Re: An extremely naive newbie here...

From: David Wright (david_c_wright_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 10/28/04 

Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 07:37:35 +0200

David Chandler wrote:

<snip>
>
> Well, I still haven't been able to install the soundcard properly! It
> should recognize it, huh? I know that I tried running Yast this morning
> and it was giving me an error message but then it was telling me to run
> OSS/sound (?) after I click the Options (?) tab? But to no avail! Let
> me ask, would it be worthwhile to actually reinstall SUSE again? If I
> do that will it overwrite the previous installation leaving the files
> intact or will it erase everything and I'll have to partition the hard
> drive as well?
 
If you boot from the CD, I think it gives the option to repair (or upgrade?)
an existing installation. If you choose the repair, it should rebuild the
base installation and re-configure for you.

As always, when messing with the base install, make a backup of any data
first...

> As for accessing other computers and files on my network, I was able to
> do what you said and access Windows shares, but now I'm having a problem
> access my Mac. This was the only computer on the network before I was
> having no problems accessing! Hmmmmmmm?? Perplexing! It's asking me
> for a User name and password and my guess is that I am to type in the un
> and pass that I use for the iBook in order to access root system
> functions but when I type it in it gives me an authentication failure.

Are you accessing it via Samba or NFS? As both Mac and Linux are *nix based,
you should be able to setup the "shares" to work via NFS, which is the
native method for *nix systems - to share data, the user ID numbers on both
systems must match for personal data (or make sure everything you want to
share is global read-write, matching the userID's and their numbers is more
secure). Look in YaST at the NFS Client and NFS Server options, these make
it fairly easy to set-up the shares, and I would have thought Mac OSX would
make it even easier to set-up.

If you are accessing the shares via Samba to the Mac, you will need the same
username and password that you use to connect from the PC's.

> By the way, the CD burning program on SUSE is phenomenal! It does
> everything but clean your kitchen sink! LOL Anyway, where to go from
> here?
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> D.C.

Yep, I have Nero on my Windows PC, but find the Linux burner much easier to
use and more powerful.

Hope the above info allows you to get a bit further. If you need more help
in setting up NFS between SuSE and the Mac, try looking at Google for a NFS
howto. If you are still stuck, we can sort out some more explicit
instructions for the SuSE side later.

Dave

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