Ubuntu
Share files with Microsoft Windows workstations on your network
In Ubuntu, you can use the SMB protocol (Server Message Block), a.k.a ‘Samba’, to share folders from your Ubuntu Linux workstation with Microsoft Windows workstations on your network.
I use SMB to share folders between my Ubuntu workstation and my Windows XP virtual machine in VMWare Server. Note that other virtualization products, such as [...]
Mounting Disk Images
In a Microsoft Windows environment, you might use an application like Daemon Tools, Alcohol, or the MS Virtual CD Control Panel to mount an ISO image so that it appears as a CD ROM drive in Windows Explorer. This allows you to access a CD/DVD image without burning it to a disc.
In Linux, [...]
Ubuntu 7.04 - Disable Recent Documents
There is not an obvious way to disable the Recent Documents menu under the Places menu if you don’t want to use that feature. Here is how I do it:
Open a terminal window and execute these two commands:
$ rm ~/.recently-used.xbel
$ mkdir ~/.recently-used.xbel
Replacing that file with a directory seems to be the only way to [...]
Ubuntu 7.04 - Install VMWare-Server from the Ubuntu Commercial Repository
Here is how to install the free VMWare Server application from the Ubuntu Commercial Repository. Note that during the install you will need a VMWare Server key, which you can get for free here.
1. Add the Commercial Repository to your sources. Here is how I do it:
A. Launch Synaptic.
$ sudo synaptic
B. [...]
Ubuntu 7.04 - Enable/Disable Remote Desktop from the Command Line
First, enable Remote Desktop in Gnome by going to System -> Preferences -> Remote Desktop.
Check ‘Allow other users to view your desktop’.
Check ‘Allow other users to control your desktop’.
Uncheck ‘Ask you for confirmation’.
Type in the password you want to use.
Click Close.
Remote Desktop is now running on your machine.
Now, open a terminal and type this command:
$ [...]
Ubuntu 7.04 - Use Windows XP inside of Linux
Virtualization allows you to create a ‘virtual machine’, which is essentially an application that runs another operating system inside of your current operating system. There are several different virtualization solutions available, some of which include QEMU, Xen, VirtualBox, and VMWare. This post will detail how to set up Windows XP in VMWare.
VMWare sells [...]
Ubuntu 7.04 - Protect your SSH server
SSH is a network protocol that allows establishing a secure connection between a local and a remote computer. You can install SSH server on your workstation and then have remote command line and Secure FTP (SFTP) access.
I use this command to install SSH server from the repositories:
$ sudo aptitude install ssh
By default, SSH server [...]
Ubuntu 7.04 - How I set up Firefox
Here is a screenshot that shows the way I configure my Firefox toolbars, etc: (click the thumbnail for a larger image):
I use the Tiny Menu extension to condense Firefox’s main menu (File, Edit, View, etc) into one item so that I get that screen real estate back. I then drag my bookmarks up to [...]
Ubuntu 7.04 - Setting up MPlayer with codecs to play most types of video
MPlayer is my video player of choice. Here is how I install it and set up the codecs:
Install Mplayer from the repositories:
$ sudo aptitude install mplayer
Then, download the codecs package that MPlayer distributes from here. After you download and extract that file, copy the resulting ‘win32′ folder to ‘usr/lib’:
$ sudo cp -R [...]
Ubuntu 7.04 - Configure Microsoft Wireless Intellimouse Explorer 2.0
This post shows how to get the side buttons (back/forward) on the Microsoft Wireless Intellimouse Explorer 2.0 to work in Firefox in Ubuntu 7.04:
Edit xorg.conf
$ sudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Find this section:
Section “InputDevice”
Identifier “Configured Mouse”
Driver “mouse”
Option [...]
