Remote adminstration
by cmoman
Hello all,
Is there a tool in ubuntu that a user can start that reports the real world ip
address and configures a home router to open a port to allow remote
administration?
I have a friend or two for whom it would nice to get them to start a program,
report to me the details via MSN or Skype or telephone etc and allow me to
log in and fix or make a configuration change to their machine. I know how
to set things up using ssh etc but that relies on some initial configuration
at the their end. KDE has a nice VNC invite function but it won't do the
router config part.
It appears the likes of KTorrent and Azuereus have the ability to do some to
the router via UPnP to open ports up on the router dynamically so I am
guessing all this is possible.
Cheers
9 years, 8 months
crossover weirdness in suse ?
by Bruce Kingsbury
Trying to help Ditar here with installing crossover, it seems to be trying
to use a font that opensuse doesn't have installed? screenshot attached
Any suggestions?
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11 years, 7 months
Help wanted - music video clip or animation
by Liz Quilty
I made a silly parody song about geeks/computers/etc . Im so-so at
singing, slightly worse at editing that with music. I made a parody song
however which some people have said is funny and i should have some sort
of 'video clip' to go with it on youtube.
I dont suppose anyone here is into video editing at all and are bored
enough to make something cool up?
Liz Q
11 years, 7 months
Re: [wlug] WLUG Fixit Meeting is today!
by jaytee＠clear.net.nz
This Question remained unanswered at our meeting. Google
gave this result however I do not have that line in my
"about:config" so I am unsure if it works or not:
This does not clear my browsing history in Firefox 3.0???
Posted by: Jon at August 31, 2008 6:19 AM
Its true. Clearing private data in Firefox 3 won't clear the
history in the URL bar. To do this, do the following:
If you don't want RichResults
keep track of where you went, in Firefox you need to enter
about:config
and then scroll down to:
browser.urlbar.maxRichResults
and change the default. The default setting is 12 and if you
want nothing, you enter 0.
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> A reminder, the WLUG Fixit Meeting is today.
>
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------
> ------------ Saturday November 1st, 10:00 am to 4:00 pm
>
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> PÅ«tahi
> (http://zoomin.co.nz/nz/hamilton/enderley/-te+whanau+ptahi
> /?place/full_map), the community church at the end of
> Oxford Street.
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>
> We'll have the usual tables, power, various ISO's,
> Internet, coffee and light lunch, etc.
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11 years, 7 months
dead horse flogging
by Glenn Stuart Morrissey
I tried to get my Asus laptop (Vista) to talk to my Acer (Linux Ubuntu
8.04) but no joy. I can ping 192.168.0.1, which is the Asus's network
address, but cant see a network connection in the places>network folder.
I've tried both DHCP and Roaming.
I had a look on the back of my Acer, and it hasnt got a serial port, nor
a parallel port.
My arm is getting sore from all this dead horse flogging.
Glenn.
11 years, 7 months
dead horse
by Glenn Stuart Morrissey
Hey all
Thanks for all the good advise. You are all right, I am flogging a dead
horse trying to get this internal PCI Modem working in my machine with
64Bit architecture.
Could i instead of trying to get Ubuntu to talk with my pci modem, try
and establish an internet connection through my Windows Vista Laptop
via. my ethernet card and a 100Mb switch?
The switch shows there is a connection between the two machines, as yet
I have not configured a network as I don't know how.
By and by, does anyone want my PCI modem? It works fine with Vista, and
I'll give it away, heck, Ill even post it to you for free just to get
rid of the thing....
Glenn.
11 years, 7 months
Re: [wlug] wlug Digest, Vol 208, Issue 15
by Ronnie Collinson
>I don't think linux has the advantage when It comes to complete novices
>like me. I think Windows, with all its faults, still is easier to set up
>and run out of the box than Linux. I think it has a way to go before it
>is serious competition with windows for anyone other than advanced
>computer users. The learning curve is very steep. Its such a shame
>because Linux seems so attractive.
>Glenn.
I thin you will find that once you start using linux, that you will
pick up the basics quicker then you think, but unfortunately without
net access its a major pain, unfortunately more and more pcs are
coming without serial ports any more (I bought a USB > Serial adapter
of trademe the other day for $10 inc postage). Fortunately ethernet is
plug and play, and wireless is getting pretty good. I doubt "win-modem
support will ever get better as fewer and fewer people are using it.
