Samba is a free and open-source networking service that functions in a client/server networking model. It allows for file sharing across both Windows and Linux/Unix operating systems and leverages the SMB (Server Messaging Block) and the CIFS (Common Internet File [...]
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How to Mount Windows Share on Ubuntu Linux
CIFS (Common Internet File System) is a popular file sharing protocol on Internet. It allows users on a Linux system access to a particular mount point on a windows share. CIFS is an implementation of SMB (Server Message Block) - [...]
Learn How to Get Linux IP Address in Different Ways
How many commands you know to get IP address on your Linux systems? In this article, we'll discuss a few ways to get IP address as well as public IP on Linux. ifconfig command ip addr Hostname -I command nmcli command ip [...]
How to Restart Networking in Ubuntu
How often do you restart your network services? Sometimes you might need to troubleshoot your network connection in case you have made changes to your network or simply cannot access the internet. In this tutorial, we'll focus on how you [...]
What is My DNS Server? Know 4 Methods to Check IP Address
If you have used Internet there is a pretty good chance that you have used DNS even without realizing it. DNS is the acronym for Domain Name System. What it basically does is translating domain names into machine readable IP [...]
How to Ping IPv6 Address from Windows and Linux CLI
IPV6 stands for 'Internet Protocol Version 6' and this was introduced to replace IPV4 due to the exhaustion of IPv4 addresses. Due to IPV4 having limited number of IP addresses and with the expansion of Iot (Internet of Things) number [...]
How to Configure Static IP Address on Ubuntu 18.04
Sometimes, you may find the need to configure a static IP address on your system. A perfect example is when you want to make it a server and host services so that it is always reached using a permanent/static IP address. In [...]
Tcpdump Examples - Capture Network Traffic in Linux
Tcpdump is a network troubleshooting command which is also known as a packet sniffer is used to capture and display packets from a network. Tcpdump allows users to capture and display TCP/IP and other packets (UDP, ARP or ICMP) being [...]
How to Setup Naemon Networking Monitoring Tool in Linux
Naemon is an Open Source system and network monitoring application which watches hosts and other services that you specify, alerts you when things go bad and notifies you when they get better. Naemon is based on Nagios 4.0.2 and aims [...]
Mylg - A Command Line Network Monitoring Tool for Linux Systems
In this article, we will show how to install and use the network monitoring software called My Looking Glass, or mylg. It supports lots of great features like for example packet analyzer, web dashboard, port scanning and many more. We [...]
How to Setup HAProxy in Ubuntu 16.04
HAProxy is an open-source high availability load balancing and proxy services tools for TCP and HTTP-based network applications. It is easy to use, suits for high volume websites and its seamless integration into existing architectures. It offers transparent connections, server [...]
How to Install Security Onion 14.04
Did you know Security Onion? It is a Linux distro specialized on network security monitoring and intrusion prevention, simplify the whole network management with a Ubuntu-based distro that you can start using with just few steps. It comes with many valuable security [...]
How to Perform Network Sniffing with Tshark
This time let's talk about Tshark, a powerful command-line network analyzer that comes with the well known Wireshark. It works like Tcpdump, but with powerful decoders and filters, capable to capture information of different network layers or protocols, and display in [...]
How to Configure Quagga Routing Suite on Linux
Quagga is one of the core open source project which is used to provide routing services on linux platform. It consist of different components for different dynamics protocols such as Open Shortest Path First (OSPF), Routing Information Protocol (RIP), Border Gateway [...]