June 2003 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Printing Cups/KDE
by John Murphy 04 Jun '03

04 Jun '03

Problem, a two line document takes 5 to 6 minutes to print. I had set the printer up through Yast and test printed, printed right out fine. Anything else I send to printer takes forever to print no matter how small. Anythig through KDE, OpenOffice they have the same result. Printer Epson Stylus Photo 780 USB Cups see's the default as Epson Stylus Photo 780, Foomatic + gimp-print (recommended) Description: EPSON Stylus Photo 780 Location: USB printer on //EPSON/Stylus%20Photo%20780?serial=NC0LL0104171643300 Printer State: idle, accepting jobs. Device URI: usb://EPSON/Stylus%20Photo%20780?serial=NC0LL0104171643300 In the KDE Control Panel Printers the default printer (named normal) is set to fax. All of the other options are empty. If I try to go into KDE printer adminstrator mode it locks up. Usually the default printer is lo something, I have no idea what normal means? It seems I have no printer setup in KDE and have no idea how to get yast to tell KDE I have a printer. I looked in the cups script and port 631 is open and I think that is the port the printer goes out on. Yet I think it goes to never never land and back. I went into localhost:631 printers I have draft draft_gray high high_gray normal normal_gray photo phot_gray veryhigh veryhigh_gray All set with Description: EPSON Stylus Photo 780 Location: USB printer on //EPSON/Stylus%20Photo%20780?serial=NC0LL0104171643300 Printer State: idle, accepting jobs. Device URI: usb://EPSON/Stylus%20Photo%20780?serial=NC0LL0104171643300 The printer is on the same computer, not a network printer. It's the only printer I have setup. I don't run a firewall but do have a Linksys router. Thanks for any suggestions John -- "Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -- I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference." -- Robert Frost

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star acl problem
by Dmitry Melekhov 04 Jun '03

04 Jun '03

Hello! Today I started to use star on SLES8. I wrote backup to tape with following command: /usr/bin/star c --file=/dev/st0 -acl -H=exustar ./ But when I try to restore sometimes star can restore acls: backup:/BACKUP/test # star -x -acl -H=exustar --file=/dev/st0 star: current './' newer. star: Invalid argument. Cannot set ACL 'user::rwx,group::rwx,group:belbank:rwx #effective,mask::r-x,other::---' for 'apps/belbank/BACKUP/client/'. star: Invalid argument. Cannot set ACL 'user::rwx,group::rwx,group:belbank:rwx #effective,mask::r-x,other::---' for 'apps/belbank/BACKUP/client/1/'. Any ideas?

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One helping of crow - Please!
by Donn Washburn 04 Jun '03

04 Jun '03

Hey Group: I made a mistake. The problem (chroot) I mentioned earlier was a mistake I made. The drive was not clean. fsck.reiser fixed it. The error message coming from bash about libncurses got me. Again sorry! -- 73 de Donn Washburn __ " http://www.hal-pc.org/~n5xwb " Ham Callsign N5XWB / / __ __ __ __ __ __ __ 307 Savoy St. / /__ / / / \/ / / /_/ / \ \/ / Sugar Land, TX 77478 /_____/ /_/ /_/\__/ /_____/ /_/\_\ LL# 1.281.242.3256 a MSDOS Virus "Free Zone" OS Email: n5xwb(a)hal-pc.org Info: http://www.knoppix.net

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No keyboard on bootup in 8.2. Help!!!
by Trent Clifton 04 Jun '03

04 Jun '03

I installed 8.2, but whenever I reboot I get a message that configuration of my drives has been updated, and once SuSE loads, I no longer have a keyboard. The only way I've found to get back into the system is to use the 8.2 installation disc to "update installation." Then my keyboard works until the next boot. Any suggestions? (Using a usb keyboard, by the way) Thanks in advance! -Trent

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A good thesaurus for Suse linux
by Jose Sanchez 04 Jun '03

04 Jun '03

Hi, I am looking for a good thesaurus for linux (Suse 8.2). Could someone recommend me one. Thanks Jose

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DES vs. MD5 passwords
by David Krider 04 Jun '03

04 Jun '03

I was just wondering why SuSE defaults to using "plain old" DES encryption for passwords, instead of MD5, like most other distros. I'm not a crypto guy. I've been meaning to get _Applied Cryptography_ for awhile now, but I still haven't, so I don't know the difference. I just like using a 10-place password for root. A quick Google search doesn't turn up anything on this. Does anyone know why this is the situation? Does anyone know why I should or shouldn't care? Thanks, dk

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8.2 boot.iso
by Tom Allison 04 Jun '03

04 Jun '03

I was testing the boot.iso installation yesterday and was unable to make any headway. Their is a failure at the Floppy IO, during the YAST configuration where it is checking packages. Please fix this. I am currently installation Suse from a friends Personal Edition. At least this way I will be able to see what Suse looks like. However, it's a pretty grim start for what is proclaimed to be one of the better distributions out there. What surprises me most is that this boxen has been used to install everything as a test bed and it is here that it just can't get started. The CD installation is extremely unstable on the XWindow GUI. I'm not sure that I will even be able to finish, but time will tell. I have not tried RedHat on this boxen yet, but I have tried Slackware, Gentoo, Debian with success. -- Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing they marry later; for another thing they die earlier. -- H.L. Mencken

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Newbie Question: Windows, SuSE, and a Crossover Cable
by oliver.iberien＠mindspring.com 03 Jun '03

03 Jun '03

Trying to get my old Windows 2000 box to talk to my new Linux box with the hope of accessing the Linux box via VMC. Followed the instructions in the SuSE 8.2 version notes for VMC, and started VMCSERVER from root command window, or whatever you call it. Set the IP of the Windows ethernet port to 10.0.0.1, on the Linux box to 10.0.0.2, and while I can ping from Windows to Linux, it will not work the other way. VMC display thing won't work, either. So far I have disabled passwords and encryption on Windows, disabled the various Microsoft networking things, and identified the Windows machine in the routing table on the Linux box via YaST. Still nothing. When I get home tonight I will try to see if the SuSE firewall is the problem. Fumbling in the dark, here... Can anyone help me along to the next step? All e-mail sent to this account from free e-mail providers (including Hotmail, MSN, Yahoo!, and AOL) from addresses which I have not previously cleared, will be deleted from the server.

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posted ximian evolution rpm patch/update for 8.2
by Serge Naggar 03 Jun '03

03 Jun '03

I recently downloaded the evolution rpm patch for 8.2 and used yast to install it. But it didn't seem to install and evolution remained at 1.2.2 Does any body know if there is a problem with that patch? I have a suspicion that it is a patch for 8.1 and will not work for 8.2 Any comments? -- Cheers, Serge Naggar

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NIS/NISplus/LDAP
by Tom Allison 03 Jun '03

03 Jun '03

When I was installing Suse this morning I was greeted with a question about doing remote authentication with these three options. Are there any of these which are both available on Linux and not open text passwords. I think NIS is open text and LDAP is available on Linux, but I don't know about a combination of the two... -- On a clear disk you can seek forever. -- P. Denning

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