Can't save file to samba share

This topic has gotten so deep (out of topic) that not even the late Jacques Cousteau can drag it back to sunlight!
I do not remember the exact time when i started using NIX, but i do remember when i decided to wash my hands off of windoze for good, when i got my dirty little mints ( they are quite big actually ) on a beta version of vista code named Longhorn, and rightfully so as it took over 15 minutes too boot and it was still loading stuff into memory after half an hour. So it was my horns that were getting longer and after a bout an hour of messing with it, installed W2K. I also recall when win98 came out, installed it on my PC a Pentium 1 and went on to install the CD drivers, rebooted, was greeted with the infamous BSOD, had to reinstall and forgo the use of Cd till 98SE came out.
Then there was winME..................................... Even Chernobyl had less casualties than ME !
Oh i did start to use NIX every day from when Knoppix got out, that i do remember as i had it on my laptop for a long time, but i did use BSD even before that, i think.

Bats wrote: Hardware without actively maintained driver support is always going to be a nightmare on any platform... I've got a laser printer that requires an XP print server because no one bothered to provide drivers for later versions of Windows or linux. Win7 was actually the first (and, from the looks of things, the last - 8 was iffy, and I don't do Software As A Service) MS OS that I found functional enough to use almost exclusively.

A Chromebook isn't really a fair comparison though, as it doesn't have to support the vast range of hardware and peripherals (and software, for that matter) that a full PC does. Also, call me old fashioned, call me paranoid, or call me an old fashioned paranoiac sipping an old fashioned while listening to Black Sabbath's Paranoid, but I've never been comfortable just trusting everything to The Cloud (or to Big Google) in the way Chromebooks like to... although I did very nearly throw my [strike]wallet[/strike] ideals to the wind and buy a Pixel Book a few months back anyhow.


-Bats

If its a laser printer of that vintage, it most likely support postscript. Postscript does not need drivers, just the PPD file.. But MS wants you to install the PPD via a driver and now builds its own corrupted PPD for it... If you have the PPD Linux will support it. The PPD is just a text file that describes the machine specific parts (eg number of paper trays, duplex etc).

I like the Pixel phone ( I'm on my second) but they don't sell the pixelbook in my country. The Asus C434T I am writing on this is my third Chromebook and is a fantastic laptop. I run my business from the Cloud and Google Drive. I work from about 5 different devices any given day and its all so seamless. All my printers are networked so I never need to install a driver. The Lam one was the first for about 7 years... Heck even my printing from my AWS based accounting on a Linux instance is now cloud based via CUPS, a print server on AWS and a small dongle on my network... a system of my design And its 100% OS agnostic just like me.

tommylight wrote: This topic has gotten so deep (out of topic) that not even the late Jacques Cousteau can drag it back to sunlight!

Funny you should mention that... I thought I saw ol' Jacques about 18k leagues up.

Still, I wouldn't worry too much. We should be fine as long as a moderator doesn't notic... err... oh, HI THERE, MR. MODERATOR SIR! :whistle:

As far as "firsts", I started using Slackware after getting disgusted with the bloat & slowdown of MS DOS 5.x. I think I even saw one of the 100+ floppy install sets floating around in a box a couple years back (extra fun to download when 14.4kbps was still a far-off dream, and the hard drive only had enough spare room for a couple disks at a time). I spent a number of years working on Redhat servers (before any of this "RHEL", "Fedora", etc nonsense) & playing on free/net/openBSD, with the occasional lapse into Windows dual-booting for games & Photoshop (pre-1.0 GIMP was a taste I never acquired. kinda like brussels sprouts. or raw octopus, but without the nifty popping from the suckers). It wasn't until XP, though, that I started regularly using Windows again, and it was only with the release (well, beta) of 7 that I pretty much dropped my (Ubuntu, by then) linux partitions.

And we don't really need to talk about ME. "Yes, it'll break your machine. No, you can't uninstall it afterwards." *shudder* I was operating well outside the MS sphere at that point, but that didn't save me from doing tech support for people who hadn't listened when I [strike]said [/strike]screamed "Run away! RUN AWAY!"

Meanwhile, back on the nominal topic...

Since we last left our heroes, I've made exactly zero progress on the os.rename() issue, beyond the fact that it does seem to be an issue with os.rename()... except when it doesn't. At this point, save for a miracle, someone else discovering a fix, or someone else miraculously discovering a miracle fix, I think I'm going to be stuck sticking to vi in a terminal, or trying to make the jump to PathPilot (and hoping it doesn't suffer similar problems). Frustrating, to say the least, after going through this much trouble getting gmoccapy to bend (more or less) to my will.


-Bats
(In other news, it took me less than ten minutes to - seemingly irreparably - break a limit switch on the virtual PathPilot . Off to a great start. Go Me!)

rodw wrote: If its a laser printer of that vintage, it most likely support postscript. Postscript does not need drivers, just the PPD file..

I think it's of late-XP vintage - Canon just couldn't be bothered to release new 7 drivers when then could just force everyone to buy brand new printers. Either way, it didn't seem to support postscript - otherwise I'd probably have come to some sort of an arrangement with Ghostscript. Instead I had to set it up with the proper printer profile on an XP box to talk to the printer itself, and a similar-but-not-actually-right profile on 7 to talk to the profile being shared from the XP box. Horribly hacky all around, and I never did manage to get the cartridge working (or the scanner, but I think that's a hardware issue), but not bad for something pulled out of the trash (this has been something of a lifelong theme when it comes to me & electronics).

I like the Pixel phone ( I'm on my second) but they don't sell the pixelbook in my country.

I fundamentally don't like/don't trust Google (anymore. once upon a time I loved them), but I'm in the process of searching for my second (third?) Pixel phone anyhow. I love that camera way too much to let go, despite having the speaker blow out, and then the battery go crazy with random shutdowns. The replacement I just tried to buy had exactly the same battery problem, so now I'm trying to shop for yet another. Just waiting to see whether it's a 1, 2, or 3 that turns up with the most attractive deal first.

Instead of the pixelbook , I eventually ended up with a Galaxy Tab S6, which I adored... right up until an update overhauled the handwriting handler for the [strike]horrid[/strike] worse. It's still a nice tablet, but not nearly so great for notes anymore.


-Bats