I thought that synching really did not matter with usb sticks anymore. Is it with other media that there is a problem? I have 12 older student computers at work with arch linux, windowmaker and autofs logging in via rdesktop to a windows terminal server 2003. All students have different usb sticks a...

Are you saying that automount in Puppy will conflict with the autofs files if it is installed via a DotPup? Could not one then uninstall the automount in Puppy and reinstall autofs via a DotPup? Or is automount part of the fabric of Puppy in such a way as to make the installation of autofs impossibl...

Pardon my ignorance about this simple automounter script as I know nothing at all about programming or writing scripts. But I have been wondering for some time why the programming experts who write DotPups etc. have not decided to write a DotPup for something like autofs - a very good and popular (U...

Mylon2202 - Some further questions re usb redirection in rdesktop. 1. Are you logging in to a windows server? 2. I always thought linux could not talk to windows without samba because of the different file systems. My usb drive is formatted in FAT. Should windows be able to see this from the linux t...

Thanks for the tip mylon2202 about -r option with the usb in rdesktop. However I tried that option (-r disk:usb=/dev/sda1 [where my usb stick is located]) but it does not work. Windows explorer shows a network usb entry called usb under my computer but when I click it no files show up, just empty. A...

I would very much like to use puppy 2.01 on some student terminals to log in via rdesktop to a windows terminal server. But the students need access to their usb sticks from the terminal server window. This means I need samba server operating and an automounter that is able to mount and unmount diff...

I saw the post about setting up an ftp server, but dont know how to do this. I installed gtkftpd with pupget. Whe i click on it to open it, however, i don't know what to do from there. Everything is blank and the bottom status bar just says "starting server..." and seems to stay that way. ...

I need the samba daemon installed so a windows pc can see the puppy pc. But the samba daemon in not installed in puppy - I can't find it anyway. So I tried to install samba 2.2.7 from source. This is the same version listed in the packages.txt file. But when I untar and run ./configure it stops near...

Re aspects to Samba. 1. No problems here as I said - Linneighborhood working well. 2. This is what I want to do. For puppy to be useful for my purposes I have to be able to do this. It should be easy if samba is installed. But I suspect it is not or whatever is installed in puupy is muted in some wa...

Thanks GuestToo.

Just what I needed!!

Peter

With xtmix's normal settings my sound is very faint. When I increase the volume control to maximum everything is fine. But xtmix does not hold these settings on reboot. It defaults back to the same original setting. Is there anyway to change the default settings of xtmix so that sound volume is alwa...

Can anyone tell me whether samba is installed on puppy? I know smb is installed via linneighborhood. But I am talking about full samba. And it does not look like it is installed. I see samba listed in packages.txt but do not know how to install it as pupget only lists packages not on the live cd. I ...

Solved the faint sound problem.
Found xtmix and after adjusting volume levels I can now here the sound fine.

Peter

Thanks Ian for the info. It looks like the sb module simply cant use the DMA 5, 6 or 7 for some reason. Sound still seems to work ok, but it is probably just 8 bit. Can you set dma channels manually for modules to use? Another problem with sound has arisen - different pc. I now have puppy loaded on ...

Thanks Barry.

That worked perfectly once I included the full path to rdesktop.

Much appreciated!

Peter

Thanks GuestToo. But this does not work either. If I put "exec /root/rmtdsk" in before "exec xwin" in /etc/ profile it just stops with the error "failed to open display" and then waits for me to enter xwin manually to boot-up. If I put the command "rdesktop [and ap...

Thanks Ian But still no luck. It seems crazy when you can run it perfectly well after boot-up. I presume you meant to put it after "exec xwin" within the "if fi" argument in /etc/profile. My rmtdsk looks like this: !bin.sh /usr/local/bin/rdesktop -u test -p testpassword -a 16 -f ...

Thanks Ian. It does work but I get two dog barks - one just before the grey screen with an X in the middle comes up and one after fvwm95 loads. Id that normal. Also I forgot to ask. This is the output in dmesg for sound: sb: Creative ViBRA16X PnP detected sb: ISAPnP reports 'Creative ViBRA16X PnP' a...

Thanks guest!

That works! I can play the ivy.wav after boot-up with gxine.

But I do not get any sound at boot-up itself.

Is that because fvmw95 has executed before it loads the sound module?

Should I try putting modprobe sb in .xinitrc before exec fvmw95?

Thanks guest. But no. Unfortunately, that does not work either. If I click on rc.local after boot-up it executes perfectly either way - through direct command or the exec rmtdsk option. But for some reason it won't do it at boot-up. It is just this command because I also have put a "modprobe sb...