Re: [SLUG] Ubuntu / Windows networking
G'day Rosemary, You need to transfer your Ubuntu users to Samba users. To create a link between your Ubuntu user and a Samba user do the following: sudo gedit /etc/samba/smbusers Add the line: username = username eg: for me I would add: alex = alex The first is the ubuntu username, the second is your samba username. If this doesn't work there's a chance Samba isn't started (or perhaps installed if an update has removed it for some reason (I've observed that behaviour with Ubuntu and find it infuriating)). Hoo Roo, Alex. Rosemary MacPherson wrote: Hi all, Second post requesting help (See my post Firefox problem for an explanation of my total infancy in Linux) I have several PCs running Win98 plus one running Win98 / Ubuntu as a dual-boot on a LAN. I can see the Ubuntu PC on the Win 98 PCs but when I try to access I get a pop-up box asking for a password to resource \\MAC2\IPC$ My Ubuntu passwords do not work. Any help would be appreciated. Again, words of one syllable as I really am a novice at this Thanks Stewart MacPherson Mac from the Mountains -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Firefox problem
Hi all, This is my first post on this list so a bit of information I am brand new to Linux and have recently installed Ubuntu 6.06 I have had a lot of help from another Ubuntu user but I have a problem that has him (and me) baffled. Firefox is installed on my PC but when I click the icon to open it the cycling circular cursor shows up for about 10 - 15 seconds and then goes away with nothing happening. If I double-click and html file the same thing. I tried issuing the command firefox from terminal but nothing happened. A look in /var/log/messages shows no messages about firefox I removed Firefox and re-installed it from the web and it installed fine and shows an icon in the top panel but still i get the same problem. Can anyone assist please? Words of one syllable or less would be appreciated wit every step defined as I have no prrevious Linux experience. Cheers Stewart MacPherson ( using my wife's email account - hence the Rosemary) Mac from the Mountains -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] An annoying bug, but whose is it?
On 28/02/2007, at 5:54 AM, Howard Lowndes wrote: I have a laptop with Fedora Core 6 and it is set up such that when I close the lid it goes into suspend mode. When I wake it up by opening the lid all is fine until I start VMware, as soon as I go to start a guest OS under VMware the X server crashes and spawns back to its login prompt. It only does this on the first occasion after a suspend or hibernate event. Has anyone seen this? Is it a hardware bug, a FC bug, a VMware bug, a guest OS bug, or just an annoyance I will have to tolerate and remember about? Hunt it down! Attach to the running process with gdb, crash it, and get a backtrace to see where it died. Do it a few times to see if it happens at the same spot. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Ubuntu / Windows networking
On Wednesday 28 February 2007 17:20, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Second post requesting help (See my post Firefox problem for an explanation of my total infancy in Linux) I have several PCs running Win98 plus one running Win98 / Ubuntu as a dual-boot on a LAN. I can see the Ubuntu PC on the Win 98 PCs but when I try to access I get a pop-up box asking for a password to resource \\MAC2\IPC$ My Ubuntu passwords do not work. Any help would be appreciated. Again, words of one syllable as I really am a novice at this I'm not exactly sure what you are asking sorry but if you want to see network the neighborhood on your ubuntu box and have samba up-n-running and suitable shares mapped then you must provide a login passwd, typically smbpasswd -a me-or-other secret secret Also choose the same workgroup for all systems eg WORKGROUP, MSHOME TUX etc Then when you access network-all networks-WORKGROUP as me-or-other and secret you have access. You may also specify public shares and have no login requirements typical eg /tmp swat makes this easy for a newby, but don't bother its too hard to make it work on ubuntu! James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Firefox sux
Firefox for AMD64 has to be the worst piece of crap ever written; just use epiphany (if you run gnome) or konqueror (if you run KDE). I used to love firefox on my old system; it was fast and easy to use. The new version just uses up ALL my processor and memory as soon as it is started and brings the system to a standstill. I have to switch to a command line to stop it after which everything returns to normal. What happened to it between 1.5 and 2.0? My current version is 2.0.0.2 but the problem has existed since 2.0. I am now using epiphany and occasionally konqueror (without flash) and don't have the hassle. Heracles -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Query re Firefox
