Today we’ll continue with our series about connecting Ubuntu 11.04 and Windows Systems via Samba. To read Part One of this series, click here.
In Part One, we showed you how to change your computer name in Windows and also how to create a new workgroup name so that both Windows and Ubuntu systems can be a member of. In this article, we’ll show you how to install Samba and join Ubuntu to the workgroup you created earlier in Part One of this series.
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Tags: File sharing, Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal, Vista, Windows 7
This article describes how to join Windows and Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal Systems to the same domain or workgroup so that both systems can access and share files seamlessly. This tutorial will be written in series, starting with configuring Windows Systems. Our next articles will focus on configuring Ubuntu Systems and joining both systems to the same domain. When both PCs are in the same workgroup, file sharing between the two systems will be easy to accomplish.
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This quick tutorial shows you how to setup network printers in Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal. If you’re going to be using Ubuntu, printer is probably one of the first devices you may have to install, and this tutorial will show you how to do it. Most printers in a network environment today are shared from mostly Windows machines (XP, Vista or 7). Some are stand alone network devices with IP address, but this tutorial will focus on printers that are shared from a Windows machine.
This short tutorial can be applied to almost all versions of Windows, including XP, Vista and 7. In this tutorial I’ll show you how to create shares in Windows and share them to other systems easily. If you want to enable file sharing between Windows and Linux systems, this tutorial should be helpful.
Microsoft wants to help you get your Windows issues resolve quickly and efficiently. To do that, it has created a new online portal called Fix It Center Online which helps you get common issues you may encounter in Windows resolve on your own without knowing much about Windows. Fix It Center puts you in control of resolving problems that may have required someone with good understand of Windows in the past.
If you wanted to resize or shrink your primary partition (C:) in Windows XP but couldn’t, it’s now possible to do it in Windows Vista or Windows 7 without installing a third-party tool. Windows Vista and 7 have a built-in tool that can shrink, resize, and format partitions easily that XP didn’t.
Looking to get rid of your old and unused computers without putting your sensitive information at risk? A good and sensible thing to do before giving your old computers to someone other than a family member or close friend is to remove all your important information.
There are many programs that will help you do this, but most are not free. If you looking for something free and powerful that lets you securely delete sensitive information from your old computers, then you may want to look at Active KillDisk. This free program is part of a collection of utilities that lets you destroy all sensitive information on computer hard disk. In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to use it.
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