Network Solution for Windows – Windows system, Linux system, Ubuntu server configuration tip

The DHCP server assigns a client an IP address taken from a predefined scope for a given amount of time. If an IP address is required for longer than the lease has been set for, the client must request an extension before the lease expires. If the client has not requested an extension on the lease time, the IP address will be considered free and can be assigned to another client. If the user ...

More years ago than I care to think about, IP addresses were handed out to companies on an indiscriminant basis. As the popularity of the Internet increased, IP addresses soon grew to be a scarce commodity. Internet service providers began to strictly limit the number of IP addresses that they would lease to companies. This presented an interesting challenge. A PC has to have an IP address in order to communicate with the Internet, ...

In this article I will walk you through the Advanced TCP/IP settings dialog and its relevant tabs, so that you can better understand what each option is used for and how to configure it. Windows 2003 comes with a number of new features for TCP/IP, including support for IP Version 6, automatically determining the Interface and Gateway metric, and the Alternate configuration tab which allows you to specify an alternate IP Address to use in absence ...

There are many third-party backup software packages out there – HP, Veritas, and CA being some of the big name players on the market. Depending on the size and budget of your enterprise you may wish to choose any of these. If however, you are after a simple solution to backup individual systems and data on shared folders, then why not use the Backup Utility that comes ‘free’ with the Windows 2003 operating system? ...

The loss of data can bring an enterprise down – be it for a few hours, days, or even weeks. For smaller businesses, data loss can be devastating. For home users, it can be heart-breaking and utterly annoying. Whatever brings about data loss is bound to cause an organization to suffer – not only from the loss of the data itself but from loss in employee productivity during the time it takes to restore ...

If you are new to installing mysql server you might probably face this error quite often if you type mysql in the shell prompt. > mysql ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' To fix: First start the mysql daemon, then type mysql > mysql_safe then > /etc/init.d/mysqld start > mysql Bingo! It worked for me! To update mysql root password mysql> USE mysql; mysql> UPDATE user SET Password=PASSWORD('new-password') WHERE user='root'; mysql> FLUSH PRIVILEGES; To add a new ...

It turns out this can be done with a relatively simple change to a single file. No .htaccess rewrite rules, simply patch the catalog/controller/common/seo_url.php file and add your pretty URLs to an existing database table. The patch to seo_url.php: Index: catalog/controller/common/seo_url.php =================================================================== --- catalog/controller/common/seo_url.php (old) +++ catalog/controller/common/seo_url.php (new) @@ -48,7 +42,12 @@ $this->request->get['route'] = 'product/manufacturer/product'; } elseif (isset($this->request->get['information_id'])) { $this->request->get['route'] = 'information/information'; - ...