Re: Sharing files between Linux and Windows
Hi, John: I'm afraid that building a custom laptop is virtually impossible. Even though you can get all the parts, you need a suitable case, and these aren't of the shelf items. Creating a case to specs is a would cost literally hundreds of thousands of dollars. So, I think laptops will need to be pretty much off the shelf purchases. It's totaly the opposite situation of building your own desktop/tower system. Janina John J. Boyer writes: > Hi Janina, > > Building or rather designing my own computer would be fun. Maybe I can > get others interested in participating. > > I'm thinking that what I would really like is a laptop with a built-in > Braille display. It would have to have wi-fi and I would install > comand-line only Debian. I have a Focus 40 display. Perhaps it could be > attached to the laptop, so the two would be a single physical unit. > > John > > -- > John J. Boyer; President, > AbilitiesSoft, Inc. > Email: john.bo...@abilitiessoft.org > Website: http://www.abilitiessoft.org > Status: 501(C)(3) Nonprofit > Location: Madison, Wisconsin USA > Mission: To develop softwares and provide STEM services for people with > disabilities which are available at no cost. > > ___ > Blinux-list mailing list > Blinux-list@redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list -- Janina Sajka, Phone: +1.443.300.2200 sip:jan...@asterisk.rednote.net Email: jan...@rednote.net Linux Foundation Fellow Executive Chair, Accessibility Workgroup: http://a11y.org The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Chair, Accessible Platform Architectureshttp://www.w3.org/wai/apa ___ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list
Re: Sharing files between Linux and Windows
It looks right to me assuming your user name is lshare. Surely, you don't usually log in as lshare, do you? You can create a user just for sharing files but you are going to run into a lot of permissions problems. It would be better just to use the user name you usually log in as. In fact, I always use the same user name and password in both linux and Windows to make it easier to map a share in Windows. On 07/07/2016 11:05 AM, John J. Boyer wrote: Hi John, When I enter as root smbpasswd -a lshare it asks for a password, but then it gives the message "Failed to add entry for user lshare". John On Wed, Jul 06, 2016 at 07:11:54PM -0500, John G. Heim wrote: I am pretty sure that on your linux machine, all you have to do is this: sudo apt-get install samba *sudo smbpasswd -a * That's all I did on a fresh debian jessie machine and I was able to access my files in Win7. In Win7, press control+r to open a run dialog box. Type \\\. That will open a dialog box for mapping a share. If you make your linux user ID and password match your Win7 user ID and password, you don't even have to enter those things. If they don't match, there is a link titled something like "Log in with a different user name and password". Sorry, I'd have to reboot into Win7 again to get the exact title of the link. But seriously, those 2 commands were all I had to do to access my files from my Win7 machine. If you want to modify the files on your linux machine, you have to edit /etc/samba/smb.conf on the linux machine. But for copying the files to your Win7 machine, I really think that is all you have to do. On 07/06/2016 01:39 PM, John J. Boyer wrote: I tried to install a samba server on Windows. However, the Geek Squad agent who was helping said he didn't know enough to proceed. If I go to the Samba website, what should I do? Thanks, John On Wed, Jul 06, 2016 at 01:22:27PM -0400, Janina Sajka wrote: Ditto. I've also only every used Samba for this. Note, however, that once you have Samba set up, you can perfectly access the Windows folder from the Linux command line. Look at the man pages for the following: smbclient smbget Good luck! Janina John G Heim writes: I have always done this with samba. I never found it particularly difficult. You do have to read/follow the instructions. On 07/05/2016 01:36 PM, Mark Peveto wrote: I'll be interested in the answer to that question myself. I've had some tell me I need to use samba to do that...I've never been able to make it work. Mark Peveto Registered Linux user number 600552 Sent from F123 Visual using alpine 2.20.13 On Tue, 5 Jul 2016, John J. Boyer wrote: I'm going to set up a folder called c:\share on my Windows machine. I want to set up a device on my Linux machine which is connected with this folder over my LAN. I know that this can be done, because I had something similar at one time. However, i'm not certain how to do it again. If I remember, it just took an entry in fstab and an entry in /dev. Thanks. John -- John J. Boyer; President, AbilitiesSoft, Inc. Email: john.bo...