Identifying your kernel version (ver)
By jeltsch on Thu, 04/05/2007 - 21:45To figure out what kernel you are running just type ver Of course you can also just look into /boot and look to which kernel the default links are pointing to.
The fact that everything looks different doesn't mean that all has changed...
Linux
Suse Linux 9.1/9.2 and vmware
By jeltsch on Thu, 04/05/2007 - 21:44I downloaded again a VMware release to test (4.5.2). But it didn't even wanted to be configured. Apparently Suse has screwed up the installation source directory tree structure. I found this fix: cd /usr/src/linux su make cloneconfig make prepare After this the vmware-config.pl should run ok. Before running the vmware-config.pl I also applied the vmware-any-any-update78 patch. BTW: You have to repeat this procedure everytime you update your kernel! After updating to 9.2 I had more problems.
What nfs and smb shares are available on a server (showmount, smbclient)?
By jeltsch on Thu, 04/05/2007 - 21:43The command to figure out what shares are available e.g. on the computer 192.168.0.2 type:
For nfs: /usr/sbin/showmount -e 192.168.0.2
For samba: smbclient -L 192.168.0.2