On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 06:30:27PM +1100, Leslie Katz wrote: Matthew Hannigan wrote: Didn't you say you're using firefox 2.0.0.2? That's not standard on any released fedora that I know of. If you installed it yourself from source, or from an alternative rpm repo, then I suspect that could be the origin of your problem. I am using that version, which is the latest available from Mozilla. As to how I got it installed, for some time now, whenever I've seen reference on the Web to the existence of an update, I've gone to the Firefox Help tab, clicked on Check for Updates and the update's been automatically downloaded from the Mozilla site and installed. I can't say that it's been said every time, but certainly for the last few times, including for v 2.0.0.2, the Mozilla people have said they strongly recommend updating for security reasons, so I have. I can't now be sure, but it may well be that my problem first arose after (and therefore because of?) this latest update. However, since I couldn't get any answer when I posted in the Firefox forum, maybe I've just got to live with it. Thanks for replying, There's no need to go outside your official distro updates for anything security related; thats what distros do. Matt -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Trouble connecting Pocket PC to Ubuntu
I'm trying to connect a pocket pc to Ubuntu 6.10. When I connect the device Linux seems to pick it up correctly but then disconnects almost immediately. Below is the output from dmesg. I've checked /proc/bus/usb/devices and for a short while it also lists the device correctly. Does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks, Rich [17187573.004000] usb 3-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 4 [17187573.172000] usb 3-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice [17187573.172000] ipaq 3-2:1.0: PocketPC PDA converter detected [17187573.176000] usb 3-2: PocketPC PDA converter now attached to ttyUSB0 [17187587.632000] usb 3-2: USB disconnect, address 4 [17187587.632000] ipaq ttyUSB0: PocketPC PDA converter now disconnected from tty USB0 [17187587.632000] ipaq 3-2:1.0: device disconnected -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Firefox problem
It could be that some settings have screwed up your firefox config. One thing to try is to basically let firefox start without any custom settings for your account. To do this try runn the following from the command line mv ~/.mozilla ~/.mozilla-old then try rerunning firefox. It should then create a fresh .mozilla directory with default settings. If this does fix the problem then you did have some sort of settings problem. Of course any bookmarks or other customisations have moved into the .mozilla-old directory - you can then copy back the pertinent ones (like .mozilla-old/firefox/*/bookmarks.html) Regards, Martin On 2/28/07, Rosemary MacPherson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, This is my first post on this list so a bit of information I am brand new to Linux and have recently installed Ubuntu 6.06 I have had a lot of help from another Ubuntu user but I have a problem that has him (and me) baffled. Firefox is installed on my PC but when I click the icon to open it the cycling circular cursor shows up for about 10 - 15 seconds and then goes away with nothing happening. If I double-click and html file the same thing. I tried issuing the command firefox from terminal but nothing happened. A look in /var/log/messages shows no messages about firefox I removed Firefox and re-installed it from the web and it installed fine and shows an icon in the top panel but still i get the same problem. Can anyone assist please? Words of one syllable or less would be appreciated wit every step defined as I have no prrevious Linux experience. Cheers Stewart MacPherson ( using my wife's email account - hence the Rosemary) Mac from the Mountains -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- Regards, Martin Martin Visser -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Firefox problem
try moving/renaming the /home/username/.mozilla directory. you can do it in a terminal with the following command mv ~/.mozilla ~/.mozilla-bak Or just use a file browser and rename the folder. **NOTE** make sure you have show hidden folders turned on if you use the later method. Richard Neal On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 06:40:23 pm Rosemary MacPherson wrote: Can anyone assist please? Words of one syllable or less would be appreciated wit every step defined as I have no prrevious Linux experience. Cheers Stewart MacPherson ( using my wife's email account - hence the Rosemary) Mac from the Mountains -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Firefox problem
Ouch, I forgot to send my earlier reply to this to the whole of slug, and not just the original poster. :P My reply was: I had this exact problem, out of the box, on Ubuntu 6.06. After a while of playing around, I found that the problem was that the config and profile directory, ~/.mozilla was owned by root, and the user running firefox couldn't write to it. I did something like sudo chown -R david:david /home/david/.mozilla to fix the problem, which reset the owner and group of the mozilla directory to user david and group david. Then firefox worked. :D You will probably want to replace david with your user. On 2/28/07, Richard Neal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: try moving/renaming the /home/username/.mozilla directory. you can do it in a terminal with the following command mv ~/.mozilla ~/.mozilla-bak Or just use a file browser and rename the folder. **NOTE** make sure you have show hidden folders turned on if you use the later method. Richard Neal On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 06:40:23 pm Rosemary MacPherson wrote: Can anyone assist please? Words of one syllable or less would be appreciated wit every step defined as I have no prrevious Linux experience. Cheers Stewart MacPherson ( using my wife's email account - hence the Rosemary) Mac from the Mountains -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Re: ATO online
