Mount NTFS Partition in RHEL

Mount NTFS Partition in RHEL

Release:

RedHat Enterprise Linux 5

Problem:

Need to mount the Windows NTFS partition in RHEL 5

Solution:

1)      Install the “kernel-module-ntfs” package. Download this package from the below link.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/linux-ntfs/files

Note: Download both rpm and ko file.

2)      Load the ntfs module to the kernel, and confirm with lsmod command

# rpm –ivh kernel-module-ntfs-xxxxx.rpm

# insmod kernel-module-ntfs-xxxxx.ko

# lsmod | grep ntfs

3)      Download the “ntfs-3g” and “fuse” packages from the below links.

http://www.tuxera.com/community/ntfs-3g-download/

http://sourceforge.net/projects/fuse/files

4)      Install the ntfs-3g package by using the below commands

# tar –zxvf ntfs-3g-xxxx.tgz

# cd ntfs-3g-xxxx

# ./configure

# make

# make install

5)      Install the fuse package by using the below commands

# tar –zxvf fuse-xxx.tar.gz

# cd fuse-xxx

# ./configure

# make

# make install

# modprobe fuse

6)      Now mount the ntfs partition using the below command

# mount –t ntfs-3g /dev/sdb1 /mnt

Note: Here /dev/sdb1 is a windows NTFS partition. Also here usage of fuse version is depend upon the kernel version.

Configure VNC on XINETD with XDMCP

Configure VNC on XINETD with XDMCP

Release:

RedHat Enterprise Linux 5

Problem:

Need to configure VNC based on xinetd with XDMCP for GDM access

Solution:

1)      1) Install the required packages

# yum install vnc-server xinetd

2)      2) Enable the XDMCP by editing the custom.conf file

# vi /etc/gdm/custom.conf

[xdmcp]

Enable=true

MaxSessions=30

[security]

AllowRemoteRoot=true

DisallowTCP=false

Note: Here “AllowRemoteRoot=true” used to allow root access.

3)      3) Create a file with below content, in inside the /etc/xinetd.d directory

# vi /etc/xinetd.d/xvncserver

service vnc

{

disable = no

protocol = tcp

socket_type = stream

wait = no

user = nobody

server = /usr/bin/Xvnc

server_args = -inetd –query localhost –once –geometry 1024x768 –depth 16 securitytypes=none

}

4)      4) Define the vnc01 service by edit the /etc/services file

# vi /etc/services

vnc   5950/tcp

5)      5) Restart the xinetd and gdm services

# service xinetd restart

# gdm-restart

6)      6) Test using the vncviwer command

# vncviewer localhost:5950

7) To connect from the remote system use the below one

# vncviewer IPADDRESS:5950

Enable XDMCP in Linux

Enable XDMCP in Linux

Release:

RedHat Enterprise Linux 5

SUSE Linux 10

Problem:

Need to enable the xdmcp protocol in the Linux server for getting remote using XBrowser.

Solution:

In RHEL Server:

1)      Install the gdm package

# yum install gdm

2)      Enable the xdmcp protocol by adding the below entries in the custom.conf file.

# vi /etc/gdm/custom.conf

[security]

AllowRemoteRoot=true

DisallowTCP=false

[xdmcp]

Enable=true

Note: Here “AllowRemoteRoot=true” used to allow root access.

3)      Restart the gdm service

# gdm-restart

4)      Check weather xdmcp port is opened or not, using netstat command

# netstat –an | grep 177

udp        0      0 0.0.0.0:177         0.0.0.0:*  

In SUSE Server:

5)      Install the required 2 packages

# yum install gdm xorg-x11

6)      Set the default display manager by editing the displaymanager file

# vi /etc/sysconfig/displaymanager

DISPLAYMANAGER="gdm"

DISPLAYMANAGER_REMOTE_ACCESS="yes"

7)      Enable the xdmcp protocol by editing the gdm.conf file

# vi /etc/opt/gnome/gdm/gdm.conf

[security]

AllowRoot=true

AllowRemoteRoot=true

[xdmcp]

Enable=true

8)      To make xdmcp listening on xdm by edit the xdm-config file

# vi /etc/X11/xdm/xdm-config

!DisplayManager.requestPort:    0

Note: Comment out this line for xdmcp listen on xdm

9)      Restart the service and check with netstat

# rcxdm restart

# netstat –an | grep 177

udp        0      0 0.0.0.0:177             0.0.0.0:*

10)   Verify from the Windows client using Xbrowser as root.