[Klug-general] Baffled by Kubuntu networking

[Mike Rentell]

Mike Evans wrote:
> An interesting featurette of both Ubuntu and Kbuntu is that the nfs 
> client is not installed by default and must be added through the package 
> manager.  Once you have done that you can access NFS filesystems 
> elsewhere without problems.
> 
> I use Fedora on my main server and Ubuntu on my laptop.  The only 
> tantara around Ubuntu is that they have done some very smart work around 
> hardware detection and they are not quite so stuck up about non-free 
> software.  This means that if you happen to have a graphics or network 
> adapter which requires some firmware for its on-board processor which is 
> not available as source code they don't have a problem supplying it to 
> you.  As a consequence Ubuntu users generally find installation and 
> initial operations a smoother experience than many other disto users. 
> That's about it.
> 
Thanks for that Mike. I recall that Mandriva and PCLinuxOS offer to 
install nfs-utils. But Kubuntu doesn't seem to have it available. So I 
looked for anything beginning nfs and found lots. I've now installed 
what seems to be the basic stuff.

I then thought that I would need some sort of samba thingy for printing 
from virtualbox/windows and was equally baffled by the huge number of 
offerings. I selected what seemed to be valid stuff and a samba icon 
appeared in the start menu but when I click it nothing happens.

Still trying but beginning to lose heart.

mikeR