On Wed, 2007-02-28 at 20:51 +1100, Howard Lowndes wrote: Rev Simon Rumble wrote: On 2/28/2007, Howard Lowndes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My own guess is that it's probably more of a distro thing. Should they support Debian, or Fedora, or Ubuntu, or Slackware, or Gentoo, or Mandriva, or some minority distro, and why not my own preference? Should they package to rpm, or apt, or tgz? Eh? What's wrong with HTML? Nothing, but I think some of the app runs on the client and is not all web based. I think just about *all* of the app runs on the client. It's a windows program that only requires Internet explorer for the few times it contacts the ATO. I have downloaded the app the last few years and have managed to get it running almost perfectly under Cedega. (didn't try wine but I would be surprised if things were different). By almost I mean the app runs just fine, it takes your info, saves it perfectly, calculates your expected return just great, and then when asked to submit your info to the tax office... Falls on its head. This is just my experience, but if anyone has had different results, I'd love to hear about it. If the ATO could make their taxation thing web based, (and browser independent), that would be fantastic. But while the program is a client based application (and the linux userbase is still quite small), perhaps the *easiest* platform that they could support would be wine. Darren. P.S. the tax program failed on my windows computer at work in nearly the same way, but I suspect the reason was more of an excessively strict firewall policy than anything else. -- Howard. LANNet Computing Associates - Your Linux people http://lannetlinux.com When you want a computer system that works, just choose Linux; When you want a computer system that works, just, choose Microsoft. -- Flatter government, not fatter government; abolish the Australian states. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Re: ATO online
Sorry to jump in to this late in the piece. Is this about downloading the ATO application to complete the Tax Pack online versus having a webpage that one completes? I had read ages ago - just before the current tax year started - that the ATO electronic tax pack application will run under Wine. 'fraid I have no references. It was a while ago. Regards, Patrick -- Registered Linux User 368634 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Query re Firefox
Hi Leslie, If you're still having trouble with this, you can try the following: In T'bird, go to the toolbar and open 'edit'. Then choose 'advanced' and click on the 'general' tab. Then click on the 'Config Editor' button. This will bring up a window. In the 'filter' line at the top of the window, type in: network.protocol-handler.app.http Check to see what this points towards. If not towards your correct Firefox installation, then double click the highlighted line and entered the correct location. Do the same with: network.protocol-handler.app.https See how you go... this may or may not help :) Regards, Patrick Leslie Katz [EMAIL PROTECTED] When I click on a link in my email client (Thunderbird v 1.5.0.9), my browser (Firefox v 2.0.0.2) opens, but with a blank page, rather than with the page I want to open. That's a recent and annoying change from past practice. I now have to copy the link location in Thunderbird, open Firefox and then paste in the address. I disabled all of my Firefox extensions to see whether that would solve the problem. It didn't. I looked at the Firefox Tab preferences, but couldn't see one that had anything to do with this. I posted a query in the Mozilla forums. No one answered. Can anyone tell me how to fix the problem? Thanks, Leslie -- Registered Linux User 368634 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Re: ATO online
Hi all, Just got this through mail. So now might be a good time to add some pressure! -tax 2006 is closed and e-tax 2007 is under development. http://ato.gov.au/distributor.asp?doc=/content/39979.htm Published: 28 Feb 2007 Mark -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Firefox problem
On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 06:40:23 pm Rosemary MacPherson wrote: Can anyone assist please? Hi all, The problem was, as described by several helpful members, with the ~/.mozilla directory and its permissions I did the suggested chown on it and Firefox is now up and running - Thanks to all. I think this problem is now resolved. Expect lots of questions from me over the coming weeks. Mac from the Mountains -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] I'm suffering from withdrawal
Howard Lowndes wrote: My spam level had been bubbling along at a steady 25,000 rejects per day, with the rare spike to 150,000, for about 2-3 weeks, but over the past 5 days it has slowly retreated to about 20,000. Now, in the past 15 hours, it has retreated to around 10,000. Surely there can't be some higher force at work, or have the Russian Mafia gone into self destruct mode... :) The Taliban nuked Boca Raton last night ;) -- _ Rick Welykochy || Praxis Services All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. -- Arthur Schopenhauer -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Trouble connecting Pocket PC to Ubuntu
