From standrews at mailman.lug.org.uk Thu Jan 2 00:01:01 2003 From: standrews at mailman.lug.org.uk (Gilbert Serex) Date: Thu Jan 2 00:01:01 2003 Subject: [StAndrews and Fife LUG] Site test Message-ID: <1041354780.10003.1.camel@host1.sharpnet.local.net> --=-eZMfHV5mqPTzLtHK2nVm Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sorry to disapoint you folks, but the select is still funny in M1.1 I know the code is right but somehow it is not okay in M1.1 Cheers --=-eZMfHV5mqPTzLtHK2nVm Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sorry to disapoint you folks, but the select is still funny in M1.1 I know the code is right but somehow it is not okay in M1.1

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--=-eZMfHV5mqPTzLtHK2nVm-- From standrews at mailman.lug.org.uk Thu Jan 2 00:05:00 2003 From: standrews at mailman.lug.org.uk (Stuart Anderson) Date: Thu Jan 2 00:05:00 2003 Subject: [StAndrews and Fife LUG] Fwd: Happy New Year! Message-ID: <1041465855.3e1381ffc00ec@webmail.nx14.com> ----- Forwarded message from John R Leddy ----- Date: Wed, 01 Jan 2003 19:44:38 +0000 Wrom: SFDULHPQQWOYIYZUNNYCGPKYLEJGDGVCJVTLBXFG Reply-To: John R Leddy Subject: Happy New Year! To: stuart@nx14.com Dear Stuart, First of all, let me wish you all the best for 2003! Thanks for your e-mail. Yes, I'd like to be on the mailing list. Perhaps you could help with a slight problem. When I try to mount a floppy, a dialogue box opens: Error mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/fd0, or too many mounted file systems As this is the only back-up of a wee website I am designing, 10 days work so far, your help would be gratefully appreciated. The folders and files are no longer on my hard drive. Take care, John. ----- End forwarded message ----- Just to save John reposting it. Can anyone help him? --- Stuart McCulloch Anderson stuart@nx14.com -*- http://www.nx14.com From standrews at mailman.lug.org.uk Thu Jan 2 10:09:00 2003 From: standrews at mailman.lug.org.uk (David Tillotson) Date: Thu Jan 2 10:09:00 2003 Subject: [StAndrews and Fife LUG] Fwd: Happy New Year! In-Reply-To: <1041465855.3e1381ffc00ec@webmail.nx14.com> References: <1041465855.3e1381ffc00ec@webmail.nx14.com> Message-ID: <2cqK$lLM+AF+EwuK@acmelabs.demon.co.uk> In message <1041465855.3e1381ffc00ec@webmail.nx14.com>, Stuart Anderson writes >----- Forwarded message from John R Leddy ----- >Yes, I'd like to be on the mailing list. Assuming that John's on the list! >Perhaps you could help with a slight problem. >When I try to mount a floppy, a dialogue box opens: >Error >mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/fd0, >or too many mounted file systems How are you mounting the floppy? As you mention a dialog box, I suspect that you're using the KDE supermount system. This is known to be somewhat flaky (at least on Mandrake), and IMHO is not really necessary. Open a command window and use the following command: mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy This is assuming that /mnt/floppy exists (usually does!) If it fails with a permissions error, try after an su to root. If it comes up with the same as the error box, there are two possibilities:- 1. Your distro doesn't include the autofs code, so you'll need to specify the filesystem in use on the disk ('mount -t vfat ...' for a DOS formatted disk.) man mount is you friend in this case. 2. The floppy is borked :-( Not a lot you can do here (although I have read of people using dd to take an image of the disk, and then tweaking the image to produce a mountable filesystem. >As this is the only back-up of a wee website I am designing, >10 days work so far, your help would be gratefully appreciated. >The folders and files are no longer on my hard drive. Ouch! This is about the only advantage of FAT12/16/32 that I know of - you can 'undelete' files (if you're lucky.) Best of luck, and all the best for 2003 to everyone who reads this! -- David Tillotson From standrews at mailman.lug.org.uk Thu Jan 2 11:01:01 2003 From: standrews at mailman.lug.org.uk (Gilbert Serex) Date: Thu Jan 2 11:01:01 2003 Subject: [StAndrews and Fife LUG] smbfs mount question Message-ID: <1041505140.22748.18.camel@host1.sharpnet.local.net> Hi all. First a happy new year 2003! I need advice about a strange problem I have not been able to solve. I have a Win Me machine which acts as a data server. I use smbfs to mount the "my documents" portion of the disk so that I can work on the data from my Mandrake 9 machine, although it mounts fine I have to manually unmount/remount (from the Mandrake Control Centre) this partition to be able to write into it. here is the fstab line: //winmemachine/MYDOCUMENTS /mnt/mydocuments smbfs password=******** 0 0 The password has been obfuscated (in the above line), and I turned the password encryption "off" in the windows Box registry. Although I am not clear about the link between the Samba (smb.conf) and the Linux mount (fstab) system, I need some explanation here too. I also had to assign the 0 (root) group to my username. This was necessary to be able to write into the share. I know this is not the perfect way but it works.all I need to automate is the read/write portion at boot. I wish MS was a little more helpful than they seem to be when it comes to share their side with other, like Linux does with Windows. Any idea. Cheers From standrews at mailman.lug.org.uk Thu Jan 2 11:37:01 2003 From: standrews at mailman.lug.org.uk (David Tillotson) Date: Thu Jan 2 11:37:01 2003 Subject: [StAndrews and Fife LUG] smbfs mount question In-Reply-To: <1041505140.22748.18.camel@host1.sharpnet.local.net> References: <1041505140.22748.18.camel@host1.sharpnet.local.net> Message-ID: In message <1041505140.22748.18.camel@host1.sharpnet.local.net>, Gilbert Serex writes >I need advice about a strange problem I have not been able to solve. I'll do what I can (I use Samba the other way round myself) >here is the fstab line: >//winmemachine/MYDOCUMENTS /mnt/mydocuments smbfs password=******** 0 0 I think that you need 'user' in the options section of the entry: //winmemachine/MYDOCUMENTS /mnt/mydocuments smbfs password=**,user 0 0 >The password has been obfuscated (in the above line), and I turned the >password encryption "off" in the windows Box registry. Although I am not >clear about the link between the Samba (smb.conf) and the Linux mount >(fstab) system, I need some explanation here too. As I understand it, smb.conf is used only to set things like workgroups for the Samba client, and is more concerned with exporting shares. >I also had to assign the 0 (root) group to my username. This was >necessary to be able to write into the share. The fstab entry correction should fix this. >I wish MS was a little more helpful than they seem to be when it comes >to share their side with other, like Linux does with Windows. In some ways, I support M$'s attitude to opening the source (I suspect that it would teach some very poor techniques!) -- David Tillotson