a curse upon you, groupremove!

[pythagorean]

OK, so I usually prefer to run linux in a virtualmachine lately because there are almost no consequences to making mistakes... and HERE is my best example of late...

So, installed KDE on my laptop Fedora 13 partition because I wanted to use kb3 to burn dvds and then today using Fedora 14 in a virtual machine I thought to myself, "I would like a lighter desktop experience while running linux" and I installed XFCE using

yum groupinstall xfce

All was well in my virtual-Fedora-shire until I discovered that Thunar does not browse network shares the way Nautilus does. I guess the only way to browse samba shares in xfce is through the command line. Bummer. I opened up a terminal and typed:

yum groupremove xfce

Once fiinished I discovered my Fedora 14 virtual machine would not boot. My main learning from this experiment was: don't do that again.

[JamesNZ]

Yes pythagorean! Let us together fight this bane of Goddard! Now if only we can figure out how to get it in a magic circle...

[pythagorean]

indeed. the magicircle is no doubt somewhere in add/remove software...

[AndrewSerk]

The magic circle lays within the great and powerfull " yum history " and " yum history undo # "

[jonathan47]

Originally Posted by pythagorean

All was well in my virtual-Fedora-shire until I discovered that Thunar does not browse network shares the way Nautilus does. I guess the only way to browse samba shares in xfce is through the command line. Bummer.

While I'm too late for Pythagorean's XFCE install, here's how to show Samba/Windows network shares in Thunar: install gvfs-smb (as well as Samba client package) and modify Firewall to allow Samba client.

Another way of browsing network share is to use Gigolo application (in System submenu).