Hello SlackHack, your name indicate that you like Slackware. I have downloaded and burnt the CDs for Slackware 10.2. Tried installing it but couldn't get anything to work, not even X or network! Why is it so different from othere? Where can I get a good admin guide for Slackware 10.2? Is it worth replacing my Ubuntu with Slack? What would u suggest?

ACtully, im running suse 10.1 with gnome desktop

okay, type in the console.
There are many other ways to do this. "Run" is available in Gnome too.

Thanks for the help. I think I have it working now. Im not able to mount it to nautilus but Im also not at work anymore so im assumning thats why.

Just a little background on me. I recently had been carrying a powberbook G4 and and HP laptop. Well, I got a Macbook pro with the intel processor so I was then able to run windows XP on it. I was getting ready to ditch the HP laptop but decided to give linux a try to see if it would be worth keeping around.

I have to admit. So far i'm not to impressed. Networking seems VASTLY more difficut then in OS 10 and even windows for that matter. The thing I like most about OS X is all you have to do is plug it in. Once you do that you can browse every avaiable network resource. No setting anything up. No mounting. No nothing. Plug it in and you can access it. After the fiasco I had with trying to access a single share I think my linux adventure is pretty much over. But regardless, I appericate all the help.

Well I appreciate that u tried linux. I have used Windows 3.1, 95, 98, NT4, 2000, ME, XP, 2003 Server, LongHorn, (will try Vista soon).
And I have used Radhat Linux 6.2, 7.3, Fedora Core1, Debian 3.1r1, Kubuntu 5.10, SuSE 9.1, Knoppix, SimplyMEPIS, Mandrake 10.1, etc.
Now I am using Ubuntu 5.10 at home and Windows XP SP2 at office. It's true that Windows is user friendly but, that's also true if u learn Linux well, u would find Linux to be more friendlier and configurable than windows. But, u need to be a digger if u wish to use linux. That's the way it is.

I will definetly admit that linux is a much more customizable system and probably overall more powerfull. I just dont think I can bring myself to give up the ability to go on to any netwrok and seamlessly browse any resource on it. Its just a HUGE time saver.

Yes, u r right. For regular PC users, windows is the best choice. I like it too.

i would always recommend switching to slack, it's just a great distro. you can find documentation in the slack book http://www.slackbook.org/ . you seem to know what you're doing, so maybe you just had some bad luck with your hardware. give it another try, and ask questions on the forum if you run into any problems again.

seamlessly browse the resources on any network? i'd love to have that capability myself.

I like this line. So, maybe u would see me on Slackware this Saturday. Thanks.

Get Mac OS 10.4 As far as im concerned its the end all be all of "easy" operating system and i hate macs lol

i guess you missed the joke.

Aye, I did. Sorry. Had to have a few drinks when I got home to recover from my drive mapping adventrue Brain isnt functioning at full.

that's okay, it was a pretty lame one.

What if you do all that and you get the error "Could not resolve mount point /mnd/o"? I was trying to mount a network drive to "o"... Any ideas?