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It shouldn't be the OS it should be the version of Liunxcnc installed.

What happens if you upgrade the version of Linuxcnc on the current install. I only use axis.

I gave up trying to format this, the editor sucks.

Never mind.

tommylight wrote:

langdons wrote:

Apple's simple command+k shortcut to connect to a samba share is really nice, I wonder why Linux distros can't seem to achieve the same thing; it is absolutely possible, I guess they just never thought of it.
You are probably to young to recall
\\192.168.1.123\$C
Back when Knoppix was rising, you do that on a Linux PC, and it will show you the full C drive on the windows PC with that IP address, with full permission, without asking for password, be it on win98SE, winME, w2k or XP.
Oh yeah, that was with NO sharing enabled on the win PC.
Fun days.... and reboot and shutdown remotely any win pc...

That's funny.

Old Windows really sucked.

Though when you consider that most computers, including those for major companies (i.e. banks) were all using Windows, it's pretty concerning, especially when you consider that everyone continued to use Windows even after they found out!

Why Windows has still remained popular despite its numerous egregious past and present gaping security holes, I'll never understand.

Why didn't another company capitalize upon Microsoft's stupidity and make a similar, non-broken OS and steal the whole user base?

Why has Microsoft never suffered any consequence for such blatant disregard for even an essence of security?

Might be best to read the github page regarding some sites using warpinator.com domain.

Can all of you using any other Linux than Mint try to install and use warpinator ?
It comes standard with last two major versions of Mint, no setup, it just works for network sharing, and pretty sure i read somewhere it also works on windoze..
Sorry, i forgot about this as i always unistall it from my ISO's.
Edit:
As pointed by "unknown" below
DO NOT USE THE WEBSITE warpinator dot com
Use GitHUB
For Linux it is

The thing is MacOS and windows only have one file manager to deal with. There's numerous file managers within Linux that are available and each has there own implementation.
And samba shares can be mounted in a variety of ways as well. an entry in fstab (and this can either be a auto or non-auto mount), via the commend line, via the address bar in a file manager......and a hundred other I've probably forgotten over the years.
And going back to XFCE or anything DE for that matter, you've probably noticed that each distro will have a different set of panels, menu implementations or what not. So XFCE on one distro will look different on onther, same for MATE Mint & Debian have a wholly different look for the menus & panels. What this will come down to is the team or person that builds the distro.
The reason the Linuxcnc desktop looks so basic is due to no customisations being made. It's just the way the package manager installs it. And when the builder of the distro does their mods they have to make sure that the mods stay between package upgrades. So there is a lot of work. This was really brought home when I was building the new RPi images. Most of the XFCE programs have their defaults set via xml files under the /etc/xdg directory, so the basic default look and feel come from those files. Then again DE are quite configurable, depends how much time the end user want to change it and how much time.

Now Muzzer:
With regards to file sharing, since I'm working within a Linux environment, I just use sftp to mount directories on other machines, in the context of Linux in the machine you want to connect has an ssh serving running there's no setup needed, as long as gvfs-backends & gvfs-fuse are installed. These locations can be bookmarked within the Linux file manager. And of course the workhorse server has NFS shares setup.
Now Thunar does have a plugin that lets you create samba shares on your Linux machine without needing root access, but of course there will have to be an instance of a samba server running, unfortunately it's a little hit and miss according to reports on the internet.
Funnily enough the only distro I've found to have samba working out of the box was when I use to use Puppy Linux, but that was prior to Windows 8,10,11.
Whilst I haven't tried it, a suitable ssh server for windows may give the same functionality.

There's also the option of using a domestic router to work as an intermediary samba server between windows and Linux.......Tho I think some may use a very early SMB protocol.

Just so you know, if you have a computer with GNU/Linux, macOS, BSD, etc. installed, you can use it to either share an Ethernet connection to Wi-Fi, or receive a Wi-Fi connection and relay it to Ethernet or USB.

If you don't have an old computer with a good Wi-Fi and/or ethernet card, then a USB Wi-Fi adapter is a good option.

Also, running a whole separate computer just so another computer can connect to the internet is a bit impractical, and a bit of a waste of power.

Screenshot?

System info?

LinuxCNC version?

Sometimes weird monitor aspect ratios/resolutions cause apps to act weird in terms of resizing and spacing of controls.

langdons wrote:

Apple's simple command+k shortcut to connect to a samba share is really nice, I wonder why Linux distros can't seem to achieve the same thing; it is absolutely possible, I guess they just never thought of it.

