problems with Pcurlftpd and JWM at boot
Posted: Tue 09 Jun 2009, 09:13
Hi,
It was very easy to share my usb external 500gb drive with my network on puppy 4.2.1 frugal insatll (CF flash ide) using pcurlftpd. It seems to work flawlessly with my xp machine immeidately after set-up. I followed this guide http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=294703 but am using netdrive on xp rather than the inbuilt client.
I want this drive to be shared on every boot, so selected this option during ftpd setup. This puts a line in rc.local to initate the share on boot. The only other command I have in rc.local is mkdir /mnt/sdb1 and then a line to mount /dev/sdb1 (the usb drive) in this directory.
I was having problems accessing the drive over the network if I symlinked it to the default ftpd directory for the root user. I read on the forum that a solution to this was to change the root users home directory to /mnt. This seems to have done the trick.
When I rebooted, x, rox and the desktop image are loaded but it appears that JWM does not start. None of the icons load and the main menu is not available. I suspect this is because I changed the root users home directory. Can anyone advise how it might set up pcurlftpd so that my dirve is shared on boot without messing up the rest of the system?
Thanks,
Ross
It was very easy to share my usb external 500gb drive with my network on puppy 4.2.1 frugal insatll (CF flash ide) using pcurlftpd. It seems to work flawlessly with my xp machine immeidately after set-up. I followed this guide http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=294703 but am using netdrive on xp rather than the inbuilt client.
I want this drive to be shared on every boot, so selected this option during ftpd setup. This puts a line in rc.local to initate the share on boot. The only other command I have in rc.local is mkdir /mnt/sdb1 and then a line to mount /dev/sdb1 (the usb drive) in this directory.
I was having problems accessing the drive over the network if I symlinked it to the default ftpd directory for the root user. I read on the forum that a solution to this was to change the root users home directory to /mnt. This seems to have done the trick.
When I rebooted, x, rox and the desktop image are loaded but it appears that JWM does not start. None of the icons load and the main menu is not available. I suspect this is because I changed the root users home directory. Can anyone advise how it might set up pcurlftpd so that my dirve is shared on boot without messing up the rest of the system?
Thanks,
Ross