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So no need to bother about whether it's updated or not.

Internet Explorer

Download Adobe Flash Player Standalone Offline Full Installer 

All other browsers Firefox, Chrome etc.

Download Adobe Flash Player Standalone Offline Full Installer 

Web Server

The primary function of Web Server is to provide web pages to requested client. We know lot about basics of web server and web sites, you can get all basics form Wikipedia. So here we going to see about configuration of web server in both Windows and Linux.

We can make a web server with Windows, Linux, Unix, Mac what ever, by use of Web Server Application. There are several web server applications,

Apache Web Server by Apache
nginx Web Server by Nginx INC
Google Web Server by Google
Internet Information Server by Microsoft

Here we are going to see about Apache, nginx. GWS is used only by Google.

Before configure your main server, try the configuration with virtual servers. I'm always use virtual box for my testing.

Servers Available in Linux

Upto I know, the following servers are available in Linux. We will discuss about it one by one.

1. Web Server
2. Proxy Server
3. FTP Server
4. Samba Server
5. NFS Server
6. Database Server
7. LDAP Server
8. DNS Server
9. DHCP Server
10. NEWS Server
11. Time Server
12. Mail Server
13. Print Server
14. Linux Internet Gateway
15. Linux Virtual Server
16. SSL Server
17. NIS Authentication Server
18. PXE Kickstart Server (Remote Installation Server)
19. Application Server

If i miss any of server post here , I'll update them as soon as possible.

Sorry for the Inconvenience

Hi Guys & Gals,

Due to some personal problem, I could not post anything on Administration Notes.
Here after I will post regularly.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

--

Kumar Parameswaran

SAMBA client in Linux with GUI

We can connect samba server with GUI mode as like windows machine in Linux.

Run Application will be used to access samba server in Linux with GUI.

Alt+F2 used to open Run Application window.

It looks as follows.

run application

Just type smb://{samba server address} and hit Enter.

Ex.

smb://10.1.1.1

This will open your samba share window. Give password if it asks.

Users and Groups in Linux - 7

gshadow

The gshadow is group password file, It is used for encrypted passwords of group. It is also as like shadow file. It is located at /etc/gshadow.The normal user can's view this and root user only can view and edit.

Location : /etc/gshadow

Fields : 

1 - Group Name : It is name of group.

2 - Encrypted Password : It is current hash of the group's encrypted password.  The encrypted password consists of characters from the 64-character alphabet a thru z, A thru Z, 0 thru 9, \. and /.  If in encrypted password edited with ! or *, the user will not be able to use a unix password to log in.

3 - Administrators : The list of  administrative users separated by comma. This will be done with "gpasswd -A"

4 - Members : The list of members separated by comma.

* Use man pages for more help.

Users and Groups in Linux - 6

group

The group file is as like passwd file. passwd is used to store user account information as like group file is used to store group information. It is located at /etc/group. It mainly used for store group name and their user name. Normal user can view this file. But only the root user can edit this.

Location : /etc/group

Fields : 

1 - GroupName : It is name of group.

2 - Password : Normally password is not used in group. It can store encrypted password as like shadow, here it'll be in gshadow. This is useful to implement privileged groups.

3 - GroupId (GID) : It is a unique id for the group. Each user have group id. We can see this at /etc/passwd file.

4 - Group List: This is list of user under this group, means member of this group. Each user separated by comma",".


* Use man pages for more help.