As for ReactOS, they do go on about why they're not Wine, but it'll be interesting to see if anyone cares

I think they share code with Wine, but I don't think they are based on a UNIX kernel. So definitely not Wine, but with Wine style limitations with regard to compatibility. I've run stuff with Wine and it can work really well and really badly or not at all depending on the application. I'd guess that it would integrate a lot better with the system on ReactOS than on Linux though.

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Haven't tried it myself....

I really need to learn to not check Woot! unless I am prepared to buy. Today they have a Magellan GPS for $189. I have long wanted a portable GPS. Today will, sadly, not be the day I get one.

I'll probably pick up some kind of laptop stand today to help cooling this massive beastie.

That should be it, I'd check to make sure that it is in the [global] section and make sure that smbd has been restarted to pick up the change.

Thing is, Vista says that the Ubuntu box is in the network location I specified in its smb.conf--I just don't know where I can set the Ubuntu box's workgroup. I don't understand Windows networking-wise how those are different.

eta: I don't mean the bolding to look like I'm talking down--just to highlight the distinction.

I believe in Vista speak the network location is the TCP/IP domain name while the workgroup is the name of the peer to peer network on top of TCP/IP.

The workgroup setting in smb.conf equates to workgroup in Vista. The domain name is not really meaningful if you don't have DNS for your lan.

Using 'smbclient -L localhost' should tell you the workgroup the Ubuntu box thinks it's in.

Thanks. I'm very confused now that I'm away from the box which parameter's actually set to the correct value, since from browsing the web it looks like it's workgroup. But when you posted I did go in and check the file...

I will smbclient when I get home. Thanks for the instructions.

I really need to learn to not check Woot! unless I am prepared to buy. Today they have a Magellan GPS for $189. I have long wanted a portable GPS. Today will, sadly, not be the day I get one.

WHAT? I really hated having to load maps anytime I went out of the LA basin on my lil handheld GPS. (Can you say Moorpark gig! Oy vey)

It's what the stimulus check is for, right? Lets see... Tires $400, GPS, $194. That leaves $6 to put towards savings. It IS the American way!

I hope it helps, configuring samba is a real pain. I never want to set things up the way the GUI tools want me to. There needs to be a GUI tool to set up samba for the home user, yeah I know my configuration is insecure, I know that it will make network admins cry, but it's my own little private network and I don't care.

You wouldn't have any tips for me on the samba user front would you ( ita "Buffistechnology 3: "Press Some Buttons, See What Happens."" Apr 26, 2008 12:07:35 pm PDT)? I'd like to set up machine accounts for my other computers so I can give them default shares for their backups. It's overkill, I know, but I feel that I've let my sysadmin skills decay to most nothing, and I want some of them back.

To set up a samba machine, do I need a samba user of the same name? To set up a samba user, do I need a Linux user of the same name? Can I forgo passwords on many of these?

Do you want to deal with users and passwords at all? If not, you need to use 'share' level access instead of 'user' level access. That is the part that makes network admins cry.

And now a directory layout question--how do you guys organize your Linux file structure? I mean, if you have files that you want to share across machines (like .avis, or something), do you stay under the /home directory? I'm probably going to drop a /shared under the root and work from there, but I'm curious.

I use a directory (/storage in my case) under root for my MythBox that shares images, audio, and video.