2. MCC's Components

The Mandriva Linux Control Center (MCC) enables the system administrator to configure the hardware and the services used by all users in a friendly way.

Access the Mandriva Linux Control Center through the main menu (System+ConfigurationConfigure Your Computer).

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Some of the Mandriva Linux Control Center components are also available from the command line in text mode by running drakconf.

Figura 1. The Control Center's Main Window

The Control Center's Main Window

Here are some of the available menu entries:

The tools are sorted into categories. The following table lists them all and refers to the corresponding sections of this manual.

Tabela 1. Overview of Graphical Tools

Software ManagementCapítulo 1, Gerenciamento de Pacotes através do Rpmdrake
 Configuration Uploader: allows you to upload your configuration to the Mandriva Online facility in order to benefit from available software updates. Available only in Mandriva Linux Control Center's expert mode.
HardwareSeção 1, “Configuring your Hardware”
 Seção 2, “Controlling the Graphical Configuration”
 Seção 3, “Setting up a TV Card with DrakxTV”
 Seção 4, “Changing your Keyboard Layout”
 Seção 5, “Changing your Mouse”
 Seção 6, “Configuring Printers with PrinterDrake”
 Seção 7, “Installing and Using Scanners”
 Seção 8, “Setting up your UPS”
Network & InternetSeção 1, “Network and Internet Connection Management”
 DrakProxy: enables you to configure a proxy to access the Internet.
 Seção 2, “Internet Connection Sharing”
SystemSeção 1, “Customizing your Menus with MenuDrake”
 Display manager chooser: allows you to choose the X11 display manager for users who graphically log onto the machine. Basically, all display managers offer the same features, it's just a question of taste.
 Seção 2, “Configuring Start-Up Services”
 Seção 3, “Managing Available Fonts on your System with DrakFont”
 Seção 4, “Setting your Machine's Date and Time”
 Seção 5, “Monitoring System Activity and Status”
 Console: simply opens a terminal to directly enter commands with the administrator account (root).
 Seção 7, “Managing Users and Groups”
 Seção 8, “Backing Up and Restoring your Files”
 DrakAuth enables you to select the authentication mode to be used to authenticate users on your system. Available only in Mandriva Linux Control Center's expert mode.
Mount PointsSeção 1, “Managing your Hard Drive Partitions with DiskDrake”
 Seção 2, “Managing Removable Devices”
 Seção 4, “Importing Remote NFS Directories”
 Seção 3, “Importing Remote SMB Directories”
 Seção 6, “Setting up WebDAV Mount Points”. This is an experimental utility to mount remote WebDAV directories.
 Seção 5, “Allowing Users to Share Folders”
SecuritySeção 1, “Securing your Machine through DrakSec”. Available only in Mandriva Linux Control Center's expert mode.
 Seção 2, “Controlling File Permissions with DrakPerm”. Available only in Mandriva Linux Control Center's expert mode.
 Seção 3, “ Protegendo sua Conexão Internet com o DrakFirewall ”
BootSeção 1, “Configuring the Login Mode”
 Seção 2, “Changing your Bootup Configuration”
 Seção 3, “Customizing your Boot Theme”
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Additionally, the Online Administration category only appears if the rfbdrake package is installed. This tool allows you to take control of a remote host (Linux/UNIX®, Windows®).

Some more categories appear if the drakwizard package is installed. The documentation for those wizards is available ondisk as well as in the Guia do Servidor. Those wizards enable you to do basic configuration of common LAN services such as web, FTP, mail and database servers.