From: Chris Robinson 

Thanks for the coments - I got the samba stuff working last night by doing
the whole smb:// thing.  It's odd that it doesn't mention this somewhere
obvious I think?  Also, I tried Mandrake 9 out but I think I'm sticking
with RedHat - I've
grown to like it :o)

Chris.

Antti Kurenniemi wrote:

> Here's a few things that I have found in my adventuries in Linuxland:
>
> > I think in a way it's more irritating for someone familiar with
> > Windows to move to Linux than someone who's never used
> > either because for the Windows experienced you're used to
> > knowing how to do everything.  To go back to being a newbie
> > is a hard thing to do.
>
> Definately. I lost my temper quite often . Lotsa coffe / tea / whatever
> to smooth it out.
>
> > 3. Learning:
> > Nothing has gone wrong since I've installed RedHat.  There
> > have been a couple of things I've had to find out for myself
> > but, like most information on Linux, it's easy to find on the
> > web.  The things I've had some problems with are below:
>
> One good tip I found out is that in Konqueror, you can read man & info pages
> by writing "man:whatever" in the address field, where
"whatever" of course
> refers to what ever it is you were looking to find out about. It formats the
> output a zillion times better than the command line system (less or
> whatever), prints out pretty nicely and generates links to find related
> information. Way cool!
>
> >     - Network Browsing:  I'm yet to be successful at browsing
> > my home network but haven't really given it a proper go yet.
>
> Ha! These bozos here in this very group made me look in about three
> gazillion different places for all sorts of crap to install for this, while
> it was there all along (I'm joking of course - I had lots of help from you
> guys :-) . Again, go to Konqueror and type
"smb://server/folder", assuming
> you've got Samba installed (which is included in RedHat so unless you
> uninstalled it, it should be there). Amazing all this stuff that isn't
> mentioned anywhere ;-)
>
> > For example, Mandrake 9 (which I'm soon to try out)
> > includes NTFS support built in (as do most Linux disto's
> > except RedHat - unlucky huh?) and also MP3 support.
>
> Watch out for KDE 2 - it's flaky at least in my Mandrake installation, kept
> crashing here and there very annoyingly. Linux itself stayed up, but I had
> to restart KDE and many apps (Konqueror, Nautilus, Mandrake Control Center,
> OpenOffice Writer...) quite a few times.
>
> > Mandrake also automatically mounts USB mass storage
> > devices (like my digital camera).
>
> Supposed to anyway - I couldn't get a USB ZIP drive to work, nor a USB
> CD-burner. Might have been too old (ZIP drive) / new (CD-burner) hardware, I
> dunno, but I didn't get neither one working.
>
> Antti Kurenniemi

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