March 2000 - openSUSE Edu - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Modems so far
by adrian.wells 20 Mar '00

20 Mar '00

Many thanks for all of the replies. Not much time to play at the weekend either, I must be cured, no longer a silicon junkie. I tried another ISA and a PCI 56K without joy - I will try the 'modem site' today, One of the modems can be set to non-PNP but has no option for setting ports IRQs etc. I did however have success with an old internal 4800 modem which configured without any problems after I set it to port 1 and disabled serial port 1 in the BIOS. but none of my ISPs don't support such low speeds any more and I just timed out! :-) :-( Does wvdial only look at ports 1 and 2? As a matter of interest the 56K modems were all generic types and none of them mentioned the fact that they were win modems in the sparse literature. Kind Regards Adrian Wells _______________________________________ Systems Manager Sidcot School Oakridge Lane, Winscombe, Somerset BS25 1PD. Please reply to adrian.wells(a)sidcot.org.uk admin(a)sidcot.org.uk for general enquiries

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Re: [suse-linux-uk-schools] Samba
by Raju 19 Mar '00

19 Mar '00

The difference is: I don't have any NT on the network!! Samba acts as the PDC. So our environments do not match after all. Sorry. ----- Original Message ----- From: Paul Taylor <ptaylor(a)uklinux.net> To: Raju <raju(a)one.net> Sent: Sunday, March 19, 2000 5:42 PM Subject: RE: [suse-linux-uk-schools] Samba > Thanks for the info. Raju but I have done all of that so far. As I said, > the printer is found and set up from the 9x machine without problem but when > it prints the files sit in a queue on the SuSE machine and I can't get them > to be released. The SuSE machine prints fin as well on its own. I suppose > I need to check that I have the permissions set up correctly or something. > Does your printing go through an NT server for validation? I think that the > main NT server is the controlling device so perhaps it doesn't recognise my > Linux box even though the 9x machines can find it due to the TCP/IP address? > I need to investigate more but timetables never really permit any serious > dabbling. Perhaps over the end of term "holiday". > Paul > > -----Original Message----- > From: Raju [mailto:raju@one.net] > Sent: 18 March 2000 15:08 > To: Paul Taylor > Subject: Re: [suse-linux-uk-schools] Samba > > This is how I have done it at my school. Works fine .. for now ;-) > > On the server EDISON. > Installed Samba. Attached the printer on the server machine thru the > Parallel (LPT1) port. Configured the printer via YAST (I have SUSE 6.2). > > On each of the W9x clients: > Start/Settings/Printers/Add Printer. Then chose network printer option. > Browsed thru the list until I got to EDISON. Found the default printer under > EDISON. Then chose the model and make of the printer to be configured. In my > case it was HP Laserjet IIID. This is the general idea. There are several > ways of installing a server printer on W9x. > > If you wish a step by step method I can send that to you monday/tuesday. > There were a few quirks I noticed. Will share that with you too. > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Paul Taylor <ptaylor(a)uklinux.net> > To: SuSe-Linux-UK-Schools <suse-linux-uk-schools(a)suse.com> > Sent: Saturday, March 18, 2000 7:48 AM > Subject: [suse-linux-uk-schools] Samba > > > Hello all: > > I have managed to successfully install Samba and set up all parameters using > the SWAT tool but can't seem to get the printer to work. I have the printer > hooked up to my main machine in the classroom and there are 15 9x stations > on > the network that print to this device. I assume the print request goes > through > the NT server upstairs and then to my machine so don't know if the > permissions > are modified by this? > I can look at the print queue and see the files waiting to go but it says > that > there is no server even though it lists my machine as the target one. I > read > in one of my collection of steadily growing Linux books that you need to > have > windows (HP in this case) .dlls and other driver files in the printer folder > on > the Linux end but is this really necessary? > Once I can crack this I think I will be sailing. I'm sure it is quite > simple > but I am climbing the curve like many others. The room I am in is a > headache as > none of the 9x workstations print all of the time and most times the student > has to restart the machine several times before they receive a message "do > you > want to print what is in the queue". Since there is no printing happening, > most students > keep hitting the button and later that day or even the next day it decides > to > print and I have loads of wasted sheets. I assume that with Linux as a file > and > print server this will go? > Thanks in advance, > Paul Taylor > Westwood St. Thomas School > cc negations(a)yahoo.com > > >

