Re: Shutdown & Networking - some more newbie (easy?) questions

From: Peter T. Breuer (ptb_at_oboe.it.uc3m.es)
Date: 08/30/03 

Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2003 23:00:17 +0200

Jim Marnott <info@doatkins.com> wrote:
> 1) I am unable to shut down my computer without hitting the power button
> -- or logging on as root, opening a terminal and typing reboot. I've

That's exactly what you should do. What other method are you looking
for? "shutown -h now" is the more usual method!

> tried ctrl-alt-delete and ctrl-alt-backspace. The latter just sends me
> to the login screen again. What's the trick?

There is no trick. cab kills X. cad does a reboot, if you send it to
a text console, not X.

> 2) Sometimes I will download and install something, but am unable to run
> the program. ie: I just downloaded Mozilla Thunderbird and I believe I

That's a personal problem.

What do you mean, anyway? You can't "download" something and
"unarchive it"! You have to *install* a *package* from your distro.

If you got stuff off the net it comes with instructions what to do on
the page you got it off - but don't do that. The stuff and the
instructions could be anything. It rather sounds as though you
downloaded a source archive and that after unarchiving it you want to
read the README inside and do what it says!

> unarchived it properly, put it in a directory and then went hunting for
> something to double-click. Nothing looked right, so I tried a few that

Double-click? Why would double-clicking something run it? What are you
trying to do? To run a program you just run it, not "double-click" it.
Type its name!

> didn't look too wrong (including a file called "thunderbird",) but
> nothing happened. Is there a trick here?

No. No trick.

> 3) I am dual-booting with win XP. When XP is running, I have my machine
> networked with a win ME machine. How can I get linux to see that win ME

It already sees it. What do you mean? Are you asking to et a hold of
some of its "shares"? Login? What?

I suspect you mean use the SMB protocol for file sharing. Use
smbclient, or a graphical equivalent. Linneighbourhood. Isn't
there a whole lot of stuff in kde for gui interfaces to that?

> machine? Do I need software, or am I just not looking in the right place?

The latter.

Peter