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Samba allows Windows machines to access shared areas of a Linux filesystem. These notes are for configuration on a RedHat 9.0 linux installation and assume that the SMB services are already installed. Startup The two SMB daemons are /usr/sbin/smbd and /usr/sbin/nmbd. These are started from init.d. Check if the smb service is already setup to …
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Major annoucements today included: NetBeans 4.0 released: now a complete J2EE development environment with support for developing JSPs, Servlets, EJBs, and Web Services Allied Irish Bank, one of Irelands largest financial institutions, is going to be migrating 7500 users to the Linux based Java Desktop System operating system.
Microsoft have released the source code for Windows Installer as Open Source on SourceForge. This is apparently the first of a number of non-core projects that Microsoft will be open-sourcing. This is obviously a move for Microsoft to appeal to Linux and open source users.
Linux uses ‘runlevels’ to define the current capability of the system, for example, whether the system is running in single user, multi-user, text or graphical modes. The default runlevel for when the system boots is defined in the