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Dokan appears to be a work in progress. Basically it is intended to allow users of Cygwin to connect a [secure] remote file system (using SSHFS) under Windows just as is possible under the *nixish operating systems & MacOS.

Note that the version of SSHFS we downloaded has a dependency on Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 SP1 Redistributable Package (x86)/ This dependency is documented on the Dokan Download Page.

Note that we are installing this under WinXP w/ all current service packs, Cygwin, and ActiveState Perl.

Labels: cygwin, filesystem, fuse, remote file system, sshfs, windows, winxp

posted by pd wilson   #   18:14

Connect a cPanel WebDisk under WinXP

The procedure describes how to add a "Network Place" to the "Network Places" folder under WinXP, using the SSL WebDisk utility description from and installed cPanel. The hostname given in the URL given shown here is 'host.example.com'. In order for this to work, you must have a real hostname OR an IP address for a server running whatever SSL WebDisk protocol WinXP understands, AND the server has installed. More information about this when it becomes available...

1. On the "Map Network Drive" dialog, there is a link at the bottom, just above the buttons called "Sign up for online storage or connect to a network server" - use that -
2. In the "Add Network Place Wizard select "Connect to another network server" to specify the URL of the web disk; click "Next"
3. Provide the URL of the WebDisk as the "Internet or Network address" – the URL should be of the form https://host.example.com:2078/; Click "Next"
4. Accept the security certificate; click "Next"
5. Provide Login Credentials (Username & Password)
6. Provide a name for the network place [I typically use something like username@hostname]; Click "Next"
7. Click "Finish" on the "A network place has successfully been created" dialog. [this is the final dialog of the Wizard]

This will create a "Network Place" in your Network Places folder.

UPDATE

While this procedure did create a "Network Place", I later found that the filesystem of the remote computer was not writable by the Windows file system API calls (made by Windows Apps) [WinXP we're talking about]. No solution found, yet. -pdw 2009.10.28

Labels: cPanel, SSL, WebDisk, winxp

posted by pd wilson   #   14:44

…

• Download the Module-Build Perl Package from SourceForge: Download Module-Build (sourceforge.net)
• Download the File-DesktopEntry module from Jaap Karssenberg's page at http://search.cpan.org/~pardus/File-DesktopEntry-0.04/
• The File-MimeInfo module is also available from Jaap Karssenberg's CPAN page &ndash: download it from http://search.cpan.org/~PARDUS/File-MimeInfo/

Note that we're downloading all these into the same directory we used for all the other stuff downloaded earlier (see pt 1).

I find that the ppm install Module-Build command operates on the tarball in the directory where the command is issued. On the next one, we'll try installing it through the ActiveState Perl Module Installer widget.

Ooops. Got this:

item "nearest 154 36" doesn't exist at C:/Perl/lib/ActivePerl/PPM/GUI.pm line 208.

item "nearest 154 36" doesn't exist
    while executing
".p.p.tree selection add {nearest 154 36}"
    ("uplevel" body line 1)
    invoked from within
"uplevel 1 $command $args"
    invoked from within
".p.p selection add {nearest 154 36}"
    invoked from within
"::perl::CODE(0x27d7688) 154 36 267 266"
    (command bound to event)

while the package list in the graphical widget was refreshing. Going back to the command shell... which doesn't work on the second module, either. Maybe this is not a bug in the graphical widget, but a data file problem which caused it to crash...

 Directory of C:\Documents and Settings\Sony\My Documents\Downloads\gtk2-perl

09/21/09  10:05    <DIR>          .
09/21/09  10:05    <DIR>          ..
09/18/09  10:14        16,030,800 ActivePerl-5.8.8.819-MSWin32-x86-267479.msi
09/18/09  10:15           171,959 Cairo-1.021.zip
09/18/09  11:30             7,678 ExtUtils-Depends-0.205.tar.gz
09/18/09  10:14             8,155 ExtUtils-Depends-0.205.zip
09/18/09  11:30               351 ExtUtils-Depends.ppd
09/18/09  11:30             4,746 ExtUtils-PkgConfig-1.07.tar.gz
09/18/09  10:15             5,232 ExtUtils-PkgConfig-1.07.zip
09/18/09  11:30               355 ExtUtils-PkgConfig.ppd
09/21/09  10:00            13,784 File-DesktopEntry-0.04.tar.gz
09/21/09  10:05            29,269 File-MimeInfo-0.15.tar.gz
09/18/09  10:14         1,613,333 glade-2.12.1.zip
09/18/09  10:14           518,907 glade-3-0-2-win32-1.zip
09/18/09  10:15           306,240 Glib-1.142.zip
09/18/09  10:13         5,597,907 gtk-2.8.20-win32-1.exe
09/18/09  10:41           192,692 gtk-demo.zip
09/18/09  10:15         1,676,227 Gtk2-1.141.zip
09/18/09  10:15            53,946 Gtk2-GladeXML-1.006.zip
09/21/09  09:53           196,525 Module-Build-0.2808.tar.gz
09/18/09  10:41           181,280 msvcr71.zip
              19 File(s)     26,609,386 bytes
               2 Dir(s)  47,385,841,664 bytes free

C:\Documents and Settings\Sony\My Documents\Downloads\gtk2-perl>ppm install File
-DesktopEntry-0.04
ppm install failed: Can't find any package that provide File-DesktopEntry-0.04

C:\Documents and Settings\Sony\My Documents\Downloads\gtk2-perl>ppm install File
-DesktopEntry-0.04.tar.gz
ppm install failed: Can't find any package that provide File-DesktopEntry-0.04.t
ar.gz

C:\Documents and Settings\Sony\My Documents\Downloads\gtk2-perl>

Labels: 0x0000, desktop, gtk2, perl, wiki, winxp, zim

posted by pd wilson   #   13:54

Note that this entry seems to be more about installing and configuring ActiveState Perl and Gtk2 on Windows than about Zim, but there is a method to this madness. Zim depends upon Perl and Gtk2, so any system that's going to run it has to have these. There will be additional information added to and/or around this post in the future...

