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Questions re samba/cifs stuff in general
by Gene Heskett 31 Jan '08

31 Jan '08

Greetings all; I guess I'm getting lazy in my dotage, but do we have in our current bag of tricks, a gui program that can display the available cifs/samba shares on the local network, and then allow the local mounting of such a visible share by nothing more elegant than having the user enter both the username to log in as, and the password, hopefully remembering those items till the rapture or some such silly amount of time? I ask because I just spent over an hour trying to get the syntax right for a mount.cifs invocation to do just that. I hate manpages without any actual, known to work examples. Also, where did smbmount go? Its loss means that even if I could have recovered my even more complex script from the old FC6/etc/init.d, it would have failed. I can reinvent that wheel eventually but its been 7 or 8 years since I had to fool with this & things get rusty, call it CRS, whatever. Thanks. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Our little systems have their day; They have their day and cease to be; They are but broken lights of thee. -- Tennyson

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NIS Problems
by Brent Snow, Mr. 31 Jan '08

31 Jan '08

Hi All, I have a Server with a quad-core Intel Xeon processor and 4 GB of RAM that I just installed Fedora 8 X-64 on. I am trying to set it up to work with NIS from a RHEL 4.0 Server. We just use NIS for auto mounting users homes. I can get everything configured properly, but I cannot manage to make auto mount to work. I have read a lot of the info on NIS not working in Fedora 8, but have not found a workaround/hack yet to make this work (if someone has a work around please share). I also have a problem with gdmgreeter crashing that apparently this is related to having NIS enabled on the system, and something about it starting NIS before GDM is started. Thanks for any help you can provide Regards Brent

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Maintaining a local yum repository
by Derek Tattersall 31 Jan '08

31 Jan '08

Hello, I currently have 3 computers running Fedora 8. I think it would probably be a good thing to set up a local repository for yum, rather than downloading each package 3 times. I have looked at the howto at www.howtoforge.com, and I am not really happy with the method described there. It involves picking a particular mirror and using rsync to keep the local repository up to date. It seems to me that this would have some problems. For one thing it puts a bigger load on whichever mirror I am rsync'ing to. For another thing, It seems to that there might be some security issues with just grabbing the packages without checking the key as yum does. Is there a better way to keep a local repository up to date? Ideally, I would like to find a way to just download the packages that my local users ask for, not the whole thing. And I would prefer to use the mirror list at fedora rather than just use one particular server. I would also prefer to automate the whole process rather than doing it manually. Does anybody have any ideas about this? Or would I be better off just continuing to use the fedora repository? Thanks -- Derek Tattersall tatters(a)newsguy.com

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Nautilus annoyances - can configuration change these, if so how?
by Chris G 31 Jan '08

31 Jan '08

I tend to use the command line most of the time but I occasionally use Nautilus when, for example, I'm housekeeping image files and it's useful to be able to see the images. However, for me, nautilus has some very annoying defaults and I'm wondering if they can be changed, i.e. :- Nautilus opens a new window for every directory, this rapidly gets annoying with deep hierarchies. Is there an option to get Nautilus to open a new directory/folder in the *same* window? (Windows can do it, when using XP I always have this option set) When using the File - Open Location option nautilus defaults the location to the home directory *and* selects it so that it overwrites what's in the clipboard. This is *intensely* annoying if you have just carefully selected the directory you want to go to (in another window) and have put it in the copy buffer already. Can I turn off the auto-entry of the home directory and/or the automatic selection of the text? -- Chris Green

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alternatives to Dell Optiplex 320 mini-tower
by Dave Burns 31 Jan '08

31 Jan '08

A few months ago, I tried to install fedora on a Dell Optiplex 320 mini-tower. After some problems and googling, I found out that this model's bios, graphics setup, and(something else I forgot) seem to resist mightily the idea of running fedora. People seemed to have problems getting grub running and the SATA disk in that model doesn't like LVM. This guy (http://wirelessness.wordpress.com/2007/02/07/installing-fedora-linux-on-a-d…) claims to have gotten fc6 running on a 320, after 19 hours of tweaking. I tried following his advice, but didn't get far. Now I am wondering whether anyone on the list can suggest either a comparable PC from Dell that will not be so annoying, or perhaps the whole issue has become moot since then (fc8?) and I should try again? The workstation 490s have given me no trouble, but they cost more. By the way, knoppix runs fine on the 320 - what's up with that? Dave

