[ubuntu-uk] ubuntu-uk Digest, Vol 63, Issue 47
Andrew Woodhead
andrew.woodhead666 at googlemail.com
Fri Jul 23 02:32:46 BST 2010
RE: Message 5:
run:
sudo apt-get install samba
And you can now use filesharing in nautilus. I personally prefer to use
/etc/samba/smb.conf
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> 1. Re: Visual Effects are greyed out (Gordon Burgess-Parker)
> 2. Re: 101010 = 42 which is a good excuse for a party (Les Pounder)
> 3. Re: 101010 = 42 which is a good excuse for a party
> (Alan Lord (News))
> 4. Re: SOLVED - Visual Effects are greyed out
> (Gordon Burgess-Parker)
> 5. Personal Filesharing problem in 10.04 (Gordon Burgess-Parker)
> 6. Re: Personal Filesharing problem in 10.04 (Daniel Case)
> 7. Re: Personal Filesharing problem in 10.04 (Gordon Burgess-Parker)
> 8. Re: Personal Filesharing problem in 10.04 (Matthew Daubney)
> 9. Re: Personal Filesharing problem in 10.04 (Matthew Daubney)
> 10. Re: Personal Filesharing problem in 10.04 (Simon Greenwood)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 16:19:06 +0100
> From: Gordon Burgess-Parker <gordon at gbpcomputing.co.uk>
> Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Visual Effects are greyed out
> To: ubuntu-uk at lists.ubuntu.com
> Message-ID: <4C48616A.8020600 at gbpcomputing.co.uk>
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> On 22/07/10 16:16, Liam Proven wrote:
> > On 22 July 2010 15:52, Gordon Burgess-Parker <gordon at gbpcomputing.co.uk>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> >> That just comes up with a window that says "No proprietary drivers on
> >> this system".
> >> BTW, I'm not RUNNING from a flash drive, I installed to my HDD FROM a
> >> flash drive...
> >>
> > What graphics chipset does your machine have? Make + model.
> >
> >
> >
>
> >From the output of lshw it looks as though its an Intel Mobile
> GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller
>
>
>
>
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> Message: 2
> Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 16:24:54 +0100
> From: Les Pounder <lespounder at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] 101010 = 42 which is a good excuse for a
> party
> To: UK Ubuntu Talk <ubuntu-uk at lists.ubuntu.com>
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> Sounds like we have the beginnings of cracking plan.
> Yay!
>
> On 22 Jul 2010 16:16, "Lucy" <lucybridges at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Sounds like an excellent idea :)
>
> I think that MadLab (madlab.org.uk) would be a good location, if possible?
>
>
> On 22 July 2010 14:31, Les Pounder <lespounder at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Jon
> > I'm sure that I can provid...
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> Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 16:39:48 +0100
> From: "Alan Lord (News)" <alanslists at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] 101010 = 42 which is a good excuse for a
> party
> To: ubuntu-uk at lists.ubuntu.com
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> On 22/07/10 10:50, Alan Bell wrote:
> <snip text="lots of stuff about sausages..."/>
> > More ideas on release related activities are welcome and if you have
> > half a plan but can't quite get it all together then let everyone know,
> > perhaps someone else can help.
>
> How about we talk to the London Hackspace about it
> http://london.hackspace.org.uk/ and also, for a potentially more
> business-centric affair, we could talk to the London Techhub:
> http://www.techhub.com/
>
> Al
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> Message: 4
> Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 16:44:25 +0100
> From: Gordon Burgess-Parker <gordon at gbpcomputing.co.uk>
> Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] SOLVED - Visual Effects are greyed out
> To: ubuntu-uk at lists.ubuntu.com
> Message-ID: <4C486759.2090503 at gbpcomputing.co.uk>
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> On 22/07/10 15:32, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
> > I installed 10.04 Remix on my Laptop from a flash drive (because it's
> > MUCH faster than using the CD) but if I right-click on the desktop,
> > choose "Change Desktop background" and click on the Visual Effects tab,
> > it's set to None and all the options are greyed out.
> > I know that the graphics card is good because it runs Aero on (cough
> > cough!) Windows 7....
> > How do I enable this?
> >
> >
>
> Thanks to all who responded - it seems that the Netbook Remix version
> doesn't install Compiz.
> I installed it using sudo apt-get install compiz-core and now those
> options have been enabled!
>
>
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> Message: 5
> Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 18:01:24 +0100
> From: Gordon Burgess-Parker <gordon at gbpcomputing.co.uk>
> Subject: [ubuntu-uk] Personal Filesharing problem in 10.04
> To: ubuntu-uk at lists.ubuntu.com
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> If I do System-Preference-Personal File Sharing it tells me that I can't
> enable sharing over the network because "the required packages are not
> installed on your system".
> It doesn't tell me WHAT packages I need to install!!!!!!
> Can anyone enlighten me?
