installed CENT OS but....

[iinfi]

i v installed Cent OS 5 on my old PC
P3 733MHz with 256 MB RAM
1)
my linux GUI is running very very slow. even a right click on the desktop with no applications running takes ages to pop up.

wat cud b the reason.?? is the system low on resourses???
2)
and i m unable to access the files on my windows box :( they are on FAT32 partition.

it asks me for a username, domain and password. i used the windows username and the workgroup name and windows password.
3)
i use MS Outlook on my windows box. is it possible to sync the outlook pst file and any similar file here so that i can view the same contents on both the systems

plz help.

[~Rahul~]

The system is too old, that cud be the only problem, I have the same config and most distros crawl on it.

[iinfi]

ohk ..

can u help me with points 2 and 3??
also is there anything which wud use lesser graphics?? different gui?? man even windows XP works faster in this PC :(

thanks

[abhinandh]

try a lighter distro like zenwalk

[~Rahul~]

Try any distro which uses Xfce desktop environment(zenwalk, vector linux, xubuntu, slackware).

[praka123]

RHEL and Centos are inferior products for *Desktop* users.many n00b's still believes that they are running something superior :rolleyes:
dude!that RHEL/Novell etc are meant for Enterprise ppl or in other words running servers which needs security!infact RHEL etc contains old packages(but tested).

and,running RHEL etc on ur system... :lol:
get Antix mepis-it is the best
http://antix.mepis.org
For a new user,Ubuntu GNU/Linux or Fedora(fedora is RHEL's superman form) are the best(not for ur system though!)
and I found that below link is very nice to ppl who are still wanting window$:
http://linux.oneandoneis2.org/LNW.htm

[mehulved]

i v installed Cent OS 5 on my old PC
P3 733MHz with 256 MB RAM
1)
my linux GUI is running very very slow. even a right click on the desktop with no applications running takes ages to pop up.

wat cud b the reason.?? is the system low on resourses???

Use a system monitor like top or GNOME System Monitor to determine the resource usage and analyze what are the resources you're falling short of - RAM, CPU or IO.

2)
and i m unable to access the files on my windows box :( they are on FAT32 partition.

it asks me for a username, domain and password. i used the windows username and the workgroup name and windows password.

Is that windows partition on same box or remote box? If remote box have you configured samba properly? There's a nice simple guide on http;//samba.netfirms.com

3)
i use MS Outlook on my windows box. is it possible to sync the outlook pst file and any similar file here so that i can view the same contents on both the systems

plz help.
Convert them to Maildir format? Or try Thunderbird PST Import Plugin (http://linux.softpedia.com/get/Communications/Email/Thunderbird-PST-Import-plugin-33014.shtml)

[iinfi]

thanks all.
1)linux and windows are on different systems. i m able to share internet betwn the 2 but not files.
2)btw is configuting samba needed?? i think i saw a option in CENT OS to map my windows drive. i m not too sure.
3)i installed centOS as i m gona prepare for RHCT in due course and many advised me to use this. :)

thanks again. will try the abv steps n get back agian.

[mehulved]

thanks all.
1)linux and windows are on different systems. i m able to share internet betwn the 2 but not files.
2)btw is configuting samba needed?? i think i saw a option in CENT OS to map my windows drive. i m not too sure.
Don't have CentOS or Windows around to test but I guess whatever tool it is, should be using samba to connect to windows files.

[iinfi]

well i too think samba is needed.
But i think in this distro samba is already installed or activated. i m not too sure. how can i chck
if you take a look at the screenshot which posted in the first post u will see that the contents of the windows drive are shown. whn i double click on the drive it asks me for a user name, domain and passowrd.
whn i type in the windows username, workgroup name and password it doesnt do anything

[T159]

post the output of samba conf


vim /etc/samba/smb.conf

[iinfi]

^^
well now facing something weird ...i m able to access the files but i cant share the internet now.
i dunno why :-(
my windows box is connected directly to the internet and i have a second lan card which connects to the linux box.
i have apache on my windows box (oracle 9i installed).
whn i type this PCs IP frm linux box i can see the apache window. but whn i try to access the internet on my linux box it doesnt work.

i have given the ip for the windows box as 192.168.0.1 and
for the linux box as 192.168.0.35 and subnet mask as 255.255.255.0 default gateway 192.168.0.1
i dunno why it was working yday n not today.

[T159]

^^set the DNS servers too, same as in windows machine

[iinfi]

phew ...
thanks yaar ... its working now. i changed something today n forgot the set the DNS .. :-(

regarding whether i m able to make this run faster and whether i m able to sync MS OUTLOOK n thunderbird.... i will let you all know ...
thanks again :-)