Q. What is SAMBA? A. “Samba is a Free Open Source Software suite that provides seamless file and print services to SMB/CIFS clients.” Q. Where is SAMBA’s home? A. http://www.samba.org Q. Why did you bother writing this? A. Several reasons, mostly to help myself and others. Note: You may want…
Well….as I posted not that long ago, Red Hat is changing the way they do business with Virtualization. See the official news release here. http://www.redhat.com/about/news/prarchive/2009/agenda.html It seems they are serious about using KVM for their future, as they scooped up the parent company last Sept. and are gearing towards full…
I’m on my way back from the Black Hat DC 2009 briefings, and thought I’d give a brief synopsis of my experience there while waiting to catch a plane. This was the first opportunity I’ve had to attend such a conference, and it was made possible by Alan over at…
I’ve seen various posts about people having issues installing/configuring the vmtools package under their CentOS guest. So here’s my new “Quick Tip” Inside your CentOS 5.x guest VM Install/update the kernel source and gcc packages. sudo yum -y install kernel-devel gcc Then under the Vmware host application select “VM “Install…
For two years, I have battled with this issue of Bellsouth.net (and AT&T in general) blocking email from any domain hosted on my web server. I set up all kinds of security precautions, set up SPF records, and ran all sorts of tests in order to subdue the fears that…
Quick Tips from the field. If you’re running a Linux host with a Linux guest and are having issues with your keyboard keys being mapped wrong inside your VM. (Like my up arrow was remapped to “Print” etc) Then you can try the following. edit the following file: /etc/vmware/config Add…
