Feb 1, 20081

Routers, firewalls, port forwarding, and games.

Categories: Gadgets, Tech-howto

Time for our second Tech-howto: Routers.
Now you may be sitting with your d-link or netgear, or even linksys router thinking ‘my router works fine’; but most likely, you are incorrect; either your resetting it too often, or the firewall menu is frustratingly limited or difficult to navigat, or maby the router itself is just [...]

Time for our second Tech-howto: Routers. Now you may be sitting with your d-link or netgear, or even linksys router thinking 'my router works fine'; but most likely, you are incorrect; either your resetting it too often, or the firewall menu is frustratingly limited or difficult to navigat, or maby the router itself is just not fast enough to route the traffic that your bringing in making it a bottleneck in your network speeds. This guide will take you through what router to ... Read More

Jan 4, 20080

Windows shares in Ubuntu(7.10)

Categories: Tech-howto

If you’re a new user of Ubuntu (version G, gutsy gibbon, or 7.1 as of this writing) you may be wondering how to interface that system with the other windows/linux based systems in your network.This is a very simplistic scenario and does not cover the details of how exactly to set up your SAMBA configuration, [...]

If you're a new user of Ubuntu (version G, gutsy gibbon, or 7.1 as of this writing) you may be wondering how to interface that system with the other windows/linux based systems in your network.This is a very simplistic scenario and does not cover the details of how exactly to set up your SAMBA configuration, but it will get you sharing your folders over the SAMBA/SMB network. Background (Brief): Windows uses a sharing technology called SMB, SAMBA is a linux package that emulates ... Read More