Linux Newb

cool then we won

us two v's xp and linux
1-0 victory to us

word of warning - be careful theres no security on that folder so increase your network security a little more - tighten your firewall rules etc
and make sure at some later stage I will show you how to make it so only a single user can enter thr folder

 

It's officially working! The xp machine is reading the files, and it even has write access!

 

see 2 posts above this - i re- edited

 

I still say you rock. You can rock Linux and still keep your geek points. In fact, I think it earns you more!

 

No problem, we have high security settings on the router right now. After I get the rest of my software, codecs and everything set up then I'll set it up for a single user. I *think* I understand how to do it, so I'm gonna try and exercise my knowledge.

 

coolness have fun with it - If you get any problems my advice is - dont blame linux first - your energy is better put into why xp is broken - only after eliminating an xp problem do you suspect linux

 

you can move files with the mv command first you must use the cd command to change directory

cd /home/your directory/folder

in folder choose the files you want to move

sudo mv file1 file2 file3 /usr/local (example)

with the ls command you can see which files and folders are in the directory

hope it helps....

 

just one more bit of advice - your best friends in the world of networks are
ping
ipconfig /all
and
netstat -a

 

dont forget
dd
netcat

 

or just 'smbmount'

 

we could build hummblebee an iso server so that the cd collection is put into iso form and then it can be played back like a normal cd on the xp box - useful for network installations of xp too

 

^^No worries there, Most of my apps are ripped to a hard drive ready to install. And all my music is in mp3 format on a hard drive. I back everything up to dvds, but cd's are just too bulky for me anymore. I try to keep everything "contained"..

One question though - should I repartition my hard drive or something in order to share my space? This is just a 40 g drive, with 10 gigs as / and the rest (save the swap) is in my /home directory. But if I can't share what's in the /home, it seems silly to put all my space there, you know? Ultimately I want that space on this machine to be hosting some video files or possibly some of my music collection so the rest of the network can access it.

Also, is there some sort of central list somewhere or an index of terminal commands online so I can look them up when I need them?

 

maybe you can try to access the files through ftp....
I will lookup online documentation for you and post it later on....

 

I use this as a reference link it has info for debian but it should work with ubuntu too
http://www.debianhelp.co.uk/commands.htm
http://www.debianhelp.co.uk

 

Its up to you whether you reformat or not, to be honest though it can be tricky if youre not used to things the linux way of doing it - first few times I tried I wiped everything out - just make sure you back up your media etc and make sure you back up those samba config files and note down things that we did in this thread

Every distribution of linux comes with a set of "howto"' documents - search on your hard drive for docs titled *howto* then hit howto-index.html
or something similar to that name - you will then have a full manual of linux
otherwise the full complement of official howto's are here
http://tldp.org/

 

Thanks! Yeah, I'ma copy that smb.conf into an email to myself just in case, that way it'll be on my remote mail server if aything goes wrong. And I haven't even really copied anything over to my drive yet so no worries there.

 

for a complete list of linux commands that are available on your specific machine use these commands:

remember to pipe each command to 'more' or 'less' if you need to view them differently.

that pipe character is located next to the backspace key on your keyboard. hold shift. then use the command 'man to see the usage or manule page.

 

I just been re-reading the whole of this thread and you know what - I just realised I never used the "SUDO" command in the whole time I been doing computers - is that an ubuntu thing or just something I missed in unix/linux
is this something in unix they now incorporated into linux or am I that blind I never seen it before? I got to admit I usually only run as root anyway in linux

 

the "sudo" command is built into, i think its, 2.4 and up Linux kernels. it is supposed to give a user a safer way to run a command as root. you have to be part of the 'sudoers' group to use it and it requires a root password.

the newest Ubuntu's dont let a user access the root priveleges via 'su'. (you cant just type 'su' like in fedora core, redhat, suse, etc.) its kinda a pain in the as$ but i have found a simple way around it. just enter the command:

or you can find the right script to edit and have Ubuntu allow the 'su' command.

 

That's really informative - thanks ! I got to admit that I dont know all that much about Linux - I sort of read enough about it to get a job done and then play with that area of the system enough to understand what can and cant be done with it. For example building a Sendmail server, or a Squd proxy, or samba etc etc. Unless I have to use a command in the course of doing that I probably woulddnt have heard of it.

That su - or sudo bash command sounds excellent and makes sense as it would enable you root privaledges from a much more secure account

yeah thanks for the info