@abilitiessoft.org Website: http://www.abilitiessoft.org Status: 501(C)(3) Nonprofit Location: Madison, Wisconsin USA Mission: To develop softwares and provide STEM services for people with disabilities which are available at no cost. ___ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list ___ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list -- -- John G. Heim; jh...@math.wisc.edu; sip://jh...@sip.linphone.org ___ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list -- Janina Sajka, Phone: +1.443.300.2200 sip:jan...@asterisk.rednote.net Email: jan...@rednote.net Linux Foundation Fellow Executive Chair, Accessibility Workgroup: http://a11y.org The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Chair, Accessible Platform Architectureshttp://www.w3.org/wai/apa ___ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list ___ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list -- -- John G. Heim; jh...@math.wisc.edu; sip://jh...@sip.linphone.org ___ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list
Re: Sharing files between Linux and Windows
You won't be able to find a existing case with space for an integrated braille display. It might be possible to install linux on a Pac Mate though. I had a Pac Mate with a 40 cell display. I still use the display every day but it is attached to my linux desktop. The Pac Mate itselfis gone. The battery blew up and the keyboard went bad. But I'll bet I could buy just the Pac Mate part for $100 these days. It might take more brains than I have to install linux on that thing though. Another option is to design your own case and have it printed on a 3D printer. But I don't think it's practical for a blind person to do that because the 3D drawing software is not going to be accessible. The whole thing could be a business opportunity for someone though. Start with a raspberry pi or something like that, design a case with an integrated braille display, and start selling linux notetakers. On 07/07/2016 10:53 AM, John J. Boyer wrote: Hi Janina, Building or rather designing my own computer would be fun. Maybe I can get others interested in participating. I'm thinking that what I would really like is a laptop with a built-in Braille display. It would have to have wi-fi and I would install comand-line only Debian. I have a Focus 40 display. Perhaps it could be attached to the laptop, so the two would be a single physical unit. John -- -- John G. Heim; jh...@math.wisc.edu; sip://jh...@sip.linphone.org ___ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list
Re: Sharing files between Linux and Windows
Hi John, When I enter as root smbpasswd -a lshare it asks for a password, but then it gives the message "Failed to add entry for user lshare". John On Wed, Jul 06, 2016 at 07:11:54PM -0500, John G. Heim wrote: > I am pretty sure that on your linux machine, all you have to do is this: > > sudo apt-get install samba > > *sudo smbpasswd -a * > > > That's all I did on a fresh debian jessie machine and I was able to access > my files in Win7. In Win7, press control+r to open a run dialog box. Type > \\\. That will open a dialog box for mapping a share. > If you make your linux user ID and password match your Win7 user ID and > password, you don't even have to enter those things. If they don't match, > there is a link titled something like "Log in with a different user name and > password". Sorry, I'd have to reboot into Win7 again to get the exact title > of the link. > > But seriously, those 2 commands were all I had to do to access my files from > my Win7 machine. If you want to modify the files on your linux machine, you > have to edit /etc/samba/smb.conf on the linux machine. But for copying the > files to your Win7 machine, I really think that is all you have to do. > > > On 07/06/2016 01:39 PM, John J. Boyer wrote: > >I tried to install a samba server on Windows. However, the Geek Squad > >agent who was helping said he didn't know enough to proceed. If I go to > >the Samba website, what should I do? > > > >Thanks, > >John > > > >On Wed, Jul 06, 2016 at 01:22:27PM -0400, Janina Sajka wrote: > >>Ditto. I've also only every used Samba for this. > >> > >>Note, however, that once you have Samba set up, you can perfectly access > >>the Windows folder from the Linux command line. Look at the man pages > >>for the following: > >> > >>smbclient > >>smbget > >> > >>Good luck! > >> > >>Janina > >> > >>John G Heim writes: > >>>I have always done this with samba. I never found it particularly > >>>difficult. You do have to read/follow the instructions. > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>>On 07/05/2016 01:36 PM, Mark Peveto wrote: > I'll be interested in the answer to that question myself. I've had some > tell me I need to use samba to do that...I've never been able to make it > work. > > Mark Peveto > Registered Linux user number 600552 > Sent from F123 Visual using alpine 2.20.13 > > > On Tue, 5 Jul 2016, John J. Boyer wrote: > > >I'm going to set up a folder called c:\share on my Windows machine. I > >want to set up a device on my Linux machine which is connected with this > >folder over my LAN. I know that this can be done, because I had > >something similar at one time. However, i'm not certain how to do it > >again. If I remember, it just took an entry in fstab and an entry in > >/dev. Thanks. > > > >John > > > >-- > >John J. Boyer; President, > >AbilitiesSoft, Inc. > >Email: john.bo...@abilitiessoft.org > >Website: http://www.abilitiessoft.org > >Status: 501(C)(3) Nonprofit > >Location: Madison, Wisconsin USA > >Mission: To develop softwares and provide STEM services for people with > > disabilities which are available at no cost. > > > >___ > >Blinux-list mailing list > >Blinux-list@redhat.com > >https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > > > ___ > Blinux-list mailing list > Blinux-list@redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > >>>-- > >>>-- > >>>John G. Heim; jh...@math.wisc.edu; sip://jh...@sip.linphone.org > >>> > >>>___ > >>>Blinux-list mailing list > >>>Blinux-list@redhat.com > >>>https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > >>-- > >> > >>Janina Sajka, Phone: +1.443.300.2200 > >>sip:jan...@asterisk.rednote.net > >>Email: jan...@rednote.net > >> > >>Linux Foundation Fellow > >>Executive Chair, Accessibility Workgroup: http://a11y.org > >> > >>The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) > >>Chair, Accessible Platform Architectureshttp://www.w3.org/wai/apa > >> > >>___ > >>Blinux-list mailing list > >>Blinux-list@redhat.com > >>https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > > ___ > Blinux-list mailing list > Blinux-list@redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list -- John J. Boyer; President, AbilitiesSoft, Inc. Email: john.bo...@abilitiessoft.org Website: http://www.abilitiessoft.org Status: 501(C)(3) Nonprofit Location: Madison, Wisconsin USA Mission: To develop softwares and provide STEM services for people with disabilities which are available at no cost. ___ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@redhat.com
Re: Sharing files between Linux and Windows
Hi Janina, Building or rather designing my own computer would be fun. Maybe I can get others interested in participating. I'm thinking that what I would really like is a laptop with a built-in Braille display. It would have to have wi-fi and I would install comand-line only Debian. I have a Focus 40 display. Perhaps it could be attached to the laptop, so the two would be a single physical unit. John -- John J. Boyer; President, AbilitiesSoft, Inc. Email: john.bo...@abilitiessoft.org Website: http://www.abilitiessoft.org Status: 501(C)(3) Nonprofit Location: Madison, Wisconsin USA Mission: To develop softwares and provide STEM services for people with disabilities which are available at no cost. ___ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list
Re: Sharing files between Linux and Windows
It's been a while, but I don't think you need to install a Samba server on Windows. I've never had to install anything on Windows to share a folder or access folders from other Windows boxes or Linux boxes running a Samba server. You just need to set up a home group in Windows. On 06/07/16 13:39, John J. Boyer wrote: I tried to install a samba server on Windows. However, the Geek Squad agent who was helping said he didn't know enough to proceed. If I go to the Samba website, what should I do? Thanks, John On Wed, Jul 06, 2016 at 01:22:27PM -0400, Janina Sajka wrote: Ditto. I've also only every used Samba for this. Note, however, that once you have Samba set up, you can perfectly access the Windows folder from the Linux command line. Look at the man pages for the following: smbclient smbget Good luck! Janina John G Heim writes: I have always done this with samba. I never found it particularly difficult. You do have to read/follow the instructions. On 07/05/2016 01:36 PM, Mark Peveto wrote: I'll be interested in the answer to that question myself. I've had some tell me I need to use samba to do that...I've never been able to make it work. Mark Peveto Registered Linux user number 600552 Sent from F123 Visual using alpine 2.20.13 On Tue, 5 Jul 2016, John J. Boyer wrote: I'm going to set up a folder called c:\share on my Windows machine. I want to set up a device on my Linux machine which is connected with this folder over my LAN. I know that this can be done, because I had something similar at one time. However, i'm not certain how to do it again. If I remember, it just took an entry in fstab and an entry in /dev. Thanks. John -- John J. Boyer; President, AbilitiesSoft, Inc. Email: john.bo...