June 2005 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

saving OOo documents
by Tim Hanson 20 Jun '05

20 Jun '05

100% of the time, I am unable to save OOo documents to NFS directories in 9.3. What I get when I attempt to save is "General Error \ Input Output Error." I am left with a file with the attempted save name, 0 bytes. The same file saves okay to local directories. Is there a fix somewhere? -- Politician, n.: From the Greek "poly" ("many") and the French "tete" ("head" or "face," as in "tete-a-tete": head to head or face to face). Hence "polytetien", a person of two or more faces. -- Martin Pitt

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Re: [SLE] Firewall
by Mark Gray 20 Jun '05

20 Jun '05

Chaitanya Krishna A <icymist82(a)yahoo.com> writes: > hi, > > --- Sunny <sloncho(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> you do not need more than port 22 (ssh) open on your box in order to >> use winscp. But most probably it is misconfigured. 9.1 default setup >> runs ssh protocol v. 2. So, go in the SSH options of winscp and set it >> to 2, or "only 2" to see if it works. > Can I check if port 22 is open from my own box ? If so how ? See man 1 nmap (note though, that a port may be open to your own box, but closed to all others due to the use of the use of iptable by SuSEfirewall.)

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Firewall
by Chaitanya Krishna A 20 Jun '05

20 Jun '05

Hi all, I have a few questions. I am on 9.1 Pro. 1. How can I check if my firewall is running or not? 2. I have a machine at my friend's place running on Windoze. I want to transfer some files from that machine (on a dynamic IP) to mine. Even though I modified the hosts.allow and the hosts.deny files to allow access to all machines (i.e. I put the lines ALL:ALL in the allow file and commented the ALL:ALL lines in the deny file) winscp doesn't connect to my machine. Should I be doing something else to make it to work? Regards, Chaitanya. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Re: [SLE] How to disable a user passwd
by Mark Gray 20 Jun '05

20 Jun '05

Chadley Wilson <chadley(a)pinteq.co.za> writes: > Greetings, > > I apologise if you got this twice, seems I am experiencing smtp problems. > > In 9.2 I could disable the user password using > passwd -d <username> > > 9.3 doen't allow this, I need this feature for a specific terminal I run, Okay -- I found out how to do this with 9.3 -- you have to modify the /etc/pam.d/common-account, common-auth, and common-session files to add nullok to the pam_unix2.so options. root@mmx:/etc/pam.d # diff -u common-account.~1~ common-account --- common-account.~1~ 2005-03-19 14:22:49.000000000 -0500 +++ common-account 2005-06-20 14:30:59.000000000 -0400 @@ -6,4 +6,4 @@ # the central access policy for use on the system. The default is to # only deny service to users whose accounts are expired. # -account required pam_unix2.so +account required pam_unix2.so nullok root@mmx:/etc/pam.d # diff -u common-auth.~1~ common-auth --- common-auth.~1~ 2005-03-19 14:22:49.000000000 -0500 +++ common-auth 2005-06-20 14:30:47.000000000 -0400 @@ -8,4 +8,4 @@ # traditional Unix authentication mechanisms. # auth required pam_env.so -auth required pam_unix2.so +auth required pam_unix2.so nullok root@mmx:/etc/pam.d # diff -u common-session.~1~ common-session --- common-session.~1~ 2005-03-19 14:22:49.000000000 -0500 +++ common-session 2005-06-20 14:29:36.000000000 -0400 @@ -7,4 +7,4 @@ # non-interactive). The default is pam_unix2. # session required pam_limits.so -session required pam_unix2.so +session required pam_unix2.so nullok > Would it also be possible to setup an autologin in runlevel 3 ? > Yes terminal based not X based! :) You might want to look into man 1 openvt, and man 1 chvt for this.

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How to disable a user passwd
by Chadley Wilson 20 Jun '05

20 Jun '05

Greetings, I apologise if you got this twice, seems I am experiencing smtp problems. In 9.2 I could disable the user password using passwd -d <username> 9.3 doen't allow this, I need this feature for a specific terminal I run, Would it also be possible to setup an autologin in runlevel 3 ? Yes terminal based not X based! :) TIA -- -- Chadley Wilson Production Line Superintendant Pinnacle Micro Manufacturers of Proline Computers ==================================== Exercise freedom, Use LINUX =====================================

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Synchronising bookmarks
by jalal 20 Jun '05

20 Jun '05

Hi all I know how to transfer bookmarks from Firefox to Konq and back, but has anyone found a way of keeping the two sets of bookmarks in sync? Or of using one set of bookmarks for both browsers? (both read and write). Importing and Exporting all the time is not so hot. cheers jalal

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Evolution has no spell check dictionaries installed
by Marden P. Marshall 20 Jun '05

20 Jun '05

I have a SuSE 9.3 / KDE installation and when I installed Evolution I find that there are no dictionaries installed for the built-in Evolution spell checker. I verified that gnome-spell2 is installed. Anyone else run into this problem? Thanks, -Mardy

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Top or bottom posting or being a troll or otherwise posting to either list.
by OldSarge 20 Jun '05

