Sun 2004-06-20 09:20, Bob Lawrence (3:712/610.12) wrote to All:

 BL>  Now comes the norty part. When in your actual Windows on the other
 BL> computer, using this computer in Linux running the Samba network, I
 BL> cannot log in as root - and when I log in as bob, to my horror I
 BL> discover that all the Windows drives become read-only. I can read them
 BL> and copy them, but I can't change them. I am cut off in my prime.

You probably need to run (as root) something like:

chown bob /mnt/windows
chmod u+rwx /mnt/windows

 BL>  I can change the permissions to the Mime (as root), but when I try
 BL> to change the permissions on an actual Windows file to bob, I get a
 BL> Linux message telling me that I don't have sufficient access. Root
 BL> isn't enough access? Is there a super-root, or a flying red fuck?

I think you only have to change the permissions of the mount point (as
above), not every file under the mount point.  It may be that you need to
unmount the mount, then change the permissions, then remount it:

umount /mnt/windows
chown bob /mnt/windows
chmod u+rwx /mnt/windows
mount /mnt/windows

I always thought a Mime was a silent French man (the best kind?).  Not sure
what you're referring to there.  Presumably the mount point.

 BL>  PS: Linnucks seriously gives me the shits. Whenever I try to do
 BL> something a little bit interesting, it locks up.

Presumably you're getting lock ups from inside the GUI (KDE or Gnome under
X Windows, probably).  Ctrl+Alt+Backspace should get you back to a text
mode prompt if the system hasn't hard-locked.  Then you can just type
"startx" and X Windows will restart.  Quite possibly the video
driver you're using is flakey, but I don't have enough info to go on.

If you're just setting up Samba on the Linux box then you don't need a GUI at all.

On the other hand if Linux still locks up from outside the GUI, you may be
in for some fun trying out different kernel configurations, assuming the
hardware itself isn't faulty.

 BL> Being Linnucks it *nearly* workls - only *some* of it locks up but 
 BL> invariably, to clear the lockup I have to reboot. It's worse than 
 BL> Win98! Since I started using it, I now love Windows. Bill Gates is 
 BL> my hero. What a nice man.

 BL> I'm tempted to buy a hardware firewall/router, use Windows, and to
 BL> hell with fucking Linnucks and its useless amateur-hour programmers.
 BL> Bloody uniwankers...

Have you heard of FreeBSD?

Why are you trying to get Linux running, anyway?

 BL>  Brenton tells me that KDE has ben bought by Novell. Maybe that'll
 BL> cure it... it sure needs someone with talent, and a professional
 BL> attitude to making their half-finished programs work properly (like
 BL> Windows). 

KDE doesn't interface with the hardware directly so it's unlikely to be the
cause of the lockups.

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