dude67

Well, in my KDE it's working nicely! I tried the Kiba-dock, but it didn't work for me. :unsure: Where Kiba-dock would sometimes crash on me, AWN is working flawlessly.

Oh, I just noticed that you do dualboot. Sorry. I suggest you keep that windows for gaming and use Linux on other tasks (as I do).

I would like to add a third option to ramfree17's suggestion: 3. Dual boot with Windows and Linux (the two can co-exist). You can install Linux right next to your Windows installation on the same harddrive. You just need to free some room for that. I have a dualboot PC and I'm booting to Windows XP whenever I want to play games that don't work on Linux. But most of the time (>90%) I boot to Linux (Mandriva 2008.1).

I have just got myself Aiptek 12000U tablet. I had it working when I first plugged it in, but after trying to configure it through MCC Hardware it hasn't worked at all... From MCC Hardware I can see it and it's using aiptek module, but still doesn't work... I have installed the aiptek module from MCC - and also installed the hyperpen module just in case... No help. For some odd reason the device is not listed in /proc/bus/input/devices: # cat /proc/bus/input/devices I: Bus=0003 Vendor=046d Product=c03e Version=0110 N: Name="Logitech USB-PS/2 Optical Mouse" P: Phys=usb-0000:00:1d.7-1.1/input0 S: Sysfs=/class/input/input0 U: Uniq= H: Handlers=mouse0 event0 B: EV=17 B: KEY=70000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 B: REL=103 B: MSC=10 I: Bus=0003 Vendor=03f0 Product=0024 Version=0110 N: Name="CHICONY HP Basic USB Keyboard" P: Phys=usb-0000:00:1d.7-1.2/input0 S: Sysfs=/class/input/input1 U: Uniq= H: Handlers=kbd event1 B: EV=120013 B: KEY=10000 7 ff9f207a c14057ff febeffdf ffefffff ffffffff fffffffe B: MSC=10 B: LED=7 I: Bus=0010 Vendor=001f Product=0001 Version=0100 N: Name="PC Speaker" P: Phys=isa0061/input0 S: Sysfs=/class/input/input2 U: Uniq= H: Handlers=kbd event2 B: EV=40001 B: SND=6 I: Bus=0019 Vendor=0000 Product=0002 Version=0000 N: Name="Power Button (FF)" P: Phys=LNXPWRBN/button/input0 S: Sysfs=/class/input/input3 U: Uniq= H: Handlers=kbd event3 B: EV=3 B: KEY=100000 0 0 0 I: Bus=0019 Vendor=0000 Product=0001 Version=0000 N: Name="Power Button (CM)" P: Phys=PNP0C0C/button/input0 S: Sysfs=/class/input/input4 U: Uniq= H: Handlers=kbd event4 B: EV=3 B: KEY=100000 0 0 0 FYI: I have posted the same question in Mandriva Forum (in Greg's linked thread - thanks Greg!) http://forum.mandriva.com/viewtopic.php?p=488991#488991

Yeah, that too.

Worse than M$ Windoze...

You need to log in as root (su and password) in terminal before running urpmi. urpmi command tells the packet manager of Mandriva to install package that matches what you tell. E.g. 'urpmi konverter' should install package called konverter. Simple, eh? To remove the said package, you write (as root) 'urpme konverter'. And it uninstalles the said package. Equally simple. :) Well, I think you should stay with KDE - at least as long as you have familiarized yourself with Linux & Mandriva distro. No one can say, which is better; KDE or Gnome. Or, of course they CAN, but the shouldn't. It's a matter of opinion. The reason I'm suggesting you stick with KDE for awhile is because, IMHO, it's easier to use KDE than Gnome when moving from Windows to Linux.

What about pulseaudio setup problems? I for one had a lot of problems with pulseaudio. I'm afraid I'm not with my Mandriva system currently, but it could be that. I had no sound with amarok, but could hear the system sounds (the beeps and sort).

My pleasure!

