Bill Tetens <zuki269@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > I am ready to give up. I cannot copy to the floppy on the linux machine > with any sort of certainy and I cannot figure out what is wrong. I > tried to set up the e-mail but my e-mail is on netscape and I do not > have an Imap for it. Just not my day. I cannot get anything to work. Well in that case lets just start up again tomorrow. Or if you prefer, lets take it off line. You can write me privately if you like. But now please do describe your situation a bit more. I'm not understanding it. I thought you said something earlier about how the windows boxes or box could see the linux box in network neighborhood. If that is the case, can you access it thru network neighborhood? Further this statement sounds screwy sort of: > tried to set up the e-mail but my e-mail is on netscape and I do > not have an Imap for it. What on earth does that mean? You have a mail account on netscape.com? If so, could you not access it from the `Mozilla' browser on board your linux machine? Where does Imap fit in? Could you not start mozilla, go to yahoo.com and setup a free mail account, like many others do? Do you have X running on the linux machine? That is, do you have a graphical desktop to log in to? If so, there are many tools there to do this sort of stuff. You could for example access this very list at news.gmane.org and post to it from there. (using Mozilla or possibly Konqueror). Do all this right on line. You could copy/paste till the cows come home. In short, can you log into the linux machine and run stuff in graphical mode? If so, this doesn't have to be done with floppies and all that kind of mess. But even there that can work if you proceed methodically. First make sure /mnt/floppy exists. If not then as root: mkdir /mnt/floppy insert a dos formatted floppy and as root: mount /mnt/floppy rpm -qa |grep samba > /mnt/floppy/myoutput.txt umount /mnt/floppy Remove floppy insert in windows box and copy that file where ever you want. I don't recommend that method of capture though. It would be much less labor intensive to access a mail account from your linux machine in mozilla and do this stuff in the compose window.
