A couple of things I found useful when doing some desktop support
25 June, 2013
Cab Extraction
I've occasionally had to get drivers from very large cab files, usually DELL ones. This takes so long in Windows, so I do it in Linux once using cabextract and then I can share it using the samba server, rather than extracting on every Windows machine. This is a great piece of software, very useful. It's really simple to use.
NFS Group permissions not working
Despite the UID permissions working correctly, and all the UID/GIDs matching up perfectly, a Ubuntu file store I was exporting via NFS would not work with the existing group permissions of the client. To solve this, on the NFS file store, comment out;
--manage-gid
option from
/etc/default/nfs-kernel-server
Restart nfs-kernel-server and it all should work fine.