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can't print with firefox 0.9
by Emiliano Brunetti 01 Oct '04

01 Oct '04

Hi all, i'm having problems printing with Firefox 0.9 (rpm install from FC2 repo). I tried searching around with no results. Strange is that i can print with all other apps, including mozilla. Also, the print command is exactly the same: lpr ${MOZ_PRINTER_NAME:+'-P'}${MOZ_PRINTER_NAME} Anybody had such a problem? Cheers. E.

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home networking: easy way?
by Trevor Smith 01 Oct '04

01 Oct '04

I've tried reading through some samba docs and tried to set it up, but it's incomprehensible. (I can get the servers running and WinXP can see my FC2 machine, but it can not actually access it and I have no idea how to see the WinXP machine from Linux, which is what I really want.) This is all through a Linksys wireless router, tried with just wired connections and with the linux laptop on wireless. Is there any easier way to network at home between WinXP and FC2? Or am I going to have to get an advanced degree in networking before I can understand enough about samba to ever hope to have these beasts connected? -- Trevor Smith // trevor(a)haligonian.com

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question?
by Dan Ladd 01 Oct '04

01 Oct '04

Yeah this is the only email address i could find because I had a question about the fedora project. I didn't konw where to direct it. So here goes... I was wondering about the WinFS file management system. If something like that (meaning the built in database system) was going to be included in fedora or other RedHat operating systems or if something like is already in an operating system with RedHat? It seems like it is old technology because the AS/400 or now the iSeries has the built in database system to locate physical files that are stored in logical files. If you could direct me to where i can have that answered that would be awesome.

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Can see Chinese chars in Acrobat, can't print
by Dougherty, Michael 01 Oct '04

01 Oct '04

Hi, My wife needs some (traditional) Chinese forms printed from an official Taiwan gov website. I seem to recall somehow getting this to work in FC1, but with my upgrade I can't get it in FC2. Using Adobe's Acrobat Reader (acroread) at first the characters weren't "all there" but I installed their Chinese character font kit (file chtfont.tar.gz, unzipped, untarred, installed, OK), and then I could see them, but I can't print the documents. I tried all the acroread options like level 1-3 postscript output, do/don't download Asian fonts, etc. When I output to a .ps file, gv can't read it. I bet I'm missing something stupid, I guess on the ghostscript level(?). For laughs I installed the "taipeifonts" rpm but I don't know what that's for specifically and it did me no good anyhow. I appreciate any help with this I can get. Sorry if this is an old topic. It takes some time to search the whole archive on my dialup. Thanks for any help! -- Mike Dougherty

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RE: automatic fsck??
by Michael Marsh 01 Oct '04

01 Oct '04

What settings would I adjust in order to answer "yes" to all of fsck's repair questions automatically when my FC2 box decides to run fsck on bootup? I have a remote server and am not able to get the box into single user mode in order to run fsck manually. Thanks in advance........ ___________________ Michael Marsh

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two squid listeners using one configuration?
by Duran, Richard 01 Oct '04

01 Oct '04

We'd like to set up a 2nd squid listener on a new port, e.g. 3129, that will allow access to a limited number of sites without the need for login ID authentication. We have a group of employees who aren't given internet usage IDs, but we'd like them to access a few sites during their breaks. Speaking of which, is it possible to configure squid to allow this access only during certain time periods? TIA, -richard

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netware 6.5 connection from fedora
by Paul Bradshaw 01 Oct '04

01 Oct '04

Hi there, Does anyone know if ncpfs will allow me to connect over tcp to a Novell 6.5 server? I'd been using it to connect to 4.11 server over IPX fine, but I can't figure out how to connect to 6.5 with it, if it's possible at all. If ncpfs won't do it, does anyone know what will? Thanks, ...Paul

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Remote desktop
by Randy Appleton 01 Oct '04

01 Oct '04

I have Fedora core 3 installed. I would like to access my desktop from home. I understand about VNC, but I want to access my normal, on screen desktop and not some new VNC session unconnected to my normal display. How can I do this? I've searhced the Fedora and Gnome mailing liss but have not found an answer. -Much Thanks -Randy

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Nagging X problem
by Thomas E Dukes 01 Oct '04

01 Oct '04

Hello, My system is setup to boot in runlevel 5, I would prefer it not. I have changed it to runlevel 3 in the inittab and that works. BUT, if I then want to start X manually from the command line, it just hangs. I'm using "startx" after logging in. Is that the correct command? I have been using RedHat since early 1996 and that always worked. Has something changed? TIA

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Four words for Red Hat ...
by Bryan Smith 01 Oct '04

01 Oct '04

*THANK*YOU*BIG*TIME*!!! RE: http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1663735,00.asp Sorry, I have just been hoping for years now. Being caught between countless integration projects, many times brought in as an "independent consultant" to evaluate/advise as Microsoft pitched ADS, Sun pitched Sun One, Novell pitched NDS (eDirectory), various add-on vendors pitched their integration solutions all while the institutions own IT "grass roots" efforts to convince management to built their own OpenLDAP suite internally ... This is what I have waited for a long time! The MS of Linux? Give me a break! God I wish I could smack people who say that. -- Bryan J. Smith b.j.smith(a)ieee.org ------------------------------------------------------------------ "Communities don't have rights. Only individuals in the community have rights. ... That idea of community rights is firmly rooted in the 'Communist Manifesto.'" -- Michael Badnarik

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