Re: [gentoo-user] What is the gimmick to run tightvnc from windows to gentoo
I did this a while back and I got it working by tunnelling via SSH (using putty on windows). But I can't remember the exact details off the top of my head. It may be worth googling that set-up. I seem to remember thinking it felt like a kludge and I can't quite remember why I ended up doing it, but I do remember that it worked. BB On Wed, 16 Jul 2008 20:19:45 -0500 Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tightvnc installed with server flag and seems to be working, at least > as far as viewing from gentoo through servers running on windows > machines. But when tried the other way round I get no connecton and no > log output from the gentoo server. > > Just a message on the windows machine >`Failed to connect to Xxx.xxx.xxx'. > > There is some log info on the windows side bit it appears to only > involve the server and nothing gets written to that file when I > attempt to start the viewer on a windows xp box aimed at the linux > box. > > The words `verbose' or `debug' do not appear anywhere in vncserver man > pages. How can I get some debug info out of this thing? > > Or maybe someone knows what is needed to get the connection to work. > > -- > gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list > -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Sharing a printer to XP: Samba vs IPP
On Tue, 18 Mar 2008 10:00:49 -0400 "Benjamen R. Meyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > David Blamire-Brown wrote: > > Hi, > > This is a question about a small home network set-up for printing. I can't > > tell if this is OT for this list, but that doesn't seem to be a firm > > restriction in this part of the world in any case! > > > > I have a locally attached printer on a Gentoo machine. I have a Windows XP > > laptop. I would like to print from my XP laptop over the network to the > > printer. > > I have followed the guide on gentoo.org. I've sort of got printing working > > via Samba, but haven't been able to configure it for XP users to print > > without having to login to Samba. So I'm looking back at using IPP on the > > XP laptop. > > Anyway, the main question is, is Samba a preferred option, or is it just > > more complicated than using IPP? There are a couple of brief lines about > > printing via IPP in the Gentoo Printing Guide, but a whole separate guide > > on using Samba. I can't find any information on use of IPP vs Samba via a > > brief Google, but maybe I'm just not searching very well. > > I would think Samba would be more an option for when you already have a > Windows/Samba domain running for the network that everyone authenticates > through. Granted, as another poster provided, you can enable > public/guest access, which would make it like a Win9x/Me printer share > though XP should do fine with it. > > However, I think CUPS/IPP would be a better option. It's very easy to > configure (I just followed the Gentoo guide for it). And it makes it > very easy to install on any Windows system. If you have CUPS configured > properly, you can even have it provide the drivers automatically to the > Windows systems - I haven't tried that yet. It really impressed me how > quick and easy it was to install CUPS - both on other Linux systems and > on Windows. > > There is a Samba/CUPS guide, so I think you can even mix the two a bit. > > There is also one other issue to consider - AFAIK, the SMB protocol does > not do spooling - so you could get job conflicts, while IPP makes the > printer a true network printer running via a print server (e.g. CUPS) so > it has spooling inherent to it. (Someone please correct me if I am wrong > on this.) So you'll be safer using IPP. I have worked in environments > where printers were shared similarly - no print server - and it causes > problems when two people try to print something at near the same time; > the printer will ignore one job, or switch jobs in the middle - never > predictable what it would do, though I think ignoring jobs was what > primarily happened. It's a pain - and that's even with printers that had > built in network interfaces. > > Just something to consider. > > Ben > > -- > gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list > As far as I can tell from reading the various bits of documentation, using Samba to share a printer relies on the local printing subsystem as well (eg CUPS as you mentioned), so it has no effect on the spooling capabilities of CUPS. CUPS is still providing the print service and spooling capabilities. Samba in and of itself doesn't provide any printing services. It merely moves a file from a SMB client to a spooling area and invokes the local printing subsystem [http://us1.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/classicalprinting.html] IPP appears to be a more elegant solution, in that it is far simpler. I can't see any specific advantages of using Samba over IPP. I did seem to get most of the set-up for using IPP and CUPS working. The only issue came when I tried to complete the process of adding the printer in XP. At this point, the XP laptop seemed to hang and I could see no evidence of any activity on the Gentoo machine to suggest why it was hanging. I suspect I have missed something in the network settings on either the XP laptop or on the Gentoo box that led to something not being able to get through to respond to a request from the XP laptop for drivers or similar. In any case, as posted elsewhere, I seem to have got sharing via Samba working. Regards, David -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Sharing a printer to XP: Samba vs IPP
