openBSD n00b problems

first my gretings to all of you.
now my problems.

i have yesterday installed as test openBSD 3.7 on my compaq presario 1260
laptop.
this has 192MB ram, 4.3GB harddrive , and a pcmcia dynalink NIC for
comunication to the world.

i installed openBSD via a floppy install, what went wel (after some hours of
retry and not correct reading the faq)

installing MC was the first thing i did, what went ok.

that i installed the samba port.
installing went ok but smb refuse to run.

this is my currently heavely stript smb.conf
#======================= Global Settings =====================================
[global]

workgroup = LINUX
netbios name = openBSD
server string = Samba openBSD Server %v
hosts allow = 192.168.0. 127.0.0.1
guest account = root
guest ok = yes
log file = /var/log/smbd.%m
log level = 1
security = share
socket options = TCP_NODELAY IPTOS_LOWDELAY
local master = no
domain master = no
dns proxy = no
load printers = no
#============================ Share Definitions ==============================
[root]
comment = Root access
browseable = yes
writable = yes
read only = no
path = /


why so simple??
i only want to use firefox and thunderbird on it, and some irc aplications
no more, no less :)

testparm say all is ok.


but it seems that samba whatever i do refuse to start.
ok, still dont know how to start aps from console, therefor ,i am a n00b.

i have more trubs, but i want samba to get run first,

can anyone help me with this??

[color=blue]
> but it seems that samba whatever i do refuse to start.
> ok, still dont know how to start aps from console, therefor ,i am a n00b.[/color]

what is 'whatever I do'? Did you '/usr/local/libexec/smbd -D' and what did
it yield? How about 'ps ax | grep smb'?

On Fri, 29 Jul 2005 22:34:32 +0000, Dorian Büttner <dorian.buettner@gmx.de>
wrote:
[color=blue]
>[color=green]
>> but it seems that samba whatever i do refuse to start.
>> ok, still dont know how to start aps from console, therefor ,i am a n00b.[/color]
>
>what is 'whatever I do'? Did you '/usr/local/libexec/smbd -D' and what did
>it yield? How about 'ps ax | grep smb'?[/color]


[w00ps]
as i sayd
n00b.
yups its working

i have installed X here to, for firefox, but it seems that the firefox package
from mozilla not seems to work, and the packag from openBSD is a 1.0.1
version.
however, with i dont have any experiance,

TY for the help, SMB is as it should be, running.

[email]abuse@microsoft.com[/email] wrote:[color=blue]
> i have installed X here to, for firefox, but it seems that the
> firefox package from mozilla not seems to work, and the packag from
> openBSD is a 1.0.1 version.[/color]

This is the way of OpenBSD. When a release hits the shelves, all ports are
frozen to the version available at the time of release. When a security fix
is required it is backported into the release version of the port, rather
than upgrading the port to the current version.

If you want to get the latest versions of programs from ports you might be
more happy with FreeBSD.

On Sat, 30 Jul 2005 11:08:30 +0200, "André Gulliksen"
<andre.gulliksen@start.no> wrote:
[color=blue]
>abuse@microsoft.com wrote:[color=green]
>> i have installed X here to, for firefox, but it seems that the
>> firefox package from mozilla not seems to work, and the packag from
>> openBSD is a 1.0.1 version.[/color]
>
>This is the way of OpenBSD. When a release hits the shelves, all ports are
>frozen to the version available at the time of release. When a security fix
>is required it is backported into the release version of the port, rather
>than upgrading the port to the current version.
>
>If you want to get the latest versions of programs from ports you might be
>more happy with FreeBSD.
>[/color]


ah.
oh well, that is for later, i have to get X working as it should be.
and firefox in to X..
i dunno how to add aps in the shell for X, therefor the question.

