8 is enough

[ebenoit at hopevale.com]

Yes I found to mount the shares much nicer as well ....thanks

Quoting Stephen Burke <qfwfq at adelphia.net>:

> ebenoit at hopevale.com wrote:
> 
> :) thanks ...me cringing too
> 
> Quoting Cyber Source <peter at thecybersource.com>:
> 
> 
> >being a rabid GNOME fan, it pains me to say this but.....if your using 
> >GNOME, fire up (cringe) Konqueror and put smb:/// in the address bar, it 
> >has no problem playing songs, etc. from samba locations.
> >
> >ebenoit at hopevale.com wrote:
> >  
> >
> 
> 
> Why all the cringing?
> 
> I only cringe when I am forced to use a M$ box, like for swapping mp3s 
> on my iRiver mp3 player which I have not yet been able to connect to 
> with a Linux box, even though I found the ifp-driver at sourceforge some 
> time ago.
> 
>  Personally, I can no longer take EITHER gnome or KDE, as they both look 
> way too much like the boring old M$ desktop (taskbar, systray, etc), so 
> I use enlightenment. For whatever reason the "home folder" choice in the 
> enlightenment menu opens a Nautilus window which I can do without, so I 
> open konqeror from another menu, which is much friendlier to samba than 
> Nautilus, as stated above. (I would use blackbox more, probably, if I 
> could figure out how to change the background image there.)
> 
> I wonder about the addressing, though, since I have only been using two 
> slashes like so : smb://WinBox  or  smb://workgroup or 
> smb://WinBox/share. That is good for browsing in konqueror, but if you 
> go to play mp3s or a movie or whatever, konqueror is going to keep 
> asking you what you want to with the file everytime (unless you choose 
> the "do not ask again" and then you're stuck doing the same damn thing 
> every time until you figure out how to get the choice back).  When I use 
> three slashes, I get a popup saying :
> 
> Internal Error
> Please send a full bug report at http://bugs.kde.org
> Unknown error condition
> 
> A much more direct way to get at stuff on a M$ box is to mount the samba 
> shares on your system and then konqueror and nautilus will work with 
> them as if they were just another drive (though I have not figured out 
> how to get M$ to allow me to write to an smb drive from here(SuSE 8.2), 
> so if anyone knows about that, please enlighten me [thanks]).
> 
> The way to mount them is this:
> 
> $ mkdir  /some/mount/folder
> $su
> Password:
> #mount  -t  smbfs  //WinBox/share   /some/mount/folder       
> {one space between, though I have put two here to see better)
> Password: {for WinUser on WinBox}
> #
> 
> Then konqueror and Nautilus will both be much friendlier to browse with.
> 
> (you will have to "su" sooner if you want to make the mount directory in 
> /mnt or some other place like that. I have been simply mounting things 
> in my home folder, which seems to work pretty well and makes things easy 
> to find [and have permissions to])
> 
> It probably helps helps to have the same user account name on both 
> machines.
> I do and it seems to work.
> 
> Sorry if this is getting long, but I am also new-ish to this list and 
> haven't yet figured out how much reading people here will tolerate.
> 
> So I will answer the other newcomer (Don) question here also, as I will 
> never get to replying to the mailing individually.
> 
> 
> ---I am new to the list, and I have a couple of questions:
> 
> ---What OS is everyone running?
> 
> ---What are the meetings like?
> 
> I am using SuSE 8.2 to do most things these days (the BLAG installation 
> that I wrote about in my only other post here didn't quite work, as I 
> found it lacking in various key tools (gcc, etc.) when I went to try to 
> use konstruct to put some KDE stuff in there, so I left it for later 
> examination and rebuilt something likethe SuSE system I had going before).
> 
> I also built this box with a removable HD so that I can toy with 
> different systems on it, and am currently trying to wrestle an FC3 
> system into place on another drive. I have tried installing many 
> different systems there, but SuSE seems to be friendliest with my 
> hardware. Everything else (slackware, FreeBSD, fedora, debian) seems to 
> make the whole house of cards collapse as soon as I get to xconfig.
> 
> I also have a couple of Redhat 9 laptops configured to teleconference 
> with gnomemeeting, which is curious, since Redhat stopped supporting 9 
> and the webcam's driver maintainer stopped maintaining the PWC driver 
> (apparently after some long, dramatic battle with the kernel maintainers 
> that I missed until it was already over) right around the time when I 
> had finally finished configuring my system. I'm just glad I didn't go 
> ahead and write the manual for that system (which was the original 
> plan), but I am all set up to toy with teleconferencing, if anyone here 
> is so equipped and would like to connect in a an H323 kind of way. I 
> need practice with it, as the user at the other end of the system I was 
> trying to build (in NYC) kind of had other things to do by the time I 
> was connected.
> 
> As for the question about meetings, though I truly wanted to attend the 
> one last sunday, two years of graduate school night classes have left me 
> on a twisted schedule where I cannot really get to bed before 4am, which 
> leaves me rising around noon. After recent posts concerning punctuality, 
> I knew I would never make it on time, so I haven't yet been to a meeting 
> to find out and am also curious as well about what happens there.
> 
> That's all for me.
> Sorry if this was all too much, but my undergraduate degree was English 
> Literature and once I start writing it's tough to sum it all up in 25 
> words or less.
> ;-),
> S.
> 
> Oh, yeah, xfce has and interesting file browser as well, xffm, which 
> seems rather friendly, though habit generally keeps me opening konqueror.
> 
> >>    
> >>
> >>>Does anyone know of another file browser besides Nautilus ...I depise
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>Nautilus
> >>    
> >>
> >>>not being able to figure out that I want to open a folder in a file share
> on
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>a
> >>    
> >>
> >>>windows server and use the files I have in there ...I have been
> connecting
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>with
> >>    
> >>
> >>>smbclient/terminal by bringing the file down putting the file up and it
> is
> >>>getting old.
> >>>      
> >>>
> 
> 
> 




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