Super simple Active Directory with Samba
I needed a super simple, straight forward way of installing samba on Ubuntu and joining it to an Active Directory domain.
This doesn't allow you to login to Ubuntu with domain credentials but allows you to share and access files with domain credentials.
Heres how its done
[Snippet] Allow mysql root access from anywhere
A small annoyance of mine is on local development servers, I can't login to the MySQL server as root.
Simply connect the mysql shell
mysq
mysql -uThen,
GRANT ALL ON *.* TO 'root'@'%' IDENTIFIED BY '[A PASSWORD]'Exit and you're done.
Ridiculously simple NTLM Authentication for Apache (Ubuntu)
We all know Ubuntu makes things amazingly simple. This is the best I've found so far. NTLM authentication in Apache used to take a while to setup, it used to be tricky, fiddly - generally a bit hit and miss.
Ubuntu Upgrades
Here is a really simple way of upgrading your Ubuntu system. After the initial setup, upgrading to Karmic or Intrepid is a one liner.