NFS was developed at a time when we weren’t able to share our drives like we are able to today – in the Windows environment. It offers the ability to share the hard disk space of a big server with many smaller clients. Again, this is a client/server environment. While this seems like a standard […]
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Network
Private and Public IP Addresses Explained
Public IP Addresses What is Public IP address Public IP Addresses (also known as Static IP Addresses) are IP addresses that are visible to the public.Because these ip addresses are public, they allow other people to know about and access your computer, like a Web server.In some cases, you do not want people to access […]
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Special Purpose Network Addresses Every System admin need to know
Different types of Classes of Network Class A Addresses Class A address must be between 0 and 127
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Keeping your System clock current, automatically via Network Time Protocol (NTP)
NTP, the Network Time Protocol, is used to keep computer clocks accurate over the Internet, or by following an accurate hardware receiver which interprets GPS, DCF-77, NIST or similar time signals. ntpdate is a simple NTP client which allows a system’s clock to be set to match the time obtained by communicating with one or […]
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