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[Phill Whiteside <phillw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Andy,

I am quite happy at CLI, in fact, when i get racked off with a GUI app, I go
to CLI - However, not all people are. And we've been asked to test the GUI
apps. If a GUI app fails, then we can check the CLI equivalent to see if it
is the fault of the GUI app, or a bug.

An easy example, Xarchiver couldn't open a zipped file, because unzip was
not installed. Things like that are 'major' problems to new users. Easy for
me to find, I went to CLI and issued 'unzip ~/Desktop/filename.zip' and was
told unzip had not been installed. :-)

Regards,

Phill.

On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 8:14 PM, Andrew Woodhead <
andrew.woodhead666@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Why not just use /etc/samba/smb.conf ?
>
> simply add this sort of thing to share a folder:
>
> [DOWNLOADS]
> path = /home/andy
> comment = Some stuff
> browsable = yes
> read only = no
> writable = yes
> hide dot files = yes
> guest ok = no
> invalid users = root bin daemon nobody named sys tty disk mem
> valid users = andy
>
> as an example from my file server sharing my universal home folder, people
> get so tied up on gui tools when the conf file can be easily learned,
> especially as the file is so humanly readable.
>
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 8:08 PM, Phill Whiteside <phillw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> I've only ever had MacOSX and Win connected via Samba, and I'm using a set
>> of instructions for pyneighborhood that are for a an earlier release.
>>
>> As pcmanfm uses gvfs for the smb part, and there appears to be an elephant
>> in the room re: the core 10.04 and samba I'd hate to start pointing fingers.
>> I don't have enough knowledge of samba to state yes / no as to if the bug
>> others are seeing on 'main' 10.04 carries over to lubuntu, but I figure it
>> would.
>>
>> I also cannot state if pyneighborhood uses the gvfs interface, but it
>> would make sense if it did.
>>
>> Hopefully one of the lubuntu devs could tell us if the reported gremlin in
>> the 10.04 area would affect lubuntu.
>>
>> My own thought is to hold back until they have it fixed in 10.04 main, but
>> I am completely open to being corrected and being informed that the samba
>> issue with gvfsd-smb-browse does NOT have any effect on lubuntu.
>>
>> Assuming we wait until it is fixed for ubuntu 10.04, I'll then set up a
>> share with that, so I know it all works - Then I'll try with Lubuntu.
>>
>> I'm open to any comments / suggestions, though :-)
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Phill.
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 5:29 PM, Phix <phix.nay@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> I can help with testing if you'd like. Pyneighborhood was something I
>>> tried in karmic lubuntu before installing alpha 3, and it didn't work very
>>> well there either, but that might have been from the bug in samba main.
>>>
>>> On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 7:05 AM, Phill Whiteside <phillw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I don't know how others are getting on with pyneighborhood, I've been
>>>> struggling, it seems that I am not alone with samba.
>>>>
>>>> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1426517
>>>>
>>>> There appears to be gremlin in the works :-(
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>>
>>>> Phill.
>>>>
>>>>
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