Big Trev

I’m running some VMs on a Windows box under VMWare Server, but it would be easier for me to connect directly through the VMWare console to the server.  So, off I go to installing VMWare!

 Found a good little tutorial here:  http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/2008/05/30/install-vmware-server-106-on-ubuntu-804-hardy/, running through it now.

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And it does work just like a bought one!  Needed to do the bit on the page which said something about symbolic links, but that was just a matter of pasting text into the terminal and off it went.

I’ve successfully connected to my server console, and it seems to be working fine.  Nice one!

Well, I had the crappy old hard drive I was running Ubuntu off crap itself yesterday.  I can barely remember the last time one of my drive shit itself - was it 5 years ago?  Maybe more - I think it was about a 20 or 40 gigger….

Anyway, this has necessitated a new (used) hard drive for a new install of Ubuntu.  Yep, I’m persisting, you won’t get rid of me that easy!  Which has also meant that I’ve given Hardy Heron another crack. 

I’m pleased to say that so far it’s been a pretty good experience; some stuff which didn’t "just work" under Gutsy works in this (such as the extra buttons on my mouse), and it appears that whatever the bug with SMB shares on 2003 servers was has been fixed.  I’ve managed to connect to my server easily, and so far it’s working just like a bought one.

Problem is that now I have to go back and re-install everything I had installed before.

One other thing which I was running is Mobloquer, which apart from the queer-sounding French name is quite a serviceable and easy to use Linux version of Peer Guardian.  After a mate got a nasty letter from his ISP about file sharing, I think it’s time I put the tinfoil hat on…. 

Now I just need to keep going with getting things setup on this desktop again….