Results
As you may or may not know this past year I have been studying for my BSc Network Systems.
I have now got my results back and my overall result is a 2:1.
As you may or may not know this past year I have been studying for my BSc Network Systems.
I have now got my results back and my overall result is a 2:1.
While I was developing a site for someone, it required a File and folder lister it also required to look pretty with icons and stuff.
So I have developed some code which you can download (lister-1.0.zip).
It is just the raw first version of the code, replace ‘archive.php‘ with what ever your php page is and change ‘archive‘ with the folder that is required to be listed.
I will try to refine the code at a later date.
Quick guide to remember
untar .tar.gz / .tgz
tar -xvzf file.tar.gz
untar .tar.bz2
tar -xvjf file.tar.bz2
untar .tar
tar -xvf file.tar
Remember, z = gz, j = bz2 and nothing for no algorithm.
WINS is NetBIOS names over TCP/IP. It is what allows Microsoft Windows machines to contact each other via their Computer name from instances i.e.
\\Computer
In a domestic network setup, the computer names are not included in a local DNS server and so this is where WINS comes in.
Linux doesn’t try to contact other computers with their WINS names by default so the following will activate this.
apt-get -y install winbind apt-get -y install -f nano /etc/nsswitch.conf
Search for the line starting with hosts (ie “hosts: files dns”)
Change it too: hosts: files wins dns
Press [CTRL] + [X] hit [Y] and then [ENTER]
/etc/init.d/networking restart
You should now be able to ping a Windows Computer name.
I was beta testing out an OVH cloud server and to login initially, you were required to use a .pem authentication key, this would be fine from a Linux box as you could just execute SSH like this
ssh -i key.pem user@computer
but with Windows, this becomes a problem as Windows doesn’t have native SSH support and the best SSH client for windows is PuTTY but PuTTY doesn’t support pem files. Luckily, someone thought of this and so PuTTYgen was born but unluckily, not everybody knows about this.
And that should be it.