Andy Kemp

I’ve been playing around with Ubuntu Server for some time now, and slowly getting use to the Command Line Interface (CLI) However that might change from now on…

I came across a tool called Webmin. This is a web interface that provides a GUI for some of the services that are installed on the Ubuntu Server.

At the moment 1.490 is the latest version.

To install Webmin you need to type the following in to a putty session:

wget http://garr.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/webadmin/webmin_1.490_all.deb

once that has downloaded you then need to type the following:

sudo dpkg -i webmin_1.441_all.deb

That should be it, however if you encounter errors when installing all you need to do is run the following command immediately:

sudo apt-get install –f

then hey presto thats it Webmin is installed you can then browse to your server using https on port 10000, so for mine I went to https://prometheus:10000 I logged in and then I could manage the server from there:

From this you can manage MySQL, SSH, Apache2, Samba and other services through the web GUI.

I am still having some issues when creating new websites through the Apache2 so I am sticking to the CLI for that just now but for things like databases and Samba its pretty good.

I had to install an extra module for VSFTPD but there isn’t much to do on it once it is configured.

I had an error pushing Sophos out to a few clients, it says that you need to disable simple file sharing but that still does not work. it turned out that the problem is down to access on the registry:

http://www.sophos.com/support/knowledgebase/article/39357.html

that is the Sohpos Knowledgebase on the problem, seemed to fix the problem for me.

so I’ve had my 5800 for about 4 months now, ok so I am now on my 5th 5800 since getting it, but the problems have been down to the custom firmware that Virgin Mobile put on. only once have I actually had an issue with the phone itself.

Any how my newest replacement is back up and running :) and thanks to Google Sync I do not need to worry about backing up my phone calendar, contacts or email as that is all pulled from my Google Apps account using the Mail for Exchange app.

Any how I thought that I would put a post up about the apps I use the most now, I did one a wee while back but I think that that has changed now, so here they are:

1. Mail for Exchange
2. Sports Tracker
3. Nokia Maps
4. Gravity
5. Mobler
6. AccuWeather
7. Nokia Messaging
8. UKRails
9. Facebook

I have got a few other apps installed but these are the ones I use the most, the first 4 I would say I use on a daily basis the others, more than 3 times a week.

Out of these 9 apps Gravity is the only 1 I had to purchase, but it is worth it. As far as I am aware it is the only native S60 v5 twitter client out there. It is similar to TweetDeck in some ways with its columns, and you can also connect to Facebook from it too. I’ve found I’d use gravity over the Facebook app for my phone. yo ucan get a free trial from www.mobileways.de and also purchase it from there. I found I could not cope with out it after trailing it for 10 days so felt compelled to purchase it for £8 from the OVI store however if you do buy it do it from mobileways.de and not OVI I had problems with it not being registered.

If you have any other apps that you use please let me know and I would be keep to try them out.

If you try and install Search Server Express on Windows Server 2008 R2 you will get the following compatibility error:

It wasn’t till I tweeted about the error that I managed to solve the problem. With thanks to ToddKlindt pointing me in the right direction mentioning that Office SharePoint SP2 needed to be slipstreamed I managed to fix the problem. I had guessed that was the case but I was looking in the wrong direction, I was looking for a Service Pack for Search Server not for Share Point.

So the answer was to Slipstream Office SharePoint 2007 Server SP2 in to the Setup of Search Server.

To do this I needed to:

1. Extract the SearchServer.exe file
• Create a folder in your C:\ called Search
• copy the SearchServer.exe to C:\Search
• run the following command from a run command: C:\Search\SearchServer.exe /Extract:C:\Search\SearchSP2\
2. Download officeserver2007sp2-kb953334-x64-fullfile-en-us.exe from here
3. Extract the Service Pack files
• Copy the Service pack file to C:\Search
• run the following command: C:\Search\officeserver2007sp2-kb953334-x64-fullfile-en-us.exe /Extract:C:\Search\SearchSP2\Updates\

Once you have done that you can copy the C:\Search\SearchSP2 to a network location or CD and install Search Server Express from there.

I have not tested it but I am guessing that it is a similar process for Search Server 2008 too.