Category: networking

Link: Advanced Guide to nslookup

When you want to call someone on your cell phone, you likely just find the person in your list of contacts and select their name. The handset then uses the unique phone number associated with that person and makes the call. In general, you don’t need to remember the phone number itself, as the address book stores it for you under the name of the contact.

The Internet works in a very similar way. Each server on the Internet has an address assigned to it and a name. There is a global address book which stores the address (or addresses) along with the associated name (or names). This huge address book is known as DNS (Domain Name System). The way it works is that when you type a URL into your browser, e.g. maketecheasier.com, then the browser (via the underlying operating system) queries DNS to get the address for the server which hosts the web site. A similar, but not identical, thing happens when we send emails.

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Advanced Guide to nslookup (Make Tech Easier)

Link: Accessing Windows Or Samba Shares Using AutoFS

You already installed Linux on your networked desktop PC and now you want to work with files stored on some other PCs in your network. This is where autofs comes into play. This tutorial shows how to configure autofs to use CIFS to access Windows or Samba shares from Linux Desktop PCs. It also includes a tailored configuration file.

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Accessing Windows Or Samba Shares Using AutoFS (HowtoForge)

Link: A Pocket Guide for Linux ssh Command with Examples

If you have been in the IT world for quite some time you probably have heard about SSH, how great a tool it is and all its cool security features. In this tutorial you will learn how to use SSH in a few minutes and login to your remote computers seamlessly and securely.

If you have no clue what SSH is you can visit Wikipedia before proceeding.

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A Pocket Guide for Linux ssh Command with Examples (LinOxide)

Link: 10 Linux Dig (Domain Information Groper) Commands to Query DNS

In our last article we have showed you the most used 8 Nslookup commands with their examples, now here we come with another command line tool called Dig, which is much similar to Linux Nslookup tool. We will see the usage of dig command closely with their examples as shown below.

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10 Linux Dig (Domain Information Groper) Commands to Query DNS (Tecmint)

Link: 15 Useful “ifconfig” Commands to Configure Network Interface in Linux

ifconfig in short “interface configuration” utility for system/network administration in Unix/Linux operating systems to configure, manage and query network interface parameters via command line interface or in a system configuration scripts.

The “ifconfig” command is used for displaying current network configuration information, setting up an ip address, netmask or broadcast address to an network interface, creating an alias for network interface, setting up hardware address and enable or disable network interfaces.

This article covers “15 Useful “ifconfig” Commands” with their practical examples, that might be very helpful to you in managing and configuring network interfaces in Linux systems.

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15 Useful “ifconfig” Commands to Configure Network Interface in Linux (Tecmint)

Link: Rdesktop: Access Windows Desktops Remotely From Linux [Quick Tip]

Most of you know about rdesktop which is used to view and access Windows desktops remotely from any GNU Linux systems. rdesktop is an open source client for Windows Remote Desktop Services, capable of natively speaking Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) in order to present the user’s Windows desktop. rdesktop is known to work with Windows versions such as NT 4 Terminal Server, 2000, XP, 2003, 2003 R2, Vista, 2008, 7, and 2008 R2. Be mindful that you can use rdesktop only on Linux systems which has X window system.

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Rdesktop: Access Windows Desktops Remotely From Linux [Quick Tip] (Unixmen)

Link: Setup Virtual Hosts In Apache On Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Virtual Hosts are used to setup more than one domain or websites using a single IP address. This is very useful if anybody wants to run multiple websites using a single IP address on single VPS.

In this tutorial, let me show how to setup virtual hosts in Apache web server on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. Be mindful that this tutorial is only tested On Ubuntu 14.04 32bit edition. I may not issue any assurance that this will work on all other Ubuntu lower versions and Ubuntu derivatives.

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Setup Virtual Hosts In Apache On Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Unixmen)

Link: Some of the Best FTP Clients for Mac

There are a few ways you can access the FTP (File Transfer Protocol) using your Mac, one of them being typing in the FTP address in your web browser’s address bar and performing some of the very basic operations. The other way is to use an FTP client that lets you do advanced operations as well as manage multiple accounts. If you are much into these geeky things and often upload and download files using FTP, you should consider using an FTP client that has all the features you need on your day-to-day basis. Here are some of the best FTP clients for Mac that are ready to serve you with all the features you would ever need.

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Some of the Best FTP Clients for Mac (Make Tech Easier)

Link: 6 quick tools to monitor system resources on Linux

System administrators need to monitor their server to ensure proper functioning. The practice enables administrators to detect possible issues in advance and recover the system, before it causes any trouble.

There are plenty of commands on Linux to monitor different system resources like cpu usage, memory usage, network, disk usage and so on. Popular ones are top, htop, iostat, nethogs etc.

In this post we are talking about simple command line tools that can monitor multiple system resources like cpu, memory, network, disk, processes etc all together in a real-time and interactive manner. These tools present a whole lot of statistical information on a single screen that is constantly updated.

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6 quick tools to monitor system resources on Linux (BinaryTides)

Link: Easily Manage / Connect To SSH Hosts With Guake Indicator

Guake Indicator is an Ubuntu AppIndicator for Guake terminal users, useful for those who need to connect to multiple SSH hosts frequently: the indicator lets you easily manage your favorite SSH hosts and establish new SSH connections via Guake.

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Easily Manage / Connect To SSH Hosts With Guake Indicator (Web Upd8)