On Monday 11 December 2006 19:54, Billie Erin Walsh wrote: > Just wanted to say "Hi", and a few other things to. > > I've been seriously trying to use SuSE for about a year, so I'm still > VERY much a newbie. I tried a few other distro's before I settled on > SuSE. For the most part SuSE does a superb job of setting up.
Welcome! I'm a newbie, too, but will hopefully help with a few of your issues. I've only been using SUSE full-time since 9.1 and have much to learn. > > Now for the downsides of what I'm having trouble with: > > Home networking. > [Four+ windows computers and my SuSE 10.1 ] > When I can get the other computers on the network to see the Linux box > at all it asks for an access password. I only have two setting on this > box. Root and "user" [ me]. Neither will work to give me access. When I > try going the other way I get asked for a password. None of the Windows > computers have access passwords set. For the SUSE side, you need to setup a user that has access. If you're using 10.1 and KDE, you'll want to right-click on one of the folders you want to share. I have - for example - home/kai/share as my shared folder. Right-click on it and click on "share" at the bottom of the menu. Click on the Share tab if it isn't already selected. Select "Share this folder in the local network" Select "Share with SAMBA" (You need to make sure SAMBA is installed and running as a service in the background. You can do that through YaST if you want.) Give it a name and whether or not you want it public and writable. I use that all the time. From my Win2K system at home or my WinXP system at work I just type in my IP address and the share to map a folder //1.2.3.4/share usually works. > > SaX2 > Should be renamed sUx2. My first SuSE distro was 9.3 [ had 9.0 for a > VERY short time about three years ago or so. ] SaX had a LOT more > usability back then than either 10.0 or 10.1. Now you have to use the > settings it gives or else. > > I lost my system Saturday night trying to change the resolution on my > monitor. These poor old eyes just ain't up to those super high > resolutions. I was having to go to 22 and 24 for font sizes to get them > barely big enough to see. > > Suggestion to whomever > We just bought a couple new eMachines at a big box store. They came > with, what I consider, THE ultimate backup utility. It will create > bootable ISO cd/DVD's of the entire system. It would be nice to have > that ability [ especially after Saturday night ]. Don't tell e about > "mkisofs".Done looked into that. The instructions look like something > translated from Chinese into Japanese then into Greek by a Swahili. I'm > a "newbie". I can barely install tar balls. > Use KDar. It works like a charm and is easy enough for us newbies. I just recently restored my home folder when I blew away my system to install 10.1 over 10.0. > On the subject of the eMachines > Stupid damn things have ATI Radion Xpress video cards. I looked and > found the "supposed" drivers for it but the instructions were even worse > than the mkisofs. Something about standing on your left leg holding your > right foot in your left hand and the thumb on your right in your left > ear. Guess it will just have to remain a Windows machine for the > foreseeable future. I was looking forward to seeing what it would do > with SuSE. lol eMachines probably won't be supported since they design their hardware with Wintendo in mind. They are low-end and not usually found in linux arenas. > > Why can't the instructions be "SIMPLE". There are people out here that > aren't geeks, nerds or guru's. Go to linuxquestion.org, and opensuse.com there are tutorials all over the place there. > > Permissions > These things are driving me nuts. I want to use TWPSK hooked up to my > ham radion. BUT, I have to have the serial port. UH uh. Can't use that. > Don't have permission. I know Linux in general was/is set up to be more > or less idiot proof in a user/administrator environment. That's why all > this permission stuff. Keep all those fingers from causing to much > trouble. BUT, this is a home computer. One user, ME. I use it to make my > web pages. Do my e-mail. Surf the web. AND spend way to much money on > eBay. I could use a little more simplicity to get things to work here. You "could" login as root. But then you could also make your system FUBAR. Play around a bit and you'll realize the power (and safety) in running in elevated privilages. > > Enough of a rant for now. > I DO like SuSE. After a year+ I would rather use it than Windows. [ XP > totally sucks and I can hardly wait to see how bad they screwed up Vista > - got a free "upgrade" (?) coming for the eMachine ] I AM learning, but > it's slow going. Be damned if I will give up on it. Just ignore my > rants. AND, keep your answers simple enough for an idiot to follow. I > WILL get there eventually. I'll be right there with you!! -- kai www.perfectreign.com || www.4thedadz.com a turn signal is a statement, not a request -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
