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Re: [LUG] Mandrake 10.1 Install

 

On Tuesday 08 February 2005 11:38 am, Henry Bremridge wrote:
My major problem at the moment is trying to get samba working so I can
link it to my win98 machine. The problem here is trying to understand
windows networking...... (I can ping each machine but sometimes my win98
sees my debian but mostly not, if the blasted thing would be consistent
it would help...)

Windows (certainly Win.9x, possibly later) will not always recognise a Samba 
machine that was started BEFORE the Windows box got past the login box. 

If the windows box reboots, you may have to restart Samba (note - you DON'T 
need to reboot Linux usually, just restart Samba from /etc/init.d/ as root.)

There's a message in the old archive:

http://www.dcglug.org.uk/archive-old/msg00406.html
http://www.dcglug.org.uk/archive-old/msg00411.html

http://www.dcglug.org.uk/archive/2001/05/msg00013.html

For example: I installed cron-apt but finally removed it after rereading
the "help" and not understanding what I had to do to get it working.

Umm, not usually anything. All you do need to do is set a usable crontab entry 
for the root user. 
35 2 * * * /usr/sbin/cron-apt

At 2:35am, each day, the root user will execute cron-apt via cron. You don't 
have to do it as often as that, especially on testing. Once a week is 
adequate for most people - the slower your connection, the more often you 
should do it though as this reduces the amount of downloads per session.

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