Sharing files between Ubuntu and OSX (Snow Leopard) using NFS
NFS (Network File System) is an old way of sharing files between UNIX systems. It was written way before the time when we started sharing files the way we are sharing them right now with Windows servers and workstations. I actually would have not installed it, because I already have a Samba server in the [...]
Forgot the Linux root password
A bit of disclaimer—use the information in this guide at your own risk, the information in this guide should only be used to recover passwords from machines to which you have legitimate access. your screen might look something like this picture, if you have GRUB What you need to do is to boot in single [...]
How to tell which Ubuntu version you have
If you’re revisiting some old servers you’ve played around before, or maybe installed and forgot about it, you may not remember the exact distribution name. Sure you can uname -a then get the kernel version from there then google it up which distro has that kernel version; or just use $ lsb_release -a lsb_release is [...]
Simple Ubuntu server setup
An Ubuntu server installation can vary widely depending on what you want to accomplish. Our goal is a base installation just enough for the server to boot a multi user environment and allow for remote login via ssh. On versions and hardware requirements Ubuntu 9.04 is the current version, at the time of this writing. [...]
How to setup a simple file server in Debian | Ubuntu
If you’ve ever wanted to setup an Ubuntu/Debian file server for you home network | small network, here’s a simple DIY. We’ll use Samba as the file server. SMB; or Server Message Block is commonly found on the Windows platform, and users are very familiar accessing network shares using \\servername\sharename Samba used to be very [...]
Setting the root password in Ubuntu
WARNING! Don’t use the root password just because; a) You can b) You’re too lazy to type sudo c) You feel a sense a pride and importance being the super-user When you first installed Ubuntu, it didn’t ask you for a root password, there’s a good reason for this — you’re not supposed to use [...]
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