System hangs during installation

2002-01-20 Thread Juergen Striegel
Got a dual celeron system with adaptec-scsi here on a Intel BX mb from tyan. I tried to install woody and also potatoe on one of my scsi disks. After the first reboot the system hangs during installation setup when asking for the ispell dictionary ("[1] or [2]"). No reaction from the system, no

Re: System hangs during installation

2002-01-20 Thread Juergen Striegel
> I suggest another try with an actual woody CD (the german PC mag. Linux > Intern had a woody CD some time ago) from the net or maybe a sid CD set. Thanks for your suggestion. In deed I tried also the CD from the german Linux Tag (Woody) with the same result (but maybe the critical part is the s

Re: Samba & Win2K

2002-01-23 Thread Juergen Striegel
> I have never tried to use win2k with Samba, I got Win2k and NT (and sometimes also Win98, bah) running with Samba. Never got any problems since using encrypted passwords (and for that a smbpasswd file). I dont use domain logins. My experience is: if samba runs with NT4 SP5 or 6 it will run wit

Re: Samba & Win2K

2002-01-23 Thread Juergen Striegel
> This sounds like an encrypted password problem. Samba by default For this read also the encryption-helpfile coming with samba!

Newsserver??

2002-01-23 Thread Juergen Striegel
180 Mails/night? 2 Mails/min? There's much work to filter/delete those mails I don't need although it's a pitty to trash it. But I do have to since most email providers have a maximum count of space/no of emails. Wouldn't be a newsserver better to handle that flood of information? Did anyone of

Re: Samba & Win2K

2002-01-23 Thread Juergen Striegel
> Check out the SMB HOWTO. Win9x/NT encrypts the password, while samba > expects un-crypted. The howto suggests registry fixes for 9x and NT but > has no info for 2k (at least not on my in-machine file). It does Isn't it the same in Win2k? But I suggest to use encrypted passwords in samba prio

Re: Newsserver??

2002-01-23 Thread Juergen Striegel
> If you download your messages and have your MUA automagically delete > them off the server after reciept, this won't be a problem. It takes a > while for this list to hit the 10MB mark, the most common limit for > email boxes I've seen. Problem is that (at least in my case) I'm calling my mails