Setting up network

[Bill Tetens]

Have not heard from you but am ready toi contiunue to get the netword to 
wotrking.  Will wait for your next steps on the list.

reader at newsguy.com wrote:

>Bill Tetens <zuki269 at netscape.net> writes:
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>>I am ready to give up.  I cannot copy to the floppy on the linux machine 
>>with any sort of certainy and I cannot figure out what is wrong.  I 
>>tried to set up the e-mail but my e-mail is on netscape and I do not 
>>have an Imap for it.  Just not my day. I cannot get anything to work.
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>Well in that case lets just start up again tomorrow. Or if you
>prefer, lets take it off line.  You can write me privately if you
>like. 
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>But now please do describe your situation a bit more.  I'm not
>understanding it.  I thought you said something earlier about how the
>windows boxes or box could see the linux box in network neighborhood.
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>If that is the case, can you access it thru network neighborhood?
>Further this statement sounds screwy sort of:
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> > tried to set up the e-mail but my e-mail is on netscape and I do
> > not have an Imap for it.
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>What on earth does that mean?  You have a mail account on
>netscape.com?  If so, could you not access it from the `Mozilla'
>browser on board your linux machine?  Where does Imap fit in?
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>Could you not start mozilla, go to yahoo.com and setup a free mail
>account, like many others do?
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>Do you have X running on the linux machine?  That is, do you have a
>graphical desktop to log in to?  If so, there are many tools there to
>do this sort of stuff.
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>You could for example access this very list at news.gmane.org and post
>to it from there. (using Mozilla or possibly Konqueror).  Do all this
>right on line.  You could copy/paste till the cows come home.
>
>In short, can you log into the linux machine and run stuff in
>graphical mode?  If so, this doesn't have to be done with floppies and
>all that kind of mess.
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>But even there that can work if you proceed methodically.
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>First make sure /mnt/floppy exists.  If not then as root:
>  mkdir /mnt/floppy
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>insert a dos formatted floppy and as root: 
>   mount /mnt/floppy
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> rpm -qa |grep samba > /mnt/floppy/myoutput.txt
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>  umount /mnt/floppy
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>Remove floppy insert in windows box and copy that file where ever you
>want.
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>I don't recommend that method of capture though.  It would be much
>less labor intensive to access a mail account from your linux machine
>in mozilla and do this stuff in the compose window.
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