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Authenicated logon against AD
by Gregory Machin 03 Oct '08

03 Oct '08

Hi In fc 8 there is a facility to authenticate users against AD on the menu system >> administration >> authentication I have configured Kerberose LDAP samba These are the errors typical errors I'm getting .. Sep 18 13:38:58 technical-vmwareserver winbindd[3563]: [2008/09/18 13:38:58, 0] nsswitch/winbindd_util.c:init_domain_list(511) Sep 18 13:38:58 technical-vmwareserver winbindd[3563]: Could not fetch our SID - did we join? Sep 18 13:38:58 technical-vmwareserver winbindd[3563]: [2008/09/18 13:38:58, 0] nsswitch/winbindd.c:main(1091) Sep 18 13:38:58 technical-vmwareserver winbindd[3563]: unable to initalize domain list Sep 18 13:45:14 technical-vmwareserver winbindd[3636]: [2008/09/18 13:45:14, 0] nsswitch/winbindd_util.c:init_domain_list(511) Sep 18 13:45:14 technical-vmwareserver winbindd[3636]: Could not fetch our SID - did we join? Sep 18 13:45:14 technical-vmwareserver winbindd[3636]: [2008/09/18 13:45:14, 0] nsswitch/winbindd.c:main(1091) Sep 18 13:45:14 technical-vmwareserver winbindd[3636]: unable to initalize domain list Sep 18 13:45:52 technical-vmwareserver nscd: nss_ldap: reconnecting to LDAP server (sleeping 4 seconds)... Sep 18 13:45:56 technical-vmwareserver nscd: nss_ldap: reconnecting to LDAP server (sleeping 8 seconds)... Sep 18 13:45:57 technical-vmwareserver gdm-binary[3679]: nss_ldap: reconnecting to LDAP server (sleeping 4 seconds)... Sep 18 13:46:01 technical-vmwareserver gdm-binary[3679]: nss_ldap: reconnecting to LDAP server (sleeping 8 seconds)... Sep 18 13:46:04 technical-vmwareserver nscd: nss_ldap: reconnecting to LDAP server (sleeping 16 seconds)... I'm using the correct username and password to join the domain so I'm a bit lost .. it there a Howto for this ? I have tried to configure this but have not won yet ..

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Mailing-list Gudelines. Yes or No
by Frank Murphy 03 Oct '08

03 Oct '08

Though a newbie, Have grown to love Fedora because of it's willing to lead with new "technology". Have contacted you as the User-list owners. (cc the list) But like any organisation public\private wahtever, some guidelines are necessary otherwise nothing gets done. In this case http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines Coming from windows I understand some of the *workflow habits* But learned. You are possible going to lose a number of seasoned user troubleshooters, if mailing list guidelines continue to be pushed back in peoples faces, for attempting to do the correct thing. Maybe once and for all decide does the list need guidelines, Yes or No? Frank -- gpg id EB547226 Revoked Forgot Password :( aMSN: Frankly3D http://www.frankly3d.com

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flash plugin sound
by Mark Haney 03 Oct '08

03 Oct '08

My daughter told me over the weekend that there was no sound from flash-enabled websites for the last couple of weeks on her Fedora 9 system. (My middle daughter told me the same). I thought it was a pulseaudio problem, but sound works everywhere else. Has there been an update or something that's caused this problem? It was working beautifully until then. (I wish I had more information, but there's nothing in syslog, and I haven't done updates in that time. -- Libenter homines id quod volunt credunt -- Caius Julius Caesar Mark Haney Sr. Systems Administrator ERC Broadband (828) 350-2415 Call (866) ERC-7110 for after hours support

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VDQ : machine names??
by Beartooth 03 Oct '08

03 Oct '08

I know it's a Very Dumb Question; I just can't find a general answer that works. I want to stop calling all the machines on my LAN localhost.localdomain, and give them distinctive names. I have found two or three ways of doing so; but they don't stick. The only way that really works, for me at least, is to think of it (and be ready) while doing a fresh install. When anaconda asks me whether to use dhcp, I can click on manual, type in a name, click back to using dhcp, and that name lasts. I'm not even sure now whether it's mere logging out and back in, or just actual reboots that do it, but in a location subject to longer power failures than the UPSs I can afford will ride out, I get enough reboots, too (alas!). One other way that I've tried is to use system-config-network, and edit the configuration of eth0; but that seems to be little more than a pacifier. I want something that shows up in the prompts, and that I can use in ssh and scp, without having to look up IP numbers on the router all the time -- especially since not all LAN machines are on one floor. Clue, please? Pretty please? -- Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert Fedora 8 & 9; Alpine 1.10, Pan 0.132; Privoxy 3.0.6; Dillo 0.8.6, Galeon 2, Epiphany 2, Opera 9, Firefox 2 & 3 Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about.