20 Jun '05

To ALL: First, I wish ALL guru's or othewise being an authority on all of this, would get together on whether to top or bottom. I have had one or more say they do not want to read through old information, but want new on top, and, then I get those who say the convention is to post on bottom! Well, it is obvious to me and to anyone who can read, that there is NO CONVENTION that is generally accepted! Secondly, I am NO TROLL, that description fits those who refuse to help, as per the additional message from someone in need that I included in one of mine!!!! I will post the way I have until someone can get all together and make sure which way it should be! As for my problems with Suse, I will state, again, but maybe in better words or wording, I am staying with SuSe 9.2 Pro as I am tired of the constant upgrade grind, and have NOT gotten full use out of it, yet! For everyones information, this is my third version of SuSe, but, because I am no way near mastering it and because it does NOT respond the way it is supposed to when certain information is fed into it, I am very frustrated at it. For instance, how to untar a tar or tar.gz, many have tried to give me directions over the computer and I do enter the outline as shown, yet SuSe keeps coming up either with "NO SUCH COMMAND" or freezes after I press the enter key after entering the info as directed! The really ironic part is it will not "take" an rpm, which I downloaded and tried to install and which YAST states it has, yet absolutely NO SHOW! I have had some good help from one individual, who must remain nameless per his request, plus my club SIG, but it is a shame the help is so uneven and that Suse itself has left so much to others, who do it for FREE and, again, I congratulate them on their ability. I am a college grad and a Vietnam Vet with 100% disability, and thereby hangs a tale of itself! :-(

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FW: Fwd: RE: [SLE] Using Samba
by Greg Wallace 20 Jun '05

