VMWare Fusion on MAC OS – Access BIOS/UEFI – Press Function Key + F2 Single User Mode – Press Command + S key, soon after you start/restart your vm, this will take you to GRUB Menu to select the OS distribution that you have installed. Then Press e to edit the boot menu – move…
Category: Linux Servers
Linux Permissions – an Visual Overview
Linux permissions are most important task when it comes to application installation and security hardening of your Linux servers. Linux permissions are – READ [4], WRITE [2], EXECUTE [1] These permissions are presented with numbers as 4, 2, 1. Any File or Directory has a OWNER, GROUP AND OTHERS OWNER – Owner is the one…
Samba Server Installation and Configuration on CentOS 7
Samba is a free software re-implementation of the SMB/CIFS networking protocol, and was originally developed by Andrew Tridgell. Samba provides file and print services for various Microsoft Windows clients and can integrate with a Microsoft Windows Server domain, either as a Domain Controller (DC) or as a domain member. Step 1: Installing Samba Server To install the Samba software, run: yum update && yum install samba samba-client samba-common To check the Samba version,…
Download and Install CentOS 7
Step 1: Download The ISO Image Step 2: Make A bootable USB Drive Create a bootable USB stick using LiveUSB Creator (RUFUS). Step 3: Boot from the usb To boot from a CD, DVD or USB device, make sure that the device has boot sequence priority over the hard drive,press ESC, F1, F2, F8 or F10…
Server Management
What is involved in managing the Linux Server?