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Samba
by Paul Taylor 18 Mar '00

18 Mar '00

Hello all: I have managed to successfully install Samba and set up all parameters using the SWAT tool but can't seem to get the printer to work. I have the printer hooked up to my main machine in the classroom and there are 15 9x stations on the network that print to this device. I assume the print request goes through the NT server upstairs and then to my machine so don't know if the permissions are modified by this? I can look at the print queue and see the files waiting to go but it says that there is no server even though it lists my machine as the target one. I read in one of my collection of steadily growing Linux books that you need to have windows (HP in this case) .dlls and other driver files in the printer folder on the Linux end but is this really necessary? Once I can crack this I think I will be sailing. I'm sure it is quite simple but I am climbing the curve like many others. The room I am in is a headache as none of the 9x workstations print all of the time and most times the student has to restart the machine several times before they receive a message "do you want to print what is in the queue". Since there is no printing happening, most students keep hitting the button and later that day or even the next day it decides to print and I have loads of wasted sheets. I assume that with Linux as a file and print server this will go? Thanks in advance, Paul Taylor Westwood St. Thomas School cc negations(a)yahoo.com

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Fw: [suse-linux-uk-schools] Modem
by adrian.wells 17 Mar '00

17 Mar '00

Thanks John, I had read such in the manual, I don't THINK it is a win modem, but I am going to salvage another internal and an external so I can play over the weekend. Thanks for the quick response. Adrian ---------- > From: Mr Murdoch <j.murdoch(a)rgc.aberdeen.sch.uk> > To: 'adrian.wells' <adrian.wells(a)sidcot.org.uk>; Suse List <suse-linux-uk-schools(a)suse.com> > Subject: RE: [suse-linux-uk-schools] Modem > Date: 17 March 2000 15:37 > > Adrian > > It would be worth checking to make sure that your modem isn't a Winmodem. A > friend of mine had lots of problems with his modem and Linux until he > discovered that he had a Winmodem and that it wasn't supported under Linux. > > John > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: adrian.wells [SMTP:adrian.wells@sidcot.org.uk] > > Sent: Saturday, January 01, 2000 3:28 PM > > To: Suse List > > Subject: [suse-linux-uk-schools] Modem > > > > I am trying to get my modem seen - internal 56K ISA type. > > > > Are the 4 'ports' that the modem can be assigned to in fact ports, or are > > they aliases? I'm sure that I saw somewhere in the manual a modem being > > aliased as 'tulip' > > > > When I try to auto detect the modem, LINUX only appears to look at serial > > ports 0 and 1 (internal cards tend to sit at 3 or 4) and then announces > > that no modem can be found, or that it may be in use elsewhere. > > > > I intend digging deeper over the weekend, but any ideas in the meantime > > please? > > > > > > Kind Regards > > Adrian Wells > > _______________________________________ > > Systems Manager > > Sidcot School > > Oakridge Lane, Winscombe, Somerset BS25 1PD. > > > > Please reply to > > adrian.wells(a)sidcot.org.uk > > admin(a)sidcot.org.uk for general enquiries

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XDM link
by Alan Davies 17 Mar '00

17 Mar '00

One for the Gurus...well at least more of a GURU than myself... I have a lap top with SUSE 6.3 running everything...well almost.. I can telnet to it and start a X session from a PC using the usual export DISPLAY = w.x.y.z I have a trial copy of GNOME's Xserver for Acorn machines. This requires an XDM connection (or if it doesn't I don't know how to start it) Having set up everything I was told to by Gnome on the Acorn side I keep getting Authorisation refused and the Acorn Xserver stops before it starts. I can ping each from both by name and number. Is there anything I have to look at and enable on the Linux side? -- Alan Davies Head of Computing Birkenhead School

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Re: [suse-linux-uk-schools] Fw: [suse-linux-uk-schools] Modem
by FPJSCHOOL＠aol.com 17 Mar '00

17 Mar '00

I understand that "winmodems" AND PCI modems have problems with Linux. I did visit a site that deals with this aspect of Linux. Unfortunately I don't remember it right now. Maybe when I get home I will find that one out and put it in a mail. Generally speaking any modem that allows COM and IRQ's to be set via jumpers should be OK. Something to do with amount of onboard modem hardware and it's capabilities. Good Luck anyways. And let us know of your findings. Raju