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> 1. Re: slamr architecture error (GJB)
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> 3. Re: slamr architecture error (Roger Searle)
> 4. Re: slamr architecture error (Daniel Lawson)
> 5. Re: slamr architecture error (Bruce Kingsbury)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 02:46:14 -0700
> From: "GJB" <balle(a)auspira.com>
> Subject: Re: [wlug] slamr architecture error
> To: "Waikato Linux Users Group" <wlug(a)list.waikato.ac.nz>
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>
> I think slamr is a dodgy package ... I've gotten the same errors on
> Tosh. A-106 laptop running Xubuntu. It's got its knickers in a twist
> trying to work with some level stuff Windows uses for the software
> modem.
>
> Thank the lord I don't need to use my modem very much anymore, I can't
> believe such a simple device evades a software fix ... but hey, you get
> what you pay for!
>
>> -------- Original Message --------
>> Subject: [wlug] slamr architecture error
>> From: Glenn Stuart Morrissey <gmorrissey(a)kol.co.nz>
>> Date: Wed, October 29, 2008 10:10 pm
>> To: Waikato Linux Users Group <wlug(a)list.waikato.ac.nz>
>>
>>
>> After downloading and unzipping slamr 2.6.24-19, I ran setup and copied
>> down the output of the setup.sh.
>>
>>
>> glenn@glenn1:~/Desktop$ cd slamr-2.6.24-19-generic
>> glenn@glenn1:~/Desktop/slamr-2.6.24-19-generic$ sudo ./setup
>> installing drivers for kernel version 2.6.24-19-generic
>> driver=slamr
>>
>> Installing the Debian packages supporting autoloading
>> *dpkg: error processing
>> sl-modem-daemon_2.9.10+2.9.9d+e-pre2-5ubuntu4_i386.deb (--install):
>> package architecture (i386) does not match system (amd64)*
>> Errors were encountered while processing:
>> sl-modem-daemon_2.9.10+2.9.9d+e-pre2-5ubuntu4_i386.deb
>>
>> Copying over newer files
>> Making folder /lib/modules/2.6.24-19-generic/extra
>> Copying drivers to /lib/modules/2.6.24-19-generic/extra
>> Checking driver install
>> slamr.ko slusb.ko ungrab-winmodem.ko
>> Copying newer slmodemd to /usr/sbin/
>> Checking slmodemd version. Should be 2.9.11
>> ./setup: 51: slmodemd: not found
>> Finished installs.
>> Informing the System
>>
>> Starting function tests, loading drivers:
>> FATAL: Error inserting ungrab_winmodem
>> (/lib/modules/2.6.24-19-generic/extra/ungrab-winmodem.ko): Invalid
>> module format
>> FATAL: Error inserting slamr
>> (/lib/modules/2.6.24-19-generic/extra/slamr.ko): Invalid module format
>> Running diagnostic:
>>
>>
>> ports should be created by:
>> slmodemd -c USA /dev/slamr0
>> ./setup: 70: /usr/sbin/slmodemd: not found
>> Checking for success
>> Port creation with slmodemd failed.
>> Read the Slamr.txt record, other *.txt files and the sample wvdial.conf .
>>
>> glenn@glenn1:~/Desktop/slamr-2.6.24-19-generic$
>>
>> Looks like im going to have to wait for someone with a AMD64 system to
>> compile slamr, so it can run on my hardware. I don't think changing the
>> modem will achieve anything since the modem driver itself is written for
>> 32 bit systems.
>>
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> Message: 2
> Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 23:00:44 +1300
> From: Glenn Stuart Morrissey <gmorrissey(a)kol.co.nz>
> Subject: Re: [wlug] slamr architecture error
> To: Waikato Linux Users Group <wlug(a)list.waikato.ac.nz>
> Message-ID: <4908344C.1060102(a)kol.co.nz>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
>
> I don't think linux has the advantage when It comes to complete novices
> like me. I think Windows, with all its faults, still is easier to set up
> and run out of the box than Linux. I think it has a way to go before it
> is serious competition with windows for anyone other than advanced
> computer users. The learning curve is very steep. Its such a shame
> because Linux seems so attractive.
>
> Glenn.
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 3
> Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 06:11:34 +1300
> From: Roger Searle <woja(a)paradise.net.nz>
> Subject: Re: [wlug] slamr architecture error
> To: Waikato Linux Users Group <wlug(a)list.waikato.ac.nz>
> Message-ID: <49089946.6000006(a)paradise.net.nz>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
>
> Glenn I think you're right to a certain extent and I have been where you
> are. It is a steep learning curve but you don't need to move up it
> particularly quickly. Part of the difficulty you have is that you
> need/want to get a modem going as this can prove to be difficult - or
> impossible - even for the gurus depending on the specific hardware.
> Being on DSL or cable certainly makes things simpler, it will probably
> "just work". I spent some years continually frustrated by one thing or
> another, feeling incredibly stupid at times since so many little things
> would baffle me, and I have a background of some years successfully
> doing nearly any windows-based setup and networking I desired. However
> when I look back at my early windows days, there was pain there too!
