was OK, now worse

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Day 1
I discovered "persistant home"
and knoppix SEEMED to remember to make hda1 rw,
and Mozilla SEEMED to remember proxy settings.
BUT lisa not seen by konqueror
[ where is the "services" button, like on Redhat?]
lisa definitely shows up as a process, after I type lisa at the command prompt.

SAMBA is nowhere on the disk, nor is FISH
so neither can be used on a CD boot knoppix

LinNeighbourhood finds nothing

Day3: hda1 is no longer remembered - konqueror cant see my hard drive any more.
Mozilla goes stupid: keeps on "converting a profile" and operating off line...
Lin Neighbourhood sees absolutely nothing.

I have dropped out back to wind98 to write this,
maybe I will go and futz with RedHat, just to calm my nerves.
Knoppix, call me next year when its stable.........

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Ok, sorry to hear about you having these issues, but some things need to be corrected.

Fish is on the cd. I use it all the time.

I don't use samba, but i think that it has not been working well for a while (someone please correct me if i'm wrong - i don't use it). If this is correct than it is due to packages in Debian unstable/testing having problems rather than knoppix itself.

AFAIK, persistent home also works fine you just need to make sure that the proper cheat codes are used along with it.

Knoppix is quite mature the only packages i know of having problems are those which are samba related.

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yes I stand corrected, samba is present,
I can see Windows shared directories on another box on the local network by:
smbmount //Fred/fredshared /mnt/fshare
where Fred is the name of the other box, fredshared is the windows directory

I dont know how to find machine ("server") names, I am ignorant of reverse DNS.

nmap -sP 192.168.0.0/24 shows me all the local IP addresses that are pingable
but ping command is not smart enough to do the reverse lookup (name to IP)

Obviously smbmount IS smart enough, given //Fred is can find 192.168.0.whatever

Re fish ... Glad to know it is present, I must try harder (Boxer, animal farm?) to find it

This afternoon is better than this morning. Learning linux is mainly learning what not to do.
Even my Mozilla favourites are back. Joy!

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AND... fish works
if you know the IP of another Linux box on the network
fisk://root@192.168.0.55 works
I will now move this discussion to Network forum to saee if
IP -> hostname is trivial or very difficult on a windows 2000 network