@abilitiessoft.org Website: http://www.abilitiessoft.org Status: 501(C)(3) Nonprofit Location: Madison, Wisconsin USA Mission: To develop softwares and provide STEM services for people with disabilities which are available at no cost. ___ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list ___ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list -- -- John G. Heim; jh...@math.wisc.edu; sip://jh...@sip.linphone.org ___ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list -- Janina Sajka, Phone: +1.443.300.2200 sip:jan...@asterisk.rednote.net Email: jan...@rednote.net Linux Foundation Fellow Executive Chair, Accessibility Workgroup: http://a11y.org The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Chair, Accessible Platform Architectureshttp://www.w3.org/wai/apa ___ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list -- Christopher (CJ) chaltain at Gmail ___ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list
Re: Sharing files between Linux and Windows
I am pretty sure that on your linux machine, all you have to do is this: sudo apt-get install samba *sudo smbpasswd -a * That's all I did on a fresh debian jessie machine and I was able to access my files in Win7. In Win7, press control+r to open a run dialog box. Type \\\. That will open a dialog box for mapping a share. If you make your linux user ID and password match your Win7 user ID and password, you don't even have to enter those things. If they don't match, there is a link titled something like "Log in with a different user name and password". Sorry, I'd have to reboot into Win7 again to get the exact title of the link. But seriously, those 2 commands were all I had to do to access my files from my Win7 machine. If you want to modify the files on your linux machine, you have to edit /etc/samba/smb.conf on the linux machine. But for copying the files to your Win7 machine, I really think that is all you have to do. On 07/06/2016 01:39 PM, John J. Boyer wrote: I tried to install a samba server on Windows. However, the Geek Squad agent who was helping said he didn't know enough to proceed. If I go to the Samba website, what should I do? Thanks, John On Wed, Jul 06, 2016 at 01:22:27PM -0400, Janina Sajka wrote: Ditto. I've also only every used Samba for this. Note, however, that once you have Samba set up, you can perfectly access the Windows folder from the Linux command line. Look at the man pages for the following: smbclient smbget Good luck! Janina John G Heim writes: I have always done this with samba. I never found it particularly difficult. You do have to read/follow the instructions. On 07/05/2016 01:36 PM, Mark Peveto wrote: I'll be interested in the answer to that question myself. I've had some tell me I need to use samba to do that...I've never been able to make it work. Mark Peveto Registered Linux user number 600552 Sent from F123 Visual using alpine 2.20.13 On Tue, 5 Jul 2016, John J. Boyer wrote: I'm going to set up a folder called c:\share on my Windows machine. I want to set up a device on my Linux machine which is connected with this folder over my LAN. I know that this can be done, because I had something similar at one time. However, i'm not certain how to do it again. If I remember, it just took an entry in fstab and an entry in /dev. Thanks. John -- John J. Boyer; President, AbilitiesSoft, Inc. Email: john.bo...@abilitiessoft.org Website: http://www.abilitiessoft.org Status: 501(C)(3) Nonprofit Location: Madison, Wisconsin USA Mission: To develop softwares and provide STEM services for people with disabilities which are available at no cost. ___ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list ___ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list -- -- John G. Heim; jh...@math.wisc.edu; sip://jh...@sip.linphone.org ___ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list -- Janina Sajka, Phone: +1.443.300.2200 sip:jan...@asterisk.rednote.net Email: jan...@rednote.net Linux Foundation Fellow Executive Chair, Accessibility Workgroup: http://a11y.org The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Chair, Accessible Platform Architectureshttp://www.w3.org/wai/apa ___ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list ___ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list
