Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (720 mails)

[jrodman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Joshua Rodmanius)]

> > >
> > > What's SuperX ? a X server ?
> > > In that case, it has nothing to do with SaMBa... 
> >
> >  [snipped]
>
> Hi.
> I think, with all my respects, that you are wrong. There's no need to
> install samba in the linux box. An X server works under tcp/ip. Samba is
> for the windows net (nothing to do with tcp/ip; you can have both or any
> of them working good separately). Exactly, Samba is used for
> communication with the netbios protocol, the windows net protocol.
> Am I wrong?
>                            Santi

To add my useless 2 cents of kibitz (hopefully it will clear things up),
SAMBA allows Linux to properly deal with and manage the Windows
network filing system (SMB).  It also provides the necessary pieces
to speak the windows NetBIOS layer, which can run on top of other
protocols, such as TCP/IP, IPX, or NetBEUI.

An X-server is TOTALLY INDEPENDANT.  In order for machines to send X
protocol messages back and forth, they have *no need* to access each
other's files.  This would be analogous to installing SAMBA just so that
you can telnet in.  

The X server, in case you were wondering, is the component of software
that receives the lowest level of GUI protocol messages and decides how
to raster them to the screen.  On a local unix box, this is rather
equivalent to a video card driver.  On a windows box, it is generall
software that translates the X messages into windows GDI calls (or maybe
even directX these days, which is of course the totally unrelated and
poorly named 'low level access' API in 95).

Anyway, I don't have the answer, although I do know the DISPLAY env
variable on the linux box should be something like 163.65.23.101:0 where
163.65.23.101 is your PC's IP address.  The X server may have
restrictions on which IPs are allowed to connect to it.  You should
investigate this.  The X server will most likely have more than one
method of connecting and authenticating.  Investigate trying different
options.  Be sure of your password!  Do you have some Super X docs?
They may have some tips.

If none of this gets you anywhere, try to at least narrow down where
it's failing, and come back with what you do and what messages you get
and where it fails  (probably send the same message to super X).

-josh

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