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

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No RTFM terms at all here.  I even furnished some sample commands that
you can look at.  Look, you have to RTFM some.  You have to understand
how these commands work in order to use them effectively.  Samba is
the stuff that enables all this access to windows shares.  Smbclient
is a shell command that can be used to access these shares.  However,
Willie said something about the network folder in the Places menu.  I
went in there once and I saw my other linux boxen but I for the most
part, could not see any of my windows machines.  Not sure why.  I
think they weren't set up properly for my network or something.  When
you go into networks under the Places menu, try out all the choices;
hopefully you have some to choose from.  These should be like "Entire
network, Client for Microsoft Windows, Workgroup, etc.  At the bottom
of all this, you will need to be a part of the same workgroup your
windows boxen are on or you won't connect for sure.

When we shoot from the hip via e-mails without actual access to your
setups, all we can do is guess and you have to do the work of
following our guesses or doing a lot of studying and experimenting on
your side.  Unfortunately all Linux distros are *NOT* created equal so
an answer from a Slackware user won't necessarily work for a Ubuntu
user and so forth.  Again, I refer you to your smb.conf file if
available on your machine because it has comments inside that give
various options and explain what they do and how to use them.  I found
it usable enough to get my linux machines to access other Windows
shares.  Again, the instructions vary; gotta take a look at 'man
smbclient' and maybe 'man smb.conf' if that is available.

When you have questions as advanced as Samba on a linux box and you're
new to Linux, you gotta have more than one day to figure this stuff
out.  I would say your employer is most unreasonable if they won't
give you more than a day to get this figured out.

On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 11:35:37AM -0400, Chris Gilland wrote:

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.

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From: "Steve Holmes" <
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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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