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No dialogs, no action at all. I know the "Help" is extensive and easier to use than going to the website or printed doc.

I just started to use GnuCash 2.0.1 on a standard install of 2007 Free. GnuCash seems to function correctly except it does not access any Help or the Tutorial Guide. Startup tips do work. A bunch of XML files are apparently where they should be in /usr/share/gnome/help/gnucash/C/. Help and the Tutorial Guide would be useful at the beginning while I'm setting up and getting to know GnuCash. Any suggestions about a practical way to resolve this would be appreciated.

Thank you Gentlemen. Your suggestions were right on. The background here is the DNS servers are provided automatically by my ISP (Comcast). Their simple setup is to select DHCP and provide the correct (registered) MAC address for the router. Then everything else is automatic with no more entries required. So I was unaware of DNS addresses. The setup just worked. The howto explained concepts and led to verification in logical steps. And, after I added the gateway and DNS addresses, everything worked fine with my static IP address. There had been no gateway addresses before. The simple part was that the DNS servers were already there in MCC > Network & Internet > Manage connections since I had been successfully using DHCP. All I did was enter my preferred static IP and the missing Gateway addresss and everything just worked -- browsing the internet and LAN serving. In the end, I did opt for a different approach by changing from a Linksys to a Netgear router. Netgear offers "Address Reservation" in their LAN IP setup. You assign an IP address and device name based on a MAC address. If the computer is on the LAN as it would be if you first set it up as DHCP, then most of an entry is already available to be added or edited. Makes it easy. The advantage for me is centralized control at a LAN DHCP server for both DHCP and static IP addresses on the LAN in one place. Thanks again for your help.

DHCP Internet access works fine with Community 10.1 and DHCP on my SMB network. The small network includes Macs and PCs (Windows) with the internet connection through wired ethernet, router (firewall), then a cable modem. The router provides DHCP. I would like to use my 10.1 computer as an occasional SMB server. For that it seems best to switch it to a fixed IP address. SMB sharing and mounting still work well, but I can no longer access the internet from that computer. Is there a simple way around this, maintaining internet access while using a static IP address? It's convenient to access the internet directly on this computer and not have to use one of the others on the network. --Don

I started using Audacity with Mandrake Community 10.1 to primarily convert audio cassette tapes to mp3s. But I have also consistently had a problem with it unexpectedly quitting in under a minute of the export to mp3 process. A large mp3 file size is created and it does contain a small amout of playable audio. The same pattern repeats with different sample rates and sample formats. As a rule the same Audacity project will export as Ogg Vorbis satisfactorily. Just not as mp3. I've replaced my libmp3lame.so libraries. I've exported smaller selections. I've broken Audacity projects into smaller projects and exported from them. I've even gone as far as trying Mac Audacity on OS X 10.3.6. The pattern remains the same with under a minute of mp3 export and then Audacity unexpectedly quitting or hanging. It seems I have sometimes lucked-out by recording shorter Audacity projects and then exporting to mp3. But this is not reliable and it requires a lot of attention when converting cassette tapes instead of handling a complete 60 or 90 minutes side of a cassette at once. Suggestions please. What should I look for? Are longer tracks an inherent problem with mp3 exporting? --Don