I am looking for howtos or instructions on setting up Samba to use an AD server for authentication instead of using a Samba password file. Pointers to documentation helpful, especially the right document to look at on http://samba.org/samba/docs/ .

Hello. I downloaded the sources for my kernel, applied a patch and rebuilt it and now I have a kernel module that when I try to insmod it complains "Unknown symbol in module" with dmesg giving the error "disagrees about the version of symbol ...". Without having to hunt down the source for this ...

Hi guys, i have followed this guide for setting up a subversion(svn) server and i cannot seem to access any repositries that i have creates and imported from a windows based svn repositry. In the past, i installed a windows app called visual SVN that allows me to run a svn server on a windows ma...

I logged in for the first time, opened terminal, and typed in ‘hostname’. It returned ‘localhost.localdomain.com’. Then I logged as the root user in terminal using the command, ‘su –‘, provided the password for the root user and used the command ‘hostname etest’ where etest is the hostname I’d li...

How do I make tcsh's history isearch (ctrl-r) case insensitive? I tried "set complete=igncase" but that affects file completion, not history isearch.

Terms regarding the OS: - Must be installed on pendrive - It must contain softwares for office use - Need to save files, GUI settings on it (auto) So I'm not searching for a LiveCD. What could be the best choice? Thank you.

Requirements: firewall internet connection sharing DHCP server Freenet (Sun Java) torrent Samba SSH server Take up as little RAM as possible. Must be 100% usable in console (remotely over ssh). While I'm not a complete noob, I don't have a beard! I already failed trying to set up Arch Linux.

Suppose I have two users A and B and a group G and a folder foo, both users are members of G. If I save as user A a file under foo, the permissions are: -rw-r--r-- A A. However it is possible to achieve that every file saved under some subdirectory of foo has permissions -rwxrwx--- A G (i.e. ow...

INPUT RANDOMSTRING BLA-BLA [111] RANDOMSTRING BLA-BLA OUTPUT RANDOMSTRING BLA-BLA [200] RANDOMSTRING BLA-BLA [111] could contain various numbers with 3 digits: 120 or 300 or 400 or 101, etc. So all I want ~this: sed "s/Howtos<\/a> \[111] \//`grep '^<a href="' list.txt | wc -l`/"...

In terminator, the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Shift+F opens up a small bar at the bottom of the window to let the user search a text string within the terminal scrollback. Is there any keyboard shortcut for moving to the Next or Previous matched item in this search? The most complete documentation I...

hello, I have the following scenario and my lack of linux knowledge doesn't help a lot. I have a text file that contains YML values, in the following matters: coolregion: min: {z: -99613.0, y: 45.0, x: -99805.0} flags: {vehicle-place: allow} max: {z: 100387.0, y: 127.0, x: 100195.0...