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5x00 General discussions / run smbmount script from desktop icon?

« on: January 18, 2004, 10:26:03 pm »

Well, no. I put it in /home/QtPalmtop/bin/, but it shows up in the /opt/... also. The .destop file has \"exec=mountmypc\" with \"mountmypc\" as the script name. No path there, but following various instructions posted elswhere, noone mentioned using a path.

Now I just thought of trying to run the script from the terminal by typing \'bash\' (or \'sh\') followed by the path/script name. It returns an error:
ERRSRV - ERRbad pw (Bad password - name/password pair in a Tree Connect or Session Setup are invalid.) SMB connection failed

That doesn\'t hekp me... The name-password set are obviously correct, but something is going wrong when run as a script. Does it need quotes anywhere? Will this take 3 weeks of studying bash scripting to fix? ;-) I have to find my old redhat books...

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5x00 General discussions / run smbmount script from desktop icon?

« on: January 18, 2004, 03:59:29 pm »

I finally got smbmount working and can now mount a directory from my winme machine. That\'s great and I can play mp3\'s or videos. First problem was I had to mount from root. Took care of that with sudo. Then I figured there had to be a way to do it from a desktop icon. I read the faqs here and search the net. I managed to set up an idon and script for the mount & unmount. Problem now: They don\'t work...

The mount command I use is:

/home/root/usr/bin/sudo smbmount //mywimmebox/music /home/zaurus/Documents/mypc -o username=Rich,password=password

This works if I just type it into embeddedkonsole.
To make a script, I just copied that into a text editro, added  #!/bin/sh as the first line and saved it as a script file.
It seems to run? But I can\'t find any log files to help find out why it doesn\'t work and of course I get no messages when run from the icon?

Obviously, I\'m not too familiar with linux. I\'ve run a couple of linux boxes here and plan to very soon again, but I\'m just stumped with this.

If anyone could offer some help or pointers, I\'d greatly appreciate it. Probably somehting as dumb as not getting the smbmount to work in the first place...
Thanks...

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Security and Networking / Trying to samba to a winme machine?

« on: January 16, 2004, 01:51:44 am »

Okay, I\'m having fun, really... A bit more hacking into things...

I don\'t know why this all seems to work for everyone when it doesn\'t even come close for me. Samba seems to run automatically for some people, not me...

So I got samba to run automatically by adding it to \"network\". Plug in the card, connect, and samba runs. Disconnect and samba unloads. Fine, but...

This just gets samba running for me. After a bit more looking around, I discovered the nmbd log (no smb log). It apparently can\'t find an interface! I have the smb.conf interface set to \"eth0\". I worried so much that the 5600 didn\'t use eth0 for the wireless card that I finally found the device listing in the directory. Sure enough, eth0...

So the networking works just fine, I can talk to the internet all I want. I can synch, now on usbd/tcpip. And I can automatically run samba when I connect to my network...

Why is nmd not finding an interface? Why does it work for everyone else but me? After all this work, it must be someting embarassingly simple, but I can\'t find it... Someone must have an idea... Please!

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Security and Networking / Trying to samba to a winme machine?

« on: January 15, 2004, 09:38:07 pm »

Thanks for the reply.
I\'ve read the first link. The problem there was ncurses.s05. I did the limk to 4.2 and smbmount runs fine. So that\'s not my problem. After that it worked for him, not for me...

Read the second link. All that did for me was make the CF card permanently attached so I couldn\'t disconnect or eject. Didn\'t do anything for the samba problem, so I got rid of the mods. If I get samba working, it would be worth looking back into though...

For the A,B,C\'s...
Sharing is enabled on all my machines. Only 5 running right now, and one an OS/2 box so we\'ll leave that out of the discussion ;-) All on the same workgroup and all talk to each other just fine for any purpose with multiple shared directories. And yes, I use static IP addressing.

Now the subnet mask may be an oddity, but should be alright for the box I\'m trying to work with.

I\'ve always used 255.255.255.0 with no problems. When I got the LinkSys WRT54G recently, I had a problem setting it up as it only allocates addresses in the 198.162.1.x range. To get the systems set up, I had to use a subnet mask of 255.255.254.0 on that router. That allowed me to set up the router, a new machine (wireless) and the 5600. I changed this machine to the same subnet mask to be compatible, but the other unchanged machines work fine also at the 25.255.255.0. It\'s only the 5600 that has trouble communicating.
I just changed my 5600 synch option to usb TCPIP advanced to see if it would still synch & file transfer. That works fine too. So the 5600 will talk TCP to this box, just not with samba... I must have someting set wrong somplace?
So I\'m still in the dark...

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Software / are there any newsreaders?

