Category Fedora

Gnome gvfs a step behind ?

Today I had a bad surprise, at one customer, deploying Linux on desktop, they had some issues with samba shares access: no more shortcuts in places menu for the samba shares. This was due to the update of ubuntu from gusty to hardy. The problem is that now nautilus 2.22 is provided and this release use gvfs instead of gnome-vfs. Before that upgrade we decided to add some "share access" via gconf, this was perfect as it was added in /etc/profile. example : gconftool-2 --set --type=string /desktop/gnome/connected_servers/1/display_name 'public on samba' gconftool-2 --set --type=string /desktop/gnome/connected_servers/1/icon 'gnome-fs-smb' gconftool-2 --set --type=string /desktop/gnome/connected_servers/1/uri "smb://domain;$USERNAME@samba/public" This is not more possibe :'-( Ok let's try then to use bookmarks... but the problem is that the login is not used even if forced when the share is also public. The customer use a big public folder and acl's. So the only solution I had was to setup the share with 
 
 public = no
to make it works and request a login and password. For massive desktop implementation, I preferred the gconf medthod. Maybe somebody could hack gvfs to force a user even on a public share.

Audacity and Fedora 8

I've tried today to use audacity for the first time since I'm using Fedora 8. What a disappointment: no sound ! I checked in preferences and none of these options were working : I started then audacity using the following command line : $ pasuspender audacity I could consequently hear some output and many different sources in preferences : I'm ready now to work on my favorites sounds... [1] Audacity [2] Fedora

Ldapvi fedora 7 rpm

Hehe, I discussed yesterday on the phone with arrfab how nice is ldapvi to manage openldap directory via an ssh connection remotely.

Arrfab then posted on his rpm repo (see his blog entry) an rpm for Centos 5.

As I don't have any repo, you can download the rpms I build for fedora 7 from arrfab's src.rpm bellow :

Check Point SSL VPN and Fedora 7

For some reason I had to connect to some VPN provided by a Check Point and since I migrate to Fedora 7 this fails with the following message from the SSL VPN Portal : initialization failed.

My colleague, Den Raf, had the same trouble and pointed me to the segmentation fault of the snx binary :(

Installing compat-libstdc++-296 and using the library provided in that package solved the fault :

Fedora Core 6 and Personal File Sharing

Something I discovered with Fedora Core 6 is the Personal File Sharing, even if this feature is not new, but I didn't install it on my previous gentoo box.

So I decided to try it with a colleague, Den Raf, and we had some troubles, to set it up it's very easy... but to use it with nautilus it wasn't so easy...

First step: enable it :

Go into System->Preferences menu and select "Personal File Sharing" as follow :

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