This brief tutorial will show you how to share a Windows’ CD/DVD drive and mount it in Ubuntu and read its contents. For example, your Ubuntu machine doesn’t have a CD/DVD drive but your Windows machine does, and you want to play the contents of that CD. I’m going to show you how to do that in this tutorial.
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View CommentsThis brief tutorial will show you how to mount Windows’ shares in Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx from the command line or console. This is useful if you want to quickly mount shares or using Ubuntu Server without the GUI.
Posted in How-To Tips, Linux, Windows Tags: File sharing, Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx, Windows View CommentsThis quick tutorial will show you how to use Remote Desktop Connection in Windows to connect to Ubuntu Lucid via Remote Desktop Protocol. Remotely controlling Linux machines via RDP hasn’t been the easiest thing. With the help of xrdp server in Ubuntu, we’re going to be using RDP to connect.
Posted in How-To Tips, Linux, Windows Tags: Remote Desktop, Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx, Windows View CommentsThis brief tutorial will show you how to mount or map Ubuntu Lucid’s CD/DVD drive in Windows to access its contents. Whether you want to play audio or video from a DVD or CD drive mounted on your Ubuntu machine, I’ll show you how to map that CD/DVD Drive in Windows to read its contents.
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This tutorial will show you how to install TeamViewer 5 in Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx and connect to a Windows machine remotely from any where in the world for free. If you don’t already know about TeamViewer, it is a free remote connection tool that lets you connect and take control of remote computer easily.
Posted in How-To Tips, Internet, Linux, Windows Tags: TeamViewer, Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx, Windows View CommentsThis short tutorial will show you how to enable Remote Desktop on a Windows machine and use Ubuntu Lucid’s Terminal Server Client to connect and control it. Windows machines include a program called Remote Desktop that uses Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) to connect and remotely control another computer. Ubuntu can also be used to remotely control a Windows machine with Terminal Server Client.
Posted in How-To Tips, Linux, Windows Tags: Remote Desktop, Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx, Windows View CommentsThe day you want to enable file sharing between Windows and Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx and need a little help with the process, look no further than system-config-samba package in Ubuntu. In this short tutorial, I’ll show you how to enable file sharing between Windows and Ubuntu Lucid Lynx quickly and easily with system-config-samba package.
Posted in How-To Tips, Linux, Windows Tags: File sharing, Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx, Windows View CommentsThere are many tools that could help you configure samba, share user’s home directory, share printers, and CD-Rom drives in Ubuntu easily. One of those packages is system-config-samba. With this package, you could easily manage samba without worrying about editing text files or working from the console or terminal.
Avant Windows Navigator (Awn) is a MacOS X dock-like navigation panel that lets you quickly launch programs/applications with a single click. It features taskbar that behaves similarly like Dock in MacOS X. It also allows you to drag programs directly from your desktop onto the launcher. In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to install (Awn) in Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx.
Posted in How-To Tips, Linux Tags: Avant Window Navigator, List of Ubuntu releases, Mac OS, Mac OS X, Open source, Taskbar, Ubuntu Software, Windows View CommentsIf you need certain actions perform everytime your computer starts, or at a specific time of the day, then you need a program that will do that for you. Windows has ‘Tasks Scheduler’ that can start and stop tasks based on pre-defined settings easily. In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to schedule tasks in Ubuntu Lucid Lynx quickly and easily with gnome-schedule.
This tutorial will show you how to automatically login to Ubuntu without the login screen. This is a great way to allow an account to sign in automatically without entering a username or password.
