[Novalug] VDQ : what to do with an old P2

Ed T. Toton III bones@necrobones.net
Wed Jan 10 14:49:20 EST 2007


Thus spake Kevin Kitts:

> I forgot to mention one other quick note. I can't remember the exact 
> steps but there is an inittab file and if you change the intial run 
> state to 3 instead of 5 - then you will have just a command line 
> environment running. Since this is a server that sits in a wiring closet 
> you don't really need all the GUI stuff. Of course, if you want to go 
> into gu just type "init 5" and do you admin/gui then go back to command 
> line.

Oh yes, good point. The file is /etc/inittab, and you're looking for this:

# Default runlevel. (Do not set to 0 or 6)
id:3:initdefault:



> For me, samba was a bit hard to get working - hardest part of the 
> project. Command line samba seems to work better than the SAMBA gui 
> tools supplied by the various distros...

Agreed, there are several services that are better to hand-edit the 
configs, and samba is one of them. Here's a sample config you can add to 
share a path called /DATA, available to anyone on the LAN:


[DATA]
    comment = DATA
    path = /DATA
    public = yes
    writable = yes
    printable = yes
    guest ok = yes



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