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FTP Client Access from an ISA Server Network

The error below were thrown out whenever we try to connect to an ftp site from our windows xp clients. Our clients are configured to access internet through ISA 200 "200 PORT command successful. Consider using PASV" Solution Article ID: 300641 - Last Review: May 24, 2010 - Revision: 8.0 http://support.microsoft.com/Default.aspx?kbid=300641 Related reads http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb794745.aspx (Troubleshooting Outbound FTP Access in ISA Server) http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc750609.aspx (FTP Client Access from an ISA Server Network)

Uninstalling VMware products from Linux

To uninstall vmware products from linux use vmware-installer script. Go to > /usr/bin the file is located there linux # vmware-installer     -u       ex: to uninstall vmware-workstation linux #    vmware-installer -u vmware-workstation

Network Manager icon is not appearing on desktop after opensuse 11.4 installation

the icon for network manager is not appearing on panel. this is becuase by default network is managed with traditional method with ifup, to change this we have to change it to user controlled network manager Step s go to yast > Network Devices > Network Settings > Global options select User controlled with NetworkManager by default traditional method with ifup is selected once you did that network manager icon will be added to panel, now you can set up your network using this from your desktop

Installing nvdia driver on linux

Downolad nvidia driver from nvdia website stop xserver to do this restart with init 3 or edit /etc/inittab file to change runlevel to 3 then restart if nouveau driver is used nvida will detect (we can manually disable this refer nvidia readme) this at installation and add an entry in /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia-installer-disable-nouveau.conf the entries in the file will be blacklist nouveau options nouveau modeset=0 this will disable nouveau but if os is taking  this at boot level this wont be enough to disable, to disable this at boot level we have to edit boot configuration file to add an entry there or at the time of booting press e and go to kernel line and add this at the end rdblacklist=nouveau this will disable nouveau at boot level also go to /etc/Xorg and take a back up of xorg.conf file (incase if installation fails we can just restore and bring back the system to old condition) now go to the folder where nvdia driver is stored and run sh nvdia installer