Re: [Dorset] Sharing files & directories in Mint 19.2 & 20.1

[Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty]

If you search for installing Samba on Ubuntu 18.04 or 20.04 (bases for 
Mint 19.x and 20.x) you should find some good tutorials. Of course, 
you've probably fixed this by now I imagine.


Hamish

On 17/04/2021 10:14, Terry Coles wrote:

Clive,

I only just spotted this; it had somehow got marked as 'read' in my email
client.

On Wednesday, 14 April 2021 18:05:27 BST CA Wills wrote:

Now have the new main PC (NUC B10) working, we are able to print to
printers (Laser connected on PC by USB, Colour printer via the network
(Router Ethernet) and all looks well from the PC.
On the old PC we had Samba installed as that was very early on in my
Linux days and Terry very kindly came over and installed it.

It was a bit more complicate back then and I had to hand craft your smb.conf
file to get it to work.

Since then I've reinstalled Kubuntu on this machine several time and I can't
remember the last time I had to tweak the config.  For me, samba now 'just
works.  Of course I'm not using Mint.


Tried to share my laptop 'Documents' folder so that I can get to
the_laptop_ files from the new PC.  On laptop notice comes up saying
Samba is not installed.
Also noticed I can't now print on the Laser even when the PC is 'ON'.
With the old PC as long as it was 'ON' I could print OK.

I'm not sure that I can help with this.


As all our equipment is Linux do I need to have Samba to share equipment
and files, or is there another Linux way? A long while ago someone said
you only need Samba if you connect to Windows machines.

It is true that you don't need Samba if you are only accessing Linux computers
(which isn't quite what you said).  Most NAS Boxes use smb by default (usually
by running Samba on them, so although you may be able to enable NFS on yours
you may find it easier to stick to Samba.

Sorry I can't offer any real suggestions to solve your problem.



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Re: [Dorset] OSS Gantt Chart sw

[Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty]

Thanks for the insights Terry, that's useful because this is my first 
time using Gantt charting software.


I probably don't need any of those fancy features for my project but I 
will keep it in mind.


Hamish

On 26/03/2021 17:17, Terry Coles wrote:

On Friday, 26 March 2021 15:58:41 GMT Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty wrote:

I just found some cool cross-platform and excellent Gantt chart
software, which you can find at:

Being an ex Project Manager I couldn't resist downloading this.  It seems to
work and it's pretty easy to use, but I wouldn't want to try to manage a big
project with it.

Things I would seriously miss are:

* The ability to enter Task Durations in hours and not just days.
* The ability to give resources a Work Calendar so that their availability is
defined across the project and not just for 'days off'.  (By this I mean how
many hours per week they work.)
* The ability to allocate a resource to a Task based on the above work
calendar.

I'm sure there are lots of other things that maybe other PMs would like to see
but the above matches my workflow which was:

* Estimate each activity in hours and then enter the task duration in hours.
* Allocate the Resources.
* The tool then sets the elapsed time in days. weeks or months based on the
Resource Calendars.

The tool therefore provides a prediction of the end date that takes into
account the availability of all the resources as well as the work required.

Picky I know, but my Projects were not noted for overrunning.  (I did get a
'talking to' once for coming in early.  :-)  )

I know I could pay my $5 and ask for the above, but I no longer have a real
need for a Project Management Tool.



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