Category Archives: Technology

Creating a bootable USB drive and starting your computer with the USB

For this tutorial you would need at least 1GB USB stick and fast internet. The USB stick will be formatted so don’t use a USB stick with your important files or photos stored. Your current operating system should be Windows if you are using other operating systems this will not work. To start with you […]

hide postgres user from the login screen – (tested on windows 7)

Run the commandline as administrator. Steps: Type cmd on the search box, right click on the cmd icon and Run as administrator. Then copy and paste command below: REG ADD “HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\SpecialAccounts\UserList” /v postgres /d 0 /t REG_DWORD /f original post here.

Samba Error: The following error occurred attempting to join the domain “domain name”. The user name could not be found.

After setting up the samba make sure you add root smbpasswd -a root If you get the above error try this: smbpasswd -a -m $machinename (the machine you are trying to join to the domain) you might get the error the group ‘machines does not exist. addgroup machines try again now you should be able […]