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Pushing Files To Multiple Hosts

   Sun, 07 Mar 2004 20:46:45 -0500
   Sean Johnson ([47]sean from gutenpress.org)

   While it might be overkill for your situation, this is a perfect place to
   use cfengine ( [48]http://www.cfengine.org ). 

   Perhaps I should write up an article for Linux Gazette? :) 

   Cheers, 

   Sean 

     [Thomas] You're more than welcome to do so. Author submission guidelines
     can be found in the FAQ, found here:

     [49]http://linuxgazette.net/faq/author.html
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Connecting Mac OS9/10 to a Linux Samba Domain

   Thu, 05 Feb 2004 12:22:12 +0300
   Thomas Adam, Breen Mullins ([50]The LG Answer Gang)
   Question by JG Nasser Olwero (jgnasser from mpala.org)

   I run Samba 2.2.3a on RH Linux 7.3 as the Domain Controller. I have all my
   Windows clients connecting fine to it but have trouble with Mac clients, no
   idea how to log them on. I also attempted to have the Mac client connect to
   the Linux POP3 and SMTP server (Sendmail) to no avail probably because the
   Mac is not welcome on the network. I am connecting the Mac using wired
   ethernet to a Network switch. 

     [Thomas] You need to ensure that you're using the 'appletalk' protocol.
     This has to be enabled in the kernel. There are also userspace programs
     that are needed for this.

     [51]http://ftp.linux.org.uk/pub/linux/appletalk

     might be of interest.

     Hope That Helps

     [Breen] You don't use AppleTalk to connect to a POP or SMTP server. That's
     pure TCP/IP.

     If  we're  talking about a Mac OS X client, that comes with Windows
     filesharing built in. Classic Mac OS is of course a different problem.

     Actually, MacOS X knows how to speak Samba/mswin sharing now too; their
     client side tool is called DAVE, and it used to be third party software
     for MacOS 9. If you want to install Mac style sharing on your Linux box,
     the app you're looking for is called netatalk. I used it years ago and it
     was a breeze to setup - had 'em working faster than their mswin cousins in
     the same office. -- Heather

     [Breen] If you're using OS X you can call up a connect dialog with Cmd-K
     and enter the address smb://<ip_of_server>. You'll need an IP address, of
     course -- check your network preferences pane to make sure.

     Beyond that, you're probably looking at a Mac client issue. You might try
     asking   for   help   at   a   Mac   specific  site.  (I  recommend
     [52]http://forums.macosxhints.com, if you're using X.)
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CDROM not seen by RH9

   Thu, 11 Mar 2004 16:29:46 -0500
   Thomas Adam ([53]The LG Weekend Mechanic)
   Question by Joseph Lalingo (ah300 from torfree.net)

   Hi,

   I installed RedHat Linux 9 via the cd-rw, successfully, but the cdrom was
   not  seen. I know the cdrom is still connected internally as I haven't
   interfered with the system's insides (which came with a a cdrom and cd-rw)
   internally. The cd-rw is understood to be the cdrom and there is now NO
   /mnt/cdrom1 but there IS a /mnt/cdrom.

   The cdrom door does not open, yet the light of the cdrom is on.

   Joe

     [Thomas] "The lights are on but there's no one home". /mnt/cdrom is the
     mount-point location of your cdrom drive. It is arbitrary and you can use
     anything you like. These are defined (or should be) in /etc/fstab.

     If you look in that file, you should have a line similar to:

/dev/cdrom      /cdrom          iso9660 ro,user,noauto          0       0

     Here, /dev/cdrom is in turn a symlink that points to my main cdrom device:
     /dev/hdd. This then gets mounted to /cdrom, when I issue the command:

mount /cdrom

     I suspect your troubles come from you missing an entry in /etc/fstab. If
     you wanted to mount the second drive as /mnt/cdrom1, then look at the