On 31 Jan, Greg Kettmann wrote:
> More dumb questions. I know, I know... Linux is just as easy to use as
> Windows.
>
> Most importantly, I have a home network. Works great, Linux Firewall, NAT/IP
> Masq, etc. Unfortunately, for various reasons (mostly because I couldn't
> load Linux on a MicroChannel box) I'm running NT on my server. I also do
> what I call Peer to Peer on the workstations and what M$ calls Network
> Neighborhood.
>
> How do I share files with the other machines in the Network Neighborhood?
Samba, though I don't know if that's two-way sharing or not. I've never
had occasion to use it. I do know you can use Samba to get access to
files stored on a Linux machine from a Win 9x machine; I don't recall
hearing anything about accessing files on a Win 9x machine from Linux
via Samba.
>
> Unrelated but I'd love to hear comments. I was trying to show off MP3's
> under Linux instead of Windows. Windows get's all flaky if anything else is
> going on and I assumed Linux, like OS/2, could handle it fine. I tried to
> install the latest XMMS but it fails because there is an earlier version
> installed.
Then remove the previous version, though I'm puzzled as to why it fails;
can we have more details? How do you know it fails, what messages do
you get?
> I couldn't find a WinAmp for Linux although I thought it
> existed.
That would be X11amp, now called XMMS. It can use WinAmp skins, I
believe.
> Can I double click on an MP3, like I can in Winblows, and have it
> run? Can I drag a bunch of MP3's to the application and have them all load?
>
This is a function of your file manager. Most mp3 players will take
lists of files to play; complain to the author about players that don't
:-) For those of us who don't use file managers, there are play lists
instead, which are more convenient than even dragging-and-dropping.
I'm using gqmpeg, which is a front end to mpg123; I find it uses 3 or 4
percent of the cpu to play on a PIII/450, and I never notice the load
in the background.
--
Stephen Ryan Debian GNU/Linux
Technology Coordinator
Center for Educational Outcomes,
C. Everett Koop Institute at Dartmouth College
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