Re: Samba problems -

2020-07-16 Thread Tim via users
On Thu, 2020-07-16 at 22:21 -0600, Joe Zeff wrote: > What I meant was what was wrong with /mnt that made the Fedora devs > decide to create /media to do the same job? It's not quite the same job. /mnt was considered a place where you might mount one thing (such as temporarily connecting another h

Re: Samba problems -

2020-07-16 Thread Tim via users
Re: Tim's comment about not naming a server "smb" Bob Goodwin wrote: > I am open to suggestions, can change to whatever common practice > might suggest it ought to be ... Generally speaking, give a device a hostname that's *unique* and useful for you to know what it is. You could call it fred, s

Re: Samba problems -

2020-07-16 Thread Ed Greshko
On 2020-07-17 12:28, Ed Greshko wrote: > I'm not curious enough to > research it. Or so he said Maybe /media has been there for a long time and I just didn't notice it. The Spec published by the Linux Foundation way back https://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/FHS_2.3/fhs-2.3.html (Note:

Re: Samba problems -

2020-07-16 Thread Ed Greshko
On 2020-07-17 12:21, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 07/16/2020 10:03 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: >> On 2020-07-17 11:20, Joe Zeff wrote: >>> On 07/16/2020 08:46 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On the subject of research, I looked into the purpose of /media.  I don't know when that was introduced in Fedora. I

Re: Samba problems -

2020-07-16 Thread Joe Zeff
On 07/16/2020 10:03 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 2020-07-17 11:20, Joe Zeff wrote: On 07/16/2020 08:46 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On the subject of research, I looked into the purpose of /media.  I don't know when that was introduced in Fedora. I knew it was there, but I've ignored it.  Anyway, in read

Re: Samba problems -

2020-07-16 Thread Ed Greshko
On 2020-07-17 12:03, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 2020-07-17 11:20, Joe Zeff wrote: >> On 07/16/2020 08:46 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: >>> On the subject of research, I looked into the purpose of /media.  I don't >>> know when that was introduced >>> in Fedora. I knew it was there, but I've ignored it.  Anywa

Re: Samba problems -

2020-07-16 Thread Ed Greshko
On 2020-07-17 11:20, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 07/16/2020 08:46 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: >> On the subject of research, I looked into the purpose of /media.  I don't >> know when that was introduced >> in Fedora. I knew it was there, but I've ignored it.  Anyway, in reading >> about it, its purpose is to

Re: Samba problems -

2020-07-16 Thread Joe Zeff
On 07/16/2020 08:46 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On the subject of research, I looked into the purpose of /media.  I don't know when that was introduced in Fedora. I knew it was there, but I've ignored it.  Anyway, in reading about it, its purpose is to be a place where removable media would be mounte

Re: Samba problems -

2020-07-16 Thread Ed Greshko
On 2020-07-17 04:14, Bob Goodwin wrote: > Certainly it can wait. Well, it will be yet another day since I've had time to do some research and would like you to try one more thing. On the subject of research, I looked into the purpose of /media.  I don't know when that was introduced in Fedora.

Re: Samba problems -

2020-07-16 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 2020-07-16 20:21, Ed Greshko wrote: Yes.  I had been assigning addresses but found letting the router dhcp server do it is much more convenient. I can change them if I want  and make them static so they match the mac addresses for filtering, and whatever ... Nothing is set in concrete, I

Re: Samba problems -

2020-07-16 Thread Ed Greshko
On 2020-07-17 06:44, Bob Goodwin wrote: > > > On 2020-07-16 17:43, Ed Greshko wrote: >> OK  Will do it in a bit.  I did forget to ask one question. >> >> Your systems are all using DHCP to get their IP addresses, yes? > ° > Yes.  I had been assigning addresses but found letting the router dhcp

Re: Samba problems -

2020-07-16 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 2020-07-16 17:43, Ed Greshko wrote: OK  Will do it in a bit.  I did forget to ask one question. Your systems are all using DHCP to get their IP addresses, yes? ° Yes.  I had been assigning addresses but found letting the router dhcp server do it is much more convenient. I can change t

Re: Samba problems -

2020-07-16 Thread Ed Greshko
On 2020-07-17 04:14, Bob Goodwin wrote: > > Certainly it can wait. > OK  Will do it in a bit.  I did forget to ask one question. Your systems are all using DHCP to get their IP addresses, yes? -- The key to getting good answers is to ask good questions. _

Re: Samba problems -

2020-07-16 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 2020-07-16 16:01, Ed Greshko wrote: On 2020-07-17 03:13, Bob Goodwin wrote: On 2020-07-16 14:27, Ed Greshko wrote: So, you can use Thunar to display the share files. Is this sufficient to say it is working?.- ° Yes perhaps, but not the way it should and did work a week or ten days earli

Re: Samba problems -

2020-07-16 Thread Ed Greshko
On 2020-07-17 03:13, Bob Goodwin wrote: > > > On 2020-07-16 14:27, Ed Greshko wrote: >> So, you can use Thunar to display the share files. >> >> Is this sufficient to say it is working?.- > ° > Yes perhaps, but not the way it should and did work a week or ten days > earlier, NFS still produces a u

Re: Samba problems -

2020-07-16 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 2020-07-16 14:27, Ed Greshko wrote: So, you can use Thunar to display the share files. Is this sufficient to say it is working?.- ° Yes perhaps, but not the way it should and did work a week or ten days earlier, NFS still produces a usable display in Thunar, Samba has changed. I rarely n

