VMWare Tools for Linux

Installing VMware Tools

1) Login to VMware infrastructure client
2) Choose the guest
3) Right click and select Install/Upgrade VMware Tools. This step will actually mount the media to upgrade the tools
4) Login to the guest system as root
5) Install the rpm found in the media (eg: rpm -ivh vmware-rpm-name)
6) Check the status using /etc/init.d/vmware-tools status
7) If the vmware is not running, execute /etc/init.d/vmware-tools start
8) If you get the message vmware-guestd is not running, reboot the o/s
9) If you get the message to execute perl script, please execute /usr/bin/vmware-config-tools.pl
10) If you get Network is unreachable, check using ifconfig -a. If you don't see the interfaces properly, execute /etc/init.d/network start
11) End the VMware tools from VMware infrastructure client
12) ToolsOk should be seen as status

LDAP ports

Default port: 389

For Active Directory, to search global catalog use port 3268

Unix - Recursively list symbolic links

find / -type l -exec ls -al {} \;

File system mounts - Linux and Solaris

File system mounts can be found:

Linux: /etc/fstab
Solaris: /etc/vfstab