LinNeigborhood Not Showing After Samba Install
Forum: Networking
Topic: LinNeigborhood Not Showing After Samba Install
started by: jimerb
Posted by jimerb on July 04 2007,22:22
I'm TOTALLY new with Linux and I've been reading these forums all afternoon trying to figure out how to map to my windows 2003 server.I downloaded samba.dsl from the web and went into mydsl and picked what i downloaded by using the "Load Local" button. I then said ok.
It didn't show me anything or do anything.
Nothing showed up. I was expecting LinNeigborhood to show up on my desktop but it never did.
I'm running as root.
Can someone give me some guidance on this. Please be gentle with your advice, this is REALLY new to me.
Posted by mikshaw on July 04 2007,23:10
Don't run as root.
Posted by jimerb on July 05 2007,23:12
Ok. I'll give that a try. Can you tell me why? I'm thinking that running as root is like running as adminstrator in windows.
How's it different?
Thanks. Just want to understand the difference.
Posted by curaga on July 06 2007,08:39
DSL is made so that only user dsl can load extensions, for security reasons among others
Posted by lucky13 on July 06 2007,12:07
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| I'm thinking that running as root is like running as adminstrator in windows. |
You access administrator level in Unix-type environments by invoking su (super user -- requires root password) or sudo (if you have sudo privileges). In DSL, user dsl has full sudo privileges and the scripts are set up for user dsl, not for root or any account you may set up. It's safe/good practice to not login as root.
Posted by jimerb on July 06 2007,18:48
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.
Posted by lucky13 on July 06 2007,19:25
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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).