Month: September 2008

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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.
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  • 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.

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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.

httpv://in.youtube.com/watch?v=eRqUE6IHTEA

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.

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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.