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by AsaifullahK
Sun Jan 26, 2003 9:57 pm
Forum: Administration
Topic: User Creation
Replies: 4
Views: 12331

my previous post was based exactly on this issue. you must have "root" privs. to execute root commands, and not necessarily be allowed if you're in the group 'root'. install sudo: 1. download it from http://www.courtesan.com/sudo/dist/sudo-1.6.6.tar.gz 2. run 'tar -xvzf sudo-1.6.6.tar.gz' ...
by AsaifullahK
Thu Jan 23, 2003 1:48 pm
Forum: Installation
Topic: How to Configure SAMBA Server (I am novice in Linux)
Replies: 1
Views: 7149

use the smbmount command as follows : smbmount //DOMAIN-NAME/<Path to directory on NT share you wish to mount> /<directory on linux machine> -o ro username=<username required to access NT share> password=<password for this username> Please do read the smbmount manpage to further verify the argument ...
by AsaifullahK
Thu Jan 23, 2003 1:42 pm
Forum: Installation
Topic: Configuring boot time services
Replies: 4
Views: 10862

edit files : /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 and /etc/rc.d/rc.inet2 and comment out the services which you dont wish to start at boot time. if these files dont exist ( they do on Slackware 8.0 ), run the following command : egrep -ri '(servicename1|servicename2|...)' /etc where servicename refers to the service ...
by AsaifullahK
Thu Jan 23, 2003 1:36 pm
Forum: Installation
Topic: My computer only like Mandrake!!!!
Replies: 3
Views: 10320

as far as the sounds are concerned, i really think that's a hardware specific issue. Where failing to install Redhat is concerned : YES, the copies of RH 8.0 flooding the market are messed up. The second CD fails in the test, while the first CD, even after passing the test, is plagued with a critica...
by AsaifullahK
Thu Jan 23, 2003 1:31 pm
Forum: Installation
Topic: Trouble Installing NETBEANS 3.4 on LINUX
Replies: 3
Views: 9936

check to see if the appropriate environment variables in your 'profile' contain the path to your JVM. If not, add them, and re-run the installer
by AsaifullahK
Thu Jan 23, 2003 1:27 pm
Forum: Installation
Topic: How to run OpenOffice on RH8 (KDE) on 32 MB of RAM
Replies: 6
Views: 14100

i don't know whether this suggestion is valid in its content, but you could consider increasing your SWAP partition's size to more than 3-4 times that of your current RAM
by AsaifullahK
Thu Jan 23, 2003 1:24 pm
Forum: Installation
Topic: How Can I connect to the internet through ISA SERVER?
Replies: 5
Views: 14602

you should check to see if your NIC is configured to work properly.
secondly, check if you've entered the correct DNS in /etc/resolv.conf

post your findings and then we can proceed further with the problem ( if it still exists after this ).
by AsaifullahK
Thu Jan 23, 2003 1:20 pm
Forum: Administration
Topic: is there a memory leak in konsol..
Replies: 2
Views: 9389

kdeinit is known to have problems in shutting down correctly on exit.

perhaps you should consult or post to , the relevant mailing lists to find out how to fix this problem.
by AsaifullahK
Thu Jan 23, 2003 1:16 pm
Forum: Administration
Topic: samba nmb service fail to restart.
Replies: 1
Views: 8040

could you please show us the changes you made to smb.config by pasting them here in your reply post.

This way we can better tell where the problem exists in your configuration.
by AsaifullahK
Thu Jan 23, 2003 1:14 pm
Forum: Administration
Topic: User Creation
Replies: 4
Views: 12331

You must have the "sudo" package installed. type : < ls /var/log/messages | egrep -i 'sudo' > to see if you have it or not. Once ascertained that sudo is installed, edit /etc/sudoers and add the following line : USERNAME (ALL) = (ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL where USERNAME = the username of the user ...
by AsaifullahK
Thu Jan 23, 2003 1:05 pm
Forum: Installation
Topic: How to run commands in Startup using KDE at RH8
Replies: 1
Views: 7187

edit /etc/rc.d/rc.local

and paste the command to mount your NT share.
Save the file on exit.

rc.local is read at startup in any linux distribution.

Regards,
Ali Saifullah Khan