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RE: [suse-linux-uk-schools] Modem
by Mr Murdoch 17 Mar '00

17 Mar '00

Adrian It would be worth checking to make sure that your modem isn't a Winmodem. A friend of mine had lots of problems with his modem and Linux until he discovered that he had a Winmodem and that it wasn't supported under Linux. John > -----Original Message----- > From: adrian.wells [SMTP:adrian.wells@sidcot.org.uk] > Sent: Saturday, January 01, 2000 3:28 PM > To: Suse List > Subject: [suse-linux-uk-schools] Modem > > I am trying to get my modem seen - internal 56K ISA type. > > Are the 4 'ports' that the modem can be assigned to in fact ports, or are > they aliases? I'm sure that I saw somewhere in the manual a modem being > aliased as 'tulip' > > When I try to auto detect the modem, LINUX only appears to look at serial > ports 0 and 1 (internal cards tend to sit at 3 or 4) and then announces > that no modem can be found, or that it may be in use elsewhere. > > I intend digging deeper over the weekend, but any ideas in the meantime > please? > > > Kind Regards > Adrian Wells > _______________________________________ > Systems Manager > Sidcot School > Oakridge Lane, Winscombe, Somerset BS25 1PD. > > Please reply to > adrian.wells(a)sidcot.org.uk > admin(a)sidcot.org.uk for general enquiries

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Modem
by adrian.wells 17 Mar '00

17 Mar '00

I am trying to get my modem seen - internal 56K ISA type. Are the 4 'ports' that the modem can be assigned to in fact ports, or are they aliases? I'm sure that I saw somewhere in the manual a modem being aliased as 'tulip' When I try to auto detect the modem, LINUX only appears to look at serial ports 0 and 1 (internal cards tend to sit at 3 or 4) and then announces that no modem can be found, or that it may be in use elsewhere. I intend digging deeper over the weekend, but any ideas in the meantime please? Kind Regards Adrian Wells _______________________________________ Systems Manager Sidcot School Oakridge Lane, Winscombe, Somerset BS25 1PD. Please reply to adrian.wells(a)sidcot.org.uk admin(a)sidcot.org.uk for general enquiries

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NT Domain connections through Samba links
by Bill Antonia 17 Mar '00

17 Mar '00

Bill Antonia Beacon Community College Home e-mail bill(a)beaconhillcott.freeserve.co.uk Work e-mail at(a)beacon.e-sussex.sch.uk I now have Capita's School Information Management System (SIMS) running through the Samba link I described earlier. Useful to give access to information on selected machines on the other segment of our network, Admin -> Curriculum. This could also be useful for staff training of SIMS modules in one of our curriculum computer rooms. By the way, I actually am an Acorn enthusiast at heart and Linux is quite new to me, on and off over past 3 years. Gradually getting there though through practice. Regards Bill

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A heartfelt request.
by Edgehill E-Mail Service 17 Mar '00

17 Mar '00

Hi, I would like to make an appeal on behalf of all of the Linux Newbies who are subscribed to the mailbase (myself included). If a question has been raised - please do not assume that Granny already sucks eggs. Perhaps two versions of the answer would be valid - the brief and technical version for the cognoscenti, and the long simplistic version for the newbies. I have been in the computer industry for over 20 years, and I have been using Linux for under 20 weeks. I need the simplistic version, and will probably continue to do so for some considerable time yet. To many of us who were raised on "the other" os's (RT8/10/11, CP-M/MP-M, DOS etc.) the un*x/linux family of os's are an alien tongue. So, please don't be shy - assume that your reply is for some poor newbie who'se stuck up the creek, sans paddle - in a sinking canoe. And if you _are_ cognoscenti or Linux Gurus, please don't be offended by the simplistic answers - some of us are visitors from another System. Finally, If you are a Newbie with a good idea or a hot tip, please post it - it may not be new to everyone (or even to anyone else), but the chances are that someone will benefit from it! Thanks, Paul ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Edgehill IT Department Email Service. Please check sender's address from body of Message for return address. Find us at: www.edgecoll.clara.net ------------------------------------------------------------------------

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