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| Thread ID: 43145 | 2004-03-05 00:27:00 | Xandros OS | Terry Porritt (14) | Press F1 |
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| 220176 | 2004-03-07 04:35:00 | Hi Terry, Do you know what version of samba ships with the version of Xandros that have. I have starting using samba 3 (which I had to compile) and I find it works much better than the samba 2.2 I had previously. With one of my Win95 machines it would come up that the network was unavailable quite often. Samba 3 has proven to be much better. I played with Xandros 1 for while. Nice distro, but I only had one cd and couldn't work out how to load gcc. Ended up going back to mandrake. |
Dolby Digital (160) | ||
| 220177 | 2004-03-07 04:50:00 | I searched for drivers for my Artec USB scanner for linux... nothing found. Mandrake has a Scanner configuration in the Control Panel but do you think it could find my usb scanner... Windows 1 Linux 0 | Dolby Digital (160) | ||
| 220178 | 2004-03-07 06:24:00 | Yes Dolby, Xandros has Samba 3. One the nice things about Xandros is you dont need to know beforehand any Unix command line commands. I used to know a few from the days when the internet connection I used was DOS based, and for ftp'ing basic Unix commands were needed. I think Jen C is right being Windows like (it is an option you can set by the way) makes it seem easier to start with. During install user accounts/passwords and 'Administrator/Root' passwords have to be set, so you are not into root by default. If any changes need to be done from root, a password prompt window opens. |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 220179 | 2004-03-07 10:52:00 | >>Xandros has Samba 3 Oh, that won't fix it then... re your question about an email client. I suggest Ximian Evolution which looks like an Outlook clone. Xandros 1 didn't have it and then my hard disk spat the dummy, so I loaded Mandrake (which does include it). |
Dolby Digital (160) | ||
| 220180 | 2004-03-07 11:17:00 | If you're a fan of Outlook Express, as opposed to Outlook, check out MozillaThunderbird. Ive been using it since 0.2 and its brilliant :-) Chill. |
Chilling_Silently (228) | ||
| 220181 | 2004-03-08 02:20:00 | Support for that Logitech camera might be coming ... there's even an experimental patch for one of the libraries in gphoto for it, but you might not (a) have sources installed, and (b) not feel like compiling libraries. :D Look out for spca50x ... it already has support for a couple of Logitech ClickSmarts ... 350 and 510?. There's a list of supported webcams (www.spinic.net) here. The Canon scanner is less hopeful. But you wanted a new one anyway. ;-) Epson seems to have become the favourite manufacturer with the sane developers. |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 220182 | 2004-03-08 02:30:00 | Your link to webcams seems a bit dead Graham? Apparently the Canon FB310 is a rebadged AVision according to one Linux site. I found support for the FB320, it was a similar story for windows drivers, nothing past Win95, but XP seems to be able to handle it as long as the scanner power is turned off when windows starts. Otherwise XP detects and loads another FB310 scanner into device manager :) I didnt really want to buy a new scanner or webcam just to keep Xandros happy. If I can get file sharing working properly then it doesnt matter so much. |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 220183 | 2004-03-08 02:45:00 | Sorry ... "spinics. net" not "spinic.net". And I had proofread it. :_| | Graham L (2) | ||
| 220184 | 2004-03-08 04:05:00 | Idiot, Idiot, Idiot that I am :D The only thing stopping file sharing was Kerio Firewall..... kicks himself where it really hurts, and that is a gymnastic feat in itself ! |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 220185 | 2004-03-08 04:17:00 | > The only thing stopping file sharing was Kerio > Firewall..... kicks himself where it really hurts, > and that is a gymnastic feat in itself ! Firewalls gets you everytime, even when you know better (I been caught out a few times now) :D On a more positive note, don't let your scanner/camera experience put you off Linux (or anyone else) and they can work without any problems. I hot-plugged in my USB Vuego (Benq) scanner and it was detected and worked first time with sane. The sane program was very user friendly and had lots of options with the scanning function. Like wise with my Canon digicam, just hotplugged the USB in, ran the Digital Camera Tool (gtkam) and was able to select my camera model from the list and that was it! Gtkam even displayed nice thumbnails of all my images on the camera. Good to hear you got your file sharing all going :) |
Jen C (20) | ||
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