2008.1 uses pulseaudio. I experienced (and still am to some extent) problems with my fresh installation as well. I got sound from system sounds (e.g. start-up sound), but no sound with some games (it worked for maniadrive, but not for Quake4) and no sound with amarok. I installed pulseaudio controls (or whatever that name was - I'm currently at the office; not home) from MCC. My problem seems to be that I have a USB phone connected and PulseAudio thinks that's No. 1 playback device. Even after the installation of the pulseaudio controls I had to open it and let the sound play. Then go into the pulseaudio controls, choose playback and with a right click make my desktop loudspeakers the default playback device for that particular source... I have to do this to any and all new sources...

Well, it didn't work for me in 2008.0, but now that I have updated to 2008.1 it's working. Go figure.

Yes, it's the Avant and it sits under "Tools - More" (AWN manager and Avant Window Navigator). I have installed it and ran it from Tools - More.

Here's my April desktop. http://fc02.deviantart.com/fs25/f/2008/117...t_by_Dude67.png

Sorry, if this is obvious, but did you make sure that you spelled it correctly?

Nope, sorry. I haven't bothered with this lately. The only time I have made use of skype video call was with my wife whenever I'm on the road. And if it doesn't work with a push of a button in Mandriva, I tell my wife to turn on WinXP and get skype from windows. But hopefully some day I can get the video functionality in skype operating with Mandriva as well.

I made it with the help of a user in a Finnish forum! But I thought I'd report back here also. I got the user rights OK by doing the following. I unmounted the samba-shares Re-wrote the mounting with this addition of my linux user uid and gid //nas/data /home/dude67/nas/data smbfs credentials=/etc/samba/auth.nas.user1,uid=500,gid=500 0 0 Re-mounted the samba-shares I don't really know what I did wrong the previous times, but now I got it working. Cheers to everyone who helped me here also! This is my /etc/fstab if that's of any interest to anyone. /dev/sda6 / ext3 noatime 1 1 /dev/sda8 /home ext3 noatime 1 2 //nas/DATA /home/dude67/nas/data smbfs credentials=/etc/samba/auth.nas.user1,uid=500,gid=500 0 0 /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom auto umask=0,user,iocharset=utf8,noauto 0 0 /dev/sdc1 /media/hd vfat umask=0,users,iocharset=utf8,sync,noauto,exec 0 0 /dev/sda1 /mnt/win_c ntfs-3g defaults,locale=en_US.UTF-8 0 0 /dev/sda5 /mnt/win_d ntfs-3g defaults,locale=en_US.UTF-8 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 none /tmp tmpfs defaults 0 0 /dev/sda9 /usr ext3 noatime 1 2 /dev/sda7 swap swap defaults 0 0

Here's mount [dude67@localhost ~]$ mount /dev/sda6 on / type ext3 (rw,noatime) none on /proc type proc (rw) /dev/sda8 on /home type ext3 (rw,noatime) /dev/sda1 on /mnt/win_c type fuseblk (rw,nosuid,nodev,allow_other,blksize=4096) /dev/sda5 on /mnt/win_d type fuseblk (rw,nosuid,nodev,allow_other,blksize=4096) none on /tmp type tmpfs (rw) /dev/sda9 on /usr type ext3 (rw,noatime) none on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw) /dev/sde1 on /media/hd2 type vfat (rw,nosuid,nodev,sync,users,umask=0,iocharset=utf8) sunrpc on /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs type rpc_pipefs (rw) nfsd on /proc/fs/nfsd type nfsd (rw) //nas/BU on /home/dude67/nas/BU type smbfs (0) //nas/DATA on /home/dude67/nas/data type smbfs (0) //nas/PUBLIC on /home/dude67/nas/public type smbfs (0) [dude67@localhost ~]$ and here's ls -l [dude67@localhost ~]$ ls -l /home/dude67/nas total 16 drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4096 2008-03-30 16:22 BU/ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4096 2008-03-30 16:23 data/ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4096 2008-03-30 16:23 public/ [dude67@localhost ~]$ To me this says that root owns these folders. But whenever I try to change (as root) the ownership, I get this: Could not modify the ownership of file /home/dude67/nas/data. You have insufficient access to the file to perform the change.

