rlemon's questions

I have been reading article after article and asking around in the chats for help on why this is not working :(

Here is what I've done so far:
I have installed samba following the server guide in the first link posted.
I have edited my smb.conf file.. here is (what I think) is the relevant part of that for you to see..

[homes]
   comment = Home Directories
   browsable = no
   writable  = yes
   valid users = %S
   valid users = MYDOMAIN\%S
   create mask = 0755
   directory mask = 0755

I have created a user running sudo adduser wks. This successfully adds the user and creates the home folder with group and user permissions set to "wks". Now I add that same user to samba smbpasswd -a wks no errors all seems to go well.

Ok so from here I should be at the very least be able to goto a windows machine, open up the network computers, find the server, and open the home folder for "wks"??
At the moment I can do all of these things but access the home folder (even with the username and password I set in the previous steps).

Have I missed something trivial? Was that a bad tutorial to read from? I am confused how to proceed from here.

TO summarize: the user wks (this happens to also be the windows credentials.) with the supplied password still does not have permission to access the home folder while accessing it with windows.

edit

I double checked on windows to make sure I was seeing it in the workgroup... I am not. Is there a step I missed? in smb.conf I have workgroup = DMSI and the windows computers are all part of that workgroup.

I have just upgraded my work pc to 12.04 (not upgrade, fresh install), installing updates during the install, and after everything has loaded (with no errors) and I restart I get brought to console 1 tty login.

Console 7 looks like this:

IIRC I did not have to finagle with my drivers on 11.10 to get this card working. If this is in fact a driver bug I will remove this post and submit the bug but i'm not 100% confident that it is.

I attempted to run unity --reset and got this:

Lastly I tried $ sudo apt-get install nvidia-current which tells me nvidia-current is already the newest version. so I ran $ sudo dpkg-reconfigure nvidia-current which says /usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure: nvidia-current is broken or not fully installed. Anything I can try from here would be awesome.
Currently the only way to get the system up and running was to shut down, plug one of my monitors into the onboard video, enable the onboard video card from the BIOS, then boot back up (and on my single monitor everything is fine).

update

So I have been able to boot fresh with the ext card plugged in as long as I don't take the updates with the install.
past this if I only install the nvidia drivers (nvidia-current or nvidia-current-updates) from the main server (or canadian) I then get the problems..

My proposal; which I don't know where to look for:
Can I try installing the previous version of this driver? In the past, on another machine I had issues with my NIC driver being funky... downgraded to the previous driver and bam everything was merry and well.

I have just fresh installed 12.04, there were a handful of packages that were upgraded right away (12 or so). Aside from that I haven't tweaked or installed anything else.

I have gone into my System Settings -> Appearance -> Behavior tab and turned on Auto-hide the launcher.

At this point placing my mouse cursor to the far left edge of the screen should open my launcher. Here is a short video showing you what is happening.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shMSEJT61aM

I have tried setting the Reveal Sensitivity all the way to low, and all the way to high and it still appears the same for me.

you will also notice in the video that there is a small dropshadow that appears on the edge of the screen when (imo) the sidebar should appear.

Is there a configuration I am missing? does Reveal Sensitivity not do what I would assume it does? Any help would be appreciated.

When trying to boot from the liveCD (Ubuntu 11.10 i386 Desktop) After a long wait I get stopped at BusyBox. Running exit from BusyBox exits, then errors, then reloads BusyBox.
This is the error:

Target filesystem doesn't have requested /sbin/init

Here is a long youtube video of my install in process.. the first two menus are taken over by glare but they are showing that I am using the default 'mode' and 'options' for the install.

I have run a memtest (one pass, took an hour) and it came back good. I have also done a md5 check on my disc image, which was also good. I have checked the disc from the boot menu and it came back good.

I can admit that my search on the supported hardware came back a bust but I also could not find a few things I knew were supported so i'm assuming my use of the tool was poor at best.
Upon a quick search of google I found that people did have luck getting ubuntu to load (albeit older versions) on this board. Can I get any suggestions on how I can overcome this problem? Should I try an older version? and if so is there really a point in going pre 10.04?

I'm attempting to get an Ubuntu MinimalCD Install working without much luck..

Working from the guide posted here I can get the CD to boot and I select the Command-Line Installer option. After selecting my Language and Keyboard settings the installer fails on Configure the network with DHCP with the message:

                     Network autoconfiguration failed.
Your network is probably not using the DHCP protocol. Alternatively, the DHCP server may
be slow or some network hardware is not working properly.
                               <continue>

I can verify that my network is using DHCP and that the network hardware on the device is functional. The device in question is the EBM-LX800 (AMD Geode LX800 5.25” Mini Module with AMD Geode LX800 + CS5536 Chipset) which uses the 10/100Base-Tx Fast Ethernet compatible: Realtek RTL 8101L Ethernet interface.

From here If I enter tty and modprobe --list | grep net I see a very large list of drivers, some of which look like they may be the correct driver for my device however i'm not sure which to choose or how to ensure the driver is available for the network configuration.

