Re: [LUG] Samba/FTP issues with Windows 8

2013-08-12 Thread Benjamin Tayehanpour
Personally I'd recommend Linux Mint for total beginners. Others would recommend Ubuntu, or Fedora Core. Unless this is the kind of answer you are looking for, you ought to ask your question on a mailing list where Windows 7 isn't, ah, *persona non grata*. On 10 August 2013 12:11, Haggai Edyelu

Re: [LUG] Samba/FTP issues with Windows 8

2013-08-12 Thread Benjamin Tayehanpour
Or thema non grata, rather. :) On 12 August 2013 08:36, Benjamin Tayehanpour benja...@sandslott.org wrote: Personally I'd recommend Linux Mint for total beginners. Others would recommend Ubuntu, or Fedora Core. Unless this is the kind of answer you are looking for, you ought to ask your

Re: [LUG] Samba/FTP issues with Windows 8

2013-08-11 Thread nyai...@gmail.com
Hey, their ar alot of hacking tools online that u can use to register your windows, u just need to look in the right place Sent from my HTC - Reply message - From: Haggai Edyelu hedy...@gmail.com To: Uganda Linux User Group lug@linux.or.ug Subject: [LUG] Samba/FTP issues with Windows 8

Re: [LUG] Samba/FTP issues with Windows 8

2013-08-10 Thread Haggai Edyelu
Hi Guys my windows 7 activation has failed any ideas please, i got some online but have jammed as well. thanks Haggai On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 4:29 PM, okwii David oquid...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Peter, I did try to install it using Yast and configure it using the Yast admin...but it didn't

Re: [LUG] Samba/FTP issues with Windows 8

2013-08-10 Thread James S. K. Makumbi
Hahahahahahahahahahah From: lug-boun...@linux.or.ug [mailto:lug-boun...@linux.or.ug] On Behalf Of Haggai Edyelu Sent: 10 August 2013 13:11 To: Uganda Linux User Group Subject: Re: [LUG] Samba/FTP issues with Windows 8 Hi Guys my windows 7 activation has failed any ideas please, i got some

Re: [LUG] Samba/FTP issues with Windows 8

2013-08-10 Thread billyn...@gmail.com
Can I suggest going to http://www.distrowatch.org and you can find a solution? On 10 August 2013 11:11, Haggai Edyelu hedy...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Guys my windows 7 activation has failed any ideas please, i got some online but have jammed as well. thanks Haggai On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 4:29

Re: [LUG] Samba/FTP issues with Windows 8

2013-08-09 Thread okwii David
Thanks Peter, I did try to install it using Yast and configure it using the Yast admin...but it didn't work too. Am going to give it another try using your instructions. On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 9:46 PM, Peter C. Ndikuwera pnd...@gmail.com wrote: Hi David, VSFTPD is broken on openSUSE 12.3

[LUG] Samba/FTP issues with Windows 8

2013-08-06 Thread okwii David
Hello guys, From time to time, i ran into windows environments (mainly from friends) where i need to share files or something similar. In the past, i've been using my favorite ftp server, vsftp which has since proven to be buggy with the latest releases. I've since looked at alternatives like

Re: [LUG] Samba/FTP issues with Windows 8

2013-08-06 Thread Benjamin Tayehanpour
Have you tried commenting out the 'IdentLookups' directive in the specified file? On 6 August 2013 11:15, okwii David oquid...@gmail.com wrote: Hello guys, From time to time, i ran into windows environments (mainly from friends) where i need to share files or something similar. In the past,

Re: [LUG] Samba/FTP issues with Windows 8

2013-08-06 Thread okwii David
Benjamin, Yes, but it still fails to start. On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 4:24 PM, Benjamin Tayehanpour benja...@sandslott.org wrote: Have you tried commenting out the 'IdentLookups' directive in the specified file? On 6 August 2013 11:15, okwii David oquid...@gmail.com wrote: Hello guys,

Re: [LUG] Samba/FTP issues with Windows 8

2013-08-06 Thread Peter C. Ndikuwera
Hi David, VSFTPD is broken on openSUSE 12.3 but PURE-FTPD works. Install pure-ftpd Edit */etc/pure-ftpd/pure-ftpd.conf* as needed. Importantly, do NOT run *rcpure-ftpd start* Instead, edit */etc/xinetd.d/pure-ftpd* and change *disable = yes* to *disable = no* Then run *rcxinetd restart* and