Oh no! More boring computer problems! Oh no!

http://www.dynebolic.org/

I've downloaded this image and it boots fine on my laptop/other PCs

If I create a mount point /mnt/net and run

mount -t smbfs -o username=,password= //192.168.0.5/sharename /mnt/net

I get an error wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on //192.168.0.5/sharename, or too many mounted file systems

The same commmand to the same share works fine on my Fedora box.

I can ping the ip address fine and web appears to work.

If I run modprobe smbfs it exits with no error, so I'm assumng the smbfs module is loaded okay.

I'm a linux newbie, any ideas?

I get an error wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on //192.168.0.5/sharename, or too many mounted file systems

Just remind me why Linux is better than Windows again?

use 'lsmod' to see loaded modules. (/sbin/lsmod)

> Just remind me why Linux is better than Windows again?

do you know the history of the samba project mark? it's a) interesting and b) a good example of why linux is 'better' than windows.

This does not sound good.

module Size Used by
smbfs 36920 0

Freej etc preloaded all on a bootable cd.

anyway:
http://www.myjavaserver.com/exec/.Gdm5KtpKLwzNf2CZvwBFfNjLDwyZnxzT9vB1j3BM1JBPfwBMuwBVHwp0f2y
seems to say that more samba software is required

and this http://linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/blfs-support/2003-June/041463.html says that there's just a symlink missing

Maybe Dynebolic is shite, are there any other boot cds designed for media work like this?

HAHAHAHHAHA

list of distros and packages here: http://linux-sound.org/distro.html
* AGNULA a GNU/Linux audio and multimedia distribution
* APODIO is an "...audio computer on a live CD bootable distribution"
* AudioSlack audio packages for Slackware users, from Luke Yelavich, inspired by PlanetCCRMA
* Demudi the Debian Multimedia Distribution (merged with AGNULA)
* Dynebolic a GNU/Linux distribution "... shaped on the needs of media activists, artists and teachers"
* LAW is the Linux Audio Workstation distro from Jacob Robbins
* Linux Music Apps CD a great collection from John Littler
* Low-latency RPMs packages from Udo Jocher that include a 2.4.18 kernel patched for low-latency and preemptive operation
* Medialinux at OSL a Knoppix-based Linux distribution focused on multimedia
* Planet CCRMA At Home RPM packages of the Linux sound and music software used at CCRMA, thanks to Fernando Pablo Lopez-Lezcano
* Thac's RPMs For Mandrake includes a large collection of Linux music and sound packages
* Turn-Key Linux Audio a new Linux audio distro from Kevin Ernste at the Eastman Computer Music Center

but none of the ones i had a look at had freej.

(i've been reading the dynebolic pages and other people do have samba working, albeit in older versions. maybe they just forgot a couple of files. should be easy enough to copy them over from somewhere else (famous last words...). try 'locate smbfs' see if that can find it.)

I tried d/ling the Google toolbar for the new version of FF (0.9) for XP, and there were some reported issues re: getting the damn thing to work - you had to close your browser after d/ling, then deactivate the extension, close AGAIN, activate it, close AGAIN, and then it would be available the next time you opened FF.

Stupid me, I inadvertently downloaded the Google toolbar extension in such a way that I ended up with TWO instances of it in my List Of Extensions, and when I shut down the browser & restarted, a little dialog box called INSTALLING DOWNLOADED EXTENSION (or something like that) popped up. And now I can't get Firefox to open! I click on the wee li'l icon, & that stupid little box shows up, and I can't do dick.

I tried uninstalling / reinstalling - no go. I can reinstall 0.8 just fine, but when I reinstally 0.9, I get the same booshit. I imagine I have to seek out whatever the hell's in my profile directory referring to the Google toolbar. I checked out where the extensions are located in the Mozilla directory, but the files / directories are named something like {9dka-doiw822-adakjj}. Help?

ALSO: where the hell can I snag a copy of Doom II? My sis wants me to burn a copy for my nephew's 6th birthday.

Dynebolic also comes with LinNeighbourhood a Linux app with a GUI like Network Neighbourhood I can see the Windows PC in there but not any of the shares.

"The Samba filesharing daemon is running on your dyne:bolic: everything contained in the /home/shared directory is accessible (read and write) as a shared folder on the network you are connected, without any password protection - the share is called 'dyne:bolic casbah'."

/etc/samba is viewable here:
http://cvs.dyne.org/viewcvs.cgi/*checkout*/initrd_tree/etc/samba/

/etc/samba/smb.conf has the share as 'public'

/etc/samba/smbusers:
root = administrator admin
nobody = guest pcguest smbguest

I'm a total linux newb.

This is sooooo frustrating

and there's always ftp 8)

home network doesn't have dhcp server running so i had to give dynebolic box a static ip and after that the shares just appeared in the linneighbourhood box and everything was fine. (open an xterm and 'ping {ipaddress}' to see if it can see the windows box. 'ifconfig' should also give you info about eth0)

work network picked up ip address straight off but i had trouble seeing the shares. i set the proper workgroup in linneighbourhood preferences menu and rescanned and that found the shares, no problem. i may have needed to 'browse as user' though, i can't remember. later attempts to connect to other shares failed, i don't know why. i'll reboot and try again after lunch.

But they don't seem to sell them anymore! This is surely ridiculous? Some resellers (like Jigsaw) still seem to be, but they cost more than the Extreme ones. Is this because they've been discontinued? Why on earth would Apple do that?