Note:

I have not listed the drivers from the modprobe --list command because there are way too many to copy them all by hand.

I have just installed a dual boot windows7 /ubuntu 11.10 and the internet is much slower than windows. I have read the post here and tried the solutions presented and none have worked.

Here is what I am dealing with; In Windows my internet is as normal, nice and fast.

However in ubuntu on my new system my internet is super slow (Here it is important to note that my other system ubuntu has the same speeds as windows on this system). I have installed all of the updates and am using the latest stable google chrome and my speedtest results are way lower. (upload times out and eventually fails, however before that happens ping is 10ms and download is <5meg). the difference is really felt when downloading anything, including updates.

My system specs are as follows:

 Motherboard: Asus P8Z68-V LX
 CPU:         Intel i5 2500k
 RAM:         Corsair vengeance blue 8GB (4X4GB)
 SSD:         OCZ Vertex 3 60gb

I am using the onboard lan. Drivers were installed from the CD provided with the motherboard. I installed the drivers in Windows (windows was installed first). Ubuntu did not require me to install any new drivers for the internet to work (and by work I mean I can get a connection, albeit intermittent and slow).

I have read people having difficulties with the UEFI BIOS but never internet speeds. Any help diagnosing my problem would be greatly appreciated.

rdl@rdl-home-ubuntu:~$ ethtool -s eth0 speed 1000 duplex full autoneg off
Cannot set new settings: Operation not permitted
  not setting speed
  not setting duplex
  not setting autoneg
rdl@rdl-home-ubuntu:~$ ifconfig eth0 |grep errors
          RX packets:14632 errors:0 dropped:14632 overruns:0 frame:14632
          TX packets:14094 errors:0 dropped:297 overruns:0 carrier:0

running the first command as sudo only changes Operation not permitted to Invalid argument

Here is the output of sudo ethtool eth0

Settings for eth0:
    Supported ports: [ TP MII ]
    Supported link modes:   10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full 
                            100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full 
                            1000baseT/Half 1000baseT/Full 
    Supports auto-negotiation: Yes
    Advertised link modes:  10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full 
                            100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full 
                            1000baseT/Half 1000baseT/Full 
    Advertised pause frame use: Symmetric Receive-only
    Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes
    Link partner advertised link modes:  10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full 
                                         100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full 
                                         1000baseT/Full 
    Link partner advertised pause frame use: Symmetric Receive-only
    Link partner advertised auto-negotiation: Yes
    Speed: 1000Mb/s
    Duplex: Full
    Port: MII
    PHYAD: 0
    Transceiver: internal
    Auto-negotiation: on
    Supports Wake-on: pumbg
    Wake-on: g
    Current message level: 0x00000033 (51)
                   drv probe ifdown ifup
    Link detected: yes

and after I run sudo ethtool -s eth0 speed 100 duplex full autoneg off

Settings for eth0:
    Supported ports: [ TP MII ]
    Supported link modes:   10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full 
                            100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full 
                            1000baseT/Half 1000baseT/Full 
    Supports auto-negotiation: Yes
    Advertised link modes:  Not reported
    Advertised pause frame use: No
    Advertised auto-negotiation: No
    Speed: 100Mb/s
    Duplex: Full
    Port: MII
    PHYAD: 0
    Transceiver: internal
    Auto-negotiation: off
    Supports Wake-on: pumbg
    Wake-on: g
    Current message level: 0x00000033 (51)
                   drv probe ifdown ifup
    Link detected: yes

Problem still persists.

Before I jump into the deep end of the pool and install this wonderful looking media app. My concerns are it's stability and my ability to revert my system back to it's pre-ubuntuTV state.

Are there any detailed 'un-install' instructions? or is my best bet to just do a complete backup and restore if anything goes amuk?

In Unity 2d you can hide the Shortcuts section of the Dash Home

However in Unity I cannot hide this.. I do see a 'minimize' icon in the top corner after I open Dash Home

_{Clicking on Shortcuts does nothing.}

I do notice clicking on the minimize icon repeatedly does make it appear darker (the white is whiter :P) however the button does not serve a function.

_{Click once}

_{Click twice}

_{Click three times}

_{Keep going and it gets a bit whiter}

Is this button supposed to control this action? or is this a separate bug?

Update: I realize the minimize button does not control this action, with that said. Is there a way to hide the 'shortcuts' section of the Dash Home and just display the 'search' (+results once a search term is entered)?

In Chrome under Settings -> Personal Stuff, I am given the option to 'Import Data from Another Browser..'. However Chromium is not displayed as an option...

Is the only way to do this to sync with my Google account? Is there an offline way to copy over the data? Or a workaround that does not require I have a Google account to sync to?

Is there an easier way to install Chromium than what is described here?

Furthermore, is there an easier way to stay up to date with current Chromium releases rather than having to re-build Chromium each release? (a script which automatically grabs and installs the latest build possibly?).

Related:

• How do I get the latest (beta and development) version of Chromium?