Re: [ubuntu-uk] BBC sound
Is it a Flash-based streaming media? I am sorry, but I do not know. There are no messages to indicate a fault or a need for other software it all happens so quickly. You might even say, in a flash. Norman -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Connecting to a network
To be honest, the quickest way to access networked data between linux boxes is to ensure ssh is enabled, and to open nautilus - in the address bar type ssh://usern...@ipaddress You'll then be asked to log on with credentials on the remote machine (assuming you don't use key-based authentication)... Samba is really designed for interoperability between Windows and *nix boxes...there are several methods of sharing files natively though. You might also want to read up on NFS Hope this helps On 11/07/2009, David King linux...@avoura.com wrote: I do have another problem, with the network. I have put my Asus EeePC running Xandros on the network, and I want to connect to it from my Ubuntu PC and vice versa. I have installed samba on Ubuntu, plus gadmin-samba, and Firestarter. I have tried to set up the file sharing so that the Asus can access my home directory, and so that Ubuntu can access the Asus home directory. But when trying to access Asus from Ubuntu, it asks for a username, domain and password. But when I entered the Asus username, the PC name, and the password, it would not connect. Error message: Unable to mount location. Failed to mount Windows share. And from the Asus, when I try to connect to the Ubuntu PC, I get an error saying No route to host. I have used networking successfully in the past. It was not difficult at all in Windows XP, 2000 and 98 (although I found it to be impossible in Windows ME). I then started using Xandros, and networking with that was very easy. I have also networked PCs running other Linux distros, but when it comes to Ubuntu, I just cannot get it to work. I have tried in 7.10, 8.04 and now 9.04 -- I always get no access to other PCs on the network from Ubuntu, and no access to Ubuntu from other PCs. However, I can access my NAS okay from Ubuntu (as mentioned earlier, below). So why is networking in Ubuntu so very difficult to set up? What is the magic thing I need to enter to make it work? Other distros make it much easier. Ubuntu did not even have Samba installed by default, so I fear I may still need to install another piece of software to make it all work. Firestarter is set up to allow incoming traffic to all using Samba, and I specified the network by IP (192.168.0.2-192.168.0.255) and by name. And when I try to access the Ubuntu network share via Network in Nautilus, which I should be able to do as it is the PC I am accessing it from, I get an error saying Unable to mount location. Failed to retrieve share list from server. So how do I get networking/filesharing working in Ubuntu? David King David King wrote: Thanks, Matthew, that worked perfectly. I have saved it in a script so that I can mount the NAS from the CLI when I need to use it, and have full read-write access. David King Matthew Daubney wrote: Hi David, You need to tell the mount line to override the uid and gid of the files. This can be done with the options switch on the mount line like: sudo mount -t cifs '//192.168.0.4/DISK 1' /media/nas1 -o uid=1000,gid=1000 You'll need to look up the id for your user and your group, you can find that info in /etc/group, which will look like yourgroupname:x:gid: and in /etc/passwd. If you're the first user they'll probab;y both be 1000. Hope that helps! -Matt Daubney -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- Sent from my mobile device -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Connecting to a network
On 11/07/09 22:55, David King wrote: snip / And when I try to access the Ubuntu network share via Network in Nautilus, which I should be able to do as it is the PC I am accessing it from, I get an error saying Unable to mount location. Failed to retrieve share list from server. So how do I get networking/filesharing working in Ubuntu? Why use Samba for Linux file sharing? Install sshd on both machines: sudo apt-get install openssh-server In your file browser (The Places menu), select connect to server Under service type select ssh. In the server box enter the ip address of the machine you want to connect to. The Folder you *can* set if you wish. Perhaps something like /home/myhome_dir, or leave it at the default and you will be connected to the root of the filesystem /. Click the Add Bookmark box and give it a sensible name and click on connect. Decide on how you want to save the password etc when asked. and it is done. You might also like to look at sshfs. This allows you mount file systems over ssh, you can include the command in your /etc/fstab file so that it will be automatically mounted on boot up, or even create a short script that gets run when you login for example... There are lots of ways to do networking/filesharing. You just have to find one that suits you. Samba generally works for me (I have one windows PC left in our network), but have you configured the samba server properly? The configuration is usually kept in /etc/samba/smb.conf HTH Alan -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] Email: default keyring, tray icon
(1) Logging in manually instead of automatically does not remove the Evolution prompts to unlock the default keyring. This latter is located at usr/bin/seahorse, and is really only for OpenPGP and SSH keyring controls. I do not want to create keyrings, and I would like to know how to disable the prompts. (2) Despite trying various tray icon add-ons and plug-ins for both Evolution and Thunderbird, I cannot get an email tray icon. It looks as if I accidentally deleted the gnome panel tray icon for email clients in general, and I would like to know how to get it back. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] problem with nForce 430 sata burner
Running Ubuntu 9.04 32bit.
I just changed motherboards due to problems with the old one. New board
has nForce 430 sata ports on it.
The hdd's are detected and work fine, BUT when I try to burn a DVD I get
errors:-
From dmesg
[ 3351.724162] ata3.00: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x195
action 0xe
[ 3351.724174] ata3: SError: { PHYRdyChg CommWake Dispar LinkSeq TrStaTrns }
[ 3351.724189] ata3.00: cmd a0/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 0
[ 3351.724191] cdb 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
[ 3351.724194] res 51/60:03:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 Emask
0x10 (ATA bus error)
[ 3351.724200] ata3.00: status: { DRDY ERR }
[ 3352.444600] ata3: soft resetting link
[ 3352.600563] ata3: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300)
[ 3352.672243] ata3.00: configured for UDMA/100
[ 3352.682271] ata3: EH complete
And the burn fails. This drive worked fine on my older motherboard, and
nothing else has changed bar the motherboard.
