I have written a few articles on Samba here on Ghacks. And most people know how to connect to Samba shares via Windows. Generally speaking (when all is set up correctly) it’s just a matter of opening up Explorer and entering \\ADDRESS_OF_SAMBA_SERVER\SHARENAME to get to your Samba shares. But what about in Linux? How do [...]

Tags: GNOME, samba, samba shares, smb.conf, smbclient
Categories: Advice, Linux, Server, Tutorials Advanced, Windows, software

The Xbox Media Center arrived in 2004 and became popular so quickly that it became clear more ports would be needed. So the XBMC team allowed this tool to evolve into a cross platform media center that would run on just about anything you can think of.  But, of course, the purpose of this article [...]

Tags: media center, multimedia, video playback
Categories: Hardware, Linux, Music and Video, Tutorials Advanced, software

So you have your Ubuntu server up and running with a Postfix mail server (see “Install Postfix for reliable email delivery“). You have also set up Postfix for antivirus with the help of ClamAV (see “Add antivirus to Post fix with ClamAV“). Finally you have Postfix set up to relay (see “Mail relaying made simple [...]

Tags: Email, email filtering, Postfix, spam, SPAM scoring
Categories: Advice, Email, Linux, Networks, Open Source, Security, Server, Tutorials Advanced

By now you have your Postfix mail server up and running (see “Install Postfix for reliable email delievery“). You even have relaying working (see “Mail relaying made simple with Postfix“). But one of the most important features you can add to a mail server is an system to prevent viruses from being passed to users. [...]

Tags: anti virus, Postfix, virus definitions
Categories: Advice, Email, Linux, Networks, Open Source, Security, Server, Tutorials Advanced, software

In this Linux backup series we have taken a look at Flyback (”Quick and easy backups with Flyback“), Backerupper (”Simple gui backup tool Backerupper“), and Back In Time (”Linux Back In Time: Backup made easy“). But what Linux series would be complete without a command line entry? Not this one.
There is one thing that most [...]

Tags: automated backup, backup, linux backup, secure shell, ssh
Categories: Advice, Linux, Networks, Open Source, Server, Tutorials Advanced, Tutorials Basic, software

The Linux operating system has a really nice tool for testing and optimizing your hard drive. This tool is called hdparm and can work with both IDE and ATA drives. NOTE: hdparm does NOT work with SATA drives. The hdparm tool is a command line only tool, and even though it should be only used [...]

Tags: ATA drives, drive throughput, IDE drives
Categories: Advice, Hardware, Linux, Open Source, Tutorials Advanced

Have you installed the Postfix as an easier to use, more secure alternative to Sendmail only to find yourself having trouble with the old “unable to relay” errors? This can be very frustrating and have you pulling out your hair in no time.
MTAs (Mail Transfer Agents) can be a tricky lot to set up. Add [...]

Tags: mail relaying, mail server, Postfix
Categories: Email, Linux, Networks, Open Source, Server, Tutorials Advanced, software