• Linux Gazette #57 (September) - File with Device info
• samba printing under SuSE Linux 6.4
• CB Radio Connection a bad idea
• Reflection replacement?
• Question from a newbie - Exchange?
• International KB Layouts
• Tape Library
• Modems
• Palm OS Emulator
• telnet server & inetd
• BeOS partition
• Remote process

Linux Gazette #57 (September) - File with Device info

Hi there,

Regarding the 'File With Device Information' in the September Issue, you should also mention that if you have the pciutils package installed, /sbin/lspci is much more useful than eyeballing /proc/pci. Just my thoughts....

Regards,
- Brendon.

samba printing under SuSE Linux 6.4

Dear Editor,

here is another 2cent tip.

I'm forced to print to a printer connected to a Windows box. This box is networked with my Linux box and I wanted to setup a working samba printer- I had problems setting up the printer under Suse 6.4 The passwords and resource names were correct, but smbclient couldn't connect to the Windows box. I simply added the commandline option "-I 192.168.0.2" in the file /etc/apsfilterrc.stcolor in the line REMOTE_PRINTER= (I'm using the stcolor driver from GhostScript. Check for the file corresponding to the printer driver you've selected in Yast.)

The option above specifies the IP address of the machine where the printer is connected to. It now works without any problems.

cheers, Matthias

CB Radio Connection a bad idea

First off - the guy was right, it IS illegal pretty much anywhere in the world.

Second - it won't work because the modems are engineered for a different kind of communications channel - RF connections have different characteristics compared to phone lines.

Amateur radio ( which requires a license obtained by taking at test) has had a low speed connection for around 15 years called packet radio. There is quite a bit of support for this technology within Linux (including modems implemented using sound cards...) These will work over an FM radio channel. (CB is AM/SSB which has a much lower quality) and usually only work at 1200 to 9600 baud. Not blazingly fast.

Hope this clears up some points.

Steve Wilson, KA6S

Reflection replacement?

Hi! I would like to access my graphics Linux desktop from my Windows box; I was able to do it using a software called Reflection (I guess you know it), is there any (free) software with the same capabilities of Reflection?

Regards,
Toshiro.

There's MI/X, the MicroImages X server. Some people like it. I can't personally vouch for it. MicroImages provides it as part of the Windows support of its GIS software.

http://www.microimages.com/freestuff/mix

X-WinPro is shareware. License is a lot less than Reflection/X. Personally I've found it useful.

http://www.lab-pro.com

-- Dan Wilder

Question from a newbie - Exchange?

James,

I am a Linux newbie with a significant MS Windows background (several MS certs, etc) and I am trying to wean myself off of my Windows partition at work. The only thing holding me back is MS Exchange/Outlook. Is there an Exchange client for Linux? I have looked high and low and can't find one. I hae configured the server (I administer it) to be a pop3 server, so I can get my mail that way, but I loose a lot of the functionality that way. Any help would be appreciated.

Duane Tackett

According to a message on the linux-admin list, TradeSuite (they have a server, too) can be found at http://www.bynari.com. Looks like the client is free though the Exchange support might not be. Oh yeah, and Exchange can be told to serve its mail up as webmail... maybe that will do until your company can transition to a more flexible mail system -- Heather

Got more than just a tip in the "dealing with MS Exchange" category? feel free to send us an article ... -- Heather

International KB Layouts

Is there any easy-to-read FAQ or HOWTO about how to type international characters in XFree86? I am a Spanish student, and I would like to write my essays in LyX. I would just like an easy way to learn about things like `compose keys' and `dead keys.' Can you help me? Thanx.

The answer to that would be "yes". Quoting from my own "Introduction to Shell Scripting":

...for a fairly decent and simple explanation, see Hans de Goede's "fixkeys.tgz", which contains a neat little "HOWTO". For a more in-depth study, the "Keyboard-and-Console-HOWTO" is an awesome reference on the subject.

Ben Okopnik

Don't be scared off by the fact it hasn't changed since 1998; the console itself doesn't change much. For even more fun, the Danish-HOWTO was just updated in March and covers all sorts of other aspects about international needs. There are a few other specific nationalities covered at linuxdocs.org too. -- Heather

Tape Library

I am looking for some software that will talk to my tape library. I have looked at several different commercial packages, but none of them really work the way I need them to. I would like to find an application that would tell me what tapes are in the library (by reporting back the bar codes), then load the tapes that I select into the drives I want. Then I can run taper/tar/cpio/mt to my hearts content. I could write my own software, but I am lazy.

Thank you!
Charles H. Deling

Perhaps amanda would do the trick. If not, perhaps its simplistic shell script mentality will make it easier to adjust to your needs. Gentle readers: any more suggestions? -- Heather

Modems

Just read a reply about a true modem. I've been searching for one ever since a friend mentioned it to me. He has an ISA True modem. And wouldn't you know it mine is not. It's a PCI and so far no luck finding a PCI True modem. Any ideas on where I might score one?

Hoping for the right answer,
Kookaberra

Yes, at least one of the links from linmodems.org is the homepage of a Wallace and Gromit fan who keeps track of which cheap store brand modems are complete "hard" or crippled "soft" modems, including, to my great annoyance, the fact that some pccards are software controlled. Arrgh -- Heather

Palm OS Emulator

Hi all,

I was wondering if anyone knew of an Emulator for Palm OS. I would like to write apps for Palm OS and test them before installing. Is this possible?

Kind regards
Andrew Higgs

Look at freshmeat.net for the app copilot. It needs a ROM though, which you can either upload from your real Pilot, or get from the Palm Computing developers' site (once you agree to their restrictions for using the debug ROM, of course). -- Heather

telnet server & inetd

Dear James,

I used your answer for the 'telnet - connection closed by foreign host' to get telnet working on a custom red hat install I did.

I begin to think that I left off a package that I really needed when I selected packages in the 'select package' window during the install.

I haven't yet found a description of which individual RPM modules (inetd in.telnetd) are rolled up into what packages that can be selected on the package selection window in the install screen. Any help you can give will be much appreciated.

Andrew Wilkes

If you know which file you want, but not what RPM it's in, this script will do the trick ($1 = directory full of rpms, $2 = file you are seeking)

	#!/bin/bash
	cd $1
	for i in *.rpm ; do rpm -qpl $i | grep -q $2 && echo $i ; done

Hope that helps a few folks out there! -- Heather

BeOS partition

I have a BeOS partition on hda3. I also have windows on another partition. linux "sees" the windows partition and mounting it is no problem. But how can I make linux "see" the BeOS partition? I've been in etc/fstab to no avail.

Readonly support for the BeOS filesystem is available in the 2.4.0 test kernels. I have no idea how safe it is yet. -- Heather

Remote process