Posts Tagged ‘domain’

15
Oct

Samba Configuration

   Posted by: Vlad    in Linux

Samba provides file and print services for various Microsoft Windows clients and runs on most Unix and Unix-like systems, such as Linux, Solaris, AIX and the BSD variants, including Apple’s Mac OS X Server.

Samba is an implementation of dozens of services and a dozen protocols, including NetBIOS over TCP/IP (NBT), SMB, CIFS (an enhanced version of SMB), DCE/RPC or more specifically, MSRPC, the Network Neighborhood suite of protocols, a WINS server also known as a NetBIOS Name Server (NBNS), the NT Domain suite of protocols which includes NT Domain Logons, Secure Accounts Manager (SAM) database, Local Security Authority (LSA) service, NT-style printing service (SPOOLSS), NTLM and more recently Active Directory Logon which involves a modified version of Kerberos and a modified version of LDAP. All these services and protocols are frequently incorrectly referred to as just NetBIOS or SMB. Samba can also see and share printers. Read the rest of this entry »

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3
Aug

My search for the best webhost…

   Posted by: Vlad    in Web

Previously I wrote about my search for the best webhost. Finally I settled with Steadfast. I was so impressed with the litespeed web server that I installed it on my own server at work, and i do most of my testing work on it. But this was not over for me, so I searched for another webhost with more features. The quest lead me to this site: web hosting rating, where I found some objective reviews. Based on them I chose Bluehost, which gave me unlimited space, a free domain, secured POP3 and IMAP, and most importantly ssh access.  The overall speed was very good, it had plenty of features (most of them I never used), so I was generally pleased. The only thing that bothered me was a small downtime of one hour. I made this decision mostly based on the reviews on Web Hosting Rating which unlike other sites contained both positive and negative ones, which took me a few hours to read. So if you want to decide by yourself based on others’ experiences rather than someone telling you “pick that one”, this is the place to go. I read a lot of forums adn reviewing sites, and the opinions of the best webhost are very different, but this one made me think that for a few dollars I can try by myself and find something that is best suited for me. So my recommendation for you is to read as many reviews as you can and than try for yourself and make a lot of backups in case you need to move everything from one host to another.

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