Posts made by siringo

Just burnt the top of my mouth on some melted cheese.

@nadnerb said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@siringo Haha! toasted lamb & cheese sanger.

sounds glorious

Yep it was pretty good, with a nice cup of tea, all set for the rest of the day, which is ending early today!

@siringo Haha! toasted lamb & cheese sanger.

The above posts concentrate alot on Linux equivalents to Windows software. Have you considered the impact to the business and the day to day business operations that may be impacted by going non mainstream?

Puts Devils Advocate hat on.

What happens when they need to use software from a supplier / client / producer / whoever that was written for Windows and can only supply it for Windows. Also that party may only provide support when that software runs in a Windows environment.

You could run it in a Windows emulator. There's added complexity for staff & support, plus additional time in getting it all running.

Staff will need to be retrained as things won't run just like they do in Windows. New employees will be Windows aware few to none will have any Linux knowledge.

The entire world uses Windows, a few small islands use Linux.

I'm not anti Linux nor pro Windows, I can just see lots and lots of headaches, incompatibilities, duplication of work, confusion, retraining, cost, time.

Can the business run reliably & efficiently on Linux? What's the support base like in the area where the business is located? If you're hit by a bus is there anyone else who can support their Linux based business?

Will their phones, cameras, ipods, wahetever be able to plug into their Linux workstations and work?

What happens if it just doesn't work and it becomes too difficult? You may have to end up going Windows and have wasted time & money and will be asking for additional time & money to roll out the MS solution.

Be careful, this is the sort of thing that can destroy reputations.

And again, I'm not anti Linux nor pro Windows, bring back pen & paper I say!

Good luck.

trying to work out what I'll gorge on at lunch time and it's only 9:07am...
be still my beating stomach.

@gjacobse said in Remote Desktop to Fedora 28?:

Thought I would give this ago also... this is what I ran into

This is from Windows to Fedora.

Yep, that is what I was getting also. Can you log in with root?

I was getting that error & the one I posted above. I rebooted several times for various reasons and things started to become a bit more reliable.

Thanks everyone for the help.

Well I've got most of the bugs sorted out and things seem to be working.

@travisdh1 said in Remote Desktop to Fedora 28?:

@siringo said in Remote Desktop to Fedora 28?:

So I've setup my old laptop with Fedora v28 workstation.

What can I use to, (for want of the correct Linux terminology), RDP into my Fedora laptop when I'm out in the field?

Not being command line savvy, it will need to be a GUI interface.

Thanks.

If you want RDP, install xrdp, start the service and enable it to run at boot.

sudo dnf -y install xrdp
sudo systemctl start xrdp
sudo systemctl enable xrdp
sudo firewall-cmd --permanent --add-port=3389/tcp
sudo firewall-cmd --reload

Will install it, start the service, enable the service at boot time, and open the local firewall port for it.

Went ahead and did all the above and it seems to work, but I don't log in.

I get prompted for my username & password, but this comes up:

I installed TigerVNC the other week and only partially configured that, I wonder if that might be screwing up XRDP?

How can I uninstall TigerVNC?

I found that root can log in OK, but not my standard user account, which makes sense to me.

OK, So XRDP needs my stadard account to be in a group called 'tsusers' as shown below:

I don't think there is a tsusers group, so I need to create that and add my account to the group.
How do I do that?

@travisdh1 said in Remote Desktop to Fedora 28?:

@siringo said in Remote Desktop to Fedora 28?:

So I've setup my old laptop with Fedora v28 workstation.

What can I use to, (for want of the correct Linux terminology), RDP into my Fedora laptop when I'm out in the field?

Not being command line savvy, it will need to be a GUI interface.

Thanks.

If you want RDP, install xrdp, start the service and enable it to run at boot.

sudo dnf -y install xrdp
sudo systemctl start xrdp
sudo systemctl enable xrdp
sudo firewall-cmd --permanent --add-port=3389/tcp
sudo firewall-cmd --reload

Will install it, start the service, enable the service at boot time, and open the local firewall port for it.

Thanks @travisdh1 Does that allow me to use Windows' mstsc.exe and give me the Fedora desktop? Sounds too easy

So I've setup my old laptop with Fedora v28 workstation.

What can I use to, (for want of the correct Linux terminology), RDP into my Fedora laptop when I'm out in the field?

Not being command line savvy, it will need to be a GUI interface.

Thanks.

MODEDIT: Added tags.

@wrx7m said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

don't think i've ever had more grief with a windows os version post 95, more than i have with 10. bsod, bsod, bsod.
&
sth korea defeated germany, outstanding.

You probably weren't unlucky enough to use Windows Me.

Took a look at ME and thought nup, it was junk.

I was lucky enough to install NT 3.1 off 30 or so 1.44Mb FDD though, quite a few times.

I don't know what has happened to Microsoft (with 10 and 2016 and their updates in mind). They seem to have forgotten or chosen to overlook all the data & experience they would have gained from the past 30 years working with businesses that use their OSs. These feature updates, does anyone actually use the crap that is included in them?
Everywhere I go and everywhere I read people hate these massive unneeded, unwanted downloads.

don't think i've ever had more grief with a windows os version post 95, more than i have with 10. bsod, bsod, bsod.
&
sth korea defeated germany, outstanding.

Ahhhh. Left my lunch at home, here comes the hangry ahhhhhhhhhhhh..........

trying to fix up screwed up file perms on a major file share. no one seems to be the owner!

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

sitting & wondering, why, just why.....

Just because.

I think you might be right.

sitting & wondering, why, just why.....

Haha. About to mow the lawns.
Happy Sunday morning neighbours!

@nadnerb said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

reducing the will to kill, post phone call.
No one can print anywhere, it's urgent, i've asked and I'm sure. Can you come today?
contacted more rational staff members and checked printers.
1 printer down because the legends who installed the new photocopier unplugged the network printer and plugged it into the new copier.
2 people were unable to print.

Tech support rules 1 & 2

1. End users lie
2. The situation described is often different to reality. Often as a result of rule #1

Yep, I agree.
It was an awkward call, it was from a person who I am possibly answerable to so I had to tread lightly.
I hour until Friday knock off. I wasn't going to have a drink tonight, but .....

Have you tried running File Explorer elevated?
Tried to share the folder via a 'net use' command?
Tried renaming the folder and then sharing it?

reducing the will to kill, post phone call.
No one can print anywhere, it's urgent, i've asked and I'm sure. Can you come today?
contacted more rational staff members and checked printers.
1 printer down because the legends who installed the new photocopier unplugged the network printer and plugged it into the new copier.
2 people were unable to print.