DaveQB

jamepoule hit the nail on the head. This little 'overlook' daunted me when i first started with Linu years ago and tooks me severals 'goes' at Linux (Red Hat at the time) and weeks to find out.

I would show an example line but i hardly use Samba in my house as all PC's are running some sort of Linux.

But you just need to add the options

uid=<your_username>,gid=<your_groupid>

This will mount the samba share with the uid and gid above as the owner and group respectivly.

You cant change the ownership of a samba mount as samba doesnt support native permissions like NFS does. Also you cant have multiple owners (or groups) on a file, jamepoule. You could look up umask option.

As for sharing a folder across samba, thats all all set up in /etc/samba/smb.conf and i havent seen one yet in this thread to comment.

lmorrison17

As for Windows 'working' i have yet to see a Linux machine brought to its knee's from viruses and parasties. For me Linux "just works" while Windows is a PITA!

Yeah that commands works a treat, athough some things i added had to be added again manually, (not everything though) if fixed many menu issues.

dcop kicker kicker restart

Thats probably a common problem but fixed my problem of not having my clock changed to 12 hour from 24 when set to do so.

Well i fixed all my problems

Logout of KDE and into Gnome

Opened up MCC and Software Managment

Selected to remove and searched the term 'kde'

selected all and removed

Then went to install

searched 'kdebase'

selected Thacs 3.4

dependencies were added by the package manager

installed.

logged out of Gnome and into KDE and all worked perfect.

Of course i had to go in and individual add other apps like k3b, knotes, korganizer, noatun etc etc

But they all work now .... so far anyway :)

I have knotes running. I've the latest kde 3.4 version installed.

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Whats your secret ??? :)

Anyone try running knotes ??

This is something i really need/use

"Houston we have a problem"

Here's what i get

knotes: WARNING: Cannot execute call to system.login: empty server URL

Google shows nothing for that exact search string.

Yeah i listedall RPM's with kde in them in MCC and i either have 3.4.xx or some other things with 3.2.xx

There is a heap with 3.2 although i was running 3.3.1 before upgrading to 3.4 *confused*

Hey i ment to say earlier, thanx alot for all your work Thac!!! I have been using your RPM's for a little while now, keep up the great work!

Gee wiz!!

I checked that too, thats really sad on my behalf.

Its KSysguard that needs kdebase-prog i think then, must be confusing myself.

Ok so i ran KSysguard and here's what i get.

ksysguardd
ksysguardd 1.2.0
(c) 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 Chris Schlaeger <cs@kde.org> and
(c) 2001 Tobias Koenig <tokoe@kde.org>
This program is part of the KDE Project and licensed under
the GNU GPL version 2. See http://www.kde.org for details.
ksysguardd: symbol lookup error: ksysguardd: undefined symbol: XextFindDisplay

Ok, in exact steps. Login to kde however you can (drop into shell and startx, presumably). Open up a terminal.

 

su

*password*

urpme mdkkdm

urpme kdebase-kdm

urpmi mdkkdm

 

Reboot and everything *should* be fine. urpme is the command for uninstalling an rpm file.

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Thanx alot for this :D

I was bout to pull my hair out with the login problem and then followed that.

But not other problems :(

Anyone have trouble with KSysguard and kate ??

They are i nthe kdebase-progs package and thats install becasue k3b and Konqueror etc are in it, but i cant even find a binary on my system for kate :unsure:

Well i executed xscreensaver from a rerminal and a whole new dialog box came up. Guess whats currently set screen saver was ?? Yep thats right. Disabled it all and we seem on track

Whats the trick to remove the defalt KDE screen saver ??

I have turned off all screen savers in KDE. I haven't xscreensaver running in the background, yet i get the deault screen saver in about 10 mins of inactivity.

If i turn on a screen saver in KDE and set it to come on in less then 10mins then it will, but extend past 10mins or turn it off and the default one kicks in at about 10mins.

Any idea's guys ??

System details in sig

Very interesting

Anyway, anyone have this same problem as i am having ??? I deleted all the folders again, but i am sure they will be back are a reboot.

Thanx

Where about is this ?? i am looking now but with no luck.

Whats the difference with MDK and KDE menu's ???

I am not sure what you mean, but if i do, then yes i have deleted all the folders several times only for them to return.

My little problem is simply i have a folder for each Kmenu entry in my home directory. I delete them but they keep coming back.

Things like

Internet

Multimedia

More Applications

They contain links to launch the applications that would drop out as a menu had you gone to that folder in the Kmenu.

Anyone seen this ?? So damn annouying as it cluters up my home folder.

Thanx

Easy. Make 2 PDF printers on the server bothing printing to different locations.

Not like you have to go buy the 2nd PDF printer :P

Mine printer with the user name prefixed to the file.

ie anything i print (be it Windows or Linux) has David followed by the date.

Its the user you are logged into the system (client) as.

I'll give that a whirl when i get home. Similiar guides have failed for me.

Ok this is not working for me at all.

The first time i hooked up my Camcorder and modprobed the appropriate devices it worked in Kino no problems. This was over 12mths ago and it has never worked since :(

I have started up my quest to get my camera working again.

