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Thread ID: 75124	2006-12-17 05:24:00	Samba Reload?	SurferJoe46 (51)	Press F1

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507395	2006-12-18 16:25:00	It might've been just a friendly accident, but I have no problem networking the Mepis and the XP on my LAN at all...they work and play pretty well together. I think that my problem was a power loss one day that might've scrambled Samba a little, but that command line worked, although I didn't know it at the time. I am using Mepis on an older Dell P3/700 right now and it runs well although I am a little perplexed at all the loading of modules and searching for hardware Mepis has to do each and every boot-up. Might try to see if some of that clutter can be eliminated. ...also want to see if I can communicate with my Palm Clie' and iPAQ handhelds; I don't hold much faith in that I can talk to a Windows-based iPAQ...we'll see. Sound card and vid cards are all running well...so it looks like I am pretty well up and running...now to tweak a little. Having a little more experience under my belt would be best...but like I say..this is an almost vertical learning curve and unfortunately there is no way I can get you or another Mepis expert here alongside me for coaching in the tough spots. I'm gonna have to birth this baby all alone...<sniff> with long-distance help. Wishing there was a junior college or adult class in "L"...thanks for all the patience and help from youse guys......:thumbs:	SurferJoe46 (51)
507396	2006-12-18 18:24:00	although I am a little perplexed at all the loading of modules and searching for hardware Mepis has to do each and every boot-up. The loading of everything possible bothers me as well. My personal machine is only a little bit faster than your old p3/700 and Mepis is a little to demanding with just a bit much happening, from what in can figure, much is not needed. Having just loaded Debain on the server here under Bletch's kind phone guidance, i am tempted to try it on my personal machine, but first i'm going to get rid of as much as i can in Mepis using synaptic package manger. Hopefully this will remove the sluggishness i see here. I'll let you know how it goes.	personthingy (1670)
507397	2006-12-18 20:46:00	My problem would be recognizing what is necessary and what isn't. The names of these are all pretty new to me and I am having a little problem with Linux-speak. I find myself using the Enermax/SOYO w/XP to Google for definitions and identities as to what is what. This ain't your father's Oldsmobile! o^o	SurferJoe46 (51)
507398	2006-12-18 21:27:00	My problem would be recognizing what is necessary and what isn't. The names of these are all pretty new to me and I am having a little problem with Linux-speak. Thats why using synaptic package manager (www.millerton.co.nz) is recomended. It offers the description so that you don't remove something that you didn't realize that you need.	personthingy (1670)
507399	2006-12-18 21:31:00	I am running Smb4k, the SMB/CIFS Share Browser, and can see all the drives on my XP side of the puter . . . . . WOW! Accessing the XP puter from the Mepis unit is easy somehow . . . . another accident? Bi-directional reading and writing to files is working and the shared folders are all accessable too . Good thing I use OpenOffice on both of them I think . The MEPISGRP & MSHOME tree expands and shows everything . . . why can't Windows do this? Hah! . . . . . even see my Firefly and Iomega Zip too . . . and they aren't currently plugged into a USB hub/port . . . Hmmmmmmm . . . . . Just wondering why I see the LAN as: Windows 2000 LAN Manager . Cute!!	SurferJoe46 (51)
507400	2006-12-20 02:29:00	rm -rf {something} (as root) is very dangerous, and is one of the oldest *nix jokes . An accidental space in the command can have major consequence . The usual form of the (bad) joke is" #rm -rf /tmp , which will remove the "/tmp" directory and any subdirectories . If your finger slips and the command comes out as #rm -rf / tmp, which has a very slightly different effect . That will delete the root directory and all subdirectories, before failing to remove a "tmp" directory in the current directory . :thumbs: It will fail to do that only because the current directory will have been deleted, along with every other part of the system . It will, however, prodece a lot of free disk space . Ctrl/C will sometimes leave you with a recoverable system . If you are quick enough .	Graham L (2)
507401	2006-12-20 04:33:00	Yeah . . . I didn't recognize the dire consequences that might've happened, I just trusted the comline I got and it worked . . . somehow . It wasn't directly obvious though, and a reboot showed it all fixed . Anyway . . . . the days of figForth made me very aware of spaces and little squiggly lines and such . . . . . . I was fortunate, maybe not astute .	SurferJoe46 (51)
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