I'm having a hard time even searching for the topic. I'm trying to install Lubuntu on an old PC I have. What I would like to do is install the OS, but leave the name and password empty. I'm going to be giving this PC away, and I would like to have the recipient turn on the pc and have it ask them to create a name and a password. This is basically what Windows does when you buy it new, right?
Is there a way to make this happen in L/Ubuntu?
I set up an ubuntu-server and installed Samba. I set the "interfaces" option in the .conf-file to "lo eth0".
My question is according to the security of this system: Am I done with the setup process? Do I need additional things to make my system safe?
Most of the Samba-How-To's stop at this point. I only want to access the fileserver from LAN. It is behind a "Fritzbox".
I have read a number guides on setting up a mail server, but none of them seems to work completely.
I know a very fast repository I often use to install packages, I would dearly like to use this when I am setting up Ubuntu, the mirror used by setup when the region is choosen is usually very slow, this results in apt configuration taking a long time.
I usually have to remove network connectivity from the machine I am setting up and the setup process will quickly complete. I then use synaptic to change to the fast repository before installing all those large packages I need, it would be much smoother though, if I did not have to do this and could feed the setup process repository information before hand.
I am wondering if I use the synaptic package manager in the live session and select a repository if the selected repository will be the one used during setup or will the setup process use the one it thinks is best usually a local mirror?
I can run (and have run) the install fine with a monitor attached the machine, but what I wish to do is setup Ubuntu server remotely (within my home network).
I have a USB drive pre-loaded and ready to go. Where do I go from here?