now that apple-communications are all lovely (thanks to ethan and his quickie fix) i though samba would be a breeze.
silly me. after 24 hours, my uptime was OVER FIVE, and tcpd was consuming 98% of cpu time (according to 'top').. 9869 ? R 0:01 \_ tcpd /usr/sbin/nmbd -a 8493 ? R 539:49 \_ tcpd /usr/sbin/smbd 9205 ? R 119:45 \_ tcpd /usr/sbin/smbd 9276 ? R 106:22 \_ tcpd /usr/sbin/smbd aside from not knowing where to go to tell windows 98 that there's a mountable volume Out There on the network neighborhood, how can i reinstall samba on my debian machine and tame it so it leaves me some cpu cycles to work with? i know there are documents -- like the library of congress contains books. please point, i'll go. -- DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #29 from Will Trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : Console GIBBERISH? Suddenly you're seeing Russian or Korean or box-like text no your console or xterm (or rxvt) -- probably after viewing a binary file, right? :) Enter "reset" at the command line, or try embedding a control-O (letter oh) into your command-line prompt string: export PS1='[EMAIL PROTECTED]: \w$ ' Also see http://newbieDoc.sourceForge.net/ ...