Re: Sharing files between Linux and Windows
The following mount command mounts a cifs file system, I.E. your Windows share, under the mount point called note. The share is called bid and the user is also called bid. One is prompted for a password when the mount is envoced, but there are ways to automate this. mount -tcifs //146.64.28.229/bid note -o username=bid I would really not use NFS as suggested by someone on the list, as it is not verry secure and SAMBA works well. HTH, Willem On Tue, 5 Jul 2016, John J. Boyer wrote: I'm going to set up a folder called c:\share on my Windows machine. I want to set up a device on my Linux machine which is connected with this folder over my LAN. I know that this can be done, because I had something similar at one time. However, i'm not certain how to do it again. If I remember, it just took an entry in fstab and an entry in /dev. Thanks. John -- John J. Boyer; President, AbilitiesSoft, Inc. Email: john.bo...@abilitiessoft.org Website: http://www.abilitiessoft.org Status: 501(C)(3) Nonprofit Location: Madison, Wisconsin USA Mission: To develop softwares and provide STEM services for people with disabilities which are available at no cost. ___ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list -- This message is subject to the CSIR's copyright terms and conditions, e-mail legal notice, and implemented Open Document Format (ODF) standard. The full disclaimer details can be found at http://www.csir.co.za/disclaimer.html. This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. Please consider the environment before printing this email. ___ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list
Re: Sharing files between Linux and Windows
I have always done this with samba. I never found it particularly difficult. You do have to read/follow the instructions. On 07/05/2016 01:36 PM, Mark Peveto wrote: I'll be interested in the answer to that question myself. I've had some tell me I need to use samba to do that...I've never been able to make it work. Mark Peveto Registered Linux user number 600552 Sent from F123 Visual using alpine 2.20.13 On Tue, 5 Jul 2016, John J. Boyer wrote: I'm going to set up a folder called c:\share on my Windows machine. I want to set up a device on my Linux machine which is connected with this folder over my LAN. I know that this can be done, because I had something similar at one time. However, i'm not certain how to do it again. If I remember, it just took an entry in fstab and an entry in /dev. Thanks. John -- John J. Boyer; President, AbilitiesSoft, Inc. Email: john.bo...@abilitiessoft.org Website: http://www.abilitiessoft.org Status: 501(C)(3) Nonprofit Location: Madison, Wisconsin USA Mission: To develop softwares and provide STEM services for people with disabilities which are available at no cost. ___ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list ___ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list -- -- John G. Heim; jh...@math.wisc.edu; sip://jh...@sip.linphone.org ___ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list
Re: Sharing files between Linux and Windows
I'll be interested in the answer to that question myself. I've had some tell me I need to use samba to do that...I've never been able to make it work. Mark Peveto Registered Linux user number 600552 Sent from F123 Visual using alpine 2.20.13 On Tue, 5 Jul 2016, John J. Boyer wrote: > I'm going to set up a folder called c:\share on my Windows machine. I > want to set up a device on my Linux machine which is connected with this > folder over my LAN. I know that this can be done, because I had > something similar at one time. However, i'm not certain how to do it > again. If I remember, it just took an entry in fstab and an entry in > /dev. Thanks. > > John > > -- > John J. Boyer; President, > AbilitiesSoft, Inc. > Email: john.bo...@abilitiessoft.org > Website: http://www.abilitiessoft.org > Status: 501(C)(3) Nonprofit > Location: Madison, Wisconsin USA > Mission: To develop softwares and provide STEM services for people with > disabilities which are available at no cost. > > ___ > Blinux-list mailing list > Blinux-list@redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > ___ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list
