Re: [orca-list] Extremely Urgent, and I do mean urgent

["Chris Gilland" <chrisgilland carolina rr com>]

Huh?  What?

Explain in English? Please, not, in rtfm terms?

Chris, PS:

Because of the software we develop, it is crossed platform.  this is why I 
*have* to keep linux on that machine.

Chris.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Holmes" <
steve holmesgrown com>
To: <
orca-list gnome org>
Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2008 10:14 AM
Subject: Re: [orca-list] Extremely Urgent, and I do mean urgent

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> Yes, I agree with Hermann here.  You cannot learn linux in one day and
> any employer expecting you to jump from windows to linux and give you
> only one more day to work out the bugs is most unreasonable!!! You
> need to put linux up on a personal machine and learn about it and play
> with it and play some more with it and try different things out.  I
> couldn't begin to tell you how to configure Ubuntu to access SMB
> shares but generically speaking, I have gotten smb stuff to work on my
> Slackware boxen.  I pretty much edited the smb.conf file and followed
> the comments inside the file to set the options right.  It sounds like
> you are trying to access your windows shares from a linux box, right?
> First off, share your windows shares using the conventional stuff in
> Windows XP and take note of the machine name and the workgroup name.
> I assume you are using a workgroup type network and not a domaine
> controler.
>
> Then learn what you can about samba; go to 
http://www.samba.org
for
> more details if needs be.  This is where you are going to need more
> than a single day to work it out.  At least from the command line
> prospective, learn about the smbclient command; it will show you
> server and share information.  It can also be used to actually connect
> to those shares like an ftp client.  The other thing to learn about is
> smbmount.  Once you pin down your server and share names, you should
> be able to do something like
> 'smbmount //server/share /mount-point' where /server/share are your
> server and share name you defined and mount-point would be a directory
> on your linux box to reach these files.  Once that is all squared
> away, you could use Nautilus in gnome to access these files like your
> other folders on the linux box.
>
> Hope this can get you started.
>
> On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 03:47:50PM +0200, Hermann wrote:
> > Hello Chris,
> > sorry if I didn't understand your mail correctly, but did your company
> > urge you to install Ubuntu on your second machine?
> > If so, they should provide some assistance for you. But if not, I
> > would recommend you to get back to Windows.
> > You then may try to explore Linux/Ubuntu on one of your private
> > machines, and it would be the best to start up using the live CD
> > first, in order to explore the system step by step.
> > Hermann
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