Ashy72;234455 Wrote: > I downloaded the files from the NX products part of the page NOT FreeNx, > the ones i downloaded are still free to use. Dont know if there are any > differences between the freenx files or the others i think they have > the same debian filenames. Perhaps though the MD5 Hashes are different. > Anyway:-
You will find in Linux there's a big push for "free" as opposed to "free" software. "Free" in the first case implies freedom, i.e. freedom from corporate controls, freedom from patented/licensed software components. "Free" in the second case implies "free beer", you don't pay for it but the other concerns are not met. For the most part, the end user doesn't care either way, but the potential is there in the "free beer" case that the company can do something nasty or start demanding licensing fees a while down the road. Also their product cannot be modified, corrected or redistributed without their involvement. Their product cannot be distributed with other products that are themselves "free" as in freedom, like an entire Linux distro, because they contain patents or intellectual property. This also saves the Linux distro organization from potential legal problems. Some Linux distros are more concerned about this than others, but Ubuntu is very adamant about this, you will not find any "free beer"-type programs in their repositories. This is religious war territory, a Linux champion will no doubt correct me on several points here. BTW there seem to be a lot of problems with FreeNx on the Ubuntu forums, so I didn't bother with it. > I had a bit of bother with the problem i kept getting message:- 'User > Mark could not be authenticated' on the windows screen. This was due to > me having put Mark instead of mark for the username. Another Linux discovery: Linux is always case sensitive. > The only thing i wonder about though is trying to connect from the linux > box to the windows box the other way, this doesnt seem to work, Any > ideas folks? Don't forget, this is a client-server environment. The way you have it working, the Ubuntu machine is the server, the Windows machine is the client. To go the other way, you have to install the server on the Windows machine and use the client on the Ubuntu machine. -- 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=39186 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
