Installing Windows Remote Management (WinRM) and PowerShell 2.0 on Windows Server 2003 / XP

Windows Remote Management WinRM and PowerShell 2.0 are two very versatile tools that can greatly increase the manageability of your Windows hosts.  Unfortunately it has been somewhat difficult for me locating the most up to date versions of this software.  Basically the package available that installs PowerShell 2.0 also includes the WinRM 2.0 release as well.  Also available at the link below are WinRM/PowerShell 2.0 releases for Windows Vista and Server 2008 R1.There is a prerequisite that the computer is running Microsoft...

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Install Samba Server on Red Hat Enterprise Linux/CentOS/Scientific Linux 6

Recently the latest version of Scientific Linux 6 was released. Scientific Linux is a distribution which uses Red Hat Enterprise Linux as its upstream and aims to be compatible with binaries compiled for Red Hat Enterprise. I am really impressed with the quality of this distro and the timeliness with which updates and security fixes are distributed. Thanks to all the developers and testers on the Scientific Linux team!In this post I will discuss installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux/CentOS/Scientific Linux 6 as a Samba server. The instructions...

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Install Open Source VMware Tools on Red Hat Enterprise/CentOS/Scientific Linux 6

VMware now makes a repository available for us to install the VMware tools for a variety of Linux distributions including Red Hat, Scientific, CentOS, and Ubuntu.  In this example I will install VMware tools on a Red Hat Enterprise/CentOS/Scientific Linux 6 guest running on a VMware ESXi 4.1 host.First import the VMware repository GPG signing public keys:# rpm --import http://packages.vmware.com/tools/keys/VMWARE-PACKAGING-GPG-DSA-KEY.pub# rpm --import http://packages.vmware.com/tools/keys/VMWARE-PACKAGING-GPG-RSA-KEY.pubNow add the VMware...

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Install Vmware tools in Linux

1.Mount Vmware Tools to cdrom2.Copy it to Home directory   cp /mnt/cdrom/VMwareTools-8.8.2-590212.tar.gz /3.Untar    tar zxf VMwareTools-8.8.2-590212.tar.gz4.change to the unzipped directory    cd vmware-tools-distrib/5.Install   ./vmware-install.pl                 ...

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Shutdown or Restart redhat Linux

1.For Shutdown          poweroff2.For Restart          reboot       ...

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Configure Dhcp Server with Red Hat Linux

1. Configure /etc/dhcpd.conf -                   Does not exist by default           Copy sample from the DHCP documentation.[ i.e Do this : # cp dhcpd.conf.sample /etc/dhcpd.conf ]                  Delete everyting in it and keep this much  Now your new /etc/dhcpd.conf should look like this :  vi /etc/dhcpd.conf   ================  ...

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Transform your Windows7 laptop into a Wi-Fi hotspot

In today's time, not even  every home has a laptop or computer, but every member of family also own separate laptops or any other device with internet connection. And everyone want to use internet, prefect if you have a Wi-Fi at home, but what if you have an Ethernet?For the same purpose, I remember the time when we bought a Ethernet switch to that every laptop connects using a cord, which solved the problem of connection...

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