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On Wednesday 03 May 2006 07:58 pm, Teresa and Dale wrote: |
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> lordsauronthegreat@×××××.com wrote: |
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> >Set up a Samba server... hmm... KDE Control Centre has a excellent |
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> > interface for that. Very easy. |
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> >In a related story... |
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> >The first time I used Samba to do some network transfers I spent ten |
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> > minutes checking file intergrity. It went so darn fast... I was sure |
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> > something was wrong. No, it's just that windoze networking is so darn |
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> > slow! It's now a pain to do anything windoze-to-windoze! Linux and |
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> > Samba is so much faster! |
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> I tried the KDE setup but still no go. I think I need to change |
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> something in the Linksys router, I'm not sure what though. I think it |
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> is working on the Linux end. I can ping the windoze box from my Linux |
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> box but I don't know how to do anything on the windoze side. Pointers?? |
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Windows XP? |
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My Computer >> My Network Places or something like that. |
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I swear, Windows has been so inconsistent over the years! I loved how |
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networking was organized in 98SE, but in XP the only way to find the network |
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neighbourhood area is through a back door in the network settings whatever... |
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it's insane. |
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> Clueless. |
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Almost as clueless here. |