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Lightman Started conversation Feb 7, 2004
Ok I have seen the light. I now funtion on both platforms Mac / PC.
I'm taking the plunge to go fully Mac, G5 Dual proc.
Isw there anthing I should know,? That would be usefull.
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dasilva Posted Feb 7, 2004
I'd just like to say well done lad 
Welcome to a 
er life 
As for advice, nothing besides "You've done the right thing" 
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dElaphant (and Zeppo his dog (and Gummo, Zeppos dog)) - Left my apostrophes at the BBC Posted Feb 7, 2004
Hold down the "control" key while clicking the mouse button to get your right-click menus. Is that the kind of thing you want to know? 
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Lightman Posted Feb 9, 2004
Thanks for that tip d'Elaphant 
I have forgotton that there is only one button on the mouse.
Lightman
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Evil Roy: Maestro of the Thingite Orchestra, Knight Errant of the Thingite Cause, Prince of Balwyniti, Aussie Researchers A59204 Posted Feb 9, 2004
And there's the first thing you need to get rid of - the one button mouse.
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dasilva Posted Feb 10, 2004
Dare I say it? Micro$oft have IntelliPoint drivers for the Mac, free download, that give you full functionality on all their bizarrely buttoned and wheeled mouses (What is it now? 5 buttons and 2-directional wheel?) 
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Lightman Posted Mar 23, 2004
Can any one give me a little help.
I just cannot get the computer to see the files on my Laptop using Win Xp.
I get it see folders, but no files.
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dElaphant (and Zeppo his dog (and Gummo, Zeppos dog)) - Left my apostrophes at the BBC Posted Mar 23, 2004
It sounds like your "samba" may not have started up properly on the Mac. Open up "Activity Monitor" and look at all the processes. There are two important ones "smbd" and "nmbd". If "smbd" did not start you will be able to see the network shares (which look like folders) but not any files. If "nmbd" does not start, you can't see the shares, but if you know the names you can type them into the address and still get to the files, so smbd works out to be the more important part.
Go back to your System Preferences and turn off "windows file sharing" then turn it back on again. Check to see if "smbd" shows up in the Activity Monitor, and if does you're all set. If not, you have to do some more exploring to figure out why smbd won't start.
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dElaphant (and Zeppo his dog (and Gummo, Zeppos dog)) - Left my apostrophes at the BBC Posted Mar 23, 2004
I should have checked my own instructions before posting.
It seems you can't see the "smbd" and "nmbd" items in the activity monitor on MacOS X 10.3 because of the way Apple starts them (via "xinetd" for the curious). I'm not sure about 10.2, my instructions might work there.
It's still worth trying to turn it off and then back on again, though. Also, watch the system log using "Console" to see what happens when you turn it on, to see if there are any error messages.
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- 1: Lightman (Feb 7, 2004)
- 2: dasilva (Feb 7, 2004)
- 3: dElaphant (and Zeppo his dog (and Gummo, Zeppos dog)) - Left my apostrophes at the BBC (Feb 7, 2004)
- 4: Lightman (Feb 9, 2004)
- 5: Evil Roy: Maestro of the Thingite Orchestra, Knight Errant of the Thingite Cause, Prince of Balwyniti, Aussie Researchers A59204 (Feb 9, 2004)
- 6: dasilva (Feb 10, 2004)
- 7: Lightman (Mar 23, 2004)
- 8: dElaphant (and Zeppo his dog (and Gummo, Zeppos dog)) - Left my apostrophes at the BBC (Mar 23, 2004)
- 9: dElaphant (and Zeppo his dog (and Gummo, Zeppos dog)) - Left my apostrophes at the BBC (Mar 23, 2004)
- 10: Lightman (Mar 23, 2004)
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