From: Tony Williams 

Adam Flinton wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> My brother should never be allowed to touch a computer ever......"keen but
> incompetant" is the best description.
>
> OK..... Scenario is:
>
> Machine:
> (A) My father's.....
> (B) Spec's:
>
> iBook
> 600 mhz
> 256 mb RAM
> 18.6 gb IBM hdd
> OSX 10.1.2
> DVD/CR/RW drive
> As far as I can tell no users as no login......
>
> Main Problem.....
>
> My Brother has filled the hdd with movies taken with my dad's DigiVidCam.
>
> Required Solution:
>
> Burn em to CD using either
> 1)Built in CD/RW + Mac tools on Laptop
> 2) CDRW on Win2K box + Win2k tools
> 3) CDRW on linux box + Linux tools
> 4) Bizarre combo of all of them
>
> Secondary Problem....
>
> It's a f**king MAC...so
>
> I've set up TCP & alles ist in ordnung. can get to net & see
other machines
> (via inet explorer). Other machines can ping it (bizarrely I've already
> started ref'ing to it as "her")
>
> A) How do I share / login remotely given AFAICS there are no users set
> up......I've tried turning on sharing & "Allow remote
login" but connections
> are refused via both telnet & smb from both linux & win2K...ah
sorted wrt
> remote login.....it runs sshd..neat (only found it coz I found the term &
> thus found it has top on board...
>
> B) My mate who has a Mac but given the time of week is quite rightly out
> pubbing...has the terminal on his dock thingy. My father has the
"as it came
> in the box" look...so where the œ$%^ is the œ$%^ing terminal..? I know this
> thing is BSD but I can't get in........
>
> Ahhh found it via "Search all help"...however now I can only open the
> f**king thing via help....so (i) where do I find it w/o going through help &
> (b) how do I add apps onto the dock thingy?...OK found it in the "Utilities
> folder...." AAARRRRGGGG NOW I remember why ahhhh f**king hate Macs......I
> should be down t'pub not messing with this ponytail pose mobile...
>
> OK
>
> I can login via ssh & I've set myself up as an admin. Something bizarre
> about changing keychains but...right now I can ssh in.
>
>  So questions
>
> A) How do I do smb filesharing?

That should just work. Do you have any ports blocked?

> B) How do I add a terminal to the dock?

Finder. Click on the Applications icon, then open the Utilities subfolder.
Drag and drop the terminal icon in the dock.

> C) How do I logout so I can login as me? At the mo I will keep the autologin
> bit (at startup) on as otherwise my dad will get veeeerrrry confused & claim
> I've "buggered up his machine" (which I can live without).

It's the bottom entry on the Apple-icon menu at the top left of the screen.

> D) How do I shutdown w/o just pushing the shutdown button or is that how you
> are supposed to shut down an iBook?

Another entry on the same menu.

> E) When the Mac tells me a file is a "iMovie DV File" is it
a std mpeg or
> something weird & apple only?
 >
> F) What's the best thing to turn a heap of the above "DV
File" clips into a
> CD (prob dvix 5 coz no DVD burners around & max size of media = 700mb)?
>

Dunno about those two.

--
Tony

> TIA
>
> Adam
>
>
>
>
>

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