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Samba Client Configuration Hello and welcome to part 2 of  configuring samba.In our previous tutorial we discussed how to configure samba server and then accessed linux samba share from windows.  In this second part we will learn how to configure samba client on linux and will demonstrate how to access linux samba server from linux with samba client configured on it. Assumption: We assume you have already configured samba server on linux as per instructions in our part 1 tutorial Client side Linux For using samba services  on Linux client machine you need to install it samba-client. [root@blogger Bhaskar]# yum install samba-client –y Here I am using CentOS 6.7 version of linux . So I need to start the service by using below command. [root@blogger Bhaskar]# service smb start To view/display the shared data use below command

Samba Server Configuration We welcome you to another exciting tutorial . We will learn how to make linux folder or directory shareable for linux and non linux servers. In this tutorial we will demonstrate sharing between linux and windows. . The functionality which provides this sharing between linux and windows  is samba tool.  This tool not only allows you to share file or directory but also you can share printers and configure it as domain controller.This will give you a start and later you can explore different possibilities/ ideas Introduction Samba is a package which run on *nix systems. It uses TCP/IP protocol to communicate when correctly configured and interact with windows file server as well. The daemon of samba is smb ( Server Message Block ) and it is also known as CIFS ( Common Internet File System ), this operates application layer network protocol. It listens on port number 137 , 138 and 139 .

Introduction Hey guys welcome to redaix! what if you want to transfer data from client machine to linux server or download data from linux server to client machine or if you want data transfer between two servers. One of many other ways is using ftp connection. FTP (File Transfer Protocol) is most common way of transferring data between systems for decades probably over 4 decades. However it sends data unencrypted which means ftp is old fashioned. It uses port 20 and 21. Port 20 for commands and 21 for data transfer. So what’s secure way of transferring files. My friends secure FTP . Yes secure ftp (sftp) linux has daemon vsftpd (very secure ftp daemon).Please do not confuse this with FTPS. This is based on ssh (secure shell) which is known for providing good secure connections to shell to linux users.This tutorial will show how  to install and configure vsftpd. Ok kool let’s start Installation and configuration Step 1: Installation Firstly we have to check the pack

Have you ever wondered while your linux installation that how much space should you reserve for the system and user files ?  That’s a question that troubles many of us “How should i partition my disk drive ? ” Although you would get many suggestions on that but why to think about it if you have a better alternative…..LVM According to Wikipedia , logical volume management or LVM provides a method of allocating space on mass-storage devices that is more flexible than conventional partitioning schemes. In particular, a volume manager can concatenate, stripe together or otherwise combine partitions into larger virtual ones that administrators can re-size or move, potentially without interrupting system use. Let’s understand it with an example Say Samuel has the following partitions on his disk 1 2 3 4 /boot    /dev/sda1     512 Megabytes swap     /dev/sda2    256 Megabytes /        /dev/sda3      10 Gigabytes /home    /dev/sda4      30 Gigabytes

To install Redhat enterprise virtualization hypervisor(RHEV-H) , You need a hardware with “virtualization Technology”(VT-X) enabled processors.Once you have such a hardware ,then you can start installing RHEV-H on it. You need to download the bootable “Redhat enterprise virtualization hypervisor” ISO image from Redhat website  with valid subscription. If you do not have one , Redhat is providing 60 days trail for RHEV . Just sign up using corporate email address and download the ISO. This article is going to demonstrate the “ redhat enterprise virtualization hypervisor ” installation with step by step screenshots. At the end of this article, we will see how we can install this hypervisor on top of VMware workstation for learning purpose.

openLDAP directory service is based on a client-server model. LDAP transferred “Lightweight directory access protocol”   is a directory service protocol that runs on a layer above the TCP/IP stack. It provides a mechanism used to connect to, search, and modify Internet directories. The LDAP directory service is based on a client-server model. openLDAP is used to facilitate centralized user management. It eliminates users creation on each and every server, instead of creating users and there profile in all the servers we can create them in LDAP server and access from all the LDAP client machines.

