Install and Configure Samba share in Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin | Howto

One of the most asked features for Samba is a graphical user interface to help with configuration and management,  there are several GUI interfaces to Samba available, for me the most  simple and powerful one of these tools is samba server configuration tool. In this post, i will show you how to install and configure samba in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Precise Pangolin (Beta1 + ), this work also for previous releases of Ubuntu.

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Run Linux on Windows without Virtualization using andLinux

If you are a windows user and you want to try linux without using dual boot or a virtual machine . As you know, in the dual boot, the user can run only one operating system at a time, while using operating systems in virtual environment there are chances of getting the machine slower due to overload. To use Linux and Windows simultaneously, we have an excellent option in the form of andLinux. andLinux is nothing but a full-fledged Ubuntu Linux system that can run seamlessly on Windows 2000 OSs like Windows 2000, XP, 2003, Vista and 7 (32bit).

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Exchange to Linux migration solution

There can be many different reasons why an administrator would want to migrate from Microsoft to Linux, whether it be to reduce cost, improve server efficiency linux-logoor simply because the administrator is more proficient in Linux. One of the main difficulties you will always come across is finding a suitable solution that will be able to replace the Microsoft counterpart, especially if you are dealing with an Exchange environment. In the past you would have had to install an array of applications and servers just to be able to provide all the features that Microsoft Exchange has to offer.

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How to install Photoshop in Ubuntu and LinuxMint

Photoshop is an important tool to many of us here. There are people who stick with Windows or Mac for gaining a native environment to use this tool on. For Linux users,photoshop there is Gimp, the perfect alternative to Photoshop . However, there are some users that are used for photoshop and they can not switch to Gimp for some reason..

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