openSUSE Users June 2009

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[opensuse] best way to organize small offices that share LAN with others?

by gildororonar＠mail-on.us

Hello. We are in a small office that shares a broadband (10MB/s) connection with several other offices. The LAN administrator ask us to use IP address from 192.168.4.42 to 192.168.5.57. Since most our users are mobile workers visiting customer from day to day, assign each notebook fixed IP address is an inflexible solution. DHCP wouldn't work because there is a DHCP server in one of the near-by offices that keep granting IP addresses that are not usable (e.g. 172.16.4.3). The local IT administrator will not corporate to find and stop the mallfunctioning DHCP server (not set up by him) and set up a working one, because he thinks fixed IP address is a perfect solution, mostly because he do not travel but sit in the server room all day and he doesn't mind travellers have different requirement. Solving the problem at management level turns out not working because the network is shared by multiple offices and connectivity offered by non-profit governmental organization. It is difficult to force somebody do things if they don't get money from you. Is there a technical solution to my case? I first think to let everybody configure a defaul IP address in case DHCP didn't get them one. I don't know if it is possible in OpenSUSE and even if it is possible it wouldn't work. There is a DHCP server in one of the near-by offices that keep granting IP addresses that are not usable (e.g. 172.16.4.3). I tried to set up my own DHCP server, I don't know why but the other one takes priority. The LAN administrator said not to corporate to find and stop the mallfunctioning DHCP server (not set up by him) nor setting up a working one, because he thinks fixed IP address is a perfect solution, mostly because he do not travel but sit in the server room all day and he doesn't mind travellers have different requirement. He also thinks NetworkManager in the tray is stupid and people (including the sales guys) should use "ifconfig eth0 up". Solving the problem at management level turns out not working because the network is shared by multiple offices and connectivity offered by non-profit governmental organization. It is difficult to force somebody do things if they don't get money from you. Then I think sub-netting our own network, with a NAT firewall fixed at 192.168.4.42 and everyone gets 192.168.0.x. Which is what I am currently using. I don't know of any down-side of this solution. Sure this makes it difficult to punch holes on the NAT firewall but the local administrator would agree to punch any hole in the first place. Then I think of setting up BOOTP server in local office, if Linux can be configured to prefer BOOTP than DHCP then we have control of what IP addresses to lease despite the stupid DHCP server. Since we are the only office that every personnel use Linux, this gives us advantage. But look into NetworkManager source code turns out it seems they tried to implement BOOTP and DHCP but only finished implementing the latter. Yet I have not the strength and time to develop BOOTP support for NetworkManager, having not written any software for 5 years I almost forget how to debug a C program. What do you suggest? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

11 years, 7 months

[opensuse] inkscape memory usage question - maybe innocent

by Roger Oberholtzer

I just updated to the latest inkscape 0.46-64.4 from SUSE (GNOME:STABLE:2.26 / openSUSE_11.1). In the Help menu, there is an "About Memory" item. With a newly started process, I get: In Use Slack standard malloc() 60,100,200 182,333 As the program sits, with no screen/mouse movement or any external activity, the "In Use" value steadily increments by some 100 bytes per second. The "Slack" value decreases by this amount. There is also a "Total" value, but it remains constant. Anyone have any idea what this means? -- Roger Oberholtzer OPQ Systems / Ramböll RST Ramböll Sverige AB Krukmakargatan 21 P.O. Box 17009 SE-104 62 Stockholm, Sweden Office: Int +46 8-615 60 20 Mobile: Int +46 70-815 1696 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

11 years, 7 months

[opensuse] to use keyboard with two joysticks, using joystick for mouse

by Zhang Weiwu

Hello. I bought a keyboard that have two joy sticks, on the left and right side, and thinking to use this thing to reduce the necessary to interrupt typing and free a hand to use a mouse. I only need one joystick to emulate a mouse. Do anyone happen to have knowledge if the second mouse could be useful to improve efficiency too? An idea come to my mind. I can use the left joystick for acceleration and right joystick for actual movement. I guess this idea doesn't work because for acceleration I only need a high/low control instead of 4 directions. Or, the left joystick moves the viewport? Not sure if it is useful or even configurable. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

11 years, 7 months

[opensuse] openSUSE Weekly News, Issue #74 is out

by Sascha 'saigkill' Manns

We are pleased to announce: Issue 74 of openSUSE Weekly News is out! [0] In this week's issue: * Announcing the openSUSE Ambassadors Program * openSUSE Education * Gnome 2.26.2 for openSUSE 11.1 * Ben Kevan : How to find out how long a process has been running * Duncan Mac-Vicar: Facebook on Kopete, take II For a list of available translations see this page: http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/74/Translations [0] http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/74 -- Sincereley yours Sascha Manns openSUSE Marketing Team openSUSE Build Service openSUSE Features Screening Team Web: http://saschamanns.gulli.to Project-Blog: http://lizards.opensuse.org/author/saigkill Private-Blog: http://saschasbacktrace.blogspot.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

