VNC from Windows machine to Fedora box
by Dotan Cohen
My mother uses Windows XP Professional Edition at home. I'd like to
connect to her computer with my Fedora box. Apparently, Windows has
some sort of built-in VNC server, but how can one connect to it from
Linux? This machine is Fedora Core 6, but I can upgrade it to Fedora 8
if need be. Thanks.
Dotan Cohen
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A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
16 years, 5 months
Recommendations for software to use with Creative Zen MP3 player
by Chris G
What do people panel recommend to use with a Creative Zen MP3 player.
Main requirement is to be able to download MP3s and put them onto the
Zen, it's not a requirement to be able to play them on the computer.
Podcast synchronisation would be a plus but lets try walking before we
run. Doing this on windows has turned into a disatrous mess.
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16 years, 5 months
fusesmb - does nothing, no smbfs/smbmount
by Richard W.M. Jones
Has Fedora user managed to get fusesmb to do anything?
I've created the appropriate config file, pointed fusesmb at a mount
point, and it runs. It just doesn't do anything. Nothing appears under
the mountpoint, and there is no debug message (eg. in syslog).
'fusesmb -d' just seems to print out user accesses to the empty
directory. I'm really looking for ways to debug this further.
'smbclient //myserver/' works fine, so I have reason to believe that
there _are_ SMB shares on my local network.
Also, there doesn't seem to be any smbfs / smbmount in Fedora.
Rich.
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16 years, 5 months
dmsg re: gnome-keyring-daemon ??
by Bill Case
Hi;
I am returning to a subject on which I posted earlier and for which I
have written a bug report. I am using a fresh install of Fedora 8. On
logining in my keyring asks that I re-input my user password before
Evolution will download my latest emails.
messages:
"Jan 6 16:07:37 CASE gnome-keyring-daemon[2943]: couldn't read 4 bytes
from client:
Jan 6 16:16:40 CASE gnome-keyring-daemon[2943]:last message repeated 2
times
Jan 6 16:18:59 CASE gnome-keyring-daemon[2943]:last message repeated 4
times
Jan 6 16:22:17 CASE gnome-keyring-daemon[2943]:last message repeated 2
times"
What do the above messages *mean*? And is there a possible fix or work
around?
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Regards Bill
16 years, 5 months
fedora 8 network start behavior
by Jonathan Horne
i just installed a fedora after a long pause with fedora (ive not looked at it
since about FC4). after a few live cds, i chose the live-kde-i386, and used
it to do an install. using yum, i finished off a package set im fairly happy
with.
however, ive noticied that the eth0 doesnt become active until i finally log
in... not good! primary function of this box will be to host my vmware
server, so i need to be able to WOL the box, and expect normal "server"
behavior.
what can i check or change to make sure the eth0 comes up without first
logging on?
thanks,
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16 years, 5 months
need help B43 in Fedora 8
by potat0
I am using an Acer Ferrari 3400 with a broadcom 4306 wireless chipset. I used fwcutter and it connects ok but it doesnt always stay connected it just keeps resetting the wireless connection. I have NetworkManager on and running I aliased the named in /etc/modprobe.conf. Have checked dmesg no errors, not sure what is going on and why it keeps resetting. Is anyone else having this problem? :-o
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16 years, 5 months
vgrename using fc6 rescue
by Tod
I made it to the command prompt and typed in lvm vgscan, no volume
groups are found. fdisk -l sees all my drives/partitions.
What do I need to do to get it to recognize my volume group so I can
rename it?
Thanks.
16 years, 5 months
Mailman 2.1.5-10.FC2 Problem; Probably sendmail-related
by Robert L Cochran
I have a server box running Fedora Core 2 that has been just sitting
there, dutifully working away, for a long while now. I haven't updated
it at all since the 2.6.10-1.771_FC2 kernel, and that was a long time ago!
The server runs:
DNS via bind 9.2.3-13
sendmail 8.12.11-4.6
mailman 2.1.5-10.fc2
I have two low-volume mailing lists for my family. Suddenly, I am not
getting any incoming emails from either list. Sending test emails to one
of the list is showing they are being posted to the list archives, but I
am not getting any posts by email suddenly.
Top is showing that sendmail is very active. There seems to be 3 or 4
sendmail processes.
My hard drive light stays resolutely on, pretty much all the time. What
on earth can be using the hard drive so heavily?
ssh connections into this server (from my internal network) take a
terribly long time to establish. They take 30 seconds or so before I can
get a shell prompt back over the wire. I just now ssh'ed into the
server, then issued 'shutdown -r now', and it took more than 1 minute
for the prompt to come back.
I'm wondering if sendmail has been compromised and is sending out huge
numbers of outgoing email. Is there a way of finding out what sendmail
is doing, to see if it is relaying mail for someone external to my network?
Can anyone suggest what might be the problem here? How can I rescue things?
Thanks
Bob Cochran
Greenbelt, Maryland, USA
16 years, 5 months
The partition table on device sdb was unreadable
by Dave Cross
I'm trying to do a new F8 installation on a system that is currently
running F7. Th system has two SATA disks. The first (sda) is 160 GB
and contains the boot partition, the swap and an LV which mounts /.
The second disk (sdb) is 320 GB and contains another logical volume
group containing two LVs, one for /home and one for /data.
What I'd like to do is to reinstall onto / but leave all of the data
in /home and /data untouched.
But when the installation routine gets to the section where it starts
to look at the disk partitions, it gives and error saying "The
partition table on device sdb was unreadable". And it then won't let
me set the mount points for the data LVs or mark them not to be
formatted.
That doesn't seem to be a problem for the existing installation. That
can read the partition table without any problems.
Am I trying to do something that you can't do? Is it impossible to
reinstall from scratch but leave an existing LV untouched?
I'm worried about proceeding as I really don't want to lose the data
on this disk. And I don't really have the time (or space) to back it
up.
Any advice?
Cheers,
Dave...
16 years, 5 months
mail aliases question
by Gene Heskett
Greetings;
What is the usual method of sending roots local mail to a user so that kmail
can be run as a user, and still get roots mail?
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soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
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I can't think about that. It doesn't go with HEDGES in the shape of
LITTLE LULU -- or ROBOTS making BRICKS ...
16 years, 5 months