>
> I hung in there despite the setbacks, asked questions on linux lists,
> googled, and didn't give up. Distros improved but so did my
> understanding of linux administration. My path has taken me through
> various distros as I've learnt, and my experience these days is that
> nearly everything works out of the box (I'm generally talking kubuntu).
> However there will be something that does/will not and I live with that
> and look to the next release. Where something different will cause me
> grief. But I hang in there, I'm looking forward to Intrepid Ibex's
> release tomorrow or the next day and will give it a spin, perhaps this
> will be the one where everything "just works" . . .
>
> Regards
> Roger
>
>
> Glenn Stuart Morrissey wrote:
>> I don't think linux has the advantage when It comes to complete novices
>> like me. I think Windows, with all its faults, still is easier to set up
>> and run out of the box than Linux. I think it has a way to go before it
>> is serious competition with windows for anyone other than advanced
>> computer users. The learning curve is very steep. Its such a shame
>> because Linux seems so attractive.
>>
>> Glenn.
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> Message: 4
> Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 07:13:41 +1300
> From: Daniel Lawson <daniel(a)meta.net.nz>
> Subject: Re: [wlug] slamr architecture error
> To: Waikato Linux Users Group <wlug(a)list.waikato.ac.nz>
> Message-ID: <4908A7D5.9050700(a)meta.net.nz>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
>
>
>> I don't think linux has the advantage when It comes to complete novices
>> like me. I think Windows, with all its faults, still is easier to set up
>> and run out of the box than Linux. I think it has a way to go before it
>> is serious competition with windows for anyone other than advanced
>> computer users. The learning curve is very steep. Its such a shame
>> because Linux seems so attractive.
>
> There's a large element of luck in it too, if you aren't already
> familiar with linux. By that I mean that if you aren't planning on
> buying hardware that is specifically compatible with linux, it's all
> down to luck as to how well things will work or not :P
>
> Your problem in particular is made harder for me (and most others with
> plenty of experience) to diagnose because, for the most part, we stopped
> using dialup a long time ago. Linux support for the so-called winmodems
> is far better than it used to be (they never used to work, and now, in
> general, they do).
>
> I can probably dig up a *real* external serial modem for you to borrow
> (or buy, if you like). No drivers needed. I see you're from New
> Plymouth, so suggesting you come to the Saturday workshop probably
> doesn't help a lot.
>
> Just a question though - you're managing to download files (and send
> email)somehow, what computer and connection are you using for that?
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 5
> Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 07:54:04 +1300
> From: "Bruce Kingsbury" <zcat(a)zcat.geek.nz>
> Subject: Re: [wlug] slamr architecture error
> To: "Waikato Linux Users Group" <wlug(a)list.waikato.ac.nz>
> Message-ID:
> <54e2f3c80810291154i1d3be6c2t6f88515843bcaa21(a)mail.gmail.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
>
> 2008/10/29 Glenn Stuart Morrissey <gmorrissey(a)kol.co.nz>
>
>> I don't think linux has the advantage when It comes to complete novices
>> like me. I think Windows, with all its faults, still is easier to set up
>> and run out of the box than Linux. I think it has a way to go before it
>> is serious competition with windows for anyone other than advanced
>> computer users. The learning curve is very steep. Its such a shame
>> because Linux seems so attractive.
>>
>
> Windows has the advantage of being a monopoly, manufacturers have to write
> Windows drivers or nobody will buy their hardware. Linux is starting to get
> much better support in this area and you'll find where manufacturers have
> fully embraced the 'open source' way of doing things, getting the hardware
> to work requires nothing more than plugging it in. But unfortunately some
> hardware still has little or no support in Linux.
>
> Two suggestions;
>
> External serial modems are cheap, about $15-$20 on Trademe. And people
> keep giving me free ones which I give away so I can avoid solving problems
> like this. Let me know if you'd like one. Serial modems 'just work' in any
> mainstream Linux distro.
>
> If you're going to be compiling drivers or trying to run windows drivers
> in some form of emulation wrapper, you'll find things are much more likely
> to work in 32-bit linux. Getting winmodems to work is always difficult,
> getting driver wrapper-glue and 32-bit binary blobs to build in 64-bit Linux
> is much more difficult.
>
11 years, 7 months
Re: [wlug] slamr architecture error
by GJB
I think slamr is a dodgy package ... I've gotten the same errors on
Tosh. A-106 laptop running Xubuntu. It's got its knickers in a twist
trying to work with some level stuff Windows uses for the software
modem.
Thank the lord I don't need to use my modem very much anymore, I can't
believe such a simple device evades a software fix ... but hey, you get
what you pay for!
