I haven't a Solaris box at hand, but that sounds like an amusing mistake.

hehe, my boss at the last permanent job I had typed:

sudo rm -Rf /

Then instead of doing a tab to autocomplete he pressed enter ... followed by a panicking flurry of ctrl-C and the realization that the OS was already seriously damaged ...

Send him this..

love it
might get that meself

Thank you will do that in a minute

still seems to be inflating.

Unpacking...
Checksumming...
Extracting...
UnZipSFX 5.50 of 17 February 2002, by Info-ZIP (Zip-Bugs@lists.wku.edu).
replace jre-6u22-linux-i586.rpm? [y]es, [n]o, [A]ll, [N]one, [r]ename: y
inflating: jre-6u22-linux-i586.rpm

Thank you so far still having this java issue.

I haven't a Solaris box at hand, but that sounds like an amusing mistake.

Indeed - not my box either... has been fixed (think they just set it all to 755...)
Won't be doing that again in a hurry :)

Came to the conclusion the other day that Linix is a bit shit ... so I stuck to Windows 7 and OpenBSD. Far simpler life.

Linix?

Linix?

Serves me right for typing it on my phone.

Serves me right for typing it on my phone.

Really? It has a consumer broadband IP address. I guess you could've been using Wifi at home tho'.

I was using the Wifi at home, I was sat in the lounge watching some tele.

http://www.andreas-diesner.de/garminplugin/

My brother just sent me this- thoughts?
Has anybody tried this?

Bernie has a Forerunner 305 and Windows is being a bit of a bastard.

I'm struggling to get a USB drive on my Ubuntu system Samba shared so that I can access it R/W from a Windows box.

Is there anyone near Herne Hill who could sort this out for me in ten minutes, so that I can buy them a beer? Not got much access to the forum right now, with a 9 day old baby keeping me busy, so online help isn't much good...

I assume you have samba installed, configured & running?

Have you used smbclient to test it locally? If that works it's probably the firewall. If not you haven't set it up correctly.

I say that as someone who has never used Ubuntu, I'm a RHEL/Centos/Fedora man, but I assume you have the same utilities.

Yes, I have samba running fine and can share folders on the main drive, just not the plugged in USB drive (FAT32 format I think). It shows up in Windoes explorer but cannot open. I think it is an authentication problem...

Error message:

"\ubuntu\share is not accessible. You might not have permission to use this network resource. Contact the administrator of this server to find out if you have access permissions.

Network access is denied."

ls -l and check the use permission on the usb drive

then chmod as needed or add samba group (I'm guessing there is some sort of samba group).

I can't believe it's taken me this long to learn about pushd and popd.

Yes, I have samba running fine and can share folders on the main drive, just not the plugged in USB drive (FAT32 format I think). It shows up in Windoes explorer but cannot open. I think it is an authentication problem...

Error message:

"\ubuntu\share is not accessible. You might not have permission to use this network resource. Contact the administrator of this server to find out if you have access permissions.

Network access is denied."

In that case it's almost certainly permissions then. Does it have the same owners/permissions as the other shares?

I can't believe it's taken me this long to learn about pushd and popd.

haha yeah me too, remembered about it a couple of weeks ago and thought - why on earth did i forget about this awesomess just a shame that not all shells support it :(

in your smb.conf (in /etc/samba/ usually) , what settings do you have for that share?

Yes, I have samba running fine and can share folders on the main drive, just not the plugged in USB drive (FAT32 format I think). It shows up in Windoes explorer but cannot open. I think it is an authentication problem...

Error message:

"\ubuntu\share is not accessible. You might not have permission to use this network resource. Contact the administrator of this server to find out if you have access permissions.

Network access is denied."

Just looking through smb.conf I found this so alter for your usb drive should work.
[code]

A sample share for sharing your CD-ROM with others.

;[cdrom]
; comment = Samba server's CD-ROM
; read only = yes
; locking = no
; path = /cdrom
; guest ok = yes[/code]

might also want:

map to guest = bad user

set too (depends on your samba security config tho)

I can't believe it's taken me this long to learn about pushd and popd.

I never use it

$ cd -

Using arcane commands is usually only good for scaring a MacOSX user when you jump on their machine to sort a website bug ... always fire up terminal .. just to shit them up.

Hehe, I had the same with pbcopy/pbpaste the other day, on OSX ... kicking myself for my stupidity now, mouse-selecting stuff all over the place.