Earlier in dmesg:-
[2.698278] ata3: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x9e0 ctl 0xbe0 bmdma 0xe000
irq 22
[2.698281] ata4: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x960 ctl 0xb60 bmdma 0xe008
irq 22
[3.164032] ata3: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300)
[3.172115] ata3.00: ATAPI: TSSTcorp CDDVDW SH-S203B, SB01, max UDMA/100
[3.188132] ata3.00: configured for UDMA/100
[3.510951] scsi 2:0:0:0: CD-ROMTSSTcorp CDDVDW SH-S203B
SB01 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
[3.515105] sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 48x/48x writer dvd-ram cd/rw
xa/form2 cdda tray
[3.515109] Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
[3.515202] sr 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0
[3.515240] sr 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 5
So it is detected fine but when I try to write it fails.
Anybody got any ideas?
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] The Stolen Earth
Tim Dobson wrote: From http://dalek.microsoft.com/en-us/ultimate/FX101674081033.aspx : Getting a 404 Server not found. Does this mean the Doctor has finally and definitively defeated them? John -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] Nvidia-legacy drivers on Jaunty
I'm just setting up an old PC for a friend of a friend, and naturally, I have put Ubuntu on it. It's an Athlon XP 700+ with 768MB of RAM and an nVidia Riva TNT2 AGP card. Interestingly, Hardy failed to boot. It installed cleanly from a live CD, but the resultant system never got past GRUB. Jaunty worked fine, 1st time. The Hardware-drivers tool is unable to detect this old graphics card, but I googled for more instructions. I checked what version of nVidia's drivers support a Riva TNT2 and it's the v71 build. So, I installed nvidia-glx-71. This went smoothly. On reboot, there is no nVidia logo, but the display seems a lot snappier. Scrolling is now lightning fast, windows move quickly if a little jerkily, and resizing them is smooth. But as some posts led me to fear, the Display applet now can't change screen resolution. Neither will nVidia's X Settings tool, which merely says that I'm not using an nVidia driver. No OpenGL screensavers work and I can't enable desktop effects. How can one tell if one is or isn't using the nVidia driver? My xorg.conf file is empty. And if, as I suspect, I am, then why won't OpenGL work? -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • GMail/GoogleTalk/Orkut: lpro...@gmail.com Tel: +44 20-8685-0498 • Cell: +44 7939-087884 • Fax: + 44 870-9151419 AOL/AIM/iChat/Yahoo/Skype: liamproven • LiveJournal/Twitter: lproven MSN: lpro...@hotmail.com • ICQ: 73187508 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] Clearlooks
And finally a more general question. What is the difference between the display themes Human and Human-Clearlooks? I've tried Google with no resulting enlightenment at all... -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • GMail/GoogleTalk/Orkut: lpro...@gmail.com Tel: +44 20-8685-0498 • Cell: +44 7939-087884 • Fax: + 44 870-9151419 AOL/AIM/iChat/Yahoo/Skype: liamproven • LiveJournal/Twitter: lproven MSN: lpro...@hotmail.com • ICQ: 73187508 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Clearlooks
Liam Proven wrote: And finally a more general question. What is the difference between the display themes Human and Human-Clearlooks? I've tried Google with no resulting enlightenment at all... Look closely at the widgets (controls), especially the checkboxes. Dan -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Connecting to a network
Paul Roach wrote: To be honest, the quickest way to access networked data between linux boxes is to ensure ssh is enabled, and to open nautilus - in the [snip] but at least with smb/cifs, you're not encrypting/decrypting your traffic as you would with ssh/sftp, so if you're confident your underlying network is secure, you get increased throughput. -n -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Nvidia-legacy drivers on Jaunty
Liam Proven wrote: I'm just setting up an old PC for a friend of a friend, and naturally, I have put Ubuntu on it. It's an Athlon XP 700+ with 768MB of RAM and an nVidia Riva TNT2 AGP card. Interestingly, Hardy failed to boot. It installed cleanly from a live CD, but the resultant system never got past GRUB. Jaunty worked fine, 1st time. The Hardware-drivers tool is unable to detect this old graphics card, but I googled for more instructions. I checked what version of nVidia's drivers support a Riva TNT2 and it's the v71 build. So, I installed nvidia-glx-71. This went smoothly. On reboot, there is no nVidia logo, but the display seems a lot snappier. Scrolling is now lightning fast, windows move quickly if a little jerkily, and resizing them is smooth. But as some posts led me to fear, the Display applet now can't change screen resolution. Neither will nVidia's X Settings tool, which merely says that I'm not using an nVidia driver. No OpenGL screensavers work and I can't enable desktop effects. How can one tell if one is or isn't using the nVidia driver? My xorg.conf file is empty. And if, as I suspect, I am, then why won't OpenGL work? Try examining /var/log/Xorg.0.log. It should contain information about what driver is running. Did you see this thread http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=3488 ? It's old but some of the info may still be relevant. I have a recent nvidia card, and haven't had a problem. When the TNT2 was out I had a Voodoo card, and struggled getting 3D acceleration in Redhat 6. Hope that helps. Dan -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
