Chris Hanretty

'linux' Category

• Nov

  10

  2009

  Karmic Koala

  I’m not too happy about my upgrade to Karmic Koala. That’s due both to my own stupidity (not backing up as fully as I should have done), and to a number of minor niggles.
  For example: whilst wireless worked perfectly, my ethernet didn’t autoconnect. I fixed it by following the steps at Craig Mayhew’s blog, but [...]

  posted in linux by Chris

• May

  23

  2009

  Mapping EUI network drives on Linux

  [Of parochial interest only]
  I’m using the EUI’s Citrix farm for some high-demand computing. Instead of emailing the data files back and forth, I finally mapped my G: drive. Here’s how I did it:

  sudo apt-get install smbfs
  sudo mkdir /media/euishare
  sudo mount -t cifs //RESSRV1/username$ /media/euishare -o username=username,password=******,iocharset=utf8,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777

  Replace username with your username, and the asterisks with your own [...]

  posted in eui, linux by Chris