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How To Set Up a Samba Server in Ubuntu

Samba

So you have a Linux desktop or server and want to share files and/or printers to your Windows PCs or Macs. Luckily, all three operating systems support SMB so let’s use that. With Samba you can share files and printers on your home network and protect your shares with a username and password.

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Lighting up LAMP in Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron

This guide will help newbies set up a fully working LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) server using on Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron. Doing do will allow you to use various PHP applications such as the popular phpBB forums and Wordpress blog in addition to the basic HTML pages and files. I write this based on an “out of the box” Ubuntu.

Let’s begin…

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