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Service Configuration missing in CentOS 6.

I installed CentOS 6.2 on a VM today, then went to the System > Administration menu to setup automatic start for some services, but low and a behold the Services item was not there. Hmm, must be a menu configuration issue, so I went to the terminal and typed system-config-services. Here is what I got back.

system-config-services: command not found

Looks like the default install no longer has the Service Configuration panel installed. Fortunately the fix was easy. Just type the following and follow the prompts:

yum install system-config-services

After that, the Services menu item appeared.

Posted by rickg ( Jan 06 2012, 08:03:15 AM PST ) Permalink Comments [0]

Copy files via Remote Desktop (RDP) using Windows 7

I recently got a new Windows 7 laptop. Shortly thereafter, I used it to connect to my old Vista machine via RDP. I had checked the box under the Local Resources section of the remote desktop client that allowed mounting of my local drives, and sure enough I could see the C drive of my new computer available via the RDP connection. 

However, I was unable to copy files. Whenever I tried to drag from the remote machine and drop a file onto my local drive, I would get the following error:


Very helpful Microsoft. This worked fine under Vista and XP. I guess this is a new "feature" of Windows 7.

Anyway, here is the workaround.

1. Select the file you want to copy in Windows Explorer on the remote machine.
2. Go to the Edit menu and select "Copy to Folder...".
3. Select the local drive you want to copy to (or drill down to whatever folder on the drive you want as the destination).
4. Hit the "Copy" button.
   

The copy should now proceed as normal. I have no I idea why this works and drag/drop does not. Very unintuitive.

Anyway, hope this helps someone stuck in the same situation.

Posted by rickg ( Dec 03 2011, 04:06:55 PM PST ) Permalink Comments [0]