HOWTO

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Here you'll find a collection of "Howto" documents, some more detailed than others.

Core Network Services

• HOWTO Configure NTP
• HOWTO Design a fault-tolerant DHCP + DNS solution
  • HOWTO Configure DHCP failover
  • HOWTO Configure Dynamic DNS
  • HOWTO Manage Dynamic DNS with nsupdate
• HOWTO Design an Identity Management solution
  • HOWTO Configure Multi-Master IPA Servers
  • HOWTO Configure an IPA Client
  • HOWTO Configure NFS Automount with an IPA Server
  • HOWTO Configure Apache with an IPA Server
  • HOWTO Configure Radius with an IPA Server
• HOWTO Design a Certificate Management solution

Miscellaneous

• HOWTO Build your own bootable CD-ROM for BIOS updates
• HOWTO Make the most of Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird
• HOWTO Make the most of Google Apps
  • HOWTO Sync Google Calendar with iPhone and Snow Leopard

Networking

• HOWTO Configure a network bridge

Red Hat / CentOS / Fedora

• HOWTO Build your own provisioning server
  • HOWTO Configure Cobbler on Fedora or Red Hat
  • HOWTO Set up a Subversion repository for provisioning
  • HOWTO Set up a Post-Install environment for provisioning
  • HOWTO Set up a Yum repository for provisioning
• Running Linux on a MacBook Pro
  • HOWTO Install CentOS on a MacBook Pro
  • HOWTO Install Fedora 12 on a MacBook Pro
• HOWTO Install Firefly Media Server (mt-daapd) on CentOS 5
• HOWTO Improve availability with Software RAID
  • HOWTO Monitor your Software RAID-array
  • HOWTO Replace a failing disk on Linux Software RAID-5
• HOWTO Add NTFS support to RHEL 5 / CentOS 5
• HOWTO Configure remote desktop sessions on Linux
• HOWTO Resize LVM partitions and filesystems

Samba

• HOWTO Disable printing in Samba

Security

• HOWTO Secure SSH
• HOWTO Improve NIS security

Shell scripting

• HOWTO Copy files using cp, cpio, dd and tar
• HOWTO Loop over multiple files using Bash
• HOWTO Rename files using wildcards
• HOWTO Send email from shell scripts
• HOWTO Work with filenames containing whitespace

Software Engineering / Configuration Management

• HOWTO Start working with Subversion
• HOWTO Use your Apple for Software Development

Xen

• HOWTO Connect a USB drive to a Xen Guest (DomU)