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<div><font size="2">Greetings All,</font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3">I am Roger and my coding status is<b> Dummy.</b></font></font>
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have installed Xubuntu 18.04 or 20.04 on various machines and have been very
pleased with it. Like anything new, it takes time to get used to it
and arrange things in the way in the way you want. Xubuntu it is a comprehensive package and a great achievement. It provides all I need in a stand-alone PC.</font></font></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3">However, the documentation provided for filesharing with other PCs on a network is (for a dummy) very weak.</font></font><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"> </font></font><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3">The Windows
PCs on my WiFi network can see each other, and I regularly fileshare
between them. Alas, the Xubuntu PCs are invisible on the network to
Windows PCs and other Xubuntu PCs. The wrinkle here is that the
slitheris app on Windows can find everything on the network,
including the Xubuntu PCs, the router, the Talktalk TV box, the
signal booster and, sometimes, my iPhone. (It is necessary to use
this app every time you are attempting a new connection, as the ip
addresses are volatile.)</font></font></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3">Considering the documentation provided in the Xubuntu instructions for Gigolo, the recommended app for filesharing -<br>
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<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3"><i>To
connect to various types of servers, you can use → System →
Gigolo. </i></font></font>
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<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3"><i>To
connect to a server, follow the steps below:</i></font></font></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3">OK,
so it seems that Gigolo is needed – it is a default app, so is is
easy enough to find and open.</font></font></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"> <font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3"><i><span style="font-weight: normal">Go
to Actions → Connect >> </span></i><span style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight: normal">OK</span></span></font></font></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"> <font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3"><i>Select
the appropriate Service type </i> >> No guidance, so just
blunder about with them all. Eventually, you find <b>Windows Share</b>
moves you on a bit.</font></font></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"> <font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3"><i>and
insert connection information >> </i><span style="font-style: normal">This is where the problems start:</span></font></font></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3"><i>Server</i><span style="font-style: normal">
>> Something to do with the router perhaps? No, it turns out to
be the ip ad</span><span style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight: normal">dress
of the PC you are trying to connect to.</span></span></font></font></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3"><i>Share</i>
>> Turns out to be the name of the folder you are trying to get
to. (I just love the flipdown arrow next to it – as if something
might appear there!) </font></font>
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<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3"><i>Domain</i>
>> Can be left blank – hooray!</font></font></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3"><i>User
Name</i> >> Whose user name is this? The user who is addressing
this interface, or a user who owns the stuff on the other PC? Does
this second user need to be an administrator?</font></font></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"> <font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3"><i>Click
Connect; if you are attempting to connect to a server that requires
you to log in, you will be prompted to enter a password. >></i><span style="font-style: normal">
If you get as far as the password interface, it will not accept any
of the system or user passwords, and all the stuff you have
laboriously input will vanish.</span></font></font></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3">There
have been occasions when I have been able to see the files on one of
the Windows 10 PCs. None of this works now
while Windows 10 is having a nervous breakdown (all the folders are stuck on read-only), so it is not worth trying again. Pity there are no instructions for connecting to another Xubuntu PC.</font></font></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3">Blundering about on the net provides nothing that works, but the word 'Samba' keeps cropping up. Samba
does not appear in the 20.04 software list. Instead, you are offered
Smb4K. Does
this replace Samba? Does this include Samba? Is Samba pre-installed
with Xubuntu?</font></font></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3"> The
answer is out there somewhere ….</font></font></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3">If</font></font><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3">
Samba has been replaced by Smb4K, the fact the this new App only gets 2 stars out of 5 is not encouraging. As a 'Dummy' user, it gets less that that. When you open this app, the
'Mounted Shares' interface is blank and the 'Scan' and 'Search'
functions reveal nothing. So apparently, you need to 'Mount' a
'Share'. Here, the instructions are even more opaque. Am I supposed
to the 'Mounting a PC, a directory, a folder, or an individual file?
Dunno. And do I have to do anything to the target before I start? And
what, exactly, is meant by location? The Smb4K Handbook is pretty
useless, in that it simply assumes that it all works straight off.</font></font>
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<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3">For
network discovery, I have tried 'Nutty' and 'nmap', both of which are
in the software library. 'Nutty' would not work, so I removed it and
tried it via Terminal Emulator, I received a message to say it was
dangerous, so I aborted that. Nmap launched, but disappeared in a
flash. </font></font>
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<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3">Alas,
as currently supported, Xubuntu is only for CodeDudes</font></font><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3"><span style="font-weight: normal"> (no offence intended).</span></font></font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3"><span style="font-weight: normal">I shall have to abandon Xubuntu for three reasons -</span></font></font><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3"><span style="font-weight: normal"><br>
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<ul><li><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3"><span style="font-weight: normal">There is no mention of the miriad of operations CodeDudes perform at the Terminal Emulator after a clean load.</span></font></font></li><li><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3"><span style="font-weight: normal">The documentation is so weak (</span></font></font><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3"><span style="font-weight: normal"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3">When terms like 'Server', 'Address', 'Domain', 'Service Type',
'Location', etc are used, it should tell users what the words mean and how
to discover what the corresponding input should be in the context of
their own PCs and their environment. </font></font></span></font></font></li><li><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3"><span style=" font-weight: normal"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3">The 32-bit versions are being discontinued, so I will have to trash my 2008 Acer Aspire, which worked so brilliantly on 18.04</font></font></span></font></font></li></ul>
<div><font size="3"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, serif;">I think the reasons for this failing with is that Xubuntu offers no feedback channel for users, so the same old problems keep cropping up. CodeDudes waltz round these problems, hardly noticing what they are doing, <br>
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<div><font size="3"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, serif;">No offence is intended to any one</span></font></div>
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<div><font size="3"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, serif;">Rogerandout</span></font><br>
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