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+ | ==== Using Samba without installing CUPS ==== | ||
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+ | In Slackware, CUPS is available as the default printing solution, while the old lprNG remains in the "''/ | ||
+ | smbd[....]: Unable to connect to CUPS server localhost - Connection refused | ||
+ | </ | ||
+ | The solution (if you don't need a printing facility in Samba) is to disable printing completely. This is what you need to add to the **'' | ||
+ | load printers = no | ||
+ | printing = bsd | ||
+ | printcap name = /dev/null | ||
+ | </ | ||
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+ | ==== Where is mkfs.vfat? ==== | ||
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+ | FAT32 (also known as vfat) partitions are commonly used on USB sticks, and they are also quite useful when you have a dual-boot system with Windows on a NTFS partition on the "other side", and want a shared partition where both OS-es can write files.\\ | ||
+ | Now, where did that "'' | ||
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+ | The '' | ||
+ | mkfs.msdos -F32 / | ||
+ | </ | ||
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+ | ==== The bootup messages scroll off my screen too fast ==== | ||
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+ | When your Linux kernel boots, it spits out all kinds of informative messages. When the Slackware init scripts start, you'll get even more messages that scroll across your screen. The kernel logs its messages in a ring buffer that you can display (after login) with the command < | ||
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+ | Still, not all of the standard output and standard error from the init scripts is logged to disk. Only when the syslogger is started, will the scripts start logging to ''/ | ||
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+ | One trick can save the day: when your computer finsishes booting up and displays the login prompt, you can scroll back by pressing the key combination < | ||
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+ | ==== "A security policy in place prevents this sender ..." error ==== | ||
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+ | With Slackware 12.0 and onwards, when you are running X Window, and are greeted by the following message when you insert a CD, DVD, or USB stick into the computer: <note warning> | ||
+ | A security policy in place prevents this sender from sending this message to this recipient, see message bus configuration file (rejected message had interface " | ||
+ | </ | ||
+ | The command to add your account (for example account called //" | ||
+ | gpasswd -a alien plugdev</ | ||
+ | If you start your computer in runlevel 3 (non-graphical boot) and run ''" | ||
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+ | This HAL related issue is actually explained in the CHANGES_AND_HINTS.TXT file (here is a link to the Slackware 12.1 version of [[http:// |