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Published on Sunday, February 2nd, 2014 by Maurizio Mutti

The problem

It is pretty common to use a NAS, to store files on a centralized place into your network enviroment.
It is also common to map some shared folders on the NAS as local drive on the computer.

But as you will soon notice, windows is not treating it as a local drive, it recognize its files as coming from outside the trusted zone, so many warning like the following will appear:

Windows warning for remote files.
Windows warning for remote files.
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Published on Friday, November 1st, 2013 by Maurizio Mutti

The problem

On Linux operating system, installing and configure VNC is not like a breeze as in Windows.
Here some extra configuration is needed to make the VNC server start automatically and impersonate a specific user.

The goals of this tutorial are the following:

  • Install tightVNC Server
  • Configure it to have a specific user desktop with X interface when connecting
  • Made the server start automatically at system boot

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Published on Tuesday, April 10th, 2012 by Maurizio Mutti

The problem

When working on test server or with company’s internal resources like Network Attached Storage, we would like to use SSL comunication.
The problem is that Internet Explorer will show a warning each time we connect to that site saying “There is a problem with this website’s security certificate.”.

Certificate error

In this post I will describe how to avoid any warning in explorer when browsing to a site with a self signed SSL certificate.
Be carefull that using self signed certificate on production servers and over the internet is strongly discouraged.

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Published on Friday, March 23rd, 2012 by Maurizio Mutti

The problem

If you want to use DeltaCopy over SSL and run it as a scheduled task, it will work perfectly when a user is logged into windows.
So if you try to run the scheduled task from the scheduled task manager, it will work!But when it will run as scheduled and no user is logged in, the DeltaCopy executable will run but nothing will be copied.
The following precess will be visible in the task manager: DeltaC.exe, ssh.exe, and rsync.exe.
To add you server to the known host list, simply test manually the connection:
ssh ServerIP -l Username -i SSHKEYS -p 22
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Published on Sunday, March 6th, 2011 by Maurizio Mutti

The problem

If you configure a VPN for Fritz!Box as described on the AVM website, and you try to connect to it using a mobile internet connection (at least using Swisscom as provider) it does not work.
You can connect but you are not able to access any machine on the remote network.

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