Re: Printing to smb shared printer on windows network

2004-12-16 Thread Vikas B N
Wayne Topa wrote: Vikas From my Cups Printer setup: Device: Windows printer via Samba Device URL: smb://winme/Epson (the Windows Box/The printer ) Hi Wayne, thanks for the info. :) Will try this out. -vikas Hope this helps Wayne -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: Debian and Dell?

2004-12-15 Thread Vikas B N
Ed Sutherland wrote: Hi All, 1) Will I be able to easily dual-boot Windows or Linux using yaboot, or will I need to go through some BIOS mumbo-jumbo? i have no idea about yaboot, but grub or lilo will do fine. you could even try out xosl. 2) Does Debian support the Dell flatscreen

Printing to smb shared printer on windows network

2004-12-15 Thread Vikas B N
Hi All, I am running debian sid at office. However, the only thing that I havent yet got to work is printing over the network. My requirement is to print to a printer which is smb shared. I have googled around. I know that the printing works from Linux because previously I ran Mandrake and i

Re: VNC server desktop environment?

2004-11-22 Thread Vikas B N
Hi, it might be reading ~/.xinitrc or ~/.xsession. Put the KDE window manager binary path into that. I can'tremember what it's called, but for another window manager (say, pwm) you'd have /usr/bin/pwm ...in one of those files. It actually reads ~/.vnc/xstartup Put "startkde &" in the last line

Setting up debian package server for installation over ethernet

2003-11-28 Thread Vikas B N
Hello All, A couple of colleagues and I are planning to set up an ftp/http server which hosts the debian packages, so that people can install Debian on their machines over the office intranet. What is the best way to go about this? Things that we are planning are, 1.the users should

RE: Is it possible to recover deleted ext2 partitions??

2003-11-21 Thread Vikas B N
Hello All, I finally recovered all my partitions back! Thanks to all who helped me! (Michael,Anita,Alvin) :) and to Michail Brzitwa who wrote "gpart". :) Thanks are also due to the guys who wrote the "linux partitioning how-to". For the benefit of others who might face the same, (though I

Recovering deleted partitions...

2003-11-20 Thread Vikas B N
Hello All, Thanks for the response to my earlier post. I have downloaded and used gpart as suggested by Michael and Anita. The output of gpart is as follows: ** Error: invalid extended ptbl found at sector(20804175). Begin scan... Possible partition(DOS FA

RE: Is it possible to recover deleted ext2 partitions??

2003-11-20 Thread Vikas B N
Hi Alvin, > if hda5 was your extended partition ... than all subsequent > logical partions will go pooff when you delete the (reference) > extended partition not so, hda5 was the first logical partition inside the extended partition. > as long as oyu didnt write any new dat

RE: Is it possible to recover deleted ext2 partitions??

2003-11-20 Thread Vikas B N
Hi Anita, > Question: when you used fdisk to delete the partitions, and > then looked at them and you saw that there were missing ones, > did you actually *write* the partition table or did you just > exit? If you didn't write it, then you should be able to > boot as before and fi

RE: Is it possible to recover deleted ext2 partitions??

2003-11-20 Thread Vikas B N
Hi Micheal, > googling for gpart might help. thanks so much for this! Googling for it certainly helped! I'll try this out. -vikas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Is it possible to recover deleted ext2 partitions??

2003-11-20 Thread Vikas B N
Hi All, I have a system running WinXP and Linux. Except for one partition, all others are ext2 partitions. I had to make some space for a FAT32 partition, so wanted to format one of the ext2 partitions to FAT32. So, I booted into linux and used fdisk to delete a partition(hda5). After deleti