trouble trouble trouble

[bunty82]

well guys i dont know where to start of
cos i am switching forum to forum to get responces to my post
but no replies
actuall i am new to slackware
and i dont know how to run DVD or CD throught there respective roms
cos whenever i check a cd or a dvd
it shows some kind of security message
also
those drives are unmount
secondly
how to run network on slackware
sound problem as no sound
also samba is not installed in slackware 12
firstly please help me out in these

[lumak]

First off. Never ask general questions that have 100 different ways to answer them.

Second. Your answer may not be for a specific distribution

Third. Make a valid attempt to search for the answer outside of forums.

Fourth. Try an easier distribution to learn on like ubuntu. Slackware is a great distrubution to force you to learn about things but not to have people tell you what to do.

well guys i dont know where to start of
cos i am switching forum to forum to get responces to my post
but no replies
actuall i am new to slackware
and i dont know how to run DVD or CD throught there respective
cos whenever i check a cd or a dvd
it shows some kind of security message

when posting messages ALWAYS provide a snipit of the error message. If it is too large to post, provide a link to the file.

Try this:
1. attempt to mount as root user

mount -t iso9660 /dev/dvd /media/dvd

if you can, then you need to check your /etc/fstab and make sure that is properly set up. There is plenty of help for that for all distributions elsewhere on the web.

how to run network on slackware
sound problem as no sound

Always provide hardware information. People need to know if it's non standard hardware that may not be supported.

1. for your net work I have no clue, I'm not an expert and I wouldn't know where to begin without more information.
2. No sound? it starts as muted in slackware.
try alsamixer at the console. There is a way to save your settings but I do not know off the top of my head.

alsamixer

also samba is not installed in slackware 12
firstly please help me out in these

Yes it is. You have to set it up correctly. XFCE might come with some set up tools. However, setting up samba is largly a pain in the butt. You might beable to access your windows box by the IP address by typing the following into the XFCE file browser

smb://ip.of.the.machine/

[bunty82]

ya mate

i better watch all those things next time
thanks for the help
hope it works for me

[bunty82]

hi Lumak
thanks for your support
right now
i successfully
turned my sound on through alsaconf
but still
i am unable to make user
heard that if you will be in root ID
you wont be able to access the hard drives on which linus loaded
also the DVd
so
how to make users in slackware
also
i dont know how to make lan enable

[mlangdn]

For the security problem, open the file /etc/group as root in a text editor. Add your username to this line:

plugdev: x :83:bunty82 (or whatever your username is.)

That will solve the dvd and cd problem. A box will come up in a few moments asking you what to do. Just select open in a new window.

There is no space between the colons and that x. The forum made it into an ugly face, so I put the spaces in there.

[lumak]

hi Lumak
i am unable to make user
heard that if you will be in root ID
you wont be able to access the hard drives on which linus loaded
also the DVd
so
how to make users in slackware
also

I installed 12 on another partition but I haven't looked at it yet... I believe in most slackware distributions there is a nice user set up script that takes you through step by step. If not just look up the man pages for useradd

adduser - slackware script (step by step)
useradd - real linux command
usermod - add users to other groups (plugdev)
man <command> - see more information about a command than '-h' can provide

... I really hope you arn't logged into root and on the internet. That could potentialy be very bad.

Me personally I don't like to read manuals on the computer screen. Look for the book "Linux in a nutshell - a desktop quick reference" it is basically all the information avaliable on the man pages. I found mine for $15 at Fry's on sale. I wouldn't pay full price for it, but to me $15 is worth not having to read it off my computer screen. Also slackware comes with an abundance of FAQs. You might find some answers in /usr/doc/Linux-FAQs and /usr/doc/Linux-HOWTOs.

[Dapper Dan]

If you installed kde, you can use kuser from your menu. Or from the command line:

kdesu kuser

Choose /bin/bash as shell and "uncheck" "account disabled." Save, log out to kdm and input your regular user's name and password.