Did you create samba passwords for the approporiate users?
I believe the passwords must be encrypted to work with windows machines, but it's been a while since I set mine up.

BT

Cosmetic? Not for me. The perfect font size has changed to this . Note the size difference between leftband menu and the actual page text. This is on Windows XP SP2 + Firefox 1.0.2. I remember I had problems on my gentoo box, until I put Microsoft Verdana fonts into Xorg and made it default font ...

I believe this is fixed in 2.10. If you use the gnome-keyring and save the password you should only have to unlock the keyring when you first access it. From then on it shouldn't require a password. However, I don't personally use it for browsing the network. I mainly use it to access specific samba ...

I've gotten 2.10 running with no real problems. I was interested in customizing the places menu. I'd be plenty happy editing a text file somewhere, but I can't seem to find any such text file. I've tried Denu, but from what I can tell, that only works on the applications menus and such (I could be ...

sprite wrote:when you emerge -e world, should you do that booted on a livecd or to your system?? thinking of this myself.

Once you have your system running, you shouldn't need to boot the live cd again. Even for the recompile, you should be fine. (feel free to correct me if I'm wrong)

Did you just suddenly have this problem, or is this on a new install...
Still wondering about that...


/dev/hdb1 is mounted. /dev/hda5 is mounted.


Any idea why it's trying to check /dev/hdb1 and /dev/hda5 because they'er not even in your fstab? I hate to even ask it, but have you rebooted ...

Nothing wrong with that, just wanted to know. What does your /etc/fstab look like?

If you wanted to, you could go through the normal emerge -e world and then go to the /etc/ directory and remove the new config files by hand.

rm ._cfg*
would probably do the trick. I can't do it right this second, but it wouldn't be hard to write a shell script to traverse the file system and ...

The only way for the device to show up is to load the proper driver. You can't just create it. I would do what buzzin suggested and remove the module (rmmod <module name>) and then reinsert the module. At this point you should be able to do an ifconfig eth1 up to bring the interface up. If it still ...

Did you just suddenly have this problem, or is this on a new install. Which partition is your root on? The only time I've seen behavior like the last part there is when I had my /etc/fstab setup incorrectly or when I didn't have the proper filesystems compiled into my kernel. Also, did you custom ...

I'd check in /var/log/messages or /var/log/syslog. My pure-ftpd server logs to one or the other, I can't remember which right now. You can grep for ftp in the log file.

I personally like to use SmartFTP with my pureftpd server.

I personally use pureftpd for just that. I have it set up with tls to improve the security and have all the clients chrooted to their home directories. The tls setup is really easy with pureftpd. For clients, the webdevelopers usually use the built-in client in dreamweaver (which actually supports ...

My university uses the legato backup system, and while I don't have any experience on the server aspects of the system, I had no problem setting up the client on the gentoo server I administer for a club. I mentioned a couple things about it here:
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=205421 ...

I was looking for something a little while back, and found SysCP (http://www.syscp.de/wiki/EnAboutSysCP) I haven't had a chance to even try anything, but it looked interesting. It might be worth looking at though.

For mine, I have the rest of the hostname in /etc/dnsdomainname. I think the following will solve the problem.
BT

I had very little trouble setting up networker for gentoo. I used a rpm package (originally for a redhat 9 machine). Since I don't know how to create ebuilds yet, I just used the rpm2targz to create an archive that I just extracted into the /usr tree. I also wrote a simple init script. From there ...

I am getting ready to set up networker on the servers I admin. I spoke with our Legato admin today, and he said that there were some extra steps to making legato work properly with gentoo. In addition, the company doesn't support gentoo. However, they were willing to help him work out a solution the ...

I had the same problem getting portage and distcc to work together correctly. For me, it would only work when I had both of the following in my make.conf:

PORTAGE_TMPDIR=/var/tmp
DISTCC_DIR="${PORTAGE_TMPDIR}/.distcc


I originally only had the second line and I was getting access violations like ...

I'm currently working on a solution for logwatch with syslog-ng. If I have any luck I'll be sure to post my changes.