Restarting background services in Debian | Ubuntu
It appears that this step is increasingly finding it’s way into a lot of installation procedures in Debian | Ubuntu, so I decided to write a small post on it–that way, whenever I need to include a restart procedure on an installation, I’ll refer to this post. Getting sysv-rc-conf Sysv-rc-conf is a curses based interface [...]
Connect Windows to a CUPS printer
There are a couple of ways to print to a CUPS printer from a Windows machine–CUPS printer means it’s a printer connected to either a UNIX, Linux or an OSX machine, cups is the system which these OSes use to serve up print services. One way to print from Windows is via the Samba capabilities [...]
Build a Linux print server using Debian Lenny
You can share your printer in a couple of ways, using Windows sharing, buying a print server appliance or, if you happen to have a spare PC that’s collecting dust in the curb, you can turn it into a print server. This guide assumes that you have a Debian Linux installed on a spare PC, [...]