Mandrake Linux help

BrianR • Apr 2, 2003 6:38 pm
I have Mandrake Linux running on an old box I got from Dagney. After installing, I have root access locally, but I cannot access the machine from my LAN. It wants a password.

Where do I find/change this feature? I don't see anything in the documentation about it.

Brian
dave • Apr 3, 2003 6:19 am
You'll need to telnet/ssh/rlogin in as a regular user and then use the following command to obtain a full root shell:

[FONT=courier new]su -[/FONT]
BrianR • Apr 5, 2003 10:29 am
Didn't work. My friend and I finally figured out the problem lay with Samba and a minor misconfiguration in there

I can now telnet into my new Linux machine.

Now what? I still know nothing about Linux...:(

Time to put away the toy and read the damn manual!

Brian
Cam • Apr 5, 2003 12:59 pm
I don't know how much you've looked into discussion groups about linux but when I first started out I learned a crap load from them. The one I'm sticking with I decided is Linux Questions .