Linux File Sharing in Windows as normal File Sharing
Yes that’s true you can share files of Linux and windows machines like normal windows file sharing.
By Running SAMBA on a Linux machine you can achieve this.
Following are the simple steps to set this.
Install Samba using ‘apt-get’ or ‘yum’, like running following command in Linux box or servers.
‘apt-get install samba‘
or
‘yum install samba‘
So installation is done. Okay now you need to set up a folder to sharing, user name and password by editing ‘/etc/samba/smb.conf‘ file.
- Setting network
interfaces = 192.168.0.1/24 127.0.0.1/24
bind interfaces only = Yes
By setting this SAMBA will run only on the internal interface.
- Setting Password
File access permissions for the shares to work, you have to set up the SAMBA username/password by running smbpasswd on the linux box.
smbpasswd <your linux username>
You should use username/password created above in Windows machine to file sharing.
- Setting up shared folders
[myfile]
comment = My shared files and folders
path = /home/jithonline
read only = no
Then, on the windows machine access it as \\10.0.3.10\ where 10.0.3.10 is the IP address of the linux machine use the password you set using smbpasswd to login.
If you want to share CD/DVD drive
[dvd]
comment = dvd drive on Linux Box
writable = No
locking = No
path = /mnt/cdrom2
Now restart the samba using
/etc/init.d/samba stop
/etc/init.d/samba start
That’s it, all about Linux file sharing in Windows with SAMBA.
Google with Cool Form Feature in Docs
Google Docs is actually an online word processor that’s completely free to use and comes with a couple of very nifty ideas. If you’ve not tried it yet then you’ve certainly got nothing to lose by doing so: the only requirement is that you sign up for a Google account.
Google Docs offers a solid array of features. The standard stuff is all here: auto-saving, spell checking and word count, the latter of which offers a readability assessment for your document, so you can see how clearly you write.
Where Google Docs really shines is with its sharing facilities. When working with a document, you can click the share tab and specify other people as collaborators or viewers. Viewers can merely look at the document, but a collaborator can edit it fully, so if you’re working with a co-writer on a project (or several) you can all utilize the same master document.
There are lots of tools in Docs like spread sheet, Power Point and also Form facility that’s also absolute free.
Following are the steps to create a form and publish it on your site for getting reweave on your site or any thing you want. You can also see the summary of the poll or reweave of your form any time by logging in to docs.
- Go to New > Form
- Fill the Form as you want to display.
- Submit that by clicking on Done button
- Save the Form
- Go to the More Action at top corner
- There you can get the embedding code for your web site also you can edit the massage appears after the submission of poll or reweave by going to edit configuration.
- You can view the published form by clicking on the hipper link which is show at the bottom of the page. You can share the URL to any one to participate in poll or reweave. Here is my Form.
Creating a form from a spreadsheet:
- Click on the Form tab and click on Create a form.
- In the form template that opens, you can add any questions and options you’d like.
- Click Email this from once you’ve finished adding your questions.
- Add email addresses for your desired recipients.
- Click Send.
How to Change the Theme of WinRAR with Colorful Free Themes.
WinRAR is a powerful compressing and decompressing tool or archive manager. It can backup your data and reduce size of email attachments, video files, doc files etc, also can decompress RAR, ZIP and other files which ever downloaded from Internet also create new archives in RAR and ZIP file formats. WinRAR latest version is in beta that’s Version WinRAR 3.80 beta 4. The stable version present in market now is WinRAR 3.71.
But Interesting thing in it!! Forgetting all its features and power, you can actually change WinRAR’s theme. If you didn’t see or heard that yet then now you should and if you do, you’ll be amazed!!! RARLAB is giving out more than 20 WinRAR themes for free on their website. It’s time to give you WinRAR software a little bit of refreshment.
Themes are available in 32×32, 48X48, 64X64, 80X80, 96X90 tool bar icons sets sizes. All you need to do is
- Download any of the themes
- Open it with WinRAR application
- Restart your WinRAR
- Go to Option >> Themes choose your theme.
Now you can see change in rar files icons in your PC and a fresh look of WinRAR application too.
Install OpenOffice 2.4 on Windows Vista
OpenOffice provides everything most people need in an office productivity suite for free. It is stable, reliable, and robust. Unlike its major competitor, it was designed from the start as a single piece of software, which makes for higher quality software and a more consistent user experience. OpenOffice is available on all major computing platforms and is supported in over seventy languages.
The main components of the OpenOffice.org Suite are
- Writer wordprocessor
- Calc spreadsheet
- Impress for presentations
- Draw for graphics
- Base database
It has a familiar user interface, and is able to read and write the vast majority of legacy file formats (including common Microsoft Office formats). It is supported in over seventy languages, with active support both Communities based (free) and from commercial organizations (paid-for).
Installation:-
Download the OpenOffice 2.4 here…
Run the installer file; the installer extracts the files in an OpenOffice.org 2.x (en-US) Installation Files folder on your desktop, then the installer is launched automatically once the extract is complete. Then the real thing begins and it does install indeed in “\Program files\OpenOffice.org2.x” directory. Note that, it doesn’t create any desktop shortcut to launch the applications. They are in your Start menu once installed. And once it’s ok, just delete the folder on your desktop.
So now done with installation!! Enjoy the power of OpenOffice, Compare to Microsoft Office, Open office is bit faster and also it supports all Microsoft office related stuffs and especially for frees of cost, that’s interesting isn’t it?
