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Extreme 2007 October 19 15:38

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Today i:

My day was awesome. Thanks noirin -)

Not quite what was intended 2007 April 30 22:45

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This post was meant to be made on the basis of some notes that i was keeping on one of my palm treos. Unfortunately, i mis-read a dialog box while syncing it to the pc, and had it’s data overwritten by the backup from the other treo. Oh well ,-)

Instead, this post is composed from a couple of things i’ve been meaning to put up here for ELONGTIME.

Firstly, the checkers book. It’s real name is “The Practice of System and Network Administration”, which is a bit of a mouthful if you’re going to refer to it in speech. It’s an excellent book, it’s considered to be the definitive textbook on the title subject, and rightly so. It’s just the name that irks. So, taking inspiration from one of the quotes[1] on the official website, i’ve taken to calling it ‘the checkers book’. This here is my bid to try and spread that a bit -)

The second thing is anonymous samba share browsing for windows clients (it seems like i’m not so good at naming things either). For years it’s been niggling at me that i have been unable to figure out how to get a samba share that windows would be able to browse anonymously. I finally figured it out last summer, and have been meaning to document it ever since. Here’s how it goes.


[global]
...
security = user
map to guest = bad user
...
[sharename]
...
browseable = yes
guest ok = yes
...

So, when a windows user tries to access the share, so long as their windows username is not the same as an account on the samba server, their user will silently be mapped to the guest user by the samba server. Without this, windows will throw up a dialog requesting username/password to access the server, and will never try connecting to the share as guest, meaning you can’t see the share without authentication. The bit i had been missing for years was map to guest = bad user.

And that’s all (s)he wrote.

[1] “Despite sporting a title that sounds about as interesting as The Longest Checkers Games I Ever Saw, Thomas Limoncelli and Christine Hogan’s The Practice of System and Network Administration is an exceptionally valuable book.” The original review that it is from is here.

It’s been a while 2007 February 21 23:27

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So, since the last post. I’ve decided to try and list some of the things that have happened since:

Joyous joy 2006 December 14 16:53

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Just signed the lease and received the keys for this place. After 2 months 3 weeks of being homeless, it’s a most wonderful relief to finally have a place to live, and a nice place in a kickass location at that. Oh, and the lease we signed set the rate to €100 below the asking price, which was a nice surprise -)

So close 2006 December 6 18:50

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Found an excellent place to live yesterday. Good location for non-retardedly life draining commuting, lovely apartment, spacious, 2 large double-bedrooms, rent within budget etc. The only downside was that the lease was only available for 4 months as the landlord was wanting to sell, and was hoping the housing market would pick up again in a few months.

I rang the letting agent and negotiated a out-of-buisness-hours viewing. This was a good sign. Normally the viewing is at a set time, and many lots people turn up. This time it was just us and one other guy. We told the agent we were very interested, faxed all the required references to him this morning as agreed, awaited the phonecall back this afternoon.

When the call came though, i knew immediately from his tone that we were out of luck. It seems the landlord, in the absense of anything else to base his choice on, decided to lease to the couple instead. Gah. 10 weeks after moving up here, still houseless.