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[Robert Dege]

> Does anyone know where I can get a better copy of 7.2 without problems.
> I installed mine 3 times and the the start menu and tool bar dosent show

Have you tried physically adjusting the screen on your monitor?  It might
be possible that the toolbar is there, but that the way the monitor was
detected, that your vertical size might be too high, thus moving the
toolbar off the screen?

Or maybe its a problem with relation to virutal desktop size vs actual
screen size resolution.

> up. For now I am using KDE which is alot better . I tried everything to
> get SWAT to work and  it still wont open the port 901.

An excerpt from the SAMBA README:

Running via inetd
-----------------

You then need to edit your /etc/inetd.conf and /etc/services to enable
SWAT to be launched via inetd.

In /etc/services you need to add a line like this:

swat            901/tcp

the choice of port number isn't really important except that it should
be less than 1024 and not currently used (using a number above 1024
presents an obscure security hole depending on the implementation
details of your inetd daemon).

In /etc/inetd.conf you should add a line like this:

swat    stream  tcp     nowait.400  root    /usr/local/samba/bin/swat swat

One you have edited /etc/services and /etc/inetd.conf you need to send
a HUP signal to inetd. On many systems "killall -1 inetd" will do this
on others you will need to use "kill -1 PID" where PID is the process
ID of the inetd daemon.


Launching
---------

To launch SWAT just run your favourite web browser and point it at
http://localhost:901/

Note that you can attach to SWAT from any IP connected machine but
connecting from a remote machine leaves your connection open to
password sniffing as passwords will be sent in the clear over the
wire.

You should be prompted for a username/password when you connect. You
will need to provide the username "root" and the correct root
password.


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Basically, if you encountered no errors with the installation with
Mandrake 7.2, then a new set of CD's probably won't help.  This is
what separates Linux from Windows.  If something crashes, you don't always
need to reboot.  If something doesn't work right away, you don't
neccesarily need to reformat (of course, it depends upon the severity, but
you know what I mean ;)

Dege

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