[plug] questions about Mandrake 9.0

[shayne at guild.murdoch.edu.au]

Ok Milan,

For serving, I guess it depends what you mean by "serving". I guess, you want 
to share files, so you probably need Samba. As for modem sharing, there 
should be a wizzardy thing in there to do that.
You can probably lose Mail/Groupware/News unless you are running a 24/7 
server with static IP address.(If you didn't ask for one, you probly don't 
have one).
Firewalls all good stuff. DNS/NIS completely unneccessary (Unless you run a
bigger network or multiple domain names ra.ra.com.au etc)

Any advice on it all, drop in on the list. Samba can be a bit of a wierdo 
to get running sometimes, but mandrake should be pretty straightforward
for modeming/sharing..

On Thursday 14 November 2002 08:28, Milan Pospisil wrote:
> Hi all;
>            Could I possibly get an advice how to change the resolution of
> my monitor (using Mandrake 9.0)? Is there an equivalent of Ms Windows: 
> Start -> Settings ->Control Panel -> Display -> Display properties ->
> Settings  hiding somewhere in the graphic interface  system, or is the
> command line the only answer?(I suppose it might be a good answer if one
> knows how to use it). So far the only thing I managed to figure out would
> be to reinstall the whole package, which seems to be a bit cumbersome at
> best. Well, speaking of reinstallig - should it come to it for one reason
> or another and I want to use my Linux machine as a server for a Ms Windows
> box hanging out of it, where the Linux  machine will be doing most of the
> work ie. surfing the net, sending and receiving mail, downloading stuff
> etc. while the Windows box will be used for communications with the
> unfortunate Microserfs who do not have any other means and thus can not 
> process any data beyond Microsoft platform, which of the following server
> options do I choose:   Web/FTP Mail/Groupware/News Database
>                                                         Firewall/Router
>                                                         DNS/NIS
>                                                         Network Computer
> Server Currently, not knowing what is it all about I have ticked all of
> them. It works but how much of it is necessary for a dial up modem
> connection is at this stage beyond me.
>
>                                Thanks for any help.
>                                                                            
>          Regards: Milan Pospisil