Hi evtooms, I'm not sure if this will help you, but I had a similar issue: A new Ethernet card blocked my puppy (5.2.0). The old WLAN card worked great, but the LAN card seemed to have a problem. :twisted: I changed the IRQ for the PCI card (in a thinkpad laptop BIOS). So if you could post your hard...

Hi marco 07 I'm not quite sure if I understood your problem, but this thread enabled me to get Samba running: http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=459206#459206 Note that there are two ways to run a samba server, another one is Samba-TNG, a lightweight samba server: http://www.murga-linux.co...

Well, I guess I found a way to access my drive now. After I tried the variations of gcmartin and shinobar, with no success I came up with the following solution : # Security mode. security = share null passwords = Yes guest account = spot [schmakmu] path = /mnt/sdb1 force user = root read only = no ...

Shinobar, thanx for your time to help. The shared storage should be both readable and writable by the user. As for the Windows partitions(ntfs/vfat), it should be mounted with the owner is the user. It is readable/writable, when looking at the flags. I'm using your script for mounting- so when puppy...

First of all I would like to thank you for this great guide. With it I could set up Samba 3.5.5 with shinobars and gcmartins explanations without much fuzz! But one thing I couldn't figure out (I'm using Puppy 5.1.1): A mounted NTFS USB drive (sdb1) cannot be accessed by either an Ubuntu (Lucid) or ...

It seems that some parts of puppy are not as easy to administer as in other OS. BUT - Puppy is the first small Linux I encountered, where almost everything works out of the box. Therefore its a tradeof of elegant GUI Handling and the size of a distribution. As a newbie to Puppy I spend quite some ti...