Off Topic - remote login to linux

[Gregory Nowak]

Hmmmm, it sounds like your client isn't interpreting escape sequences correctly.
Greg


On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 02:28:06PM +0100, rjc wrote:
> Just a quick question: does anyone know why less keeps breaking output in
> odd places and displaying what jfw calls "inverted exclamation" symbols.
> Happens when displaying man pages. I've tried processing the raw page with
> various filters and such, and tried various options on the less command
> itself, but no go. I'm wondering if it is actually hyphenation characters
> being displayed weirdly. I briefly looked at nroff and troff and tried to
> figure out how to turn off hyphenation altogether, but this stuff just
> jystifies me. Lots of stuff about hyphenation, but no way to turn it off!
> Any help greatly appreciated.
> 
>                     Rich
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Shaun Oliver" <shauno at goanna.net.au>
> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Saturday, May 26, 2001 11:24 AM
> Subject: RE: samba problem.
> 
> 
> > I think I found the problem.
> > the file in /usr/lib/samba/private called smbpasswd did not exist so I
> > created it with the smbpasswd command. If you login as root, and do
> > smbpasswd -a username there username is the user account you want to add
> > samba access to, it will then come up prompting you for a password. if
> > you already have a password, just type it in and it will create the
> > smbpasswd file in /usr/lib/samba/private.
> > I hope this solution helps alot of others that need it.
> > I've just had my partner try to access my drive as I type this email and
> > it worked. so there's no need for me to edit the windows registery either.
> >
> >
> > Shaun..
> > "Has anyone ever tasted an "END"? Are they really bitter?"
> > EMAIL: shauno at goanna.net.au ICQ: 76958435
> > YAHOO ID: blindman01_2000 IRC NICK/SERVER: |3|1ndm4n on #aussiefriends on
> > www.jong.com:6667
> >
> > On Thu, 24 May 2001, Stephen Dawes wrote:
> >
> > > Shaun,
> > >
> > > I don't know if anyone has suggested this to you or not, as I haven't
> been
> > > following this thread all that closely.
> > >
> > > There is a Web interface for configuration SAMBA.  I don't know if it
> will
> > > be useful for you or not, not knowing what you use for a browser, and
> > > secondly, not know how visually intensive the application is.
> > >
> > > The SAMBA Web configuration tool is called swat.
> > >
> > > Just thought you may want to know, and maybe it will help you solve the
> few
> > > final issues that it sounds like are lingering around.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Stephen Dawes B.A. B.Sc.
> > > Web Business Office, The City of Calgary
> > > PHONE:  (403) 268-5527. FAX: (403) 268-6423
> > > E-MAIL ADDRESS:  sdawes at gov.calgary.ab.ca
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: speakup-admin at braille.uwo.ca
> > > > [mailto:speakup-admin at braille.uwo.ca]On Behalf Of Shaun Oliver
> > > > Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2001 8:06 AM
> > > > To: 'speakup at braille.uwo.ca'
> > > > Subject: RE: samba problem.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Steve and everyone else, thanks for your help with my samba problem.
> > > > I've sorted it out to a point where I can at least brows the drives on
> the
> > > > other machine.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Shaun..
> > > > "Has anyone ever tasted an "END"? Are they really bitter?"
> > > > EMAIL: shauno at goanna.net.au ICQ: 76958435
> > > > YAHOO ID: blindman01_2000 IRC NICK/SERVER: |3|1ndm4n on #aussiefriends
> on
> > > > www.jong.com:6667
> > > >
> > > > On Thu, 24 May 2001, Holmes, Steve wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > a shorter version of this is to use the smbmount command like this:
> > > > > smbmount //host/sharename /mountpoint
> > > > > This only works with recent kernels with smbfs and recent
> > > > version of samba.
> > > > >
> > > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > > From: Geoff Shang [mailto:gshang at uq.net.au]
> > > > > Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2001 1:23 PM
> > > > > To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca
> > > > > Subject: Re: samba problem.
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > Hi:
> > > > >
> > > > > I realise you're going about doing a much more complicated
> > > > samba setup than
> > > > > I use, but it might be worth telling what I did.
> > > > >
> > > > > I only really want to read windows shares from linux, as I have no
> real
> > > > > need to go the other way.  I just set the shares up in windows,
> > > > then used
> > > > > the mount command as per normal to mount it.  Mount calls
> > > > smbmount in order
> > > > > to achieve this.  The syntax for mounting smb shares is:
> > > > >
> > > > > mount -t smbfs //host/sharename /mountpoint
> > > > >
> > > > > The mount procedure will prompt you for the password.
> > > > >
> > > > > So for example, I mount my primary windows drive as follows:
> > > > >
> > > > > mount -t smbfs //picard/c /windows/c
> > > > >
> > > > > Where picard is the name of the windows box, c is the sharename on
> the
> > > > > windows box, and /windows/c is the mount point (this last one
> > > > could just as
> > > > > easily be /mnt or whatever).
> > > > >
> > > > > Geoff.
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
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