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samba on ubuntu and win98
Name: LoKo7 Date: April 26, 2006 at 02:12:42 Pacific OS: PLD CPU/Ram: 1,2Ghz/1024
Comment:
Hi, I have ubuntu 5.10 and samba on it and in shared folders i have few programs. The problem is when i'm tring to run some applications under win98 they don't want to start but when i'm runnig same application under win xp every thing is ok. What to do? LoKo
Name: 3Dave Date: April 26, 2006 at 04:00:02 Pacific
Reply:
Are you logging onto the samba server as the same user for both 98 and XP? It may be a limitation of 98, I remember some programs not liking running from a network share. Try mapping the share as a drive and use something like z:\\path\to\app rather than \\server\path\to\app.
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Response Number 2
Name: LoKo7 Date: April 27, 2006 at 04:59:23 Pacific
Reply:
ok i've got enought f--- ubunt i'm going for pld :) and it's working with the same \config hehe :)
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