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Ubuntu web gateway – Forwarding packets
In my previous post, newly connected devices cannot connect to the internet! Noooooo!! But not to worry, after this everything will be working properly The reason for no internet connection is that the...
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Ubuntu web gateway – monitoring traffic
After using my ubuntu server as a gateway for about a week, I am keen to see what sort of traffic my users are viewing and to see how much of the network bandwidth is being utilised. A couple of things...
View ArticleSharing files via NFS
NFS is a protocol for sharing storage over a network. It has been supported by unix since day . (dot) and I believe now windows even supports it! In order to share a directory on ubuntu, first install...
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When attaching new disks to ubuntu, they are added as /dev/sdX. The fdisk command will list the disks that are currently available on the system, also including their configured partitions. For...
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Ubuntu 12.04 Share with OSX 10.8
In order to mount NFS shared on OSX Mountain Lion the manual way, use the terminal (just the same command as on ubuntu!) sudo mount localhost:/media/share /mnt That’s great, but how about automating it...
View ArticleConvert SVN repo to git
Git has the power to automatically convert a svn (Subversion) repository to use git! (Refer to git-svn for more information) Run the command to create a new git repository from svn: git svn clone...
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Remote torrent client
Transmission is the default torrent client for Ubuntu systems; it looks nice and works quite well. Problem arises when installing this on a headless server (with no monitor)… but is there!?...
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Sharing media
Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) is a set of networking protocols that permits networked devices to seamlessly discover each other’s presence on the network. The perfect thing for sharing media to a...
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File manager over X
Administring a headless server can become interesting when moving lots of files around. File managers make it much (much) easier, and more user friendly (than doing it all with a series of mv...
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Sharing with Windows
Sharing files with Windows is done with Samba. On ubunutu, run the following command to install: sudo apt-get install samba In order to share user home directories, ensure that /etc/samba/smb.conf...
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