Oh, wow. This place looks great. Oh, I feel like a witch in a magic shop.

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tommyrot - Dec 04, 2006 7:11:14 am PST #9710 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

I only vaguely know what I'm doing here....

Say you have a web page that's relying on Windows Authentication. That is, the directory with the web application requires Windows Authentication, so the first time a user tries to access a file in that directory, the Windows Authentication dialog box pops up. The problem is if the user clicks on "Cancel" on the authentication dialog box, the browser still tries to load the page in the protected directory, resulting in an inelegant error for the user.

Is there some better way of dealing with this?

eta: Ideally, I want to redirect the user to a page on the original directory (that's outside of the protected one).


Gudanov - Dec 04, 2006 7:36:52 am PST #9711 of 10003
Coding and Sleeping

Except that under my System -> Administration there is no following -> Disks, so I have no idea what the hell they're talking about.

Hmm... I'll have to take a look when I get home. I have a windows partition, but it was automatically setup when I installed. You might check in /media and see if it is there.

I can probably tell you how to do it without the GUI but I could try to find what you are looking for in the GUI tonight. That would be a nice GUI tool.


Sean K - Dec 04, 2006 7:37:46 am PST #9712 of 10003
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty

Thanks, Gud. No rush. Later tonight is fine, and in the meantime, I'll look in /media.


esse - Dec 04, 2006 12:53:43 pm PST #9713 of 10003
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!

Gud, thanks for the advice; I was in the middle of writing a post to you when Windows crashed, as it has done every single time I've booted the damned computer for the last four days. Something with winlogon, I think.

I set up a partition and went to install Ubuntu, but the installer crashed and now the hard disk isn't seeing the primary partition that holds Windows. I loaded up Knoppix, and all the file tree and files are still there, but for some reason it won't boot. at this point I just want to chuck the thing out the window, except then I remembered that I really enjoy using knoppix. So I'm thinking about doing a hard-disk install of that. The only thing that holds me back is iTunes.

Stupid computers.


Gudanov - Dec 04, 2006 5:28:15 pm PST #9714 of 10003
Coding and Sleeping

I think if you do the following on the command line a Disk management utility will appear.

sudo apt-get install gparted sudo apt-get install pysdm

Then in administration the "Storage Device Manager" will show up and I believe this is the tool that can mount other partitions in a GUI.

The Disks utility was in the previous version of Ubuntu and I don't know why it isn't there in 6.10.

I'd check to make sure the shares aren't already there. If you post your "/etc/fstab" file, I can tell you if a windows partition is being mounted automatically.


Gudanov - Dec 04, 2006 5:30:00 pm PST #9715 of 10003
Coding and Sleeping

The Ubuntu install crashed? Hmm... If you like Knoppix you could also try Freespire, or Mandriva, or SUSE (choosing KDE instead of GNOME).


tommyrot - Dec 04, 2006 5:47:53 pm PST #9716 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

With both Windows and the Ubuntu crashing, I'm wondering if it's a disk (hardware) problem....


evil jimi - Dec 04, 2006 8:33:38 pm PST #9717 of 10003
Lurching from one disaster to the next.

A cool 404 page :) [link]


omnis_audis - Dec 04, 2006 8:35:13 pm PST #9718 of 10003
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir

A cool 404 page :) [link]

That rocked!


NoiseDesign - Dec 05, 2006 12:00:55 am PST #9719 of 10003
Our wings are not tired

Okay, that's it. I fell victim. I'm in the process of installing ubuntu on one of my machines. In a short time my desktop will have three computers with three different operating systems running and no less than 4 LCD monitors shining away. I think I need help.