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Ceklund 2006-07-15 22:40
Samba?
 
There's a new set of programs centered around one 'Samba' available for install via the App Installer. So, I went to www.Samba.org to find out what it is, and it states:

Quote:
Originally Posted by Samba.org
As the front page at samba.org says, "Samba is an Open Source/Free Software suite that provides seamless file and print services to SMB/CIFS clients." Samba is freely available, unlike other SMB/CIFS implementations, and allows for interoperability between Linux/Unix servers and Windows-based clients.

Samba-3 by Example explains further, saying:Samba is software that can be run on a platform other than Microsoft Windows, for example UNIX, Linux, IBM System 390, OpenVMS, and other operating systems. Samba uses the TCP/IP protocol that is installed on the host server. When correctly configured, it allows that host to interact with a Microsoft Windows client or server as if it is a Windows file and print server.
I still don't get it.... My question is does it allow us to print from our 770 or not?

Thanks.

troubleshootr 2006-07-15 23:07
Quote:
Originally Posted by Ceklund
There's a new set of programs centered around one 'Samba' available for install via the App Installer. So, I went to www.Samba.org to find out what it is, and it states:



I still don't get it.... My question is does it allow us to print from our 770 or not?

Thanks.
Print what? No applications in 2006 have print dialog. The only ones I know of in 2005 OS were Abiword and Jpilot. Perhaps you are looking for print from Xterm, then simple port of "lp" will allow this. Printing has been discussed before, it does not look promising.

gnuite 2006-07-16 00:09
Samba would be more important to the Nokia 770 as a means to mount remote Windows shares. Tools already exist for mounting NFS shares.

Hedgecore 2006-07-16 14:07
Funny, I just came here to find out about Samba after seeing it too. libpapm is mising when trying to install the client and i've got no idea what app rep it's from.

Hedgecore 2006-07-16 15:04
Ok so I was having issues refreshing my package list... checked the logs and it was the maemo.org reps that were down. I disabled them and the list refreshed, still none of the dependencies needed to install Samba.

This is what I was worried about with the new pkg based system... either there's some other repository that I don't know about because I've never been to the supporting web page, or they're just not there. Given that you can categorize apps, having multiple repositories for everything isn't the way to go...

konttori 2006-07-16 16:26
This is very interesting indeed. Finally an easy way to access home computers files. Well.. . if the installation would have all the dependencies that is. Hopefully it will have thise tomorrow when the folks at nokia go to worrk again.

Hedgecore 2006-07-16 17:14
Konttori: That's just it, I don't know which repository it's coming from (Well, it's not the maemo.org ones as I disabled them to allow refreshing of the pkg list (they're down and it was buggering up the refresh))

NokNok770 2006-07-16 17:32
That is stupid that the refresh won't work because one of the reppository is down. I hadn't been able to update since the 10th. I deleted all the reppository except the one you can't delete and it worked. I forgot that we can just disable it. Now ill have to enter them all back in. Why not just have one official reppository for everything.

Hedgecore 2006-07-16 17:58
Well, then who manages it, hosts it, etc. There's a pretty good list on maemo.org, though I agree; it's frustrating that one rep being down will screw up a refresh. Luckily there's the logs you can check to find out which the offending one is.

gnuite 2006-07-16 18:42
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Originally Posted by Hedgecore
Well, then who manages it, hosts it, etc. There's a pretty good list on maemo.org, though I agree; it's frustrating that one rep being down will screw up a refresh. Luckily there's the logs you can check to find out which the offending one is.
In my experience, if one repository is down, then it is only that repository that doesn't refresh (yeah, the wording in the error message is confusing). I remember updating the package list once, and one of the repositories was down, but the update still worked because I was able to update GPE-Calendar (without disabling any of the repositories).

And I agree, the more repositories the are, the more complicated it is going to be to satisfy dependencies. We shouldn't have to rely on every repository providing all of the dependencies for every application it contains. This is why I think all packagers should be trying to get their packages into one of the official maemo.org repositories.


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