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:

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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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.”.

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.

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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