11 years, 7 months

[opensuse] Can't read mounted floppy disk

by Stan Goodman

Only rarely anymore does one have to read of write diskettes, and I am having to do so now for the first time since I installed openSuSE. I have a floppy disk containing files. I can read these files in another OS using the same floppy drive on the same machine, but not in openSuSE. The Disk List in the Konqueror /sysinfo display shows that the available space on this diskette is much smaller than the total space, so it does see that there are files there. According to the Properties for fd0, the diskette is mounded on "/media/floppy". The following is the line in fstab that relates to the floppy drive: ***** /dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto noauto,user,sync 0 0 ***** When I click on the floppy-disk icon, Konqueror opens a window, showing the Location as: "media:/fd0", which doesn't look quite the same as the alleged mount point. The window is empty, although I know that there are files there. In the Konqueror view of directory "floppy", the status line at the bottom shows "No Items - No Files - No folders". The permissions for the floppy drive are RW for the owner (which is me), RO for group and others. It is not possible, even as root, to extend writing to group. Can someone help me see what is wrong here? -- Stan Goodman Qiryat Tiv'on Israel -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

11 years, 7 months

[opensuse] Error "ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host" on Remote SSH Connection

by Masim "Vavai" Sugianto

Hi, I'm installing openSUSE 11.1 without firewall (firewall was not active). I could ssh from local network but failed on remote network with the following messages : server1:~ # ssh -v -v -v -v 125.xxx.xxx.xxx OpenSSH_5.1p1, OpenSSL 0.9.8h 28 May 2008 debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config debug1: Applying options for * debug2: ssh_connect: needpriv 0 debug1: Connecting to 125.xxx.xxx.xxx [125.xxx.xxx.xxx] port 22. debug1: Connection established. debug1: permanently_set_uid: 0/0 debug1: identity file /root/.ssh/id_rsa type -1 debug1: identity file /root/.ssh/id_dsa type -1 ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host I've modified /etc/hosts.allow with this line : sshd: ALL (for temporary used) and remove any entry from /etc/hosts.deny. The remote server has 2 Network card, the second card was deactivated. Port 80 has been successfully forwarded. Is there any clue for this problem ? -- Best Regards, Masim "Vavai" Sugianto /************************************************************/ Blog (ID) : http://www.vavai.com/blog Blog (EN) : http://www.vavai.net Community : http://www.opensuse.or.id /************************************************************/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

11 years, 7 months

[opensuse] Have ancient portable scanner (Visioneer Paperport) -- seeking driver(s)

by Dan Goodman

Always wanted to have one of those portable scanners for my road-warrior kit, but never got high enough on my needs list to fork out a couple of hundred dollars. Then, as fate would have it, I found on at a yard sale, an ancient but working Visioneer Paperport MX/VX model (says one on front, another on label on bottom). Checked a bunch of semi-obvious sites for driver and/or HW compatibility. Seems the last known driver for this was made for Win98, and never one for Linux. But I'd like to try fooling around with Wine and a driver to see if I could get this working. Problem is, I have no idea where to find one of the ancient Windoze drivers. Does anyone happen to have one laying around somewhere in an archive, or whatever? And does anyone have any good links to setting up various HW on Linux which might have only a Windows driver published? TIA. Dan Goodman Systems Engineer PS Yes I know I could easily spend more time than what it would cost to buy a new one, but (a) I like the lightweight form factor of this unit; and (b) I would like to get some experience trying to solve the problem of running a device under Linux using a Windows driver, if that is possible. Now, if you want to DONATE a more modern portable scanner, that's a different story... -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

11 years, 7 months

[opensuse] Problem with VirutalBox

by Chuck Payne

Guys, I am using AD to log into my linux box. I want to use VirtualBox, but I can't see to add my account to the group. How can I add my account to the group? -- ---------------------------------------- When a place gets crowded enough to require ID's, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere. The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere. -- Robert Heinlein -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

11 years, 7 months

[opensuse] ssh tunnelling for firefox

by jdd

Hello :-) I try using a tunnelling from openSUSE 11.1 to an online server with the syntax below with firefox: $ssh -D 9999 username@ip-address-of-ssh-server and proxy localhost 9999 in firefox google seems to say there is nothing more to do, but FF keep saying the proxy don't accept the connection I tried this with a 10.2 server (old, I know, to be replaced by the next) and ubuntu server with the same result. of course the connection terminal to the server opens, I give the pass, but FF still don't works any idea? thanks jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://valerie.dodin.org http://news.opensuse.org/2009/04/13/people-of-opensuse-jean-daniel-dodin/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

11 years, 7 months

[opensuse] KDE4 counterpart for KitchenSync?

by Malte Gell

Hi there, is it true that KitchenSync is a KDE 3.x application? Is there a KDE4 counterpart? What uses KDE4 as a frontend for opensync? Thanx Malte -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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openSUSE Users June 2009