Tag: LinuxMint

  • Linuxmint or Ubuntu: Crashplan backup using headless Synology NAS

    If you’re using a Synology NAS box and would like to back up your files to offsite storage service Crashplan (which is relatively inexpensive), there is a relatively easy way to do this.  However, you need to think about the Crashplan software as having two components.  There is the backup engine, or the software that communicates…

  • LinuxMint or Ubuntu: How to Automount Synology Shares

    UPDATE:  As of Ubuntu 13.04, these directions no longer work.  I figured out a way to get this to work, however.  See the updated directions at the bottom of this post. ——————Old Directions———————————— If you’d like to share your network attached storage from a Synology file server with your Linuxmint or Ubuntu machine and have…

  • LinuxMint or Ubuntu: Automount Server Share

    (Updated to reflect changes in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS – 5/15/2012) While I’m still not 100% sure how I got my file server to share all the files across the network (whatever I did, it worked; when the server dies, I’ll figure it out and post it here).  Regardless, I recently reformatted my desktop and had…

  • LinuxMint: Keyboard Shortcuts to Move Windows Between Monitors

    If you don’t have multiple monitors hooked up to your desktop computer, you’re really missing out.  Having dual monitors is a delight when it comes to being able to see more than one window and work even faster.  And to make the experience even more enjoyable, Ubuntu variants of Linux, including LinuxMint, my new Linux…