gnome samba mount issue
by Eugene Jansen van Rensburg
Hi all,
Sorry if this issue has been covered before, I'm new to this list
I have a problem when i try to copy a file to a mounted smb share.
If I use Nautilus to mount the share "Connect to server" I get a
"invalid argument" error when I copy the file. It seems that some of
the file actually copies to the server because it creates the file and
if its a image you can open it but it only shows half the image.
If I mount the share using the mount command from the shell. all is
fine no problems at all.
I'm not sure if this can be a gvfs bug
Thanks
Eugene Jansen van Rensburg
eMail: eugenejvr(a)gmail.com
"Quit is NOT an option"
13 years, 8 months
libX11.so.6 Not found
by Alexander Kuleshov
Hello,
i try to make && make install package, but i see error: libX11.so.6
not found. Where can i get this lib?
Thank you
13 years, 8 months
F13: services marked as disabled, are shown to be running.
by JD
After bootup, (Run Level 5), I ran
System->Administration->Services
I checked each service that was marked red (disabled).
For a few of these disabled services, status was shown to be running.
These services were:
akmods
capi
hsqldb
isdn
jetty
lm_sensors
racoon
sandbox
vmware
zvbid
So, how would I prevent them from being started when
they are already marked as disabled.
Also, several services which are enabled, the status was shown
to be stopped. So, I had to start them.
One of them was hal daemon. Others that I recall were:
smbd, nmbd, ntpd, ...etc.
I regret not saving their names on file to mention all of them.
Can anyone else confirm this when running Sysytem->Administration->Services?
13 years, 8 months
Thinkpad A22p/Improper Video on Install
by James McKenzie
I'm trying to install FC8 on my old, creaky Thinkpad A22p (ATI Rage
Mobility Rage 3) and the video from the graphical installer is not
correct. I get about 1/3 of the orginal screen, then 1/3 of the third
1/3 of screen followed by that 1/3 again.
If I use the text installer, X will not start when running the first
time after installing.
TTIA.
James McKenzie
(And a big thank you to the wiki documentation team. I read through and
used the archives to see if this had been answered before posting!)
13 years, 8 months
Seahorse problem (is it really Seahorse?)
by Andreas Lauschke
This is my first post on a F discussion group, my apologies if I do something wrong.
According to http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Tools/NetworkManager there is supposed to be a right-click for Passwords:login on the Passwords tab. But when I start that GUI, there is none, only a grayed out Passwords text on that tab.
All I want to do is set up a keyring that doesn't bother me all the time with p/w entries, or alternatively, turn off keyringing altogether, because nobody else has access to this server. Whenever I try to set up a p/w for remote desktop, I get a new dialog popping up that asks for a p/w for the Default keyring. It comes up for every letter I try to enter or remove in the text field for the remote desktop p/w.
This is F13 on a dual AMD Opteron 64 blade server. This problem did not occur before (since F8 at least).
Several issues I have with this:
- All I want to do is set up a keyring. I shouldn't have to install something like seahorse for that, and then see that it doesn't work as advertised.
- All I REALLY want to do is set up a p/w for remote desktop sharing. I could do without a keyring in the first place, but I can't enter a remote desktop p/w without responding to some keyring dialog box first that keeps popping up and bothering me for every keystroke I try to make.
- I think this is a poor design. No matter what people tell me about safety and security, the user should not be bothered with dialog boxes on a character-by-character basis.
- also a poor design: a very likely consequence is that the user simply doesn't require a p/w for desktop sharing, simply because keyring issues that shouldn't be there in the first place keep bothering him/her, totally contrary to what should be done (it's really not necessary, because if you use vncviewer with the -via option on an ssh-encrypted connection, you are still required to enter your user p/w). But still, a desktop viewer p/w is an additional safety level beyond the user p/w level.
Something simple as setting up desktop sharing shouldn't require me to set up keyrings. Setting up remote desktop sharing should work without keyrings. And when setting up keyrings, that should be simple and straight-forward as well, and GUIs should look like described in the documentation (maybe it should be phrased the other way around: documentation should accurately describe behavior).
