http://netvouz.com/falko/tag/windows?feed=rss falko's bookmarks tagged "windows" on Netvouz http://www.howtoforge.com/automatic_discovery_mounting_smb_networkshares For some time I have been looking for a good way to let my computer discover the Windows network and mount shares on demand. After trying the kioslaves in the desktop of my choice (KDE) and the FUSE programs Fusesmb and SmbNetFs, I was not really satisfied. There had to be a way to let my computer discover all the workgroups/domains, the hosts and the shares, and mount a share on a hosts on demand. falko Wed, 29 Aug 2007 09:56:28 GMT http://www.howtoforge.com/samba_ads_security_mode The intent of this article is to show you how to configure your Linux machine and Samba server to participate in a Windows 2003 Active Directory domain as a Member Server using Kerberos authentication. This involves using the security = ADS security mode in Samba. falko Wed, 27 Jun 2007 10:05:23 GMT http://www.howtoforge.com/converting_outlook_pst_to_maildir One of the challenges you may face when converting an office from Microsoft Windows to Linux is that many people archive their emails in PST files. There are PST tools available, but most of them are commercial, since the PST file format is closed and protected by Microsoft. There are several non-commercial methods to achieve roughly the same goal, and in this tutorial we use IMAP (more specifically, courier-imap) to convert all our emails from PST to the Maildir format. The advantage of this approach is that you also lay the foundation for a new mail system, with all your old emails already imported the day you switch over. falko Fri, 15 Jun 2007 11:54:18 GMT http://www.howtoforge.com/dual_boot_windows_xp_vista_ubuntu_feisty In this tutorial I will teach you how to dual-boot between Windows XP/Vista and Ubuntu. This tutorial will be split up into two parts: Part one for people who have no operating system installed. Part two for people who have Windows XP/Vista installed and do not want to re-install Windows. falko Thu, 19 Jul 2007 15:34:16 GMT http://www.howtoforge.com/dualbooting-windows-7-and-linux-mint-12 Dualbooting means having installed two operating systems on one hard disk and being able to boot from any of them. This tutorial will explain how to install Linux Mint 12 alongside Windows 7 - the procedure however should be the same for all Ubuntu based distributions and only slightly different for every other. falko Thu, 26 Jan 2012 13:10:15 GMT http://www.howtoforge.com/enabling-compiz-on-linux-mint-12-gnome-12 This tutorial shows how you can enable Compiz on a Linux Mint 12 Lisa desktop (the system must have a 3D-capable graphics card - I'm using an NVIDIA GeForce 8200 here). With Compiz you can use beautiful 3D effects like wobbly windows or a desktop cube on your desktop. Compiz is not supported on GNOME 3 yet, that's why this how-to is applicable only for the classic GNOME desktop. falko Sun, 18 Dec 2011 09:57:43 GMT http://www.howtoforge.com/configure-remote-access-to-your-ubuntu-desktop This guide explains how you can enable a remote desktop on an Ubuntu desktop so that you can access and control it remotely. This makes sense for example if you have customers that are not very tech-savvy. If they have a problem, you can log in to their desktops without the need to drive to their location. I will also show how to access the remote Ubuntu desktop from a Windows XP client and an Ubuntu client. falko Thu, 14 Feb 2008 13:13:00 GMT http://www.howtoforge.com/ntfs_3g_mandriva2007_spring Normally Linux systems can only read from Windows NTFS partitions, but not write to them which can be very annoying if you have to work with Linux and Windows systems. This is where ntfs-3g comes into play. ntfs-3g is an open source, freely available NTFS driver for Linux with read and write support. This tutorial shows how to install and use ntfs-3g on a Mandriva 2007 Spring desktop to read from and write to Windows NTFS drives and partitions. falko Wed, 05 Sep 2007 09:18:19 GMT http://www.howtoforge.com/ntfs_3g_ubuntu_feisty Normally Linux systems can only read from Windows NTFS partitions, but not write to them which can be very annoying if you have to work with Linux and Windows systems. This is where ntfs-3g comes into play. ntfs-3g is an open source, freely available NTFS driver for Linux with read and write support. This tutorial shows how to install and use ntfs-3g on an Ubuntu Feisty Fawn desktop to read from and write to Windows NTFS drives and partitions. falko Mon, 10 Sep 2007 09:05:34 GMT http://www.howtoforge.com/ntfs_3g_fedora7 Normally Linux systems can only read from Windows NTFS partitions, but not write to them which can be very annoying if you have to work with Linux and Windows systems. This is where ntfs-3g comes into play. ntfs-3g is an open source, freely available NTFS driver for Linux with read and write support. This tutorial shows how to use ntfs-3g on a Fedora 7 desktop to read from and write to Windows NTFS drives and partitions. falko Fri, 24 Aug 2007 09:36:31 GMT