by ds | May 21, 2014 | Administration
Scenario For important data in your local network, you should use professional backup products like from Acronis etc. But there might be some stations in your network which are not worth to buy a separate backup license for them – like e.g. the OS drive of your...
by ds | May 20, 2014 | Administration
Ubuntu 12.10 distros and above do not support the smbmount command any more to connect to Windows network shares. Instead, use the “mount” command (run “apt-get cifs-utils” first): Old: smbmount //some/remote/dir /mnt/remotedir -o...
by ds | May 20, 2014 | Administration
For monitoring the health state of common Windows Software RAIDs, I use a script from this site. Windows Server 2012 / R2 and Windows 8 / 8.1 now offer the usage of Storage Spaces, which are more flexible than the other Windows RAID types. So I modified the script a...
by ds | May 13, 2014 | Administration
With the last Ubuntu releases, the included Apache and WordPress upgrades caused me to do more and more workarounds to get everything up working after doing the upgrade. Scenario Initially starting a few years ago with Ubuntu 11.x, I installed Apache, PHP, MySQL,...
by ds | May 10, 2014 | Administration
DBTCP is a Linux Client / Windows Server solution to access ODBC connections. Unfortunately, there has been no update since 2004, but with some modifications, v0.1.18a is working with current Ubuntu / Apache / PHP versions. Download and extract the latest version....
