[ale] SuSE Linux successfully installed...now What?

[Larry Grenevitch]

On Wednesday 08 October 2003 12:13 pm, Michael Hartman wrote:

In the Kmail configuration under Network / Receiving.  Click on Modify and you 
will have a check box that says Delete Mail From Server.  If this is checked 
when the email is pulled down it will be deleted from the server; otherwise, 
it will be left out there.

SuSE linux provides LinNeighborhood which allows you to do Samba client 
browsing.  Install it from the SuSE CDs and make sure you have loaded any 
dependent programs using Yast2.  Then just share a directory on your Windows 
PC and use LinNeighborhood to browse to the machine.  You may have to use 
your windows machine's login and password to "scan as" and you should see 
your share.  Double click on the share and then click on the use root 
password to mount.  And you should be all set.  Once mounted it is just 
another subdirectory.  I personally have it called "mnt" in my home 
directory.

> All,
> I wrote a while ago that I was making the conversion on an old Dell laptop.
>  I finally got through some bumps in the road (stupid stuff like getting to
> the screen to change boot sequence so it would read the cd-rom first,
> having a CD-rom player that's going bad, etc).  Thanks to everyone's advice
> the first time aorund ("Trying to make the switch to Linux")
>
> Now I'm at a cross roads.  This computer is used by my wife primarily for
> email and spreadsheet functions.  I've got comcast for email.  I thought I
> had everything configured right, but I guess not.  One of the cool things
> of Outlook Express is that it leeches whatever's on the email network
> server, even if read by another program first.  Is this not the case with
> Kmail?  The Eudora I had running on my wife's laptop prior to conversion
> had the same limitation.  Bottom line is I need to get all of the
> historical email over to KMail and ensure that it works on a day to day
> basis.
>
> The other issue is getting all of her files that I've got on my laptop over
> to hers.  Is there a way to network oure computers together.  I've got a
> wireless home network working that my Linux laptop is using now too.  In
> the past I could go from computer to computer via mapping drives, etc in MS
> land.  How do I do this in Linux-ville?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Michael