HI Guys, I have one of these cheap as chips Hisense V-Bridge boxes: m It plays almost anything and you can connect two USB drives to it. I have started MKV ing my DVD's as result of playing with this device. It pulls standard DEF video off our Buffalo NAS (about three + years old) no problem and log...

Ha ha, don't tell your partner I asked you to spend time with a new bit of software! Thanks for the comments, I think I do want to try Open VPN. My wife will be sending some of her personal busniess work through it. PPTP would just give me anxious moments when using public wifi etc. We use FTP occas...

Hi Guys, Having lurched through my VMware setup, I wanted to try out a VPN, like OpenVPN, I found the some details here: m Has anyone tired these out, found any pitfalls? Ideally, all I want to be able to do is to set it up so that my wife (and myself) never has to think about using FTP etc to get t...

@thinmintaddict Thanks for the comments, sorry about the delay in response! Been busy parenting and updating an old Dell laptop to Linux Mint (quite nice, not used it before and the laptop seems to cope). Thanks for the command line info, I think I managed to figure out how to change all the things ...

Hi Guys, A step forward. Following Ian's advice, I went in and re-entered the password for each user, and now I had read access to the folder, I also added the lines to the global config. When I tried to check the permissions on the folder, I did: $ cd home/testuser $ ls -l testfolder and the result...

Hmm, I thought I had. I don't have access right now to check. I thought I found a TAB in the settings to convert users (to UNIX users?)? is this what you mean? I can't remeber exactly, but I though I asked it to auto synchronise the conversion. I am beginning to think this may be the spectacularly s...

Doh! Apologies, so much information and I missed that bit! Essentially I get stuck in a loop of boxes popping up trying to get me to login when accessing the share from Windows in Network Places or from map network drive. On XP & Win7 I can see the server and the share, but not open the "fo...

Hi, First post of a nearly newbie Linux user, so be gentle! Past experience is limited to an Ubuntu Studio install on an old laptop that I am about remove and building a picture frame based on DSL with an old laptop (all from instructions on the web). Sorry about the lengthy post below. So I found t...