> > That went very badly. Ended up with her crying, literally, and snuffling > things like "So I can't do what the other 97% of the world can do?" >
Well at least you could tell her that the other 97% can get viruses and worms, ending up in having NO system at all, which might be worth overthinking. Otherwise you'll end up reconfiguring the M$-stuff all the time your Mom downloads a virus or clicks a "wrong" mail ;-P > I guess she has a point. For web browsing, even with Crossover > Office, almost > everything she wants to look at doesn't work. Neither do the Lord of the > Rings Windows themes and whatnot she wants to install. > > I might yet have to buy her a copy of Windows. :( > Well at least do a dual boot then, if it's unavoidable. If the Wintendo Box crashes, you still got a rock solid Debian :-) Why don't you use Mozilla then? Go to the package search and download mozilla and ssl support and you'll be fine for most sites. Java is out there, I think Flash also should work, but I can't say for sure. > Webmin is easier than SWAT? I don't have webmin installed. > > > How about Samba for people who just want the thing to work > without having to > learn anything about Samba? :) > Well, apt-get install webmin and (should be) webmin-samba and give it a try then..... BUT I must say I forgot an even simpler method if you're still looking for an easy to use solution for your dad. Simply create a new normal user called backup on your Debian-Box and get a copy of WINscp... install it on WinME, provide your Dad with the password of the user backup and he can copy the stuff to /home/backup.... with the windows feeling he's used to ;-) he can't mess up anything (only his own backups :-). > If I could share a Windows printer, that would save me some > money. Dad has a > fancy color laser. CUPS supports it, but I need to run it as > either a Samba > share or a network printer. > > In either case, I keep smacking my face into the same brick wall. The > all-important "URL" field. > Oh, erm, I'm sorry I can't help you with that. You should www.google.com on the mailing list here, there we're a lot of posts to this kind of topic the last weeks. Looks really like a pain in the a**.... I guess you just need time to work on that. Roughly said, you first need to make sure that Unix-Printing works, if that works you can build the samba thingie on top (If I'm wrong here, pls. comment :-) Greets, Simmel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
