The key to configuring Samba is its lone configuration file: smb.conf. A basic samba configuration for the smb.conf file is given below. [global] workgroup = SIMPLE [SHARE] comment = Common Share path = /SHARE read only = no guest ok = yes Prior to adding the confifuration to the smb.conf file, take a backup of […]
Q: How are device files represented in UNIX/Linux? A: All devices are represented as files called special files and are located in the /dev directory. Q: What is a inode? The inode(Index node) is a fundamental concept in Linux/Unix file systems. Each object in the file system is represented by an inode. Each and every […]
The Red Hat Crash Utility is a kernel-specific debugger. It is usually used for performing postmortem system analysis when the system panicked, locked up, or appears unresponsive. In this short article, Eugene Teo will give a quick overview of how you can install crash and how you can use it to get important information from […]
After years of trying to cut off Linux growth as a desktop platform on x86 and x64 PCs, Microsoft may have actually figured out a way to stop Linux deployments on client PCs dead in their tracks. At the very least, Linux deployment will be hindered on any Windows 8-certified machines to come, as […]