Is your home directory exported with the "no_root_squash" option on the server? see "man exports" for explanation.
I'm running KDE 3.5.9 from Kubuntu 8.04, so YMMV, but... to run ksim here I right-click the panel at the bottom of the screen and go "Add New Panel" --> "Ksim" and thereafter it pops up when I move the mouse pointer to the bottom right corner of the screen.
Try running ksim from a terminal -- you might get an error message that will indicate where the problem is.
In "Remote Places" I have some links to Samba shares on a remote server. When I use these links in Dolphin it opens the share using the "remote:" kioslave, and I am unable to create new files or folders on the share (it says "Writing to remote is not supported"). If I open the link using Konqueror, it opens the share using the "smb:" kioslave and I am fully able to create folders & files. Two questions: 1. Does the "remote:" kioslave not support write access, or is there some way to configure it...
Now it's started launching three overlapping kmplayers!
If I click on any of the "Video and Audio News" items on the BBC News website, I get a pop-up window containing two overlapping embedded kmplayers (using xine backend), both of which play the video stream, usually with a small time offset which gives a strange 'echo' effect. Do other people see this effect? Is this a bug? I can't see anything similar in the bugtracker. If it is a bug, then in what? Konqueror? kmplayer? javascript? If I disable Javascript for the BBC News domain, only one embedde...
There is an option to make contacts "Public", "Private" or "Confidential". What effect does this setting have? I was hoping that "Private" contacts might be omitted from synchronisation by multisynk, but this does not seem to be the case.