Jaydear wrote: > I'd really like to get K7-10 up and running, but IMO it's not > friendly. Maybe I've been spoiled by friendly OS-X and various Windows > iterations. The Samba thing is way too frustrating. Over the years > I've set up plenty of PCs (Win 3.11 through to XP) and more recently > Macs and got the networking fine tuned and on the www without dramas > or any tech support, so why is setting up the same thing on Kubuntu so > bleeding hard? >
My first suggestion to you is to use Ubuntu. Kubuntu is a wonderful product, but like it or not it is not the official distribution. All of the baseline documentation is written for Ubuntu. https://help.ubuntu.com/ Normally choice of desktop would be the least important thing I discuss when choosing a Linux distribution, but from your post you seem to be heavily geared towards the GUI, and need to have the tools do the work for you. All of what you desire can be achieved through the console and manually setting up services, but again you've come across as a GUI-focussed user (and that's not a bad thing, either). Setting up Samba in Ubuntu 7.10 is as trivial as clicking System -> Administration -> Shared Folders. From here you click "Add" to add the folders on your hard disk you want to share, and you're done. Your machine will broadcast itself on your network, and other Windows, Linux and Mac machines will be able to connect to it. If you want to connect to other Windows machines, simply click Places -> Network, wait a few seconds as your machine scans your local network, and all of your Windows machines (as well as Macs if you have them sharing via SMB) will appear for browsing. So again, while I applaud you for taking the plunge into Linux, make your first port of call a distribution with good, official documentation. I link you once more to the main Ubuntu help pages: https://help.ubuntu.com/ These concentrate on the default Ubuntu distribution (GNOME desktop), and if you are very new to Linux, I highly recommend limiting your choices by available documentation rather than by preference of desktop. Once you're practised in the black arts of the penguin, you can always install the KDE desktop (ie: the thing that makes Kubuntu different to Ubuntu) at a later date. -Dan -- ubuntu-au mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
