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Fantastic. Didn't even need a reboot. Thanks / Gracias Kev

I have a copy of Microsoft Office 2003 Professional Edition When I install it on my laptop running Windows XP in Spanish Office installs in Spanish despite all the install dialogues being in English. Is there anyway to get round this? I strongly suspect not but hope I am wrong! Background We are a Linux (Edubuntu) site but have had to buy six copies of MS Office for the A level Applied ICT Unit 7 examination in May. We have a number of dual boot machines that came with Windows pre-installed. As we canot submit screnshots etc. in Spanish we need Office, in particular Access, to run in English.

I think it is/was a mounting problem. Although the noauto appeared not to work and then commenting out also appeared to fail it is now working fine. Not sure why it didn't work straight away but there you go. Thanks for the suggestions folks. I will have a look at backintime, thnaks again oc7 (Kev)

One of the consequences of the problem is that when I try and start a terminal session the terminal remains blank, that is, I don't get a prompt. If I try and log on as root (through ctrl f1) it times out. To edit fstab I have to disconnect. I would have to do the same to run the strace and so would be strac-ing when the system is running fine. Also, once the application is up and running there isn't really a problem. Currently, I am disconnecting from the network, starting up all the apps I want to use then reconnecting. When I want to start a new app I disconnect again. It is a bit mad as I have to do this for something as simple as getting the properties of a file! Maybe the way I am going about this is flawed, is there a better way of using my laptop at school (on the network) and at home?

I have added the noauto option as suggested with no effect, here is my fstab file # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 # /dev/sda6 UUID=553ae6d9-42ba-439e-b0a9-7be9deba78d9 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1 # /dev/sda7 UUID=afec6bf4-901a-442d-801f-b970cde00293 /home ext3 defaults 0 2 # /dev/sda1 UUID=D89890D09890AE8E /media/sda1 ntfs defaults,nls=utf8,umask=007,gid=46 0 1 # /dev/sda5 UUID=c77f3f84-7f07-11db-b4ae-61344fa83f19 none swap sw 0 0 /dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0 LINUXSERVER:/home /home nfs user,noauto 0 0 SENECA00:/media/seneca /mnt/compartida nfs user,noauto 0 0 Any help gratefully received. P.S. I tried commenting out the last two lines and this didn't help either.

Thanks, I will try that. Won't be able to mount the network until I go back to school in a few weeks time but looks like I will be able to work at home without having to make a cup of tea everytime I want to start a new app. The rest of your reply throws up some more questions but I will save them for another day. Off for a well earned first beer of the weekend thanks again oc7 (kev)

I am mounting a network drive at start up. Won't be able to paste the contents of fstab until tomorrow though. Thanks for your quick response. The mount line (from memory) mount LINUXSERVER:/home /home ... also there is a shared drive mount SENECA00:/media/seneca /mnt/comaprtida the rest is as default

Hi. I usually post on the tes but have been advised this is a better forum for more technical questions. I have tried the search and cannot find my solution but if it has been asked before I apologise and hope you put it down to my newbie status. I have a laptop that is setup to log on to the network. If no network is available then as you would expect I can log on as a stand alone user. I have a work folder that allows me to pass documents from my stand alone profile to the network and back again. I have two problems (probably one problem with two symptoms) i) I cannot connect to the Internet at work when I am in stand alone mode as connecting to the network at any point causes the network home directory to mount. ii) When I run it off the network at home I can connect to the Internet but the machine struggles (takes quite a few minutes) when starting up appliacations. Once started they run at normal speed although seem to be slightly more prone to needing a Force Quit. It seems that once on a network it must be trying to sort out the filesystem but I cannot find how to stop this. I am running Edubuntu 7.04. Any thoughts? Anyone come across this before? Thanks in anticipation oc7 (kev)