Suse / openSUSE Linux HowTos and Tutorials
These are detailed accounts of some of my personal voyages in the fascinating world of Linux and my attempt to put something back into the arena where I constantly receive so much help. So far I've shared information on openSUSE 3008498 times. Who'd have thought it? Not me LOL.
I no longer update the pages on this site. So the pages will gradually become obsolete.
How you can help
Samba LAN Primer
Tweak the defaults to get a Suse-Windows Home/Office LAN
Advanced Samba Configuration
Browsing, Authentication, Permissions, Shares, Firewall
Stable Network Browsing
Local Master Browser, WINS Server and the LMHOSTS file
Making Samba File Shares on-the-fly
Shares with a few clicks in Konqueror, Nautilus or Dolphin
Samba Usershares
Configure smb.conf, Nautilus GUI, Command line options, /var/lib/samba/usershares
Mount a CIFS Drive/Network Drive
Software, Temporary (CLI) & permanent (fstab) mounts, Slow networks, Shares that work with cifs
Configure Windows 7 for Samba
Configure Windows Vista for Samba
SuSEfirewall2 on Workstations
Permit Network Traffic through Firewall on openSUSE host e.g. Samba, printing, ssh, Torrent, aMule
Configure Network Interface
Name Servers/DNS, Gateway, Default DHCP, DHCP with Name Servers & gateway, Fixed IP
Configure Wireless Interface
Discovery, Ndiswrapper, Madwifi, Router, DHCP, DNS servers, gateway, traditional ifup, CLI diagnostics
Configure (K)torrent
Pass through your LAN's Router and Workstation's Firewall
Suse Broadband Wireless Modem I
Nokia 6120: HSDPA: ppp, udev, smpppd, wvdial, Kinternet
Suse Broadband Wireless Modem II
BigPond Next G HSDPA: ppp, udev, smpppd, wvdial, Kinternet
Linux Apache Web Server
VirtualHost, Common Gateway Interface CGI, Server Side Includes SSI, Options, AddHandler, ScriptAlias, AllowOverride, XBitHack, .htaccess
Windows Print Server
Print to Windows from Linux using either Samba's SMB/CIFS Protocol or LPD printing
Suse/openSUSE Print Server I: Samba Printing
Print to Suse from either Linux or Windows using Samba
Suse/openSUSE Print Server II: IPP Printing
Print to Suse from either Linux or Windows using IPP protocol
Suse/openSUSE Samba Workgroup Server
Browse Master, Authentication, Permissions, Shares, Firewall
Internet Connection Sharing - IP Masquerading
For Windows or openSUSE ICS servers with Windows and/or openSUSE clients configured singly or in a LAN
TightVNC Remote Desktop on openSUSE
All Windows & openSUSE client/server configurations.
Covers XWindow and Web Browser viewers
Windows RDP / openSUSE XRDP Remote Desktops
Windows or Linux clients --> openSUSE Server
openSUSE client --> Win Server 2003, XP, Vista & Win 7
Read/write access to Fat32/Vfat partitions
Read/write access to NTFS partitions
Multiboot from openSUSE Grub bootloader
Multibooting of Windows 2000 XP Vista and Suse openSUSE
Multiboot from Windows bootloader
Multibooting of Windows 2000 XP Vista and Suse openSUSE
Five ways to boot openSUSE when Grub is broken
Multiboot Ubuntu from openSUSE's Grub (menu.lst)
Move /home Directories to Separate Partition
PartImage & SystemRescueCD: Linux Ghost clone
Backup and Restore Images of Partitions. MBR, compression, partition table, NTFS, DVD archive
Brother Laser Printer HL 2040
Hewlett Packard LaserJet HP 1020
Cron Tables (CronTab) Task Scheduler
Install FreeBASIC into openSUSE
Install VMware server