stories of war between boy and machine
(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 […]
In progress Last year, I was involved in a project to research a system to equip listed buildings in the UK with wireless power to control heating systems (since you can’t drill holes everywhere to run wires and cables). The part I was working on was developing a simple app to control a boiler […]
Further to the previous post on this, we have had a second catastrophic outage of our storage array which, once again, has taken Studentnet with it. However, going from my previous blog post has allowed me to get this up and running fairly quickly. In the process, I found some addendums that I would make to […]
Carrying on with my network-switchport-mapping-program, here’s the latest thing I was working on; making a configuration file. Because I keep changing where I am, so also does my active network connection (in other words, at work the IP address is something like 10.x.x.x and at home its 192.x.x.x). The thing is, it isn’t going to […]
(I am trying out a new theme today called Crayon syntax highlighter which should hopefully make some of these coding examples I do look a bit prettier. I set it to the Visual Studio 2012 theme, which means using Consolas as the font. So lets see how this goes!) Today I will show you what […]
Keeping a track of computers that are all connected to a network can be a hassle, without desktop management software. Even with it, you can’t necessarily tell exactly which physical computer is connected to a given switch port. Eventually, you will come back to a switch closet, but this doesn’t necessarily help the situation at […]