Folder sharing in is made possible by the Samba implementation of SMB protocol. SMB or Server Message Block is a protocol mainly used for file sharing between network computers, though they can also be used for printing and IPC (inter-process communication)

To enable folder sharing in Ubuntu, you need to first open the Nautilus file browser. To do this, click on the Places → Home Folder from the menu.

From there, right-click on the folder to be shared and choose the Sharing Options

You’ll come to the Folder Sharing window.

To enable sharing of the folder, click on the 'Share this folder‘s checkbox.

If you’re doing this for the first time, you’ll be prompted to install the necessary services. In this case, it’s the Samba’s server. Click on the Install service to continue

The system will download and install the required packages for you. This might take a few minutes.

Once done, you’ll be notified by the following window. Click the Close button to continue.

GNOME session need to be restarted before sharing can really be enabled. Click on the Restart session to continue. You might need to save all your work before clicking the button though.

Once the session resumes, proceed to the first few steps of enabling the folder sharing. Choose the folder to share in the file browser, and tick on the Share folder checkbox. Here you can choose the name you want the share to be, and optionally you can also set the comment for the share. You might also want to check the Guest access checkbox to enable passwordless access to the share. The share is read-only, unless if you tick on the Allow others to create and delete files in the folder. once done, click on the Create Share button.

Once you go back to the file browser, you’ll notice that the icon of the folder you’ve just shared has changed.

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This method is used to run X11 (GUI based) programs in remote machine, and output the display to the local machine. The purpose is almost similar to VNC and such, though they are technologically very different.

To use this feature, simply add the -X option when running SSH. Below is a sample SSH command.

ssh -X user@remote-machine

To execute a program on the remote machine and output the display locally, just type the program name at the terminal and you sould get the forwarded display on your desktop.

If it fails, set the these options in the remote machine’s /etc/ssh/sshd_config as the following and then restart the SSH service;

X11Forwarding yes

If it still doesn’t work, try to check your local machine’s /etc/ssh/ssh_config and set these option as the following;

ForwardX11 yes

If you get permission error, run the following command at you terminal;

xhost +

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You can still run your old DOS programs right from macOS without having to poweroff your machine and boot up from your MS-DOS diskette by following these steps;

1. Install Homebrew from the terminal.

   $ /usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"

2. Install DOSBox via homebrew.

   $ brew install dosbox

3. Run your program’s executable from DOSBox.

   $ dosbox Downloads/Golden Axe/GOLD.EXE
   DOSBox version 0.74
   Copyright 2002-2010 DOSBox Team, published under GNU GPL.
   ---
   CONFIG: Generating default configuration.
   Writing it to /Users/username/Library/Preferences//DOSBox 0.74 Preferences
   CONFIG:Loading primary settings from config file /Users/username/Library/Preferences//DOSBox 0.74 Preferences
   MIDI:Opened device:coreaudio

   

   You can download old DOS programs from sites such as Abandonia

Linux administrators have few options when it comes to adding a new user to the system, from filling up forms in distribution / desktop environment specific nice GUIs, to running through the command line with options and switches. For the geeky administratorss, there are always configuration files that can manually be edited just for this purpose.

The 2 most common programs used to add a user are, adduser and useradd. They are both quite similar (heck, they do the same thing anyway, which is to add user of course), but are a bit different in their interactivity level.

To extract a tar.gz file, the most basic syntax is as the following;

$ tar xvf filename.tar.gz

The command will extract the file to the current working directory. Current versions of the tar program doesn’t require the -z switch, as it auto detects the file format and extract accordingly.

To extract in verbose mode, and to a directory called /target, the following is the syntax;

$ tar xvf filename.tar.gz -C /target

Some Linux distributions such as Ubuntu comes with Bash completion by default. That enables auto-completion of application parameters rather than just the application names at the Bash terminal by pressing the tab key.

The functionality is provided by bash-completion program and it’s not a standard feature in macOS. You’ll have to do it via Homebrew (a third-party package manager for macOS) by following these steps;

1. Install Homebrew

   $ /usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"

2. Install bash-completion via Homebrew

   $ brew install bash-completion

3. Enable bash-completion

   $ . /usr/local/etc/bash_completion

[ -f /usr/local/etc/bash_completion ] && . /usr/local/etc/bash_completion