Today I got the VNC server to run the Fedora box. The biggest problem was getting the default desktop. For some reason I have to uncomment two lines in the xstartup file. They had a comment in the file telling you to do just that. You would have thought that would have been the default setup. Once again I am tunnelling it through ssh. I probably don't need to do but it is not very hard and a good practice.

After spending some time work on the farm the last couple of days I got back to cleaning up miscellanous items on Sharepoint and Fedora. Here are the Fedora updates:

1. On Fedora I confirmed that my configuration has problems with userids. If I enter a userid that is used on the windows network, Fedora cannot validate the password. If I create a userid that is not on the windows network, it uses the local password.
2. Since I was installing an updated kernel I finally found the instructions on how to remove the old kernels from the system and Grub. “rpm -qa | grep kernel” will list the kernels and “rpm -e xxxx” will remove them.
3. I installed Tsclient and tested it to the server. It works fine although there are some error messages you don't see when you run rdesktop.

Here are the Sharepoint updates:

1. I finally installed Adobe's Ifilter so I can index Acrobat files in Sharepoint.
2. I rebuilt the indexes since I already had pdf files in Sharepoint using a stored procedure.”USE STS_xxx_1″ and “EXEC sp_fulltext_catalog 'ix_STS_xxx_1','rebuild'” I got this info off on msd2d.com.
3. I opened up anonymous access. I can now get in from Fedora using Mozilla and cranking up Openoffice 1.1. This is not exactly the combination Microsoft wants you to use but to Microsoft's credit it does work.

I have switched over to RSS Bandit. I imported my subscriptions from Radio and I am off and running. The big things I like are categories and the browser tab. Once I assigned my feeds to a category I can click on a category and view a mixed list of all of the feeds. This allows me to be more efficient in my scanning of feeds. When I am done with a category I can mark them all as read by pressing Ctrl-M. The browser tab is also very convenient. The drawbacks I have found is sometimes it goes into limbo land when you try to follow a link and I would like to post to Radio from it.

Since I have .Net installed I decided to give RSS Bandit a whirl. I have used Radio for a fairly long time and am pretty happy with it. RSS Bandit is much nicer though. I wish I could post to my Radio weblog through it. I particulary like the tabbed windows for following links.

I spent a lot of time trying to work around a security issue with my windows sharepoint installation. It has a authentification problem I have not been able to figure out. I should have complete access to the site but I keep getting asked for my userid and password when I use FrontPage to open a page. The bad part is that it says I do not have permission and does not like my userid/password. It doesn't like any userid/password combination and the failed login does not appear in any log file. I do not have a problem modifying the share page and adding webparts.

Speaking of webparts I finally found and added some more webparts. They add a little navigation help. The problem is that I want to use them on the document list to improve navigation. Some of them work as expected and some don't. You get what you pay for. Sigh!

“Thank you for your interest in the Microsoft® Office FrontPage® 2003 Customization Kit for Microsoft® SharePoint™ Products and Technologies. At this time, we are updating and refreshing the content on this site, so the complete kit is unavailable for your use at this time. We expect the new site to be launched within the next 2 weeks. We appreciate your patience, and hope you will check back for the new site in the coming weeks.“

I browsed the examples and downloaded the finance one. It looks like it is missing the weblog part. I will have to customize the theme but the parts that are included should give me a great start. I hope they add some more web parts! This could be a really neat sales demo.