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Chapter 9, Administration and Automation
#79 Magically Empower Your Network Cable
HACK
To access a networked resource in KDE, add a new icon to the desktop by
right-clicking the desktop and selecting Create New
➝ Link to Application.
Inside the dialog box that pops up, click the Application tab, and you’ll see a
Command box that you can use to indicate the location of the remote
server. This is done with the format:
fish://user@server/path
When you click the icon, Konqueror loads, and you can use it to deal with
the remote server graphically.
To connect to a networked resource in GNOME, click the main Computer
menu in the top panel, and then select Disks from the menu. When the win-
dow appears that displays your disks and drives, click File
➝ Connect to
Server. Inside this dialog box you can select an SSH connection from the Ser-
vice Type combo box, and then add the server name, port, folder, and user-
name details. Finally, you can name the icon by adding a label to the “Name
to use for connection” box. Now the icon will be added to your desktop and
will appear in the Network Servers window.
HACK
#79
Magically Empower Your Network Cable Hack #79
Configure your Ethernet devices simply by plugging in or unplugging the
cable.
This hack is actually a utility called ifplugd, a daemon that watches your
Ethernet connection to see if it is live or disconnected. Plug the wire into the
network, and
ifplugd