Tips For Using The Samba And Remmina rdp Setup, Adding Double Commander to Linux Lite

          Today I am going to briefly reiterate setting up Samba to have administrative access to your Windows 10 home computer from Linux Lite, as I realized I never really completely posted on the subject. Basically follow the Linux Lite help manual exactly, and go ahead and add a share folder, which we can use for later setups, but won’t need for this setup. Make workgroup = Homegroup. *Make sure the administrative account you intend to use on your Windows 10 box is added to homegroup. Make sure to allow network discovery and all file sharing in Windows 10 homegroup in the private network tab.
         
          If you have all that done, (check back through the rdp tutorial for share settings in windows) when you open Thunar for the first time, click the >Browse Network tab on the lower left panel. Do not click the >Windows Network icon. Backspace out the address bar instead, and type in smb:// “the IP address of your Windows 10 computer”, and hit enter. When prompted for the user name and password, backspace out your Linux Lite samba user name, and type in the administrative account user name on your windows 10 computer that you previously added to homegroup. Leave homegroup listed as is and add the password and hit enter. Select >Users from the files that appear, and repeat the same process as above when prompted for user name and password hitting enter again. Open the user name that matches the one you logged in as. All your windows files should be there now. If this doesn’t work review the Windows 10 setup, (check back through the rdp tutorial for share settings in windows).

Installing Double Commander in Linux Lite

          Open Synaptic in Linux Lite >Menu>System>Install and Remove Software. Set to >All in the left menu. Type “double commander” in the search box. Mark the GTK2 double commander package for installation. Agree to mark the dependencies. Click >Apply from the upper menu bar, and double commander will install. Log out and reboot your computer.

          Open Thunar as above loading your Windows files. Close Thunar leaving the Windows drive mounted. Open your Windows 10 remote desktop with Remmina. Open its Double Commander setting the left pane to drive C: and the right pane to drive L:. Now open Double Commander on a second desktop in Linux Lite so you can switch back and forth. Be patient it may take ten seconds or so to load the first time. Set the left hand pane to your home directory, the second symbol to the left of the little arrow in the upper right of the pane “~”. In the right pane click >gvfs. Click the directory entry that appears and reads something like “samba server with your Windows 10 computer’s IP address”, not the Workgroup directory. Your Windows 10 file system will open for navigation. Now switch back to your remote desktop and drag and drop a Linux file into Windows (L: drive to C: drive, right to left pane) from the Linux Lite 3.0 partition that dual boots with Windows 10. Pick a document or png the first time to test. Now switch back to your Linux Lite desktop and drag the same file from Windows 10 (the gvfs pane) into your Linux Lite home directory and open it to test it. With appropriate editors and applications you can now move and work on files from all three systems with ease.

TC   

         

   

Hi again,

I come with one more request for help. I edited the grub and now the pc won't show the grub loader where i could chose the OS. Here are the lines i remember editing ....

I am feeling more confident now in moving away from a Win/LL dual-boot to an LL only PC.  However, I wont ditch Windows OS totally, but will keep it in a virtual machine for some of those things that are still a bit difficult to do in Linux generally.

With the above in mind, I thought I would replace the Win8.1/LL2.8 dual-boot, already installed on one of my 250GB Samsung 850 EVO solid state drives, with LL3.0 only.

Before, installation I made sure the PC was in Legacy/CSM mode and once I was in the LL3.0 live environment (using a DVD) I opened gparted to wipe the drive clean and ensure I had a GPT formatted SSD.

Once that was done I executed LL3.0 installation, allocating 15MB for Bios-grub, 30GB for /, and 50GB for /home.  All went very smoothly, as expected, until I rebooted.  On rebooting, the PC did not boot into LL but instead I got a black screen with the following message in white letters:

Reboot and Select proper Boot device
or Insert Boot Media in selected Boot device and press a key

Following this message, I went into PC Settings and noticed that the line "PO: Samsung SSD 850 EVO 250GB" does not appear in the boot list. Furthermore, there appears to be no option to add this to the boot list.  I don't know what to do next.. I'd be grateful for any help/advice.

