system admin

23
Aug
2008
abhishek

Configuring DHCP Server on Ubuntu

Ubuntu works the apt-get way and hence makes it easy to install packages on it for confuguring Ubuntu as a DHCP server install the server software using the following command

$ sudo apt-get install dhcp3-server

this would install the required packages

after the package is installed backup the default configuration files using the following

$ sudo cp /etc/default/dhcp3-server dhcp3-server.back

dhcp3-server is a file where you specify the interface DHCP should server (wlan0 in mycase)

edit the file using

$ sudo vim /etc/default/dhcp3-server

change

INTERFACES=””

to

INTERFACES=”wlan0”

(wlan0 might be eth0 or eth1 in your case)

save and close the file

only one more file editing is required now create a backup for mail dhcpd.conf using

$ sudo cp /etc/dhcp3/dhcpd.conf /etc/dhcp3/dhcpd.conf.back

edit the file using

12
Aug
2008
abhishek

Adding Static Clients in Windows

In relatively small organizations where it is not possible to have a local DNS server there might be a need to obtain DNS like functionality in Linux it is done via the /etc/hosts file if it is possible in linux there should be an alternate in Windows aslo Adding static clients to the hosts file helps minimize th
01
Aug
2008
abhishek

Checking System Uptime in Windowspress

uptime is a Linux/UNIX command which lets you know the time since the machine is running.
But how you get the same information in Windows???????????
Its very simple i dont know if you have used this command in windows or not the command to find out uptime for windows machine is
18
Apr
2008
abhishek

Configuring The Apache Web Server

What is the Apache Web Server?*

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