Linux My Book World II

Ok so my MBWE is now residing in my routers DMZ so I can see everything that is going on from anywhere with it, except the WD admin page for some reason but that doesnt really matter. I now have a basic web server running, but it doesn't like FF for some reason, even though the Hello World I have on the MBWE is identical to one I'm testing now on this machine locally and FF seems quite happy to say Hello World now. Still haven't figured out why transmission and clutch are being difficult though.

And finally, what is an NFS server? And do I want one?

 

What HTTP server are you running, Apache?

NFS is Network Filesystem. It works a bit like SMB.

 

I believe the HTTP server is lighttpd.

And *woosh* to the second part. It's right over my head, what does it do?

EDIT: one final thing what do the permission in these strings mean.

Code:

[root@MyBookWorld internal]# ls -alt
total 36
drwsrwsrwx 5 www-data www-data  4096 Jul 15 17:51 PUBLIC
drwsr-sr-x 6 www-data www-data  4096 May 23 11:44 .
drwxrwxrwx 2 www-data www-data  4096 May 23 11:44 VIDEO
drwx------ 2 root     root     16384 Mar  2 20:49 lost+found
drwsr-sr-x 4 root     root      4096 Jan 18 11:44 ..
drwx------ 2 www-data www-data  4096 Dec  1  2006 .senvidData

I do know what r w and x mean but whats the deal with s. And how to I apply it else where?

 

Is the local machine LightTPD also?

Allows you to mount remote directories as if they were local. So you could mount /home from server:/var/exports/home and access it transparently.

Code:

man chmod

 

By testing on a local machine i meant making the htm file identically to the one on the server and just opening it in FF and IE as the machine I was refering to is an XP POS that I use at work. And me being weird I find that getting frustrated with Linux relaxes me between accounts on my lunch break.

I'm going to assume that NFS and SMB are for predominantly Linux OSes and would have very little value for a LAN consisting of mostly XP and Vista machines.

I would run man but I have no man or info if you remember and you advised me against getting the libraries, well not advised per say but put me off.

Finally I would like to once again extend my thanks to all in this forum, especially Fophillips, my good friend Overlord who remotely fixed my nano problem, even though he probably isn't reading this and I'm going to continue to use vi. I say thanks again as I would have probably got annoyed at myself if I was the one giving advice and help by this point and I just want everyone to know how grateful I am.

 

NFS, is used be unix-like machines, but smb is actually the standard windows network file system - samba is a package designed to allow windows based machines to conenct to a network share

you dont need to locally have the man pages there all floating around on the web, naturally google is your friend there

 

So googling man chmod tells me that " Set user or group ID on execution (s), " and " s The set-user-ID-on-execution and set-group-ID-on-execution bits." Which means nothing to me.

And seeing as the MBWE is the only unix-like machine on the network and I cant see myself running another Linux system or ever touching OSX I'm gonna leave out the NFS. And I dont think I even need to run samba as Vista found the shares quite happily last night and was then busy backing up Smallville and I have yet to test an XP machine, but fingers crossed.

Finally is there a command I can run to see what processes are running?

 

Further down it says about setuid, there’s some stuff on wikipedia too.

Code:

ps aux | less

That will run ps which shows all the processes (when passed the aux flags) then pipes (|) them to less which is a pager and allows you to scroll through text in a terminal.

 

thank you, and will look into that setuid stuff in a bit.

 

I'm resurrecting this thread as I'm having no joy with transmission and I was hoping there were some linux bods on this forum that may be using it in its evil CLI version. Does anyone here know how to fix a socket problem? Ie, I continually get the message that transmission cannot connect to the socket file.