Re: Samba problems -

2020-07-16 Thread Ed Greshko
On 2020-07-17 02:17, Bob Goodwin wrote: > > > On 2020-07-16 12:39, Ed Greshko wrote: >> On 2020-07-17 00:27, Bob Goodwin wrote: >>> >>> On 2020-07-15 01:32, Ed Greshko wrote: On 2020-07-15 10:20, Bob Goodwin wrote: > On 2020-07-14 20:03, Ed Greshko wrote: >> The share is now, under /mn

Re: Samba problems -

2020-07-16 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 2020-07-16 12:39, Ed Greshko wrote: On 2020-07-17 00:27, Bob Goodwin wrote: On 2020-07-15 01:32, Ed Greshko wrote: On 2020-07-15 10:20, Bob Goodwin wrote: On 2020-07-14 20:03, Ed Greshko wrote: The share is now, under /mnt/smb and you can access them from the command line, yes? Yes it

Re: What is Portal and pipewire and Why Did They Start?

2020-07-16 Thread Garry T. Williams
On Thursday, July 16, 2020 1:22:59 PM EDT stan via users wrote: > On Thu, 16 Jul 2020 11:53:41 -0400 "Garry T. Williams" > wrote: > > A few weeks ago I installed F32-KDE fresh on a workstation (a disk > > drive failed). All of a sudden last night Portal service was > > started (whatever that is)

Re: What is Portal and pipewire and Why Did They Start?

2020-07-16 Thread stan via users
On Thu, 16 Jul 2020 11:53:41 -0400 "Garry T. Williams" wrote: > A few weeks ago I installed F32-KDE fresh on a workstation (a disk > drive failed). All of a sudden last night Portal service was started > (whatever that is). I did nothing that I know of to trigger this. > Furthermore, since upda

Re: Samba problems -

2020-07-16 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 2020-07-15 01:36, Ed Greshko wrote: Well, I would never name a host "smb" or anything like that either.  But, apparently, that is what Bod did as one can see from a post from a different thread were he showed. [root@smb bobg]# ll /media/dd2 total 0 At that time, I didn't think it was wort

Re: Samba problems -

2020-07-16 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 2020-07-14 19:55, Ed Greshko wrote: Well that is, in part, my point.  There should be no reason to connect to a server called smb by the GUI as the share is already mounted.  The GUI should be treating it as any other mounted file system. He can access the share just fine from the command

Re: Samba problems -

2020-07-16 Thread Ed Greshko
On 2020-07-17 00:27, Bob Goodwin wrote: > > > On 2020-07-15 01:32, Ed Greshko wrote: >> On 2020-07-15 10:20, Bob Goodwin wrote: >>> >>> On 2020-07-14 20:03, Ed Greshko wrote: The share is now, under /mnt/smb and you can access them from the command line, yes? >>> Yes it does that from th

Re: [Fedora] Re: [Fedora] Re: document camera

2020-07-16 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 7/16/20 2:09 AM, Walter Cazzola wrote: I've tried it on Windows (on a different machine) and it works without problems. So if there is an hw problem this is in connection to my laptop and not in general. Could you try booting a Fedora live image on that computer to see if the camera would

Re: Samba problems -

2020-07-16 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 2020-07-15 12:58, Jonathan Billings wrote: On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 07:57:59PM -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote: then I thought I'd better try rebooting this computer, ws1. Now after the restart/reboot the network browser displays nothing, not even the Mac portable which I believe is still running.

Re: Samba problems -

2020-07-16 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 2020-07-15 01:32, Ed Greshko wrote: On 2020-07-15 10:20, Bob Goodwin wrote: On 2020-07-14 20:03, Ed Greshko wrote: The share is now, under /mnt/smb and you can access them from the command line, yes? Yes it does that from the terminal. So, how about if you navigate from / (a.k.a. File

Re: NFS4: CentOS 7 client with a Fedora 32 server

2020-07-16 Thread Michael Watters
Need more details to really know what's going on.  What do your logs say (on client and server)?  Does mount -v return anything useful? On 7/15/2020 10:20 AM, Braden McDaniel wrote: > I'd like to support a CentOS 7 client from a Fedora 32 NFS4 server. > Other Fedora 32 clients can mount the volum

What is Portal and pipewire and Why Did They Start?

2020-07-16 Thread Garry T. Williams
A few weeks ago I installed F32-KDE fresh on a workstation (a disk drive failed). All of a sudden last night Portal service was started (whatever that is). I did nothing that I know of to trigger this. Furthermore, since updating after installing this system, that service has never been started u

Re: fedora 3d printing?

2020-07-16 Thread Tom Horsley
I may try to switch to cura, but it turns out that RepetierHost (even though it isn't in the repos) still accepts the definition of my old solidoodle2 printer laying around in the mono repos all this time, so I was able to use RepetierHost right away, and printed this masterpiece last night: https

Re: [Fedora] Re: [Fedora] Re: document camera

2020-07-16 Thread Walter Cazzola
On Wed, 15 Jul 2020, Samuel Sieb wrote: So it is getting recognized and added. Try "sudo dnf install uvcdynctrl", it might already be installed. Then run "uvcdynctrl -l" and see what you get. It wasn't installed, I get: >uvcdynctrl -l Listing available devices: video0 Laptop_Int