Request for Tech Support

Bill Moran wmoran at iowna.com
Tue Oct 16 14:12:22 GMT 2001


On Tuesday 16 October 2001 08:40, Juli L. Jacobs wrote:
> I have been working with Windows/DOS all my life and I am totally
> Linux/Unix illiterate. My boss just bought a new Dell server and I am
> trying to configure Linux RedHat 7 on the box. Can one of you geniuses
> please tell me in simple English how to edit the smb.conf from the command
> line. I can't get the swat program (or XFree86 for that matter) to work on
> my machine. I would really appreciate any assistance you can render.
> Thank-you... I will certainly be happy to contribute Pizza money if you
> guys can help me or point me towards any reference material that is written
> in a simple language that I can understand.

There are many text editors available for UN*X.
But almost every UN*X system on earth has vi.  vi is a little difficult for beginners
to work with, but it is managable.  This tutorial is pretty nice:
http://ECN.www.ecn.purdue.edu/ECN/Documents/VI/

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Bill Moran
Potential Technology technical services
(412) 793-4257




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