Re: [9fans] How to access CD drive?

2014-03-11 Thread Steve Simon
Mmm, not sure what the two things might have been. There is a registry tweek for Vista, and Win7 you need to support the raw/simple NTLMV2 auth: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/957441. I haven't tried Win8 yet, I have no win8 machines I need access to, but I wouldn't be surprised if it i

Re: [9fans] How to access CD drive?

2014-03-11 Thread Steve Foster
> From: st...@quintile.net > Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 16:46:00 + > To: 9fans@9fans.net > Subject: Re: [9fans] How to access CD drive? > >> Does anyone work exclusively in plan 9 or is that not feasible so you think? > > I work almost exclusively on plan9, I have it

Re: [9fans] How to access CD drive?

2014-03-11 Thread Steve Simon
> Does anyone work exclusively in plan 9 or is that not feasible so you think? I work almost exclusively on plan9, I have it on my desktop at work and a server and Raspberry Pi at home. Having said this I also have a Windows VM at work (via remote desktop), and an ipad at home to give me a modern

Re: [9fans] How to access CD drive?

2014-03-11 Thread Patrick Kelly
>From: 9fans-boun...@9fans.net [mailto:9fans-boun...@9fans.net] On Behalf Of Steve Foster >Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2014 12:02 PM >To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs >Subject: Re: [9fans] How to access CD drive? > > >> Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 08:50:45 -0600 >&g

Re: [9fans] How to access CD drive?

2014-03-11 Thread erik quanstrom
> learning about it. If I could ask you another couple of questions. I > do use linux. I've started learning C programming. I have been using > linux as the platform to learn on. I was thinking of changing over to > plan 9 for this as well. Would you recommend doing this? I'm not heck, ya!

Re: [9fans] How to access CD drive?

2014-03-11 Thread Steve Foster
> Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 08:50:45 -0600 > From: mirtchov...@gmail.com > To: 9fans@9fans.net > Subject: Re: [9fans] How to access CD drive? > > > What has surprised me is how much I like working in plan 9, particularly > > acme. I've even grown to like the wa

Re: [9fans] How to access CD drive?

2014-03-11 Thread Steve Foster
> From: quans...@quanstro.net > Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 10:55:32 -0400 > To: 9fans@9fans.net > Subject: Re: [9fans] How to access CD drive? > > > Does anyone work exclusively in plan 9 or is that not feasible so you think? > > i do. and many of the folks at the labs

Re: [9fans] How to access CD drive?

2014-03-11 Thread erik quanstrom
> Does anyone work exclusively in plan 9 or is that not feasible so you think? i do. and many of the folks at the labs did. since the subject is cd drive access, one of the things that i found much easier with plan 9 is cd access. not only is it dead simple, and utterly seamless with the rest o

Re: [9fans] How to access CD drive?

2014-03-11 Thread andrey mirtchovski
> What has surprised me is how much I like working in plan 9, particularly > acme. I've even grown to like the way it looks including the colours. the colour palette has been specifically chosen to be easy on the eyes.

Re: [9fans] How to access CD drive?

2014-03-11 Thread Steve Foster
014 20:57:39 +0100 > From: beg...@gmail.com > To: 9fans@9fans.net > Subject: Re: [9fans] How to access CD drive? > > Cifs on windows 7 worked for me after doing the registry workaround > mentioned in the README of cifs > > 2014-03-09 18:02 GMT+01:00, Skip Tavakkolian : &g

Re: [9fans] How to access CD drive?

2014-03-09 Thread Bence Fábián
Cifs on windows 7 worked for me after doing the registry workaround mentioned in the README of cifs 2014-03-09 18:02 GMT+01:00, Skip Tavakkolian : > unfortunately virtualbox "shared folders" would require a special driver > [1] on the guest (i.e. Plan 9) os. the easier route is to figure out the >

Re: [9fans] How to access CD drive?

2014-03-09 Thread Skip Tavakkolian
unfortunately virtualbox "shared folders" would require a special driver [1] on the guest (i.e. Plan 9) os. the easier route is to figure out the network and then use cifs (SMB client on plan9) or sftpfs to import the host windows folders into plan 9. this is the recommended method [2] in virtualbo

Re: [9fans] How to access CD drive?

2014-03-09 Thread Steve Foster
Nah, still not getting it. Thanks for your replies, I do appreciate it, but I think I'll just stick to plan9port and abandon the plan 9 thing. Cheers,Steve. > Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2014 11:43:54 +0100 > From: beg...@gmail.com > To: 9fans@9fans.net > Subject: Re: [9fans] How t

Re: [9fans] How to access CD drive?

2014-03-09 Thread Bence Fábián
Oh and use the 'mt server' nic in virtualbox, and you have to run a cpu server and set up auth to use drawterm. It is covered on the wiki i belive 2014-03-09 11:11 GMT+01:00, Mark van Atten : > To obtain shared folders, you may also decide to run, either on > Windows or Lubuntu, a program named dr

Re: [9fans] How to access CD drive?

2014-03-09 Thread Mark van Atten
To obtain shared folders, you may also decide to run, either on Windows or Lubuntu, a program named drawterm: http://plan9.bell-labs.com/magic/man2html/8/drawterm http://www.plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/drawterm/index.html http://swtch.com/drawterm/ It connects your host to the virtual Plan 9 m

Re: [9fans] How to access CD drive?

2014-03-09 Thread Bence Fábián
Generally for mounting different things Plan 9 uses user processes which can read the given filesystem and post a named pipe in /srv. Then they translate everything internally and speak 9P on this pipe. Then you can mount this using mount, and can give plus arguments mount /srv/file /n/mountpoint

[9fans] How to access CD drive?

2014-03-09 Thread Steve Foster
Hi all. I'm new here and to plan 9. I'm the kind of person who doesn't always pick things up straight away, I'm a bit slow like that :-) The light bulb usually goes on - eventually. Sometimes I just need someone to flick the switch a few times. So if my questions come across as a bit dumb you'll