Try using a different usb cable or a different usb slot. If the pocket pc is usb 2.0 it may not work correctly in a 1.0 slot or with a 1.0 cable. I have an external disk that only works when plugged into the rear slots. Rich Buggy wrote: I'm trying to connect a pocket pc to Ubuntu 6.10. When I connect the device Linux seems to pick it up correctly but then disconnects almost immediately. Below is the output from dmesg. I've checked /proc/bus/usb/devices and for a short while it also lists the device correctly. Does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks, Rich -- Mark Pearson BSc (Computing) Technical Support, Dept Nuclear Medicine Concord Hospital, Hospital Road, Concord, NSW 2139, Australia Phone:+61-2-97676339 or +61-297677450; FAX:+61-2-97677451 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Academic research software
Not sure if TeXmacs has been mentioned, but its basically in the same vein as Lyx, except better in some aspects. The main difference is that TeXmacs isn't exactly just a GUI ontop of LaTeX -- it uses its own format and commands (which are quite similar to LaTeX), however it recognizes LaTeX commands. If you know LaTeX you can construct documents very efficiently in TeXmacs, especially very efficient typing of equations and such.. better than just using a place text file (you'll have to try it out to really see why). The big issue though, is that for a complicated document you will probably have to export to LaTeX and tweak some thigs. But its exportation to LaTeX is by no means perfect, so there are a few issues there. Nevertheless the efficiency with which you can type mathematics in it is unsurpassed. Has a lot of potential. -Beren On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 11:29:20AM +1100, Alan L Tyree wrote: On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 11:11:57 +1100 Joseph Goncalves [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 27 Feb 2007, Russell Davie wrote: snip Kile is a more user-friendly KDE-based TeX/LaTeX editor: http://kile.sourceforge.net/ KBibTeX specifically targets the bibliography features of LaTeX: http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=27421 More user friendly? How so if Kile requires the user to learn LaTeX markup language before they can produce a document? LyX enables a user to produce a document without having to learn LaTeX. This is avoids the significant and extra LaTeX learning curve. LaTeX markup language is really easy to use, but when it comes to changing the default layout, it gets complicated. LaTeX markup is far superior when you have repetitive patterns that you need to use. Personally I use latex-suite in vim than the GUI based Kile. And VIM has a far steeper learning curve than LaTeX. But like learning to Touch Type, the learning curve of Vim is well worth it. This is true, but in my experience it is not always on the point. Some people are simply put off by having the markup visible on screen. I don't know why this is so, but I have seen it in experienced as well as inexperienced users. There is something about having a footnote in the middle of a paragraph that freaks them out. Cheers, Alan If you have a aptitude for programming then definitely learn LaTeX. Here is a link to a really good LaTeX FAQ that teaches you to do stuff that will be hard to find otherwise... http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html -- Joseph Goncalves mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 66D6 71CF 87F9 6B17 6824 C692 9FF0 1DAF 7DAE E661 -- It is said that the Fremen has no conscience, having lost it in a burning desire for revenge. This is foolish. Only the rawest primitive and the sociopath have no conscience. The Fremen possesses a highly evolved worldview centered on the welfare of his people. His sense of belonging to the community is almost stronger than his sense of self. It is only to outsiders that these desert dwellers seem brutish . . . just as outsiders appear to them. -- PARDOT KYNES, The People of Arrakis -- Alan L Tyreehttp://www2.austlii.edu.au/~alan Tel: +61 2 4782 2670Mobile: +61 427 486 206 Fax: +61 2 4782 7092FWD: 615662 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] On fitting an internal hard drive, further to
Many thanks to tose who responded to my query. I now have a laptop with a 100GB internal hard drive and the former HD is now in an external HD holder. I'd like to connect the (Microsoft) external hard drive to the (Fedora) laptop to use as needed (occasionally). I'm told that, to do this:--- (a) the laptop has to boot from other than its BIOS-directed hard drive and (b) this can be done by amending the BIOS, if it's possible. If not, then (c) instal a BIOS that will. Is all this correct thus far? The laptop is a Fujitsu, ~4 years old. Any help/suggestions etc. Regards, Bill Bennett. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Query to Firefox
Thanks very much to all those who replied to my query. I tried Peter Hardy's suggestion of adding to the end of the command in my Web Browser tab in my Preferred Applications window %s. That did the trick. Thanks again, Leslie -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
