Hi
I am after help with mapping a drive at a university please.  VPN connection has been established however the instructions to map the drive are for Windows, using 'NET USE' command.

The instructions that we have been given are:

Access to SHFC Department Folders (The N Drive)
1. Press the windows start button (located bottom left).
2. Select the Run command, a dialogue box will open entitled “Run”.
3. Type the following :
NET USE N: \\nfc456gh\squid$
4. Press the enter button.
5. A window will open asking for your username (use the username and
password you use for accessing email or outweb), type the following:
Enterprise\your username
Example : enter\addv606
6. You will now be prompted for a password; enter your current password.
7. The N Drive will now be mapped.
domain = aavpn.london.ac.uk

The terminal command I have been messing about with, based on these instructions is:
sudo mount.cifs //aavpn.london.ac.uk/nfc456ghi/squid$ ~/drive-N -o username=enter\addv606,password=orange

The error I get is:
mount error(115):  Operation now in progress. Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs)

What on gods earth am I doing wrong.  Help will be hugely appreciated.
Spillen

There is a new feature in LL 2.4: Whiskermenu pops up when you hit the left Windows key (Super key). It can not be turned off neither from Keyboard nor from Window Manager settings and to get rid of it you need to dig deep into Xfce configuration files, as described in this thread:

https://www.linuxliteos.com/forums/insta...p/msg13735

Personally, I find this new feature rather annoying. If anyone wants to start the Whiskermenu with the Super key alone then it can be easily done using the standard Keyboard settings with the command:

Hello every one I am Joe, I am new to using linuxlite but not to linux I have been using linux mint for the last year or so. Ubuntu prior to that. I am still not very good at running linux but love to explore new linux OS that I have not tried yet.  I hope that I will be able to share some that  I have picked up along the way but have found this site very helpful and insightful.

On the HP DC7700  Desktop intel 82q963/q965 Vid Card-( spec in profile below) I lose control of the pointer whilst/after viewing Youtube videos. The Mouse "ghosts" so I can activate areas/controls but the actual visible pointer stays locked in place. i.e I have to guess where the pointer actually is and watch for change in activation point when "ghost" is over it. - I hope that this makes sense.  Only way to overcome this is to reboot.  Full mouse control is then returned.  This appears to happen no matter which browser I use.  Running 32 bit LL 2.4 ( and same previously on LL2.0 32 bit). Mouse is HP PS/2 plugin as supplied with desktop.

I have not had this problem, so far, when viewing standard web pages , I player etc,

Very annoying.

BTW this does not happen on the two laptops listed in my profile below.

Any ideas welcomed.  Thanks

I want to restore the following two settings as they were originally in v2.2:

- un-link Super key from the Menu (I always assign Ctrl+Esc to open the Menu and use Super key for all kinds of other shortcuts)
- restore original Terminal theme

I know that the backup files:

Hi
Great distro- congratulations and thanks to the developers.
I have been using Linux for many years and have tried many distros, usually dual or tri-boot with Windows.
Over the years many distros, including Windows, have not catered very well for 64 bit, and the dropping of gnome type desktop (without having to download alternatives) meant I used Ubuntu and Mint less and less and often reverted to Windows 7.

Linux lite was easy to install and update, and intuitive.
Thanks
Wishy77

Hi All,
Just playing around with this project again, but have hit a snag. Latest Gparted seems to have a bug.

When resizing a fat32 partition, the setup is accepted, but on pressing Enter, the program exits. No changes are made to the stick. Repeating the operation on an older version of Gparted will resize the partition perfectly. Only happening on latest linux distros with gparted included.

Anyone else encountered this. I've tried on 2 different computers running LL and the same behaviour is exhibited.

The next problem is simply creating a usb stick. I'm using my old computer running Mint9 and Gparted and have created many functioning usb sticks using this computer.

Just now, I've created a live usb of LL on a brand new unused 8gb stick, resized the fat32 to minimum, and created an ext2 casper-rw partition on the remainder. All looks fine to me (done using my older reliable machine).

However, the stick won't boot. It stops on the SYSLINUX -> Boot: prompt and simply repeats the boot sequence, i.e. displays the F2 and F12 options.

Could anyone advise me on how to fix this.

Also, I'm having great difficulty in creating a workable live usb with persistence lately, using new sticks. Is it possible the sticks themselves are being manufactured differently. I've made upwards of 50 sticks with persistence in the past without any dramas, but lately it's hit or miss on whether success is achieved. Something has changed and I can't put my finger on it.

Any thoughts! It's very frustrating!  :'(

I had been distro-hopping for a while, but have installed lite since 2.0 about a year ago and have stuck with lite since.  This is a pretty good stretch since my distro-hopping started about 4 years ago.  Prior to lite, I had found the now defunct crunchbang as I thought they had a great combination of apps offerings somewhere between minimalism and bloat.  I also liked the way they offered choices through scripts during install, which in a way was like offered in lite 2.0 and 2.2 but after install ( i don't see it in 2.4, maybe I haven't explored enough yet).  I  liked the dark theme, pretty much like lite does.  However, I've always drifted towards xfce, being an old-fashioned point and click guy; crunchbang used openbox but I installed xfce instead, and it was rock solid stable as it used the stable branch of debian.  The only downside was not being able to use bluetooth for tranferring photos easily from my smartphone and had to look for alternatives for that.  Finally, I decided to try lite as it used xfce as a graphical front end by default and uses lts ubuntu as base, which solves the bluetooth issue.  And it looks really nice right out of the box.  The  only issue has been with lightdm in both my 32-bit laptop and 64-bit desktop, which is solved by installing gdm instead.  At this point, I think lite will stay in my boxes for a while.

[quoI;v installed about 4 icon themes in  terminal  from noobslab and am unable to update the icon cache.
Or is this even important?  I have tried searching everything for cure, anybody found a solution?  All these themes cant be bad. Or poorly designed.  I must be doing something wrong. Any suggestions?

  [root@jeff2-RF800AA-ABA-SR2011WM-NA680:/home/jeff2# gtk-update-icon-cache /home/jeff2/.icons/AwOken-100050150/
gtk-update-icon-cache: Failed to open file /home/jeff2/.icons/AwOken-100050150/.icon-theme.cache : File existste]

I'm trying to save a few pics from the mighty web.  They save fine but I can't view them.  The viewer says, "Error interpreting JPEG image file (Not a JPEG file: starts with 0x3c 0x21)".  The file properties show the pic name as: DCF1020.jpeg meaning it's a .jpeg.  Both the thumbnail and the pic in the viewer just shows a red circle with a line through it.

What gives?  How do I fix this?  I'm trying to d/l some legit pics of some old friends.