Installing a Text-based Browser on AIX (Lynx)

If you want a very simple text-based web browser in order to test responses on an AIX server and don’t want to waste time and bandwidth using Firefox – if it exists – and an X-session, use “Lynx”, Here are the steps in brief:

  1. Download the RPM from IBM’s AIX Linux Toolbox. (search for “lynx”, it’s less than 1 MB in size)
  2. Install it “rpm -ivh package_name.rpm
  3. Run it using “lynx url“, e.g. “lynx http://www.yahoo.com”

Enjoy!

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Install NFS Client on Windows Server 2008 R2

Steps:

1. Launch the “Server Manager”

 

2. Click Role, Click “Add Roles” in the right panel

 

3. Click Next, Select the checkbox of “File Services”, Click Next.

 

4. When the “Select Role Services” appears, select the checkbox of “Service for Network File System”

 

5. Click Next, Click install.

 

Source: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/winserverfiles/thread/8ac66914-1e23-40ad-bbfa-bb36c32cedf5/

Important Note: Sorry for the wrong information at first, as the Microsoft document is actually missing!

 

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Force install Oracle 10g Client on Redhat 5

Source: http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/director/v6r1x/index.jsp?topic=/director.tbs_6.1/fqm0_r_tbs_oracle_10gR2_client_will_not_install.html

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How to overcome NFS through firewall issues using NFS4, while maintaining compatibility with NFS3 clients (Draft)

NFS4 server uses port 2049 only, no port mapping

Run “startsrc -s nfsrgyd” on client and server

Must use public file system, list the available using “nfsd -getnodes”, or else you’ll get an error indicating “No such filesystem or directory”

Can export for version 3 and for version 4 simultaneously (2 versions of the same export), Windows services for Unix seem to support only V3

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Solution to Virtualbox Shared Folders “request not supported” error when accessing/copying files on Windows Guests

Just disable the “Offline Files”

Open Windows Explorer -> Tools -> Folder Options -> Offline Files

Remove the tick from “Enable Offline Files”

There you go!

Source: http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=27062&p=188821#p188821

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