You can actually map network drives to webdav locations. To do so use this:

1. Open Windows Explorer
2. Rightclick on 'Computer'
3. Go to 'map network drive'
4. Choose station/drive letter
5. Enter this path:

\\storage.ownspace.ch@SSL\files\shares\my-files

6. Press OK and your set.

Problem

You cannot play new WMA media (aka wma9) content on your 64bit Linux system because of missing audio format support, e.g you get an error message similar like that:

Cannot find codec for audio format 0x162.

Solution

Get win32codecs

Unpack the files to /usr/lib/codecs ,e.g. with

    tar xvjf essential-20071007.tar.bz2
    mkdir -p /usr/lib/codecs
    mv essential-20071007/* /usr/lib/codecs/
    ln -s /usr/lib/codecs /usr/lib/win32 

add the path to the library search path so the libraries can be found:

    echo "/usr/lib/win32/" > /etc/ld.so.conf.d/win32codecs.conf
    ldconfig 

Obtain the mplayer 32bit package (built for Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala). Only the 32bit version can make use of the win32codecs!

Install the deb package:

    dpkg -i mplayer32_1.0svn_amd64.deb 

Run the 32bit mplayer with /usr/bin/mplayer32 <URL>

MPlayer should now play the stream or file, enjoy!!

To add a new spelling dictionary, hyphenation dictionary or thesaurus files for another language, at least for OpenOffice 2.x:

Close all OpenOffice applications
Obtain the file for your language from OpenOffice Dictionaries Wiki
Unpack the zip-file to the dictionaries directory, e.g.:

    cd /usr/lib/openoffice/share/dict/ooo
    unzip /path/where/downloaded/de_CH-20071211.zip 

Run install-dict:

    /usr/lib/openoffice/install-dict 

Now you should see the new language module with Tools / Options / Language Settings / Writing Aids under "Available language modules"

Paths may vary, on my gentoo machine, the OpenOffice files are under /usr/lib/openoffice/

Errormessage "Could not Find Primary DC" appears in Server Manager or when you would join a domain or set up a trust relationship between two domains.

This behavior can occur if the 1b (domain master browser) and 1c (domain controller) NetBIOS names for the PDC are not registered in the Windows Internet Naming Service (WINS). This can occur when the WINS servers in the two domains do not replicate to each other or there aren't any WINS server available at a remote place (on the other side of a firewall or router)

Resolution:

Make these entries in LMHOSTS:

  10.0.0.1   PDCName   #PRE #DOM:DomainName
  10.0.0.1   "Domain         \0x1b"   #PRE  

- Replace 10.0.0.1 in the example with the IP address of the PDC in the remote domain.
- Replace the PDCName with the NetBIOS name of the domain PDC.
- Replace DomainName with the Windows NT 4.0 domain name of the target domain.

So far, this is a common thing, but the next line is also required:

A NetBIOS type, also called NetBIOS suffix, must be indicated for the appropriate domain. Specially important is, that this suffix must be at the end of the domain name, with is 15 characters plus 1, total 16 characters in lenght. When you specify the NetBIOS suffix (\0x1b) after the Domain name (must be the sixteenth character), the spacing between the quotation marks is critical. There must be a total of 20 characters within the quotation marks (the domain name plus the appropriate number of spaces to pad up to 15 characters plus the backslash (\) plus the NetBIOS hex representation of the service type).

* FAQ: RUN WINDOWS EXPLORER AS AN ADMINISTRATOR
( contributed by John Savill, http://www.windows2000faq.com )

Q. How do I run Windows Explorer as an administrator when I'm logged on as a different user?

A. The impersonation service, Runas, is a nice Windows 2000 feature. But Runas can't run Windows Explorer impersonated because in Win2K, new Windows Explorer windows are spawned as threads of the main explorer.exe invocation. You can circumvent this behavior in the following way:

1. Select Start, Run, and type

runas /user:administrator "\"c:\program files\internet
explorer\iexplore\" c:\\" 

2. Click OK.
3. When the system prompts you, enter your Administrator password.

This command executes Windows Explorer in the desired context; adding a local path makes Windows Explorer emulate the default (i.e., no Windows Explorer bars or buttons).