Thanks
13 years, 8 months
Subject: GDM and XDMCP
by KC8LDO
Steve;
I don't use XDMCP. In its place I installed Xrdp. This way anybody can
connect and get a GUI login screen to their account. This will handle
multiple uses all at the same time too. All you need is to use the Windows
"Remote Desktop Client" for Windows based machines of course. For Linux you
have "Terminal Service Client". If you choose to do this don't forget to
start the "xrdpd" service. The RPM package installation scripts seemed to
take care of everything else.
If you want really secure access you can run the XDP protocol over an ssh
connection using the port forwarding feature of ssh. I do this all the time
using "Putty" as my Window's based ssh GUI and the Windows Remote Desktop
Client.
To gain remote access, from the Internet, to each machine on my home LAN
each has a fixed IP address and I run the sshd service on a different port
on each one. The router uses port forwarding to route the ssh traffic to the
desired machine based on what ssh port I'm using for the connection.
Changing the default port used for ssh is also a good way to fly under the
radar from bots probing your front door looking for a way to get in using
the standard ssh port too.
Once connected you login as a normal user to your account and leave the
terminal window open. The next step is to start the RDP client application.
When the GUI login screen pops up just login like you would at the console.
That's it.
To logout out you just logout as normal from the desktop then logout from
the terminal window you left open. If you just "quit", close, the GUI window
you simply logically disconnect from the frame buffer on the remote machine.
Your apps remain running. If you log back in you will just reconnect to the
still running applications on the GUI desktop as if you never left.
If you're on a LAN you can skip the ssh part. I have a multi-user Fedora-11
system setup this way where I work so a group of people can run some custom
written engineering software. Works great.
73's
Leland C. Scott
KC8LDO
13 years, 8 months
Where is XGL for F13
by Mickey
fc13- x86_64 kde
Where is the rpm for XGL , I thought it was in xorg-server-xgl ?
13 years, 8 months
savemail: cannot save rejected email anywhere
by Kevin Cummings
Hi,
I'm getting this in my logwatch logs, and as a result, I'm missing some
system "logwatch" emails which, apparently, are getting swatted by
SpamAssassin, which is running directly as a sendmail milter.
Logwatch runs under /etc/cron.hourly as root.
Can someone please tell me where I can either configure sendmail to
save these somewhere for me, or how I can get SpamAssassin to not drop
these system "logwatch" emails (and *only* these logwatch emails) on the
floor.
I am getting a number of these emails (sometimes) being marked as
[SPAM] but still being sent to me, and I keep feeding these messages to
sa-learn as HAM under both my user id and as root, but I'm still getting
some dropped immediately, and I still see many of my logwatch emails
being marked as [SPAM]. I assume because they are reporting on some
other SPAM email handling that contains some text of such a high SPAM
rating that they exceed the obvious SPAM threshold I have set up.
--
Kevin J. Cummings
kjchome(a)rcn.com
cummings(a)kjchome.homeip.net
cummings(a)kjc386.framingham.ma.us
Registered Linux User #1232 (http://counter.li.org)
13 years, 8 months
XMarks (OT?)
by Timothy Murphy
An "XMarks Settings" window opens every few days on my Fedora-13 laptop,
saying "Syncing successfully", but with an option to "Synchronize Now".
This seems ambiguous to me;
if it is "syncing successfully", why should I "synchronize now"?
(I have to respond for the window to close.)
--
Timothy Murphy
e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net
tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366
s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
13 years, 8 months
evince problem (doesn't remember defaults)
by Danny Yee
Upgrading from F12 to F13 was really smooth, but there a couple of
very annoying regressions.
Every time I open a PDF using evince (document viewer), I get a small
window in the top left of my screen, which I have to resize to be
usable. It's also set to "best width" instead of "best fit", so I
have to change that as well. My new settings aren't remembered for
the next invocation of evince. A zero length file is being created in
~/.gnome2/evince/last_settings.
Any advice on how to fix this? I'm not running GNOME or KDE - I'm
using a lightweight stand-alone window-manager (9wm).
Danny.
13 years, 8 months