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205918 2004-01-08 07:10:00 My Samba web site (a bit late though):

homepages.paradise.net.nz

JohnD
JohnD (509)
205919 2004-01-08 07:12:00 If Fedora behaves like recent versions of RedHat, then a shutdown from the command prompt will leave the PC running but a shutdown from the GUI should power down the PC. JohnD (509)
205920 2004-01-08 08:20:00 Thanks JohnD. I am using the GUI, and it just ends with Power down, but the power doesn 't go off. Thanks anyway.

Wot I may start to do is reboot into Windoze and shut down from there. I can shut down from the Windoze login screen, so it would be easier than the fiddly business of trying to get the battery released from this laptop.

And thanks for the Samba website.

John
John H (8)
205921 2004-01-08 09:23:00 IIRC, you'll need to uncomment the APM line in /etc/modules.conf

Try:
modprobe apm
then shutdown (As a test).

If it works, you know you'll need to load the APM (Advanced Power Management) modules (like a driver...) for it.

Cheers


Chill.
Chilling_Silently (228)
205922 2004-01-08 23:36:00 Thanks Chill. I have looked up that .conf file, and there is no reference there to APM (I presume that to "uncomment the APM line" means removing it?)

However, at root level, I have found the following lines in
/boot/config-(kernel number).nptl

CONFIG_APM=y
# CONFIG_APM_IGNORE_USER_SUSPEND is not set
# CONFIG_APM_DO_ENABLE is not set
CONFIG_APM_CPU_IDLE=y
# CONFIG_APM_DISPLAY_BLANK is not set
CONFIG_APM_RTC_IS_GMT=y
# CONFIG_APM_REAL_MODE_POWER_OFF is not set

Does that help in any way? Presumably this means that the APM modules were not installed when I did the original installation. Is there a way of finding them on the installation disks and then installing them? If so, presumably I would have to log on as root prior to doing that?

Hope this isn't a pile of gobbledegook on my part!

John
John H (8)
205923 2004-01-09 07:48:00 That's right, Fedora has it as a daemon, try:
/etc/init . d/apmd start
If that works then type:
chkconfig --level 345 apmd on

That should work :-)

Lemme know how you get on

Cheers


Chill .





















CyberChuck was here!! :D
Chilling_Silently (228)
205924 2004-01-09 07:49:00 > CyberChuck was here!! :D

Look what happens when you're at a LAN party and you turn your back for a minute while using somebody elses Fedora box to confirm the chkconfig commands :D
Chilling_Silently (228)
205925 2004-01-09 07:51:00 Agent might've been here too ;) cyberchuck (173)
205926 2004-01-09 09:18:00 Thanks Chill. SWMBO and I are off to the Riviera of the Antarctic (Dunedin) for four days, so will try that when I get back and will let you know.

Watch out for those Cyberchuckies, they are lethal!

Thanks for bearing with me.

John
John H (8)
205927 2004-01-10 01:49:00 > i am haveing a problem like this one, but it is the
> other way around. xp computers can see my computers,
> but i cant see them, when i start "network servers"
> it says "
>
> Couldn't display "smb:///", because Nautilus cannot
> contact the SMB master browser.
> Check that an SMB server is running in the local
> network."
>
> how do i fix this? xp machines have stuff shared.


In order for network neighbourhood to "browse" for other computers there needs to be a browse master configured on the network.

By default all windows and samba do not "force" them selves to be a browse master.

So you can either tell the samba server to be a browse master, don't ask me how or you can force the windows box to be one.

Instructions on how to force a windows box to be a browse master can be found in the windows help files or by searching the MSKB.
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