Study Notes

SuSE 9.1 professional was installed on my office computer insteading of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0 with Update 4. I found SuSE had more beautiful graphic interface than Red Hat series, it looks like Windows XP with green toolbar and colorful button. In fact, I do not like KDE in the first time, maybe GNOME has been used since I know linux.

There are total 5 CD to install SuSE 9.1 professional. After the operating system was installed successful, I found it was very difficult to input Chinese with Ping Yin.Many packages were tested,but only a tools named fcitx-3.0.2.Imgc.i686.rpm could be useful. After installed this rpm packages, press ctrl + space, then Chinese inputing tools bar was displayed in the screen.It’s very easy for me to type Chinese. Resolving this issue makes me very happy, because I even wanted to study the input method applied by SuSE 9 Professional , and installed a fresh operating system. Insisting is the key.

How to connect remote desktop and control them?

In the RHEL period, I used rdesktop tool to connect remote desktop and control it. SuSE linux provides a very easy graphic tool to do this. In the manu of SuSE, System – Remote Connect – Access, and type the following text in the input box:

rdp:/192.168.1.143

Note,there’s only one back slash in the above string. 192.168.1.143 is my Windows IP address. This experience seems as Windows Remote desktop connection.

How to mount windows directory in the networking?

My windows IP address is 192.168.1.143, and computer name is “powerlea-v3afhe”.The windows machine has a shared directory named ‘1103’. In the first test, I tried to use the following command as in Red Hat:

# mount -t smbfs -o username=Phillip,password=aaa //192.168.1.143/1103 /document/test
The error messages was displayed:

5440: session request to 192.168.1.143 failed (Called name not present)
5440: session request to 192 failed (Called name not present)

Why? and how could this error happens? I readed the mount help information and executed this modified command:
# mount -t smbfs -o username=Phillip,password=aaa //powerlea-v3afhe/1103 /document/test

Yeah!!! The windows directory was mounted successfully!!!

SuSE has Kmail tools to receive and send mail. I configured the character encode as gb2312, and when the mail will be sent, in the Kmail toolbar, View-Set Encoding-gb2312, this step could make the mail sent displaying in human read mode.

There is no Snapshoot iron or tools in SuSE. I found in GIMP manu, Acquire – Screenshow, then a dialog box will be displayed, which ask user to confirm the snapshoot range(Fullscreen or defined windows) and time(When will the picture will be taken?).It is very useful.