mean the > mechanicals, which connection type to use, that sort of thing, but > rather which account(s) should do so. Preferably I don't want to

Re: apt-get sources.list

2000-12-13 Thread Monte Milanuk
Well... This is what I have in my /etc/apt/sources.list file. FWIW, I wonder why you ar adding anything to the file. The first section in the file already has the necessary entries already made, just commented out. Just delete the '#' and save the file, and do an 'apt-get update'. deb http:

Re: MY SQL

2000-11-29 Thread Monte Milanuk
Either dselect, and from the package selection screen, do a search for mysql, and note the package name, and any other related ones you may want (documentation, frontends, whatever), then exit back to the command line. Do 'apt-get install ' and sit back and relax while it installs. The version o

De-selecting tasks?

2000-11-28 Thread Monte Milanuk
Hello, all. I have a basic ( I hope) question on the 'task's that are available in Debian. Doing an 'apt-get install task-kde' installs KDE2 and all the dependencies (provided the sources.list is set up). But 'apt-get remove task-kde' seems to just remove the relatively small package 'task-kde',

Re: Resolve.conf

2000-11-25 Thread Monte Milanuk
Well, just a guess, but I might check your /etc/inetd.conf, and your /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny files. Might be something awry there. Monte James Preece wrote: > OK I have got that back in now Thanks. > > I can not seem to get remote access to my box, seems like no telnet, no ping >

bad task-x-window-system-core in Woody?

2000-11-21 Thread Monte Milanuk
Hello, I am trying to get an up-to-date Woody system running, and I basically did a bare minimum install of 2.2r0, then did an apt-get dist-upgrade to Woody, and now I'm trying to install X, but when I do 'apt-get install task-x-window-system-core' I get an error about how the task depends on xbas

Re: X over the network was: Re: 386 install

2000-11-21 Thread Monte Milanuk
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'Stable' tracks 2.2r0, 2.2r1,...?

2000-11-17 Thread Monte Milanuk
Hello, A simple question here: If I have a machine that is using apt-get to stay in sync w/ the security updates and bug fixes in stable, does this automatically keep it up w/ the latest stable version? i.e., my install cd's were 2.2r0. Now 2.2r1 is out. Soon (hopefully) 2.2r2 will be out. Wil

Simple apt-get question

2000-11-16 Thread Monte Milanuk
Hello, I've installed Debian 2.2r0, and did all the steps (I think) to get the necessary security updates and what not. I installed PostgreSQL to work with, and I noticed that it said that it was version 6.5 or so, and to just grab the newer package from the unstable tree. So my question is, how

need quick pointer for sound config

2000-10-13 Thread Monte Milanuk
Hello, all. I am getting to that point where I need to get the sound running on one of my boxes. It is running Debian 2.2, updated against the stable tree. The machine in question is a Dell OptiPlex GX1 w/ onboard sound (CS4236), video, and nic. I was able to get the sound originally to work in

Re: Some minor mail problems w/ Debian 2.2

2000-10-08 Thread Monte Milanuk
Glyn Millington wrote: > On Sun, Oct 08, 2000 at 01:29:38PM +0400, thus spake Rino Mardo: > > > > hmm, fetchmail uses ETRN and not SMTP (port 25). debian 2.2 with exim > > works > > > > fine out of the box > > > > so why compound the problem? what is it your trying to accomplish? > > > > yes by

Some minor mail problems w/ Debian 2.2

2000-10-07 Thread Monte Milanuk
Hello all, I've recently started using Debian 2.2, and I'm having a few weird mail issues popping up. If anyone could provide some assistance, or nudge me in the direction of some specific spot in the documentation, I'd appreciate it greatly. 1) Added the sources for the online repositories to