I've been using the Zim Desktop Wiki editor for some time now (not sure how long, really, since the original installs were on systems that no longer function) as sort of daily work-log, planning, and note-taking tool for several months now on an HP laptop running SuSE 11.1+ with one of KDE3, KDE4, Gnome, WindowMaker, FVWM, and probably some other desktop environments.

Starting with the first install of Zim, I realized that I was going to have to take measures to ensure that this tool would be available to me in the future. I first saw it running on a frankensteinesque box that had started out with no hard disc, running DSL from an optical disc, and by the time Zim popped up on the desktop, was running a system that included components of DSL, KNOPPIX, Debian, and several kernels of both the 2.4.x and 2.6.x varieties. There was no MS Windows partition, and it was not virtualized.

Soon after that I tried to install Zim on an OpenSUSE 11.0 system. That didn't go well, and I didn't have time to sort it all out. I did get it to work, but could not get a global install working reliably - something to do w/ perl module version numbers, or something.

More recently I followed a set of instructions for some package(s) found on the Internet [and grafted into the earlier dysfunctional OpenSuSE install] and got Zim working on the OpenSuSE 11.1 so smoothly that I forgot to write down how I did it - or have forgotten if I wrote it down or not.

So now I'm looking for a way to share the same ‘Zimspace’ between a WinXP Sony Vaio laptop and the HP running OpenSuSE.

Now, of course there are dozens of ways to do that - I can connect to the HP from the Vaio [running Cygwin/X] and pop Zim up on the XP desktop over the office LAN, of course, but that still tethers me to the HP - and not just for the data, but for the executable binary and the processor time slices, as well.

So, to make a long story short:

In an attempt to install Zim Desktop Wiki on the WinXP Vaio Laptop (WVL), I followed the instructions on the page at http://zim-wiki.org/Install/Windows.html

All went as expected up to the point where it said to run the command ppm install Gtk2

The command failed on

Downloading Gtk2-1.141...done
Downloading Glib-1.142...done
Downloading ExtUtils-PkgConfig-1.07...done
Downloading Cairo-1.021...done
Downloading ExtUtils-Depends-0.302...not found
ppm install failed: 404 Not Found

In order to fix this, I had to Download the ExtUtils-Depends package separately, and install it using the command shown in the instructions at http://www.lostmind.de/gtk2-perl/, thus:

PRECONDITION:  Having performed the above listed procedure down to the point of ppm install Gtk2, perform the following steps:

1. Download ExtUtils-Depends-0.205
2. Unzip ExtUtils-Depends-0.205.zip – The unzip no longer works at the windows command line, use the 'Extract' functionality from the Windows Explorer Context Menu. Hit "Cancel" or whatever if it starts asking you about a ExtUtils-Depends-0.205.tar.gz file. Whatever it is (probably source code) it has not proven to be necessary to complete the install process - or maybe it's necessary that it just be there alongside the .ppd file. In any case...
3. At the command prompt. om the directory where the .ppd file resides, issue the command ppm install ExtUtils-Depends.ppd

Once the ExtUtils-Depends is installed, you can restart the original install at ppm install Gtk2 to complete the process.

Here is a [partial] screen dump log showing the steps EXCEPT for unpacking the archive that ExtUtils-Depends.ppd came in.

C:\Documents and Settings\Sony\My Documents\Downloads\gtk2-perl>ppm repo add http://www.lostmind.de/gtk2-perl/ppm/
Downloading www.lostmind.de packlist...not found
Downloading www.lostmind.de packlist...done
Updating www.lostmind.de database...done
Repo 3 added.

C:\Documents and Settings\Sony\My Documents\Downloads\gtk2-perl>ppm install Gtk2

Downloading Gtk2-1.141...done
Downloading Glib-1.142...done
Downloading ExtUtils-PkgConfig-1.07...done
Downloading Cairo-1.021...done
Downloading ExtUtils-Depends-0.302...not found
ppm install failed: 404 Not Found

C:\Documents and Settings\Sony\My Documents\Downloads\gtk2-perl>
C:\Documents and Settings\Sony\My Documents\Downloads\gtk2-perl>ppm install ExtUtils-Depends.ppd
Unpacking ExtUtils-Depends-0.205...done
Generating HTML for ExtUtils-Depends-0.205...done
Installing to site area...done
   2 files installed

C:\Documents and Settings\Sony\My Documents\Downloads\gtk2-perl>ppm install Gtk2

Downloading Gtk2-1.141...done
Downloading Glib-1.142...done
Downloading ExtUtils-PkgConfig-1.07...done
Downloading Cairo-1.021...done
Unpacking Gtk2-1.141...done
Unpacking Glib-1.142...done
Unpacking ExtUtils-PkgConfig-1.07...done
Unpacking Cairo-1.021...done
Generating HTML for Gtk2-1.141...done
Generating HTML for Glib-1.142...done
Generating HTML for ExtUtils-PkgConfig-1.07...done
Generating HTML for Cairo-1.021...done
Installing to site area...done
  72 files installed

C:\Documents and Settings\Sony\My Documents\Downloads\gtk2-perl>extract

[end of pt 1 - see pt 2]

Labels: 0x0000, gtk2, perl, wiki, winxp, zim

posted by pd wilson   #   15:38