23 October 2011

Selecting sound card in Lubuntu

sudo alsamixer

F6 (select sound card)
F5 (see all)

07 October 2011

Mounting Windows Shared Drive

First install smbfs

then create file e.g. connect.sh and make it executable

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#!/bin/bash

sudo mkdir /home/ubuntu/drive_p

# unmount previously-mounted drive
sudo umount /home/ubuntu/drive_p

sudo smbmount "//192.168.1.11/wdtv_data" /home/ubuntu/drive_p -o username=default,password=default,uid=999,gid=999
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uid can be found using 'id' command.