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dobharcruHi there, I'm having trouble setting up bluetooth on my inspiron 1525 under ubuntu. When I type sudo dellWirelessCtl --sw_bt 1 --bt 1 into the terminal I get this " File "/usr/sbin/dellWirelessCtl", line 36, in <module>00:48
dobharcru    locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, '')00:48
dobharcru  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/locale.py", line 531, in setlocale00:48
dobharcru    return _setlocale(category, locale)00:48
dobharcrulocale.Error: unsupported locale setting." Does anyone know what this means?00:48
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ApOgEE...10:46
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asterismohi people15:57
asterismoi need help with something15:57
ApOgEEhi asterismo15:57
ApOgEEhow can i help you?15:57
asterismoit seems that remote desktop is completely broken in 11.10?15:57
asterismois that right?15:57
asterismoi need to establish remote desktop control in machines inside my local network and outside it15:58
asterismobut i cannot do any of those15:58
ApOgEEremote desktop to windows?15:59
asterismoubuntu to ubuntu15:59
asterismosimple as that15:59
asterismoi do not use windows anymore since 200715:59
asterismobut remote desktop used to work... and now it does not}15:59
ApOgEEso, it is Desktop Sharing in ubuntu 11.1016:01
ApOgEEasterismo: did you follow this? https://help.ubuntu.com/11.10/ubuntu-help/sharing-desktop.html16:03
asterismolet me see16:03
asterismothis is vino-preferences, right?16:04
Sidewinder1asterismo, Just as an aside, I had some problems with ubuntu desktop to in ubuntu desktop, 10.04 version when the monitors were drastically different, ie: std. size mon. to large screen, hi-def monitor...16:04
asterismoi was able to do this in maverick16:06
ApOgEEasterismo: desktop sharing... look at this image http://i.thiyagaraaj.com/_/rsrc/1322737375201/articles/articles/remotedesktopsharinginubuntu1110/Ubuntu_Desktop_Sharing_2.png16:07
asterismoi was forced to migrate to oneiric since gnome 2 is no longer supported16:07
asterismoso im using XFCE16:07
asterismoi think it still vino-preferences with another name16:08
ApOgEEasterismo: i see, i thought u're using unity16:08
asterismoi have already configured that16:08
asterismoyeah, sorry16:08
ApOgEEsuppose to show something like this http://i.thiyagaraaj.com/_/rsrc/1322737490298/articles/articles/remotedesktopsharinginubuntu1110/Ubuntu_Desktop_Sharing.png16:08
asterismoyes16:09
asterismothat is vino-preferences from the command line16:09
asterismobut that is not working now16:10
Sidewinder1asterismo, Also as an aside, 10.04 (which uses gnome2, I think) will be supported (desktop), until 04/2013; it maybe too late if you already upgraded. :-( Please see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_%28operating_system%29 for update and support time periods for the various versions. HTH.16:11
ApOgEEasterismo: you may try x11vnc on xfce16:13
asterismo'll try that16:13
asterismothanks}16:13
ApOgEEasterismo: http://web.nzyes.com/viewthread.php?tid=2800416:13
ApOgEEasterismo: wait... did u start your vino-server already?16:15
ApOgEEI found something you may like to try... http://www.ehow.com/how_6980234_enable-xubuntu-remote-desktop.html16:16
ApOgEEperhaps your vino-server isn't started yet16:17
asterismothis are last 3 lines of terminal output16:20
asterismo02/12/2011 02:19:40 PM Advertising authentication type: 'VNC Authentication' (2)16:20
asterismo02/12/2011 02:19:40 PM Advertising security type: 'VNC Authentication' (2)16:20
asterismoSegmentation fault16:20
asterismoi guess its not working at all16:21
ApOgEEwhich one? vnc or vino-server?16:22
asterismovino server16:23
ApOgEEasterismo: i haven't tried xfce on 11.10 ... currently using 10.04 LTS16:36
ApOgEEcouldn't help much on that, sorry16:37
holsteinasterismo i have that issue from one 10.04 machine as well16:47
holsteini have added ppa's and messed with it a lot16:48
holsteinvnc work with other 10.04 installs16:48
holsteinvino works that is... so i assume i broke it16:49
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suzannaI have mutliple issues with my networking....usually samba times out; I'm trying to get a remote NAS drive set up to backup to and have been told I need to "map" the drives...also my dual boot netbook gets hostname comfusion...how do I set either witndows or ubuntu to a different IP/MAC to avoid this?21:10
escottsuzanna, what do you mean by hostname confusion?21:21
