Originally posted by: MGMorden
Originally posted by: orion7144
o.k got it installed and am able to surf.
1. I can see my shared folders on my XP box's but can see the files.
I'm thinking you left out a not somwhere in there. Which one can't you do?
I can't view my windows shares from the ?nix box
2. I can use TightVnc to pull up the mandrake box on one of my XP box's but it locks up pretty quickly.
The Linux machine/server locks up or the Windows client locks up?
The Windows client locks up.
3. I can't telnet into the mandrake box from XP.
As has been mentioned, use SSH (Telnet is a secuirity nightmare waiting to happen). If you don't have a Windows client then do a search for a program called PuTTY. It's what you need (there are a few other free ones out there, and Cygwin will give you a client as well, but PuTTY shoudl work with minimal
fuss).
BUT, I'm not sure that Mandrake starts the SSH daemon by default. If not then you need to go to where you can select services and make sure one that says "openssl" is set to start.
4. I installed Apache but can't find it to launch it.
If 127.0.0.1 brings up a webpage, apached has been launched. If it don't, do the same thing I mentioned above about starting the opensll daemon and also check apached (or it might show as httpd).
5. How do I have a program launch at start up?
Somewhere in /etc/ there MIGHT (I know it's there in redhat and slackware, not sure about mandrake) be a file named rc.local. If it's there, edit it and add the line for the program you want to start. If not, you're going to need to create a startup script using the {start|stop} format for the program you want to start, and then symlink it into either rc3.d or rc5.d, depending on whether your're booting to text or GUI mode, respectively. OR you could setup an rc.local yourself and throw your commands in there. Whatever floats your boat, but you'll need to read up on SysV init to get a feel for it (I've worked on enough systems to know SysV and BSD pretty well, but man do I prefer Slackware's BSD style init process
).
Everybody does. I've been using Linux for ~5 years (maybe 6. loosing track here) and I still learn new things all the time. It does sound like you've done the best thing for learning though: setup seperate Linux and Windows machines. Dual-booting is nice, but most people end up staying in Windows and never learning anything. The seperate machine gives you that nice "toy" to mess with when you feel like it and the Windows machine is still always close if/when you need to fall back on it.
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