Just for the record, I'm using laptop (1) - see signature below.
Many thanks for any help - I'm beginning to pull my hair out with this seemingly intractable problem... :-[

Cheers
Mike

Hi everyone,

I just came across uCareSystem Core, a small software that automates the basic system maintenance.

Considering the absence of an automatic update mechanism in Linux Lite - something I get asked about on a very regular basis - I wanted to share this discovery.

Please note, I have NOT tested it yet!

Hello there,

I recently installed Linux Lite 3.0 on a Dell Latitude D400 and am generally very pleased with the result. The only let-down is the video playback. For example, youtube videos with a quality setting above 360p are jittery. I have seen on the page http://linlap.com/dell_latitude_d400 that the i810 module is recommended as the graphics driver when using Linux with this laptop and I'm guessing this module is not included with Linux Lite.

So far I have tried...

• Looking in the Additional Drivers tab of the Software & Updates utility. There it says:
  Unknown: Unknown
  This device is not working.
  And it gives me two options, one saying Using Processor microcode firmware for Intel CPUs from Intel-microcode (proprietary) and another Do not use this device. Neither option leads to good video playback. There are no options specifically relating to graphics.
  
  
• Running the command sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-video-intel
  (executed successfully but did not help)
  
• Following instructions on Ubuntu help forum https://help.ubuntu.com/community/i810 but could not find the xorg config files mentioned.
  

Tutorial To Access Linux Lite files (ext4) From Windows 10 via rdp With Remmina

          If you’re even a little like me, you probably have dual boot Windows/Linux systems on your home or small office computers, and have several computers, and devices as well. In my case two desktops, two laptops, and two tablets, in addition to a printer, a scanner, two blu ray players, two HDMI plasma TV’s, an X-box when the grandson visits, a broadband modem, two routers, not to mention four cell phones, several cameras including a digital movie camera when my son visits, and home and auto security, inside and out. I was hoping (probably just daydreaming unrealistically) that after the anniversary upgrade the Windows 10 installation on the little woman’s Dell would include the support for mounting ext2,3,4 partitions and enabling Linux file access, a feature that is already present in Windows 10 Enterprise, and Windows 10 on the go, but oh well, apparently not.

          The Windows 10 remote desktop works so flawlessly and conveniently via wifi and Remmina on my Linux Lite 3.0 laptops, that gaining access to the Linux Lite 3.0 partition on the little woman’s Dell and its files from that Windows 10 remote desktop running on my Linux Lite 3.0 laptop would be the icing on the cake for me, at least around my house, and some of my customers office networks. It’s awful nice to be able to fix things, edit things for her, and add things to her computer from my laptop, sitting comfortably in bed watching television. Most of what I do these days anyway (in my so called retirement) involves using my Linux laptops to work remotely inside Windows 10, and occasionally inside Debian, mostly with home or small office private wifi and bluetooth device networks. In any case what we have here is a multiple problem if we are going to solve it Windows user (clicker) style.

          Luckily for us FOSS has long had an evolving solution for extended partitions, called ext2fsd, and it does now work in Windows 10, but with some limitations in the onboard Windows File Explorer, which is a ram hog we don’t really want to deal with on our remote desktop anyway, so before we download and install ext2fsd, we’re going to download and install Double Commander to the Windows 10 OS. It’s free, nice looking, double paned, and easy to work with (clicker friendly) when dealing with files from two different (extended and NTFS) partitions; unless of course you already shelled out the bucks for Total Commander. The rest of the issues are resolved because per our other tutorial, our Windows 10 remote desktop running on our Linux Lite 3.0 laptop has administrative privileges in Windows 10; and all three of the systems, Linux Lite 3.0 on the laptop, Windows 10 and Linux Lite 3.0 each on their own partition on the desktop, have full updated installations of of Libreoffice.

