Copying files from EXT3 to FAT

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FatVsXFSThere are times which that is convenient to use USB disks formatted with the old FAT file system, i.e. in office environment with mixed operating system.

In my situation we have a linux server (using ext3 file system), with several SMB shared folder used by all the MAC/Linux/Windows workstation:  a very cheap backup system consist in a USB disk connected directly to the server, and a daily backup process that copy all the files from shared folders to this disk. In emergency this disk become the only way to get all files.

From here the most convenient way to use commonly a USB disk is to format it using the old FAT file system !

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CentOS & HyperV just do not mix !

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Cat and Dog angrySome months ago I’ve installed a guest CentOS 6.3 in Hyper-V vers. 6.0.6002 in Windows 2008 Standard Ed, without any Linux Integration Components (i’m lazy……).

Using yum I’ve installed a LAMP, and created a php-mysql website.

It seemed to work correctly… but after some days the websites stopped to work: I got the following errors in /var/log.

Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock'
rejecting i/o to offline device

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Windows: The Difference Between Everyone and Authenticated Users groups

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A very important group !

A very important group !

Okay, yes, I admit it: I didn’t know in “depth” the difference between Everyone and Authenticated Users built-in on M$ Windows groups. Here is the result of my research about this argument.

Authenticated Users encompasses all users who have logged in with a username and password.
Everyone encompasses all users who have logged in with a password as well as built-in, non-password accounts such as Guest and SERVICE, LOCAL_SERVICE, NETWORK_SERVICE.
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