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Step 1 - Install Ubuntu 8.04
After a basic install while connected to your pre-existing Windows network, internet access from the Ubuntu PC should work straight away.
Internet access by the Ubuntu PC is essential to this process. Do not proceed unless it is working.
By default, a lot of networking capability on the Ubuntu machine is already working:
In Places > Network, you will see the 'Windows Network' icon.
D/clicking on it will take you to [the name of your windows network], in my case mshome
D/clicking on mshome will display all the pc's currently on your network within the mshome workgroup.
D/clicking on the icon of a pc will display it’s shared folders.
D/clicking on a Windows shared folder will cause an ‘Enter Password’ dialog to appear.
Just click on ‘Cancel’, and the dialog will close, and the contents of the folder will be displayed anyway.
Also, a shortcut to the Windows shared folder will appear on the Ubuntu desktop.
This shortcut will be removed automatically at the next reboot, or it can removed by right-clicking on it & selecting ‘Unmount Volume’
So, by default, from your Ubuntu PC you can transfer files between the Ubuntu Desktop (and other folders) & Windows Shared folders
However, the Ubuntu pc cannot be seen from the Windows pc's.
The rest of this guide shows how to make the Ubuntu pc visible to & accessible by the Windows pc’s on your home network.
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Step 2 - Create a folder in Ubuntu to become visible (later) on the network
You could think of this new folder becoming your Ubuntu equivalent of the 'Shared Documents' folder in Windows.
Right-click on the Ubuntu desktop & create the new folder called, say, 804Shared
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Step 3 - Prepare the folder for sharing on the network
Right-click on the 804Shared folder, and select Sharing Options
A dialog saying Folder Sharing will appear. Select the Share this Folder’ box
After a short delay, a dialog saying' Sharing Service is not installed' will appear.
Click on Install Service Ubuntu will ask for your login password
This will cause a program called Samba to be downloaded from the internet & installed
Wait for the installation to complete with the message Changes Applied, then close the dialog.
NOW REBOOT THE UBUNTU PC – I know you shouldn’t have to, but I have found this to be essential on some installations, so why not….
Right-click on the 804Shared folder, and select Sharing Options
The dialog saying Folder Sharing will re-appear, with more options now available:
Select the ‘Allow other people to write in this folder’ box
Click on Create Share.
A dialog ‘Nautilus needs to add some permissions…..’ appears.
Click on ‘Add the permissions automatically’
The icon for the shared folder will now change to indicate sharing by displaying a double arrow:
At this point, the Ubuntu PC will become visible to Windows PCs on the network:
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Step 4 - Access the Ubuntu pc from a Windows pc.
On a Windows XP PC, go to 'My Network Places' > 'View Workgroup Computers'
The Ubuntu PC icon will be shown, and when clicking on it a password is requested.
Enter the login name & password of the Ubuntu PC you are connecting to:
You can then see & access the Ubuntu shared folder you created in step 2. Job done!
Gnome Partition Editor, oftewel Gparted, is een uitstekende partitiebeheerder. Maar u kunt Gparted beter niet gebruiken in een Linux die u van de harde schijf van uw computer hebt opgestart. Reden: sommige Linuxdistro's, waaronder Ubuntu, willen een nieuw aangemaakte partitie meteen automatisch aankoppelen. Dat botst soms met de werking van Gparted.
In uw computergereedschapskist hoort daarom beslist een gespecialiseerde LiveCD met Gparted erop: Hier de Gparted LiveCD.Tip 1: U dient in Gparted één van de primaire partities te voorzien van een opstartvlag (boot flag). Anders wil de computer niet opstarten vanaf de harde schijf. Als u Windows op een van de partities hebt staan, dan moet de Windowspartitie de opstartvlag krijgen.
Tip 2: Formatteer Linuxpartities altijd als EXT3 en niet als EXT2. EXT3 houdt namelijk een dagboekje bij (journal), waarin beschreven staat waar de bestanden op de harde schijf staan. Zo hebt u veel minder kans op gegevensverlies bij een stroomstoring. EXT3 is eigenlijk geen zelfstandig formatteringstype, want het is gewoon EXT2 met een plusje, zijnde het dagboekje. Bij de opstartboodschappen van uw PC kunt u dan ook soms zien, dat een EXT3-partitie wordt aangeduid als EXT2.
Tip 3: partities verschuiven of samenvoegen duurt soms vele uren, want het gaat sector per sector. Veel sneller en handiger is het daarom, om een overbodige partitie te vernietigen en de lege ruimte gewoon toe te voegen aan een bestaande partitie. Dat is slechts minutenwerk.
Tip 4: in het menu van Gparted staat de mogelijkheid om uw schijf een DOS-label te geven. Dat is geen onschuldig labeltje voor een partitie, zoals u misschien zou denken (zucht.... ik dacht het ooit), maar een handeling die alle bestaande partities op de harde schijf vernietigt. Het is maar dat u het weet..April 2nd, 2007
I have written before about my admiration for Web typography, and in that article I touched on the fact that many “Web safe” fonts can’t be applied to Linux. Linux distributions each ship with their own font libraries, but I’d like to focus on similar typefaces you can use within a font-family to help make your design bulletproof.
I have been trying to find a Cheat Sheet or Keyboard Shortcut list out on the web but have not been able to find anything remotely complete......So I went out to all the various sources and found all the shortcuts, hints, keystokes, etc that I could find and I compiled a list of them.Find your files easily
Tracker, a lightweight and fast indexing agent, is a great tool to help you locate your files and emails easily. While it comes pre-installed with Hardy, I am curious why it is not enabled by default.
Go to System->Preferences->Search and Indexing. On the General tab, check on the box “Enable indexing” and “Enable watching“. Click OK. A dialog box will appear to prompt you to restart the tracker daemon. Click Restart and you should see the tracker icon on the top right panel.
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Tracker
Drag-and-dropping files with the left mouse button will move files, just like other desktops. There are some modifiers to the normal drag and drop make this action more powerful:
drag and drop with the middle mouse button or with the Alt key pressed gives you the menu of options, such as copying rather than moving the files
keeping the Ctrl key pressed while drag and dropping will copy the files instead of moving them
holding the Shift key pressed while drag and dropping will move the files
pressing both Shift and Ctrl will create a symbolic link to the file
dragging from a window not currently active while pressing the AltGr key or the Super key (usually the Windows key) or one of the modifier key told above will not raise the window, leaving the focus on the current window (this workaround to not-raising-windows-when-they-shouldn't-be possibly only exists due to separate bugs)
pressing Esc while dragging something will cancel the drag