          Okay. Both of the download and installations we are about to do in Windows 10 may warn about signing if you have developer mode enabled like me, or if you have windows store only enabled, which is the default. You can ignore the warnings in this case, but if you want some of these types warnings to stop in the future, just check the Sideload Apps box for trusted sites before downloading, the one in the middle, located at >Windows Start Menu>Settings>Updates and Security>For Developers. Just download from the trusted web sites below and save to downloads, which is also default. Do not net install. You can go ahead and download and save both applications in downloads, but it’s cleaner for the Windows registry to install Double Commander before ext2fsd.

          The link below is the web site for Double Commander. Navigate to the latest safe download for Windows from there. Do not use after market software sites to download and install windows apps, like cnet, softpedia, or alternativeto, because they are quite often not up to date for versions and sometimes, especially with Windows apps, contain spyware, adware, and nuisance activate-ware. After installing Double Commander by clicking the install/execute file you saved to downloads, open Double Commander and check to see if it is working, then close it, and log out and reboot your computer.

http://doublecmd.sourceforge.net/

          The link here below is the web site for extfsd. Navigate to the latest safe download from there. Download ext2fsd and save to downloads.

http://www.ext2fsd.com/

          The link here below is to a tutorial on installing ext2fsd in Windows 7. It is still functionally instructional for Windows 10 because the wizard is essentially the same. Fairly simple, but read below for my prescription on drive letter assignment.

http://www.techgainer.com/how-to-mount-a...er-easily/

          Windows drive letter assignment is fairly flexible these days, but there are certain inflexibilities that can show up in some older BIOS versions even if you are running Windows 10. C: is always the Windows OS. A: is always a legacy drive. B: is normally used by the BIOS. The second internal HDD used to always be D:, but that is not the common case anymore. Nowadays E: F: and sometimes D: are used for CD/DVD first and then USB. G: used to almost always be used for external HDD’s, and G: and Z: were often used for zip drives a few years back. Q: is reserved as a windows virtual drive if it appears. In any case just keep it simple for future changes. Assign the drive letter L to the first Linux OS partition on the disk after Windows leaving space for later changes to the mount manager registry that will not require any overwriting, such as adding a new HDD, SSD, or external drive. Click on the install/execute file for ext2fsd you saved to downloads, and following the tutorial above, install and then assign the drive letter L: to your ext4 partition, the one with Linux Lite 3.0 on it. Exit the ext2fsd GUI, leaving it set to run at startup, and log out and reboot your computer.

          Log in to the Windows 10 computer with the same administrator account you used when you set up your Windows 10 remote desktop in Remmina on your Linux Lite 3.0 laptop. Go sit down on the couch, turn on the TV and fire up your Windows 10 remote desktop on your Linux Lite 3.0 laptop. Then open up Double Commander and select the C: drive in the left pane, and the L: drive in the right pane. Navigation is fairly simple, and you can now drag and drop files from your Linux Lite partition on drive L: over to directories on your Windows 10 partition on drive C:. Once relocated onto drive C: many kinds of Libreoffice files you created on the Linux Lite partition can now be opened in Libreoffice for Windows. From there you can copy and paste them into Libreoffice on your Linux Lite laptop. A user tip: do not save the files into Windows. Just click >edit>select all, then >copy, and then left click paste them into Libreoffice on your Linux Lite laptop.

A Note About Samba, Remmina, and Windows 10 In Linux Lite 3.0

          We enabled Samba a while back and noted a hitch in the manual tutorial regarding having full administrative privileges in the Windows 10 Home Edition, and/or in the click and run Windows 10 Edition. Also, if you have done the anniversary update, your user, homegroup, file sharing, and rdpwrap will all have to be reset/done again in Windows according to the setup we went through previously. Assuming you have successfully done that, it is easy to get to complete administrative file sharing from Windows again, but do not attempt to open the >Windows Network folder in Thunar, as this will attempt to load the wrong directory. We want the file access to the whole windows drive, not just WORKSPACE shares. Because we have set up administrative privileges (see my previous remarks on Samba setup) highlight the >Browse Network bar in Thunar, and then backspace out the command line and enter> i/e  smb://192.168.0.3. , (which must be) the correct IP address of your Windows 10 computer and hit >Enter. When prompted for user name and password, enter the user with administrator privileges you selected the first time we set this up, leave the group as homegroup, enter the password, and navigate from the files that appear to >users, and select that same user, entering the same name and password again when prompted, leaving group as homegroup, and you will have full administrative file access to the whole Windows drive via that user. (note* a drive mount bar with address will appear in Thunar at this point below the >Browse Network bar, and as long as you don’t unmount the drive you can open and close Thunar during your session, and you can switch back and forth from your home directory as well using that bar) You can use Samba and Windows 10 remote desktop via Remmina at the same time, pretty much allowing you access and editing to anything on the Windows 10 box that you have editors for, and now including any file you move from the Linux Lite partition on your Windows box onto the C: drive.

