happy new year every body...... abbas........ <div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 6:08 AM, <<a href="mailto:ubuntu-users-request@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users-request@lists.ubuntu.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Send ubuntu-users mailing list submissions to <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users-request@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users-request@lists.ubuntu.com</a> You can reach the person managing the list at <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users-owner@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users-owner@lists.ubuntu.com</a> When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of ubuntu-users digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Happy New Year (Basil Chupin) 2. Re: File sharing setup (Colin Law) 3. Happy New Year Everyone (Stephen) 4. Re: recursively count the words occurrence in the text files (Cybe R. Wizard) 5. Re: Happy New Year Everyone (Pete) 6. Nikon D40 and gphoto2 (Matthias Andersson) 7. Re: converting from win7 (Verde Denim) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2010 17:28:14 +1100 From: Basil Chupin <<a href="mailto:blchupin@iinet.net.au">blchupin@iinet.net.au</a>> To: <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Subject: Happy New Year Message-ID: <<a href="mailto:4D1D77FE.4080808@iinet.net.au">4D1D77FE.4080808@iinet.net.au</a>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Happy New Year 2011 to everyone. May the New Year bring Health, Happiness, and Wealth to all. BC -- A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject. Sir Winston Churchill ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2010 08:41:30 +0000 From: Colin Law <<a href="mailto:clanlaw@googlemail.com">clanlaw@googlemail.com</a>> To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions" <<a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a>> Subject: Re: File sharing setup Message-ID: <<a href="mailto:AANLkTimJcJQPHebzSB%2B%2BiExOyaHTj4-BS%2Bcv1E0x8LPp@mail.gmail.com">AANLkTimJcJQPHebzSB++iExOyaHTj4-BS+cv1E0x8LPp@mail.gmail.com</a>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 On 30 December 2010 23:22, Bill Stanley <<a href="mailto:bstanle@wowway.com">bstanle@wowway.com</a>> wrote: > On 12/30/2010 04:33 PM, Colin Law wrote: >> >> On 30 December 2010 17:54, Bill Stanley<<a href="mailto:bstanle@wowway.com">bstanle@wowway.com</a>> ?wrote: >>> >>> ... >>> By the way, is there any advantage to installing the samba server on >>> every machine or does this just complicate the setup? >> >> It won't do any harm if you install it on a machine that is not >> required to serve files, but there is no point. ?It will just sit >> there doing nothing much, consuming a small amount of resources (I >> guess), in the vain hope that it might be asked to do something at >> some point. ?I just install it on machines that I setup shares on. > > > I now am able to share the document directory on computer two (the computer > that had the ping problem) and access files on computer one. Computer two is > now acting as a server. ?However this is not exactly what I want. I want > computer one to be the server since it is newer, faster and has a much > larger hard drive. > > What is happening is this. ?Smbfs has been installed on both computers. > When I try yo set file sharing on the documents directory I get an error. > > 1. I click on places/home folder. ?(it opens correctly) > 2. I right-click on the documents folder and I choose the > ? "Sharing Options" item. > 3. A dialog box opens (titled Folder Sharing) and I check the > ? "Share this folder" item. > 4. I check the item saying "Allow others to create..." > > At this point everything seems OK. > > 5. I choose "Create Share" and I get an error. > > The line saying Share name ?Documents now is displayed > in red and and an error the message saying > > Failed to execute child process > "testparm" (no such file or directory. Google shows this could be a problem on Ubuntu 9.10. Are you using 9.10? If so have you made sure the system is up to date? If so then it might be worth looking through <a href="http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=&q=Failed+to+execute+child+process+%22testparm%22+%28no+such+file+or+director+samba&sourceid=navclient-ff&rlz=1B3GGGL_enGB320GB320&ie=UTF-8" target="_blank">http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=&q=Failed+to+execute+child+process+%22testparm%22+%28no+such+file+or+director+samba&sourceid=navclient-ff&rlz=1B3GGGL_enGB320GB320&ie=UTF-8</a> to see if they are of any help. Colin > > I tried the same with other directories and even tried > creating a guest account and I get the same error. > > The directory definitely exists and has files in it. > I thought the permissions were wrong but they appear to be correct. > they are... > > Owner ? ? ? ? ? ?bill > Folder access ? ?Create and delete files > file access ? ? ?-- ? ?NOTE: I tried to change this item and > ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? can't because it is a folder? > > The same permissions are set for GROUP and OTHERS. > > In short I have partial success but I can't make the new computer > (comp one) the server. > > > > ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2010 03:45:53 -0500 From: Stephen <<a href="mailto:stephen_o@rogers.com">stephen_o@rogers.com</a>> To: Ubuntu Users <<a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a>> Subject: Happy New Year Everyone Message-ID: <<a href="mailto:4D1D9841.90900@rogers.com">4D1D9841.90900@rogers.com</a>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed I know this is a little off topic, but you people have helped me immensely in the past, so I want to wish the best of the new year to all of you. ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2010 03:04:50 -0600 From: "Cybe R. Wizard" <<a href="mailto:cyber_wizard@mindspring.com">cyber_wizard@mindspring.com</a>> To: <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Subject: Re: recursively count the words occurrence in the text files Message-ID: <20101231030450.3cbf2cd0@WizardsTower> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII On Fri, 31 Dec 2010 02:16:53 -0500 Ric Moore <<a href="mailto:wayward4now@gmail.com">wayward4now@gmail.com</a>> wrote: > On Thu, 2010-12-30 at 16:51 -0800, MR ZenWiz wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 3:53 PM, Jonesy <<a href="mailto:gmane@jonz.net">gmane@jonz.net</a>> wrote: > > > On Thu, 30 Dec 2010 11:15:58 -0800, MR ZenWiz wrote: > > >> > > >> This is why I frequently answer with what most others consider > > >> obnoxious comments like STFW, RTFM, DYOH (that's Do Your Own > > >> Homework) and the like, or just ignore the postings. > > > > > > Speaking as an ex-adjunct professor in "Computer Science", I > > > would urge folks to answer such homework questions with 400-500 > > > level solutions. Even the most oblivious instructor in the > > > 100-200 level classes will see that it is not Original Work. > > > > > Ooh, that's mean! > > > > I like it. > > GREAT MINDS! I was just about to reply that it was fiendish, and that > I liked it! <evil cackles> Ric > Heh, as you will see, I did the same. It's the prefect solution. Cybe R. Wizard -- Software efficiency halves every 18 months, compensating Moore's Law. May's Law ------------------------------ Message: 5 Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2010 13:02:59 +0000 From: Pete <<a href="mailto:psmouty@live.com">psmouty@live.com</a>> To: <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Subject: Re: Happy New Year Everyone Message-ID: <ifkka3$kr8$<a href="mailto:1@dough.gmane.org">1@dough.gmane.org</a>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed On 31/12/10 08:45, Stephen wrote: > I know this is a little off topic, but you people have helped me > immensely in the past, so I want to wish the best of the new year to all > of you. > OT I know but all the best to you and everyone on this list and thanks for your help! Pete ------------------------------ Message: 6 Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2010 15:04:12 +0200 From: Matthias Andersson <<a href="mailto:matthias.andersson@pp1.inet.fi">matthias.andersson@pp1.inet.fi</a>> To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions" <<a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a>> Subject: Nikon D40 and gphoto2 Message-ID: <<a href="mailto:4D1DD4CC.5040108@pp1.inet.fi">4D1DD4CC.5040108@pp1.inet.fi</a>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Hi! I have tried to control a Nikon D40 using the gphoto2 application as shown at <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KLIGlc3tS0" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KLIGlc3tS0</a> but without success. Gphoto2 says Error-6, the camera doesn't support the capture function. Cheers, Matthias Happy new year! ------------------------------ Message: 7 Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2010 09:08:35 -0500 From: Verde Denim <<a href="mailto:tdldev@gmail.com">tdldev@gmail.com</a>> To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions" <<a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a>> Subject: Re: converting from win7 Message-ID: <AANLkTi=rUdb0D0e+EEFXO1=<a href="mailto:zc2GBqndXmzyJz3d6TJkx@mail.gmail.com">zc2GBqndXmzyJz3d6TJkx@mail.gmail.com</a>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 11:51 PM, Lucio M Nicolosi <<a href="mailto:lmnicolosi@gmail.com">lmnicolosi@gmail.com</a>>wrote: > On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 8:24 PM, Verde Denim <<a href="mailto:tdldev@gmail.com">tdldev@gmail.com</a>> wrote: > > Hi, all > > Hope the holidays are going well for everyone. My girlfriend asked me put > a > > trial of ubuntu on her desktop system so she have a go at it to see if > > switching to Ubuntu would work for her. She has a Sony Vaio All-In-One. I > > grabbed 10.10 from the Ubuntu site and burned it. > > When I loaded the disc it asked me automagically to run wubi (never seen > > that before). I tried booting from the disc, but first got a kb failure, > and > > then, after the initial bootup sequence, the screen simply goes black. I > > went back and took the Wubi option, which, after the install, asked to > > reboot to complete the installation. I got the same results. Since the > > graphic card seems to be compatible (checked both ubuntu and > linuxhardware), > > I'm wondering about this box. I've never seen a system that Ubuntu > couldn't > > be installed on, live cd or otherwise. Has anyone gotten Ubuntu installed > on > > an all-in-one system and was there anything different that I'd need on > the > > boot line to get this started? Thanks, as always, for the input... > > If it matters, the model is Sony VAIO PCV-A1111L. > > > > Jack > > - Do you intend to run Ubuntu from inside Windows with Wubi or > repartition the disk to install Ubuntu in its proper partitions? > > The ultimate intention is to repart the drive and run Ubuntu. > > - Do you have access to memtest and CD test? Have you tested them? > Yes and Yes. Memtest passes all tests and the CD integrity test passes. > > - Have you set the BIOS to try to boot from the CD first? > The system is set to boot first from CD, then primary hard drive > > - Are you sure you can't run Ubuntu from the live CD? (It would > indicate hardware incompatibility.) > When I put the CD in with Win7 running, Wubi is the program that comes up. > If I put the CD in the drive and reboot the machine so that it runs a warm > boot, Ubuntu does begin to load, but then goes to a black screen. I can try > and capture the last messages before this happens to tell you approximately > where this occurs. > > - Have you tried to startup Ubuntu with different parameters? > Such as? > > - Have ou googled the computer name plus "ubuntu" to check issues with > his kind of hardware? > Yes. A couple of sites in addition to Ubuntu (linuxhardware, etc). The > specific system is not mentioned although a number of Sony Vaio products > are. > > - Have you considered running Ubuntu on a virtual machine like VirtualBox? > Not at the moment, since my GF isn't all that savvy, and ultimately, I'd > like to see her get away from Win7 and go to Ubuntu as her primary OS. > L. > > -- > L M Nicolosi, Eng. > Ubuntu AMD64 > GNU-Linux Regist. 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