Want to mount your Windows’ shares in Ubuntu with full access? This tutorial will show you how.
This brief guide shows you how to create and automatically mount Windows shares in Ubuntu 11.10 so that everytime you login to Ubuntu they will be there. In most cases when you mount a Windows share in Ubuntu, you don’t have full access to edit of modify the mounted share. This tutorial is going to fix that and show how to mount shares with full access.
This brief tutorial shows you how to turn off or disable Windows Startup sound in Microsoft Windows 7 machines.
Even though most of our tutorials are based on Ubuntu, we’ll try to write some tutorials that are based on Windows at times. So, if you want to get rid of Windows annoying startup sounds, continue below.
Yesterday I tried to watch a DVD movie on my Windows machine but didn’t have the right codecs to get it working. So I shared the CD/DVD drive in Windows and mounted it in Ubuntu and before I was able to watch the movie. If you want to learn how to share Windows’ CD/DVD drive and mount in Ubuntu, then this brief tutorial will show you how to do it.
Using this, one could access the content of a CD/DVD disc in Windows from Ubuntu and play music, watch movies or copy it.
If you’re a new user and you want to easily manage and configure Samba shares and workgroup in Ubuntu, turn to system-config-samba.
This nifty tool takes the hassle out of managing Samba so that file sharing can be enabled between Windows and Ubuntu machines. In this brief tutorial, I’ll show you how to install and configure system-config-samba in Ubuntu so that you can manage Samba easily.
Thinking about using Microsoft Core Fonts in Ubuntu? If so, this brief tutorial will show you how to quickly install them in Ubuntu.
Ubuntu comes with nice fonts, however, if you want to use MS core fonts, then you must install these packages. Fonts such as Arial, Arial Black, Comic Sans MS are not included in Ubuntu by default, and this tutorial will show you how to enable them.
Do you have a Windows 7 machine, and do you want to try out Ubuntu without changing it? If you answer yes, then let me introduce you to Wubi, an Ubuntu installer that lets you test drive Ubuntu within Windows without actually affecting your Windows machine. Wubi can be installed and uninstalled like any Windows application, and the best thing about it is, it lets you fully try-out Ubuntu. A complete and full version of Ubuntu is made available from within your Windows machine.
In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to install and use Wubi in Windows 7.
Do you have both Ubuntu and Windows machines on the same network (LAN)? This brief tutorial shows you a quick way to share a folder in Ubuntu and access it from Windows systems. This tutorial assumes that both Ubuntu and Windows machines are connected to the same LAN, and that you can ping either machine successfully. Without communications between the two machines, it will be impossible to access folders on either machine.
This is day 5 of our 30 days series on Ubuntu 11.10 called ‘First 30 Days with Ubuntu 11.10”. We started this series with installing and updating Ubuntu, showed you multiple ways to install programs in Ubuntu and how to add network printers. Today we’ll continue from where we left off and show you how to share files, printers and folders with other systems on your network (LAN). You probably already have other systems like Windows that you may want to access from Ubuntu. However, to be able to access and share files and other resources with all systems, you’ll have to enable file sharing, and this tutorial will show you how.
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