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Digital signatures don't work in Fedora's OpenOffice
by M. Fioretti 02 Oct '08

02 Oct '08

Greetings, I'm trying to set up digital signatures in Openoffice 2.3 and FC 8. I've followed the instructions at http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/How_to_use_digital_Signatures and http://www.linux.com/articles/57554 I've got a client certificate and it shows in Firefox but not in OpenOffice. Even setting the MOZILLA_CERTIFICATE_FOLDER variable doesn't help. Further googling only reveals two or three other people who already had the same problem with other versions of Fedora, but no way to make it work. Is it really impossible to use digital signatures from OpenOffice in Fedora? If yes, what's the reason? Thanks. Marco -- Your own civil rights and the quality of your life heavily depend on how software is used *around* you: http://digifreedom.net/node/84

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Pulseaudio... again. How to restart it?
by Fernando Apesteguía 02 Oct '08

02 Oct '08

Hi, I'm having some issues with Pulseaudio (well, I have sound only half of the times I boot my system...) These are the synthoms: mplayer file1.avi .... AO: [pulse] Init failed: Connection refused Could not open/initialize audio device -> no sound. Audio: no sound .... I tried with $ pulseaudio -k E: main.c: Failed to kill daemon. I can't find the pulseaudio process. What's its name? Can I kill it if it doesn't kill itself? Thanks in advance.

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Creating a common folder for all users
by Steve Repo 02 Oct '08

02 Oct '08

I have a f9 system at home and it is used by me, wife and kids. Sometimes we want to share files docs, pictures and stuff. Here are my plans, 1. mkdir /fileshare 2. create "share" group 3. add all users this group 4. chmod -R ug+rwx /fileshare 5. chown -R root:share /fileshare 6. for each user, rm -rf /home/<user>/Public 7. for each user, ln -s /fileshare /home/<user>/Public Whatever they copy to their Public directory, it will be visible by all. Will this work? Is there a better idea? Thanks, Steve

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Followup: Reverting from KDE4 to KDE3
by Eric 01 Oct '08

01 Oct '08

OK... I made a copy of my VMware F9 virtual machine, so I could screw it up to my heart's content and still be able to restore what I had. Then I went in and said "yum groupremove "KDE Software Development"" and let that run to completion. It left kdebase in place and removed everything else, so I said "yum remove kdebase" and that took care of removing all of KDE (or at least I hope so...). So, if I want to install KDE3, what do I do? On http://www.kde.org/download/ under "KDE 3 Series", then under Fedora, it says "KDE 3.5.10 has been pushed as an update for Fedora 8 and 9. The Fedora 8 update includes all of KDE 3.5.10, the Fedora 9 update only the applications which were shipped as KDE 3 versions, not KDE 4 versions.". So, does that mean I download all of the files under "https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F8/FEDORA-2008-7808" (most, perhaps all, of which appear to be RPMs), install them all with rpm, then download everything under "https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F9/FEDORA-2008-7780" and install that over what I installed before? Or, is there hidden away somewhere a complete archive of KDE 3.5.10 specifically for F9? I know... "Just try it and see what happens"... I could do that but I'd rather see if any of you all can offer some insight first.

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External eSATA drive doesn't fdisk properly ? F8 eSATA hotplug ?
by linux guy 01 Oct '08

01 Oct '08

I've got a new laptop with an eSATA port and a new (unformatted) eSATA external hard drive. Is eSATA hot plug compatible with a stock F8 kernel ? $ uname -a Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.26.3-14.fc8 #1 SMP Wed Sep 3 03:40:05 EDT 2008 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux $ /sbin/lsmod | grep sat sata_sil24 16069 0 libata 131937 3 ata_piix,sata_sil24,ahci The reason I ask is because I expected to be able to plug it in and do an fdisk /dev/sdc and set up a new partition. (My laptop has 2 internal hard drives, sda and sdb, so sdc should be the external eSATA drive, right ?) When fdisk failed, I resorted to hwbrowser. It stalled/crashed. I repeated the experiment after a reboot with the drive powered up, ie not hotplugged anymore, with the same results. What am I missing ? Thanks

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Pablo Andres Ibarra Duprat is out of the office.
by Pablo Andres Ibarra Duprat 01 Oct '08

01 Oct '08

I will be out of the office starting 09/30/2008 and will not return until 10/08/2008. In this moment I encountered unreachable, please contact: 1.- Erickson Santander -esantand(a)cl.ibm.com

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