20 Jun '05

Previous post continued On Saturday 18, June 2005 @ 11:16 PM, Jerome Lyles wrote: >On Saturday 18 June 2005 05:27 pm, Susemail wrote: >> ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- >> >> Subject: RE: [SLE] Using Samba >> Date: Friday 17 June 2005 03:01 >> From: Greg Wallace <jgregw(a)acsalaska.net> >> To: suse-linux-e(a)suse.com >> >> On Thursday, June 16, 2005 @ 4:43 PM, Jerome wrote: >> >On Wednesday 15 June 2005 02:54, Greg Wallace wrote: >> >> On Tuesday, June 14, 2005 @5:02 PM, Jerome wrote: >> >> >On Monday 13 June 2005 01:25, Greg Wallace wrote: >> >> >> I share a linux directory with my Windows machine. Try adding -- >> >> >> >> >> >> wins support = yes >> >> >> security = share >> >> >> >> >> >> to your [global] section. >> > >> >Done >Using Yast I could not set privileges for 'nobody' but I did notice nobody >has >a predefined password. I've seen this before with other system users. >I've never been able to find out what the password is. I'm going to delete it >to see if that helps. Usually the system will recreate it though. In this >case it's a six token password. >ps: Yast insists on a password so I'll use my user password instead of the > one supplied. >pps: It changed the password back to the system one (Suse 9.3) anyone know > what it is? >> >> >> I don't even get a Login Window. I click on My Network Places and >> >> there's a folder there with the pipeline under it that you see on a >> >> network >Me too. >> >> >I get this message when I access shareddocs: >> > >> >\\Linux\shareddocs is not accessable. You might not have permission to >> > use >> > >> >this network resourse (Which is the core of my problem now). The group >> >> name >> >> >could not be found. >> > >I wonder where it's looking? >> > >> > >> >> You probably have some additional setup work to do on Linux before you >> > >> >> *) Set up the folder in Linux that matches the path= name. Mine is >> >> shareddocs (and at the root level; i. e., /shareddocs on Linux). The >> >> owner >> >> >> of shareddocs is user nobody (built-in Linux user) and the group is the >> >> group I set up that matches my Windows workgroup name. >> > >> >See smb.conf below. >> > >> >> *) Make sure any users that will access the share are assigned to that >> >> group on your Linux machine. I assigned the built-in "nobody" user to >> >> the >> >> >> group and, with the "guest account = nobody" option in Samba, that's the >> id >> I also added my Linux user id to that group and also root, giving me >> access to the folder on the Linux side. >> > >> >I holding off adding root for now. >> > >> >> Once all of that was done, I went to "My Network Places" and added >> >> \\Linux\SharedDocs (yes, I named my Linux machine Linux -- lots of >> >> imagination at work there huh!). Now, if I double click on that folder, >> >> I'm looking at all of the files and directories in the Linux shareddocs >> >> directory from my Windows machine (sub-directories show up as folders). >> >> >> >> Hope this is enough to get you started. >> >> >> >> Greg >> > >> >Thanks Greg, is was enough to get me started (all of yesterday) and >> > almost finished. But there is still a permissions roadblock. >> > >> >> >Xp shares using smb:// works just fine, I have learned today. However >> >> using >> >> >the Linux Desktop icon: Network Browsing, gets me to this address: >> > >> >>slp://awws/[awws://192.168.0.2:3703?name=MyVaio&version=2.0&guid=73780010- >> >> >> >> 28e9-1e0e-a750-9f349deee3b3] >> >> >That displays this message: >> > >> >Service Attributes >> >awws://192.168.0.2:3703 >> > >> >Instead of the Windows share. >> > >> >In the 9.3 Administration guide on p.542 it says: >> >security = share: 'A password is firmly assigned to a share.' >> >Do shares have passwords assigned to them automatically? >> > >> ># smb.conf is the main Samba configuration file. You find a full commented >> ># version at /usr/share/doc/packages/samba/examples/smb.conf.SUSE if the >> ># samba-doc package is installed. >> ># Date: 2005-04-04 >> >[global] >> > workgroup = MYHOME >> > printing = cups >> > printcap name = cups >> > printcap cache time = 750 >> > cups options = raw >> > printer admin = @ntadmin, root, administrator >> > username map = /etc/samba/smbusers >> > map to guest = Bad User >> >> I don't have the line below, but I don't see why it would be a problem >> >> > include = /etc/samba/dhcp.conf >> >> I don't have any of the lines from here.. >> >> > logon path = \\%L\profiles\.msprofile >> > logon home = \\%L\%U\.9xprofile >> > logon drive = P: >> > add machine script = /usr/sbin/useradd -c Machine -d >> >> /var/lib/nobody >> >> >-s /bin/false %m$ >> > domain logons = Yes >> >> ... to here >> >> > domain master = No >> >> For the line above, I have >> Domain master = False >domain master = No - is the default >> >> > idmap gid = 10000-20000 >> > idmap uid = 10000-20000 >> > wins support = yes >> >> The line below should say security = share >> >security = user - this is the default (Suse 9.3) >I did try share, no access. >> >> I also have the following lines > unix extensions = Yes - tried this,no change >> socket options = ISO_KEEPALIVE IPTOS_LOWDELAY TCP_NODELAY >> veto files = /* .eml/* .nws/riched20.dll/*.{*}/ >> syslog = 0 - added this >> log level = 1 - added this >> > >> >[shareddocs] >> > >> > path = /home/adriel/shareddocs >> > guest ok = yes >> > guest account = nobody >> > force group = MYHOME >> >> I also have the following lines >> force create mode = 0060 >> force directory mode = 0070 >> create mask = 0770 >> directory mask = 0770 >> read only = no >> >> Now, if I were using /home/adriel/shareddocs for my share, then if I did >> >> cd /home/adriel >> dir >> >> I would see >> >> drwxrwx--- ... nobody ... myhome ... shareddocs >> >drwxrwxr-x ... nobody ... myhome ... shareddocs >> It being a linux share, in order to mount the directory you need x >> privileges on that directory. That security is enforced across to Windows, >> so windows cannot even look at what's in the directory unless it (nobody) >> has that privilege. I don't have to enter a password to display the >> "share" on Windows. I had, I think, the same errors as you when I first >> started setting this up. I believe you're definitely down to getting the >> security right on Linux. Once you do that, you should be able to change to >> that directory on Windows. >> >> Greg Wallace >> >> >Hi Greg, >I have tried many things, starting with your suggestions. Then I tried >accessing the Samba Server on it's own host. Sometimes I used >smb//:adriel@linux/users or smb//:linux/users and sometimes I used the >Network desktop Icon (remote:/). I found that I cannot log on to the Samba >Server on it's own host: Access denied! I hope this is a vital clue to >someone. There should be an obvious reason(s) (to someone) why I can't log >on to the Samba Server on it's own host using my own user and password on >this system. >This will interest you Greg. When I use remote:/ (Network Desktop Icon) to >access your example: >[shareddocs] > path = /home/adriel/shareddocs > guest ok = yes > guest account = nobody > force group = MYHOME > force create mode = 0060 > force directory = 0070 > create mask = 0770 > directory mask = 0770 > read only = no > >I get this error Message: > >Internal Error >Please send a full bug report at http://bugs.kde.org >Unknown error condition in stat: Invalid argument >I'm surprised too. I'm using Suse 9.3. What's the correct way to send a >'full bug report'? >Still seeking access, >Jerome Jerome: I was never able to get "security = user" to work, so, along the way, you should occasionally switch that back to "security = share" to see if you can get connected. After that, you can work on getting "security = user" to work as a separate task. The difference is that you should get a prompt for a user id and password with "security = share" (based on SAMS Teach Yourself Samba in 24 hours). One thing I notice is that you are using -- username map = /etc/samba/smbusers, which contains, on my machine -- root = administrator admin ;nobody = guest pcguest smbguest Linux: /etc/samba I'm using username map = /etc/samba/user.map, which has one line in it -- nobody=* I'm guessing that that line says "map any user that comes in to nobody". Greg Wallace Have you run "testparm" to test your parameter file? Greg Wallace

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passwd -d suse 9.3
by Chadley Wilson 20 Jun '05

20 Jun '05

Greetings In one of our systems we require the system to have no password for a specific user, In 9.2 passwd -d <username> achieved this, how do I achieve it in 9.3? -- -- Chadley Wilson Production Line Superintendant Pinnacle Micro Manufacturers of Proline Computers ==================================== Exercise freedom, Use LINUX =====================================

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