Carla Schroder

Since Knoppix burst dramatically into the Linux scene there has been an explosion of Debian-based distributions. This is welcome news to us lonely souls

In the beginning was tmsrtbt, "The most GNU/Linux on 1 floppy disk"- a complete bootable Linux-on-a-floppy disk. Perfect for rescue, testing, diagnostic,

Increasing security often means decreasing convenience. But when it comes to using a remote logging server, you get both security and convenience. All of

You hear it all the time: Monitor your logs. When there is a problem, check the logs. And it's good advice, because system and application logs tell you

Last week's riveting installment covered the whys and wherefores of using iproute rather than the old standbys in the net-tools package  ifconfig,

If you're an oldtyme network admin clinging possessively to your old Linux routing utilities in the net-tools package — ifconfig, route, arp,

Last week we covered what Linux software RAID is good for and not good for, and hardware RAID vs. software RAID. In a nutshell it's about getting good

Two weeks ago we gave the high-level view of what windbind is for. Today we'll walk through using winbind to provide a single sign-on for Linux servers

A popular thing to do with Samba these days is to join a Samba 3 host to a Windows Active Directory domain. You may freely set up any number of Samba

Instant messaging is a great business communications tool. For example, here at Enterprise Networking Planet the staff and writers all work in their

Last week we provided an overview of why or why not to migrate a Windows NT4 domain controller to Samba. Today we'll dig into how to do it, step-by-step.

I confess, I'm an outlaw at heart. I like using packet sniffers like tcpdump because it satisfies my base snooping impulses. Packet-sniffing is