November 2000 - openSUSE Edu - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Samba help
by Alan Davies 17 Nov '00

17 Nov '00

I've been playing around with Suse for some time now. (1)My installation of Star Office is completely in German so even if there are 'options' I don't know where to click. Does anyone know if I can switch it without a re-install - and what do I need to do to effect a re-install of just Star Office which seems to be outside the automated install. (and how do you un-install it for that matter?) (2)I have had several little goes to get SAMBA up and running. I have been trying to use the SAMBA setup tool in KDE. I have tried 'binding' the net interface and entering a path to be shared as test. Then I save the file. (Do I need to reinitialise anything now?). I then try net use Y: \\a.b.c.d\test and it complains about not been logged on. What should I do? Can I use the set up tool to make the LINUX box part of my existing Domain? What do I need to set? Can I make it a BDC alongside our PDC? Can the exising NT domain authenticate access to the LINUX box - or just to LINUX shares? Sorry...thats a lot of questions - but I thought these was no point in a wild goose chase. -- Alan Davies Head of Computing Birkenhead School

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SuSE email Server
by adrian.wells 15 Nov '00

15 Nov '00

Hi Roger, This one is for you really, Just looking at your site and spotted SuSE email Server (sorry haven't visited for a while), This looks great but have you considered a combined e-mail/proxy/intranet server solution? What class of box is the recommended minimum for the email server? i.e. Processor/ram/hdd 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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Linux Demo Days
by Richard 14 Nov '00

14 Nov '00

Sheffield Linux Users Group (ShefLUG) Linux Demonstration Days 10.00 a.m. to 4.00 pm 7th, 8th and 9th December 2000 ShefLUG Venue: Blackwell's bookshop 156-160 West Street Sheffield S1 3ST for the location of the shop see http://www.multimap.co.uk and dial in the postcode for Blackwell's. All you have to do is walk in and ask one of the people where the demo is. For information about trams and buses phone 01709 515151. This is an early announcement for our pre-Christmas Linux Demo Days. For more information please have a look at the following web pages.... http://www.suse.de/uk/sheffield.html http://www.sheflug.co.uk/meeting.html the ShefLUG meeting page has a couple of downloadable files from SuSE Ltd which give more info about our demo days that may be of interest to you or anyone else you might happen to be friendly with. Thank you Richard Sheffield Linux User's Group http://www.sheflug.co.uk GNU the choice of a complete generation.

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Re: [suse-linux-uk-schools] Apcahe and CGI
by kevin.taylor＠powerconv.alstom.com 13 Nov '00

13 Nov '00

> Can you run then directory from the command line ? Or even run them directly ;-) Kevin. (going through a bad spel)

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Re: [suse-linux-uk-schools] Apcahe and CGI
by kevin.taylor＠powerconv.alstom.com 13 Nov '00

13 Nov '00

> Im now using Suse... transfered over site.... > the .pl files work, but the .cgi dont... What are the .cgi : executables, bash scripts, other scripts ? What happens when they don't work ? Are there any error messages ? Can you run then directory from the command line ? Is there any reference to them in the apache logs that gives any clues ? Kevin.

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Apcahe and CGI
by Gary Parr 13 Nov '00

13 Nov '00

hi I used to run redhat here, and had some cgi scripts to enable me to read/right csv files or text files, used them for things such as a search engine that teachers could as sites to etc.... I also had a .pl ara for reporting machine faults.... Im now using Suse... transfered over site.... the .pl files work, but the .cgi dont... Help me please... Gary _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.

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Squid usage
by Martin Dart 13 Nov '00

13 Nov '00

Its astounding just how that magical 100Mbps LAN degrades when you get a few Napster users on it, or the server suffers the load from 2Gb of downloaded porn images (both problems we have had in the last year, and Squid has helped discover)! Actually a colleague of mine set it up, but now it is great to be able to redirect commonly abused pages to a default HTML page warning them about internet usage, and advising them that their activity had been logged. We started off with a basic list of 'bad' words that Squid would find in the URL of web pages loaded, but now it scans for a list of banned sites, and uses a Perl script to redirect to the custom HTML page. You could of course use this powerful tool in a number of ways, but it will always be a game of chasing the new pages users will inevitably discover! Perhaps using it to permit only agreed search engines would be one method?? Anyone else out there got more experience of implementing banned pages policies?? >Now squid is up and running on our network, I am thinking >ahead. We are about to upgrade the network to 100MBit >cabling/switches and Pentium III workstations. By March next year we >should also have a broadband 2MB connection to the Internet >(according to our LEA!). >In these circumstances, is there any benefit in running a >web proxy cache? I do not use it to restrict access to >certain sites etc.. Martin Dart Senior Computing Officer School of Computing & Mathematical Sciences Oxford Brookes University Gipsy Lane Headington, OXFORD Tel (01865) 483667 Mobile 0797 927 1628

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Setting up a router
by Dave Williams 12 Nov '00

12 Nov '00

Dear All I'm setting up a router in a SuSE 7 box with 2 Accton NICs. lspci reports both cards I've set up IFCONFIG_1, IPADDR_1 and NETDEV_1 in yast but ifconfig still only reports eth0. What else do I need to do to initialise both cards? TIA Dave Williams

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Squid with fast network?
by Phillip Deackes 12 Nov '00

12 Nov '00

Now squid is up and running on our network, I am thinking ahead. We are about to upgrade the network to 100MBit cabling/switches and Pentium III workstations. By March next year we should also have a broadband 2MB connection to the Internet (according to our LEA!). In these circumstances, is there any benefit in running a web proxy cache? I do not use it to restrict access to certain sites etc.. -- Phillip Deackes Using Storm Linux 2000

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Samba logins and IP/NetBeui (Was: The secret diary ...)
by kevin.taylor＠powerconv.alstom.com 11 Nov '00

11 Nov '00

> I installed Tera Term Pro on the PC and > managed to TelNet to the server Good - sounds like your basic networking is ok now. > I fiddled round with smb.conf directly and managed > to get a share appearing in Networkwork > neighbo(u)rhood but it doesn't seem to like > my passwords...?!!! Well, may be time to delve into the Samba books One aside, the Windows machines would typically install windows networking (SMB) onto NetBeui *and* TCP/IP as the underlying protocols. Samba only supports TCP/IP. It is possible to remove NetBeui on *all* Windows machines and the server - and just have one network protocol running on your network - ie all machines just talking IP. I am not advising this though - unless you know that you have no machines that only talk NetBeui (ie not IP) - and that all machines are configured for IP. It is something else to think about though as life can often be simpler if you only have one network protocol on your system. This is not an important point though - and if everything is working, then 'ain't broke, don't fix' probably applies ... :-) Just thought I would mention it. (even Win 3.11 can run with networking just using IP - it is not the default, and you need the Win 3.11 IP stack from MS - but on a smaller machine, cutting down to a single network protocol can save (some) resources. This is what I do at home) Kevin.

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