I have not set up much windows software recently, except that i set up some programs on an XP machine for a colleague the other day. I was appalled at the number of reboots. I have got so used to installing and immediately running with linux. you know like:
emerge|apt-get|up2date openoffice bang its going, no reboot. how do you find what ip address you have in XP anyway? win9x has winipcfg, a little gui that tells you the ip characteristics and allows you to renew your dhcp lease. On Wed, 09 Jul 2003 09:51:13 +1200 Brad Beveridge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I quite like xfsamba. I've found it much easier to get my linux box running samba > to connect to a windows computer than getting two windows computer to talk to each > other. > 1) "Are we on the same subnet" > 2) "Yes" > 1) "Can you ping me" > 2) "Yes" > 1) "Windows neigbourhood can't find you. Are you sure you can ping me?" > 2) "YES" > 1) "Reboot your machine...." > 2) "Reboot _your_ machine" > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Nick Rout [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Wednesday, 9 July 2003 9:43 a.m. > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: Mdk 9.1 - another thing that works out of the box. > > > > > > It always seems to have been easier to mount another windows > > machine than to go the other way. You don't need to fiddle > > with smb.conf to mount other machines (as you now know :-) > > > > mount -t smbfs or smbmount > > > > On Wed, 09 Jul 2003 09:21:57 +1200 > > Yuri de Groot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I just want to say I'm impressed. > > > A friend of mine brought his windows laptop around yesterday. He > > > plugged it into my crossover cable. I then launched > > LinNeighbourhood > > > on my computer and mounted his shared directories without a problem. > > > > > > This may seem trivial to the old gurus, but for me, up > > until now I've > > > never managed to set up samba. > > > > > > Linux is more than ready for the > > > reasonably-computer-literate-but-not-necessarily-gurus > > > demographic of society. > > > > > > Yuri > > > > > > > -- > > "All that was needed was to parse the cat root slash dev > > etcetera file for eth0 and pugle the forward identity-locking > > rehooliginator and symlink it to the libgc perl humongisooler > > module after a kernel decompile and basic repatch update." - > > theregister.co.uk > > > > >
