Posted on September 10th, 2009 by egiles
Ubuntu
Make sure you have the proper services installed:
apt-get install smbclient smbfs
List Services
/usr/bin/smbclient -L host
Connect
/usr/bin/smbclient service <password> [-U username]
Example, to connect to a MyBookWorld partition:
/usr/bin/smbclient //MyBookWorld/Public mypassword -U myusername
Where myusername and mypassword are created on the MyBookWorld store and Public is the store on the MyBookWorld.
Mounting the shareMounting a Samba Share
mount -t smbfs -o username=<name>,password=<passwd> //sambashare /mountpoint
If [...]
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Posted on September 9th, 2009 by egiles
This process works for VMware server 1.09 and Kernel 2.6.28 (and .27) from Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope.
1. Make sure you have a build environment (gcc, make, etc). If not:
apt-get install gcc make build-essential
2. Install your kernel’s headers:
apt-get install linux-headers-`uname -r`
Make a note of where the headers were installed. It’s usually in /usr/src/. I usually do [...]
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Posted on September 9th, 2009 by egiles
When burning an iso file (an image of a CD or DVD), it is important to not only verify the buring of the disc but to also verify the download of the data. Many times data can be corrupted when downloading large files or transferring large sets of data between machines. One time I had [...]
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Posted on September 9th, 2009 by egiles
When installing Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope from CD on a new machine, configuring with RAID 1 is easier than ever.
You can follow the instructions directly from Ubutu forums and even skip the boot loader and startup script as the install has improved from the previous release.
Useful command before reboot to check the sync of the [...]
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Posted on September 8th, 2009 by egiles
If you’re running into hard drive issues, sporadic error messages, or other problems, it’s time to backup and test your drive.
If you’re on a journaling file system ext4 or other, these errors might sometimes get corrected, but you need to replace your drive.
apt-get install smartmontools
smartctl -a /dev/sda1 (or your problematic drive)
Any errors or queued reads/writes [...]
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Posted on September 8th, 2009 by egiles
I was randomly getting hard drive error messages. UNC means UNCorrectable ERRor, …. not good. These messages were like:
Feb 17 10:40:34 server04 kernel: ata1.00: cmd 60/f8:08:85:fe:dd/00:00:18:00:00/40 tag 1 ncq 126976 in
Feb 17 10:40:34 server04 kernel: res 40/00:10:7d:00:de/00:00:18:00:00/40 Emask 0×1 (device error)
Feb 17 10:40:34 server04 kernel: ata1.00: status: { DRDY }
Feb 17 10:40:34 server04 kernel: ata1.00: cmd [...]
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Posted on September 8th, 2009 by egiles
After a fresh install of Ubuntu 9.04, you might have a network interface virbr0 if you’ve selected to install a virtual machine emulator. During the CD install, selecting vm, it will install kvm and xen. It will create a network interface virbr0 or virbr1 to perform host networking.
Later, if you decide to install VMWare or decide [...]
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