Here's an update to the situation. I now can see the drive and have been able to mount the NAS drive folders under my home folder like this: /home/dude67/nas/folder1 /home/dude67/nas/folder2 /home/dude67/nas/folder3 I have a user set up in the NAS with the config tool provided, but due to some restrictions, I have been unable to use the same username I use in my Linux systems. Now, according to a suggestion I got, I've set this user ID and pw in KDE control center: Internet & network | Local network browsing | Windows share. In MCC | network sharing | Share data with Windows system I have found this nas drive and set it up so that each of the folders I've created in the nas-drive (with it's own config tool) are mounted under my home folder (mount point) with the user ID and pw (Mount options) as I set up in nas (not the user ID and pw of my Linux user). As can be seen in the list above. Now, this is my current problem: I can see these folders fine with my current user ID (read rights), but I cannot get write rights to it! It only gives write access to my root account. I've managed to copy files and subfolders to these nas-directories from my regular home folders by opening the nas folder with root rights in Konqueror. But that's kind of an awkward way of working with a network drive. I also tried to change the rights to the nas-folders (and it's new sub-folders) when the nas folder was opened with root rights, but I can only change the first tier folder's (the /nas folder) rights. For all of the sub-folders and files I get "no rights to this folder/files" answer. Any ideas as how to get my regular user the read-write access to these nas folders? Oh, I've also installed Webmin. I just thought there might be a tool within Webmin that could help me accomplish this. I must admit though, that I'm not so "fluent" with webmin, but I've used it briefly in the past.

IIRC MS Outlook gives (or at least gave in some old version) the option to get a receipt from the server that the message has been delivered to the recipient's server. This the user had no say, but I guess the server can be configured not to send such replies. This in addition to the return receipt from the recipient. And I don't know if this is a feature in TB.

Thanks scarecrow, I have been warned. :) I just cannot say (at least at this point) that the drive is not working properly as they officially don't support linux. Only windows and I believe lately also OS X. I don't know if I've said it clearly that I have been able to access the drive from Mandriva through http:// (w/ Konquerer and Firefox). I've set the IP manually to better suit the rest of my networks IP numbers. All the IPs in my LAN are manually set. With the configuration tool in the drive (http://192.168.254.50), I can see that it's file system is CIFS. With the conf tool I can e.g. (i) create users (ii) add folders (iii) define rights to the folders for different users (iv) set the IP address automatically (DHCP) or manually amongst other things. I cannot see another way of interacting with the drive though. If I try ftp'ing it 'ftp 192.168.254.50', it just says that I don't have access rights there. And I don't know how to (or even if I should) mount a network drive. In windows I should install the MioNet and get access to the drive with that tool.

Yes, I'm there. I can manage e.g. the drive's IP in this configuration tool. But that's as far as I've got.

OK, I'm getting a little bit frustrated with my own total ignorance of the whole network-issue... :huh: I don't know if I should format the whole drive, but how would that work from there on...? It seems obvious that the software WD has provided does not work in linux so I might as well get rid of the stuff pre-installed. But what then? How can I connect to the drive so that I could format it? And if I format it, will I be able to install anything in it (over ethernet cable)? If I don't format this drive just yet. How would I gain access to the actual files in the drive? Should I mount it somehow? Quoting FX here: "I'd be ripping my hair out if I had any"

The WD manual states: My Book World Edition is preformatted as a Linux file system. Whatever that is: ext3 or something else.

You are of course right there, but the thing is: I already got the NAS drive. And the other thing is the size and looks; I don't want another PC (even a small one) in my living room where this drive is going. I meant no disrespect; my point in all of this has been this: I'm a total noob when it comes to this type of hardware and configuring them. I still know virtually nothing; but hopefully will manage to build this up. I have managed to set it up so that I can access the drive over the (w)lan, but I can only access the bl..dy configuration software! I cannot access the files or the filesystem. WD has provided a software (mionet) that does not operate in Linux. I could try that with wine, but that's kind of beside the point: I have a network drive I would like to access with my Linux PCs...

OK, thanks Yves. That's then not what I'm looking for. I have a decent PC (my PC #2) next to this network drive, but I want to keep this PC separate from the network drive. It is a stand-alone drive. I just want to make this external NAS to act as a network drive and an FTP server. If that's possible.