« on: January 15, 2004, 02:47:45 pm »

So far I\'m dong about 50/50. The 5600 is fine, but still no samba connections and newsreaders aren\'t doing well either.

I tried installing both slrn and pine. They don\'t show up in the install software list... And I don\'t know enough yet to know why, or how to try an aternative install. Tin doesn\'t even come in an ipk so that\'s out...
The search (and learning) continue...

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Security and Networking / Trying to samba to a winme machine?

« on: January 15, 2004, 02:29:39 pm »

I finally have given up after days of searching, reading and modifying .conf files. It all sounded easy to share a directory from my winME machine to the SL-5600. But it doesn\'t work for me... So I\'m here for help...

I have a  D-Link 660W CF card in the 5600 connecting to a Linksys WRT54G router. I can use Opera on the net just fine, even e-mail and Jabber. I can ping the other computers that are wired to the router.

I have read all the posts here (and everywhere else I could find) concerning samba and smbmount. I have made changes to my .conf file and that didn\'t help. I\'m out of ideas. I have read that samba doesn\'t start unles you connect to the cradle & USB. So I started samba as root with the same results.

When I enter the  smbmount //192.168.x.x/mypc mypc -o username xxxx all I get is:

\"session request to 192.168.x.x failed\"
\"session request to *SMBSERVER failed\"
\"SMB connection failed\"

Same messages if I use the computer name instead of IP.

I have tried so many different things that I can\'t even remember them (sorry). But if it was suggested in a post, I\'ve tried it...

I did change the .conf interface to eth0, then back to usbd0, then to usbd0 eth0 so I could synch again...

Anybody have any ideas? Could I have a different network problem than samba? Just because ping works doesn\'t mean anything else does. But I\'m not sure how to test it? TCP and the basic network is obviously working because I can get on the internet with the 5600. I just can\'t seem to talk to the other computers that are wired into the router, other than ping...

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I have a hard drive full of mp3\'s I\'d like to listen to, and not one at a time on a cf card ;-)

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Software / are there any newsreaders?

« on: January 14, 2004, 12:30:20 am »

Thanks for the replies & suggestions. I grabbed all the files and will see how things work soon... I knew I should have gotten my linux box working ;-)

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Site Suggestions, Requests, and Updates / #zug IRC channel ?

« on: January 13, 2004, 01:27:37 pm »

I\'m surprised that there\'s no replies and seemingly little interest. I have been searching for a Zaurus IRC channel myself. #Zaurus would seem to be for developers. It would be nice to have a general Zaurus channel for people to chat on even if it\'s just for an excuse to use the machine...
Although after buying tkcJabber and managin to get it working with a little help for their support, I haven\'t been able to get it connected to an IRC server yet...
Another thought. Maybe ZUG is not interested but someone else would be? Maybe a post in the General forum?

Any interest out there at all?

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Software / are there any newsreaders?

« on: January 13, 2004, 01:18:09 pm »

I\'m looking for an on-line/off-line usenet newsreader for my SL-5600 and any help would be greatly appreciated!
I have searched the net, here, and everywhere I can think of with no reasonable results.
Did I miss something obvious?
On my CLIE, I use Yanoff to get newsgroup postings. Read & reply off-line, then connect and transfer. It\'s only got a modem connection, no wireless.
I would like to do the same thing with my SL-5600, especially now that it\'s wireless...

Thanks for any help...

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Windows Issues / SL-5600 AND Palm through Intellisynch?

« on: January 09, 2004, 01:08:02 am »

Well, I\'m now thw proud new owner of an SL-5600. What a fantastic little computer! Okay, I _may_ still use the Sony, but I\'m not sure for what ;-)

But for a quick update:

I just went ahead and installed the Sharp CD, but on a different drive than my Sony stuff. After the install, and a couple of \'crash\' windows that disappeared on me, I checked the Intellisynch directories. Some similarities and a lot of differences. What I did notice right away was the missing \"Connectors\" directory which holds the conduits for the Lotus software! So as a first attempt, I simply copied the Connectors directory from my Intellisynch into the Zaurus Intellisynch directory. When I set up the Zaurus Intellisunch, there was my option to synch with Organizer! And it worked perfectly! All my data is now in the zaurus and I\'m very happy! I have no idea yet what will happen when I try to synch the Sony and I\'m sure that will offer some fun. But I d notice my \'Hotsynch\' seems to have disappeard... Some future fun...

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Windows Issues / SL-5600 AND Palm through Intellisynch?

« on: January 07, 2004, 10:37:38 pm »

Sorry... That\'s the second time I wasn\'t actually logged in... So much for cookies, and users who pay attention ;-)