Windows network gone - I can no longer see it.

[aYo Binitie]

I'm just an Actionscript developer in love with Ubuntu (workstation) and
UnuntuStudio (lappy X2). I have however been thrown inough curveballs by
Ubuntu to know not to mess with a brand new distro till there are a number
of hands out there who have solved and documented solutions to general
bugbears, gremlins and weirdness

a

On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 6:19 PM, Active Accounts
<active.accounts at gmail.com>wrote:

>  Well, I know this is getting off topic... and I'd like to understand the
> whole windows networking thing as well. I've also seem some strangeness with
> that, but chalked it up to my lack of understanding and, of course, windows
> funky behavior - sometimes it never works right until you've rebooted a
> couple times.
>
> However, I had to toss my two cents in on Intrepid... It's my OS of choice
> right now, upgrading from Debian testing (lenny). Ubuntu has done a really
> good job of putting this together. I do notice the "Beta" parts of it...
> Random freezes, don't stress the machine to much... ;) I have yet to get
> into any serious audio/video applications although this next week will be
> the test when I go on show site... Also, Im not running an RT kernel, just a
> custom patched 2.6.27.
>
> For the record alot has changed with intrepid... aside from a .27 kernel,
> there's the new Xorg server 7.4 and xorg core 1.5 - both of these brought in
> alot of new support. I've been running my ATI radeon on the Open Source
> drivers, using 3D rendering and compiz with no problems... It's nice to get
> away from proprietary software when I can...
>
> I give Intrepid two thumbs... (knock on wood) :P
>
> Daniel
>
> On Tuesday 14 October 2008 12:05:09 aYo Binitie wrote:
>
> > I absolutely agree. I've had enough trouble as it is from getting updates
>
> > other than long term release fixes. Oh God no. I'll be sitting on my
> hands
>
> > for a while before going to Intrepid.
>
> >
>
> >
>
> > On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 4:56 PM, Steven Davies-Morris <
>
> >
>
> > sdavmor at systemstheory.net> wrote:
>
> > > aYo Binitie wrote:
>
> > > > On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 4:22 PM, Steven Davies-Morris
>
> > > > <sdavmor at systemstheory.net <mailto:sdavmor at systemstheory.net>>
>
> > >
>
> > > [snip]
>
> > >
>
> > > >> What revision of Ubuntu Studio are you running? I ask because
>
> > > >> I've recently upgraded to Intrepid 8.10 to test things out, and
>
> > > >> all kinds of things like audio, networking, video blow up /
>
> > > >> disappear / reappear / reconfigure themselves incorrectly...to
>
> > > >> list just the tip of the iceberg things that are working in less
>
> > > >> than stellar fashion. So if you're not on the official 8.04 Hardy
>
> > > >> then all bets are off.
>
> > > >>
>
> > > >> Also what rev level of vBox are you running? The transition from
>
> > > >> 1.6 was not smooth, but after some false starts all the
>
> > > >> immediate gotchas have been nailed and 2.0.2 seems stable. Except
>
> > > >> that it keeps losing one of my shared folders after a physical
>
> > > >> reboot, which is a minor annoyance but no show-stopper.
>
> > > >
>
> > > > I'm still using Hardy - I've really had to put myself in a
>
> > > > straitjacket to prevent myself upgrading but I only will when its
>
> > > > officially out. That said I'm so in love with the OS
>
> > >
>
> > > Let me offer some friendly advice from sticking my hand in the fire.
>
> > > Do NOT under any circumstances upgrade to Intrepid until the Ubuntu
>
> > > Studio team roll out a production release on Intrepid. it's one thing
>
> > > to go Beta when your needs are light office/email/internet, etc. It's
>
> > > another when the apps that are being run are serious audio & video
>
> > > tools. There are still waaaaay too many things that go south in 8.10
>
> > > for no apparent reason/get hosed with the latest set of Beta patches.
>
> > > Like right now...my audio, which was working fine last night when I
>
> > > watched some India vs Australia cricket highlights is once again not
>
> > > outputting any sound in any audio or video app. WTF? No doubt I will
>
> > > have to reconfigure audio once the current overnight upgrades are
>
> > > installed and I reboot. :-( For the "J" release next April I won't be
>
> > > in such a damn hurry to exercise my curiosity. I managed to resist
>
> > > this time until the Alpha 6 at which point I had to dive in. I should
>
> > > have kept resisting. There's a lot of good sense in "if it ain't broke
>
> > > don't keep programming / engineering it until it is!". :-)
>
> > > --
>
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>
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>
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