--Apple-Mail-2-658599049 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed On Friday, October 24, 2003, at 08:12 AM, betty wrote: > thanks to all of you who tried helping with my setup in samba of a > redhat/win network at home. after 8 more hours; and using /webmin/ > instead of /samba/; my former instructor in linux was able to get the > 2 talking together. > problems were; security set too high in redhat (standard install), > old laptop w/windows 98 ; had to go to win xp, > path for shared files was too long ie; /home/stormy/filename, worked > better with just /shared filename. > > don't think i could help anyone else do this, the total time was 24 > hours. linux needs to work this out for (simple) desktop users to > popularize it. :-P ( webmin was definitely easier to use than samba) > betty i > see you all saturday I'm so glad that you *finally* got it working. I salute your determination in seeing this thing through. I was reading today on the O'Reilly site at how Nat Friedman figures that Linux has captured 1% of the desktop market and that it is ready know and will go to 2% just given time. I wish I could get some of what Nat is smoking. I have seen the Linux user experience go from 'always sux hard' to 'doesn't suck too bad in some areas.' Just yesterday I went to install Red Hat on a brand new machine with a not all that uncommon video card. Halfway through the default graphical install the screen wind dead with an 'Out of sync' message. So I tried again, passing lowres to the kernel. This time I was able to get through the install only to see the computer lose it's video signal after the first boot sequence. I finally found a work-around and I now understand that the savage_drvr.o that Red Hat was installing works with XFree86 v 4.2.x and the version of XFree86 that Red Hat installs is 4.3.0. At some point in the process, I installed Win XP just to see what video card was installed. Windows didn't have a driver either but *It still gave me a useful monitor* and plenty of help in going through the process of installing a driver so I could see what the video card was. How many people would stick with Linux after experiences like we had? My guess is about 1%. --Apple-Mail-2-658599049 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/enriched; charset=US-ASCII On Friday, October 24, 2003, at 08:12 AM, betty wrote: thanks to all of you who tried helping with my setup in samba of a redhat/win network at home. after 8 more hours; and using /webmin/ instead of /samba/; my former instructor in linux was able to get the 2 talking together. problems were; security set too high in redhat (standard install), old laptop w/windows 98 ; had to go to win xp, path for shared files was too long ie; /home/stormy/filename, worked better with just /shared filename. don't think i could help anyone else do this, the total time was 24 hours. linux needs to work this out for (simple) desktop users to popularize it. :-P ( webmin was definitely easier to use than samba) betty i see you all saturday I'm so glad that you *finally* got it working. I salute your determination in seeing this thing through. I was reading today on the O'Reilly site at < how TahomaNat Friedman figures that Linux has captured 1% of the desktop market and that it is ready know and will go to 2% just given time. I wish I could get some of what Nat is smoking. I have seen the Linux user experience go from 'always sux hard' to 'doesn't suck too bad in some areas.' Just yesterday I went to install Red Hat on a brand new machine with a not all that uncommon video card. Halfway through the default graphical install the screen wind dead with an 'Out of sync' message. So I tried again, passing lowres to the kernel. This time I was able to get through the install only to see the computer lose it's video signal after the first boot sequence. I finally found a work-around and I now understand that the savage_drvr.o that Red Hat was installing works with XFree86 v 4.2.x and the version of XFree86 that Red Hat installs is 4.3.0. At some point in the process, I installed Win XP just to see what video card was installed. Windows didn't have a driver either but *It still gave me a useful monitor* and plenty of help in going through the process of installing a driver so I could see what the video card was. How many people would stick with Linux after experiences like we had? My guess is about 1%. --Apple-Mail-2-658599049--