Modifications Done for Networking

• Wifi power saving is disabled in /etc/NetworkManager/conf.d/ wifi.powersave from 3 to 2
• ipv6 usage in avahi-daemon is turned off in /etc/avahi/avahi-daemon.conf. This is to make .local resolve works better

Added Samba Services for Remote File Editing

1. sudo apt install samba

2. add current user to samba database

   sudo smbpasswd -a nvidia

   • to list users, use sudo pdbedit -L

3. edit /etc/samba/smb.conf, add at last:

   [home]path = /home/nvidiavalid users = nvidiacreate mask = 0664directory mask = 0775browseable = yeswritable = yesguest ok = nofollow symlinks = yes
   [SD]path = /media/nvidia/SDvalid users = nvidiacreate mask = 0664directory mask = 0775browseable = yeswritable = yesguest ok = nofollow symlinks = yes
   [rootfs]path = /admin users = nvidiaforce group = rootcreate mask = 0644browseable = yeswritable = yesguest ok = nofollow symlinks = yes

• restart samba sudo systemctl restart smbd.service

To allow insecure symlinks to outside shared folder (Not needed)

[global]allow insecure wide links = yes
[share]wide links = yes

Enable Screen Sharing for VNC

• setup in ubuntu settings first, enable screen sharing
• then disable encryption by, sudo apt install dconf-tools, and in org.gnome.desktop.remote-access.require-encryption, turn off

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