Mount Windows shares like normal drives in Linux
If you want to have access to Windows shares and mount them like normal drives in Linux, use the smbmount command: smbmount “\\\\WINDOWS\\c” -c ‘mount /mount/Windows’ -I 192.168.0.3 where “\[...]
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Flush DNS cache in Linux
If you happened to register a new domain name and you can’t access it, it may be your DNS cache that holds the problem. Here’s how to flush DNS cache in Linux: /etc/rc.d/init.d/nscd restart [...]
Find out your IP in Linux
Finding out your PC’s IP in Linux is a simple matter of typing ifconfig in a Terminal shell. But what if you’re behind a router? Thanks to a simple shell script, you can display your IP in the command line by[...]
Make the lights of your NIC blink
If you work on a large network and you get sent to the server room to check out a certain network card, you might get lost in the multitude of network hardware. To find your certain NIC, SSH to the machine in question an[...]
