[eipeks]

Well, AS I said in a previous post I'm new to Linux and the questions will begin!!

My first question....Mandrake supposedly comes with Apache and an FTP and SLQ....where do I load them from?

I cant find it in any of the menus, though It is supposedly installed by default. I tried downloading it again, but I have no idea how to even run anything!! lol

[horndude]

you wont see them in a menu

httpd starts apache

ftp may be running already, check it and see, most systems have inetd start ftp service

this gets real involved very quickly, and w/o any unix or linux experience Im not even sure where to even start explaining this to you, my recommendation, learn more about linux and basic command line skills first

[philg]

You can configure apache through mandriva's control centre, I believe

You should also use Mandriva's equivalent to the add/remove programs to install apache, which may under the name httpd

I think you should spend some time with google and researching. I'm not familiar with Mandrake/Mandrive - 9.1 put me off for life so I don't know how you would use the gui config tools. I'm a slackware man you see and compile apache locally at my server then edit the config files to setup it up