I followed these 2 pages

http://www.jennings.homelinux.net/video_camera.html

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=133798

But no go for me.

root@xpbeast linux-2.6.8.1-12mdk]# lspci | grep FireWire
00:0d.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): nVidia Corporation nForce2 FireWire (IEEE 1394) Controller (rev a3)

Here's my 1394 modules at default

[root@xpbeast linux-2.6.8.1-12mdk]# lsmod | grep 1394
ohci1394               30788  0
ieee1394              292056  1 ohci1394

I then issue a modprobe dv1394

[root@xpbeast linux-2.6.8.1-12mdk]# modprobe dv1394
[root@xpbeast linux-2.6.8.1-12mdk]# lsmod | grep 1394
dv1394                 17196  0
ohci1394               30788  1 dv1394
ieee1394              292056  2 dv1394,ohci1394

And then ......

[root@xpbeast linux-2.6.8.1-12mdk]# modprobe raw1394
[root@xpbeast linux-2.6.8.1-12mdk]# lsmod | grep 1394
raw1394                24492  0
dv1394                 17196  0
ohci1394               30788  1 dv1394
ieee1394              292056  3 raw1394,dv1394,ohci1394

Kino still reports nothing, even when launched as root.

So then ....

[root@xpbeast linux-2.6.8.1-12mdk]# ll /dev/ra
radio   ram10   ram14   ram4    ram8
radio0  ram11   ram15   ram5    ram9
ram0    ram12   ram2    ram6    random
ram1    ram13   ram3    ram7

So then i give this a try

[root@xpbeast linux-2.6.8.1-12mdk]# mknod -m 666 /dev/raw1394 c 171 0

Still no cigar.

:(

This is curious in my /var/log/messages

Jan  9 19:48:35 xpbeast rc.sysinit: Initializing firewire controller (ohci1394):  succe             eded
Jan  9 19:48:35 xpbeast ieee1394.agent[1403]: ... no drivers for IEEE1394 product 0x/0x             /0x
Jan  9 19:48:36 xpbeast ieee1394.agent[1599]: ... no drivers for IEEE1394 product 0x/0x             /0x
Jan  9 19:48:36 xpbeast ieee1394.agent[1590]: ... no drivers for IEEE1394 product 0x/0x

It was suggested to me to do

run ' mknod -m 666 /dev/raw1394 c 171 0 '
then ' copy -rp /dev/raw1394 /etc/udev/devices/raw1394 '
copying is required so it will always be restored on bootup.

But this results in

[root@xpbeast WildCard]# cp -rp /dev/raw1394 /etc/udev/devices/raw1394
cp: cannot create special file `/etc/udev/devices/raw1394': No such file or directory

Any ideas guys ????? pleaseeeeee

Hey thats a great how to.

I had to re-install my server (HDD crash) and thus had to set up, among other things, my virtual PDF printer.

Took me a few weeks when i first set it up a yr or so ago, but this time using this how-to all done in less then 5mins!! :D

The only suggestion is the exact permissions on the output folder.

777 is good to start with but a more appropriate setting should be had later.

As what user are the PDF's created (ie cups user) ?? It seems root so you could chmod 755 && chown root.root on the output folder.

How valid are RPM's made with checkinstall ??

I mean can they be used with others in the community ?? Uploaded to a repository for urpmi use by all Mandrake users (with same version) ???

I too am looking to RPM building.... but have hardly started on all the reading.

Sorry i didnt get back soon (forgot to select email notification (most forums i use do it automatically))

I too thought it might be an app problem but i have tried from OOo and KDEprint config test page and also from the CUPS; admin test page.

i hate try different things and test coz its such a waste of ink and the next sheet printed often has a colour problem.

Whats this new printer driver your refering too ?? Epson driver or a new CUPS revision ??

thanx for the reply.

:D

Ok so when your searching online bout Linux print serving/sharing its 99% of the time returning search results of Window to/from Linux sharing.

What i want to know is the obvious, Linux to Linux sharing.

Server - MDK 9.2 kernel 2.4

Desktop - MDK 10.0 OE kernel 2.6

My desktop see's the server and the shared printer. but initially wouldnt print. I edited /etc/cups/printers.conf on the client so that the address reads

http://server:631/printers/epson

This is the URL i use on Windows clients on the network and works flawlessly. So from here the MDK client see's it and the right type of printer and all. I try to print anything and it prints a full black sheet of paper (such a waste of ink)

I think i did have it working once but it seems even then every time i rebooted i had to reconfigure it etc. It just seems so much harder to print MDK-to-MDK then it does XP-to-MDK, which seems quite odd to me.

I gotta reboot into Windows to print to my Linux server LOL

any help welcome

Normally gets all set-up on its own.

Been ages since i set mine up and i had trouble with Samba sharing so now access it through IPP

so for example mine is accessed by

http://server:631/printers/epson

epson is just the name of the printer set-up in

/etc/cups/printers.conf

Just to add to this, you can also simply start konqueror from a root terminal ('su' in a term etc) and it will have root rights.

So from that, you can obviously open any GUI program from a root terminal and you'll have root rights in it.

HTH

Used my nForce2 board with mdk 9.1,9.2,10.0 CE and now 10.0 OE

Only had a little time installing the drivers for 9.1 (as at the time the rpm from nVidia for 9.1 wasnt out) but once i did everythign worked ok.

Never had any freezing problems (nor in Windows)

From all my experience the nForce2 chipset is definately the best performing chipset (check out the mem bandwidth with something like Goldmemory) and also the best for overclocking.

Just in Linux the sound isnt the best (only one voice at a time can use the onboard sound, even with ALSA :( )