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How To Add The Remi, EPEL And RPMFusion Repositories On CentOS 7

CentOS was initially released as an independent RHEL clone, in 2004, but it got affiliated with Red Hat (and became Red Hat property) in January 2014. However, the CentOS developers are part of the Red Hat’s Open Source and Standards team and don’t work together with the RHEL team. Because the newest packages do not get immediately added to the official repositories, a bunch of third party repos have been created for the enterprise Linux systems: CentOS, RHEL, Scientific Linux. The most used third party repos are EPEL, Remi and RPMForge. In this article I will show you  how to add the EPEL, Remi and RPMFusion on CentOS 7, RHEL 7 and Scientific Linux 7 systems. How to add the and enable the EPEL repository on CentOS 7, RHEL 7 and SL 7: $ sudo yum install -y epel-release How to add and enable the Remi repository on CentOS 7, RHEL 7 and SL 7: $ sudo yum install -y http://rpms.famillecollet.com/enterprise/remi-release-7.rpm   $ sudo sed -i 's/enabled=0/en

How to share a folder in Windows Server 2012

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Open Server Manager and navigate to File and Storage Services. Once there, go to Shares and, from the Tasks menu, choose the New Share option (Figure A). Figure A Starting the share creation process The first question you're asked is one regarding the protocol you'd like to use for the new share. You can choose between SMB and, if the service is installed, NFS. For both, there are multiple profiles from which you can choose. In the table below, you can see a list of the profiles, along with a short description of each. Profile Description SMB Share - Quick This basic profile represents the fastest way to create an SMB file share, typically used to share files with Windows-based computers. Suitable for general file sharing Advanced options can be configured later by using the Properties dialog SMB Share - Advanced This advanced profile offers additional options to configure a SMB file share. Set the folder owners for access-denied assistance Configure defaul