UBC Physics & Astronomy
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System Info

  • Motherboard: Intel DH67BL
  • BIOS Version: BLH6710H.86A.0105.2011.0301.1654
  • Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2600 CPU @ 3.40GHz
  • Memory: DDR3 1333 16GB
  • Hard Disk: 1TB SATA Blue HDD
  • Video: nVIDIA GeForce 210
  • Network: Intel 82579V Gigabit Network Connection
  • MAC Address: e0:69:95:77:e5:b3
  • Optical Drive: DVD RW
  • Operating System: Fedora 16

    • 2012-03-19
    Installed mplayer 
    yum localinstall --nogpgcheck http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm
yum update
yum install mplayer smplayer
    Initial Setup
    Enable root login 
    su
cd /etc/pam.d
cp gdm gdm.bkp
vi gdm
Find and comment or remove this line:
auth required pam_succeed_if.so user!=root quiet
save and exit
cp gdm-password gdm-password.bkp
vi gdm-password
Find and comment or remove this line:
auth required pam_succeed_if.so user!=root quiet
save and exit
    Configure CUPS

    Make sure the following lines are in /etc/cups/cupsd.conf file

    Browsing On
BrowseOrder allow,deny
BrowseAllow all
BrowseRemoteProtocols CUPS
BrowseLocalProtocols
BrowsePoll print.phas.ubc.ca
    Add local user with particular uid 
    id -u phasaccount (login hyper find out the user's uid)
useradd -u uid phasaccount
    Modify /etc/fstab, add the following lines 
    #
ariel.phas.ubc.ca:/home           	/home             nfs     defaults      0 0
ariel.phas.ubc.ca:/export/astro_lnx  	/ASTRO            nfs     defaults      0 0
    Move local home directory 
    mv /home /lhome
mkdir /home
mkdir /ASTRO
vi /etc/passwd

    Change home in the passwd file to lhome

    Install nfs-utils 
    yum install nfs-utils
service rpcbind start
    Mount home and ASTRO 
    mount -a
    NFS Mount in fstab not mounted at boot 
    systemctl enable NetworkManager-wait-online.service
    Enable SSH 
    systemctl enable sshd.service
systemctl start sshd.service
system-config-firewall
Enable SSH, ICMP Echo Request, ICMP Echo Reply

    For more assistance contact Ron Parachoniak, rap@phas.ubc.ca
     
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