Re: Ben Devine
On 7/2/07, Robert Fisher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have it on good authority that Ben Devine, although still in hospital, is improving and has probably not suffered any permanent mental dissability. I know that many list members will be pleased to know this. Do you know if he is well enough to cope with visitors? -- Sincerely etc. Christopher Sawtell
Re: Ben Devine
On Monday 02 July 2007 6:15 pm, Christopher Sawtell wrote: Do you know if he is well enough to cope with visitors? No I do not know but I know someone who phoned the hospital and was allowed to speak to Ben. Robert
Making a samba share appear to be local
I am trying to make a samba directory appear to be on the local system and am sure it must be simple but can't figure out the proper keywords to google! I have a large volume of music stored on a server made available to the local machine via samba. The music player I am using (Exaile) only seems to be able to see local drives. I'd like to fool it into thinking the music is on a local drive so that I can add it to Exaile's collection. (I'm using Ubuntu Feisty). Is this possible?
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Re: Making a samba share appear to be local
On Tue, 2007-07-03 at 09:51 +1200, Kerry Mayes wrote: I am trying to make a samba directory appear to be on the local system and am sure it must be simple but can't figure out the proper keywords to google! I have a large volume of music stored on a server made available to the local machine via samba. The music player I am using (Exaile) only seems to be able to see local drives. I'd like to fool it into thinking the music is on a local drive so that I can add it to Exaile's collection. You could mount it to a drive perhaps? sudo mount -tsmbfs server IP//share folder name/ destination At least IIRC that's the right syntax. We use something similar when we have parties at our flat for various networked PC's around the place using either samba or nfs and it works until someone kicks out a chord. :) --Slosh
Re: Making a samba share appear to be local
On Tuesday 03 July 2007 1:00 pm, HappyEvilSlosh wrote: On Tue, 2007-07-03 at 09:51 +1200, Kerry Mayes wrote: I am trying to make a samba directory appear to be on the local system and am sure it must be simple but can't figure out the proper keywords to google! I have a large volume of music stored on a server made available to the local machine via samba. The music player I am using (Exaile) only seems to be able to see local drives. I'd like to fool it into thinking the music is on a local drive so that I can add it to Exaile's collection. You could mount it to a drive perhaps? sudo mount -tsmbfs server IP//share folder name/ destination At least IIRC that's the right syntax. We use something similar when we have parties at our flat for various networked PC's around the place using either samba or nfs and it works until someone kicks out a chord. :) --Slosh Also, if you are using Ubuntu or Kubuntu you will probably have to install smbfs as it is not installed by default. Rob
Re: Making a samba share appear to be local
On Tue, July 3, 2007 1:00 pm, HappyEvilSlosh wrote: On Tue, 2007-07-03 at 09:51 +1200, Kerry Mayes wrote: I am trying to make a samba directory appear to be on the local system and am sure it must be simple but can't figure out the proper keywords to google! I have a large volume of music stored on a server made available to the local machine via samba. The music player I am using (Exaile) only seems to be able to see local drives. I'd like to fool it into thinking the music is on a local drive so that I can add it to Exaile's collection. You could mount it to a drive perhaps? sudo mount -tsmbfs server IP//share folder name/ destination At least IIRC that's the right syntax. We use something similar when we have parties at our flat for various networked PC's around the place using either samba or nfs and it works until someone kicks out a chord. :) --Slosh That is indeed the way to do it, but your syntax for the server is up the spout and IMHO cifs provides a better solution than smbfs: sudo mount -t cifs //server/sharename /mnt/destination -o user=fred You will get two password prompts, both looking identical (which can be confusing). The first is for sudo, the second for connecting to the share.. Of course if sudo has its own password cached (eg you just used it within a few minutes) then you will only get the second prompt. If you want to put it in /etc/fstab then you have two choices about how to handle the password for the share, one is to put in the option password= in fstab, but that is WAY insecure. The better way is to put the option credentials=/root/.sambapasswords Then set up /root/.sambapasswords to be readable by root only, and it contains these lines: user=nick password=bigsecret and your fstab line is: //server/share /mnt/destination cifs defaults,credentials=/root/.sambapasswords 0 0 (thats all one line) -- Nick Rout
Re: Making a samba share appear to be local
On Tuesday 03 July 2007 1:17 pm, Robert Fisher wrote: Also, if you are using Ubuntu or Kubuntu you will probably have to install smbfs as it is not installed by default. Also see http://www.justlinux.com/nhf/Filesystems/Mounting_smbfs_Shares_Permanently.html
Re: Making a samba share appear to be local
Thanks guys! I have it working now. Yes, I had to install smbfs. I had to use a variation on Slosh's line, but the help provided when I entered that got me through. I had a longer hassle sorting out why it would work on one machine and not another, until I realised that one machine was in a different samba group (not the domain). I will try cifs and fstab setup, ala Nicks post, when I get the chance. What's the advantage of cifs?
