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Keep it simple, install Dropbox for Ubuntu and Windows and be done with it.

The easiest solution is to create 2 samba shares of the same windows folder:

1. Name one samba share "docdata" and give it read only permission in Samba. Mount this share name in the windows...

Call me old fashioned, but, I never used LVM. I have always created my partitions manually from the get-go (from way back in SCO Unix days!)

I create my partitions as follows:

/boot...

Niiiiice!!! I didnt know about this until now.

Gotta love this forum! ;)

Use both computers you just described. Make one computer your internal fileserver in the LAN/office to host your drawings. Put the 2nd server somewhere remotely outside of the office where you have...

Well first you have to have a goal: where DO YOU want to start? :D

You indicated earlier that you want to do backup, so, start googling for basic backup shell scripts and you'll find plenty. Keep...

Do you use some NAT or port-forwarding in youre firewall? Check the rules in the router/firewall and perhaps you need to change that rule to forward to the *new IP* you assigned to the internal mail...

You specified everything nicely except your budget. How much is your budget for this *not too expensive* machine? Do you need just the CPU or the whole kit and kaboodle (monitor, keyboard, mouse)?...

What * access * do your users require? Do they just simply need to read files from your samba folders? or do they need both read-and-write access to your samba folders?

Either way, try this...

These days, google is your best bet in learning shell programming for free.

The basic shell programming examples dating back from year 2000 from the tldp.org in one of the google search results is...

Or, Utilize the linux "find" utility:

# /usr/bin/find <backupdir> -mtime +<how many days?> -print -exec /bin/rm -f {} /;

My suggestion:

Utilize cron job scheduling.

1. Setup a cronjob that will execute your daily/nightly/weekly backup.

2. Setup a cronjob that will cleanup your backup files every X...

It was a simple but great suggestion. Why not?

Bravoooo Bravoooo!!!

Thanks David! This fixed the annoying problem I've been having on my ubuntu 10.04LTS host with Virtualbox and RHEL vm!!!

Thank you!!!

This is the year 2012 not 1989 and we still can not ban or even auto-block subscription requests in Empathy?!? :(

I'd like to bump up this thread as it has been idle for a while.

on Ubuntu 11.4, same error message, windows7 guest o/s, on hp ml150G6 server.

I have not noticed any performance hits on my...

Apology accepted.

Now, go download 11.04 and post back your thoughts re: UNITY ;)

Seems you copied the whole tar'd file to the " / " ? is this correct? Do a full new clean o/s install on the new server. copy your tar single file to a mounted partition large enough to hold your...

NICE moral story but you did not specify what technique ("cp", "tar", "cpio", rsync) you used to backup? and you backed up to what medium -- external USB? mounted partition of a different disk?

Are the remote users ftp'ing from windows command line? or using IE?

On IE, try logging into your ftp server using this URL:

I second this!

Define "everything". What does he want to "see"? and what does he want to access? If he wants to login to his own desktop environment then perhaps keep it simple and run VNCSERVER (persistent mode)...

Do you really need to use a Primary Domain controller? Why?

Since your network is very small'ish, I would keep it simple:

Use hardware based router and firewall with WIFI capability and ...

Unfortunately, there is no weather and no temperature information anymore in ubuntu maverick v 10.10 and clock version 2.30.2. WHY take a good thing away Canonical? Please put it back :confused:
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UPDATE:

Just want to update this thread with the latest info regarding my running Ubuntu 10.04LTS configuration on HP ML150 G6 server since there is no official support from HP with Lucid Lynx...