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: [wlug] slamr architecture error
> From: Glenn Stuart Morrissey <gmorrissey(a)kol.co.nz>
> Date: Wed, October 29, 2008 10:10 pm
> To: Waikato Linux Users Group <wlug(a)list.waikato.ac.nz>
>
>
> After downloading and unzipping slamr 2.6.24-19, I ran setup and copied
> down the output of the setup.sh.
>
>
> glenn@glenn1:~/Desktop$ cd slamr-2.6.24-19-generic
> glenn@glenn1:~/Desktop/slamr-2.6.24-19-generic$ sudo ./setup
> installing drivers for kernel version 2.6.24-19-generic
> driver=slamr
>
> Installing the Debian packages supporting autoloading
> *dpkg: error processing
> sl-modem-daemon_2.9.10+2.9.9d+e-pre2-5ubuntu4_i386.deb (--install):
> package architecture (i386) does not match system (amd64)*
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> sl-modem-daemon_2.9.10+2.9.9d+e-pre2-5ubuntu4_i386.deb
>
> Copying over newer files
> Making folder /lib/modules/2.6.24-19-generic/extra
> Copying drivers to /lib/modules/2.6.24-19-generic/extra
> Checking driver install
> slamr.ko slusb.ko ungrab-winmodem.ko
> Copying newer slmodemd to /usr/sbin/
> Checking slmodemd version. Should be 2.9.11
> ./setup: 51: slmodemd: not found
> Finished installs.
> Informing the System
>
> Starting function tests, loading drivers:
> FATAL: Error inserting ungrab_winmodem
> (/lib/modules/2.6.24-19-generic/extra/ungrab-winmodem.ko): Invalid
> module format
> FATAL: Error inserting slamr
> (/lib/modules/2.6.24-19-generic/extra/slamr.ko): Invalid module format
> Running diagnostic:
>
>
> ports should be created by:
> slmodemd -c USA /dev/slamr0
> ./setup: 70: /usr/sbin/slmodemd: not found
> Checking for success
> Port creation with slmodemd failed.
> Read the Slamr.txt record, other *.txt files and the sample wvdial.conf .
>
> glenn@glenn1:~/Desktop/slamr-2.6.24-19-generic$
>
> Looks like im going to have to wait for someone with a AMD64 system to
> compile slamr, so it can run on my hardware. I don't think changing the
> modem will achieve anything since the modem driver itself is written for
> 32 bit systems.
>
> Glenn.<hr>_______________________________________________
> wlug mailing list | wlug(a)list.waikato.ac.nz
> Unsubscribe: http://list.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/wlug
11 years, 7 months
slamr architecture error
by Glenn Stuart Morrissey
After downloading and unzipping slamr 2.6.24-19, I ran setup and copied
down the output of the setup.sh.
glenn@glenn1:~/Desktop$ cd slamr-2.6.24-19-generic
glenn@glenn1:~/Desktop/slamr-2.6.24-19-generic$ sudo ./setup
installing drivers for kernel version 2.6.24-19-generic
driver=slamr
Installing the Debian packages supporting autoloading
*dpkg: error processing
sl-modem-daemon_2.9.10+2.9.9d+e-pre2-5ubuntu4_i386.deb (--install):
package architecture (i386) does not match system (amd64)*
Errors were encountered while processing:
sl-modem-daemon_2.9.10+2.9.9d+e-pre2-5ubuntu4_i386.deb
Copying over newer files
Making folder /lib/modules/2.6.24-19-generic/extra
Copying drivers to /lib/modules/2.6.24-19-generic/extra
Checking driver install
slamr.ko slusb.ko ungrab-winmodem.ko
Copying newer slmodemd to /usr/sbin/
Checking slmodemd version. Should be 2.9.11
./setup: 51: slmodemd: not found
Finished installs.
Informing the System
Starting function tests, loading drivers:
FATAL: Error inserting ungrab_winmodem
(/lib/modules/2.6.24-19-generic/extra/ungrab-winmodem.ko): Invalid
module format
FATAL: Error inserting slamr
(/lib/modules/2.6.24-19-generic/extra/slamr.ko): Invalid module format
Running diagnostic:
ports should be created by:
slmodemd -c USA /dev/slamr0
./setup: 70: /usr/sbin/slmodemd: not found
Checking for success
Port creation with slmodemd failed.
Read the Slamr.txt record, other *.txt files and the sample wvdial.conf .
glenn@glenn1:~/Desktop/slamr-2.6.24-19-generic$
Looks like im going to have to wait for someone with a AMD64 system to
compile slamr, so it can run on my hardware. I don't think changing the
modem will achieve anything since the modem driver itself is written for
32 bit systems.
Glenn.
11 years, 7 months
