[vox-tech] baby steps

[Jonathan Stickel]

I, too, had a tough time switching from Windows to Linux.  Even now I am 
very much GUI dependent.  Did you try working with Konqueror (the KDE 
filemanager) in superuser mode?

Not sure what you need to do with Samba, but I found this article very 
helpful:

http://www.linuxworld.com/site-stories/2002/0318.linuxcorp.html

In particular, it mentions the GUI programs GnoSamba (mildy useful) and 
LinNeighborhood (extremely useful).  The LinNeighborhood link is here:

http://www.bnro.de/~schmidjo/

I think that the only think I needed to change in the default smb.conf 
was my WorkGroup.  Then I fired up LinNeighborhood and could see my 
entire department's network just fine.  Printing to network printers is 
another story...

Jonathan



Jim wrote:
> On Wednesday 12 February 2003 12:28, Henry House wrote:
> 
>>A good way to run graphical programs as root (editor, cofiguration tool,
>>etc) is to use 'ssh -X root@localhost' instead of 'su'. You might try
>>creating a bash alias to make a shorthand for the preceding command.
> 
> 
> What?  I am but a mere infant to Linux.  I really don't understand what you 
> just said.
> 
> I typed in ssh-X root@localhost   in the shell konsole and get an error 
> message "ssh-X command not found".  I typed in root@localhost---same results.  
> Why does this stuff have to be so hard?  I can't even copy the results by 
> hightlighting.  Isin't there some graphical user interface that will give me 
> the same results?
> 
> It's as if I am taking one step foward then two steps back.  This is driving 
> me crazy.  And to beat all, I haven't even begun to set up samba.
> 
> I guess that I am so used to window$ and the way it works.  I feel like I'm 
> learning to use computers all over again.