OFFICIAL Holloween Race Roster & Details

[MikeB12]

I always have problems with samba, WFO when I first try to enable it... Usually after much playing around in the gui's with prermissions and checkboxes, editing that file, it finally just starts working.. it is always a pita for me, being the linux n00b... Installing the os and smp is cake, the sharing part is always the hardest part for me. follow that guide RR linked and see if it makes it a better experience.

on a side note: mepis http://www.mepis.org/mirrors seems to work almost right off the install.. very little fiddling needed. and you dont have to sudo install the 32 libraries before installing smp. that's the last linux distro I was smping on my x2 4600... and IIRC samba worked without having to edit files. I never could get the wireless nic going consistently though (it would work and then stop detecting), so I had to use the onboard nic and run a cat6 cable... last time I tried ubuntu was when the RC for 8.10 got released.

I may try again one of these days.. I am not looking forward to trying to get gpu working in WINE or binding the wireless nic with ndiswrapper. last time I messed with ndiswrapper, it ticked me off so bad I formatted it. I'm pretty anti linux.. I figured it out enough to get smp working for a while on a dedicated folder (as you can see from that txt link), but I would absolutely never choose it as my desktop os. everytime I try, it throws up road blocks one after another in my desktop needs until I format it.. I've done that so many times, it's ridiculous. If I had some linux training, I'm sure the story would be different.. but I'm not gonna read through hundreds of pages of documentation just to get another desktop. If it were required for a job, I'd do it. but not for kicks. Linux's slogan should be "Always the Hard way"

Everytime I have to drop into a terminal window in linux to do something (which shouldn't be a requirement for a user desktop), it reminds me of being at a Netware server console window. the difference is I have training in Novell, I don't in Linux. so it's like fumbling around in the dark looking for the light switch.