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Short answer: Edit the lmhost file.

Long answer : http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/51 ... 34239.html

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Reaching bubba by name uses NetBIOS name service. Check if you have a firewall that blocks netbios calls. UDP Port 137 is the NetBIOS name service.

/Per

You drive is not present in the hddtemp database. You find this file in /etc/hddtemp.db. You should add a line repesenting you drive, look at the present entries and in hddtemp man page.

A typical entry is like this:

"ST3500630A" 194 C "Seagate ST3500630A 500GB"

You should have a entry for ...

That would be a good idea. I usually end up collecting bits and pieaces and save it in a file for myself (and forgets where I got it from, sorry jucier ... )

A note on the locale info. If you set LANG enviorment variable as described above, all locale issues will be handled. If you only want file ...

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Bubba uses debian sarge witch uses ISO-8859-1. New distribution like ubuntu or debian etch uses UTF-8 by default. Windows also uses UTF-8.

So what to do to handle international characters? You basically have two options:

1) Change debian sarge to use UTF-8. I guess that it could be done, but ...

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From ths ssh man pages:

LOCAL Matches any host whose name does not contain a dot character.

So check the host name of you computer and make sure that it doesn't contain a dot char.

/Per

Fix so that international char are correctly displayed with file names:

International characters, e.g. åäö, appear as garbage when you copy files to bubba
from windows and then list with SSH. In order for bubba/samba to hadle international
characters changes /etc/samba/smb.conf:

Under [global ...

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You probably already have smartd running after the install. Check:

ps -e | grep smartd

If it isen't started use

/etc/init.d/smartmontools start

Check that /etc/default/smartmontools specify that smartd should start. If it is smartd will start after reboot.

Configuration of smartd you ...

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Check that you have the correct source list:

deb http://ftp.se.debian.org/debian/ sarge main
deb http://security.debian.org/ sarge/updates main
deb http://ftp.se.debian.org/debian/ sarge non-free


Bubba is built on sarge so you can't use debian default.

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Use apt-get and dependencies will be resolved:

apt-get install smartmontools

/Per

Thanks for the information.

Let's hope that this temperature won't reduce the lifespan of the disk.

Anyway, to ease my mind, I install smartmontools to keep an eye on the disk for me.

/Per

Hi!

I have measured the hd temperature using hddtemp utility and it seems to be rather high (almost 50C).

Is this a concern? It is lower that segates max temp (60C) but it may reduce the hd life span.

/Per