suzannai get text saying hostname could not be resolved and then whatever it is I"m trying to do may or may not work but usually not correctly or in full21:22
suzannaIf I watch the text as it is loading or shutting down I always see the error that hostname could not be resolved21:23
escottwhat is the output of hostname and what are the contents of /etc/hosts21:23
suzannaescott, current output of hostname is  'thread' which is the ubuntu boot hostname21:30
suzanna127.0.0.1       localhost21:30
suzanna192.168.1.18    thread21:30
suzanna192.168.1.10    needle21:30
suzanna192.168.1.14    Pattern21:30
suzanna# The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts21:30
suzanna::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback21:30
suzannafe00::0 ip6-localnet21:30
suzannaff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix21:30
suzannaff02::1 ip6-allnodes21:30
suzannaff02::2 ip6-allrouters21:30
suzannaI haven't listed the windows host in the file yet....it is zipper.....the other boot on this machine21:31
escottsuzanna, you are missing a line 127.0.1.1  thread after the first line (localhost) in /etc/hosts. add that and your hostname warning should go away21:31
suzannaohhh....didn't know about that entry....thank you! should I add that to the desktop hosts file as well only using that hostname?21:32
escottsuzanna, as a matter of style you probably should be appending your modifications to the hosts file at the END of /etc/hosts not in the middle21:33
escottsuzanna, not sure what you mean by the desktop hosts file?21:33
suzannamy other computer...sorry    the host named needle21:33
escottsuzanna, needle should have 127.0.0.1 localhost and 127.0.1.1 needle and then all the ipv6 stuff and then whatever 192 related things you want to put. if your router is any good (ie dd-wrt or the like) you can put all this hostname stuff into it, and then use dhcp on your local network. save you a fair bit of work syncing hosts files21:35
suzannaescott so is this better?    127.0.0.1       localhost21:36
suzanna# The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts21:36
suzanna::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback21:36
suzannafe00::0 ip6-localnet21:36
suzannaff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix21:36
suzannaff02::1 ip6-allnodes21:36
suzannaff02::2 ip6-allrouters21:36
suzanna127.0.1.1       thread21:36
suzanna192.168.1.18    thread21:36
suzanna192.168.1.10    needle21:36
suzanna192.168.1.14    Pattern21:36
escottthe 127.0.1.1 is a standard required line so i would recommend 127.0.0.1, then 127.0.1.1 then the ipv6 then #non-standard modifications to /etc/hosts follow21:37
escottsuzanna, the 127.0.1.1 was relatively new and caught a lot of people off guard (including you it seems) so its helpful to be very clear about what is standard and coming from the stock install, and what you are doing manually21:38
suzannaokay gotcha on that......as far as router...I'm dual router.....a netgear for networking and the motorola surfboard for modem/gateway....but networking is disabled onit21:38
escottsuzanna, you don't have to do anything with the netgear, its just if you wanted to you could do so. the thing to keep in mind is that your /etc/hosts now defines thread as being *.18, but the assignment of that ip is more than likely dictated by the netgear. so it would make sense to tell netgear to always put the mac address of your computer on *.18, and then to run a dhcp server that forwards dhcp requests but identifies thre21:40
escottad as being on *.1821:40
suzannaescott, I have static IPs assigned to everything except cell phones at the netgear  router21:41
escottright now if the netgear decided to put thread on *.19 then your local network would be broken and you would have to update /etc/hosts on 3 different machines21:41
escottif its not a big deal for you then dont worry about it21:41
escottso that leaves the only problem as the NAS correct?21:42
escottand resolving that really depends a lot on what particular NAS it is and how it is configured21:42
suzannaexcept the windows host....also uses the same IP and mac as thread.....is that an issue I need to worry about21:42
suzannathe NAS is an Iomega Home Media drive with cloud21:43
escottso you want the dual boot to have a different ip address and hostname?21:43
suzannaI don't care if the windows is part of the network at all.....I can access those files from thread and if I need them elsewhere should be able to copy them to Pattern (NAS) for access21:44
