Posted in Linux on February 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
VNC stands for Virtual Network Computing.
It is, in essence, a remote display system which allows you to
view a computing `desktop’ environment not only on the machine
where it is running, but from anywhere on the Internet and from
a wide variety of machine architectures.
Install vncserver (as root):
This package provides a vncserver to which X clients can [...]
Posted in Linux on February 7, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Whenever you copy anything from an NTFS mounted filesystem to a non-NTFS fs, the permissions on all the files will be +x. Here is an alias you can use to scan from the directory you’re in, and recursively reset the file permissions.
# alias fixntfs=’find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 chmod -x’
slightly faster [...]
Posted in Linux on February 1, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Introduction
Samba can be used to allow connectivity between Linux and Windows(95,98,NT,2000). Samba can be used to share printers, share directories, connect to an NT domain, and many other useful features. However, this tutorial explains the steps involved in basic configuring Samba for file and print sharing. For more complex topics, visit the Samba website or [...]
