linux

My favourite bash prompt looks like this:

It's created using the following value for PS1 in bash profile:

PS1="\[$txtgrn\]\h::\u [\[$txtpur\]\W\[$txtgrn\]]\$ \[$txtrst\]"

I've configured the various different servers I use to be different colours, and all of them to be red when running as root.

Follow the guide here on ArchWiki.

When configuring a Samba server, remember that the discovery of machines on the network happens not only with DNS but also with a few other mechanisms. I recently setup a number of virtual machines for developers, that were created by cloning a single instance.

Mistakenly, I thought that adding a DNS config entry for each virtual machine on the host's /etc/hosts would be enough, but it's not. What we found was that everyone was connecting to the same VM (another requirement was that they be on the same subnet).

Since I don't have access to the network's DHCP server, the key is to change each Samba server's NetBios name to be unique.

A dump of useful settings: