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Nick | 1 Dec 2005 01:05

WMI calls from Linux? Is it possible?

Hi all, I've searched but been unsuccessful in finding information  
about WMI and Linux. I would like to do some WMI calls to windows  
machines, from linux, is this possible? I've wrote a little VB app  
obviously in windows, and would like to make one in Linux. Thanks in  
advance!

Nick

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Howard Roberts | 1 Dec 2005 01:18
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Re: WMI calls from Linux? Is it possible?

On Wed, 2005-11-30 at 19:05 -0500, Nick wrote:
> Hi all, I've searched but been unsuccessful in finding information  
> about WMI and Linux. I would like to do some WMI calls to windows  
> machines, from linux, is this possible? I've wrote a little VB app  
> obviously in windows, and would like to make one in Linux. Thanks in  
> advance!
Everything I've heard suggests that the Mono project:

http://www.mono-project.com/VisualBasic.NET_support 

is solid. You should be able to port your VB code with little issues,
I'd think.

	"Applications developed on Windows with vbc can execute
	on Mono and applications compiled with 'mbas' can be
	executed on .NET runtime."

As for making the Windows WMI calls, I'd think that Samba or even Web
Services might facilitate the communication.

HTH,
Howard

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Nick | 1 Dec 2005 05:15

Re: WMI calls from Linux? Is it possible?

Thanks - looks like this will port, hopefully the calls will work,  
what little I know about it, is that it's pretty low level, like  
getting the serial number from a remote machine. Thanks for the link!

Nick

On Nov 30, 2005, at 7:18 PM, Howard Roberts wrote:

> On Wed, 2005-11-30 at 19:05 -0500, Nick wrote:
>> Hi all, I've searched but been unsuccessful in finding information
>> about WMI and Linux. I would like to do some WMI calls to windows
>> machines, from linux, is this possible? I've wrote a little VB app
>> obviously in windows, and would like to make one in Linux. Thanks in
>> advance!
> Everything I've heard suggests that the Mono project:
>
> http://www.mono-project.com/VisualBasic.NET_support
>
> is solid. You should be able to port your VB code with little issues,
> I'd think.
>
> 	"Applications developed on Windows with vbc can execute
> 	on Mono and applications compiled with 'mbas' can be
> 	executed on .NET runtime."
>
> As for making the Windows WMI calls, I'd think that Samba or even Web
> Services might facilitate the communication.
>
> HTH,
> Howard
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OldDad | 1 Dec 2005 10:38
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Re: KVM: serious mouse twiching

Kurt Guenther wrote:

>
> I bought a Zonet KVM, but the mouse is twiching all over the place.  I 
> check the connections and even a different channel.  Video and 
> keyboard work, but not the mouse.  I tried two different mice and 
> finally plugged it directly into the computer.
>
> Any ideas, or is this KVM toast?
>
> --Kurt
>
My old Belkin KVM (OmniView) exhibits that behavior when I've tried 
using an optical mouse or a wheel mouse.  For that reason, I still use a 
Logitech 3-button mouse--works great! :-)

Raymond

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Dave Knight | 1 Dec 2005 12:50

Re: KVM: serious mouse twiching

Hhhmmm.  Try swapping cables with another port on the switch and also
change the mouse.  Here are a few keyboard shortcuts:

Bash Shell Shortcuts 
Bash, which is the default shell in Linux contains a whole lot of key
bindings which makes it really easy to use . The most commonly used
shortcuts are listed below :

____________CTRL Key Bound_____________
Ctrl + a - Jump to the start of the line
Ctrl + b - Move back a char
Ctrl + c - Terminate the command
Ctrl + d - Delete from under the cursor
Ctrl + e - Jump to the end of the line
Ctrl + f - Move forward a char
Ctrl + k - Delete to EOL
Ctrl + l - Clear the screen
Ctrl + r - Search the history backwards
Ctrl + R - Search the history backwards with multi occurrence
Ctrl + u - Delete backward from cursor
Ctrl + xx - Move between EOL and current cursor position
Ctrl + x  <at>  - Show possible hostname completions
Ctrl + z - Suspend/ Stop the command
____________ALT Key Bound___________
Alt + < - Move to the first line in the history
Alt + > - Move to the last line in the history
Alt + ? - Show current completion list
Alt + * - Insert all possible completions
Alt + / - Attempt to complete filename
Alt + . - Yank last argument to previous command
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chazaq | 2 Dec 2005 20:46
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Outlook Replacement

I remember attending the Open eXchange presentation a few months ago.  It was a very good presentation. 
However, Open Xchange was not a "stand-alone" equivalent to Outlook, correct?

