[KLUG Members] SuSE 10.1 questions

[Rusty Yonkers]

OK, I have two questions.  I have been googling and doing a bunch of trial and error to no avail so far.  I am running SuSE 10.1.  One of the questions is hardware specific (I think).  We are running Dell Latitude d610 laptops at work.  it installs OK but we cannot use the xinerama extensions for doing an extended desktop on them when connected to an external monitor.  The option to switch from cloned to xinerama is grayed out in YaST.  The Dell has an Intel 915 video chipset. 

Here is the other question.  At work we are running Windows 2003 server.  We need to be able to mount Windows shares on our systems.  At home with my Windows 2000 network I am able to mount the shares really easily.  I simply do

mount -t smbfs //servername/sharename /directory/mountpoint -o username=name,workgroup=domain name and it mounts.  I adjusted the mountpoint rights to 777.  I have tried to do an fmask=777 or fmask=000 and the same with dmask and to no avail (I am not sure what the exact number settings mean for the mask that is why I tried both).  On the Windows 2003 server I cannot get to the share after the mount.  When I do an ll on the directory that holds the mount point directory I cannot see the mount point directory but can see all the other directories.  I can umount the directory though.  

 
Russell C. Yonkers Jr. CNE, MCSA, A+, CCNA, Linux+, Server+, Network+, Security+ certified
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Currently using SuSE 10, Mac OS X, Windows 2000, and WinXP 
And yes I run a network at home with Linux and Windows servers