Networking

I have a home server I use for all kinds of stuff when I’m away. I have set it up recently so that it can serve a folder mounted over the network from a Windows machine. And this is where the fun started! The folders and files appear correctly, I can navigate and I...
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A backup NAS I set up for a client had some problems – i.e. from time to time the network card would hang forcing a reboot (the machine was headless). The disks in the nas are RAID 1 providing redundancy in case of failure. We wanted the same with the network. So, nothing easier...
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Recently I set-up a machine in my closet to act as a backup server. One of it’s jobs is to download via pop3 all the email from our Gmail accounts just in case the cloud goes puf . For this job I used fetchmail to fetch the emails to local users on the machine....
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As you know Linux does not use drive letters like Windows does. All files are organized under a big tree hierarchy. We use the mount command to mount partitions and this is the same command used to mount remote windows partition or windows shares. Please note that you’ll need to know the following: Windows...
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I have a headless machine at home that I plan to use as a backup and development server. Even though I’m a Skackware guy I chose to install Debian on it. Of course I could have hooked a monitor and keyboard to it but for the sake of exercise I wanted to see if...
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As promised I follow with an article on how to breathe new life into an aging phone. The venerable Nokia 7610 got a fresh start.
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Ok, so I wanted a NAS on my home network. Easy job with the right tools at hand.
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