escottsuzanna, you could certainly use some tools to tell the network card to use a different MAC address, but im not sure if that change would be permanent across reboots, and I don't know how to change MAC addresses in windows. you might end up having to hook into the windows boot process (however that works) and run some command to set the MAC21:44
escottsuzanna, windows does have a hosts file and you could enter thread pattern into that.21:45
escottsuzanna, if your only concern is that you are defining the network, but windows doesn't know the names you are assigning thats easy. if you want the same hardware to have two different hostnames depending upon what os it is running thats more challenging21:46
suzannawell then I'll leave it be.....as far as NAS.....Their software is compatabile and can be installed on thread (32 bit) but won't work on the 64 bit computer21:46
suzannaso I need help getting local access to the shares and firguring out how to use the remote drive for backups, etc21:47
escotti dont know anything about the iomega. presumably it has some kind of web interface at https://Pattern21:49
escottand it more than likely is exporting a samba share. what software do they have you install on thread to work with this device?21:50
suzannaescott, sorrry....dealing with low blood sugar as well as slow netbook...working on thesoftware answer.....21:54
escottsuzanna, its not a problem21:56
suzannaescott, the software is called Iomega Storage Manager.....version for linux supports Debian, redhat, etc, but not ubuntu specifically21:58
suzannayes it is samba based21:59
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escotti really hate when companies do that. there are perfectly adequate integrated solutions that their software is based on21:59
suzannabut my samba is still sporadic....I get a lot of time outs when trying to connect to samba shares22:00
escottin any case i doubt theres is doing much, you could probably install their debian version, but why bother, i doubt it will clear up the underlying samba issues22:00
escottsuzanna, does the iomega box go into automatic power saving?22:00
suzannaI think it has that option but I don't believe I enabled it22:01
suzannamy goal is to have it on 24/7 but not my pcs....then if I need to access information remotely the NAS is up and available without the pcs needing to be on22:02
escottso we have a buffalo device, and there is a windows client which is a very simple little wrapper around windows samba shares, and a wake on lan packet generator22:02
suzannahuh?22:02
escottall i need to do is pump a bunch of wakeonlan packets at the device, and it comes out of its sleep state, i would investigate if you need to do that with your iomega device22:02
escottespecially if you are noticing a pattern to the timeouts with samba22:03
escottlike it times out when your other computers are off, but works when the computer with the iomega software installed is on22:03
suzannaso it might be going into sleep mode and not responding when it should22:04
escotti would not be surprised if thats all their "debian/redhat" client does22:04
escottsend the magic packets, wait while the thing powers up, then start trying to communicate over samba22:04
suzannaokay.....that would likely explain why the HP cannot access the share for network storage even with their software going22:05
suzannaif it were a blank generiic remote drive what would be the easiest way to access and use it?22:06
escotthttp://iomega.nas-central.org/wiki/Category:Home_Media22:06
suzannaawww...have the cloud version....small difference but it is different22:07
suzannabut I willl look at the wiki...need all the info I can get22:08
escottafraid i cant seem to find much about the device. i would investigate the software that you have installed on thread. i bet you can figure out what it is doing by looking at that22:09
suzannaohhh....the wiki talks about installing kernels and using apt-get.....gonna be interesting and likely helpful22:10
suzannaiomega tells me that it will not support any server apps......but they have a built in media server and mail server although I haven't found anything about accessing that yet22:11
escottthe wiki is fairly clear thats not a good approach to take, you would also lose the cloud sync features22:12
suzannabasically the software provices a control panel for setting on the drive and in windows it facilitatess mapping each sare as a network drive so they are in your local file system22:12
escottcan you point me to a link for their software22:13
suzannayeah....I'm not looking to reformat and install a kernel...too much work22:13
suzannagive me a minute and I'll have it for you!22:13
