Accessing smbd 4.0.5 shares from Windows 7
Hello!I've set up smbd on my arch-hf raspberry pi. From my Linux Mint netbook the shares are visible and accessible. From Windows 7 (Professional) however, I get a user/password prompt and can't log...
View ArticleNFS automount of home directories not working with LDAP users except after...
Ubuntu 11.10 and 12.04 I am writing a chef recipe to setup LDAP clients and make our users' NFS home directories available to them upon login. After my chef recipe is run, LDAP works perfectly however...
View ArticleMonitoring Postfix logs and alerting on bounces/blocks?
I'm getting tired of manually reviewing postfix logs / having users tell me that notifications aren't working for them. Is there some way to automatically monitor the mail log and send out an alert...
View ArticleHow to change a clock setting? or how to solve a noob mistake.
During the installation of Fedora 18 in my notebook, I changed my clock settings: now the clock is two days ahead of the current time. This error is haunting me, because I am getting errors of some...
View ArticleSetting up Citrix Receiver (ICA Client) in 64-bit Linux
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View ArticleReverse Engineer bin files?
I have a monitoring agent that installs via RPM and for the most part that's great. It's a little odd in that it installs the agent in a /var/ subdirectory. My main problem is that it generates a...
View ArticleI just took a week-long course on Linux+, and would like to take the exam....
I am Security+, CCNA, CISSP certified. Linux has been my weakest area. I can navigate comfortably around Linux and use VI, etc, but still am not super-strong. How difficult is Linux+? How can I study...
View ArticleSync Maildir to IMAP
Scenario: - Migrating a server to a cloud mail service with no ssh access, only web panel access. - Have all Maildir from users and need to sync with new accounts. - Have all the passwords needed but...
View ArticleCloud Box Network Card "dying" under load, fixed with ifconfig down && up
I've been having an issue with one of my cloud hosted boxes. Under load - almost randomly - the machine will refuse to take connections. I then log into the machine and run "ifconfig eth1 down...
View ArticleIs this a threat, or just somebody's misconfigured crawler?
I recently implemented more stringent firewall rules, one of which only accepts DNS udp packets with source ports 1024:65535 and destination port 53. Most of the examples use this source port...
View ArticlePuppet deb issue: binary from apt.puppetlabs.com won't install...anybody got...
Running Puppet 3.1.1 on a bunch of Ubuntu 10.04 clients, up unitl now the install has just been a matter of adding the apt.puppetlabs.com repository and apt-get install puppet. Now the repository...
View ArticleAny cheap VPS for website, DNS server and directory service somewhere in EU,...
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View Article[Samba/CIFS] Windows 7 Shares getting disk full errors intermittently.
Sorry if this isn't the right place for this but I figured you guys might have run into this before and /r/linux4noobs has come up dry...So I have a few Windows 7 (ntfs) shares I have mounted in Ubuntu...
View Article/usr/bin/lastlog only displays local user entries. Why?
I have a Debian Squeeze server, joined to an AD domain. When I run /usr/bin/lastlog, it only displays entries for local users (the ones in /etc/passwd). However, AD accounts can also log in, and if I...
View Articlenginx stops responding to requests
We have a fairly beefy server running the lamp stack, substituting nginx for apache.Anyway - Once every month or so, nginx will stop responding to outside requests and the only way to get the service...
View Article[Help] HDD partitions missing or "in use" during installation.
I tried doing a funtoo installation today using the latest systemrecuecd. Then this happened.Then I rebooted, and checked dmesg, and indeed the kernel recognized all the partitions. So did cfdisk. But...
View ArticleCentOS backup software recommendations
Hey guys I'm wondering what you guys would suggest for backup software for some CentOS 6 machines I have. thanks! submitted by TerminalTox1n [link][26 comments]
View ArticleComplete noob to Linux groups: can it be set up that files created by a user...
I host a few people's websites on my servers. I need to give write access to their files to a group of maintainers who I don't trust with root access.I basically need all files created by, for example,...
View ArticleStrange Ubuntu DNS replies
I am having a strange issue with two of our Ubuntu boxes. When the user pings an internal server ("bob"), the replies it get alternate between an old domain we used to be on, and the new/current...
View ArticleBrand new; need a good resource to learn to set up and configure Red Hat
Long story short, I'm a Windows admin who has an opportunity to move into a different position - it may not involve a ton of Linux knowledge, but I've had a discussion with the hiring manager and he...
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