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Thanks Flugh....Got yum working after a while (hey...I'm a newbie!) also found a good article on www.linuxgazette.com about yum Thanks again P

I'm new to linux and decided to install fedora (core 3) on a spare PC i had (previously had win2k on it) the install worked perfectly except that i'm having issues getting my TV card to work (Pinnicle PCTV Rave card) linux seems to recognise the card (checked on hardware monitor) I then needed...

I guessed as much, I've bought a 3com WAP from ebay and a pcmcia Wireless nic (both 11.g) thanks, this confirms that i got the right stuff! Cheers P

Hiya, I'm looking to setup a wireless network, I currently have a small Lan with Webaccess setup via a proxy server (Linux Smoothwall 2)I have several PC's that are connected via a small hub and IP addresses are assigned by DHCP (again by smoothwall) I'd like to keep the PC's connected via the...

Can anyone help? I've been asked to fix a faulty Toshiba Portege laptop with WinXP installed. I'm fairly sure that running a Windows repair with fix this but.... The laptop isn't equipped with a CD or FDD drive. I've got hold of a USB floppy and a USB CD player but I can work out how to boot...

Hi, can anyone help? One of our users has deleted a directory, normally I can restore these using the salvage command (on a netware 5.1 cluster server running a NSS volume) unfortunately the sub directory isn't on the list, I suspect he moved the directory and then deleted it! is there a way to...

Worked perfectly! You the man! Thanks...I'll make a note of this for next time! P

Hi, Has anyone come across this problem before? One of our users has the show/hide option displayed permanently. If you try to turn off this with the button on the toolbar it remains! I've tried repairing/reinstalling the MS office installation (and am upto dates with MS updates on the PC and...

Hi All I'm a bit of a Linux novice (only ever setup a few workstations) I'm looking to setup a linux box as a mail relay. Any suggestions on this? Have some basic hardware (P700, 256Mb Ram, 10Gb HDD) ideally I'd like to use a free product! Any ideas welcome! Thanks.. P

Anyone know of any good docs for NT login script setup? I´m looking to setup mapped drives...not too fussed about other stuff....I assume you use the script directory on Winnt... Some example scripts would be helpful!

Hi , thanks for this, worked a treat...took a while because I´m working on a spanish language server and don´t speak spanish Cheers

Hi, Hopefully this is an easy one... I´ve setup Shared IP printers on our NT 4 Server. these work perfectly except that when anyone prints a message pops up on the server screen (telling you that the printer has printed!) Is there a way to turn these messages off? I could just stop the...

Thanks to everyone for the replies. I was lucky enough to locate a German code that worked with the spanish version! Thanks for your help anyway! Cheers

Thanks to everyone for the replies. I was lucky enough to locate a German code that worked with the spanish version! Thanks for you rhelp anyway! Cheers

how would you do that? you can´t just change the regional settings in W2k as this doesn´t change the actual language. and if you install the spanish version over the english version as it still requires a code.. or am I missing something?