Anna Schneider back again. See I try to work on my system, hit problems almost immediately and then don't do anything for two months. Such is my relationship with computers. Now, let's see if I can make any sense. First, I did get a couple of tutorial, I think they are tutorial, Red Hat CD's with my system, but I don't know how to access them. I have to do something with mount don't I, but I do I know what I'm mounting, and how do I know which device is designated as what, and once I get the CD writer/reader mounted, how do I read the information it has? second, I'm still having modem problems. I can dial in with ppp okay, but then I can't seem do telnet or ssh, and I don't know where their config files are, or their how-to files. I means I've skimmed the info pages on them but it's all jibberish to me. When I try ssh, I get something about host name resolution failure, and telnet just can't find the host. Now, from my non-ppp account on Drizzle, I often telnet to the catalog ofr the Washington Talking Book and Braille Library, and that works fine, but when I even tried doing that on my Linux machine, I couldn't. It couldn't find it or something, but I'm wondering if it's actually a problem on my end. This doesn't make any sense does it. I can't do anything. Every time I try I go backwards. I don't understand the the info pages because they are so terminology ladend. I can't find help on the things I need because I don't know where to look. Oh, and I can only access my moem as root, not as anther user and I can find where to change that because I don't know what to look for. Can anyone sort through this and give me pointers. This is starting to throw my life into chaos. Thanks much. Anna