>
>
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> Message: 6
> Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 18:11:53 +0100
> From: Daniel Case <danielcase10 at googlemail.com>
> Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Personal Filesharing problem in 10.04
> To: UK Ubuntu Talk <ubuntu-uk at lists.ubuntu.com>
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> Right click a folder you would like to share, click "Share Folder" then
> tick
> a few boxes.
> It will ask you to install packages, click yes and it will install them for
> you.
>
> Dan
>
> On 22 July 2010 18:01, Gordon Burgess-Parker <gordon at gbpcomputing.co.uk
> >wrote:
>
> > If I do System-Preference-Personal File Sharing it tells me that I can't
> > enable sharing over the network because "the required packages are not
> > installed on your system".
> > It doesn't tell me WHAT packages I need to install!!!!!!
> > Can anyone enlighten me?
> >
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> Message: 7
> Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 18:14:24 +0100
> From: Gordon Burgess-Parker <gordon at gbpcomputing.co.uk>
> Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Personal Filesharing problem in 10.04
> To: ubuntu-uk at lists.ubuntu.com
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> On 22/07/10 18:11, Daniel Case wrote:
> > Right click a folder you would like to share, click "Share Folder"
> > then tick a few boxes.
> > It will ask you to install packages, click yes and it will install
> > them for you.
> >
> >
> I've done that. The "Share files over the network" in
> System-Preferences-Personal File Sharing is STILL greyed out....I wonder
> what the point of it is...
>
>
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> Message: 8
> Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 18:50:12 +0100
> From: Matthew Daubney <matt at daubers.co.uk>
> Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Personal Filesharing problem in 10.04
> To: UK Ubuntu Talk <ubuntu-uk at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Message-ID: <1279821012.2052.1.camel at bistromath>
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> On Thu, 2010-07-22 at 18:14 +0100, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
> > On 22/07/10 18:11, Daniel Case wrote:
> > > Right click a folder you would like to share, click "Share Folder"
> > > then tick a few boxes.
> > > It will ask you to install packages, click yes and it will install
> > > them for you.
> > >
> > >
> > I've done that. The "Share files over the network" in
> > System-Preferences-Personal File Sharing is STILL greyed out....I wonder
> > what the point of it is...
> >
>
> I suspect you'll need to install Samba, however I can't test this at the
> moment (on a mobile connection).
>
> Shall have a look when i get home though.
>
> -Matt Daubney
>
>
>
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> Message: 9
> Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 19:06:03 +0100
> From: Matthew Daubney <matt at daubers.co.uk>
> Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Personal Filesharing problem in 10.04
> To: UK Ubuntu Talk <ubuntu-uk at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Message-ID: <1279821963.2052.4.camel at bistromath>
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> Scratch that, there is a bug report for this already..
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-user-share/+bug/536766
>
> Looks like it wants Apache2 for some reason. Must be done using webdav
> or something.
>
> -Matt Daubney
>
> On Thu, 2010-07-22 at 18:50 +0100, Matthew Daubney wrote:
> > On Thu, 2010-07-22 at 18:14 +0100, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
> > > On 22/07/10 18:11, Daniel Case wrote:
> > > > Right click a folder you would like to share, click "Share Folder"
> > > > then tick a few boxes.
> > > > It will ask you to install packages, click yes and it will install
> > > > them for you.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > I've done that. The "Share files over the network" in
> > > System-Preferences-Personal File Sharing is STILL greyed out....I
> wonder
> > > what the point of it is...
> > >
> >
> > I suspect you'll need to install Samba, however I can't test this at the
> > moment (on a mobile connection).
> >
> > Shall have a look when i get home though.
> >
> > -Matt Daubney
> >
> >
>
>
>
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> Message: 10
> Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 19:16:14 +0100
> From: Simon Greenwood <sfgreenwood at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Personal Filesharing problem in 10.04
> To: UK Ubuntu Talk <ubuntu-uk at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Message-ID:
> <AANLkTilei0N5F94oakxDDpdm5LiD5q2jxGHTiOXRvfjR at mail.gmail.com>
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> On 22 July 2010 19:06, Matthew Daubney <matt at daubers.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > Scratch that, there is a bug report for this already..
> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-user-share/+bug/536766
> >
> > Looks like it wants Apache2 for some reason. Must be done using webdav
> > or something.
> >
> > -Matt Daubney
> >
> > On Thu, 2010-07-22 at 18:50 +0100, Matthew Daubney wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2010-07-22 at 18:14 +0100, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
> > > > On 22/07/10 18:11, Daniel Case wrote:
> > > > > Right click a folder you would like to share, click "Share Folder"
> > > > > then tick a few boxes.
> > > > > It will ask you to install packages, click yes and it will install
> > > > > them for you.
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > I've done that. The "Share files over the network" in
> > > > System-Preferences-Personal File Sharing is STILL greyed out....I
> > wonder
> > > > what the point of it is...
> > > >
> > >
> > > I suspect you'll need to install Samba, however I can't test this at
> the
> > > moment (on a mobile connection).
> > >
> > > Shall have a look when i get home though.
> > >
> > > -Matt Daubney
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> *lightbulb* yes, it's webdav. I had a similar problem with 9.04.
>
> s/
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