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SAMBA vs NFS
by steve-ALUG＠hst.me.uk 03 May '13

03 May '13

Hi Guys, I tried setting up NFS last night and I got it to work, but it was so slow compared to the Samba share I used to use. I've been meaning to try and set up NFS for ages. I was thinking that it was probably the best way to share files between my server and laptops, maintaining appropriate Linux user names/rights etc for files, rather than the kludgey way I have my Samba set up. I got it working using http://czarism.com/easy-peasy-ubuntu-linux-nfs-file-sharing and then I looked at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SettingUpNFSHowTo and I was trying to make it a bit more secure by editing hosts.deny/allow as described. Sometime during this modification, I managed to break it completely. So my questions: Is nfs the way to go to share files & directories from a server to laptops, or should I stick with Samba? Is the Ubuntu link above a sensible way of setting things up? I was thinking I'd just manually keep the user names/numbers in sync between the computers - is that OK? Is there a better way of doing things? I think it's stopped working because rpcbind can't link to localhost. I think I know how to fix it, but can't spare the time at the moment. Any thoughts? Thanks in advance! :-) Steve

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Re: [ALUG] BASIC and Linux
by Ewan Slater 03 May '13

03 May '13

On 3 May 2013 09:55, <main-request(a)lists.alug.org.uk> wrote: > Message: 9 > Date: Fri, 3 May 2013 09:55:36 +0100 > From: Bev Nicolson <lumos60(a)gmail.com> > To: ALUG <main(a)lists.alug.org.uk> > Subject: [ALUG] BASIC and Linux > Message-ID: > <CAAoXXvXrtMBtjpbyNya56Hzp_SmkYu83kP4p2A9LFkAQj40ODw(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > I'm not asking for myself by the way. Would it be possible to run > BASIC and create programmes in Ubuntu? A quick Google suggests WINE > would be necessary. Thoughts? (Other than 'Why would you?') > > Bev. > Hi Bev, There is a Wikipedia list of BASIC dialects here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_BASIC_dialects Quite a few of which look like they are for Linux native (caveat: I haven't tried them myself). I have done C# development on Linux using Mono and confirm that this works well. It now looks like Mono is starting to support Visual Basic on Linux (http://www.mono-project.com/VisualBasic.NET_support#New_Visual_Basic_Framew…) which I haven't tried, but based on the C# experience I would expect that it would be good. Cheers, Ewan

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iptables question
by Mark Rogers 01 May '13

01 May '13

I have an Internet facing server running pptpd. Users who connect via pptp need to be able to route through the server to the rest of the Internet. As well as configuring net.ipv4.ip_forward=1 I also have iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth0 -j MASQUERADE .. and it all works. However, is the above iptables command too broad for an internet server? Doesn't it effectively mean that anyone can send traffic through it? Assuming the pptp interface is ppp0 I would have expected (having very little iptables knowledge) that: iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth0 -i ppp0 -j MASQUERADE .. would be better but I'm just guessing and I don't want to kill access to the remote server by playing! Given that every howto I find says to use just "iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth0 -j MASQUERADE" I assume that's actually right, so I think I'm just asking for help understanding why. Mark -- Mark Rogers // More Solutions Ltd (Peterborough Office) // 0844 251 1450 Registered in England (0456 0902) @ 13 Clarke Rd, Milton Keynes, MK1 1LG

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Widespread spamattack
by Anthony Anson 30 Apr '13

30 Apr '13

In case anyone doesn't know, there's a widespread infiltration of btinternet and yahoo accounts, spreading multiple spam messages. Beware of trying to open any unknown URLs contained in emails from those sources. (My firewall warned me of just such an attack, seemingly from an old friend. Whether it could have infected a Linux box I don't know.) -- Tony http://www.girolle.co.uk/

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Converting photogravure (back) to photograph quality?
by Anthony Anson 30 Apr '13

30 Apr '13

Does anyone know of a program which will take a (dotty) photogravure pic and convert it back (as far as is possible) to the original one from which the plates were made? -- Tony http://www.girolle.co.uk/

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2600 meeting at 18:00 on Friday the 3rd May.
by Viperfang 30 Apr '13

