[Tfug] Mandrake 10 networking setup

[ewf]

      I have a Mandrake machine (8.0), and I sidetracked it in favor on 
one that runs Debian 3.0. I do
recall seeing a GUI window that (you must run as root), that allows you 
to set different security levels.
Linux users like to "look under the hood & tinker", but you can't do 
that with Mandrake. You must
use their system of GUI interfaces to set: security levels, network 
configuration, user accounts, etc.

      One other thing. If the OS gets into problems such that you need 
support from Mandrake you'll
have to pay for it. They have a subscription-based web page that 
purports to have the answer
to all your problems.

       Mandrake has processes that can take on a life of their own, for 
example. Doing a kill -9 [pid]
will only  temporarily remove a given process. They have a mechanism 
that ractivates that process
in a few seconds, making a monkey out of the average Linux user, (me).

                                                                        
                                                                        
          Cheers,
                                                                        
                                                                        
           Erich


Paul Scott wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Can anyone give me any general hints about configuring basic network 
> connections and maybe Samba with Mandrake 10.  I know the ifconfig and 
> route stuff but I am not familiar with whatever GUI or other such 
> higher level stuff there might be.  I will need to transfer any 
> information of this sort to users who might not be as comfortable with 
> the basic low level stuff.
>
> I didn't install it but it didn't seem to set up enough to connect 
> when installed.
>
> A quick Google did tell me that /etc/sysconfig/... will be somewhat 
> equivalent to Debian's /etc/network.
>
> There are two or three machines of various age x86 types I will need 
> to configure.  I haven't seen them in a while.  Any hints would be 
> appreciated.
>
> TIA,
>
> Paul Scott
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