November 2021 (8)

November 24, 2021

SAMBA Domain Member as File Server

One of the most common ways to network Debian GNU/Linux and Windows computers is to configure Samba Domain Member as a File Server. This section covers : Adding Samba as domain member Set up shares to act as a file server. Use domain users and groups to setup ACLs.   Adding Samba as domain member  […]

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November 22, 2021

Installation Htop on RHEL 8/7

Htop is an interactive real-time process monitoring application for Linux/Unix-like systems and also a handy alternative to top command, which is a default process monitoring tool that comes pre-installed on all Linux operating systems. Installation on RHEL 8 : sudo yum -y install  […]

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Samba4 Domain Password Policy

When Samba4 work in AD-DC mode, password policy can change with samba-tool: Disable password expiration for the Administrator account : samba-tool user setexpiry Administrator --noexpiry  Show domain level password options : samba-tool domain passwordsettings show Disable password complexity at the  […]

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November 16, 2021

Replace Display Manager on Debian 11 for KDE

I using KDE Desktop and got SDDM display manager by default. But I before use MATE Desktop and by default comming with LightDM.    LightDM have support for VNC and I need that feature, here is procedure how to replace SDDM with LightDM (open console as root) : apt install lightdm apt install  […]

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November 11, 2021

Latest Samba for Debian 11

Debian 11 comming with Samba 4.13 , but if wont to install latest version of Samba on fortunately, there is custom repository https://apt.van-belle.nl/ for Debian and Ubuntu. Prepare : sudo apt-get install wget apt-transport-https gnupg Add apt.van-belle.nl repository : wget -O-  […]

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November 9, 2021

SSH Public Key Authentication

Public SSH key authentication is an SSH authentication method that allows users to use cryptographically generated keys to log into remote servers. SSH keys are more secure than raw passwords and provide a much more efficient way of logging into SSH. SSH keys are automated, and once authorized, do  […]

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November 5, 2021

How to set System Locales

A locale is a set of environmental variables that defines the language, country, and character encoding settings (or any other special variant preferences) for your applications and shell session on a Linux system. Locale affects things such as the time/date format, the first day of the week,  […]

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November 2, 2021

Logical Volume Manager

Managing disk space has always been a significant task. Running out of disk space used to be the start of a long and complex series of tasks to increase the space available to a disk partition. It also required taking the system off-line. This usually involved installing a new hard drive, booting  […]

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