i want to update samba on my server (it is an rpm based distro). i installed samba-3.0.8-1 and now i want to update it. so i downloaded the rpm and i did a #rpm -Uvh samba-3.0.9-1.rpm now i have a dependency error stating that it needs liblber.so.2 that is missing, doing a #slocate liblber.so.2 i can find it in /usr/lib. the question is how to tell my system where to find it?

i read alaa's blog and i want to go on and do something, so i looked at the suggested projects and i think we can start a workshop on thin clients
a workshop is where we go and start the implementation no one will instruct nor give a session we will do it from scratch and go all the way through learning, implementing and tweaking
i suggest the goal of this workshop is to make a comprehensive howto document about thin clients aiming the regular user (not the techie) and have a working demo in the lab

My domain registerar allowed my to set a glue record for my domain name, the problem that i have changed the IP address of my NS servers so, i want to change the glue records in root servers .. how can i do that .. no interfaces for that provided by my registerar

hi i have a DSL line (shared with 5 PCs), and i want to control the bandwidth for every PC connected through it. can i do that though any linux version. and if it is possible how can i do that?

Thanks Ahmed

Finally I throw my Motorolla Dial-Up Modem and got SpeedTouch 330 ADSL USB Modem. I had RedHat 9.0 with Kernel 2.4.20-8 working on AMD 2500+.

I thought as SpeedTouch Modem is external modem connecting to the PC through USB. It will work with no problem with Linux as I got its Linux driver. But unfortunately it was really complicated task.

It requires special libraries, a modem driver and the firmware to be all compiled. I have tried to follow many How-To's, FAQs and Readme. I took it as a challenge but it seem that Linux complixety is holding me back. All I got is error messages which I undestand nothing from it regardless my programming experince in C/C++. I go into the code but you can imagine, it's makarona esbakiti and I lost all my hair.

What other steps than ifconfig i must check to be sure that my ethernet is working correctly under Knoppix and what about assign IP address to the network card Only (ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 up) and what it's related to the ip and lan configuration with HOSTNAME Also want to ask, what about if i can't find driver for a PCMCIA wireless network adapter (SMC2365W)

Dear All,

I'm new to Linux. To install the driver of my network card in Red Hat Linux 7.2, I had to compile it.

The driver is in a .tar.gz file, which contains some .h, and .c files, and a Makefile.

So, what are the steps needed to compile this driver? The help file included mentions that the user should compile the driver to have the object file, without any details of the compiling process.

Regards, Mohamed El Wakil mmmew@hotpop.com

Is anyone using Gaim on Linux over an ADSL connection using a router?

At first I had a USB Speedtouch modem connected to a Windows PC, and I was connecting with my Linux to the ADSL through the Windows Internet Connection Sharing. Gaim was working fine with ICQ, MSN, Yahoo and IRC.

Now, I bought a D-Link DSL-500T ADSL router, and I connected both PCs (Windows and Linux) through to the router with a switch, and nothing seems to work. Browsing works OK.

I am not sure whether to use port-forwarding or UPnP, but I tried everything and I can't get it to work. Was anyone successful in doing this? The most important thing to me now is to get on ICQ.

i need to setup a network of linux clients authenticating against the win200 domain
how cab that be done? just give me the titles and i can manage to do it

Hello, I'm getting this weird problem

I have an external serial modem, but the connection is getting really unusable. The modem is fine, I'm using it under windows and everything's okay.

I tried re-installing MDK 10, the modem got fine for a day or two then it's back again.

note: it does connections fine, IRC & IM is good. but opening webpages is like hell, downloading is impossible.

hi guys ,,,

i think that most of you know that i'm still stuck with windows because that i connected to the internet via windows till the moment. but the good news that today i have signed a contract with menacom to provide me dsl service , the help i need from u guys that to show me the way of configure my linux system to use that service .,,,

i'm borrowing this from youssef asaad : Don't spoon-feed me give links to tutorails , how to's , or something like that , meanwhile i will not stand still i'm searching google for that , meet 3/7 god willing :) ,peace

i need to know some things a bout firewall like

how i can Configer drakfw ....

and how i can Open any Port like 22 for ssh ...

and how i can Cloes it....

At the office, I'm sitting behind a MS ISA proxy server. I am clueless regarding networks, basically, so I am wondering where one sets up proxy access. Through the routing table?

Don't spoon-feed me, just tell me generally what needs to be done, like which man pages I need to read, etc.