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Master of Reality:
I gotta Q about upgrading. If i have 7.2 on my comp and i put the RH8.0 discs in and choose upgrade, willl it overwrite any of my files that are in 7.2?? ?
voidmain:
I haven't yet done an upgrade with 8.0, only fresh installs. I have done upgrade installs with most previous versions including 7.3 without many problems. It should only upgrade RPMS and leave your users, user data and other configuration information alone. RedHat 8.0 is a pretty radical update so I opted to just do a clean install. I didn't want my previous kde and gnome preferences screwing something up.
I did the fresh installs to different partitions so I could mount up my old installation and copy anything over that I needed, and set up a boot entry so I could boot back into the old versions. Eventually I will blow away the old installation and use that partition as a work area until the next major upgrade where it will become the place to do a fresh install.
Master of Reality:
thats what i was gonna do, but i installed RH8.0 on another computer instead. Beside Slackware 8.1.
I may try to install it yet on my main computer but when i tried the first time it phuxored up.
At least the installation program runs in RH 8.0.. RH7.3 wouldnt run the installation on my main computer. I am still using 7.2
xyle_one:
i have only one problem with redhat 8 right now, how the fu@k do you mount a windows volume (me and co-worker have been stumbling over this for a few days now). i know in mandrake9 there is a utility called 'windows shares' and it took me a whole 2 minutes to find, mount and copy files. but i dont know what im doing in redhat. any suggestions???
ecsyle one
voidmain:
I assume you are talking about connecting to a remote Windows machine and copying files from a shared directory. There are actually several ways to do this. If you are in the default Gnome environment the simple easiest way is to click on your "Home" ICON on your desktop and type "smb:" in the Location bar which will bring up a "Network Neighborhood" type of screen. Click on your domain or workgroup ICON and it will bring up a list of servers. Click on a server and it should bring up a list of shares.
Now, if you need to authenticate to gain access to the share you'll need to supply your username/password as part of the URL (I don't like this method for security reasons but it's quick an easy):
smb://username:password@winserver
In the above URL you would use your Windows userid as the "username", your Windows password as the "password" and the network name of your windows machine as the "winserver".
A better method is to mount a Windows share using the "smbmount" command. This will be similar to "Mapping a Network Drive" in Windows. You can also set it up in your /etc/fstab to automount Windows shares when you boot your machine. There is another thread where we gave details on how to use smbmount and set up the automatic mounting in /etc/fstab. Search the Linux/UNIX forum and you should find the thread. Using "smbmount" as the keyword should find some threads on the subject. If you can't get it let me know and I'll help you further. Use "man smbmount" for more specific information.
Also you can use "smbclient" to get an FTP like connection to your Windows shares.
And not last and certainly not least you can download a cool utility such as "xsmbrowser" which works really well.
Most of the above require you to have Samba and Samba client packages installed. Look in your "Packages" ICON in System Settings to make sure you have Samba installed under the "Windows File Server" section. Some of the above might also require that you have your Samba Configuration file set up properly for your network (/etc/samba/smb.conf).
I don't believe there is a graphical tool for configuring the smb.conf included with RedHat 8.0 (one of the few still missing). Swat is the best graphical tool for configuring the smb.conf file but I don't see it included with RedHat. I like to manually edit the file anyhoo. Make sure you restart the smb service after making changes to that config file.
Try the things in the first paragraphs before configuring smb.conf to see if they work without it. Good luck and if you have any further questions I'll be more than happy to help.
Here's a related thread explaining "smbmount":
http://forum.fuckmicrosoft.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=5&t=000192
And to be able to mount Windows shares as a normal user you might want to setuid the "smbmnt" command first:
# chmod u+s /usr/bin/smbmnt
[ October 04, 2002: Message edited by: void main ]
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