Re: Network Questions and comments

[Hilaire Fernandes <hilaire.fernandes@iname.com>]

Bill Tihen wrote:
> 
> I am nearly done prototyping my network.  But I have several questions I
> hope someone here can resolve.
I'm also thinking about it, we should share our ideas



> 1) Does any know quite abit about assinging permissions on NT Workstations?
>  I need a little help in this area.

What do you need to know ?



> 2) To see if I am doing an efficient job, I need to know much space in
> certian directories I am using.  Can anyone remind me how to find how find
> out how much space a directory and all its subdirectories are using?

Doug told you : du


> 3) I am having trouble guessing the Address and IRQ of several inherited
> network cards.  At least that's what I think it is because (the cards
> little lights are on until the OS loads).  A couple of years ago when I had
> to work with NT I first reconfigured all the cards in a Win95 workstation.
> Is there an easier way?  One idea was maybe there is an easy way to see
> what the Address and IRQ value are from Linux as it boots.  I know it
> displays that information, but scrolls by too fast.  Does linux record it's
> boot log to some file?

About the boot on linux, after loging type  dmesg|less this will give
you a part of the booting info you saw at screen. you can find there
what happens with you ethernet card.
But if you don't know the IRQ and adress, this will not help you! And
Linux will not help you.

So how to find the adress ?
I can tell you how I usally do with Pnp or not ethernet.
1. I look at the network card vendor and reference names
2. in the internet I look for the vendor software, I pick up the one for
dos. In this software I can generaly find a setup.exe who allow me to
look at/change the port, irq setting. If I have an old card, I may need
to change some switch on the card.
3. I used a dos floppy disk to use the previsious software.



 
> VNC is a wonderful thing!
Are considering some use in teacing situations


> However, I am still looking for a wordprocessor that works like ApplixWare
> from a security and setup perspective, but is free preferably looks like
> StarOffice, but doesn't have to use all the harddrive and cpu resources.
> It doesn't need to be a do everything program -- just the common things
> that students need.  Anybody know the status of AbiWriter or what ever it
> is called?  Anybody know the URL?

I've tried Maxwell, it's too unstable.
Wordperfect is quite nice, and not heavy.
I agree with you, StarOffice is really too big, even for free ;-)


 
> And of course there is still the math program issue.  Maybe I should try to
> fire up my beginning programmers to do this with me?  Although they aren't
> quite ready yet.

What kind of math software ?

Did you try TCL/TK with your student ?
I do with mines and it was quite intersting. We made a very simple
function plotter in Windows environment.


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Hilaire Fernandes
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