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PtokaX => Support => Topic started by: BoJlk on 14 February, 2005, 03:29:47

Title: Setting Ptokas on Mandrake 10.1 Linux
Post by: BoJlk on 14 February, 2005, 03:29:47
I'm an noob cunsering the Unix enviroment i need help to setup my hub on a linux...
the Hub is sitting on a windows server 2003 computer on my network [acting as a server : hosting the hub and sharing the internet]
PC Specs:
CPU: Celeron 400mhz
RAM: SDRAM 256mb [PC133]
HD: Western Digital [20gb]
ADSL: 768/96
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Post by: bastya_elvtars on 14 February, 2005, 10:29:16
either use wine or go for a linux-specific hubsoft.
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Post by: BoJlk on 14 February, 2005, 11:59:30
is there Ptokax for Linux?
i'm not sure there is, and i'll never drop ptokax  :D
so my only solution is using wine if i understand currectly wise is for runing windows based programs in linux enviroment?
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Post by: Meka][Meka on 14 February, 2005, 12:39:51
indeed it is, but its not brilliantly stable, ur better off running it on a win2k3 server ;)
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Post by: BoJlk on 14 February, 2005, 13:43:02
Nice to see ya Meka][Meka
then what are my choises  ?(
the System Specs. are not enought for the Server 2003
and i want to upgrade the stability part for my Hub, and the way to do it is going for Linux.
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Post by: imby on 14 February, 2005, 15:00:54
I know this will make me unpopular hehe, but xp seems pretty stable for a hub. 30 days uptime is no problem even on my crappy system.
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Post by: bastya_elvtars on 14 February, 2005, 15:32:35
2k advanced server is the key
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Post by: plop on 14 February, 2005, 17:51:11
beside wine there is win4lin now, which from what i have been reading is a lot better.

plop
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Post by: bastya_elvtars on 14 February, 2005, 18:44:12
consider using a better linux distro. mandrake is #5 in this  (http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?s=&threadid=272090) poll along with suse. there are slackware or debian which are much more stable. (i use slack 10.1)
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Post by: BoJlk on 14 February, 2005, 21:09:03
can you post me a link for downloading Slaware 10.1?
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Post by: bastya_elvtars on 14 February, 2005, 21:54:35
i disrecommend slack as it is not too easy to set up (much commandline), i give my vote for debian (thou i use slack). Altho if you wanna learn  linux, i recommend slack.
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Post by: BoJlk on 11 March, 2005, 11:28:15
is Win4Lin (http://www.win4lin.com/) is paid program or free? (as was suggested bu plop)
and where can i get it?
i'll stick with MandrakeLinux distribution (alltho i've got the Slack too)
so how do i run the PtokaX on Linux ?
what program should i use to imulate the Windows enviroment?
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Post by: bolamix on 18 April, 2005, 13:32:40
Heyall,
bumpin' up an old post here... I recently switched over to linux, currently using Ubuntu (http://www.ubuntulinux.org), a debian distro. I'm trying to run PtokaX through wine, and failing. The ptokax window shows up but I can't do anything with it, and I have to force-quit the prog.
Win4Lin is $29.95, so that won't do... if anyone has another free solution, I'm more than willing to test it ;) The other linux hubs, namely OpenDCHub and VerliHub, are too "command-line-oriented" for my taste & n00b knowledge :P
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Post by: bastya_elvtars on 18 April, 2005, 14:02:11
Do you have a windows install? WINE will work properly if you use that one. I tried Total Commander and Windows Media layer under WINE/Knoppix, and all worked, just there were some charset f*ckups.
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Post by: bolamix on 18 April, 2005, 14:13:01
QuoteOriginally posted by bastya_elvtars
Do you have a windows install? WINE will work properly if you use that one. I tried Total Commander and Windows Media layer under WINE/Knoppix, and all worked, just there were some charset f*ckups.
What so you mean, "a windows install"? I've got win2k pro installed on the same box, same HD, different partition, running fine. But still PtokaX will not run under wine :( On a side note I just looked up VMWare but ouch! they're even more expensive than Win4Lin 8o
New idea just now: I'm running KDE as a desktop environment and sometimes it's a bit buggy, I'll try switching back to gnome (the default environment) and running ptokax again. I'll post back ;)
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Post by: bastya_elvtars on 18 April, 2005, 14:26:24
There is some config wizard for WINE (I am not into linux too much), try to rerun that.
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Post by: plop on 18 April, 2005, 17:02:13
wine needs all the dll's and more system files which are also needed on windows.
the easiest trick is 2 use a windows install as a base so wine can use all the system files from that.
on ptokax the database has 2 be disabled, thats pure windows based.

all linux/bsd flava's can be looked up here (http://distrowatch.com/).

plop
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Post by: bolamix on 18 April, 2005, 22:22:45
well I re-installed wine, redid all the config, and tried running ptokax out of gnome. I went a bit further than with KDE, i.e. I could edit the hub's settings, but I get a "Windows socket error (10013) on API 'bind'" when trying to start it. Ah well, I'll try again later, maybe if I get another ditro ;)
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Post by: plop on 19 April, 2005, 00:37:04
QuoteOriginally posted by bolamix
well I re-installed wine, redid all the config, and tried running ptokax out of gnome. I went a bit further than with KDE, i.e. I could edit the hub's settings, but I get a "Windows socket error (10013) on API 'bind'" when trying to start it. Ah well, I'll try again later, maybe if I get another ditro ;)
missing dll?

plop
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Post by: bolamix on 19 April, 2005, 01:43:18
QuoteOriginally posted by plop
missing dll?
Yeah, that's probably the reason... but there are so many of these bleedin' dlls, i'll look into it another day, when I feel less overwhelmed ;) Thx for your support!
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Post by: Typhoon on 19 April, 2005, 17:36:19
vmware is also an option, that lets you install windows in linux , makes windows more stable ;) ... and then ptokax runs fine ,, i had it running in xp under Fedora with no probs..
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Post by: bolamix on 19 April, 2005, 17:59:54
Thx for your input Typhoon ;)
VMWare looks nice, but it also looks expensive, so... I'll put it on the backburner until I'm rich and famous, right? Right. :D