Chris, I had some peculiar effects when trying to log in when already logged in! Is that your problem? Further to Paul's reply AND/OR the keyboard is at fault AND your BIOS is using the typematic keyboard input routines, you could try extending the auto repeat speed - Someone may have been playing (this would be evident in other repeated keystrokes). Roger, Or does LINUX handle it's own keyboard input directly from the hardware? If so, there must (I assume) be a key de-bounce routine somewhere, one would hope that one could change the 'comfort' values for this. Further to logging in/out, Can you please tell me if there is a simple way to log out of the GUI (i.e. back to the command prompt) other than turning the graphical login option off?
I used a machine set up with LINUX yesterday. Today I can't log in. As soon as I type root as a login name it tells me "login correct"
Does this mean I have to re-install all over again?
What caused this?
Chris Chris Davies Head of IT Epsom College College Road Epsom Surrey KT17 4JQ tel.: 01372 821178 fax.: 01372 821005
Kind Regards Adrian Wells _______________________________________ Systems Manager Sidcot School Oakridge Lane, Winscombe, Somerset BS25 1PD. Please reply to adrian.wells@sidcot.org.uk admin@sidcot.org.uk for general enquiries
On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, adrian.wells wrote:
Roger, Or does LINUX handle it's own keyboard input directly from the hardware? If so, there must (I assume) be a key de-bounce routine somewhere, one would hope that one could change the 'comfort' values for this.
There is a way to change the repeat rate, but I'd need to look that up. Try another keyboard :)
Further to logging in/out, Can you please tell me if there is a simple way to log out of the GUI (i.e. back to the command prompt) other than turning the graphical login option off?
Control-Alt-F-key will take you to a text console without killing the GUI which you can get back with Alt-F7. I personally prefer to log in in text mode, then manually do a startx. Control-Alt-Backspace will kill X altogether.
I used a machine set up with LINUX yesterday. Today I can't log in. As soon as I type root as a login name it tells me "login correct"
Does this mean I have to re-install all over again?
What caused this?
Chris Chris Davies Head of IT Epsom College College Road Epsom Surrey KT17 4JQ tel.: 01372 821178 fax.: 01372 821005
Kind Regards Adrian Wells _______________________________________ Systems Manager Sidcot School Oakridge Lane, Winscombe, Somerset BS25 1PD.
Please reply to adrian.wells@sidcot.org.uk admin@sidcot.org.uk for general enquiries
-- Roger Whittaker SuSE Linux Ltd The Kinetic Centre Theobald Street Borehamwood Herts WD6 4PJ ---------------------- 020 8387 1482 ---------------------- roger@suse-linux.co.uk ----------------------
Hi, I manage a school's network in the east end of London and we have installed Suse Linux onto one computer at this stage. We have the machine patched into a switch along with a machine with NT loaded on. We currently run a Connect network but wanted to develop the Linux option more as a working example to our A-Level computing students that there is a viable alternative to Microsoft, a concept that they have taken to quite enthusiaticly I might add. At this stage we have kept it seperate but are looking at connecting it up into our network with access to the Internet. The whole process has been pretty exciting and has got the head of ICT and the other IT teachers pretty enthusiastic, most afternoons has seen them crowded around the machines on the "alternative" network. Just a quick question, we have the Linux machine and the NT machine capable of pinging each other no problem, but how do we go about getting them to recognise each other and allow file accesses?? Any help or pointers would be appreciated. Thanks Shawn Blakey
On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, Shawn Blakey wrote:
Just a quick question, we have the Linux machine and the NT machine capable of pinging each other no problem, but how do we go about getting them to recognise each other and allow file accesses?? Any help or pointers would be appreciated.
Samba is what does this. It's in the box. If samba is running, windows machines can see files and directories on the Linux machine. There is a web-based configuration tool for samba called swat. Install samba and read the docs. More information is at http://www.samba.org -- Roger Whittaker SuSE Linux Ltd The Kinetic Centre Theobald Street Borehamwood Herts WD6 4PJ ---------------------- 020 8387 1482 ---------------------- roger@suse-linux.co.uk ----------------------
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