openSUSE SuSE Linux HOWTOs and Tutorials by Swerdna

Suse / openSUSE Linux HowTos and Tutorials

These are detailed accounts of some of my personal voyages in the fascinating world of Linux and my attempt to put something back into the arena where I constantly receive so much help. So far I've shared information on openSUSE 3118993 times. Who'd have thought it? Not me LOL.

I no longer update the pages on this site. So the pages will gradually become obsolete. + This site closes daily to conserve bandwidth for about 6 hours at about 1000 Z.

How you can help

Samba LAN Primer
Tweak the defaults to get a Suse-Windows Home/Office LAN

Advanced Samba Configuration
Browsing, Authentication, Permissions, Shares, Firewall

Stable Network Browsing
Local Master Browser, WINS Server and the LMHOSTS file

Making Samba File Shares on-the-fly
Shares with a few clicks in Konqueror, Nautilus or Dolphin

Samba Usershares
Configure smb.conf, Nautilus GUI, Command line options, /var/lib/samba/usershares

Mount a CIFS Drive/Network Drive
Software, Temporary (CLI) & permanent (fstab) mounts, Slow networks, Shares that work with cifs

Configure Windows 7 for Samba
Configure Windows Vista for Samba

SuSEfirewall2 on Workstations
Permit Network Traffic through Firewall on openSUSE host e.g. Samba, printing, ssh, Torrent, aMule

Configure Network Interface
Name Servers/DNS, Gateway, Default DHCP, DHCP with Name Servers & gateway, Fixed IP

Configure Wireless Interface
Discovery, Ndiswrapper, Madwifi, Router, DHCP, DNS servers, gateway, traditional ifup, CLI diagnostics

Configure (K)torrent
Pass through your LAN's Router and Workstation's Firewall

Suse Broadband Wireless Modem I
Nokia 6120: HSDPA: ppp, udev, smpppd, wvdial, Kinternet

Suse Broadband Wireless Modem II
BigPond Next G HSDPA: ppp, udev, smpppd, wvdial, Kinternet

Linux Apache Web Server
VirtualHost, Common Gateway Interface CGI, Server Side Includes SSI, Options, AddHandler, ScriptAlias, AllowOverride, XBitHack, .htaccess

Windows Print Server
Print to Windows from Linux using either Samba's SMB/CIFS Protocol or LPD printing

Suse/openSUSE Print Server I: Samba Printing
Print to Suse from either Linux or Windows using Samba

Suse/openSUSE Print Server II: IPP Printing
Print to Suse from either Linux or Windows using IPP protocol

Suse/openSUSE Samba Workgroup Server
Browse Master, Authentication, Permissions, Shares, Firewall

Internet Connection Sharing - IP Masquerading
For Windows or openSUSE ICS servers with Windows and/or openSUSE clients configured singly or in a LAN

TightVNC Remote Desktop on openSUSE
All Windows & openSUSE client/server configurations.
Covers XWindow and Web Browser viewers

Windows RDP / openSUSE XRDP Remote Desktops
Windows or Linux clients --> openSUSE Server
openSUSE client --> Win Server 2003, XP, Vista & Win 7