30 Apr '13

Quick heads up about this months Norwich 2600 meeting, more info at http://www.norwich2600.co.uk

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System temperature monitor?
by Ted.Harding＠wlandres.net 29 Apr '13

29 Apr '13

Hi Folks, My laptop (which was quite busy at the time) suddenly switched itselfr off. I checked the power lead etc., and then switched it back on, and since then it's been fine. I don't really know what happened. It may have been a loose connection in the power supply (the battery is shot, so any interruption kills it immediately); I may have accidentally tapped on the power button (I was typing furiously at the time); but more probably I suspect that the machine may have been over-heating and decided to switch itself off. It felt quite warm, but not really hot. This led me to look for any program that monitors things like the state (including temperature) of the system (e.g. CPU temperature or whatever), but I didn't find anything. Any suggestions as to what I should look for? This is a rather old Debian system (2010) on which I'm running "classic Gnome" (thank God), and for various to reasons it has reached the state where Debian-sourced updates or further software can no longer be installed off repositories. So anything new would have to be installed from scratch. An alternative might be the contents of something under /dev which stores ambient system information, which I could then decipher for myself. But I'm also wondering where that might be! With thanks for any suggestions, Ted. ------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <Ted.Harding(a)wlandres.net> Date: 27-Apr-2013 Time: 21:56:01 This message was sent by XFMail -------------------------------------------------

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Looking for simple web photo gallery software with some very specific requirements
by Chris Green 29 Apr '13

29 Apr '13

I'm after a web application to display pictures, there are zillions of them out there but it's difficult to find one to match my requirements:- Take an existing directory hierarchy of pictures and use it to organise the album/gallery. Don't copy the pictures, use them direct from the existing directory structure. Must not require any write access to the pictures directory. The thumbnails and other information must be stored elsewhere. No need for any picture manipulation at all, just a way to navigate through the hierarchy and view the pictures. Preferably no database and the ability to use EXIF information but these are not absolute requirements. It can use PHP, Python, Perl or anything really, slight preference for Python or PHP as I can modify/maintain it more easily myself then. -- Chris Green

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Accessing IMAP from W*****s
by Ted.Harding＠wlandres.net 26 Apr '13

26 Apr '13

Greetings All! My apologies for even hinting at any abominations, but I would like to know the answer to this problem -- and of all people I think ALUG may be able to help! Situation: I have a remote IMAP account with 1and1.co.uk, which my mailer accesses basically via telnet on port 143 (along with email address thereon as userid and a password, both of which I know, of course). The problem: Suppose I am visiting a friend or family, but without my computer (which has the access built in). They all use W*****s systems. I would like to be able to see my emails on the remote IMAP server, perhaps read some, and delete any I'm not interested in. Maybe even reply (but this is not my priority). So: Is there a procedure with some W*****s softwrare which they would have installed by which I can have such access? Ideally, I'd be delighted if this could be done with a browser (e.g. Ex*****r) so that there's minimal interference with the machine I'm using. And (and here I return to the fold) if that were possible then I could also do it using Linux (which would add to the coterie of friends from whose places I could do this). But my attempts from my home Linux system got nowhere (short of setting up an IMAP account in the mail agent , which of course is already there). The host address for access to IMAP accounts is imap.1and1.co.uk port 143 Much gratitude for any useful advice! Best wishes to all, Ted. ------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <Ted.Harding(a)wlandres.net> Date: 23-Apr-2013 Time: 18:02:39 This message was sent by XFMail -------------------------------------------------

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Accessing IMAP from W*****s
by Ewan Slater 24 Apr '13

24 Apr '13

<quote> If you have a spare USB stick, you could install Portable Apps http://portableapps.com/ on it and use something like Thunderbird http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/thunderbird_portable to access the IMAP account. I've only used it with PC's with XP installed but believe it works with most varieties of W*****s. All you do is stick it in a USB socket and the apps automatically fire up. When you remove the USB stick, it doesn't leave anything behind on the host PC. </quote> Portable Apps works on Windows 7 and XP. Don't know about Vista or 8. Another option would be to take a Virtual Box Linux VM with you and use that. My €0.02 Ewan

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