Archive for November, 2007
Windows free LAN
I mentioned a day or two back that bitbucket (our Win2K3 server) was about to be turned off after migration of its data and services to our Ubuntu desktop. Well, it’s been done. The LAN has no more Windows machines on it.
Actually, that’s not quite true, because the Inspiron 9400 is setup for WinXP/Ubuntu dual [...]
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Changes afoot
I’ve had wonderful success with Ubuntu over the last month. There have been no posts for nearly 3 weeks, because nothing exceptional or worth mentioning has happened. It just works.
Based on this success I’m planning the most drastic change to our local network that I’ve made for quite some time. We’ve essentially got 3 machines [...]
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Remote XDMCP broken
I’ve found something else that isn’t right about my Ubuntu installation. I can’t do a remote login to the other machine on the LAN.
At the login window on my Inspiron 9400 there’s the little “Options…” button in the bottom left corner. Click that, say that you want to log into a remote machine, and it [...]
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