- Joined
- Feb 14, 2003
- Location
- Southeast US
Ok, so I have limited experience with FreeBSD (enough to install onto a slicked system, install and configure samba, php, apache, etc using reference material to double check myself.)
I installed Ubuntu onto my laptop, and decided to seriously give it a go since it's the first *nix OS that just plain worked with my odd screen size. (nvidia gfGO with 1400x1050 pixel lcd).
So, I use the package manager to install apache, php, mysql, and in the course of rooting around and declaring a share, the OS prompts me to install samba to effect the sharing.
Great, outstanding.
However... HOW THE HELL DO I CONFIGURE THIS STUFF? I can't find any entries or areas to configure these things, short of hitting a different tty and doing it the old fashioned way. Is there any GUI support for this? I couldn't actually access the share from my desktop machine because I wasn't able to find any way to add a samba user/pw.
I want to do a little php developing on the box, but that's not going to work either unless I can add a mysql account and get that running correctly.
Also, I was able to figure out how to mount an external enclosure 200gb drive with UFS2 after I installed a 2.6.x kernel, but... this drive has a lot of tv eps like sealab and athf on it, and ubuntu's default media player (totem?) doesn't have the codecs needed to play them. How do I get proper codec support for 'internet standard' mpeg and avi? Divx, etc.
A lot of questions, I know.
I installed Ubuntu onto my laptop, and decided to seriously give it a go since it's the first *nix OS that just plain worked with my odd screen size. (nvidia gfGO with 1400x1050 pixel lcd).
So, I use the package manager to install apache, php, mysql, and in the course of rooting around and declaring a share, the OS prompts me to install samba to effect the sharing.
Great, outstanding.
However... HOW THE HELL DO I CONFIGURE THIS STUFF? I can't find any entries or areas to configure these things, short of hitting a different tty and doing it the old fashioned way. Is there any GUI support for this? I couldn't actually access the share from my desktop machine because I wasn't able to find any way to add a samba user/pw.
I want to do a little php developing on the box, but that's not going to work either unless I can add a mysql account and get that running correctly.
Also, I was able to figure out how to mount an external enclosure 200gb drive with UFS2 after I installed a 2.6.x kernel, but... this drive has a lot of tv eps like sealab and athf on it, and ubuntu's default media player (totem?) doesn't have the codecs needed to play them. How do I get proper codec support for 'internet standard' mpeg and avi? Divx, etc.
A lot of questions, I know.