stories of war between boy and machine
Its been a while since I’ve talked about FOG on here. The last 4 or 5 months have been busy and filled up with term-time activities as well as fixing many issues we have had. So FOG is still very much in use where I work, but there have been some changes to how we use […]
(Looking for how to set up a Samba share in Linux? See one of my previous posts for setting up Samba shares with Ubuntu) Before I start, this article assumes that you already have a Samba share you want to access and that you are running Windows (XP, 7, 8 its all kind of similar). It’s quite a […]
Our file share seems to be running well now, except for one bothersome thing; The generation of hidden system files. I noticed this after one of our team members accessed our Samba share from a system running Mac OS, where I could see where he’d looked around by the trail of hidden ._.DS_Store files he had left […]
Continuing from the last post, with the original default configuration you could browse shares on the server, but with the updated configuration you can’t. We have joined the server to Active Directory and there are likely no issues reported with running pbis status, so what could be wrong? I had a look through some logs in /var/log/samba/, where there are […]
Since writing this post, these subsequent posts may help with some issues: How to remove .DS_Store and other system-created files in Samba Issues with PBIS Active Directory and Samba Introduction One of the many servers we didn’t lose was the team’s storage server, called Warehouse. In fact, it was the only remaining survivor of what we […]
Here’s a quick overview of Unix permissions: A file, or directory, has associated permissions for an owner, a group and for all other users. Each of those three categories, owner, group or world, can have permissions for being able to read, write, and execute a file or directory on the system. Each is set to either 1 (true, able […]