How to write on NTFS format partition in Ubuntu?

What is NTFS?
NTFS is Windows NT File System format. It has more performance, reliability, and compatibility not found in the FAT file system. For default, Ubuntu doesn’t support NTFS format.
 
How can I write on NTFS format disks?
If you are using Ubuntu Feisty (7.04), you can’t read or write on NTFS format. [...]

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Samba Server part 2 # 2

Practice 4: Primary Domain Controller (Provide center Authorization and Authentication for directories)
Samba can act as Domain Controller. It will centralize the Authorization and Authentication services.
 
taufanlubis@zyrex:~$ sudo gedit /etc/samba/smb.conf
 
[global]
workgroup = UbuntuWorkgroup
netbios name = UbuntuZyrex
server string = UbuntuZyrexServer
hosts allow = 192.168.0.0/24 127.
hosts deny = ALL [...]

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Access your USB drive from Virtual Box in Ubuntu

The current version of free Virtual Box still doesn’t give a support for access your USB. But you can make a trick. Just use the ‘Shared Folder’ to mount your USB to your VirtualBox.
So, you can access the USB from both your Ubuntu and your other OS in the [...]

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Download videos from YouTube using PyTube in Ubuntu

If you are searching a good tool to download videos from YouTube, I think PyTube will be suitable to your expectation. You can convert the videos directly to various selected formats.
What you need to run PyTube?
PyTube need GTK+ version 2.12.x to run.
Plus, few dependencies, which are:

ffmpeg2theora

vorbis-tools

mplayer

mencoder

youtube-dl

GTK+2.0
PyGTK 2
Notify Python
Zenity
But, don’t worry, you [...]

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Samba Server

Part 1 of 2

What is Samba?
Samba is the same like NFS which is used to share files and printers in Linux. Not like NFS, Samba implements SMB (Server Message Block) network protocol so it can be used for windows networking. In Windows and OS/2, they name it CIFS (Common Internet File [...]

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IP and Port scanning using ‘nmap (Network Mapper)’ in Ubuntu

nmap is a powerfull scanner available in Unix/Linux system. It’s very usefull for network exploration and security auditing. It was designed to rapidly scan large networks, although it works fine againts single hosts.
It’s very easy to install nmap in Ubuntu, just download from the internet.
taufanlubis@zyrex:~$ sudo apt-get [...]

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FTP Server

What is FTP?
FTP (File Transfer Protocol) is a program to exchange files between two computers or to other computers in a local network or over inter networks (internet). May be you don’t know that you’ve already used it before when you download something from the internet. Most [...]

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Installing Ubuntu Studio Theme in Ubuntu

If you don’t want to use Ubuntu Studio but you still want to have the theme. You can install only the theme for your Ubuntu.
Step 1. Add ‘deb http://archive.ubuntustudio.org/ubuntustudio feisty main‘ into your sources.list
taufanlubis@zyrex:~$ sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
….
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deb http://archive.ubuntustudio.org/ubuntustudio feisty main
 
Step 2. Download ubuntustudio gpg key
What is [...]

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