I am looking for an open source Outlook equivalent like Gnome's Evolution.  I also want to put the Outlook
equilaent on a winxp laptop and sync a palm device to it. 

It seems that some of the groupware I see out there either is Linux exclusive or dependant on a collaboration
server system like Open Xchange or WebDav, etc.

I slowly transitiontioning to an OpenSource/Linux office.  I have my boss's support (without funding of
course) in this endeavor.

I do not have a timeline for the transition.  I have found it easier to win people over on reliability and
kindness. 

Currently I only have MS Office 97 running on 4 of 12 desktops. All of the others are OpenOffice 2.0 But almost
all my servers are either FreeBsd (soon to be Debian) or IPcop.

If I can get something which will replace Outlook on WinXp laptops and work with a couple of Debian desktops
that will be really cool!  

Have nice weekend "Merry Linuxmas"

--
Enjoy the "Day"
Kim
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Matt Young | 2 Dec 2005 21:01

Re: Outlook Replacement


Outlook and OpenXchange are not really comperable products.  OpenXchange is more
of a competitor to MS Exchange.  OpenXchange is not really a mail client; it is
a Mail Service Fraimwork (webmail client, colaboration software, calender,
Whiteboard, etc).   It sounds like you are looking for a traditional mail client
 application with other "goodies" like calenders and palm integration.  While I
am not familiar with any of the goodies stuff, I have been xtremely impressed
with Thunderbird (from the saints at the Mozilla Project).  It has excellent
mail handling, sorting, filtering, speed, rss reader, gpg integration (via
plugins) and ease of use.  As of now half of my office uses Thunderbird and half
use outlook and the ones who use thunderbird don't complain about quirky mail
behavior.   I am convinced that Thunderbird is the best mail client available
(opensource or otherwise).  So far, there is not a single feature I lack in
thunderbird and if it is lacking, it will soon be made into a plugin.

That being said, if you need something that more resembles group colab software
than mail client, I have heard excellent things about kontact.  It has calenders
and group software in it but it is only available on linux unless you are
running cygwin or something.

2 Cents: give Mozilla Thunderbird a try and see how it goes.  I would not be
surprised if there is plugins for palm integration and calenders and such.
Cheers,
Matt Young
Senior Developer /
Network Administrator
IT Services/Development
Jax Trans Services, Inc.
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Mike Rathburn | 2 Dec 2005 22:40
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RE: Outlook Replacement

|-----Original Message-----
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|I am looking for an open source Outlook equivalent like 
|Gnome's Evolution.

There is a group working on an Evolution port:
http://evolution-win32.sourceforge.net/

Not seen much action lately on it though.  Would love to see it get done.

You could get some of what you want with Thunderbird and Sunbird from
Mozilla, but nowhere's near the integration capabilities of Outlook.

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Art Wildman | 6 Dec 2005 17:35
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Re: KVM: serious mouse twiching

Kurt Guenther wrote:

>
> I bought a Zonet KVM, but the mouse is twiching all over the place.  I 
> check the connections and even a different channel.  Video and 
> keyboard work, but not the mouse.  I tried two different mice and 
> finally plugged it directly into the computer.
>
> Any ideas, or is this KVM toast?
>
> --Kurt
>

Bug 111161 - kernel 2.6.0-test10 and a KVM cause IMPS/2 mouse to go mad
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=111161
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2082

Reboot

Physically unplug-plug the mouse restores the correct behavior.

CTRL-ALT-F1/F2, back to F7

kernel = psmouse.proto=imps fixes it on some.

psmouse.proto=bare works, but is unacceptable as it kills the mouse wheel.
Use psmouse.proto=bare on the kernel command line, or proto=bare on the
psmouse module command line.

Tried all the mouse.proto= settings, and none helps
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Matt Young | 7 Dec 2005 21:58

Re: [OT] Solaris


I just got solaris installed on my laptop.  When you log in it gives you the
option to log into CDE or "Java Desktop".  If you select Java desktop it
actually starts up the gnome WM with all the footprint icons everyewhere.  Just FYI
Cheers,
Matt Young
Senior Developer /
Network Administrator
IT Services/Development
Jax Trans Services, Inc.
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Kurt Guenther wrote:
> Mark Price wrote:
> 
>>> That was what I heard too and I did a fresh install, but it was still
>>> CDE.  I didn't even see an option when I installed.
>>>
>>>   
>>
>> Hrm.
>> are you sure it wasn't available in the "choose your desktop
>> environment" menu on the xdm?
>> Mark
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