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Hi Thanks for all your inputs.

I will head over to the office solutions store and check out the brother line

Thanks again

Hi all, I am going to get rid of my hp printers, Both refuse to work completely just because I am missing cyan ink, cannot scan, cannot print black&white, cannot refill and reuse the hp originals, because of the obtuse hp terms of service. Printers took firmware updates without my knowledge. Any...

Ok Thank you

Will reformat to ext4

Regards

Hi all, I finally bunch a handful of these 2TB USB HDs with a "USB3.0" cord I am on Debian12 defualt out of the box with all the regular updates on a laptop that has USB3 ports What formatting should I use on the USB drives to get the fastest transfer rates successfully? I am moving around...

Hey all,

I must be missing something here.....

I put another HD into the laptop and did a fresh install of Debian. It is doing the same thing on the fresh install. Cannot open the "Add a VPN connection"


Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

Heeter

Hi all,

If someone can give me guidance, that would be great.

Still cannot open up the create VPN interface.

Heeter

Hi all,

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated,

Still cannot open the VPN interface

Thanks

Heeter

Hi All,

I am trying to setup a VPN connection through the network Manager interface. I click on "+" to add and select "VPN", but nothing opens up after.

Is there something that I am missing?

This is on my Debian 7.2 32bit on my laptop.

Thanks

Heeter

Awesome,

thanks, that did it

Heeter

Hi All, I would like to get my raspberry Pi to start a program during bootup. It is my btsync program Currently I have to ssh into the PI after bootup and type in: "./btsync" to get it working. I am assuming that it is: sudo update-rc.d btsync enable Would this be correct? Thanks Heeter

Hi all, Has anyone heard of completely replacing the chromeOS out of a chromebook with debian? Not just using crouton or the like, but a complete, 100% debian install on a chromebook. I have 2 chromebooks, a CR48, and a first generation Samsung 5, I would really like to fully use the samsung as a fu...

dasein wrote:man usermod
man passwd

Thanks, dasein,

Looking forward to my new laptop with debian, but have to unload this one first..............


Heeter

Awesome, Guys,

Thanks a million, for all your help,,,,,

I tried all of the suggestions, all worked. Thanks Nadir, that was awesome.

Just learning my way around,



Heeter

Hi all, I have a non-GUI debian installed in a virtualbox environment on a windows 7 host. I need to transfer a file from the windows host to the debian's users home folder. I was thinking that I might move the file into my dropbox public folder and download it from there. What is the best way to tr...

Hi all,

I am giving my laptop to my kid, I would like to change the username and password before giving it to him. How do I do that, there is only 1 user on this laptop,

Thanks


Heeter

Thanks for that, The Explorer

I managed to get it figured out now,

Thanks again,

Heeter

Thanks for your response, dasein, I have three options during install. I am selecting: Desktop User Interface, Laptop, standard system utilities. I don't select anything else. Those are preselected for me when I reach that screen. How do I cherry pick the applications when I only have those to selec...

Hi all, I just did a fresh install of debian netinstall 32bit on my 10 year old laptop. Other than installing Google chrome and Libreoffice, I really don't need anymore of the other applications that come standard with netinstall. I would like to remove: evolution, transmission, ekiga, all games, GI...

Hi VBrummond, My setup is a 10 year old laptop running netinstall debian 6.0.4 using gnome. My hone network is a simple auto dhcp setup using a W54rtg linksys. Thanks for this, I am back up and running. On a side note, during the day, I regularly switch back and forth between wired/wireless by simpl...

Hi all,

I mistakenly did autoremove, now I lost my network connections. Both my wired and wireless connections (Laptop).

How can I restore my connections,

Thanks

Heeter