Networking :: LinNeigborhood Not Showing After Samba Install



Well that worked.  It loaded on the DSL account.  It sure would have been nice if a dialog box popped up telling me to use the dsl account.  I spent hours trying to do this every which way till sunday.  I must have read 200 posts on the forums looking for a way too.

The reason I have been using the root account is because the root account has all of the nice icons right on the desktop.  The dsl account doesn't.   I'm such a rookie with linux that even doing something simple like putting icons on the desktop has a steep learning curve for me.

Now that I've installed Samba on the DSL account when I go to run linneighborhood in the root account it doesn't show up.

I'm trying to get one account that has a desktop configuration like the root account does and also has linneighborhood on it and I'll be all set.

Can anyone give me a simple way to do this?

I really appreciate your help.  I feel like such a linux virgin. :p
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It sure would have been nice if a dialog box popped up telling me to use the dsl account.

There's already sufficient content in the forums, wiki, etc., explaining that you use user dsl (be careful with case in Linux: DSL and dsl are two different things) instead of root in DSL.

As to your question, you have something called icontool.lua that's available to turn on/off icons: it's in the menu, or you can launch it from a terminal window (NOT as root, as user dsl) by typing its name (as above).

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