          With this powerful set up, and a little creativity, you will discover that you can solve many many many common device configuration and conflict problems right from your Linux Lite 3.0 laptop without resorting to a terminal. You now have Windows and Linux at your clicker’s beck and call, at the same time.

Good Luck

TC       

         

         
         

         

         














   

Hi, i installed LL 2.8 32 bit on a laptop as i couldn't get LL 3.0 to install, everything is great an runs good as this is an older laptop (Acer Aspire 9300)
The only problem is i'm getting this message on boot up:  VBoxClient: the VirtualBox kernel service is not running. Exiting
I realize this is not causing any problems but i tried everything from this thread and the message still comes up:
https://www.linuxliteos.com/forums/start...g-exiting/
in the advice they said there are 3 vbox files to uninstall in package manager i only found 2 that were checked, i followed all the advice and the messages still pop up on boot up, any help would be appreciated.
Loving linux lite and trying to spread the love on this awesome OS
Thamks,
Tommy

Hi I am new to Linux.  I am trying to find an audio converter - something to convert flac to mp3 and also change bit rates of existing mp3s. I want a graphical interface and not a script. I have looked in the Synaptic Package Manager and soundconverter seems suitable - but it says it's a gnome application.  Will it run on Linux Lite? That has confused me as I have standard linux lite 2.8 which I rightly or wrongly assume has no Gnome desktop.  The similar named soundkonverter says it's a frontend for KDE which again I'm confused about.

On setups (1) & (3) in my signature below,  I replaced the HDD drives for Samsung 850 EVO SSDs some time ago.
On setup (2) I have a Crucial BX100 SSD, and have used this for comparison.

Observation - Samsung SSDs seem to overheat:
The first thing I noticed, following HDD replacement with the Samsung SSDs (250GB & 1TB), is that these SSDs run very hot, to the extent that it feels uncomfortable working with a laptop on my lap.  In contrast, the Crucial SSD gives out hardly any heat at all, the laptop chassis feeling very cool, and there are no LL booting issues [though setup (2) is an LL-only laptop].  This 'overheating' effect, in both setups (1) and (3), with the Samsung SSDs, struck me as being very odd.

LL hanging at bootup with Win8.1/LL2.8 (either with or without UEFI installed)
Second, I had a regular issue with LL hanging indefinitely at boot up in setup (1) using a Samsung SSD, though rectified this each time the problem arose, using the unsatisfactory workaround described in Section F of https://www.linuxliteos.com/forums/tutor...y-enabled/

Originally, I had a Win8.1/LL2 with UEFI on setup (1), and at first I thought the 'hanging issue' might be due to some sort of UEFI bug.  To check this, I reinstalled the dual-boot setup, but this time without UEFI, i.e. installed on an MBR rather than a GPT formatted SSD.  However, the LL- hanging problem still persisted. Indeed, the problem only appeared to go away when I went back to using an HDD disk.  Setup (3) has never displayed any booting issues and works reliably.

Obviously, I want to return to using the Samsung SSDs in setup (1), given  their significant edge over HDDs in speed of operation together with their high cost I've invested in them...

Any advice or comments on either of the above warmly welcomed.
Many thanks in advance for any help.

Regards
Mike

Source - http://www.linuxandubuntu.com/home/8-bes...inux-users