You have your Ubuntu Server up and running (with the help of “Installing Ubuntu Server 9.04“) but you’re afraid you’ll run out of room on your drive. To solve this problem you have installed a new hard drive, but because this is a GUI-less server you do not have access to the user-friendly GUI tools [...]
- Author: Jack Wallen
- Published: Aug 1st, 2009
- Comments: 16
Install VirtualBox with USB support
If you’ve installed VirtualBox as instructed in my tutorial “Install and configure VirtualBox for virtual OSes” you most likely have discovered that the open source edition of VirtualBox does not have USB support. In fact there are a few other features the open source edition does not offer that the closed-source edition does (such as [...]
- Author: Jack Wallen
- Published: Apr 19th, 2009
- Comments: 5
Auto mounting a Samba share in Linux
So you have that Samba server up and running and you can connect to it from Windows and Mac with ease. But when you turn to another Linux box that doesn’t have Konqueror, Nautilus, or Dolphin you can’t figure out the riddle of connecting. Or maybe you want to have this share mounted at boot [...]
- Author: Jack Wallen
- Published: Jan 3rd, 2009
- Comments: 6
Understanding Linux /etc/fstab
The fstab file has a very key mission for your Linux system. What it does is map devices to directories so those devices can be used. If you plug in an external drive or a device like such as an iPod you are going to have to take advantage of fstab. In this article you [...]
