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File Sharing – NFS

Several quick posts to follow on sharing files on a network, to/ from Linux and Windows.   NFS is a fairly easy server setup on Ubuntu: sudo apt-get install nfs-kernel-server nfs-common portmap sudo vi /etc/exports Here you will set read or read write permissions based on IP address: Read-write in a class C:/files 10.0.0.1/24(rw,no_root_squash,async) Read ...Read More

Groupware Email Server – SOGO

Finally – After about a MONTH (literally) I was able to get the SOGO (Scalable OpenGrOupware) server working.  I am now going to backtrack, and try to re-trace my steps to get it installed.  I fully implemented it 11 times before I got it working.  The online instructions just don’t cover all the steps.  In ...Read More

Outlook replacement – Evolution

I have been looking around for quite a while for a solid replacement to Outlook.  Actually, I looked at Evolution a while back and found it lacking – I think now it was me. I have used Thunderbird, Sunbird, Kontact (Kmail and all the others) and a few other forgetful applications.  Unfortunately, MS has a ...Read More

How to turn of IPv6 in Ubuntu 7.10

Disabling IPv6 when not needed should improve performance:   Turn off IPv6. edit this file: /etc/modprobe.d/aliases search for: alias net-pf-10 ipv6 change to alias net-pf-10 off ipv6