suzannaescott, I'm still here...this thing is just dragging....lol  really need that full backup so I can wipe & reformat....22:22
suzannahttps://iomega-eu-en.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/2610822:23
suzannanow if I recall they might go through a log in before you get to the actual link....let me know if so I'll log in and repost link22:23
suzannahttps://iomega-eu-en.custhelp.com/app/answers/custom_detail/a_id/28277https://iomega-eu-en.custhelp.com/app/answers/custom_detail/a_id/2827722:26
suzannaoops....double copied22:26
suzannahttp://iomega.com/support/life_checkup/linux/setup-1.2.4.45773.bin22:27
escottsuzanna, yeah it wants me to sign in. if you take that deb you downloaded and run dpkg --contents filename.deb it will say what the contents are22:27
suzannaThat is the actual download link22:27
suzannawell as you can see its a .bin will dpkg work the same way iwth it?22:29
escottok downloading now22:29
escottill look into what is inside it22:29
suzannaokay.....compiling and figuring out what kind of file to do what to is something I need classes in22:30
escottso this thing is just a zip, and you can unzip it22:34
escottgod i hate stuff like this... there are sooo many problems with what they are shipping, including that it probably won't work on 11.10 and higher22:36
suzannaand then it is supposed to install itself.....did fine and dI have panel shortcut that opens the program....but the shares are still not accessible through file manager22:36
suzannaits funny how hard they work to make open source ugly isn't it22:37
escottit always makes more work for themselves in the long term, because when we dont know what it does we cant fix it22:40
escottthere is a file in that bin (when you unzip it) called pcloudd22:41
escottill bet that does the wakeup stuff22:41
suzannathat actually is the setup for the "cloud" which is just the new way to have access over the internet and share files with your chosen few22:42
suzannaIt gives you an actual "cloud" application....LOL22:42
escottalternately you could just run a local traffic monitoring tool on the machine which has this software installed22:43
suzannaso you can have ubuntu cloud, apple cloud windows cloud, personal cloud.....yikes22:43
escottthat may be the easiest approach22:43
suzannatraffic monitoring?22:43
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suzannaI searched through some of those types of apps....but wasn't sure whatI would want or need or why22:44
escottbut it is definitely wakeonlan related. the pcloudd has numerous references to "keep alive" packets22:44
suzannaso the traffic monitoring would be something to wake the thing up when a "call" comes in?22:45
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escottso i would turn on the machine that works22:46
escottand then install wireshark, and then close everything else network related22:46
escottso no browser, no chat applications etc. so that the only thing running is the application that is trying to talk to the iomega22:46
escottand then start up wireshark22:46
escottyou should be able to see what your computer is sending to the iomega device22:47
escottand the keep alive packet (assuming there is one) will be something repeated every few minutes-seconds22:47
suzannaokay....does it matter whether I'm sending viea the web access or the local access?22:47
suzanna*via22:47
escottso for this you dont want to be using the samba device or using the web access of the iomega device22:48
escottyou dont really want to be interacting with the iomega device22:48
escottyou just want to see what the iomega software sends to the device to make it ready for you to be able to access it with samba22:48
escottdoes that make sense?22:48
suzannaYes I think so.....so not the windows...but hopefully thread here will work....wireshark....wonder if I still have it installed22:49
escottyou could do this from windows and use whatever wireshark there is for windows22:50
escottit doesnt really matter22:50
suzannaIts okay....sounds like a plan.....between cleaning up hosts file and this maybe I will see what I need to do next!22:50
suzannaThank you so very much for your time and brain!22:51
suzannaI'm off to try this out!...22:52
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kristian-aalborgis there a way to get rid of the XP hidden partiotion without DBAN or so?23:33
JackyAlcineo/23:33
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Unit193GParted won't do?23:35
Unit193Also, may need to update drub23:35
JackyAlcineor Disk Manager.23:36
JackyAlcines/drub/grub23:37
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