lisa

Mandrake has a built-in lisa configration tool.

I have three questions.

1. The configurattion tool asks for the ip address of the pc mandrake is
running on. This address changes according to dhcp assignment by the
router. What's a workaround?

2. The configuration tool has no built-in feature to make sure lisa runs
at boot-up. I'm stuck trying to achieve this. I have read all that's
available on mandrake's and lisa docs but get nowhere. How do you know
what's running anyways in linux?

3. Is there some more idiot friendly networking setup so my two mandrake
machines and one microsloth will all share files?

Much appreciated.

EP wrote:

> Mandrake has a built-in lisa configration tool.
>
> I have three questions.
>
> 1. The configurattion tool asks for the ip address of the pc mandrake is
> running on. This address changes according to dhcp assignment by the
> router. What's a workaround?

Haven't got a clue. Never shuts down my computers so the IP never
change. : )

>
> 2. The configuration tool has no built-in feature to make sure lisa runs
> at boot-up. I'm stuck trying to achieve this. I have read all that's
> available on mandrake's and lisa docs but get nowhere. How do you know
> what's running anyways in linux?

You should put a line in your /etc/rc.d/rc.local (don't know where or if you
have this in Mandrake since I never tried it) or in one of your startup
scripts that is for your local machine that starts it up something like :
if [ -x /opt/kde/bin/lisa ]; then
/opt/kde/bin/lisa -q
echo ' Lisa is running '
fi

>
> 3. Is there some more idiot friendly networking setup so my two mandrake
> machines and one microsloth will all share files?

Samba is the easiest to set up. Read the SAMBA-howto. I would guess that
Mandrake have this packages installed or as an option.

Micke

Micke < a écrit :
>
>
> You should put a line in your /etc/rc.d/rc.local (don't know where or if you
> have this in Mandrake since I never tried it) or in one of your startup
> scripts that is for your local machine that starts it up something like :
> if [ -x /opt/kde/bin/lisa ]; then
> /opt/kde/bin/lisa -q
> echo ' Lisa is running '
> fi

Hi,
Yes, I also tried this (found on LISa website). Still does not work with
my fresh Slackware 10 install. Gives me a TCP BIND fail.

On my Mandrake EDUPACK, I can't find the LISA executable, neither in
/opt/kde/bin/ nor in /usr/local/bin .

D'oh... Networking is hard for me poor newbie... Not that it is much
easier under win

> Samba is the easiest to set up. Read the SAMBA-howto. I would guess that
> Mandrake have this packages installed or as an option.

Samba work for me, but I need to have a "network explorer".

Thanks for the tips !

Damien

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