First, thanks to everyone who chimed in with comments. I've been perusing my SAMS Linux Unleashed Reference Book, and though it's hard going, I've managed to get it up and running.
I first put the smbpasswd line in smb.conf as that's where the book seemed to imply it went, but no go. I then re-read the section the next day and realised it meant do it as a straight input. Doing that brought up the password request dialog which was great. I removed the entry I'd made in smb.conf. Fired up XP, clicked on the Samba Server directory in Network Places, put in the username & password and bingo, I was in. I just need to get used to the time lag when transferring files across the network, which leads me to this. The very first music directory I tried to drag off the XP desktop onto the Linux HD seemed to cause the window to lock up. Nothing appeared to have happened (after 3 or 4 minutes) so I closed the window. Browsing the Linux HD shows the directory there but with just track 1 in it, and another attempt to copy the directory over caused a 'file already exists' warning. Clicking overwrite it caused the same symptoms as before - the XP explorer window seeming to lock up. I then tried selecting tracks 2 to 20, copy & pasting into the directory on the Linux box, and that worked without problem. I can click on one of these tracks and foobar fires up and plays it. Yet it won't play track 1! I've even PuTTy'd into the Linux box, navigated over to the directory and tried an rm on track 1. And even that failed! So what the problem is I don't know. I also got the shutdown command working via PuTTy so I can remotely turn off the Linux box. I may investigate those shutdown scripts/plug-ins I read about on the forums. I'm trying to get tightvnc working now just to try it out. I've installed it on the Linux box, and I've installed the viewer on the XP box, but it times out with 'can't find server'. I guess that means the tightvnc server on the Linux box is not running, but a check on services only shows an Xvnc which is stopped. Doing a service Xvnc start command brings up a no such file or directory. I'll keep trying things out... Once again thanks for all your help. -- CavesOfTQLT ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CavesOfTQLT's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=263 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=17892 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
