inherit2, The basic reason is MAC addresses are not routable nor are they translatable. They are fixed (you get only one ...well, unless you're an Apple iPhone spoofing everybody). IP addresses are necessary at the conceptual level of a network if you want to route data onto/off from private network...

reply to 14 jul 17 post.. Mike Walsh, When you posted on 14 July 2017, it appears maybe you haven't realized, you don't need a Sync folder, per se. You can have many separate and distinct sync folders or "sync pools" as I like to call them (because 2 or 3 or 5 or 50 computers can be in eac...

bigpup, I figured "newer puppy" was separate than requiring "newer hardware". If updated software only runs on updated hardware, that sort of destroys one of the key selling points of Pupply Linux. Turns out Xenial 7.5 also fails to find the wireless network card, and the etherne...

I have a need to execute the WinXP_en_pro_bf.exe Windows exectable under Puppy 5.7.1, using Wine v1.4. This program creates six 1.44 MB floppies, which can then be used to boot up and install Windows XP from a CD DRIVE that cannot be booted from. So.. I created floppies using fdformat and mkfs. I us...

Any ideas why Puppy can't read it's .sfs file off the CDROM upon initial boot? My HD died on an older (2002) Dell X200 laptop with CDROM/floppy media base or docking station. I'm having trouble getting an OS back on the new HD because for some reason, the CDROM loads a few sectors and the computer h...

CUPS 1.4.8 from Puppy 5.7.1 finds my parallel port Brother printer when I press the "Add Printer" button. Successfully shared the printer to my WinXP and Win10 computers, too by clicking the "share" option. CUPS 2.1.3 from Puppy 7.5 does not. In fact, it offers a generic serial p...

I have a Puppy Precise 5.7.1 boot CDROM. All works well when it find the .3fs file on the hard drive. I used this running installation to create a bootable USB. It boots up fine on the same computer, but cannot find the .3fs file. Why does the USB boot-up version not see the .3fs file? When the USB ...

My bank just upgraded their web page and forces a browser capable of TLS 1.1 or higher. The SeaMonkey version that comes with Puppy Precise 5.7.1 only goes to TLS 1.0. Any way to upgrade SeaMonkey? The normal package distro manager doesn't offer a newer version of SeaMonkey. Or, more generally, does...

Looks like these are the files you can delete or rename if you don't want any barking [/usr] find . -name *bark* ./share/audio/2barks.au ./share/audio/2barks.wav ./share/audio/bark.au ./share/sounds/2barks.au ./share/sounds/bark.au [/usr] I found, actually, that the sounds in "sounds" don...

Looks like these are the files you can delete or rename if you don't want any barking Is anybody aware of how to set configuration to stop the trash bin barking? I understand that deleting the sound files can chop off the sound, but I was thinking of a more elegant solution, like an option to turn ...

Is there a configuration option to turn off the audio bark that happens whenever I delete a file to the trash icon on the desktop?

Using Puppy is about trust. It does what it says it does, no more no less, and often explains what is happening. CUPS is betraying me... I ran CUPS Printer Wizard in 5.2.5 for the first time. Added a printer (didn't know there were already two auto-installed). When I found out there were more than o...

If you are having trouble all you gotta do is ask and me or someone else can help you, I have already made a pet including the perl modules into rsnapshot and using your config file. Thank you. The config file syntax I put on the internet yesterday is only the lines I *changed* in the file. It woul...

Yes that package will/should work. Sorry but I don't use rsnapshot I run full drive backups using PING, I only just created that pet when you asked for it and haven't ever used it before aside from testing to make sure it worked. DPUP5520, I'll read the docs and see if I can generate a ready-to-pla...

The more people who use Puppy, the larger and more vibrant our community will be. The better for all of us. (and the better for all those who will benefit from their use of Puppy). What can each of us do to promote Puppy? Here are a few ideas... add your own to this thread. Then go out and DO it! *...

[Update 5/23/2011. Got Rsnapshot running, and appropriate pet file is available. See http://wiki.increa.com/tiki-index.php?page=Rsnapshot+on+Puppy+Linux ] Looking for Rsnapshot for Puppy. I want to do backups simliar to Rsnapshot under Mandriva Linux, which is the same as the Mac OSX TimeMachine pro...

One last thought in this thread for this morning: It's often not one specific thing (get through my firewall) that creates a threat. Here's an example where individual non-threat pieces built into enough of a threat that I secured my system. I enabled the Haiwatha web server. Even opened up to respo...

miriam wrote:One point I'd like to learn more about is configuring the firewall to deny all programs, except certain ones I trust, access to the net.

Non-Puppy comment: I use free "Zone Alarm" to do this in Windows.

Actually pings are necessary for the Internet to work properly. Turn them off and they'll be things you can't do on the web. Turn them on and you can be found by hacker/crackers. Kind of like life, isn't it?! If I breath, live, eat, and sleep, that makes me vulnerable to the bad guys. Being vulnera...

Alot of people still say that you must have a firewall in Puppy for protection, but I would have thought it reasonable that just one example of a valid threat could be documented and posted here. This leads me to believe that the threat is non existent. Do you use your words in context of the full ...