Re: Making a samba share appear to be local
On Tue, July 3, 2007 3:35 pm, Christopher Sawtell wrote: On 7/3/07, Kerry Mayes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks guys! I have it working now. Good, it's a bit late now, but the 2-brain-cell method is to put smb:/ into Konqueror's Location bar and all the smb shares on you net will be made available via mouse clicks. But not to all programs on your system. It only works for programs that are kde based. For example: cat smb://server/share/file.txt will not work. (nor will mplayer, nor even will kmplayer it seems). -- Nick Rout
Re: PDF output from OpenOffice
On Tue, 03 Jul 2007 13:43, Barry wrote: No, I have those, what I need is the option to select output for screen or for printer, there is a vast difference in the file sizes. I believe that it has to do with Adobe Acrobat pdf level output. Higher level versions embed the fonts in the pdf document. If the pdf you want to create is text displayed in a common font such as helevtica, just use a lower pdf version level and you can pretty much guarantee that it will display/print correctly on other computers and printers. On problem that I have come across is MS Word documents which use Cyrillic (Russian) text. When these documents are opened in another computer which does not have the font installed the application makes a guess for a matching font. Often it gets the guess wrong, choosing a Greek font. One way for the originator of the document to avoid this problem would have been to produce it as a higher level pdf with the font embedded in the document. Cheers Ross Drummond
Re: Making a samba share appear to be local
On 7/3/07, Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, July 3, 2007 3:35 pm, Christopher Sawtell wrote: On 7/3/07, Kerry Mayes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks guys! I have it working now. Good, it's a bit late now, but the 2-brain-cell method is to put smb:/ into Konqueror's Location bar and all the smb shares on you net will be made available via mouse clicks. But not to all programs on your system. It only works for programs that are kde based. For example: cat smb://server/share/file.txt will not work. Indeed, you cant mix command line and GUI utilities, but a single LH click will display it in Kedit or what have you according to your file association preferences. btw, the Gnomes offer similar options. (nor will mplayer, nor even will kmplayer it seems). Beg to differ, RH click and open with mplayer -vo sdl -ao alsa Works for me. -- Sincerely etc. Christopher Sawtell
Re: Making a samba share appear to be local
On Tuesday 03 July 2007 3:35 pm, Christopher Sawtell wrote: On 7/3/07, Kerry Mayes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks guys! I have it working now. Good, it's a bit late now, but the 2-brain-cell method is to put smb:/ into Konqueror's Location bar and all the smb shares on you net will be made available via mouse clicks. Not so easy if the share is on a Windows Vista machine. Both Mac's and Linux boxes have trouble with Vista shares and browsing to them. Rob
Re: Making a samba share appear to be local
A cynic would say that M$ put that in by design. On 03/07/07, Robert Fisher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not so easy if the share is on a Windows Vista machine. Both Mac's and Linux boxes have trouble with Vista shares and browsing to them. Rob
