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Hi I just joined I have a serer who's purpose life is to be a fileserver/print server right now it is running windows 98 because it is an older computer look at an alternate os such as this will this allow windows based machines to talk to it save files retrieve files and also how difficult is it to install. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL:

Hello, I need to know if there is something I am missing about file permission as I believe I am seeing some strange stuff on my system. I have a directory as follows: drwxrwxrwx 7 root root 4096 Mar 10 13:35 temp In this directory I have a file: -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 137 Oct 30 02:16 208-109-248-33test As a normal user should I be able to rename this file? I believe that only

I have been dragging my feet on remote display, and have just gotten VNC going to have SOMETHING to move off the start line. But I need the 'best' for different situations, so I want to rate them. 1 to 3 where 1 is the 'best' for the catagory and 3 the loser. VNC RDESKTOP FREENX Server memory Server cpu client memory client cpu bandwidth

Hi List :) So, I have a folder1, its owner is user1 who has r+w on the folder. User2 is the group owner who only has read access (when I say user2, I mean the group called user2, because when you make a new user the OS can make them their own group). You can see these permissions below: [user2 at host test]$ ls -l drw-r----- 3 user1 user2 28 Nov 2 16:17 folder1 How ever user2 can not

I can ssh into a remote machine. I can start X on that machine with startx How do I then start firefox on that machine (from the ssh prompt) and have it display on my machine in my office. So I want to be using firefox on the remote machine but displaying the screen output from firefox in my office. Both boxes are running centos 5. how is that done? Jerry

hi all, I have gone through the process of self signing certificates. Aside from the pop-ups about not trusted etc... everything appears to work. For "internal" applications what do people/places do? It would be nice to be seamless and have the "your not trusted" window pop-up. Yet this is not a public web site either. Just internal use. The server might be on the internet

just wanted to get some feedback from the community. Over the last few days I have noticed my web server and email box have attempted to ssh'd to using weird names like admin,appuser,nobody,etc.... None of these are valid users. I know that I can block sshd all together with iptables but that will not work for us. I did a little research on google and found programs like sshguard and

I persuaded a reluctant friend to buy a new computer. I enthusiastically extolled the joys and benefits of Centos and promised to install it on his new machine - dual booting with Micro$oft Windoze 7. His super-duper new laptop arrived. Acer, AMD 4 core, fast etc. but not as nice looking as my impressive HP DV5. The wireless refused to connect. After 8 hours on Saturday I could sometimes see

How can I find out that someone is using it's network card in promiscuous mode in a subnet? Thank you!

Dear All, Sorry for disturbing, anyone have recommendation for a good open source library system. hope to do it for my church. Thanks

What are the ramifications to a large key length when using pub/priv keys for ssh authentication. I have some remote admin and file transfers to manage and only have ssh access w/o vpn to use for it. Thanks, jlc

Dear Mr/Mrs/Ms, I have e-mail server using Centos 4.1 So far I can send and receive e-mail using this server, but why to this address: retna at pttropical.co.id can not send? Every time I send e-mail to above address my server always respon with this massage: ----- Transcript of session follows ----- <retna at pttropical.co.id>... Deferred: mail.pttropical.co.id.: No route to host

Well, there's so few going right now that I'm showing 38 days to get the DVD. My normal dnld from a mirror travels appx. 600Mb/sec. I'll wait until most of the U.S. goes home before I give up and use the normal download though. Here's hoping... -- Bill

Hi All, I am looking for information on when CentOS 5 will be available for IA64. I found this forum posting but no responses http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=8714&forum=45 I am looking to perform a large migration of about 500 workstations from various Suse and Red Hat versions to CentOS to standardize some what. Because I have to support x86 (32 & 64) and

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I''ve created a pretty complete HOWTO on creating a Linux Bridge (using Fedora) to shape LAN <--> WAN traffic. It includes installation instructions, a script to configure the bridge (which you install as a service), and 2 scripts to configure the network interfaces using traffic control. http://www.burnpc.com/website.nsf/all/3a64a6369757819686256f960068ad75!OpenDocument If

Hi, I''ve written a small javascript ADSL throughput calculator: http://nukunuku.yamamaya.is-a-geek.org/~ranma/adsl.html Feel free to submit alternative presets (I currently have presets for three german telecom speed variants: T-DSL (1000|2000|3000), derived from http://www2.lancom.de/kb.nsf/5d445c701b3ff52dc1256e7700297e5c/27c6ee1c3e3f74b0c1256e94004a433e?OpenDocument). Comments,

I've created a pretty complete HOWTO on creating a Linux Bridge (using Fedora) to shape LAN <--> WAN traffic. It includes installation instructions, a script to configure the bridge (which you install as a service), and 2 scripts to configure the network interfaces using traffic control. http://www.burnpc.com/website.nsf/all/3a64a6369757819686256f960068ad75!OpenDocument If anyone

Hello, I have recently compiled, installed and configured samba4 to run on a FreeBSD server. samba -V reports the version to be Version 4.1.0pre1-GIT-57990cb. The server has working BIND 9.9 and ISC-DHCP services running on it. I have provisioned samba 4 to use the BIND_DLZ DNS backend. On the whole things seem to be working. local names are being resolved. phpLDAPAdmin shows the new

The simple ordinary yum update of CentOS 5.3 spits a bunch of transaction check errors regarding packages perl-IO-Compress-Zlib-2.015-1.el5.rf.noarch and perl-IO-Compress-2.020-1.el5.rf.noarch which is supposed to replace perl-IO-Compress-Base-2.015-1.el5.rf.noarch: Transaction Check Error: file /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/IO/Compress/Adapter/Deflate.pm from install of