On 2005-07-30, [email]abuse@microsoft.com[/email] <abuse@microsoft.com> wrote:
[color=blue]
> oh well, that is for later, i have to get X working as it should be.
> and firefox in to X..
> i dunno how to add aps in the shell for X, therefor the question.[/color]

Get x up by running xorgconfig. Make sure you have all the specs for
your video card and your monitor. Then install something like
fluxbox, a window manager, and then install firefox. Read the
"Getting Packages" at this link:

[url]http://www.openbsd.org/ports.html[/url]

.....and use the example commands given to load and install apps. Make
sure you change the release (3.7) and the package (gimp).

nb

On Sat, 30 Jul 2005 10:41:37 -0500, notbob <notbob@nothome.com> wrote:
[color=blue]
>On 2005-07-30, [email]abuse@microsoft.com[/email] <abuse@microsoft.com> wrote:
>[color=green]
>> oh well, that is for later, i have to get X working as it should be.
>> and firefox in to X..
>> i dunno how to add aps in the shell for X, therefor the question.[/color]
>
>Get x up by running xorgconfig. Make sure you have all the specs for
>your video card and your monitor. Then install something like
>fluxbox, a window manager, and then install firefox. Read the
>"Getting Packages" at this link:
>
>[url]http://www.openbsd.org/ports.html[/url]
>
>....and use the example commands given to load and install apps. Make
>sure you change the release (3.7) and the package (gimp).
>
>nb
>[/color]


i was thinking of gnome, but i dont know what package i need to install
first..
there are 2 package in 25MB at the openBSD package dir..

On 07/29/05 8:43 PM, [email]abuse@microsoft.com[/email] wrote:
[color=blue]
> i have installed X here to, for firefox, but it seems that the firefox package
> from mozilla not seems to work, and the packag from openBSD is a 1.0.1
> version.[/color]

There's an updated package for 1.0.4 available from the FTP site
([url]ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/3.7/packages/i386/mozilla-firefox-1.0.4.tgz[/url]).
It's also in the stable ports tree for 3.7 (3.8-current has 1.0.6, but
it hasn't been backported).

--
Chris "Bob" Odorjan - [email]bobnet@canada.com[/email]
BobNET - [url]http://www.execulink.com/~bobnet/[/url]

On Sat, 30 Jul 2005 12:16:06 -0400, Chris 'Bob' Odorjan <bobnet@canada.com>
wrote:
[color=blue]
>On 07/29/05 8:43 PM, [email]abuse@microsoft.com[/email] wrote:
>[color=green]
>> i have installed X here to, for firefox, but it seems that the firefox package
>> from mozilla not seems to work, and the packag from openBSD is a 1.0.1
>> version.[/color]
>
>There's an updated package for 1.0.4 available from the FTP site
>([url]ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/3.7/packages/i386/mozilla-firefox-1.0.4.tgz[/url]).
>It's also in the stable ports tree for 3.7 (3.8-current has 1.0.6, but
>it hasn't been backported).[/color]

yup.
i saw it.
but how about gnome ?
do i need to install all 25 programs ,or what do i need primary??

On 08/01/05 3:06 PM, [email]abuse@microsoft.com[/email] wrote:
[color=blue]
> but how about gnome ?
> do i need to install all 25 programs ,or what do i need primary??[/color]

pkg_add will handle the dependencies, so installing gnome-session ought
to be enough to get everything (I'm not sure, though, since I don't use
Gnome):

[url]http://openbsdsupport.org/gnome-GDM.html[/url]

--
Chris "Bob" Odorjan - [email]bobnet@canada.com[/email]
BobNET - [url]http://www.execulink.com/~bobnet/[/url]

On Mon, 01 Aug 2005 22:40:34 -0400, Chris 'Bob' Odorjan <bobnet@canada.com>
wrote:
[color=blue]
>On 08/01/05 3:06 PM, [email]abuse@microsoft.com[/email] wrote:
>[color=green]
>> but how about gnome ?
>> do i need to install all 25 programs ,or what do i need primary??[/color]
>
>pkg_add will handle the dependencies, so installing gnome-session ought
>to be enough to get everything (I'm not sure, though, since I don't use
>Gnome):
>
>[url]http://openbsdsupport.org/gnome-GDM.html[/url][/color]


Thank you !!!!

Well
Xfce is installed, only intergration is a bit less..
seems that i must create a startxfce ,dont ask me how

On Sun, 11 Sep 2005 16:12:32 +0200, abus wrote:
[color=blue]
> Well
> Xfce is installed, only intergration is a bit less..
> seems that i must create a startxfce ,dont ask me how[/color]

Create a file in your home directory named .xinitrc with content

exec startxfce4

Now, presuming that you have X configured, execute at your shell prompt

% startx