Dec

15

CIFS VFS Shutdown Error When Using SMBFS

December 15, 2009 | By: UbuntuLinuxHelp | 7 Comments
Posted in Linux Fixes

I recently installed a fresh copy of Ubuntu Jaunty (9.04) and set up access to (DNS-321) my network shares using smbfs; as in the post “Sharing the Same Files Between Two PC’s”. Shortly afterwards, when rebooting, shutting down, etc. I received this error message: ACPID: Exiting NM_SYSTEM_SETTING: SCPlugin-Ifupdown: Devices removed (UDI: /org/freedesktop/hal/devices/net_00_30_1B_BE_38_3D) [601.136038] CIFS VFS: [...]

Dec

14

Leave the Num Lock On!

December 14, 2009 | By: UbuntuLinuxHelp | 4 Comments
Posted in Linux Fixes

I recently (finally) upgraded to Ubuntu 9.04 (I’ve always had issues with x.10 releases for some reason). Until the upgrade I wanted to remain with the LTS track, but (it seems) less developers are supporting it, hence the move. I’ve performed excessive numbers of installs of Ubuntu and various applications on test boxes, but they [...]

Dec

4

Adding a Terminal Hot Key Shortcut – Reader Questions

December 4, 2009 | By: UbuntuLinuxHelp | 2 Comments
Posted in How to...

Janice emailed asking: “…and lots of your posts show us how to do things in a terminal. Each time I have to go to Applications / Accessories / Terminal, isn’t there a faster way, like some key combination or something?…” In Ubuntu (for that matter pretty much all Linux distros), you can set up “hot [...]

Dec

1

Faster Internet With an Old Laptop – Revisited

December 1, 2009 | By: UbuntuLinuxHelp | 1 Comment
Posted in Linux Projects - Hands On

One of my earlier posts, Faster Internet With an Old Laptop – Ubuntu and Squid, discussed how to install Squid and Webmin on an old laptop. The premise being that having a proxy server on the network helped speed up web browsing (because of the caching capabilities), reduced external bandwidth usage, etc. In that post, [...]

Jun

17

Using Built-in Policy Installer in Firewall Builder

June 17, 2009 | By: Vadim Kurland | Leave a Comment
Posted in How to...

This article continues the series of articles on Firewall Builder, a graphical firewall configuration and management tool that supports many Open Source firewall platforms as well as Cisco IOS access lists and Cisco ASA (PIX). Firewall Builder was introduced on this site earlier with articles Getting Started With Firewall Builder and Using Built-in Policy Importer [...]

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