Here’s a pretty cool open source software that you can install on an old machine to use as a network-attached storage (NAS). It runs on FreeBSD and you can even install it on flash drives (installation including the FreeBSD OS is less than 64MB).
It supports popular services such as CIFS/SMB, FTP, SSH, NFS, iTunes/DAAP, and UPnP. It even has a BitTorrent client! All of these can be managed from a web interface.
I haven’t …
Error Message:
\\x.x.x.x is not accessible. You might not have permission to use this network resource. Contact the administrator of this server to find out if you have access permissions.
Multiple connections to a server or shared resource by the same user, using more than one user name, are not allowed. Disconnect all previous connections to the server or shared resource and try again.
I get this once in a while when working on files …
I was updating our web application last Friday and I needed it to connect to an SQL Server 2005 Express Edition database to query some tables but my application couldn’t connect to the MSSQL server.
After a few hours of searching the internet and trying different things I finally got it to work by downloading a newer version of ntwdblib.dll (version 2000.80.194.0) and replacing the one that came with PHP 5.2 (we’re using WAMP (Windows, …
Warning Message:
The publisher could not be verified. Are you sure you want to run this software?
I got this warning message last week while testing a group policy object to run a small program from a network drive when users log in to the domain.
After some googling, it turned out that this feature was added in Windows XP Service Pack 2 and it checks whether the program has a digital signature attached. …
We converted one of our physical Citrix servers yesterday to VMware ESXi also and it went smoothly as well. No issues so far, so if you’re thinking of doing the same thing I can confirm that it works.
We also use RSA SecurID for authentication and it still works after the conversion with no changes made to the RSA Authentication Manager or RSA ACE Agent (using the same IP address after the conversion of course). …