Re: [techtalk] Minor ln -s question

2001-04-23 Thread Conor Daly
On Sat, Apr 21, 2001 at 03:30:40AM -0700 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, Sienca Teng thought: > On Saturday 21 April 2001 03:11am, Telsa wrote: > > Of all the little commands there are, this is the one that I constantly > > forget. Apparently I'm not alone! > > I just go straight for the man pa

Re: [techtalk] Minor ln -s question

2001-04-23 Thread Conor Daly
On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 08:01:06PM -0500 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, Caitlin thought: > > You may need to check the web server's configuration. Unless the > FollowSymLinks or SymLinksIfOwnerMatch options > have been selected the server will not follow a symlink out of the > designated web

RE: [techtalk] NAT, Routing, or something else?

2001-04-23 Thread Samuel Tesla
Actually, I ran into this problem. ::chuckle:: My Cisco is set up in bridging mode, so that it goes like this: Internet | | +---+ | My Cisco | +-

[techtalk] Problems with Microsoft Works

2001-04-23 Thread Damian Brazendale
I have a new P.C. (Dixons E Machine 866 dvd) running windows M.E. With the Pentium lll 866 Mhz processor.  The P.C. came pre-installed with Microsoft Works and this suite works well with factory set conditions, with no other software installed.   However when I install ANY printer driver it

RE: [techtalk] NAT, Routing, or something else?

2001-04-23 Thread Walt
Can you setup your firewall to be a DNS server and handle pointing to the devices on your network as a domain? Dont' know how this sort of thing works through a router and all, so just a thought! Walt -~ The meek shall inherit the earth, but having inherited the earth, shall they c

RE: [techtalk] Problems with Microsoft Works

2001-04-23 Thread Davida Schiff
Hi Damian,   A search on google: http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q141/9/30.asp   Sort of a strange help request for a Linux user group.   HTH,   Davida -Original Message-From: Damian Brazendale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Monday, April 23, 2001 10:20 AMTo

Re: [techtalk] Problems with Microsoft Works

2001-04-23 Thread ktb
On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 06:19:41PM +0100, Damian Brazendale wrote: > I have a new P.C. (Dixons E Machine 866 dvd) running windows M.E. With the Pentium >lll 866 Mhz processor. The P.C. came pre-installed with Microsoft Works and this >suite works well with factory set conditions, with no other

Re: [techtalk] Minor ln -s question

2001-04-23 Thread Nils Philippsen
On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, Kath wrote: > I have the directory /var/www/shag/ > > I want to link /var/www/kathweb/shag/ to it, so when someone goes to > www.kathweb.net/shag/, the directory of shag/ is displayed. > > How do I do this? Instead of symlinking, you can just use the Alias directive inside y

Re: [techtalk] pine and virtual domains

2001-04-23 Thread Akkana
Makiko Itoh writes: > I wonder if anyone else has faced this argument about not wanting to > download mail because of a fear of email viruses? It seems a bit > overparanoid to me Yes, it seems a bit paranoid (since you don't get viruses from downloading the mail, you get them from reading

RE: [techtalk] NAT, Routing, or something else?

2001-04-23 Thread Angela Nash
You don't need a routing daemon. Routing daemons are only used when you have a group of routers and they need to exchange routing info. In your case, they don't. So simply enable IP forwarding on your Linux system and it will route between its two interfaces. You can enable it via the kernel c

Re: [techtalk] pine and virtual domains

2001-04-23 Thread Makiko Itoh
Akkana and James, thanks for your advice! Well this user seems to be truly paranoid. He doesn't have *any* email client on his local computer, and checks all his mail via another server in pine. He's rapidly getting to be somewhat of an annoyance, since now he wants to set up forwarding with

Re: [techtalk] pine and virtual domains

2001-04-23 Thread James A . Sutherland
On Tue, 24 Apr 2001 06:50:07 +0200, you wrote: >Akkana and James, thanks for your advice! > >Well this user seems to be truly paranoid. He doesn't have *any* >email client on his local computer, and checks all his mail via >another server in pine. Phew! Paranoia like that suggests he works for