OpenSUSE Tutorials For Beginners

OpenSUSE Tutorials

The Novell sponsored OpenSUSE distribution is developed by the community driven OpenSUSE Project and holds a secure spot as one of the most popular distributions available. OpenSUSE focuses on bringing users a well-rounded desktop full of graphical enhancements and innovative OpenSUSE tools. YaST control center, ZYpp package management, the OpenSUSE Build Service, Xgl and Compiz are just a few of the impressive tools available in OpenSUSE.


You can click on the OpenSUSE lessons in the green box to the right or select from the list of recent OpenSUSE tutorials shown at the bottom. More help tutorials are added all the time and outdated tutorials updated. Thanks for visiting us, enjoy OpenSUSE

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Most Recent OpenSUSE Tutorials



Automate Install With AutoYaST Answer Files
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Automate Install With AutoYaSt Answer FilesThe final part of our installation jigsaw puzzle is to create the answer file, in SUSE this is known as AutoYaST. If we were only ever to install one server or one desktop then maybe we could do without answer files...

 

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OpenSUSE PXE Boot
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OpenSUSE PXE

We have created the openSUSE installation server but in the current format we need to have boot disks to provide the OS to connect to the Installation Source. If you are able to use PXE, (network boot), on your network then we can remove the need for having these boot disks and just boot to the network itself. In this tutorial we will step you through the creation of your PXE Boot Server on openSUSE Linux 11.4

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Installing Apache on OpenSUSE
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Installing Apache on OpenSUSEWe can install the Apache Server by using the YaST Plugin, yast2-http-server. This is simple and installs the Server then takes us straight into the configuration. We would, though, have to install the plugin in the first place and then the configuration allows me only a fraction of what can be done from the command line.

 

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Configuring the DHCP Server
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OpenSUSE DHCPAs we have mentioned before, graphical configuration of most things in openSUSE is pretty easy. Command line configuration is pretty easy too and once known can be quicker than the GUI. We will step you through both configurations as we build up in this series to PXE Installation server.

 

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Configuring iSCSI and adding iSNS Servers
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OpenSUSE and iSCIIn previous tutorials we've learned SUSE has made life very easy for System Administrators having developed graphical tools to manage many system components including the iSCSI target. As with most things in life there is a price to pay for this ease: YaST only writes to the configuration files and the changes do not come into force until the service is restarted.

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Configuring a SAMBA Print Server
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SAMBA Print ServerYou may be using Linux at home or in an office environment, but often we still need to provide access to Windows desktops. Begin Linux has taken you though setting up a SAMBA Domain Controller and File Server on openSUSE 11.4. In this tutorial, again using openSUSE 11.4 we will take the time to look at adding in Print Server capabilities.

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Auto-configure IPv6 for your Network
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Auto-configure IPv6 for your Network

One major feature of IPv6 is its ability to auto-configure the host portion of the IP address using the MAC address from the Network Card. We may have seen this already with the local-link address, however, in this tutorial will look at configuring the RAdvD on openSUSE 11 to advertise the Network Prefix and default gateway so we can work with global addresses without any configuration on the hosts.

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Using and Understanding IPv6 on openSUSE 11
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ipv6So IPv6 has been around a while now but do we know any benefits? We may know that it is 128bits long and too difficult to type but if that is all then we do ourselves a little injustice in not knowing how easy IPv6 can make our lives.

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Adding Standard Windows Domain Groups
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First, you must understand that SAMBA, by default, does map Linux users accounts to Windows user accounts within the /etc/samba/smbusers file.

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openSUSE Small Office Setup
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OpenSUSE Small Office SetupIn this tutorial we will step you through, using openSUSE 11.4, the preparation, installation and configuration of the SAMBA Server as a Domain Controller and File Server.

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