To access a Microsoft Windows share from a CentOS Linux server there are a few commands that worked for this configuration: Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and CentOS 5.8. This is a quick and dirty guide assumes that a Windows share already exists and uses root. In a production environment, an alternate user would be more appropriate. From the Linux server….
Read More »On a Microsoft Windows server, there is a folder that contains 1000s of logfiles. Each logfile varies by name and size. I wanted a script that would compress all logfiles into a single zip file that were older than seven days. After the compression is completed and the zip file is created, all logs older than seven days will be…
Read More »If you have ever installed Java Development Kit (“JDK”) on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux (“RHEL”) 5.x or CentOS 5.x operating system (“OS”), then you are aware of how manual the installation can be. Prompt after prompt to install. After a lot of research and testing, here is a completely automated script to install JDK on a CentOS or RHEL…
Read More »The goal is to create a network share on a Linux server using Samba that will be available to a Windows workstation with the ability to map a drive to that Linux share. There are many, many articles with a procedure, most are dated and incomplete, however, here is a procedure that worked for this test using CentOS 5.7 and…
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