mgh;202046 Wrote: > I've never used a router before. In XP it was pretty simple, I really > did not have to do a thing, the SB found the wireless network, all I > had to do was set a password for encryption. > > So. Do I need to go in and set up my router again while running Ubuntu > instead of running XP? Am I going to have to change router settings > every time I boot to a different OS?
No. Your router doesn't care what OS you run, it just passes packets back and forth. As long as your OS can feed it and receive packets from it properly, everything is fine. > I have gone into the wireless network set up on my SB, but it will not > find the network. It assigns an IP address automatically, then > eventually asks for the IP address of the SS. The IP address that I > can see on the SS settings doesn't work. So, we know SlimServer is running. And the address that SS reports doesn't work in the SB? You say the SB gets assigned an address automatically. Is it an address that makes sense? Not a 169.x address but a 192.168.x address? Can you connect to SqueezeNetwork? Can you connect wired? > Also, I followed the instructions to get the file path for my music > folder (thanks for those instructions, I did not know how to do that > with Ubuntu), copied and pasted, tried to scan, and get the message > "opps, media/simpledrive/music does not appear to be a valid > directory". The simpledrive is a USB external HHD. I can play music > off the external drive with Totem. You will get this message when the path is valid but the permissions aren't right. Try "sudo chmod -R 777 /media/simpledrive/music". What is "simpledrive" formatted as? FAT? If so, FAT doesn't support permissions, chmod will fail, but you should be able to read/write to the directory anyway. Go to the directory, select one of the files, right-click and select "Permissions". Is it set to your user name or everyone? It can't be set as root. > I really want to like Linux, and I will keep trying, but you have to > admit, MS does make it simple. Simple, but insecure by default. The reason we have to futz around with these permissions is that all files but your /home directory are locked down and available to root only. Even if someone were to break into your system they could not alter files. In fact, even if someone was to have physical access to your keyboard, they could not alter files outside of /home unless they had your root password. Microsoft has gone to great heroics in Vista to try to approach this level of security, and they're still not there yet. > Thanks for your efforts. I am a NOOB with Linux, and just trying to see > if I can get it to do everything I need/want my computer to do. You only have to do this once... -- Mark Lanctot 'Sean Adams' Response-O-Matic checklist, patent pending!' (http://forums.slimdevices.com/showpost.php?p=200910&postcount=2) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35254 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
