samba and swat

14 May

SAMBA AND SWAT SWAT (Samba Web Administration Tool) is not installed as part of the Red Hat 9.0 Windows Networking selection. Selecting samba-swat as part of the Red Hat 9.0 installation (Check Individual Package Selection in the Package Group Selection, … Read More »

reset graphics redhat linux

14 May

Digital Thoughts: Virtual PC 2004 and Linux If you get your graphics setup wrong in Linux then you can use (key combinations may vary) to switch to a shell and then use the command redhat-config-xfree86 –reconfig to start again from … Read More »

remote desktop

13 May

remote desktop used rdp to login to an XP pro computer to setup a user. computer is part of a domain. afterwards the new user could log in fine, but 2 other users could not login, they received interactive logon … Read More »

ipaq brick

13 May

The Bootldr Archives: Re: iPAQ Brick Its not a brick yet. Let’s see if we can fix that :-> If you are seeing bootldr screens then there is hope. First, double, triple and quadruple check your comm params: 8 bits, … Read More »

access windows share from linux

3 May

access windows share from linux It is very simple. Assuming that you have installed the appropriate samba packages (the samba-client packages), and that you have properly created a share on the windows machine, just run the command: mount -t smbfs … Read More »

batch file clone

3 May

batch file clone this will backup the c-drive to the x-drive with fast compression -clone,mode=create,src=1,dst=x:\ghost\8t429 -z1 this will restore from the x-drive to the c-drive -clone,mode=restore,src=x:\ghost\84429.gho,dst=1

multidrop fetchmail

30 Apr

multidrop fetchmail You should probably have the following in /etc/aliases: root: robert postmaster: robert music: robert And something like this in your .fetchmailrc: set postmaster=”postmaster@localhost” server pop3.demon.co.uk aka list.of.domains.involved user bdt-home there is * here (I forget the exact syntax, … Read More »

fetchmail multidrop box

30 Apr

fetchmail multidrop box You know what the problem was? Host names on the Solaris box. I think. It couldn’t figure out who the host was, so it couldn’t figure out where to put the other user IDs. Peculiar not to … Read More »

block outgoing (egress) ipcop

14 Apr

block outgoing (egress) ipcop this worked… yea.. root@ipcop:/etc/rc.d # more rc.local #!/bin/sh /sbin/iptables -F CUSTOMFORWARD # /sbin/iptables -A CUSTOMFORWARD -p tcp -s 192.168.33.12/32 –dport 80 -j DROP root@ipcop:/etc/rc.d #