Preboot eXecution Environment (PXE Boot, sometimes pronounced as pixie) specification describes a standardized client-server environment that boots a software assembly, retrieved from a network, on PXE-enabled clients. On the client side it requires only a PXE-capable network interface controller (NIC), and uses a small set of industry-standard network protocols such as DHCP and TFTP. The concept behind the PXE originated in the early days of protocols like BOOTP/DHCP/TFTP, and as of 2015 it forms part of the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) standard. Given fast and reliable local area networks (LANs), PXE is the most frequent choice for operating system booting, installation and deployment. Assume if there is no PXE Boot server we have to have more OS CD/DVD’s to install multiple clients and require manual intervention to configure partitions, software packages users creation so an. PXE Boot is very useful when we looking to re-image / install more clients y

What is Nagios..?? Nagios is an most popular and enterprise open source monitoring tool. Using this monitoring tool you can monitor any device in this world even UPS / Battery status. This tool will support almost all the scripting languages. Prepare your Linux server to install Nagios monitoring tool Nagios Version:   4.1.1 Prerequisites: Nagios code is written in C language so you required an gcc++ compiler packages to compile and install Nagios. Required wget package to download the nagios tool directly from web to server To untar  the package required Rar / Zip RPM’s Web / Apache / Httpd service to host the Nagios Install php and perl packages to run Nagios plugins

DHCP server : Dynamic host configuration protocol is a Client/Server protocol which will automatically provide IP address to the requested client. Not only IP address along with IP it will also provide subnet mask, default gateway and DNS IP address. Every device on a TCP/IP-based network must have a unique unicast IP address to access the network and its resources. Without DHCP, IP addresses for new computers or computers that are moved from one subnet to another must be configured manually; IP addresses for computers that are removed from the network must be manually reclaimed. With DHCP, this entire process is automated and managed centrally. The DHCP server maintains a pool of IP addresses and leases an address to any DHCP-enabled client when it starts up on the network. Because the IP addresses are dynamic (leased) rather than static (permanently assigned), addresses no longer in use are automatically returned to the pool for reallocation. DHCP server will provid

Configuring MAC binding in DHCP server means permanently assigning static Internet protocol (IP) to the DHCP client using client MAC address. We don’t want to give automatic IP address to servers, which are service providers. As a example if a NFS or Samba Server IP got changed automatically after a reboot are Network restart then all client who are acessing NFS and Samba shares can’t be accessible using old IP address each and every time we have to intimate to the employees if server IP address changed.  Not only about accessing the NFS and Samba shares some of the shares maybe used for hosting of application. Hot coded links in HTML/PHP intranets all things get effected due an single IP address change. Our goal is to set static IP address to DHCP client (server) using DHCP server configuration, which is called as configuring MAC binding first step is to configure DHCP server.

Zimbra mail server is an free email server for open source users, which will provide calender and collaboration solution. Zimbra mail server has GUI interface to manage administrator console. The Zimbra Collaboration includes the Zimbra MTA, the Zimbra LDAP server, and the Zimbra mailbox server. In a single-server installation, all components are installed on one server and require no additional manual configuration. This installation guide is a quick start guide that describes the basic steps needed to install and configure Zimbra Collaboration in a direct network connect environment. In this environment, the Zimbra server is assigned a domain for which it receives mail, and a direct network connection to the Internet. When Zimbra Collaboration is installed, you will be able to log on to the Zimbra administration console to manage the domain and provision accounts. In this tutorial / article we will explain how to install and configure zimbra mail server in RHEL 7.x /

Creating routes in Linux: Basic Linux routing Do you know that Linux OS can use as a router? We will see how to implement routing on Linux box here. When I am working for Cisco Systems they use Linux servers as routers in their test environments in order to communicate between routers in Lab environment. Even there is a project called Linux routing and a separate Linux flavor for routing purpose, that's the flexibility of Linux. Let us start some basic routing commands. In Linux/*nix every work can be done in two ways. 1) That is a temporary way (after reboots these changes will not be there) and 2) The other is permanent way (after reboots too, the changes will be there). We will see how to add routes temporary as well as permanent way today.