On Wednesday 02 March 2005 23:12, Martin Cleaver wrote:
Okay I'm a non-nerdie newbie...
I just tried to take a look at my Suse 9.2 file server, both locally and by VNC. It serves files and printer just fine to my Windows boxes... but all I get to see is a hung screensaver when I try to wake it up... I tried Ctrl-Alt F1 etc, but it doesn't budge... But the files and printer still get served, so I feel inclinded to leave it... until I can find out what mysterious key combination will get me to a command prompt to run init 3... Any suggestions? :)
I hope you have an ssh server running on that file server. If so, you can login on that box in text-mode with: ssh root@host_name or ssh root@host_ip You can do that from a virtual terminal, or a konsole or an xterm window. If you can't use a Linux box, use putty instead. That's an ssh client that runs on windows (google for putty+windows). Oh, and have a look at /var/log/messages, /var/log/warn and /var/log/Xorg.*.log to see what went wrong. ;) Cheers, Leen