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cannot browse https sites
by Yogesh Patil 31 Jan '08

31 Jan '08

hi, I am using SQUID 2.6.STABLE17 with fedora core 8, & BIND DNS SERVER configured on the same box, i have configured squid as transparent proxy with all default settings , and applied iptables rule by using the following command iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -i eth0 -p tcp --dport 80 -j REDIRECT --to-port 3128 i am able to browse http websites, but when i try to open https sites, such as, gmail.com, hotmail.com etc.. i am not able to get any response from the proxy. i have also tryied with forwarding 443 (https) port to the 3128 (squid) port but still no success., so i think it doesnt seems to be netfilter (iptables) problem, it may be problem with the squid config, anybody can please help me out with this.g

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setting preferences globally?
by francis keyes 31 Jan '08

31 Jan '08

Hi All, I work at an organization with 4 Fedora 7 machines that are Desktop computers shared among over 100 people. The problem is that NOBODY remembers to log out when they are done with a particular machine. This leaves the screen locked and the next user has to choose "switch user" to log in, which ends up causing various problems when 30 people are logged into a machine but only one is actually using it. My question is: as root, is there a way that I can set every user's screen saver preferences to NOT lock the screen? This would at least let people log out of an open session that some inconsiderate/careless person has walked away from. Thanks!

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How to remove folders from desktop in FC8?
by wob 31 Jan '08

31 Jan '08

Hi there, I'm a new user on Fedora 8, and I noticed that it put severything in my home directory on the desktop. Is there a way to disable this behavior? I googled for days and couldn't find a thing. Thank you very much! Owen --------------------------------- Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your homepage.

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hello fedora & intel driver + suspend question
by Khashayar Naderehvandi 31 Jan '08

31 Jan '08

Dear list, I've been running linux for a few years but had never specificallty tried Fedora until quite recently. My wife's iBook started to behave like never before, constantly crashing a throwing her the black screen of death, so I suggested we'd wipe OS X from there and install Fedora. After a weekend of tweaking (the long time partly due to my inexperience with rpm and redhat based distros), she is very pleased. If there are any devs readubg this list, I would just like to say thank you for keeping the ppc-branch alive. It's much needed, and I guess will be all the more over the coming years. Please don't kill it off! Now, being very pleased with Fedora myself I thought I'd install it on my notebook (it's a fujitsu-siemens lifebook p7010, for the record). That went quite well except for the fact that my laptop would give me a black screen after resuming from suspend, at least while running compiz. The problem reminded me very much of this bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-intel/+bug/133…, that we tried to solve a while back. A small patch was written as a result of the bug hunting (but due to Ubuntus weird update policy it's not included in Gutsy yet for some reason), and suspend/resume has been working fine ever since for me using the updated driver that can be obtained on that launchpad page. Does anybody know if those patches are included in the fedora 8 package (which would mean that I'm seeing some other problem in Fedora), or if there are plans to update the intel driver with those patches? I'm mostly asking because I'm still pretty lost in the Fedora world, not yet sure where to find things or how to rebuild packages with patches. If anyone could help me with any such update I'd appreciate it. If not, I'll definitely get back to Fedora sometime before 9 is released to help bug testing. There are some really nice things about this distro, one of which being its involvement in upstream. To me it looks like open source at its best, and with up-to-date packages at that. I love it when a distro ships bug fix releases without a fuzz! Alright, this was just saying hello :-) Best regards, Khashayar

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[OT - NOT FEDORA] Question for the TV engineers
by John Wendel 31 Jan '08

31 Jan '08

Sorry for posting this, but I know that there are some smart TV guys here. I've got a cheap TV card that works OK with Linux, except that it has "noise" bars on channels 2-5. It looks OK on channels > 5. Would it help if it enclosed the card in a (properly insulated) metal box? Should I ground the box? Thanks, John

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