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Topic: LinNeigborhood Not Showing After Samba Install, Rookie needs assistance

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jimerb

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Posted: July 04 2007,22:22

I'm TOTALLY new with Linux and I've been reading these forums all afternoon trying to figure out how to map to my windows 2003 server.

I downloaded samba.dsl from the web and went into mydsl and picked what i downloaded by using the "Load Local" button. I then said ok.

It didn't show me anything or do anything.

Nothing showed up. I was expecting LinNeigborhood to show up on my desktop but it never did.

I'm running as root.

Can someone give me some guidance on this. Please be gentle with your advice, this is REALLY new to me.

mikshaw

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Posted: July 04 2007,23:10

Don't run as root.

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jimerb

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Posted: July 05 2007,23:12

Ok. I'll give that a try.

Can you tell me why? I'm thinking that running as root is like running as adminstrator in windows.

How's it different?

Thanks. Just want to understand the difference.

curaga

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Posted: July 06 2007,08:39

DSL is made so that only user dsl can load extensions, for security reasons among others

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Posted: July 06 2007,12:07

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I'm thinking that running as root is like running as adminstrator in windows.

You access administrator level in Unix-type environments by invoking su (super user -- requires root password) or sudo (if you have sudo privileges). In DSL, user dsl has full sudo privileges and the scripts are set up for user dsl, not for root or any account you may set up. It's safe/good practice to not login as root.

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