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Samba Tips

johnw - Tue, 2006-01-10 08:13

This needs someone to write something better, such as a list of good links, but meanwhile here are some tips from the mailing list:

Try turning off your firewall: iptables -F

Or install the gui Firestarter, which will show you what connections are being attempted.

Recommended docs: http://www.samba.org and in particular http://us2.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba3-ByExample/simple.html

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Mail Thread Grub

johnw - Sun, 2005-12-25 18:43

This needs tidying up, but is the gist of a thread on the mail list about Grub:

John W wrote:

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BringABox 10 December 2005

Lots of activity, a well attended meeting, spreading over 3 rooms, with laptops and PCs loading distros and problems being discussed.

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Screen Guide

stevew - Sat, 2005-12-03 18:08

Screen

This is a summary of a thread on the mailing list in late November 2005

MarkRound

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Voice Over IP

johnw - Tue, 2005-11-15 13:07

Some notes from the mailing list about VoIP, need tidying up and extending:

On 13 Nov 2005, Paul S wrote:

Does anybody here have any experience of SIP VoIP telephony please? I'm in work and have a challenge:

 *I'm behind a corporate firewall 
 *The only way out is via the HTTP or FTP proxy 
 *Chances of getting an SIP proxy installed are very low 
 *Skype does work here but their Linux support is pretty poor

In a perfect world I'd like to:

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Doze to Tux

johnw - Tue, 2005-11-15 13:01

Extracted from mailing list thread "I want my wife to be a guinea pig", decide on a good page name and then revise to be a page about migrating from Doze to Tux.

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BringABox 12 November 2005

Informal meeting, with several boxes and general chat.

Juergen was installing Puppy Linux (a very interesting distro, only 60Mb, but lots of capability by taking a no-bloatware approach, e.g. AbiWord instead of Open Office).

Casper needed to get some files from a Mac hard drive, Ubuntu did the job easily, then he transferred them to his own laptop via SSH.

Clive was handing out osde.info CDs and raving about the VMware Player.

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Apache Tips

Anonymous (not verified) - Thu, 2005-11-10 06:30

This page describes some of the things I have learnt about Apache from using it for four years.

Apache reports out of disk space when not

If Apache refuses to start with one of the following two errors in the error log:

 (28)No space left on device: Couldn't create accept lock

or

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BringABox 8 October 2005

A very interesting talk by Richard, on his work on the Gnome Power Manager. About a dozen members present.

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