Live the Cloud life - SpiderOak.com on Linux Mint 7

SpiderOak is a powerful Online Backup and Sync for your multiple PCs with different OS. In a nutshell, SpiderOak provides the following:

1. Online backup with synchronisation
2. Quick Data Upload Upload (10-15 times according to the website)
3. Multiple OS compatible backup and sync
4. Versioning
5. Best of all 2GB Free

Installation on Linux Mint 7, equivalent to Ubuntu "Jaunty" (9.04) was straightforward and without hassle.

Try it and live the Cloud life.

Ubuntu History

Quite often, applications or websites uses the Ubuntu version name instead of the version number which I'm more uses too.

The following URL Ubuntu Version History is an useful list of all the corresponding Ubuntu version name with its number

Installing Likewise - Joining Linux to MS Active Directory

Continuing from Open Source Tools to integrate with MS Active Directory.


Step 1: Changing Your Hostname from localhost to domain name

• Read Changing the hostname on CentOS

Step 2: Download and Install Likewise

• Go to http://www.likewise.com/community/index.php/download/ register and download the essential packages and GUI (optional)
• # ./LikewiseIdentityServiceOpen-5.2.0.7111-linux-x86_64-rpm.sh
• Ensure that you register your computer name at your Microsoft Active Directory if your AD require registration
• # /opt/likewise/bin/domainjoin-cli join Active-Directory-Domain-Name Administrator
• Log-out from your current session and Log-In with your AD credential

Step 3: Verify that you have join the Domain

• # /opt/likewise/bin/domainjoin-cli query.
• You should see Name = ......... Domain = ......... Distinguished Name = CN= ..................

Note: If you are unable to logon, try using the Full Active Directory Name rather than the Short ones, unless you make the Linux Box aware of your WINS Server.

Further Readings:

1. See Likewise Documentation Library
   

Installing Nvdia FX570 drivers on CentOS 5.x

I was trying out an installation on CentOS 5.3 (x86-64) on a workstation which have Nvidia Fx570 card.

The installation of CentOS was very smooth. No hiccups.

1. I've downloaded the Nvidia Drivers for Linux from Nvidia Site
2. I did a "# yum install gcc" as Nvidia Drivers need gcc to compile
3. I run the ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-185.18.29-pkg2.run. But I seems to encounter the "No precompiled kernel interface was found to match your kernel; would you like the installer to attempt to download a kernel interface for your kernel" error
4. I "yum install kernel-devel" and the error still appear
5. Finally I run the application with the full kernel source path "./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-185.18.29-pkg2.run --kernel-source-path=/usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-128.2.1.el5-x86_64/"

It works.... :)

Encrypting VNC Traffic with Putty

Assuming you are using a Windows Clients and you wish to have a Secure Shell Connection to Windows, you have to do the followings:

Step 1: Assuming you have launch the VNC Session at the vncserver Server

$ vncserver

New 'xxx.yourserverdomain.com:2 (root)' desktop is xxx.yourserverdomain.com:2
Starting applications specified in /root/.vnc/xstartupLog file is /root/.vnc/xxx.yourserverdomain.com:2.log

Step 2: Configuration at the SSH Client

• At Putty Client, Enter the IP of hostname of the VNCServer
• On the left-hand pane, click Connection > SSH > Tunnels
• Source Port: 590x (depending on the return port above in step 1)
• Destination Port: xxx.serverhostname.com:590x (depending on the return port in step 1)
• Connect to the Server via SSH

Step 3: Use the VNC Client to connect to local VNC Port. On the TightVNC connection,

$ localhost:2