[nzlug] SLED 10 strangeness

[Bob Harvey]

Hi all,
First a plea of tolerance for my ignorance of Linux and the CLI -- too many years of Windoze brain death.

I am trying to get SuSE desktop 10 working on my laptop: HP Compaq nx9010.  It has WinXP and was dual-booting to SuSE 9.1 satisfactorily.  Tried to 'upgrade' to SLED 10 but heaps of issues: it worked, kind of, but didn't detect the video/screen and wouldn't boot if the DVD was not in the drive.  So, sacrificing the few files I had under 9.1 I tried a clean 'install' of SLED 10.  It seems a lot more stable, and corrected the 'update' issues.  It is slower than 9.1, but gets there eventually if you wait.  I had been using KDE but this is too slow, so I have switched to Gnome.  The eye candy is partially there (transparency and curling of moving windows) but I can't get multiple screens (cube facets) to work.  So much for the background.

PROBLEMS:
1)      No window will expand to the full screen width - maximum width seems about the same as the max height.  This is a real pain, frankly.
2)      I want to exchange directories/files with my WinXP desktop.  I had this working under 9.1 by running a samba server on the laptop.  For the life of me I can't figure out how to get this up under SLED 10.  The client is there (I can copy from WinXP, but not to) and WinXP sees something it calls the users/groups/homes on the laptop but won't connect.  Win error is: "There are currently no logon servers available to service the logon request." and suggest that I might not have permissions.  And a third machine running Ubuntu is having similar problems seeing files on the SLED 10 and vice versa, and can't be seen (or see) by WinXP at all.

QUESTIONS:
1)      What's with the window width restriction?  (Doesn't happen under YAST during install, but thereafter.)
2)      Do I need to get samba server running, and if so how?  (I have the SLES 10 DVD as well.)
3)      Then what? (And don't even mention my trying to print on the WinXP attached Laserjet!) 

Cheers all, and thanks for any enlightenment you can give me on this,
Bob.


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