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By Kevin Cave, on June 20th, 2012 (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});
Like the title suggests, this will be relatively brief – mostly because Policykit isn’t as difficult to understand as I originally led myself to believe.
It all sprang from starting to write about how to get X11rdp/xrdp up and running on your Linux systems. Sure, getting the desktop up
Continue reading A brief guide to PolicyKit
By Kevin Cave, on May 26th, 2012
A couple of readers asked how they could get xrdp to authenticate with Active Directory.
Here's how… ;)
Prerequisites I assume your xrdp server already has either the Likewise/Likewise-Open or as it's now known by, PowerBroker Identity Services I assume that your xrdp server
Continue reading xrdp authentication with Active Directory
By Kevin Cave, on May 23rd, 2012
Note : Version 1.x, 2.x are now deprecated in favour of v3.0 which contains fixes and additional changes, plus creates Debian packages. v3 is out now and is a vast improvment.
Article first published on May 23, 2012 @ 8:17
UPDATE : June 17, 2012
Changelog :
Added important note about Policykit – see
Continue reading The Scarygliders X11rdp-O-Matic and RDPsesconfig : v1.1 released, V2 now available
By Kevin Cave, on April 6th, 2012
Okay so I did a bit of research, and found a method of forwarding audio from your remote RDP Linux desktops.
The methods work for RDP connections on your local LAN, and also for connections to remote systems via ssh tunnels.
Here's how…
2012-04-19 Article Updated
Changelog:
Added a section for how
Continue reading Get audio with your xrdp/x11rdp connections, LAN or Remote! Updated! Windows Clients!
By Kevin Cave, on April 4th, 2012
This will be a multi-part series on SSH
This is Part 1
Say you have a workstation or server, safely sitting behind a firewall, but you need access, for example, to the shiny RDP service you installed not so long ago, and/or other services on that system.
You could easily forward the RDP
Continue reading ssh – Secure your systems with ssh on Linux and puTTY on Windows – Part 1
By Kevin Cave, on April 1st, 2012
I’ve noticed that recently, Debian-based distributions seem to be attempting to download a bazillion Translations Indexes from their repositories. Most of the these attempts seem to be either ignored, or fail, and sometimes it even seems to slow down the update download itself, presumably because it takes time for the repository server to time out
Continue reading QuickTips : Stop apt downloading Translations Indexes
By Kevin Cave, on December 6th, 2011
Lets say you have a laptop or a netbook which you take with you everywhere, and on which you keep sensitive information. (Lets even say you have a home computer with sensitive information.)
You don’t have to be a secret agent or a crook to have sensitive information. Everyone has sensitive information!
Sensitive
Continue reading How to install and multi-boot between Windows, and Debian Testing with full disk encryption
By Kevin Cave, on December 1st, 2011
There’s all sorts of terminal emulators available these days.
Most of the “modern” ones, like gnome-terminal for example, have lots of whiz-bang features like menu-driven customization, background picture or transparency, setting the font used, and so on.
The thing is, all these nice features introduce their own problems, the biggest one for me is BLOAT.
Continue reading Customize Xterm, the original and best terminal…
By Kevin Cave, on November 17th, 2011 Note : this tutorial is getting really old now and Distributions have moved on a lot since Ubuntu 11.10! Use X11RDP-o-Matic instead.
This is a followup to my original article, “Install xrdp and X11rdp – the comprehensive HOWTO for Ubuntu and Debian based systems“. In
Continue reading X11rdp, Ubuntu 11.10, Gnome 3, xrdp customization – New Hotness! Updated!
By Kevin Cave, on November 4th, 2011 I have a NAS. It’s a nice NAS. It’s a QNAP TurboNAS TS-419P, and it’s just what I need for my SOHO setup.
Amongst many other things it can do, it can allow me to use its RAID array as iSCSI targets.
VirtualBox is also great. It can use iSCSI targets as storage devices, and
Continue reading VirtualBox and iSCSI / NAS How-To – Linux and Windows
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