On Tue, 18 Mar 2008 09:13:09 + Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 18 March 2008, Mark Shields wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 5:42 PM, David Blamire-Brown < > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I have followed the guide on gentoo.org. I've sort of got printing > > > working via Samba, but haven't been able to configure it for XP users to > > > print without having to login to Samba. So I'm looking back at using IPP > > > on the XP laptop. > > > > It sounds like you need to enable guest and public access to the printer. > > Here is an older guide, but it seems to have the relevant stuff you need: > > http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=110931 > > > > These lines: > > > > public = yes > > guest ok = yes > > > > Check out the guide for the appropriate places to put them. > > You will also want to configure cups.conf to listen not only to localhost, > but > to also listen to the IP address of the XP box. > -- > Regards, > Mick > Thank you for the advice. cups.conf and smb.conf were already configured as per the guides. So that wasn't the problem. Setting security = share appears to have resolved the login issues. Guest access for printing in security = user seems to have the unfortunate side effect of Windows deciding it is already logged in to samba, making impossible to connect to the homes share without logging out to clear the cache of connections. I can't tell whether my initial issues with not being able to print as guest were related to the default guest linux account (nobody) not being in the lp group, but that's probably a different topic. David -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Sharing a printer to XP: Samba vs IPP
Hi, This is a question about a small home network set-up for printing. I can't tell if this is OT for this list, but that doesn't seem to be a firm restriction in this part of the world in any case! I have a locally attached printer on a Gentoo machine. I have a Windows XP laptop. I would like to print from my XP laptop over the network to the printer. I have followed the guide on gentoo.org. I've sort of got printing working via Samba, but haven't been able to configure it for XP users to print without having to login to Samba. So I'm looking back at using IPP on the XP laptop. Anyway, the main question is, is Samba a preferred option, or is it just more complicated than using IPP? There are a couple of brief lines about printing via IPP in the Gentoo Printing Guide, but a whole separate guide on using Samba. I can't find any information on use of IPP vs Samba via a brief Google, but maybe I'm just not searching very well. Regards, David -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] browser advice
On Wed, 29 Nov 2006 21:00:06 + (WET) Jorge Almeida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm about to dump Firefox, because I can't google in English. The thing > So, the point is: what browser now? Firefox is the one more often > mentioned in this list. How about Konqueror or Opera? The latter is > hardly ever mentioned. Is there some special reason for this? For > example, is it activelly maintained? Is it missing some particular > feature? It looks nice enough, but is there some catch? Another vote for Opera here. I'm running 9.02 at home. A few observations from my set-up, although they could be as much to do me having not got something else in my configuration right ... 1) This version of Opera really seems to struggle with "heavy" pages. The whole app slows down, no response to clicks etc, until the page has fully rendered. Example of affected page: http://funds.ft.com/funds/searchFund.do?symb=AQSTG&type=F1 2) Opera infrequently causes my system to hang completely. I can't ctrl +alt+F1 to a terminal screen, I can ctrl+alt+backspace to kill X, I can't do anything. It's a hard reboot of the box. Admittedly I'm slightly impatient, but I give it 10 secs before hitting reset, sometimes longer. I can't categorically state that it's Opera, but I've a very strong suspicion. Especially given that I basically use an xterm, sylpheed and opera 95% of the time. 3) Javascript seems fairly broken in Opera - but that could be my fault for not setting something up properly. 4) Some pages just don't render properly in Opera and I have occasion to fall back to firefox. As another poster said, it's often badly designed banking sites. 5) Overall though, IMO Opera is a nicer browser to use than firefox. Tabbed browsing is implemented in a more effective fashion. Keyboard shortcuts are lovely, eg F2 to bring a dialog for typing a URL, which can be configured to fire up a new tab is very nice. Shift+F2 allows you to have a one key shortcut for favourite bookmarks (again firing up a new tab). Sidebar is far more effective in Opera. Obviously personal preference, but I much prefer it. Regards, David -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
