If it's not open it's broken.
Anyone using the GNOME desktop environment with their Linux distribution will probably be using Nautilus as a file manager as well. Among other handy features — like tabbed windows, for example — Nautilus has support for mounting Samba shares (like my NAS) built-in.
As I’ve chosen the more lightweight Xfce for my netbook the default file manager isn’t Nautilus but Thunar — a very capable app in its own right, but without any Samba support…
I’m pretty sure I know the answer to this, but I don’t like it one bit.
So far the one big hiccup in my move to OpenSUSE has been with the Samba networking protocol. Though my NAS is plainly visible on my local network and all files held therein are easily accessible, for some reason I can’t stream video from it…
It’s been a week since I took my QNAP NAS out of the box and powered it up. Things weren’t going well at first, but I’m happy to report that the PEBKAC issue has been addressed.
So let’s take a a visual tour of the TS-410′s web interface…
For someone new to Linux this is pretty much a nightmare scenario, where a company selling a product I want makes all kinds of assumptions about the skill level of the user, while their own representatives aren’t trained to the same standard. And I realize there’s a language barrier here, but I think the lack of Linux knowledge came through loud and clear, on both ends…
I bought my first storage array in 2004, a LaCie 1TB “Bigger Disk Extreme” that failed almost exactly a year later — mere days after its warranty expired, to be exact. Unbeknownst to me, this bigger disk was actually four 250GB hard drives strung together. One of them went down, and brought down the whole thing with it.
I’m really hoping that history doesn’t repeat itself here…
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