You are probably to young to recall
\\192.168.1.123\$C
Back when Knoppix was rising, you do that on a Linux PC, and it will show you the full C drive on the windows PC with that IP address, with full permission, without asking for password, be it on win98SE, winME, w2k or XP.
Oh yeah, that was with NO sharing enabled on the win PC.
Fun days.... and reboot and shutdown remotely any win pc...

snowgoer540 wrote:

unknown wrote:

I still stand by my removed comment.
And I'm very sorry to say but you admins are weak and spineless to allow this buffoon to carry on the way he does.
It's a shame the CoC doesn't cover giving advice to members that is completely useless, a waste of time and potentially to the point of causing harm.
But no, the main point is not to hurt anyone feelings or to cause offense.
Who is going to have the intensal fortitude and read Langdon's the riot act. I tried in the beginning to guide him in the right direction but he would appear not to care.
You admins need to take action, I'm sick to effing death in having to make his posts an issue in the hope something will be done to rectify his behaviour. Until then I will keep raising this issue, or you can just ban me. I don't care much, Ive lost faith in every single one on the Admins on this site. You aren't doing a single thing to protect other forum members, especially new ones from his nonsense. At this juncture you all disgust me.

I can only speak for myself, but I just recognize him for the bored high school student that he is. I feel bad for new people but imagine they quickly realize his replies are virtually useless and very likely the regurgitation of misguided ChatGPT responses.

I stand by my previous advice to not feed the under-bridge dwelling creatures, and ignore him until he moves on, gets himself banned, or discovers better things to do with his time. But it’s a bit pointless for us to block him as he, like you, will probably just make a new username and start over. Trust me, it’s been discussed.

You have something he does not, which is the ability to contribute meaningfully to this community (I remember the Beaglebrainz ISO’s very well). So I ask you to just ignore him, let his mindless comments stand for themselves, and don’t let it affect your integrity.

Look when it comes down to it I do know better, but fail to act that way.
And yes there are sometimes that I know I shouldn't even come on the internet.
Part of of it might stem from being on the wrong end of someone not doing what they should and being left with a lot of nagging physical pain for the past 30 odd years. Plus coming from the rail, civil & construction industry I've seen what happens when people give out bad and advice.

Beovoxo wrote:

THX all i was going insane on all the problems i had also because i have been running anything before with no problems. .. I did learn dont update anything that works lol ... i am quiet sure that some of the problems i had was either bad image or software fault

Beware of bad images, they often seem to work, but then weird stuff starts to happen...

FreeBSD's installer checks the hashes of everything before installing, but GNU/Linux installers don't seem to do that, even though they probably should.

I wonder why they don't; after all, it would save everyone's time in the long run.

langdons wrote:

Well a slightly newer version could work too.

Try whatever came right before "Bookworm", see if it's old enough.
 
Thats the thing. The LinuxCNC version before Bookworm was on a Wheezy ISO. There was no linuxcnc version released on Bullseye (5.10 kernel) which precedes Bookworm. We don't want to hear Ubuntu being suggested. That's bad advice (as is using Wheezy which is akin to suggesting people drive a Model T Ford)

linuxcnc.org/iso/linuxcnc-2.8.0-buster.iso
2.8.x say "Buster", not "Wheezy".

I'm not a huge Ubuntu fan anymore, but with Ubuntu Pro they give security updates basically forever, which could be handy for an old, unsupported GPU.

Also, I had no idea Wheezy was so ancient; it's almost as old as me!

snowgoer540 wrote:

unknown wrote:

I still stand by my removed comment.
And I'm very sorry to say but you admins are weak and spineless to allow this buffoon to carry on the way he does.
It's a shame the CoC doesn't cover giving advice to members that is completely useless, a waste of time and potentially to the point of causing harm.
But no, the main point is not to hurt anyone feelings or to cause offense.
Who is going to have the intensal fortitude and read Langdon's the riot act. I tried in the beginning to guide him in the right direction but he would appear not to care.
You admins need to take action, I'm sick to effing death in having to make his posts an issue in the hope something will be done to rectify his behaviour. Until then I will keep raising this issue, or you can just ban me. I don't care much, Ive lost faith in every single one on the Admins on this site. You aren't doing a single thing to protect other forum members, especially new ones from his nonsense. At this juncture you all disgust me.

I can only speak for myself, but I just recognize him for the bored high school student that he is. I feel bad for new people but imagine they quickly realize his replies are virtually useless and very likely the regurgitation of misguided ChatGPT responses.

I stand by my previous advice to not feed the under-bridge dwelling creatures, and ignore him until he moves on, gets himself banned, or discovers better things to do with his time. But it’s a bit pointless for us to block him as he, like you, will probably just make a new username and start over. Trust me, it’s been discussed.

You have something he does not, which is the ability to contribute meaningfully to this community (I remember the Beaglebrainz ISO’s very well). So I ask you to just ignore him, let his mindless comments stand for themselves, and don’t let it affect your integrity.

I don't use ChatGPT.

Ever.

You can avoid dealing with network drives by using scp to copy files to (and possibly also from) a server.

For easy access to your server's files, you can use NGINX or Apache to make them accessible over HTTP.

My home server (the machine behind www3.langdonstaab.ca) also serves as a way to move files between computers and store them, as it is always on and available, but I don't use samba or any network drive thing at all, though I did once.

Apple's simple command+k shortcut to connect to a samba share is really nice, I wonder why Linux distros can't seem to achieve the same thing; it is absolutely possible, I guess they just never thought of it.

Ethercat running again with the first set of IO daam nice thx all