How to get LinNeighborhood working?

[Eric Dunbar]

> doesn't have permission to run smbmount properly. Quite frankly browsing
> Windows Domains with Gnome is a foul experience - the network browser is
> a pile of gunk - you can see machines, but when you try to access them
> it doesn't even ask for authentication. What kind of 'network centric'
> 'just works' system is THAT?? On the other hand, if you use smb4k
> (which requires some KDE stuff #-o ) then all of a sudden it all looks

It still amazes me just _how_ good Ubuntu is for beta software (and,
it is beta software).

This is the first public release of a brand spanking new distro, and
many of the problems aren't necessarily Ubuntu's alone but GNOME's or
even Debian's. When you think about it, Ubuntu/GNOME is already as
easy to use as Windows 3.1 was and as stable as the most severely
locked down, corporately supported install of Windows NT or 2000 (in a
tip of my hat to Win NT 4.0 SP 6 and the City's computer services
dep't I have to admit that in 6 months of _trying_ I have't been able
to bring Win NT (or even Word 97 believe it or not) down with my
(massive) Access and MapInfo databases)!

PS Does anyone know of any OSS mapping applications that can read
MapInfo tables or database apps that can handle .mdb (Access) files?

Eric.