I am new to opensuse. I just preformed an installation of opensuse 10.3 onto a Acer Aspire 4520. I am trying to see the Windows shares on my office network and have been unable so far. After entering YaST and opening the firewall for the Samba Server I wanted to restart the machine to allow changes to take effect. When I go to the shutdown options they are all grayed out. I uninstaller opensuse 11 thinking it was corrupt for this same reason. Please help.
I had a similar problem last year, but I don’t remember how I solved it.
Most probably I typed “reboot” in the console as a root user.
Your system should reboot and you should be able to access the Windows network.
There’s nothing wrong with Opensuse, you only have to learn to experiment with it better !!!
> After entering YaST and opening the firewall for the Samba Server I
> wanted to restart the machine to allow changes to take effect.
first, this is not Windows™ so you will find that we don’t have to
shut down and reboot nearly as often…in the YaST firewall section you
just make the changes and then click to start the firewall…
> When I go to the shutdown options they are all grayed out. I
> uninstaller opensuse 11 thinking it was corrupt for this same reason.
> Please help.
also, we don’t usually need to jump to reinstall as the first thing we
do when we run into a problem…well, sometimes that is the best way to
remove all the crud one might mess up wandering around trying this and
that to do what needs to be done…but, if you take your time and
things one at a time you can usually avoid a uninstall and reinstall…
having said that…was YaST open when you tried to logout and shutdown?
as a general rule i usually shut down all open programs prior to log out
and shut down…
hmmmm, i can’t help you in making contact with a Windows™
network…sorry, having none to connect to i’ve never tried it…but,
i’m pretty sure there is a how-to somewhere on the SuSE site…
oh, are you using KDE or gnome?
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DenverD (Linux Counter 282315)
A Texan in Denmark
Hi.
Connection to windows shares is not so difficult. I’m a KDE user, so I use Konqueror where I can access windows shares directly by typing:
smb://ip-of-server
You will get a list of shares with
remote:/
Should work with gnome, too. And you only need to open the firewall port if you want run a samba server on your machine, i.e. if you want to share some directories on your notebook.
Shutdown problem: Once in a while this happened to me on openSUSE 10.3, mostly after X crashed. So, I just logged off and turned off the computer in the login screen. The buttons reappeared on next boot.
Thank you all for your quick response. I am using GNOME, that is what I have gotten used to using Ubuntu and Linux Mint. I am relatively new to Linux, I have been using Linux Mint four about 4 month now. I made the switch to openSUSE as a necessity since the to have the same version as on of the companies whose software I am using for my dental practice.
So far, I must admit, my experience has been a mixed bag. On the one hand I was able to install MONO and have my dental software running in no time. On the other hand I have had a lot of problems finding answers to my questions outside the forum with my network problem. I need to access the windows network to have access to my mySQL database and the associated share to save X-ray files to. I will continue to search for answers.
As far as the shutdown options being grayed out. I did exit all programs before and after attempting the shutdown window at the main “start” menu, it did no seem to have an effect on the grayed out options.
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Try going into Yast: Security and Users: Local Security
In SLED 10, at least, there is an option in there to prevent anybody
from ‘root’ performing a reboot.
Good luck.
athomepapa wrote:
| Thank you all for your quick response. I am using GNOME, that is what I
| have gotten used to using Ubuntu and Linux Mint. I am relatively new to
| Linux, I have been using Linux Mint four about 4 month now. I made the
| switch to openSUSE as a necessity since the to have the same version as
| on of the companies whose software I am using for my dental practice.
| So far, I must admit, my experience has been a mixed bag. On the one
| hand I was able to install MONO and have my dental software running in
| no time. On the other hand I have had a lot of problems finding answers
| to my questions outside the forum with my network problem. I need to
| access the windows network to have access to my mySQL database and the
| associated share to save X-ray files to. I will continue to search for
| answers.
| As far as the shutdown options being grayed out. I did exit all
| programs before and after attempting the shutdown window at the main
| “start” menu, it did no seem to have an effect on the grayed out
| options.
|
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i’m fresh out of help (over my head)…
so let me suggest you join the network-internet forum, read the thread
subjects and see if maybe the answer to your connect to shares hurdle is
already there…OR post a new network question there
and, follow ab’s (in his answer dated 7/7/08) trail to make sure
non-root users are allowed to shut down your machine…
and, maybe you can get back to torturing patients
and, when you get through these initial start up pains you will soon see
(i think) why it is good to use linux when stability, predictability and
security might have an impact greater than just your score in a game
(maybe even affect your income)…
have fun…
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DenverD (Linux Counter 282315)
A Texan in Denmark
Hi & welcome to the forums 
You say you have found answers outside the forum… but have you also tried your luck here? Good chance you will get good direction in how to sort it out 
As far as the shutdown options being grayed out. I did exit all programs before and after attempting the shutdown window at the main “start” menu, it did no seem to have an effect on the grayed out options.
You could check if the security setting is what is bugging >
Open YaST > Local security - select custom settings > click next on the first screen (password settings) without changing any settings , the second screen holds the Boot Settings, check what is listed under ‘Shutdown behavior of Login Manager’ - this should be set to ‘Automatic’ or ‘Users’.
As far as I know GNOME looks at these settings to determine that you, as user, are allowed to do a system shutdown from the menu.
Click Netx (3x) and Finish to apply the setting. You might need to logout/login for the setting to take effect.
(edit: this setting can also be found in /etc/sysconfig/displaymanager - look for DISPLAYMANAGER_SHUTDOWN= )
Hope that helps!
As far for browsing to your Windows share, -supertimorplusfort mentioned it already for KDE - GNOME does the same thing;
in Nautilus hit <CTRL>+<L> to get you location bar. Just enter ’ smb://<ip or name server>/<sharename>’ or ’ smb://<ip or name server>/C$ ’ for the administrative share.
In openSUSE 11.0 (GNOME) you also get a mount point in Nautilus and on the desktop that ’ sticks’ until you dismount it.
Cheers,
Wj